Spring Framework MCQ Questions Answers

1. What property can be used to set the active Spring profiles

2. What interface can be specified as a parameter in a controller method signature to handle file uploads?

3. How can you access the application context in a Spring integration test?

4. What is the output from invoking this Actuator endpoint in an unmodified Spring Boot application generated using Spring Intializr? /shutdown

5. What methods does the Pointcut expression below reference? execution(* setter*(..))

6. What pattern does Spring MVC implement to delegate request processing to controllers?

7. How might you map an incoming request to a controller method?

8. What is a security context?

9. Assuming no additional configuration is provided, what is the first selection criteria Spring uses to choose a bean when autowiring a property?

10. Assuming username and password authentication is in place, what method on the Authentication object can be used to obtain the username?

11. What is Spring AOP?

12. What is the purpose of a web application context?

13. To register a custom filter that applies only to certain URL patterns, you should remove the _ annotation from the filter class and register a @Bean of type _ in Spring @Configuration.

14. How does the transaction propagation setting impact the behavior of transactions?

15. What is the difference between a JAR and a WAR distribution in Spring Boot?

16. What is a Spring bean uniquely identified?

17. What Spring Boot property is used to set the logging level for the entire application in the application.properties file?

18. Which property is given precedence by Spring?

19. What is a bean in the context of Spring?

20. How do you inject a dependency into a Spring bean?

21. Modularization of a concern that cuts across multiple classes is known as a(n)____.

22. What is a transaction in the context of Spring Data?

23. Which are valid steps to take to enable JPA in Spring Boot?

24. What is Spring Boot autoconfiguration?

25. What is the DispatcherServlet and what is its function?

26. What is the purpose of the @RequestBody annotation?

27. How are authentication and authorization different?

28. What is the purpose of the @ContextConfiguration annotation in a JUnit Test?

29. What value does Spring Boot Actuator provide?

30. What is the delegating filter proxy?

31. How does Spring Data facilitate queries against a datastore?

32. What does @SpringBootApplication do?

33. What is component scanning?

34. What is the purpose of the Spring IoC (Inversion of Control) container?

35. What is the name of the central servlet that dispatches requests to controllers?

36. How are mocking frameworks such as Mockito used with Spring?

37. What is the purpose of the @ResponseBody annotation?

38. Which property can be used to change the port of a Spring application?

39. What happens when a class is annotated with the @Controller annotation?

40. What is a RESTful web service?

41. What is dependency injection?

42. What is the purpose of the @Lazy annotation and why would you use it?

43. Which annotation can be used within Spring Security to apply method level security?

44. What is the root interface for accessing a Spring bean container?

45. What is the function of the @Transactional annotation at the class level?

46. In what order do the @PostConstruct annotated method, the init-method parameter method on beans and the afterPropertiesSet() method execute?

47. Which of these is not a valid method on the JoinPoint interface?

48. How are JDK Dynamic proxies and CGLIB proxies used in Spring?

49. The process of linking aspects with other objects to create an advised object is called

50. What is SpEL and how is it used in Spring?

51. How are Spring Data repositories implemented by Spring at runtime?

52. What does a ViewResolver do?

53. Which of these is a valid Advice annotation?

54. How is a resource defined in the context of a REST service?

55. How filters are used in Spring Web?

56. Which of these is correct when creating an ApplicationContext?

57. When detecting a Device device in a @Controller in Spring MVC, which of these is NOT supported?

58. Which the following statements is true about Spring validation?

59. How can you find out about the current content when an aspect is invoked?

60. Which one of the following statements is true about the following configuration in web.xml: <filter> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <filter-class> org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy </filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <url-pattern>/myapplication/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>

61. When are proxies generated in the Spring lifecycle?

62. Which of the following is NOT a filter type in <context:component-scan> element?

63. Which of the following development styles are supported by Spring WS?

64. Which of the following is a VALID way of implementing Programmatic Transactions in Spring

65. Spring MVC annotation can be used to perform:

66. A SQLProvider has one method called?

67. Which of the following implementation provides the mechanism for JSF and Spring integration?

68. What is the @WebAppConfiguration annotation used for?

69. What are the features of the XML <context: namespace?

70. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Spring Security 3.x

71. Which of the following is a valid usage of Method Injection in spring?

72. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of SimpleJdbcTemplate?

73. Which of the following scopes is valid ONLY in the context of a web-aware Spring ApplicationContext?

74. Which one of the following statements is NOT true about <mvc: annotation-driven>:

75. Which one of the following statements is NOT true about Spring Web Flow states?

76. Which one of the following statements is true about the propagation attributes that can be defined in @Transactional annotations?

77. <concurrency-control> element can be used for which of the following purposes?

78. Which of the following is a common cross-cutting concern?

79. Which of the following is the most commonly used view resolver for integrating JSPs with Spring?

80. Which one of the following is NOT true about the followng code: @Controller @RequestMapping("/reservationForm") @SessionAttributes("reservation") public class ReservationFormController { ... @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST) public String submitForm(@ModelAttribute("reservation") Reservation reservation, BindingResult result) { ... return "redirect:reservationSuccess"; } ... }

81. Which one of the following is NOT true about Spring MVC View resolver

82. Which of the following statements is NOT true when defining the <intercept-url> elements in security.xml?

83. Which one of the following is NOT true about HibernateDaoSupport Class

84. Are Spring singleton beans thread-safe?

85. Spring - WS Core is NOT dependent on which of the following modules?

86. Which of the following best describes Spring Batch?

87. True or False? @PathVariable is used on classes to indicate they will be used as handlers if a variable is found.

88. In Spring and Hibernate integration, which is the correct implementation of the Session Factory?

89. In transactions and exception management, what is the default rollback policy?

90. Which of the following annotation enables default data conversion in Spring Web MVC?

91. Which of the following methods are needed for loading a database driver in JDBC?

92. Which of the following is incorrect?

93. Which of the following is a VALID Spring form taglib declaration?

94. A RowCallbackHandler has one method called?

95. Which of the following are valid approaches for integration Struts with Spring?

96. How can we create a PreparedStatementCreator?

97. Which of the following is FIRST step in user authentication process?

98. Which of the following is not a VALID mode of autowiring

99. If you don't want a method to be enlisted in a transaction at all, what type of attribute can be used?

100. What is the purpose of the SessionStatus.setComplete()?