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Everyone learns at their own pace.

What matters most is your dedication and

consistency.

This guide is designed to help you practice

common Spring Boot concepts which are commonly
asked to help you excel in your technical interviews.

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Q 1. Explain the role of Spring Boot in
microservices architecture.

Q 2. How does Spring Boot achieve auto-

configuration and what are its limitations?

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 Discuss the significance of Spring Boot's
Q 3. actuator module in production
environments.

How does Spring Boot support security,

Q 4. and what are the best practices for
securing a Spring Boot application?

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Q 5. What are Spring Boot starters and how do
they simplify dependency management?

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Q 6. How do you create a simple RESTful web
service using Spring Boot?

java
@RestController

@RequestMapping("/api")

public class MyController {

@GetMapping("/hello")

public String sayHello() {

return "Hello, World!";

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Q 7. How do you connect a Spring Boot
application to a MySQL database?

properties
[Link]=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
mydb

[Link]=root

[Link]=secret

[Link]-auto=update

java
@Entity

public class User {

@Id

@GeneratedValue(strategy = [Link])

private Long id;

private String name;

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 // getters and setters

public interface UserRepository extends

JpaRepository<User, Long> {

Q 8.
How do you handle exceptions globally

in a Spring Boot application?

java

@ControllerAdvice

public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

@ExceptionHandler([Link])

public ResponseEntity<String> 

handleResourceNotFound(ResourceNotFoundException 

ex) {

return new ResponseEntity<>([Link](),


HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);

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 @ExceptionHandler([Link])

public ResponseEntity<String> 

handleGeneralException(Exception ex) {

return new ResponseEntity<>("An error 


occurred", 

HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);

Q 9.
How do you use Spring Boot DevTools to
enhance the development experience?

xml

<dependency>

<groupId>[Link]</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>

</dependency>

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Q 10.
How do you configure a custom endpoint
in Spring Boot Actuator?

java

@Component

public class CustomEndpoint {

@ReadOperation

public String customEndpoint() {

return "Custom Endpoint Output";

properties

[Link]=custom

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Q 11.
How do you implement pagination and
sorting in a Spring Boot application?

java

public interface UserRepository extends

PagingAndSortingRepository<User, Long> {

java

@GetMapping("/users")

public Page<User> getUsers(Pageable pageable) {

return [Link](pageable);

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 How do you implement pagination and
Q 12.
sorting in a Spring Boot application?

java

public interface UserRepository extends

PagingAndSortingRepository<User, Long> {

java

@GetMapping("/users")

public Page<User> getUsers(Pageable pageable) {

return [Link](pageable);

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Q 13.
How do you configure and use a custom
banner in a Spring Boot application?

Q 14.
How do you integrate Spring Boot with
Kafka?

xml

<dependency>

<groupId>[Link]</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>

</dependency>

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xml

[Link]-servers=localhost:9092

[Link]-id=my-group

java

@Bean

public KafkaTemplate<String, String> kafkaTemplate() {

return new KafkaTemplate<>(producerFactory());

@KafkaListener(topics = "myTopic", groupId = "my-group")

public void listen(String message) {

[Link]("Received: " + message);

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Q 15. How do you schedule tasks in Spring Boot?

java

@SpringBootApplication

@EnableScheduling

public class MyApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {

[Link]([Link], args);

@Component

public class ScheduledTasks {

@Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)

public void performTask() {

[Link]("Scheduled task running...");

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Q 16.
How do you configure a Spring Boot
application to use Spring Security?

java

@Configuration

@EnableWebSecurity

public class SecurityConfig extends

WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

@Override

protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) 


throws Exception {

http

.authorizeRequests()

.antMatchers("/public/**").permitAll()

.anyRequest().authenticated()

.and()

.formLogin().permitAll()

.and()

.logout().permitAll();

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Q 17.
How do you implement caching in a Spring
Boot application?

java
@SpringBootApplication

@EnableCaching

public class MyApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {

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args);

@Service

public class UserService {

@Cacheable("users")

public User getUserById(Long id) {

return [Link](id).orElse(null);

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 properties

[Link]=simple

Q 18.
How do you implement caching in a Spring
Boot application?

java

[Link]=[Link]

[Link]=587

[Link]=myusername

[Link]=mypassword

[Link]=true

[Link]=true

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java
@Service

public class EmailService {

@Autowired

private JavaMailSender mailSender;

public void sendSimpleEmail(String to, String

subject, String text) {

SimpleMailMessage message = new

SimpleMailMessage();

[Link](to);

[Link](subject);

[Link](text);

[Link](message);

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Q 19.
How do you implement internationalization
(i18n) in a Spring Boot application?

properties
[Link]=messages

[Link]=UTF-8

java
@RestController

public class GreetingController {

@Autowired

private MessageSource messageSource;

@GetMapping("/greet")

public String greet(Locale locale) {

return [Link]("greeting", 

null, locale);

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Q 20.
How do you integrate a third-party library
(like Lombok) in a Spring Boot application?

xml
<dependency>

<groupId>[Link]</
groupId>

<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>

<version>1.18.20</version>

<scope>provided</scope>

</dependency>

java
@Data

@Entity

public class User {

@Id

@GeneratedValue(strategy = [Link])

private Long id;

private String name;

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 How do you create a custom validator in
Q 21.
Spring Boot?

java

@Target({ [Link], [Link],

[Link], ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE })

@Retention([Link])

@Constraint(validatedBy = [Link])

@Documented

public @interface CustomConstraint {

String message() default "Invalid value";

Class<?>[] groups() default {};

Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};

public class CustomValidator implements

ConstraintValidator<CustomConstraint, String> {

@Override

public void initialize(CustomConstraint 


constraintAnnotation) {

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 @Override

public boolean isValid(String value, 


ConstraintValidatorContext context) {

return value != null && [Link]("[A-Z]{2}

[0-9]{4}");

java

public class MyModel {

@CustomConstraint

private String customField;

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