Interview Questions to
Crack Technical Interviews
*Disclaimer*
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
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
mydb
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=secret
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
java
@Entity
public class User {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
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(ResourceNotFoundException.class)
public ResponseEntity<String>
handleResourceNotFound(ResourceNotFoundException
ex) {
return new ResponseEntity<>(ex.getMessage(),
HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
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@ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)
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>org.springframework.boot</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
management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=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 userRepository.findAll(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 userRepository.findAll(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>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
</dependency>
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xml
spring.kafka.bootstrap-servers=localhost:9092
spring.kafka.consumer.group-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) {
System.out.println("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) {
SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
@Component
public class ScheduledTasks {
@Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
public void performTask() {
System.out.println("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) {
SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class,
args);
@Service
public class UserService {
@Cacheable("users")
public User getUserById(Long id) {
return userRepository.findById(id).orElse(null);
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properties
spring.cache.type=simple
Q 18.
How do you implement caching in a Spring
Boot application?
java
spring.mail.host=smtp.example.com
spring.mail.port=587
spring.mail.username=myusername
spring.mail.password=mypassword
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=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();
message.setTo(to);
message.setSubject(subject);
message.setText(text);
mailSender.send(message);
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Q 19.
How do you implement internationalization
(i18n) in a Spring Boot application?
properties
spring.messages.basename=messages
spring.messages.encoding=UTF-8
java
@RestController
public class GreetingController {
@Autowired
private MessageSource messageSource;
@GetMapping("/greet")
public String greet(Locale locale) {
return messageSource.getMessage("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>org.projectlombok</
groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.18.20</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
java
@Data
@Entity
public class User {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
private String name;
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How do you create a custom validator in
Q 21.
Spring Boot?
java
@Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD,
ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Constraint(validatedBy = CustomValidator.class)
@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 && value.matches("[A-Z]{2}
[0-9]{4}");
java
public class MyModel {
@CustomConstraint
private String customField;
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