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14 Unix interview Q&As for Java developers

Q1 How do you remove the Control-M characters from a file?
A1 Using the sed command that replaces Control-M with nothing

Note: The ^M is typed on the command line with ctrl+v and ctrl+M

Q2 How will you search for a property named “inbox”

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Chrome Postman to test and debug RESTful Web Services

Step 1 You need to get the Postman extension for the Google chrome browser.

Step 2 Search and add POSTMAN.

Step 3 Once installed, open it from the Apps link.

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Step 4 Set the TEST URL,

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Debugging JAR hell issues in Java

The following 3 questions are frequently asked by Java developers as an industrial strength Java project will have 100+ jar files. How often have you come across a Java application that requires different versions of the same library? How often do you see exceptions like NoSuchMethodError or IllegalArgumentException.

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Debugging like a pro with eclipse IDE tutorial for Java developers

Often you get to work on a fully functional Java application that is already in production to fix production issues or to enhance its existing functionality. As a new Java developer in the team, it is not easy to get started and contributing. The approach would be slightly different from working on a brand new project.

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Debugging SSL issues in Java & tools to debug

Q1. What are some of the issues you encounter with SSL handshake? A1. Some of the issues you try to debug are Presence of a valid certificate in trust store Incorrect certificate chains in the client or server truststore Invalid key algorithm used for private keys Expired certificate Incorrect passwords...

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Handy DOS commands for Java developers

Q. How will you copy files more robustly in DOS? A. Using the Robocopy (stands for Robust File Copy) or Xcopy command line utilities. Check for its options with “robocopy /?“. Q. … Read more ›...

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How to perform impact analysis across Java based applications?

Performing impact analysis is a crucial software development task. It is all about calculating the impact of software change.

Q1. What is an impact analysis? Is it a trivial task?
A1. An impact analysis is about being able to tell which pieces of code,

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Java FAQs to Fast-track & Go places

250+ Java Interview FAQs 🔥
FAQs - Prepared?
How to prepare to succeed in Java job interviews?
12 things to know about job interviews
FAQs - Ice Breaker
5 - 8 real life examples of SAR technique
15 Ice breaker interview Q&As asked 90% of the time
07: 20+ Pre interview refresher on tools
04: Can you think of a time where you ...?
10+ Know your industry Q&As
1 - 4 real life examples of Situation-Action-Result (i.e. SAR) technique
FAQs - Core Java
Java Generics in no time "? extends" & "? super" explained with a diagram
17 FAQ Java Collection interview Q&As
00: Top 50+ Core Java interview questions answered - Q1 to Q10
00: Top 50+ Core Java interview questions answered - Q11 to Q23
00: Top 50+ Core Java Interview questions answered - Q43 to Q54
00: Top 50+ Core Java interview questions answered - Q37 to Q42
00: Top 50+ Core Java interview questions answered - Q24 to Q36
02: 5 Java multithreading scenarios interview
15+ Java multithreading interview Q&As
Q1 - Q10 Java OOPs interview Q&As
6 Java Modifiers every interviewer likes to Quiz you on
02: 10 Java String class interview Q&As
FAQs - JEE
Client-side & Server side view technologies Q&As
Q29-Q53: Top 50+ FAQ JEE Interview Q&As
Q01-Q28: Top 50+ FAQ JEE interview Q&As
06: Web design patterns MVC2, MVP, MVVM & MVW
9 JNDI and LDAP interview Q&A
02: JavaScript mistakes interview Q&As
16 FAQ JMS interview Q&As
12 FAQ JDBC interview Q&As
04: 7 JSP interview questions and answers
03: 21+ Java Servlet interview Q&As
01: 12 Web basics every Java web developer must know
8 JEE (i.e. Java EE) Overview interview Q&As
FAQs - Web Services
01: Q13 "12 Rules" for REST API design & development
01: Q07 - Q12 Java Micro & Web services Interview Q&As
05: REST Service URI conventions with Spring MVC
06: RESTful Web services and HATEOAS Q&A
02: 6 Java RESTful Web services Interview Q&As
09: 11 SOAP Web service interview Q&As
01: 6 must know Java Web Services Interview Q&As
FAQs - AWS
15+ AWS Services overview interview Q&As
15 EC2 instances interview Q&As
18 Amazon S3 interview Q&As
02: AWS Identity & Access Management (i.e. IAM) interview Q&As
01: AWS Q&As on VPC, Subnets, Availability Zones, VPN, Route tables, NACLs & Security Groups
FAQs - Microservices
02: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 2
10+ Domain Driven Design (i.e. DDD) Interview Q&As
Spring Cloud Microservices interview Q&As
7 Apache Kafka architecture interview Q&As
10+ Key Microservices Interview Questions Answered
03: Kubernetes (i.e. Minikube) - deploy a spring boot microservice app
DevOps Kubernetes, Docker & Microservices Q&As
6 Distributed storage & computing systems interview Q&As
17+ DevOps CI/CD Jenkins interview Q&As
Event sourcing & CQRS interview Q&As
01: Q07 - Q12 Java Micro & Web services Interview Q&As
15 Spring Boot interview Q&As
03: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 3
16 FAQ JMS interview Q&As
01: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 1
FAQs - Architecture
02: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 2
04: How to go about designing a medium size JEE app?
03: How would you go about designing an online shopping cart?
03: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 3
01: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 1
FAQs - Hibernate
Q08 - Q15 Hibernate interview Q&As
Hibernate First & second level cache interview Q&As
8 JPA interview questions and answers
8 Hibernate interview Q&As
FAQs - Spring
Spring Cloud Microservices interview Q&As
11 Spring MVC Interview Q&As
01b: Q08 - Q13 Spring interview Q&As
15 Spring Boot interview Q&As
05: 9 Spring Bean scopes interview Q&A
01: Q01 - Q07 Spring core interview Q&As
04 17 Spring bean life cycles & scopes FAQs
01: Spring DI & IoC interview Q&As
FAQs - Key Areas
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
Top 10 causes of performance issues in Java
Monitoring/Profiling Java applications interview Q&A
Flyweight design pattern to improve memory usage & performance
QoS & SLAs interview Q&As on Availability, Serviceability, Fault tolerance & Disaster Recoverability - Non Functional Requirements
8 Java memory management interview Q&As
9 Java Transaction Management Interview Q&As
4 JEE Design Patterns Interview Q&As
5 Java concurrency management interview Q&As
Design pattern intents interview Q&A
12 Java design patterns interview Q&As
15 Security key area interview Q&A for Java developers
4 FAQ Performance tuning in Java interview Q&As
6 Scaling your Java applications interview Q&As
18 Agile Development interview Q&A for Java developers
FAQs - OOP & FP
01: 19 Java 8 Functional Programming FAQs
5 FAQs on transforming your thinking from OOP to FP
Why favour composition over inheritance?
Q1 - Q10 Java OOPs interview Q&As
FAQs - Code Quality
30+ Java Code Review Checklist Items
8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As
5 Java unit testing interview Questions and Answers
Ensuring code quality in Java Q&As
FAQs - UML
12 UML interview Q&As
FAQs - SQL
15+ SQL scenarios based interview questions answered
14+ SQL beginner interview Q&As
FAQs - RDBMS
10 ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagrams) Interview Q&As
15 Database design interview Q&As
FAQs - Maven
01: 12 Maven interview Questions & Answers
FAQs - JSON & XML
YAML with Spring & Java Q&As
6 JSON interview Q&As
17 XML basics interview Q&As
FAQs - Unix
Top 10 Linux interview Q&As
Shell script interview Q&As for Java developers
14 Unix interview Q&As for Java developers
FAQs - Regex
8 Regular Expressions (aka Regex) by examples for Java developers
Regular Expressions interview Q&As for Java developers
FAQs - DevOps
DevOps Kubernetes, Docker & Microservices Q&As
4 DevOps interview Q&As
17+ DevOps CI/CD Jenkins interview Q&As
21 Docker DevOps interview Q&As
FAQs - JMeter
JMeter for performance testing REST services with BeanShell
8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As
FAQs - GIT
02: 6 More Git interview Q&As
03: Understanding Git terms origin, master, and head
04: Merging Vs rebasing on Git questions and answers
12+ Git Source control must know basics interview Q&As
16+ Tech Key Areas Q&As 🔥
Key Area - Going places
Why low latency & Big Data are high income skills?
00: 16+ Tech Key Areas to go places as a Java Engineer or Architect
Key Area - Ice Breaker
5 - 8 real life examples of SAR technique
30+ Java Code Review Checklist Items
15 slacknesses or lack of experience that can come back & bite you in the back
Ensuring code quality in Java Q&As
04: Can you think of a time where you ...?
3 key "How would you go about ..." Q&As to judge Java experience
1 - 4 real life examples of Situation-Action-Result (i.e. SAR) technique
Key Area - Design Concepts
05: Q19-Q24 How to create a well designed Java application?
01: Q13 "12 Rules" for REST API design & development
Understanding Open/Closed Principle (OCP) from the SOLID OO principles with a Java example
Why does good API design matter?
06: Q25 - Q32 Design principles interview questions & answers for Java developers
6 tips to go about writing loosely coupled Java applications
Why favour composition over inheritance?
Key Area - Judging Experience
05: Q19-Q24 How to create a well designed Java application?
SQLException handling - recoverable & irrecoverable scenarios
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
2. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-2
1. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-1
12+ FX or Forex Trading questions & answers
10 ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagrams) Interview Q&As
15+ SQL scenarios based interview questions answered
12: 5 Java synchronize & concurrency mgmt scenarios interview Q&As
6 Key considerations in processing large files in Java
Dealing with concurrent modifications in Java
17 Java Coding Tips for job interviews and pre-interview coding tests
30+ SDLC activities you perform as a Java developer
15 Banking & finance domain knowledge interview Q&As
How to perform impact analysis across Java based applications?
02: 5 Java multithreading scenarios interview
3 key "How would you go about ..." Q&As to judge Java experience
11 "In your Java experience" interview questions & answers
18 Java scenarios based interview Q&As for the experienced
7 Java debugging interview questions & answers
SDLC process interview Q&As
Key Area - Best Practices
Can you list 10 JEE best practices from your experience?
9 Java Data structures best practices
Top 5 Core Java Exceptions and best practices
10 Core Java Best Practices with an industry strength code sample
5 Java unit testing interview Questions and Answers
How will you go about improving on the following Java code?
Key Area - Concurrency Mgmt
jvisualvm to debug deadlocks in Java
JConsole for debugging deadlocks in Java
12: 5 Java synchronize & concurrency mgmt scenarios interview Q&As
Dealing with concurrent modifications in Java
02: 5 Java multithreading scenarios interview
5 Java concurrency management interview Q&As
Key Area - Low Latency
06: Capture throughput & latencies with "Metrics Core" tutorial
07: Reactive Programming or Reactor pattern (RP) in Java Interview Q&As
04: Java primitives & objects memory consumption
03: Java GC tuning for low latency applications
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
2. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-2
1. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-1
01: 9 Java low latency interview questions & answers
03: Understanding Big O notations
9 Java Garbage Collection interview questions & answers
Key Area - CI/CD & DevOps
10 DevSecOps interview Q&As
DevOps Kubernetes, Docker & Microservices Q&As
4 DevOps interview Q&As
Docker DevOps Q&As with Big Data code snippets
9+ CI/CD Docker compose DevOps interview Q&As
17+ DevOps CI/CD Jenkins interview Q&As
21 Docker DevOps interview Q&As
Key Area - Debugging
Key Area - Debug Hibernate
05: Debugging Hibernate & handling 4 common issues
04: Identifying and fixing LazyInitializationException in Hibernate
03: Identifying and fixing NonUniqueObjectException in Hibernate
Key Area - Debug Java
Debugging LinkageErrors in Java
Debugging "NoSuchMethodError" in Java
Remote debugging in Java with Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP)
javap for debugging and better understanding some Java concepts with 3 practical examples
jvisualvm to debug deadlocks in Java
JConsole for debugging deadlocks in Java
Debugging Java version issues
Debugging JAR hell issues in Java
5 Ways to debug thread-safety issues in Java
Debugging like a pro with eclipse IDE tutorial for Java developers
7 Java debugging interview questions & answers
Key Area - Debug JEE
Debugging connection refused issues in Java with 9 tips
Debugging java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates do not conform to algorithm constraints
Chrome Postman to test and debug RESTful Web Services
Debugging SSL issues in Java & tools to debug
02: HTTP basics on headers, MIME types, & cookies for Java developers
Key Area - Debug Spark
15+ Apache Spark best practices, memory mgmt & performance tuning interview FAQs - Part-2
Spark understanding DAG for tuning performance interview Q&As
15+ Apache Spark best practices, memory mgmt & performance tuning interview FAQs - Part-1
Finding your way around YARN and Spark on Cloudera
Debugging Spark applications written in Java locally by connecting to HDFS, Hive and HBase
Remotely debugging Spark submit Jobs in Java
Key Area - Debug Spring
07: Debugging Spring Transaction Management
06: Debugging NoSuchBeanDefinitionException in Spring
Key Area - Design Patterns
Key Area - GoF Design
14: Singleton design pattern in Java & 5 key follow up Interview Q&As
Proxy design pattern in Java with service retry example
Why do Proxy, Decorator, Adapter, Bridge, and Facade design patterns look similar? What are the differences?
Java ExecutorService with strategy design pattern to execute concurrently & sequentially
Flyweight design pattern to improve memory usage & performance
Builder pattern and immutability in Java
Design pattern intents interview Q&A
12 Java design patterns interview Q&As
Key Area - JEE Design
06: Web design patterns MVC2, MVP, MVVM & MVW
4 JEE Design Patterns Interview Q&As
EIP
Key Area - Exception Handling
Java String & Array limitations and OutOfMemoryError
SQLException handling - recoverable & irrecoverable scenarios
Top 5 Core Java Exceptions and best practices
Java exception handling interview questions and answers
Key Area - Memory Mgmt
Java String & Array limitations and OutOfMemoryError
02: jvisualvm to detect memory leak - a quick tutorial style Java demo
01: jvisualvm tutorial to sample Java heap memory
javap, jps, jmap, and jvisualvm tutorial - analyzing the heap histogram
6 Key considerations in processing large files in Java
10: 8 Java Maps & Caching Data in Java Interview Q&As
Monitoring/Profiling Java applications interview Q&A
8 Java memory management interview Q&As
9 Java Garbage Collection interview questions & answers
Key Area - Performance
Processing large files efficiently - BigData & Hadoop - part 3
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
javap, jps, jmap, and jvisualvm tutorial - analyzing the heap histogram
Processing large files efficiently in Java - multi-threaded code - part 2
6 Key considerations in processing large files in Java
Understanding service and socket timeouts in Java enterprise applications
10: 8 Java Maps & Caching Data in Java Interview Q&As
JMeter for performance testing REST services with BeanShell
8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As
Top 10 causes of performance issues in Java
Monitoring/Profiling Java applications interview Q&A
4 FAQ Performance tuning in Java interview Q&As
9 Java Garbage Collection interview questions & answers
Key Area - Scalability
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
Straight Through Processing, OLTP, Data warehousing & OLAP
6 Scaling your Java applications interview Q&As
Key Area - SDLC
04: Merging Vs rebasing on Git questions and answers
05: Git & Maven for releasing software artifacts Q&A
30+ SDLC activities you perform as a Java developer
Source control system and subversion (aka SVN) Q&A
Java BDD (Behavior Driven Development) interview Q&A
SDLC process interview Q&As
18 Agile Development interview Q&A for Java developers
Key Area - Security
AWS Web Application Security Q&As
6 Authentication Protocols Interview Q&As - LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2 & SAML
6 LDAP Interview Q&As
12 Kerberos interview Q&As
Preventing XSS attacks in Java
Injection attack prevention Q&A
Session Hijacking prevention Questions & Answers
Debugging java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates do not conform to algorithm constraints
10 Encryption and Decryption interview Q&As
HTTP Basic Authentication Interview Q&A for Java developers & architects
SSL in Java with Keytool to generate public-private key pair
Debugging SSL issues in Java & tools to debug
Understanding service and socket timeouts in Java enterprise applications
Spring security tutorial
SSL and truststore vs keystore for Java developers
Security holes & how to fix them interview Q&A
15 Security key area interview Q&A for Java developers
Key Area - Productivity Tools
Splunk to analyse Java logs and other machine data
Chrome Postman to test and debug RESTful Web Services
Debugging SSL issues in Java & tools to debug
Unix Sed commands for Java developers
Unix history commands for Java developer productivity
sed and awk to write shell scripts for Java developers
Top 7+ Java productivity tools that make your life easier as a Java developer
Debugging JAR hell issues in Java
Unix script to archive files for auditing
Power of SQL as a productivity tool
Notepad++ to construct SQL where clause
Notepad++ productivity tips with SQL trigger code example
Notepad++ beginner tutorial
Top 10 Eclipse short-cut keys every Java developer using eclipse IDE must know
Debugging like a pro with eclipse IDE tutorial for Java developers
Source control system and subversion (aka SVN) Q&A
Handy DOS commands for Java developers
How to perform impact analysis across Java based applications?
JMeter beginner tutorial
Unix tutorial with MobaXterm
Unix remoting interview Q&A for Java developers
14 Unix interview Q&As for Java developers
Key Area - Transaction Mgmt
07: Debugging Spring Transaction Management
Spring, JavaConfig (@Configuration), and TransactionManager
Transaction management in SQL -- Sybase example
9 Java Transaction Management Interview Q&As
JTA interview Q&A
Key Area - QoS & SLAs
Splunk to analyse Java logs and other machine data
Auditing database record changes in Oracle
How do you monitor the JVM?
Understanding service and socket timeouts in Java enterprise applications
15 slacknesses or lack of experience that can come back & bite you in the back
Auditing, data retention and archiving interview Q&A
Monitoring/Profiling Java applications interview Q&A
QoS & SLAs interview Q&As on Availability, Serviceability, Fault tolerance & Disaster Recoverability - Non Functional Requirements
100+ Architect Interview FAQs 🔥
Architecture - Patterns
Multi-tenant Architecture Interview Q&As
02: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 2
10+ Key Microservices Interview Questions Answered
Event sourcing & CQRS interview Q&As
01: Q07 - Q12 Java Micro & Web services Interview Q&As
04: How to go about designing a medium size JEE app?
03: How would you go about designing an online shopping cart?
03: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 3
01: 7+ Java architectural patterns interview Q&As - Part 1
Architecture - How to
03: How would you go about designing an online shopping cart?
How to become a software architect?
3 key "How would you go about ..." Q&As to judge Java experience
18 Java scenarios based interview Q&As for the experienced
SDLC process interview Q&As
Architecture - AWS
Multi-tenant Architecture Interview Q&As
AWS Web Application Security Q&As
15+ AWS Services overview interview Q&As
15 EC2 instances interview Q&As
18 Amazon S3 interview Q&As
02: AWS Identity & Access Management (i.e. IAM) interview Q&As
01: AWS Q&As on VPC, Subnets, Availability Zones, VPN, Route tables, NACLs & Security Groups
Architecture - Distributed
Spring Cloud Microservices interview Q&As
10+ Key Microservices Interview Questions Answered
6 Distributed storage & computing systems interview Q&As
Event sourcing & CQRS interview Q&As
19: Q125 - Q130 Apache Zookeeper interview Q&As
5 Spark streaming & Apache storm Interview Q&As
9 Java Transaction Management Interview Q&As
Architecture - Microservices
10+ Domain Driven Design (i.e. DDD) Interview Q&As
Spring Cloud Microservices interview Q&As
7 Apache Kafka architecture interview Q&As
10+ Key Microservices Interview Questions Answered
DevOps Kubernetes, Docker & Microservices Q&As
6 Distributed storage & computing systems interview Q&As
Event sourcing & CQRS interview Q&As
01: Q13 "12 Rules" for REST API design & development
01: Q07 - Q12 Java Micro & Web services Interview Q&As
QoS & SLAs interview Q&As on Availability, Serviceability, Fault tolerance & Disaster Recoverability - Non Functional Requirements
Architecture - QoS
QoS & SLAs interview Q&As on Availability, Serviceability, Fault tolerance & Disaster Recoverability - Non Functional Requirements
Architecture - ERD
10 ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagrams) Interview Q&As
Architecture - ETL
08: Q71 - Q75 ETL/ELT on BigData Interview Q&As
05: ETL & ELT architecture interview Q&As
Architecture - Low Latency
Why low latency & Big Data are high income skills?
02: 15 key considerations for low latency Java
2. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-2
1. Asynchronous processing in Java real life examples - part-1
Architecture - UML
12 UML interview Q&As
40+ Code Quality - Q&As ✍
Code Quality - Automation
Selenium and Web Driver Interview Questions and Answers
Code Quality - Code Coverage
Jacoco for unit test coverage with SonarQube tutorial
Maven and Cobertura Tutorial
Code Quality - FAQs
30+ Java Code Review Checklist Items
8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As
5 Java unit testing interview Questions and Answers
Ensuring code quality in Java Q&As
Code Quality - Profiling
02: jvisualvm to detect memory leak - a quick tutorial style Java demo
01: jvisualvm tutorial to sample Java heap memory
jvisualvm to debug deadlocks in Java
Code Quality - Performance Test
JMeter for performance testing REST services with BeanShell
8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As
Code Quality - Unit Testing
Code Quality - BDD
jBehave and BDD example
jBehave with tabular story data
jBehave and jUnit for BDD
Java BDD (Behavior Driven Development) interview Q&A
Code Quality – Testing DAOs
Unit Test Hibernate - DAO Layer with JPA, Spring & HSQLDB
Unit Test Hibernate - DAO Layer with Spring & HSQLDB
Part #3: JPA Hibernate Spring Maven Eclipse Tutorial - testing data access with HSQLDB
Unit Testing Data Access Logic in Java
Code Quality – JUnit Spring
01: JUnit with Mockito step by step
06: Mockito & PowerMock for mocking static methods
05: Mockito & PowerMock partially mocking private methods with @Spy
04: Mockito partially mocking with @Spy
03: Mockito to fully mock the DAO layer
02: Unit testing with JUnit, Mockito & Spring
Code Quality – JUnit Web
Spring Controller Unit Testing
Unit Testing Servlet filter with Mockito
Code Quality - Spring TXN
Integration Unit testing Spring Transaction Management
Unit testing Spring Transaction Management
JUnit with Hamcrest
Spring Boot in unit testing - 6 things you must know
5 Java unit testing interview Questions and Answers

Big Data Engineer FAQs

300+ Big Data Interview FAQs 🔥
Big Data - Data Warehouse
Data categories in Data warehouse & Data lake
00: 13 Data Warehouse interview Q&As - Fact Vs Dimension, CDC, SCD, etc
05: ETL & ELT architecture interview Q&As
Straight Through Processing, OLTP, Data warehousing & OLAP
Big Data - Overview
Data categories in Data warehouse & Data lake
00: Data Lake Vs. Data Warehouse Vs. Delta Lake
6 Distributed storage & computing systems interview Q&As
16: Q114 - Q115 CAP theorem interview Q&As
01: Lambda, Kappa & Delta Data Architectures Interview Q&As - Overview
08: Q71 - Q75 ETL/ELT on BigData Interview Q&As
05: Q37-Q41 - Data lake & metadata interview Q&As
02: Q7 - Q15 Hadoop overview & architecture interview Q&As
00: Q1 - Q6 Hadoop based Big Data architecture & basics interview Q&As
Big Data - HDFS
More HDFS & NameNode interview Q&As
18: Q121 - Q124 Choosing between HDFS & AWS S3 for BigData projects interview Q&As
12: Q92 - Q97 Hadoop file formats and how to choose
11: Q88 - Q91 Read-Write Vs Append-Only File Systems
07: Q62 - Q70 HDFS blocks Vs. splits & Spark partitions Interview Questions & Answers
Big Data - Kafka
7 Apache Kafka architecture interview Q&As
Big Data - Spark SQL
Spark SQL joins & performance tuning interview questions & answers
10 Spark SQL Interview Q&As
17: Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in pyspark (i.e. python)
06: Learn how to access Hive from Spark via SparkSQL & Dataframes by example
Big Data - SQL
SQL querying Temporal tables & SCD Type 2
Common Table Expressions (i.e. CTE) in SQL using the "WITH" clause
SQL window function for analytics interview questions answered
SQL retrieving the latest records interview Q&As
15+ SQL scenarios based interview questions answered
Big Data - MapReduce
03: Q16 - Q26 Hadoop MapReduce interview questions & answers
Big Data - Hive
Q08- Q12 Scenarios Based Hive Query Language (i.e. HQL) Interview Q&As
Q01 - Q07 Scenarios Based Hive Query Language (i.e. HQL) Interview Q&As
Apache Hive for Slowly Changing Dimension (i.e. SCD) interview Q&As
09: Q76– Q88 Apache Hive partitioning, bucketing, map join, skewed data, vectorization & denormalization interview Q&As
13: Q98 - Q104 Apache Hive Basics Interview questions & answers
Big Data - Data Science
05: Linear regression outputs, null hypothesis, t-test & p-value interview Q&As
03: Simple Linear Regression interview Q&As
04: Residuals, Cost/Loss functions, R-squared & Gradient Descent interview Q&As
02: Cleansing & pre-processing data in BigData & machine learning with Spark interview Q&As
01: Q01 - Q07 General Big Data, Data Science & Data Analytics Interview Q&As
Big Data - Impala
10+ Apache Impala Interview Q&As
Big Data - AWS
18 Amazon S3 interview Q&As
Amazon Athena, Redshift, Redshift spectrum & EMR Presto Q&As
5 Amazon EMR Vs. Cloudera interview Q&As
12 Amazon Redshift interview Q&As
21: Q138 - Q142 AWS data lakes overview Interview Q&As
18: Q121 - Q124 Choosing between HDFS & AWS S3 for BigData projects interview Q&As
Big Data - Spark
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 9
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 8
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 7
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 6
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 5
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 4
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 3
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala – part 2
Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in Scala - part 1
00: Apache Spark eco system & anatomy interview Q&As
15+ Apache Spark best practices, memory mgmt & performance tuning interview FAQs - Part-2
Spark understanding DAG for tuning performance interview Q&As
02: Cleansing & pre-processing data in BigData & machine learning with Spark interview Q&As
15+ Apache Spark best practices, memory mgmt & performance tuning interview FAQs - Part-1
17: Spark interview Q&As with coding examples in pyspark (i.e. python)
Debugging Spark applications written in Java locally by connecting to HDFS, Hive and HBase
15: Q109 - Q113 Spark RDD partitioning and "mapPartitions" interview questions & answers
14: Q105 - Q108 Spark "map" vs "flatMap" interview questions & answers
12 Apache Spark getting started interview Q&As
Big Data - Spark streaming
8 Spark streaming interview Q&As
5 Spark streaming & Apache storm Interview Q&As
Big Data - NoSQL
10: Q80 - Q87 HBase Schema Design Interview Q&As
06: Q51 - Q61 HBase Interview Questions & Answers
Big Data - Sqoop, Flume & Nifi
13 Apache Sqoop interview Q&As
10+ Apache NiFi interview Q&As
05: Q37 – Q50 Apache Flume interview questions & answers
Big Data - security
Big Data - governance & metadata management interview Q&As
6 LDAP Interview Q&As
12 Kerberos interview Q&As
Big Data - Yarn, Zookeeper
5 Apache YARN interview Q&As
20: Q131 - Q137 FAQ Apache Solr with HDFS interview questions & answers
19: Q125 - Q130 Apache Zookeeper interview Q&As
Finding your way around YARN and Spark on Cloudera
Big Data - Governance
Big Data - governance & metadata management interview Q&As
140+ Scala Interview FAQs
Scala FAQs
What are the uses of underscore i.e _ in Scala?
01A: Scala FP basics: First-class function, higher order function, statements Vs expressions, immutability & recursion
01: Scala Functional Programming basics - pure functions, referential transparency, side effects, etc
01E: Scala Factory Method Pattern & Trait Vs Abstract classes
01D: Scala Class Vs. Object and Companion object interview Q&As
15B: Scala Functors Interview Q&As by example
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