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DSA Interview Prep Practice Questions

The document lists various data structure and algorithm practice questions categorized into topics such as Array Variations, Binary Search Twists, Hashing/Frequency, Two-pointer/Sliding Window, Stacks & Intervals, String Problems, and Bit Manipulation. Each category includes specific problems that are commonly encountered in technical interviews. The problems range in difficulty and cover a wide array of concepts essential for interview preparation.

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DSA Interview Prep Practice Questions

The document lists various data structure and algorithm practice questions categorized into topics such as Array Variations, Binary Search Twists, Hashing/Frequency, Two-pointer/Sliding Window, Stacks & Intervals, String Problems, and Bit Manipulation. Each category includes specific problems that are commonly encountered in technical interviews. The problems range in difficulty and cover a wide array of concepts essential for interview preparation.

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DSA Practice Questions (For Interview Prep)

Array Variations
- Longest Consecutive Sequence – find the length of the longest sequence of consecutive
numbers.
- Subarray with Product < K – count how many subarrays have product less than a given number.
- Maximum Circular Subarray Sum – handle wrap-around subarrays.
- Next Permutation – rearrange numbers to the lexicographically next permutation.
- Container With Most Water – two-pointer problem for max area between vertical lines.

Binary Search Twists


- Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array (with duplicates allowed).
- Search in Rotated Sorted Array II (duplicates included).
- Median of Two Sorted Arrays – very popular interview question.
- Allocate Minimum Pages / Painter’s Partition Problem (binary search on answer).

Hashing / Frequency
- Longest Subarray with Equal 0s and 1s.
- Subarray Sum Equals K (track prefix sum with hashmap).
- Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters.
- Group Anagrams from a list of strings.
- Top K Frequent Elements.

Two-pointer / Sliding Window


- Minimum Window Substring (classic hard one).
- Longest Repeating Character Replacement.
- Find All Anagrams in a String.
- Max Consecutive Ones III – flip at most k zeroes.

Stacks & Intervals


- Next Greater Element (basic + circular array version).
- Largest Rectangle in Histogram.
- Trapping Rain Water.
- Insert Interval (variation of merge intervals).

String Problems
- Longest Palindromic Substring (expand around center).
- Palindrome Partitioning (backtracking).
- Word Break Problem (DP).
- Count and Say Sequence.

Bit Manipulation
- Single Number (every element appears twice except one).
- Single Number II (every element appears thrice except one).
- Power of Two / Power of Four checks.
- Count Set Bits in a Number.

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