Question 1

What will be the output of the program? import java.util.*;
public class NewTreeSet2 extends NewTreeSet 
{
    public static void main(String [] args) 
    {
        NewTreeSet2 t = new NewTreeSet2();
        t.count();
    }
}
protected class NewTr…

Accepted Answer

Nonnested classes cannot be marked protected (or final for that matter), so the compiler will fail at protected class NewTreeSet.

Question 2

What will be the output of the program? public class ArrayTest 
{ 
    public static void main(String[ ] args)
    { 
        float f1[ ], f2[ ]; 
        f1 = new float[10]; 
        f2 = f1; 
        System.out.println("f2[0] = " + f2[0]); 
    } …

Accepted Answer

Option A is correct. When you create an array (f1 = new float[10];) the elements are initialises to the default values for the primitive data type (float in this case - 0.0), so f1 will contain 10 elements each with a value of 0.0. f2 has been declared but has not been initialised, it has the ability to reference or point to an array but as yet does not point to any array. f2 = f1; copies the reference (pointer/memory address) of f1 into f2 so now f2 points at the array pointed to by f1. This means that the values returned by f2 are the values returned by f1. Changes to f1 are also changes to f2 because both f1 and f2 point to the same array.

Question 3

What will be the output of the program? public class Test 
{
    public int aMethod()
    {
        static int i = 0;
        i++;
        return i;
    }
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        Test test = new Test();
        test.…

Accepted Answer

Compilation failed because static was an illegal start of expression - method variables do not have a modifier (they are always considered local).

Question 4

What will be the output of the program? class Super 
{ 
    public Integer getLength() 
    {
        return new Integer(4); 
    } 
}

public class Sub extends Super 
{ 
    public Long getLength() 
    {
        return new Long(5); 
    }

p…

Accepted Answer

Option D is correct, compilation fails - The return type of getLength( ) in the super class is an object of reference type Integer and the return type in the sub class is an object of reference type Long. In other words, it is not an override because of the change in the return type and it is also not an overload because the argument list has not changed.

Question 5

What will be the output of the program? class Super
{ 
    public int i = 0;

public Super(String text) /* Line 4 */
    {
        i = 1; 
    } 
}

class Sub extends Super
{
    public Sub(String text)
    {
        i = 2; 
    }

public…

Accepted Answer

A default no-args constructor is not created because there is a constructor supplied that has an argument, line 4. Therefore the sub-class constructor must explicitly make a call to the super class constructor:

Question 6

What will be the output of the program? class Base
{ 
    Base()
    {
        System.out.print("Base");
    }
} 
public class Alpha extends Base
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    { 
        new Alpha(); /* Line 12 */
        new Bas…

Accepted Answer

Option B is correct. It would be correct if the code had compiled, and the subclass Alpha had been saved in its own file. In this case Java supplies an implicit call from the sub-class constructor to the no-args constructor of the super-class therefore line 12 causes Base to be output. Line 13 also causes Base to be output. Option A is wrong. It would be correct if either the main class or the subclass had not been instantiated. Option C is wrong. The code compiles. Option D is wrong. There is output.

Question 7

What will be the output of the program? class A 
{
    final public int GetResult(int a, int b) { return 0; } 
} 
class B extends A 
{ 
    public int GetResult(int a, int b) {return 1; } 
} 
public class Test 
{
    public static void main(String a…

Accepted Answer

The code doesn't compile because the method GetResult() in class A is final and so cannot be overridden.

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