Master's Real Java Interview Questions
This document contains REAL interview-oriented Java questions asked in: • TCS • Infosys • Wipro • Accenture •
Capgemini • Java Developer Interviews Topics Covered: 1. Introduction to Java 2. Variables & Datatypes 3.
Operators 4. Input Output 5. Control Statements
1. INTRODUCTION TO JAVA
1. What is Java?
2. Why is Java platform independent?
3. Difference between JVM, JRE, and JDK?
4. What is bytecode?
5. How does JVM work internally?
6. What is the role of JIT compiler?
7. Explain Java compilation process.
8. Why is Java secure?
9. What is class loading?
10. What are class loaders in Java?
11. What is bootstrap class loader?
12. What is application class loader?
13. What is dynamic class loading?
14. What are Java features?
15. What is WORA?
16. Can Java run without JVM?
17. Difference between Java and C++?
18. What is garbage collection?
19. What is heap memory?
20. What is stack memory?
21. Why is main method static?
22. Can we overload main method?
23. Can main method be private?
24. What happens if no main method?
25. What are command line arguments?
26. What is bytecode verifier?
27. What is execution engine?
28. What is method area?
29. Why Java is robust?
30. How does Java achieve portability?
2. VARIABLES & DATATYPES
1. What is a variable?
2. Primitive vs non-primitive datatypes?
3. Why String is non-primitive?
4. Difference between stack and heap memory?
5. What is datatype?
6. Range of int datatype?
7. Difference between float and double?
8. What is implicit type casting?
9. What is explicit type casting?
10. What is widening conversion?
11. What is narrowing conversion?
12. What is final keyword?
13. Difference between local and instance variables?
14. Where are variables stored?
15. What is memory allocation?
16. Can final variable change?
17. What is literal in Java?
18. What is unicode?
19. What is char datatype?
20. Can boolean store 0 and 1?
21. What is integer overflow?
22. What causes floating-point precision loss?
23. What is autoboxing?
24. What is unboxing?
25. Can null be assigned to primitive datatype?
26. Difference between == and equals()?
27. What is scope of variable?
28. What is reference variable?
29. Can we cast String to int?
30. Why double preferred over float?
3. OPERATORS
1. What are operators in Java?
2. Difference between & and &&?
3. Difference between | and ||?
4. What is short-circuit evaluation?
5. What is arithmetic operator?
6. What is relational operator?
7. What is logical operator?
8. What is unary operator?
9. Difference between pre and post increment?
10. What is ternary operator?
11. What is instanceof operator?
12. What are bitwise operators?
13. Explain left shift operator.
14. Explain right shift operator.
15. What is XOR operator?
16. What is operator precedence?
17. What is associativity?
18. Can division by zero happen?
19. What is modulo operator?
20. What is assignment operator?
21. What is compound assignment?
22. What happens in ++a + a++?
23. Can logical operators work with integers?
24. Explain signed shift operator.
25. Explain unsigned shift operator.
26. What is bit masking?
27. How are operators evaluated internally?
28. What are real-world uses of bitwise operators?
29. Difference between == and equals()?
30. What causes integer overflow?
4. INPUT OUTPUT
1. Difference between Scanner and BufferedReader?
2. Why BufferedReader is faster?
3. What is parsing?
4. What are command line arguments?
5. Difference between next() and nextLine()?
6. What is InputMismatchException?
7. What is NumberFormatException?
8. Why close Scanner object?
9. What is [Link]?
10. What is stream in Java?
11. How Scanner internally works?
12. What is buffered input?
13. Difference between byte stream and character stream?
14. What is Console class?
15. Can Console work in IDE?
16. How to securely take password input?
17. What is FileReader?
18. What is FileWriter?
19. What is BufferedWriter?
20. What is BufferedReader?
21. What is InputStreamReader?
22. What is PrintWriter?
23. Difference between print and println?
24. Can Scanner cause memory leak?
25. What is tokenization in Scanner?
26. How to parse String to integer?
27. How to parse String to double?
28. What is IOException?
29. What is standard input stream?
30. Real-world uses of input streams?
5. CONTROL STATEMENTS
1. What are control statements?
2. Difference between if and switch?
3. What is nested if?
4. Can switch use String?
5. Difference between while and do-while?
6. What is enhanced for loop?
7. Difference between break and continue?
8. What causes infinite loop?
9. Can return be used inside loops?
10. What are branching statements?
11. What is loop control variable?
12. What is off-by-one error?
13. What is unreachable code?
14. What happens if break missing in switch?
15. What is fall-through in switch?
16. Difference between for and enhanced for?
17. Can we use multiple conditions in if?
18. How loops internally work?
19. Can switch work with double?
20. Difference between nested loop and recursion?
21. Can continue skip outer loop?
22. What is labeled break?
23. What is labeled continue?
24. Can return terminate method execution?
25. What is loop optimization?
26. What is branch prediction?
27. Real-world uses of loops?
28. How ATM menu uses switch?
29. How servers use infinite loops?
30. How game loops work?