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Top 25+ Fresher Java Interview Questions

In this article, we are trying to provide some of the important core java interview
questions for freshers with answers which are to the point.

These questions cover important core java concepts that will really help you in your
preparation. Here are the top trending 25+Java interview questions for freshers.

1. What are the key differences between C++ and Java?

Answer: C++ and Java both are object-oriented programming languages with some
differences. The interviewer may ask the difference between the two and include this in
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the top Java interview questions for freshers to check your basic knowledge. The
differences between C++ and Java are as follows –

C++ Java

1) C++ is platform dependent. 1) Java is platform-independent.

2) C++ writes structural programs 2) Java is a pure object-oriented language

without using classes and objects. except for the primitive variables.

3) C++ doesn’t support 3) Java supports documentation comment

documentation comments. (/**…*/) to create documentation for java code.

4) C++ fully supports pointers. 4) In Java, there is no concept of pointers.

5) C++ supports multiple 5) Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance.

inheritance.

2. Explain the JVM architecture?

Answer: Java Virtual Machine is the abstract machine or specification that provides a
runtime environment to execute the bytecode. JVM supports Java and many other
languages known as JVM languages, the program written in these languages is
compiled into the bytecode and then executed by the JVM. contains key components
which are classloader, memory area, execution engine etc.
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a) Classloader

It is a subsystem of JVM which loads class files. Whenever a Java program is run, it is
loaded by the classloader.

b) Class Area

Class Area holds class-level data of each class file such as metadata, constant run
pool, and static variables.

c) Heap

It is the runtime data which is used for allocating objects.

d) Stack

The stack is used for storing temporary variables. This component has a stack frame
which is allocated one frame to each thread and when the execution of the thread is
completed then that frame is also destroyed.

e) Registers

This component contains the address of the JVM instruction which is currently being
executed.

f) Native Method Stack

All the native method stack used in the application are stored in this.

g) Execution Engine
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It contains:

● A virtual processor
● An interpreter that executes the instructions after reading the bytecode.
● JIT compiler, used for improving the performance due to the slow
execution. It compiles the similar part of the bytecode at the same time
which reduces the total time needed for compilation.

h) Java Native Interface

It provides an interface which is needed for communicating with another application

developed in another language like C, C++, C# etc.

3. What is the use of Classloader in Java?

Answer: A Java program is made up of a different number of custom classes and

pre-defined classes. When a program is executed, JVM is used to load all the content of
that needed class and through the use of Classloader JVM, it finds that class.

There are three types of Classloaders:

● System Class Loader

It loads all the classes from the classpath.

● Extension ClassLoader

It loads all the classes from the extension directory.

● Bootstrap Class Loader

It loads all the pre-defined java classes.

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4. Which class is a superclass of all classes?

Answer: Java.lang.The object is the root class for all the java classes and we don’t
need to extend it. Every other java class falls back under the object. All the different
non-primitive types including arrays are inherited directly or indirectly from this class.

5. What is the static keyword?

Answer: The static keyword is used with a class level variable to make it global so all
the objects will be able to share the same variable. It can also be used with methods. A
static method can access only static variables of the class and invoke only a static
method of the class.

The interview generally asks this question in the Java interview questions for freshers.
Even if you are a fresher, you should have a good knowledge of the keywords in Java.

6. What are finally and finalize in Java?

Answer: Finally block is used with a try-catch block to put the code that you always
want to get executed even if the execution is thrown by the try-catch block. Finally is
just used for releasing the resources which were created by the try block.

Finalize() is a special method in Object class that we can override in our classes.
Finalize() is called by the Garbage collector to collect the garbage value when the object
is getting it. This method is generally overridden to release the system resources when
garbage value is collected from the object.

Also Read: Top Java interview questions for 5 years experience

7. What is Type casting in Java?

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Answer: Casting in Java is one of the top topics from which you can get questions in
your interview. When we assign a value of one data type to a different data type then
these two data types might not be compatible with each other and needs conversion. If
data types are compatible with each other like, in case of the conversion of int value to
long then automatic conversion is done by Java and doesn’t require typecasting. But if
data types are not compatible with each other then they need to be cast for conversion.

Syntax

dataType variablename = (dataType) variableToConvert;

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8. What is the inner and anonymous inner class?

Answer: In Java, we can define a class inside a class and they are called nested
classes. Any nested class which is non-static are known as inner class. Inner classes
are associated with objects of the class and they can access all the variables and
methods of the outer class.

Any local inner class without any name is known as an anonymous inner class. It is
defined and instantiated in a single statement. Anonymous inner class always extend a
class or implement an interface. Since an anonymous inner class doesn’t have any
name, it is not possible to create its constructor.

9. What is the break and continue statement?

Answer: In a while or do-while loop, we use break for a statement to terminate the loop.
We use a break statement in a switch statement to exit the switch case. We can also
use break statements for terminating the nested loop.
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The continue statement is used for skipping the current iteration of a for, while or
do-while loop. We can use the break statement with a label to skip the current iteration
of the outermost loop.

The most basic programming question, not only related to the Java. If you have some
knowledge of programming languages, you should know the answer to this question as
it is among frequently asked Java interview questions for freshers.

10. What is an interface?

Answer: Interfaces are the core part of Java programming language used a lot in JDK,
java design patterns, and most of the frameworks and tools. The interface provides a
way to achieve abstraction in Java and is used to define the contract for the subclasses
to implement.

The interface is a good starting point to define the type and create a top-level hierarchy
in your code. In Java, a class can implement multiple interfaces, it’s better to use
interfaces as a superclass in most of the cases.

11. What is aggregation in Java?

Answer: Aggregation is best defined as the entity reference where it represents the
relationship between two classes where the aggregate class contains a reference to the
class which it owns. Aggregation represents a has-a and whole/part relationship.

For example consider an aggregate class Employee stores information such as name,
age, salary, and the Address class stores information such as city, state, and pin-code.
Now, if the Employee class is defined to contain an Address object then it will be said
that the Employee object has-a Address object. The Address object also makes up
part-of the Employee object – there is no employee without any address to live.
Therefore, the Employee object owns the Address object.
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12. What is the use of System class in Java?

Answer: This question is among the most common Java interview questions for
freshers. Java System class is one of the core classes. One of the easiest ways to log
information for debugging is System.out.print() method. System class is final so we can’t
subclass and override its behavior through inheritance.

System class doesn’t provide any public constructors, so we can’t instantiate this class
and that’s why all of its methods are static. Some of the utility methods of System class
are for array copy, getting the current time, and reading environment variables.

13. What is an instanceof keyword?

Answer: We can use an instanceof keyword in java to check whether an object belongs
to a class or not. We should avoid much usage of it. Sample usage:

public static void main(String[] args) {

Object str = new String(“abc”);

If(str instanceof String) {

System.out.println(“String value:” +str);

If(str instanceof Integer) {

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System.out.println(“Integer value:” +str);

14. What is an Iterator?

Answer: Iterator interface provides methods to iterate over any collection. We can get
an iterator instance from a collection using the iterator() method. Iterator takes the place
of Enumeration in the Java Collection Framework. The iterator allows the caller to
remove elements from the underlying collection during the iteration. Java Collection
iterator provides a generic way for transversal elements of a collection and implements
Iterator Design Pattern.

15. What is the Java Collections Framework?

Answer: Collections are used in every programming language and when initial java was
released it contained few classes for collections: Vector, Stack, Array, and Hashtable.
But for larger scope and usage, Java 1.2 came up with Collection Framework that
grouped all the collections interfaces, implementations, and algorithms.

Java Collection has come a long way with the usage of Generic and concurrent
Collection classes for thread-safe operations. It has included blocking interfaces and
their implementations in Java concurrent packages.
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Most Popular Java Interview Questions for Freshers:

In this section, we will cover the most popular Java interview questions for freshers
which are commonly asked in all Java interviews. These popular Java interview
questions for freshers will definitely help you in your preparation and will provide you
with a better concept & learning.

16. What do you understand about Thread Priority?

Answer: Every thread when gets born is assigned with a priority value and usually
higher priority gets precedence in execution but it also depends on the Thread
Scheduler implementation which is OS dependent. We can assign the priority of the
thread but it doesn’t guarantee that higher priority will get executed before lower priority
thread. Thread priority is an integer value that varies from 1 to 10 where 1 is the lowest
and 10 is the highest priority thread.

17. What is Thread Scheduler and Time Slicing?

Answer: Thread Scheduler is an Operating System service which allocates the CPU
time to the available runnable threads. Once a thread is created and it’s in the runnable
phase then its execution depends on the implementation of the Thread Scheduler.

Time Slicing is a process of dividing available CPU time among the various runnable
threads. Allocation of CPU time will depend on the thread priority or for how much time
it is in the waiting state for getting the CPU time. Thread Scheduling cannot be
controlled by Java, so it’s always better to control it by the application itself.

18. Which is more preferred – Synchronized method or Synchronized

block?
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Answer: The synchronized block is more preferred because it doesn’t lock the object,
synchronized methods lock the object and if there are multiple synchronization blocks in
the class, even though they are not related, it will stop the execution and put them in a
wait state to get the lock on the object.

19. How to create a daemon thread in Java?

Answer: Thread class setDaemon(true) is used for creating daemon threads in Java.
We used to call this method before calling the start() method, otherwise it would give an
Illegal Thread State Exception.

20. What is ThreadLocal?

Answer: ThreadLocal in Java is used for creating thread-local variables. We know that
all threads of an object share its variables. So, if the variable is not threaded safe then
we can use synchronization. But if we want to avoid synchronization then we can use
ThreadLocal variables.

Every thread has its own ThreadLocal variable and they can use get() and set()
methods to get the default value or change its local thread value. ThreadLocal instances
are typically private static fields in classes that wish to associate the state with a thread.

21. Explain the Java Exception Hierarchy.

Answer: Java Exceptions are hierarchical and inheritance is used for categorizing the
different types of exceptions. Throwable is the parent class of Java Exceptions
Hierarchy and it has two child objects – Error and Exceptions.

Errors are exceptional scenarios which are out of the scope of applications and it’s not
possible to anticipate and recover from them, for example, hardware failure, JVM crash
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or out of memory error. Exceptions are further divided into checked and runtime
exceptions.

Checked exceptions are exceptional scenarios that we can anticipate in a program

and try to recover from it, for example, FileNotFoundException. We should catch this
exception and provide a useful message to the user and log it properly for debugging
purposes. The exception is the parent class of all the Checked exceptions.

Runtime exceptions are caused by bad programming, for example, trying to retrieve
an element from the Array. At first, we should check the length of the array before trying
to retrieve the element otherwise it might throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException at
runtime. RuntimeException is the parent class of all runtime exceptions.

This is one of the most common Java interview questions for freshers. So, don’t miss
and clear your concepts on Java exceptions.

22. What happens when an exception is thrown by the main method?

Answer: When an exception is thrown by the main() method, Java Runtime terminates
the program and prints the exception message and stack trace in the system console.

23. How do you ensure that N thread can access N resources without
getting into the Deadlock situation?

Answer: In the case when N thread can access N resources without getting into a
deadlock situation, here the key point in order. If we acquire resources in particular
order and release resources in reverse order then we can prevent the deadlock
situation.

24. How to get the database server details in a Java program?

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Answer: For this, we can use DatabaseMetaData object to get the database server
details. When the database connection is created successfully, we can get the metadata
object by calling getMetaData() method. There are also many methods in
DatabaseMetaData that we can use to know the product name, it’s version and
configuration details.

1. DatabaseMetaData metadata = con.getMetaData();

2. String dbProduct = metadata.getdatabaseProductName;

25. What is JDBC PreparedStatement?

Answer: JDBC PreparedStatement object represents a precompiled SQL statement.

We can use its setter method to set the variables for the query. Since
PreparedStatement is precompiled, it can then be used to efficiently execute this
statement multiple times. PreparedStatement is a better choice than Statement because
it automatically escapes the special characters and avoids SQL injection attacks.

26. What are the various access specifiers in Java Class?

Answer: There are four access specifiers in Java: public, protected, default (no access
specifier), and private.

Public: The fields, methods, and classes that are declared public can be accessed by
any other class.

Protected: The fields, methods, and classes that are declared protected can only be
accessed by classes in the same package or subclasses in other packages.

Default (no access specifier): The fields, methods, and classes that have no access
specifier are accessible only to classes in the same package.
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Private: The fields, methods, and classes that are declared private are only accessible
within the declared class itself.

27. What is an Object in Java?

Answer: An object in Java is a data structure that represents a real-world entity. In

Java, an object can be a physical object like a car, or it can be an abstract concept like
a mathematical formula.

Each object has its own data and behavior. Data is the information that the object
contains, while behavior is the object’s ability to perform certain actions.

Java objects are created using a class. A class is a template that defines the data and
behavior of a particular type of object. Once a class has been defined, we can create
objects of that class by using the new keyword.

28. What is the difference between a static and non-static method in

Java?

Answer: A static method is a method that can be called directly on a class, rather than
on an instance of the class. Non-static methods, also known as instance methods, can
only be called on an instance of a class.

29. What is the difference between a constructor and a method in

Java?

Answer: A constructor is a special method that is used to create and initialize an object
of a class. A method is a block of code that can be called multiple times within a class.

30. What is polymorphism and how is it implemented in Java?

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Answer: Polymorphism is the ability of an object to take on multiple forms. It can be

implemented in Java through method overriding and interface implementation.

31. Does the constructor return any value?

Answer: Yes, The constructor can implicitly return the current instance of the class and
we cannot use explicit return type with the constructor.

32. What is an object-oriented paradigm?

Answer: It is a programming paradigm that is simply framed based upon the objects
and it has data and methods defined in the class itself. It simply aims to integrate the
benefits of modularity and reusability. Objects are simply referred to as instances of
classes that interact with each other to design the applications and programs.

33. What type of constructors are used in Java?

Answer: The java constructors were classified on the basis of the parameters passed
and thus it has been categorized into two:

● Default Constructor: This kind of constructor does not accept any

value.And it is mainly used for initializing the instance variable with default
values. It is also used for carrying out useful tasks based on the object
creation.
● Parameterized Constructor: In this constructor, initialization of the instance
variables done with given values. In other words, this kind of constructor
can accept the arguments.

34. What is the usage of a default constructor?

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Answer: The main use of the default constructor such as to assign the default value to
the objects. The java compiler can create a default constructor in an implicit manner if
the constructor does not hold any values in it.

35. Why does Java employ the Unicode System?

Answer: The Unicode system was introduced to address the issues with the earlier
language standards. Java employs the Unicode system as Java requires only 2 bytes
for each character and Unicode provides a character default size of 2 bytes.

Final Words:

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