CORE JAVA Interview Questions

Question: What is a compilation unit?

Answer: A compilation unit is a Java source code file.

Question: What restrictions are placed on method overriding?

Answer:: Overridden methods must have the same name, argument list, and return type.

The overriding method may not limit the access of the method it overrides.

The overriding method may not throw any exceptions that may not be thrown by the overridden method.

Question: How can a dead thread be restarted?

Answer: A dead thread cannot be restarted.

Question: What happens if an exception is not caught?

Answer: An uncaught exception results in the uncaughtException() method of the thread's ThreadGroup being invoked, which eventually results in the termination of the program in which it is thrown.

Question: Which arithmetic operations can result in the throwing of an ArithmeticException?

Answer: Integer / and % can result in the throwing of an ArithmeticException

Question: Can an abstract class be final?

Answer: An abstract class may not be declared as final

Question: What happens if a try-catch-finally statement does not have a catch clause to handle an exception that is thrown within the body of the try statement?

Answer: The exception propagates up to the next higher level try-catch statement (if any) or results in the program's termination

Question: What is numeric promotion?

Answer: Numeric promotion is the conversion of a smaller numeric type to a larger numeric type, so that integer and floating-point operations may take place. In numerical promotion, byte, char, and short values are converted to int values. The int values are also converted to long values, if necessary. The long and float values are converted to double values, as required

Question: What is the difference between a public and a non-public class?

Answer: A public class may be accessed outside of its package. A non-public class may not be accessed outside of its package