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Senior Java Interview Important Topics

The document outlines essential topics and concepts in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring Data JPA, databases, AWS, DevOps tools, React integration, and system design. Key areas include OOPS principles, REST principles, service communication, entity lifecycle, and CI/CD pipelines. It serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding modern software development practices and technologies.

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Senior Java Interview Important Topics

The document outlines essential topics and concepts in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring Data JPA, databases, AWS, DevOps tools, React integration, and system design. Key areas include OOPS principles, REST principles, service communication, entity lifecycle, and CI/CD pipelines. It serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding modern software development practices and technologies.

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Java (Core + Java 8+)

- OOPS concepts and SOLID principles

- Collections Framework and HashMap internal working

- equals() vs hashCode()

- String immutability and String pool

- Exception handling best practices

- Multithreading, Synchronization, Volatile, Deadlocks

- Lambda expressions, Functional Interfaces

- Stream API (map, flatMap, filter, reduce, parallel streams)

- Optional class, Method references, Date & Time API

Spring Boot / Spring Framework

- Dependency Injection and Bean lifecycle

- @Component vs @Service vs @Repository

- Constructor Injection vs Autowired

- Spring Boot Auto Configuration

- [Link] / properties management

- Profiles & Environment configurations

- Spring Boot Actuator

- Global Exception Handling using @ControllerAdvice

- Validation using @Valid

Spring MVC / REST

- REST principles and HTTP methods

- @RestController vs @Controller

- DTO vs Entity separation

- Pagination and filtering strategies

- Request lifecycle and status codes


Microservices Architecture

- Monolith vs Microservices

- Service communication – REST vs Messaging

- Service discovery and API Gateway

- Circuit Breaker pattern

- Distributed logging and tracing

- Centralized configuration

- Idempotency and Event-driven architecture

- Saga pattern basics

Spring Data JPA / Hibernate

- Entity lifecycle

- Lazy vs Eager loading

- N+1 Query problem

- JPQL vs Native Query

- Cascade types and Transaction management

- First level vs Second level cache

- Optimistic vs Pessimistic locking

- Indexing and query optimization

Database (MySQL + MongoDB)

- SQL Joins and Indexing strategies

- Normalization vs Denormalization

- ACID properties and Isolation levels

- MongoDB document model

- Embedded vs Referenced documents

- Aggregation framework basics


- Choosing NoSQL vs RDBMS

AWS

- EC2 basics

- S3 storage and use cases

- RDS basics

- IAM roles and security

- Load Balancers (ALB basics)

- High availability concepts

DevOps Tools

- Dockerfile basics, Image vs Container, Networking

- Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and build lifecycle

- Git branching strategies, Merge vs Rebase, Conflict resolution

React Integration

- Component lifecycle basics

- Props vs State

- API integration with backend

- Functional components and hooks overview

System Design

- Designing scalable REST APIs

- Rate limiting and caching strategies

- Load balancing

- Database sharding basics

- Logging and monitoring approach

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