Interview Questions

Dalvik serves as a virtual machine, and it is where every Android application runs. Through Dalvik, a device is able to execute multiple virtual machines efficiently through better memory management.

State is quite an innovative concept in Web development because it eliminates the drawback of losing state data due to reloading of a Web page. By using states in a Web application, you can preserve the state of the application either at the server or client end. The state of a Web application helps you to store the runtime changes that have been made to the Web application. For example, as already described earlier, a change in the data source of the Web application might be initiated by a user when he/she selects and saves some products in the shopping cart.

If you are not using states, these changes are discarded and are not saved. You may think that the whole concept of storing states is optional. However, under certain circumstances, using states with applications is imperative. For example, it is necessary to store states for Web applications, such as an e-commerce shopping site or an Intranet site of a company, to keep track of the requests of the users for the items they have selected on the shopping site or the days requested for vacation on the Intranet site.

Information provided by Assembly Manifest:

1.  Assembly Name


2.  Version Number


3.  Culture


4.  Strong name


5.  List of files inside the assembly


6.  Reference information

1. A fixed budget is established for a specific level of activity whereas flexible budget is prepared for various levels of activity.

2. Fixed budget cannot be changed after the period commences, whereas a flexible budget can be changed after the period commence.

3. Fixed budget is more suitable for fixed expenses whereas flexible budget takes both fixed as well as variable expenses in account.

4. Fixed budget includes only fixed costs, whereas a flexible budget includes fixed costs, variable costs and semi variable costs.

5. Fixed budget is mainly used in planning stage whereas flexible budget is used in controlling stage.

DeCLarations GENerator : used to create the host language copy books for the table    definitions. Also creates the DECLARE table.

Use case diagram, activity diagram, Collaboration diagram. 

Use case diagram :

It describes the business environment. Its primary goal is to show the series of events and actions within any given process that will be performed by an actor.  

Activity diagram:

The activity diagram is important because it gives an outline of the work flow within the business as well as the activities and action completed. 

For instance with a company, there is likely to be more than one department. In such a case each department, will have different access levels to the system. 

So if there’s a Medical, HR and Accounts team they will only have access to screens that relate to each. 

The activity diagram will highlight the differences within the departments which will be very helpful for developers when they are designing and coding. 

Collaboration diagram:

A collaboration diagram, also called a communication diagram or interaction diagram, is an illustration of the relationships and interactions among software objects in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The concept is more than a decade old although it has been refined as modeling paradigms have evolved. 

Dropped tables can be recovered using DROP TABLE flashback. It works the way recycle bin works.
Example:
FLASHBACK TABLE EMPLOYEE TO BEFORE DROP;
The most recently dropped table with that original name is retrieved from the recycle bin, with its original name.

mysql_fetch_array:
Fetch a result row as an associative array and a numeric array.

mysql_fetch_object:
Returns an object with properties that correspond to the fetched row and moves the internal data pointer ahead. Returns an object with properties that correspond to the fetched row, or FALSE if there are no more rows.

mysql_fetch_row():
Fetches one row of data from the result associated with the specified result identifier. The row is returned as an array. Each result column is stored in an array offset, starting at offset 0.