Interview Questions

Q:

Define stored procedure. What are its advantages and disadvantages?

Answer

A stored procedure is a segment of declarative SQL statements stored inside the database catalog. A stored procedure can be invoked by triggers, other stored procedures or applications such as Java, C#, PHP, etc.


Advantages 



- Typically stored procedures help increase the performance of the applications. Once created, stored procedures are compiled and stored in the database. However MySQL implements the stored procedures slightly different. MySQL stored procedures are compiled on demand. After compiling a stored procedure, MySQL puts it to a cache. And MySQL maintains its own stored procedure cache for every single connection. If an application uses a stored procedure multiple times in a single connection, the compiled version is used, otherwise the stored procedure works like a query.


- Stored procedures helps reduce the traffic between application and database server because instead of sending multiple lengthy SQL statements, the application has to send only name and parameters of the stored procedure.


- Stored procedures are reusable and transparent to any applications. Stored procedures expose the database interface to all applications so that developers don’t have to develop functions that are already supported in stored procedures.


- Stored procedures are secure. Database administrator can grant appropriate permissions to applications that access stored procedures in the database without giving any permission on the underlying database tables.


Disadvantages


- If you use a lot of stored procedures, the memory usage of every connection that is using those stored procedures will increase substantially. In addition, if you overuse a large number of logical operations inside store procedures, the CPU usage will also increase because database server is not well-designed for logical operations.


- A constructs of stored procedures make it more difficult to develop stored procedures that have complicated business logic.


- It is difficult to debug stored procedures. Only few database management systems allow you to debug stored procedures. Unfortunately, MySQL does not provide facilities for debugging stored procedures.


-It is not easy to develop and maintain stored procedures. Developing and maintaining stored procedures are often required specialized skill set that not all application developers possess. This may lead to problems in both application development and maintenance phases.

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What is the use of API’s in cloud services?

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API stands for Application programming interface is very useful in cloud platforms as it allows easy implementation of it on the system. It removes the need to write full fledged programs. It provides the instructions to make the communication between one or more applications. It also allows easy to create application with ease and link the cloud services with other systems.

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Subject: Cloud Computing

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Q:

What is the difference between "==" and "==="?

Answer

"==" checks equality only,
"===" checks for equality as well as the type.

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Subject: Web Technology

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Q:

What is needed to make a multiple choice list with a custom view for each row?

Answer

Multiple choice list can be viewed by making the CheckBox android:id value be “@android:id /text1". That is the ID used by Android for the CheckedTextView in simple_list_item_multiple_choice.

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What is recovery/error testing?

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Recovery/error testing is testing how well a system recovers from crashes, hardware failures, or other catastrophic problems.

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Subject: QA Testing

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Q:

What are the various elements of OOPS?

Answer

Various elements of OOP are:


• Object


• Class


• Method


• Encapsulation


• Information Hiding


• Inheritance


• Polymorphism

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Subject: Java

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Q:

As a wholesaler what are the problems you would face in ensuring the commitment to your retail suppliers?

Answer

As a wholesaler, applicant should say that he/she would face production problem, growing consumption, not concentrating on important market segment, scale of operations not being proper, delivery to different stores and having some issues with suppliers and not a good relationship with suppliers. I would face these problems in reaching the target commitment to suppliers as a wholesaler.

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Subject: Retail

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Q:

What is the Set interface ?

Answer

- The Set interface provides methods for accessing the elements of a finite mathematical set


- Sets do not allow duplicate elements


- Contains no methods other than those inherited from Collection


- It adds the restriction that duplicate elements are prohibited


- Two Set objects are equal if they contain the same elements

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Subject: Java

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