1. 50 Common INTERVIEW Questions and Answers
General Intro Questions to Java Interviews (Taken from here)
Just laying the ground work to help lead the way for areas to focus on…
- Give me a high level description of your experience with the Java platform. What APIs do you have experience with? Servlets? J2EE? Swing?
- What development methodologies have you used? Which one have you liked the most? The least?
- What open source frameworks do you have experience with?
- What other languages have you used?
Object Oriented Principles
- Define object oriented programming (quite a loaded question…). What are the key OO principles?
- Describe polymorphism.
- Describe inheritance (”is-a”) and composition (”has-a”). Can you give an example of a use case for each?
- What is coupling? Why do we want loose coupling in our systems?
Java Basics
Some very fundamental questions I think any “non-beginner” level dev should know. If there are a lot of problems with these it may not be worth continuing.
- What is the difference between abstract classes and interfaces?
- Explain the access modifiers in Java.
- Talk about method overriding and method overloading and their differences.
- Why does Java have exceptions? What is the difference between checked and unchecked exceptions?
- What are constructors? Are they inherited?
- What is the static modifier used for in regards to classes and methods?
- What are the equals() and hashcode() ? Describe their contracts.
- When do you use String and when do you use StringBuffer/StringBuilder
Java Intermediate/Advanced
- Explain the following statement: Java is always pass-by-value.
- How do you create an immutable type? What are the advantages of immutability?
- What is a static inner class? Can you provide an example from the Java API?
- What are the implications of implementing serializable in an object?
- Why would you declare a private constructor?
- When do you want to use unchecked exceptions and when do you want to use checked?
- Can you explain how Strings are “interned” in Java?
- What are enumerated types? Why would you use them?
Java Collections
- What are the core interfaces of the Collection framework?
- How do Vector and HashTable relate to Collections?
- Desribe typical use cases or examples of common uses for Map, Set, and Lists.
- What method(s) should override for objects you plan to add to sets or maps?
- How do you get an immutable collection?
Threading
If a developer works only in the heavily abstracted world of Spring/Hibernate/whatever, they may not have had to touch an actual Runnable since college. Still, its good to know about threading at least on a basic level.
- What does the synchronized key word do? Where is it valid to use it (ie inside a method call, static block, etc)?
- Explain the two ways to instantiate threads in Java.
- What is “double-checked locking“? What design pattern is it typically associated with? What is wrong with it?
- What is a daemon thread? How do you create one?
- What method do you use to start a thread?
Servlets and JSPs
- What are the steps to create a basic servlet?
- Describe the lifecycle of a basic servlet – for instance, when are they created? What method is called from a typical HTTP request? What about requests and threads?
- What does it mean to say that HTTP is stateless? How do servlets provide a possible solution to maintain state for web applications?
- Are JSP’s thread safe?
- What are Listeners? What is a typical use for a StartupListener?
- What are filters and why would you use them?
- Describe the four different scopes available with servlets?
Design Patterns
- What are the three types of design patterns?
- Can you talk about the history of design patterns?
- Why use design patterns?
- What is the role of composition (aggregation) in design patterns?
- What design patterns do you use often and have the most experience with? Can you talk about a typical use case?
- Can you provide a description of any of the following patterns? Strategy, State, or Template method?
- What is Model View Controller, and why would you want to use it? What are some of the disadvantages of it?
- What is inversion of control, and what does it give you?
Open Ended Questions
These questions are more to just stir discussion and debate and to get a feel for the candidate, rather then to get the “right” answer.
- How would you build a software version of Monopoly?
- Can you compare (insert dynamic language of choice here – Ruby/Python/Lisp/etc) to Java? When would you prefer one over the other?
- What do you think is the most common cause of project failure in the software development business?
- What do you think of the rise of open source over the last ten years? Where do you see open source in the future?
- What does agile development mean to you?
- What is your ideal development environment like? Both in terms of hardware and software, and location and surroundings?
- What was the last technical book you read? Give me the Cliff Notes version of it.
- What are some of your favorite resources beyond Google? This could include websites, magazines, technical authors, experts, favorite blogs, etc.
- Do you have experience with Test Driven Development? If so, what do you think of it?
- What will be the next language or development topic you want to learn about?
Reference: here
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Hello,
Great tips!
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Enjoy!
HI,
I need some more detail info regarding spring framework.
Akshaya
Thank you for the tips and questions. More questions are available at http://www.technical-interview.com
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