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 Q31. If I try to add Enum constants to a TreeSet, What sorting order will it use ?
Ans. Tree Set will sort the Values in the order in which Enum constants are declared.

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 Q32. What will be the output of this code ?

Set mySet = new HashSet();
mySet.add("4567");
mySet.add("5678");
mySet.add("6789");
for(String s: mySet){
System.out.println(s);
}
Ans. It will print 4567,5678 and 6789 but Order cannot be predicted.

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 Q33. What will be the output of this code ?

Set mySet = new TreeSet();
mySet.add("4567");
mySet.add("5678");
mySet.add("6789");
for(String s: mySet){
System.out.println(s);
}
Ans. 4567
5678
6789

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 Q34. What will be the output of this code ?

Set mySet = new HashSet();
mySet.add("4567");
mySet.add("5678");
mySet.add("6789");
System.out.println(s.get(0));
Ans. This will give compile time error as we cannot retrieve the element from a specified index using Set. Set doesn't maintain elements in any order.

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 Q35. public enum Day {
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
}

public class Test {
Set mySet = new HashSet();
mySet.add(Day.MONDAY);
mySet.add(Day.SUNDAY);
mySet.add(Day.SATURDAY);

for(Day d: mySet){
System.out.println(d);
}
}
Ans. SUNDAY
MONDAY
SATURDAY

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 Q36. What will be the output of the following code ?

enum Day {
   MONDAY,TUESDAY,WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY,FRIDAY,SATURDAY,SUNDAY
}

public class BuggyBread1{
   public static void main (String args[]) {
      Set mySet = new HashSet();
      mySet.add(Day.SATURDAY);
      mySet.add(Day.WEDNESDAY);
      mySet.add(Day.FRIDAY);
      mySet.add(Day.WEDNESDAY);
      for(Day d: mySet){
         System.out.println(d);
      }
   }
}
Ans. FRIDAY , SATURDAY and WEDNESDAY will be printed but the order cannot be determined.

Only one FRIDAY will be printed as Set doesn't allow duplicates. Order cannot be determined as HashSet doesn't maintain elements in a particular order. 

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 Q37. What will be the output of the following code ?

enum Day {
MONDAY,TUESDAY,WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY,FRIDAY,SATURDAY,SUNDAY
}

public class BuggyBread1{
public static void main (String args[]) {
Set mySet = new TreeSet();
mySet.add(Day.SATURDAY);
mySet.add(Day.WEDNESDAY);
mySet.add(Day.FRIDAY);
mySet.add(Day.WEDNESDAY);
for(Day d: mySet){
System.out.println(d);
}
}
}		Core Java
Ans. WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY

Only one FRIDAY will be printed as Set doesn't allow duplicates.Elements will be printed in the order in which constants are declared in the Enum. TreeSet maintains the elements in the ascending order which is identified by the defined compareTo method. compareTo method in Enum has been defined such that the constant declared later are greater than the constants declared prior.

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 Q38. public class BuggyBread1{

public static void main (String args[]) {
Set<String> mySet = new TreeSet<String>();
mySet.add(""1"");
mySet.add(""2"");
mySet.add(""111"");
for(String d: mySet){
System.out.println(d);
}
}
}		Core Java
Ans. 1
111
2

TreeSet maintains the elements in the ascending order which is identified by the compareTo method. compareTo method in String has been defined such that it results in the natural alphabetic Order. Here the elements in the TreeSet are of String and not of Integer. In String Natural Order, 111 comes before 2 as ascii of 1st character first determines the order.

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 Q39. public class BuggyBread1{

public static void main (String args[]) {
Set<Integer> mySet = new TreeSet<Integer>();
mySet.add(1);
mySet.add(2);
mySet.add(111);
for(Integer d: mySet){
System.out.println(d);
}
}
}		Core Java
Ans. 1
2
111

TreeSet maintains the elements in the ascending order which is identified by the compareTo method. compareTo method in Integer has been defined such that it results in the natural numerical Order.

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 Q40. How is HashSet maintained in memory by Java ?Core Java
Ans. HashSet is maintained as HashMap by Java with values of the HashSet as Keys of the HashMap and value of the HashMap as the constant PRESENT.

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 Q41. What is classpath in a project?Core Java
Ans. ClassPath is the path where Java looks for class files to resolve the dependencies. For example - If you are using a class "xyz" in your code and have specified the respective import, Where should Java look for the definition of xyz. Java determines using the class path settings.

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 Q42. Name few classes that implement Set interface ?
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 Q43. How many elements will be there in TreeSet after the last line and Why ?

TreeSet set = new TreeSet();
set .add(new String("abc"));
set .add(new String("abc"));		Core Java
Ans. One.

As we haven't specified the type of TreeSet, it being evaluated with the first element insertion. Once it's identified that it's of type String and as no comparator has been defined, the comparison is done using the String compareTo method. String compareTo method compares the elements by the content / value.

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 Q44. If we add Enum constants to a sorted collection ( Treemap , TreeSet ), What will be the order in which they will be maintained ?

a. Sorted Collection wont maintain them in any order.
b. Insertion Order
c. Order in which constants are declared.
d. Natural Sorting Order.
Ans. Order in which constants are declared.

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 Q45. In what order the elements of a HashSet are retrieved ?

a. Random Order
b. Insertion Order
c. Natural Sorting Order
d. Inverse Natural Sorting Order
Core Java
Ans. Random Order

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 Q46. Write a method to convert all elements of a set to lower case.Core Java
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 Q47. Write code to sort elements of a set
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 Q48. What is unmodifiable set / unmodifiable map ? How can we create one ?
Ans. It is an unmodifiable / read only view of the underlying collection. We can use

Collections.unmodifiableSet(Set set)
Collections.unmodifiableMap(Map map)
Collections.unmodifiableCollection(Collection collection)

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 Q49. What will be the output upon executing main method ?

public static void main(String[] args){
      Set set = new HashSet();
      set.add(1);
      set.add(2);
      set.add(3);
      System.out.println(set);
   }		Core Java
a. 1,2,3
b. Order cannot be determined
c. Compilation error
d. 3,2,1

Ans.b. Order cannot be determined
 Q50. Which of following stores its elements in natural Sorting Order ?Core Java
a. AbstractSet
b. HashSet
c. LinkedHashSet
d. TreeSet

Ans.d. TreeSet
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