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Secrets Of The Masters: Core Java Job Interview Questions

JDJ Enterprise Editor Yakov Fain Offers 30 Core Java Questions You Might Expect During Job Interviews
By Yakov Fain
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June 17, 2007 06:00 AM EDT
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For senior-level developers:

** Q21. What's the difference between a queue and a stack?

A. Stacks works by last-in-first-out rule (LIFO), while queues use the FIFO rule
** Q22. You can create an abstract class that contains only abstract methods. On the other hand, you can create an interface that declares the same methods. So can you use abstract classes instead of interfaces?

A. Sometimes. But your class may be a descendent of another class and in this case the interface is your only option.
** Q23. What comes to mind when you hear about a young generation in Java?

A. Garbage collection.
** Q24. What comes to mind when someone mentions a shallow copy in Java?

A. Object cloning.
** Q25. If you're overriding the method equals() of an object, which other method you might also consider?

A. hashCode()
** Q26. You are planning to do an indexed search in a list of objects. Which of the two Java collections should you use:
ArrayList or LinkedList?

A. ArrayList
** Q27. How would you make a copy of an entire Java object with its state?

A. Have this class implement Cloneable interface and call its method clone().
** Q28. How can you minimize the need of garbage collection and make the memory use more effective?

A. Use object pooling and weak object references.
** Q29. There are two classes: A and B. The class B need to inform a class A when some important event has happened. What Java technique would you use to implement it?

A. If these classes are threads I'd consider notify() or notifyAll(). For regular classes you can use the Observer interface.
** Q30. What access level do you need to specify in the class declaration to ensure that only classes from the same directory can access it?

A. You do not need to specify any access level, and Java will use a default package access level.

The J2EE questions are coming soon. Stay tuned for Yakov Fain on Live SYS-CON.TV. Ask your questions to Yakov on the air!

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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Currently Yakov works on the book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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Raghu 07/09/08 10:38:32 AM EDT

A message to all,interview questions given here can be generic ONLY.Its not like for 2+ years,4+ years etc.It purely depends on the company and the role for which you are interviewed.Some of the interview questions i faced recently.I was able to clear all the theoretically related so they asked me by giving a scenario.

1. You need to read all the details from say.. www.yahoo.com/index.html, save it in a file in yor local PC. What API will you use in Java and what method??
2. You are saving a set of employee names and their salaries in a HashMap like that.. How will you sort them in descending order based on the salary?
This can be done by implementing the comparator interface.

If you need further information,drop a mail 2 graghuu@gmail.com

Cheers,
Raghu
aruna 06/20/08 02:40:58 AM EDT

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. 06/13/08 04:29:20 PM EDT

these questions are stupid

these are moronic questions that idiots that don't know how to interview asks

lets get to some real world questions
deepa 06/11/08 07:48:12 AM EDT

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Thank you very much for such a good article.....as I'm in search of job this article would certainly be helpful for my preparation.
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I have acquired abt 4-5yrs of Java/J2EE exp and will be attending an interview in the States...Could you pls let me know on what are the tips that I need and pls help me with some questions that they will ask me?
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surya 07/20/07 08:06:29 AM EDT

some of the answers are wrong given by the other person so plz. beware of this.Go for RND and make it sure whether the answer is right or wrong
Svaba 07/20/07 06:09:40 AM EDT

Questions are exilent. I wrote a technical test few days ago and I had few qestions from this list.
Infernoz 07/13/07 04:31:45 PM EDT

Q2 Answer has confused grammar, so maybe part wrong.

Q3 Answer is only half right.
synchronized blocks are not for saving time they are for locking a specified object (which maybe a class), so that one thread owns that object while executing inside the block, they can be less efficient and less safe that synchronized methods, you can even have nested synchronized blocks for different objects, but that can be an invitation for Thread deadlocks and maybe a sign of poor coding practice.

Q17 Answer is correct, for runtime Atul Gupta!

Q19 Answer .. and (from recent Sun advice) for the creation of active Swing and AWT objects like JFrame, JWindow, Frame, Window etc.
Dave the Free Credit Report Guy 07/12/07 08:54:50 AM EDT

Oh yes, it would be totally helpful to master these important Java basics before getting out there for those job interviews...Good job!
Atul Gupta 07/12/07 03:29:45 AM EDT

Hi,

The answer to Question 17 is wrong, it wont give in any compilation errors.
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akumaran 11/02/06 02:15:07 AM EST

Very good questions and answers. Also would be nice to add a "How would you go about..." section. Sometimes the candidate does not have to know the exact answer (e.g. performance, memory profiling etc) but should know how to go about solving a given problem or a task. Some other useful Q&A covering wide range of topics relating to Java/J2EE can be found at http://www.lulu.com/java-success and also google for "Java Job interview questions" or "J2EE Job interview questions"
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I want you to send me the questions because i will start to study, Certified Enterprise Developer and Solution Architect on Sun Java Platform in this year.
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