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Spring Boot Interview Questions For Freshers

1.   What are the advantages of using Spring Boot?
2.   What are the Spring Boot key components?
3.   Why Spring Boot over Spring?
4.   What is the starter dependency of the Spring boot module?
5.   How does Spring Boot works?
6.   What does the @SpringBootApplication annotation do internally?
7.   What is the purpose of using @ComponentScan in the class files?
8.   How does a spring boot application get started?
9.   What are starter dependencies?
10.   What is Spring Initializer?
11.   What is Spring Boot CLI and what are its benefits?
12.   What are the most common Spring Boot CLI commands?

Advanced Spring Boot Questions

13.   What Are the Basic Annotations that Spring Boot Offers?
14.   What is Spring Boot dependency management?
15.   Can we create a non-web application in Spring Boot?
16.   Is it possible to change the port of the embedded Tomcat server in Spring Boot?
17.   What is the default port of tomcat in spring boot?
18.   Can we override or replace the Embedded tomcat server in Spring Boot?

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Advanced Spring Boot Questions (.....Continued)

19.   Can we disable the default web server in the Spring boot application?
20.   How to disable a specific auto-configuration class?
21.   Explain @RestController annotation in Sprint boot?
22.   What is the difference between @RestController and @Controller in Spring
Boot?
23.   Describe the flow of HTTPS requests through the Spring Boot application?
24.   What is the difference between RequestMapping and GetMapping?
25.   What is the use of Profiles in spring boot?
26.   What is Spring Actuator? What are its advantages?
27.   How to enable Actuator in Spring boot application?
28.   What are the actuator-provided endpoints used for monitoring the Spring boot
application?
29.   How to get the list of all the beans in your Spring boot application?
30.   How to check the environment properties in your Spring boot application?
31.   How to enable debugging log in the spring boot application?
32.   Where do we define properties in the Spring Boot application?
33.   What is dependency Injection?
34.   What is an IOC container?

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Let's get Started
Spring boot is the hottest topic of discussion in interviews if it comes to Java
Application development. Because of its fast, low configuration, inbuild server, and
monitoring features, it helps to build a stand-alone java application from scratch
with very robust and maintainable.
The article will walk you through the Spring Boot interview questions for basic to
advanced level.

What is Spring boot?

Sprint boot is a Java-based spring framework used for Rapid Application
Development (to build stand-alone microservices). It has extra support of auto-
configuration and embedded application server like tomcat, jetty, etc.

Features of Spring Boot that make it different?

Creates stand-alone spring application with minimal configuration needed.
It has embedded tomcat, jetty which makes it just code and run the application.
Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and
externalized configuration.
Absolutely no requirement for XML configuration.

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Spring Boot Features

Spring Boot Interview Questions For Freshers

1.   What are the advantages of using Spring Boot?
The advantages of Spring Boot are listed below:
Easy to understand and develop spring applications.
Spring Boot is nothing but an existing framework with the addition of an
embedded HTTP server and annotation configuration which makes it easier to
understand and faster the process of development.
Increases productivity and reduces development time.
Minimum configuration.
We don’t need to write any XML configuration, only a few annotations are
required to do the configuration.

2.   What are the Spring Boot key components?

Below are the four key components of spring-boot:

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Spring Boot auto-configuration.

Spring Boot CLI.
Spring Boot starter POMs.
Spring Boot Actuators.

3.   Why Spring Boot over Spring?

Below are some key points which spring boot offers but spring doesn’t:
Starter POM.
Version Management.
Auto Configuration.
Component Scanning.
Embedded server.
InMemory DB.
Actuators
Spring Boot simplifies the spring feature for the user:

Spring vs Spring Boot

4.   What is the starter dependency of the Spring boot module?

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Spring boot provides numbers of starter dependency, here are the most commonly
used -
Data JPA starter.
Test Starter.
Security starter.
Web starter.
Mail starter.
Thymeleaf starter.

5.   How does Spring Boot works?

Spring Boot automatically configures your application based on the dependencies
you have added to the project by using annotation. The entry point of the spring boot
application is the class that contains @SpringBootApplication annotation and the
main method.
Spring Boot automatically scans all the components included in the project by using
@ComponentScan annotation.

6.   What does the @SpringBootApplication annotation do

internally?
The @SpringBootApplication annotation is equivalent to using @Configuration,
@EnableAutoConfiguration, and @ComponentScan with their default attributes.
Spring Boot enables the developer to use a single annotation instead of using
multiple. But, as we know, Spring provided loosely coupled features that we can use
for each annotation as per our project needs.

7.   What is the purpose of using @ComponentScan in the class

files?
Spring Boot application scans all the beans and package declarations when the
application initializes. You need to add the @ComponentScan annotation for your
class file to scan your components added to your project.

8.   How does a spring boot application get started?

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Just like any other Java program, a Spring Boot application must have a main
method. This method serves as an entry point, which invokes the
SpringApplication#run method to bootstrap the application.

@SpringBootApplication
public class MyApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {

SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class);
// other statements
}
}

9.   What are starter dependencies?

Spring boot starter is a maven template that contains a collection of all the relevant
transitive dependencies that are needed to start a particular functionality.
Like we need to import spring-boot-starter-web dependency for creating a web
application.

<dependency>
<groupId> org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId> spring-boot-starter-web </artifactId>
</dependency>

10.   What is Spring Initializer?

Spring Initializer is a web application that helps you to create an initial spring boot
project structure and provides a maven or gradle file to build your code. It solves the
problem of setting up a framework when you are starting a project from scratch.

11.   What is Spring Boot CLI and what are its benefits?

Spring Boot CLI is a command-line interface that allows you to create a spring-based
java application using Groovy.
Example: You don’t need to create getter and setter method or access modifier,
return statement. If you use the JDBC template, it automatically loads for you.

12.   What are the most common Spring Boot CLI commands?

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-run, -test, -grap, -jar, -war, -install, -uninstall, --init, -shell, -help.
To check the description, run spring --help from the terminal.

Spring Boot CLI Commands

Advanced Spring Boot Questions

13.   What Are the Basic Annotations that Spring Boot Offers?
The primary annotations that Spring Boot offers reside in its
org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure and its sub-packages. Here are a couple of
basic ones:
@EnableAutoConfiguration – to make Spring Boot look for auto-configuration beans
on its classpath and automatically apply them.
@SpringBootApplication – used to denote the main class of a Boot Application. This
annotation combines @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and
@ComponentScan annotations with their default attributes.

14.   What is Spring Boot dependency management?

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Spring Boot dependency management is used to manage dependencies and

configuration automatically without you specifying the version for any of that
dependencies.

15.   Can we create a non-web application in Spring Boot?

Yes, we can create a non-web application by removing the web dependencies from
the classpath along with changing the way Spring Boot creates the application
context.

16.   Is it possible to change the port of the embedded Tomcat

server in Spring Boot?
Yes, it is possible. By using the server.port in the application.properties.

17.   What is the default port of tomcat in spring boot?

The default port of the tomcat server-id 8080. It can be changed by adding sever.port
properties in the application.property file.

18.   Can we override or replace the Embedded tomcat server in

Spring Boot?
Yes, we can replace the Embedded Tomcat server with any server by using the Starter
dependency in the pom.xml file. Like you can use spring-boot-starter-jetty as a
dependency for using a jetty server in your project.

19.   Can we disable the default web server in the Spring boot

application?
Yes, we can use application.properties to configure the web application type i.e
spring.main.web-application-type=none.

20.   How to disable a specific auto-configuration class?

You can use exclude attribute of @EnableAutoConfiguration if you want auto-
configuration not to apply to any specific class.

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21.   Explain @RestController annotation in Sprint boot?

It is a combination of @Controller and @ResponseBody, used for creating a restful
controller. It converts the response to JSON or XML. It ensures that data returned by
each method will be written straight into the response body instead of returning a
template.

22.   What is the difference between @RestController and

@Controller in Spring Boot?
@Controller Map of the model object to view or template and make it human
readable but @RestController simply returns the object and object data is directly
written in HTTP response as JSON or XML.

23.   Describe the flow of HTTPS requests through the Spring

Boot application?
On a high-level spring boot application follow the MVC pattern which is depicted in
the below flow diagram.

Spring Boot Flow Architecture

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24.   What is the difference between RequestMapping and

GetMapping?
RequestMapping can be used with GET, POST, PUT, and many other request methods
using the method attribute on the annotation. Whereas getMapping is only an
extension of RequestMapping which helps you to improve on clarity on request.

25.   What is the use of Profiles in spring boot?

While developing the application we deal with multiple environments such as dev,
QA, Prod, and each environment requires a different configuration. For eg., we might
be using an embedded H2 database for dev but for prod, we might have proprietary
Oracle or DB2. Even if DBMS is the same across the environment, the URLs will be
different.
To make this easy and clean, Spring has the provision of Profiles to keep the separate
configuration of environments.

26.   What is Spring Actuator? What are its advantages?

An actuator is an additional feature of Spring that helps you to monitor and manage
your application when you push it to production. These actuators include auditing,
health, CPU usage, HTTP hits, and metric gathering, and many more that are
automatically applied to your application.

27.   How to enable Actuator in Spring boot application?

To enable the spring actuator feature, we need to add the dependency of “spring-
boot-starter-actuator” in pom.xml.

<dependency>
<groupId> org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId> spring-boot-starter-actuator </artifactId>
</dependency>

28.   What are the actuator-provided endpoints used for

monitoring the Spring boot application?
Actuators provide below pre defined endpoints to monitor our application
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Health
Info
Beans
Mappings
Configprops
Httptrace
Heapdump
Threaddump
Shutdown

29.   How to get the list of all the beans in your Spring boot
application?
Spring Boot actuator “/Beans” is used to get the list of all the spring beans in your
application.

30.   How to check the environment properties in your Spring

boot application?
Spring Boot actuator “/env” returns the list of all the environment properties of
running the spring boot application.

31.   How to enable debugging log in the spring boot application?

Debugging logs can be enabled in three ways -
We can start the application with --debug switch.
We can set the logging.level.root=debug property in application.property file.
We can set the logging level of the root logger to debug in the supplied logging
configuration file.

32.   Where do we define properties in the Spring Boot

application?

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You can define both application and Spring boot-related properties into a file called
application.properties. You can create this file manually or use Spring Initializer to
create this file. You don’t need to do any special configuration to instruct Spring Boot
to load this file, If it exists in classpath then spring boot automatically loads it and
configure itself and the application code accordingly.

33.   What is dependency Injection?

The process of injecting dependent bean objects into target bean objects is called
dependency injection.
Setter Injection: The IOC container will inject the dependent bean object into
the target bean object by calling the setter method.
Constructor Injection: The IOC container will inject the dependent bean object
into the target bean object by calling the target bean constructor.
Field Injection: The IOC container will inject the dependent bean object into the
target bean object by Reflection API.

34.   What is an IOC container?

IoC Container is a framework for implementing automatic dependency injection. It
manages object creation and its life-time and also injects dependencies into the
class.

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