Interview Type of Questions

1. What is meant by Java ?

2. What is meant by a class ?
3. What is meant by a method ?
4. What are the OOPS concepts in Java ?
5. What is meant by encapsulation ? Explain with an example
6. What is meant by inheritance ? Explain with an example
7. What is meant by polymorphism ? Explain with an example
8. Is multiple inheritance allowed in Java ? Why ?
9. What is meant by Java interpreter ?
10. What is meant by JVM ?
11. What is a compilation unit ?
12. What is meant by identifiers ?
13. What are the different types of modifiers ?
14. What are the access modifiers in Java ?
15. What are the primitive data types in Java ?
16. What is meant by a wrapper class ?
17. What is meant by static variable and static method ?
18. What is meant by Garbage collection ?
19. What is meant by abstract class
20. What is meant by final class, methods and variables ?
21. What is meant by interface ?
22. What is meant by a resource leak ?
23. What is the difference between interface and abstract class ?
24. What is the difference between public private, protected and static
25. What is meant by method overloading ?
26. What is meant by method overriding ?
27. What is singleton class ?
28. What is the difference between an array and a vector ?
29. What is meant by constructor ?
30. What is meant by casting ?
31. What is the difference between final, finally and finalize ?
32. What is meant by packages ?
33. What are all the packages ?
34. Name 2 calsses you have used ?
35. Name 2 classes that can store arbitrary number of objects ?
36. What is the difference between java.applet.* and java.applet.Applet ?
37. What is a default package ?

38. What is meant by a super class and how can you call a super class ?
39. What is anonymous class ?
40. Name interfaces without a method ?
41. What is the use of an interface ?
42. What is a serializable interface ?
43. How to prevent field from serialization ?
44. What is meant by exception ?
45. How can you avoid the runtime exception ?
46. What is the difference between throw and throws ?
47. What is the use of finally ?
48. Can multiple catch statements be used in exceptions ?
49. Is it possible to write a try within a try statement ?
50. What is the method to find if the object exited or not ?
51. What is meant by a Thread ?
52. What is meant by multi-threading ?
53. What is the 2 way of creating a thread ? Which is the best way and why
?
54. What is the method to find if a thread is active or not ?
55. What are the thread-to-thread communcation ?
56. What is the difference between sleep and suspend ?
57. Can thread become a member of another thread ?
58. What is meant by deadlock ?
59. How can you avoid a deadlock ?
60. What are the three typs of priority ?
61. What is the use of synchronizations ?
62. Garbage collector thread belongs to which priority ?
63. What is meant by time-slicing ?
64. What is the use of this ?
65. How can you find the length and capacity of a string buffer ?
66. How to compare two strings ?
67. What are the interfaces defined by Java.lang ?
68. What is the purpose of run-time class and system class
69. What is meant by Stream and Types ?
70. What is the method used to clear the buffer ?
71. What is meant by Stream Tokenizer ?
72. What is serialization and de-serialisation ?
73. What is meant by Applet ?
74. How to find the host from which the Applet has originated ?
75. What is the life cycle of an Applet ?
76. How do you load an HTML page from an Applet ?
77. What is meant by Applet Stub Interface ?

78. What is meant by getCodeBase and getDocumentBase method ?

79. How can you call an applet from a HTML file
80. What is meant by Applet Flickering ?
81. What is the use of parameter tag ?
82. What is audio clip Interface and what are all the methods in it ?
83. What is the difference between getAppletInfo and getParameterInfo ?
84. How to communicate between applet and an applet ?
85. What is meant by event handling ?
86. What are all the listeners in java and explain ?
87. What is meant by an adapter class ?
88. What are the types of mouse event listeners ?
89. What are the types of methods in mouse listeners ?
90. What is the difference between panel and frame ?
91. What is the default layout of the panel and frame ?
92. What is meant by controls and types ?
93. What is the difference between a scroll bar and a scroll panel.
94. What is the difference between list and choice ?
95. How to place a component on Windows ?
96. What are the different types of Layouts ?
97. What is meant by CardLayout ?
98. What is the difference between GridLayout and GridBagLayout
99. What is the difference between menuitem and checkboxmenu item.
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What is meant by vector class, dictionary class , hash table
class,and property class ?
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Which class has no duplicate elements ?
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What is resource bundle ?
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What is an enumeration class ?
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What is meant by Swing ?
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What is the difference between AWT and Swing ?
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What is the difference between an applet and a Japplet
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What are all the components used in Swing ?
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What is meant by tab pans ?
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What is the use of JTree ?
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How can you add and remove nodes in Jtree.
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What is the method to expand and collapse nodes in a Jtree ?
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What is the use of JTable ?
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What is meant by JFC ?
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What is the class in Swing to change the appearance of the Frame
in Runtime.
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How to reduce flicking in animation ?
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What is JDBC ?

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How do you connect to the database ? What are the steps ?
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What are the drivers available in JDBC ? Explain
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How can you load the driver ?
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What are the different types of statement s ?
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How can you created JDBC statements ?
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How will you perform transactions using JDBC ?
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What are the two drivers for web apllication?
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What are the different types of 2 tier and 3 tier architecture ?
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How can you retrieve warning in JDBC ?
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What is the exception thrown by JDBC ?
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What is meants by PreparedStatement ?
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What is difference between PreparedStatement and Statement ?
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How can you call the stored procedures ?
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What is meant by a ResultSet ?
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What is the difference between ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteQuery
?
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How do you know which driver is connected to a database ?
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What is DSN and System DSN and differentiate these two ?
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What is meant by TCP, IP, UDP ?
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What is the difference between TCP and UDP ?
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What is a proxy server ?
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What is meant by URL
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What is a socket and server sockets ?
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When MalformedURLException and UnknownHost Exception
throws ?
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What is InetAddress ?
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What is datagram and datagram packets and datagram sockets ?
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Write the range of multicast socket IP address ?
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What is meant by a servlet ?
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What are the types of servlets ? Explain
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What is the different between a Servlet and a CGI.
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What is the difference between 2 types of Servlets ?
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What is the type of method for sending request from HTTP server
?
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What are the exceptions thrown by Servlets ? Why ?
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What is the life cycle of a servlet ?
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What is meant by cookies ?
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What is HTTP Session ?
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What is the difference between GET and POST methods ?
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How can you run a Servlet Program ?
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How to commuincate between an applet and a servlet ?

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What is a Servlet-to-Servlet communcation ?

What is Session Tracking ?
What are the security issues in Servlets ?
What is HTTP Tunneling
How do you load an image in a Servlet ?
What is Servlet Chaining ?
What is URL Rewriting ?
What is context switching ?
What is meant by RMI ?
Explain RMI Architecture ?
What is meant by a stub ?
What is meant by a skelotn ?
What is meant by serialisation and deserialisation ?
What is meant by RRL ?
What is the use of TL ?
What is RMI Registry ?
What is rmic ?
How will you pass parameter in RMI ?
What exceptions are thrown by RMI ?
What are the steps involved in RMI ?
What is meant by bind(), rebind(), unbind() and lookup() methods
What are the advanatages of RMI ?
What is JNI ?
What is Remote Interface ?
What class is used to create Server side object ?
What class is used to bind the server object with RMI Registry ?
What is the use of getWriter method ?
What is meant by Javabeans ?
What is JAR file ?
What is meant by manifest files ?
What is Introspection ?
What are the steps involved to create a bean ?
Say any two properties in Beans ?
What is persistence ?
What is the use of beaninfo ?
What are the interfaces you used in Beans ?
What are the classes you used in Beans ?

1. What is the diffrence between an Abstract class and Interface ?

2. What is user defined exception ?

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What do you know about the garbate collector ?

What is the difference between C++ & Java ?
Explain RMI Architecture?
How do you communicate in between Applets & Servlets ?
What is the use of Servlets ?
What is JDBC? How do you connect to the Database ?
In an HTML form I have a Button which makes us to open another page
in 15 seconds. How will do you that ?
10. What is the difference between Process and Threads ?
11. What is the difference between RMI & Corba ?
12. What are the services in RMI ?
13. How will you initialize an Applet ?
14. What is the order of method invocation in an Applet ?
15. When is update method called ?
16. How will you pass values from HTML page to the Servlet ?
17. Have you ever used HashTable and Dictionary ?
18. How will you communicate between two Applets ?
19. What are statements in JAVA ?
20. What is JAR file ?
21. What is JNI ?
22. What is the base class for all swing components ?
23. What is JFC ?
24. What is Difference between AWT and Swing ?
25. Considering notepad/IE or any other thing as process, What will happen
if you start notepad or IE 3 times? Where 3 processes are started or 3
threads are started ?
26. How does thread synchronization occurs inside a monitor ?
27. How will you call an Applet using a Java Script function ?
28. Is there any tag in HTML to upload and download files ?
29. Why do you Canvas ?
30. How can you push data from an Applet to Servlet ?
31. What are 4 drivers available in JDBC ?
32. How you can know about drivers and database information ?
33. If you are truncated using JDBC, How can you know ..that how much
data is truncated ?
34. And What situation , each of the 4 drivers used ?
35. How will you perform transaction using JDBC ?
36. In RMI, server object first loaded into the memory and then the stub
reference is sent to the client ? or whether a stub reference is directly
sent to the client ?

37. Suppose server object is not loaded into the memory, and the client
request for it , what will happen?
38. What is serialization ?
39. Can you load the server object dynamically? If so, what are the major 3
steps involved in it ?
40. What is difference RMI registry and OSAgent ?
41. To a server method, the client wants to send a value 20, with this value
exceeds to 20,. a message should be sent to the client ? What will you do
for achieving for this ?
42. What are the benefits of Swing over AWT ?
43. Where the CardLayout is used ?
44. What is the Layout for ToolBar ?
45. What is the difference between Grid and GridbagLayout ?
46. How will you add panel to a Frame ?
47. What is the corresponding Layout for Card in Swing ?
48. What is light weight component ?
49. Can you run the product development on all operating systems ?
50. What is the webserver used for running the Servlets ?
51. What is Servlet API used for conneting database ?
52. What is bean ? Where it can be used ?
53. What is difference in between Java Class and Bean ?
54. Can we send object using Sockets ?
55. What is the RMI and Socket ?
56. How to communicate 2 threads each other ?
57. What are the files generated after using IDL to Java Compilet ?
58. What is the protocol used by server and client ?
59. Can I modify an object in CORBA ?
60. What is the functionality stubs and skeletons ?
61. What is the mapping mechanism used by Java to identify IDL language ?
62. Diff between Application and Applet ?
63. What is serializable Interface ?
64. What is the difference between CGI and Servlet ?
65. What is the use of Interface ?
66. Why Java is not fully objective oriented ?
67. Why does not support multiple Inheritance ?
68. What it the root class for all Java classes ?
69. What is polymorphism ?
70. Suppose If we have variable ' I ' in run method, If I can create one or
more thread each thread will occupy a separate copy or same variable
will be shared ?

71. In servlets, we are having a web page that is invoking servlets username
and password ? which is cheks in the database ? Suppose the second
page also If we want to verify the same information whethe it will
connect to the database or it will be used previous information?
72. What are virtual functions ?
73. Write down how will you create a binary Tree ?
74. What are the traverses in Binary Tree ?
75. Write a program for recursive Traverse ?
76. What are session variable in Servlets ?
77. What is client server computing ?
78. What is Constructor and Virtual function? Can we call Virtual funciton
in a constructor ?
79. Why we use OOPS concepts? What is its advantage ?
80. What is the middleware ? What is the functionality of Webserver ?
81. Why Java is not 100 % pure OOPS ? ( EcomServer )
82. When we will use an Interface and Abstract class ?
83. What is an RMI?
84. How will you pass parameters in RMI ? Why u serialize?
85. What is the exact difference in between Unicast and Multicast object ?
Where we will use ?
86. What is the main functionality of the Remote Reference Layer ?
87. How do you download stubs from a Remote place ?
88. What is the difference in between C++ and Java ? can u explain in detail
?
89. I want to store more than 10 objects in a remote server ? Which
methodology will follow ?
90. What is the main functionality of the Prepared Statement ?
91. What is meant by static query and dynamic query ?
92. What are the Normalization Rules ? Define the Normalization ?
93. What is meant by Servelet? What are the parameters of the service
method ?
94. What is meant by Session ? Tell me something about HTTPSession
Class ?
95. How do you invoke a Servelt? What is the difference in between doPost
and doGet methods ?
96. What is the difference in between the HTTPServlet and Generic Servlet
? Expalin their methods ? Tell me their parameter names also ?
97. Have you used threads in Servelet ?
98. Write a program on RMI and JDBC using StoredProcedure ?
99. How do you sing an Applet ?

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In a Container there are 5 components. I want to display the all the
components names, how will you do that one ?
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Why there are some null interface in java ? What does it mean ?
Give me some null interfaces in JAVA ?
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Tell me the latest versions in JAVA related areas ?
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What is meant by class loader ? How many types are there? When
will we use them ?
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How do you load an Image in a Servlet ?
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What is meant by flickering ?
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What is meant by distributed Application ? Why we are using that
in our applications ?
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What is the functionality of the stub ?
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Have you used any version control ?
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What is the latest version of JDBC ? What are the new features
are added in that ?
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Explain 2 tier and 3 -tier Architecture ?
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What is the role of the webserver ?
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How have you done validation of the fileds in your project ?
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What is the main difficulties that you are faced in your project ?
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What is meant by cookies ? Explain ?
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Problem faced in your earlier project
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How OOPS concept is achieved in Java
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Features for using Java
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How does Java 2.0 differ from Java 1.0
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Public static void main Explain
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What are command line arguments
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Explain about the three-tier model
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Difference between String & StringBuffer
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Wrapper class. Is String a Wrapper Class
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What are the restriction for static method
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Purpose of the file class
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Default modifier in Interface
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Difference between Interface & Abstract class
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Can abstract be declared as Final
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Can we declare variables inside a method as Final Variables
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What is the package concept and use of package
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How can a dead thread be started
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Difference between Applet & Application
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Life cycle of the Applet
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Can Applet have constructors
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Differeence between canvas class & graphics class

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Explain about Superclass & subclass

Difference between TCP & UDP
What is AppletStub
Explain Stream Tokenizer
What is the difference between two types of threads
Checked & Unchecked exception
Use of throws exception
What is finally in exception handling
Vector class
What will happen to the Exception object after exception handling
Two types of multi-tasking
Two ways to create the thread
Synchronization
I/O Filter
How can you retrieve warnings in JDBC
Can applet in different page communicate with each other
Four driver Manager
Features of JDBC 20
Explain about stored procedures
Servlet Life cycle
Why do you go for servlet rather than CGI
How to generate skeleton & Stub classes
Explain lazy activation
Firewalls in RMI