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Spring Boot Interview Q&A Guide

The document provides an overview of Java Spring Boot, highlighting its purpose as a framework for creating stand-alone Spring applications with features like auto-configuration and embedded servers. It outlines key features, differences from Spring, and tools like Spring Initializr and Spring Boot Actuator. Additionally, it covers REST API creation and exception handling in Spring Boot applications.

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Spring Boot Interview Q&A Guide

The document provides an overview of Java Spring Boot, highlighting its purpose as a framework for creating stand-alone Spring applications with features like auto-configuration and embedded servers. It outlines key features, differences from Spring, and tools like Spring Initializr and Spring Boot Actuator. Additionally, it covers REST API creation and exception handling in Spring Boot applications.

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Java Spring Boot Interview Questions and Answers

1. What is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is an open-source Java-based framework used to create stand-alone, production-grade

Spring-based applications. It simplifies the setup and development of new Spring applications with

features like auto-configuration and embedded servers.

2. What are the main features of Spring Boot?

- Auto Configuration

- Embedded Server support (Tomcat, Jetty)

- Starter Dependencies

- Spring Boot CLI

- Production-ready features (like metrics and health checks)

3. What is the difference between Spring and Spring Boot?

Spring is a comprehensive framework for Java applications, while Spring Boot is a tool built on top

of Spring to simplify application development by eliminating boilerplate configuration.

4. What is Spring Boot Starter?

A Spring Boot Starter is a dependency descriptor that bundles commonly used dependencies into a

single package for easy inclusion in your project.

5. What is Spring Initializr?

Spring Initializr is a web-based tool to bootstrap a Spring Boot application by generating a Maven or

Gradle project with the necessary dependencies and configurations.

6. How does Spring Boot handle application configuration?

Spring Boot supports external configuration using properties or YAML files ([Link] or

[Link]), environment variables, and command-line arguments.


7. What is the purpose of @SpringBootApplication annotation?

It is a convenience annotation that combines @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and

@ComponentScan annotations with their default attributes.

8. What is Spring Boot Actuator?

Spring Boot Actuator provides production-ready features to help you monitor and manage your

application, such as health checks, metrics, info, dump, etc.

9. How do you create a REST API using Spring Boot?

By using @RestController and mapping HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) with

@RequestMapping or its variants like @GetMapping, @PostMapping, etc.

10. How do you handle exceptions in Spring Boot?

By using @ControllerAdvice and @ExceptionHandler to create a global exception handler class that

intercepts and processes application exceptions.

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