Core Java Interview Question Page 29
Flow Control and exception
Question: What is the difference between while and do while loop
Answer: Do while loop walways executes the body of the loop at least once, since
the test is performed at the end of the body
Question: When do you use continue and when do you use break statements
Answer: When continue statement is applied it prematurely completes the iteration
of a loop.
When break statement is applied it causes the entire loop to be abandoned.
Question: What is the base class from which all exceptions are subclasses
Answer: All exceptions are subclasses of a class called java.lang.Throwable
Question: How do you intercept and thereby control exceptions
Answer: We can do this by using try/catch/finally blocks
You place the normal processing code in try block
You put the code to deal with exceptions that might arise in try block in catch
block
Code that must be executed no matter what happens must be place in finally block
Question: When do we say an exception is handled
Answer: When an exception is thrown in a try block and is caught by a matching
catch block, the exception is considered to have been handled
Question: When do we say an exception is not handled
Answer: There is no catch block that names either the class of exception that has
been thrown or a class of exception that is a parent class of the one that has been
thrown, then the exception is considered to be unhandled, in such condition the
execution leaves the method directly as if no try has been executed
Question: In what sequence does the finally block gets executed
Answer: If you put finally after a try block without a matching catch block then it
will be executed after the try block
If it is placed after the catch block and there is no exception then also it will
be executed after the try block
If there is an exception and it is handled by the catch block then it will be
executed after the catch block
Question: What can prevent the execution of the code in finally block
Answer:
The death of thread
Use of system.exit()
Turning off the power to CPU
An exception arising in the finally block itself
What are the rules for catching multiple exceptions
A more specific catch block must precede a more general one in the source, else it
gives compilation error
Only one catch block, that is first applicable one, will be executed
Question: What does throws statement declaration in a method indicate
Answer: This indicates that the method throws some exception and the caller method
should take care of handling it
Question: What are checked exception
Answer: Checked exceptions are exceptions that arise in a correct program,
typically due to user mistakes like entering wrong data or I/O problems
Question: What are runtime exceptions
Answer: Runtime exceptions are due to programming bugs like out of bond arrays or
null pointer exceptions.
Question: What is difference between Exception and errors
Answer: Errors are usually compile time and exceptions can be runtime or checked
Question: How will you handle the checked exceptions
Answer: You can provide a try/catch block to handle it. OR Make sure method
declaration includes a throws clause that informs the calling method an exception
might be thrown from this particular method. When you extend a class and override a
method, can this new method throw exceptions other than those that were declared by
the original method. No it cannot throw, except for the subclasses of those
exceptions.
Question: Is it legal for the extending class which overrides a method which throws
an exception, not o throw in the overridden class
Answer: Yes it is perfectly legal
Question: Explain the user defined Exceptions?
Answer: User defined Exceptions are the separate Exception classes defined by the
user for specific purposed. An user defined can created by simply sub-classing it
to the Exception class. This allows custom exceptions to be generated (using throw)
and caught in the same way as normal exceptions.
Example:
class myCustomException extends Exception {
// The class simply has to exist to be an exception
}
