What do you know about the big-O notation and can you give some examples with respect to different data structures ?

Correct Answer: Java Collections Framework provides a well designed set of interfaces and classes that support operations on a collections of objects The most basic interfaces that reside in the Java Collections Framework are: Collection, which represents a group of objects known as its elements Set, which is a collection that cannot contain duplicate elements List, which is an ordered collection and can contain duplicate elements Map, which is an object that maps keys to values and cannot contain duplicate keys

Correct Answer: - A process is an execution of a program, while a Thread is a single execution sequence within a process - A process can contain multiple threads A Thread is sometimes called a lightweight process

Correct Answer: There are three ways that can be used in order for a Thread to be created: A class may extend the Thread class A class may implement the Runnable interface An application can use the Executor framework, in order to create a thread pool The Runnable interface is preferred, as it does not require an object to inherit the Thread class In case your application design requires multiple inheritance, only interfaces can help you Also, the thread pool is very efficient and can be implemented and used very easily

Correct Answer: When an object is passed by value, this means that a copy of the object is passed Thus, even if changes are made to that object, it doesn?t affect the original value When an object is passed by reference, this means that the actual object is not passed, rather a reference of the object is passed Thus, any changes made by the external method, are also reflected in all places

Correct Answer: Dynamic method dispatch which is also known as runtime polymorphism is a process in which a call to an overridden method is resolved at runtime rather than at compile-time In this process, an overridden method is called through the reference variable of a superclass The determination of the method to be called is based on the object being referred to by the reference variable

Correct Answer: Enumeration is twice as fast as compared to an Iterator and uses very less memory However, the Iterator is much safer compared to Enumeration, because other threads are not able to modify the collection object that is currently traversed by the iterator Also, Iteratorsallow the caller to remove elements from the underlying collection, something which is not possible with Enumerations

Correct Answer: 1 2 3

Explanation:

In argument[0] = args;, the reference variable arg[0], which was referring to an array with two elements, is reassigned to an array (args) with three elements.
Output:
$ javac main_arguments.java
$ java main_arguments
1 2 3

Correct Answer: Autoboxing is the automatic conversion that the Java compiler makes between the primitive types and their corresponding object wrapper classes For example, converting an int to an Integer, a double to a Double, and so on If the conversion goes the other way, this is called unboxing

Correct Answer: A static variable in Java belongs to its class and its value remains the same for all its instances A static variable is initialized when the class is loaded by the JVM If your code tries to access a non-static variable, without any instance, the compiler will complain, because those variables are not created yet and they are not associated with any instance

Correct Answer: 1Main difference is methods of a Java interface are implicitly abstract and cannot have implementations A Java abstract class can have instance methods that implements a default behavior 2Variables declared in a Java interface is by default final An abstract class may contain non-final variables 3Members of a Java interface are public by default A Java abstract class can have the usual flavors of class members like private, protected, etc 4Java interface should be implemented using keyword ?implements?; A Java abstract class should be extended using keyword ?extends? 5An interface can extend another Java interface only, an abstract class can extend another Java class and implement multiple Java interfaces 6A Java class can implement multiple interfaces but it can extend only one abstract class 7Interface is absolutely abstract and cannot be instantiated; A Java abstract class also cannot be instantiated, but can be invoked if a main() exists 8In comparison with java abstract classes, java interfaces are slow as it requires extra indirection