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Q151. What is the difference between JPA and Hibernate ?

Ans. JPA or Java Persistence API is a standard specification for ORM implementations whereas Hibernate is the actual ORM implementation or framework.

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Q152. What is the advantage of JPA ?

Database

Ans. Its a specification that guides the implementation of ORM frameworks. Implementations abiding by the specification would mean that one can be replaced with other in an application without much hassle. Only the Features that are added over the specification needs to be taken care of if any such change is made.

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Q153. Which version control (VC) or software configuration management (SCM) systems work with Merge?

Scm

Ans. You can use Tortoise SVN,which has Merge Utility embedded in it.

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Q154. .Can you uninstall an older version of Merge before installing a newer version or build?

Ans. NA

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Q155. What is Criteria in Hibernate ?

Hibernate

Ans. Criteria is a simplified API for retrieving entities by composing Criterion objects.

For example - session.createCriteria(Employee.class).add( Restrictions.like("name", "A%") ).list();

will return all employee objects having name starting with A.

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Q156. Which Software Development methodology is being used in your current Job ?

General

Ans. We are using Agile methodology. I attend daily stand up where the development leads takes the status of assigned stories, achievements, any bottlenecks or challenges. We follow iteration of 2 weeks.

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Q157. What is your role in current position ?

General

Ans. I am working as a Software System Analyst that specializes in understanding Business Requirements, Analyzing them , Performs Cost / Benefit analysis, Make suggestions to business , translate the business requirements into technical requirements, Discuss their feasibility with the technical team, performs sizing in coordination with developers and prepare high level design document.

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Q158. What technologies have you worked with for build management ?

Ans. Ant and Maven

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Q159. What is the difference between Maven, Ant and Jenkins ?

Tool

Ans. Maven and Ant are Build Technologies whereas Jenkins is a continuous integration tool.

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Q160. Have you created any build script yourself ?

Ans. Yes, I have worked on many build scripts in last few years.

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Q161. What is Jenkins ?

Jenkins

Ans. It is a continuous integration tool written in Java.

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Q162. What are the technologies used in Jira ?

Tools

Ans. JIRA is written in Java and uses the Pico IOC container,Apache OFBiz entity engine, and WebWork technology stack. For remote procedure calls (RPC), JIRA supports REST, SOAP, and XML RPC.

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Q163. Explain Application / Server architecture being used in your project ?

or

Explain your project architecture ?

Ans. We are using cluster of Web servers and Application servers. Load Balancer is used to manage the load between them. Down the layer we have middleware server and then DB server to access database.

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Q164. What are fail-fast Iterators ?

Core Java

Ans. Fail-fast iterators detect illegal concurrent modification during iteration and fail quickly and cleanly rather than risking arbitrary, non deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in future. Example could be of an Iterator failing if it smells ConcurrentModificationException.

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Q165. What are the fail safe systems ?

Operating System

Ans. Fail Safe systems are tolerant systems that continue processing even if they sense any problem. the objective here is to continue with the processing even if there are some problems instead of completely shutting it down. Example could be to catch an exception and still letting it complete with partial results.

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Q166. Have you ever had any conflict with the team member (like disagreement on some design decision ) and How you reacted to it ?

General

Ans. [Open Ended Answer]

This is a very sensitive question and should be dealt with caution. Just simply saying that you never had any disagreement will present you as dumb team member. Showing your self as too aggressive in such decisions will present you as a trouble maker. You should present a situation where you had an argument / disagreement but eventually you and your team mates mutually found a way out of it.

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Q167. Explain the challenging problems you faced recently and how you overcame it ?

General

Ans. [Open Ended Answer]

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Q168. Write a program to print fibonacci series.

Core Java

Ans. int count = 15;
int[] fibonacci = new int[count];
fibonacci[0] = 0;
fibonacci[1] = 1;
for(int x=2; x < count; x++){
fibonacci[x] = fibonacci[x-1] + fibonacci[x-2];
}

for(int x=0; x< count; x++){
System.out.print(fibonacci[x] + " ");
}

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Q169. What is the use of Synchronized block ?

Core Java

Ans. The goal of a synchronised block is to achieve mutual exclusion i.e at one time, the segment of the code should be executed by single thread only and hence the lock needs to be retrieved before executing the segment and then released.

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Must know at all levels. Among Top 10 frequently asked questions in Java. Very frequently asked to fresh graduates or less experienced professionals.

Q170. What is Inheritance ?

Core Java

Ans. Its a facility for code reuse and independent extension wherein a derived class inherits the properties of parent class.

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Q171. Write code for constructor overloading

Core Java

Ans. http://javasearch.buggybread.com/CodeSnippets/searchCodeSamples.php?&category=code&searchOption&keyword=965

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Q172. How is multiple inheritance implemented in Java ?

Core Java

Ans. There was no multiple inheritance in java before version 8 as implementing multiple interfaces cannot be termed as inheritance.

With Java 8 , came the concept of default methods wherein the class implementing the interface carries the default implementation from the interface and hence facilitating multiple inheritance.

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Q173. What is a Destructor ? Do we have Destructors in Java ?

Core Java

Ans. Destructor is used to de-allocate memory allocated by objects.

There are no destructors in Java. Alternatively, Java provides Automatic garbage collection i.e automatically releasing the un-referenced memory.

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Frequently asked to Fresh graduates.

Q174. Write a program to implement Binary search ?

Core Java

Ans. http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/11model/BinarySearch.java.html

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Q175. Explain Exception Hierarchy in Java SE ?

Core Java

Ans. <a href="http://www.programcreek.com/2009/02/diagram-for-hierarchy-of-exception-classes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.programcreek.com/2009/02/diagram-for-hierarchy-of-exception-classes/</a>

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All these acronyms JDK,JRE,JVM etc are very frequently asked.

Q176. Difference between JDK and JRE ?

Core Java

Ans. JRE or Java Runtime Environment is the Java Virtual Machine on which class files are executed. It includes borwser plugins that facilitates execution of class files in browsers.

JDK or Java Development Kit includes JRE , compiler and development tools.

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Q177. What are the disadvantages of running multiple apps in single JVM ?

Core Java

Ans. 1. Issue with Jar and ClassPath Conflicts

2. Killing JVM will terminate all applications

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Q178. How do you manage source code in repository if you have multiple releases lined up and different teams are working on it?

Tools

Ans. We creates separate branches for each project if development work is going on parallel and they are to be released at different times. Once the first release is done, we merge the branch changes into trunk. If they all have to go at one time, we usually would merge everything in the trunk itself.

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Q179. What is multilevel inheritance ?

Core Java

Ans. Multi Level Inheritance is multi level hierarchy of classes. Here is the example - http://www.buggybread.com/2015/09/java-se-class-diagram-classes-that_603.html

Class RoleList extends ArrayList which in turn extends AbstractList which in turn extends AbstractCollection.

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Frequently asked question in companies using Rest Web services.

Q180. Different between POST and PUT in Rest

Rest

Ans. PUT requests are only meant to place the object as it is on server. For example - You want a file to be uploaded and then placed in a particular folder or you want an Employee object to be persisted in the table.

POST requests are also meant to transfer information from client to server but that information once received at the server is evaluated , modified or refactored before persisting.

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