Java Developer Blog: Spring Certification Quetions

Container

Question 1

Given the following Spring configuration file, what is the correct answer:

</bean>

1. The first declared bean MyServiceImpl is missing an id must be named myService

2. The second declared bean JpaDao is missing an id must be named jpaDao

3. Answers 1 and 2 are both rights

4. Answers 1 and 2 are both wrong

Question 2

Given the Spring configuration file, which are the correct statements?

<bean class="com.spring.service.BankServiceImpl"

p:bankName="NationalBank">

</bean>

1. The p namespace has to be declared

2. Bean id is bankServiceImpl

3. The BankServiceImpl references a NationalBank bean

4. NationalBank is a scalar value

Question 3

How is named the bean that is defined in the following configuration class. Select a single answer.

@Configuration

public class ApplicationConfig {

@Autowired

private DataSource dataSource;

@Bean

ClientRepository clientRepository() {

ClientRepository accountRepository = new JpaClientRepository();

accountRepository.setDataSource(dataSource);

return accountRepository;

}

1. JpaClientRepository

2. jpaClientRepository

3. clientRepository

4. Two beans are defined : a data souce and a repository

Question 4

How could you externalize constants from a Spring configuration file or a Spring annotation into a

.properties file? Select one or more answers

1. By using the <util:constant /> tag

2. By declaring the ConstantPlaceholderConfigurer bean post processor

3. By using the <context:property-placeholder /> tag

4. By using the c: namespace

Question 5

What statement is not correct in live environment? Select a unique answer.

1. Constuctor and properties autowiring in the same bean are not compatible

2. A bean should have a default or a no-args constructor

3. The <constructor-arg> tag could take type, name and index to reduce ambiguity

4. None of the above

5. All of the above

Question 6

What are the right affirmations about the @PostConstruct, @Resource and the @PreDestroy

annotations?

1. Those annotations are specified in the JSR-250

2. The Spring Framework embedded those annotation

3. The <context:component-scan> tag enable them

4. The <context:annotation-config > tag enable them

5. Declaring the CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor enable them

Question 7

What is/are typically case(s) where you usually need to manually instanciated an ApplicationContext?

1. In a web application

2. In an integration test running with the SpringJUnit4ClassRunner

3. In a standalone application started with a main method

4. None of the above

Question 8

Select the right statement about referring a Spring configuration file inside the package

com.example.myapp in the below example?

ApplicationContext context = new

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:/com.example.myapp.config.xml");

1. The classpath: prefix could be omit

2. Package name with dot is not well formatted using the dot character

3. The slash character preceding com.example could be omit

4. All of the above

5. None of the above

Question 9

How to auto-inject into a field a bean by its name? Select one or more response.

1. With the name attribute of the @Autowired annotation

2. By using the single @Qualifier annotation

3. By using both the @Autowired and the @Qualifier spring annotations

4. By using the @Autowired annotation and naming the field with the bean name

Question 10

What are the main advantages of using interfaces when designing business services? Select one or

more correct answers.

1. Database

2. JAAS

3. LDAP

4. Properties file

Question 44

What is true about Spring security configuration and the security namespace? Select one or more

correct answers.

1. The access attribute of the intercept-url tag support both EL and constants together.

2. The patterns declared into the intercept-url tag are analyzed from up to bottom. Winning is

the first that matches.

3. The patterns declared into the intercept-url tag use by default the java regex syntax.

4. Security rules may applied depending request parameter

Remoting

Question 45

What do you have to do even if you are using the RMI Spring Remoting support? Select one or more

correct answers.

1. Implements the Remote interface

2. Extends the RemoteObject class

3. Catching the RemoteException exception

4. Implements the Serializable interface

Question 46

What is exact about the HttpInvokerServiceExporter? Select one or more correct answers.

1. Has to run into a HTPP server as Jetty

2. Could process both POST and GET requests

3. Could be used with any http client as Jakarta Commons HttpClient

4. Could consume SOAP http request

JMS

Question 47

What is the method that is not provided by the JmsTemplate Spring class?

1. convertAndSend

2. onMessage

3. receiveAndConvert

4. setDefaultDestination

Question 48

How could you implement a JMS Listener using the Spring JMS support? Select one or more correct

answers.

1. By implementing the javax.jms.MessageListener interface

2. By implementing the SessionAwareMessageListener interface provided by Spring

3. Without any code, only using the jms namespace provided by Spring

4. By writing a single POJO without parent class or interface

JMX

Question 49

What is easier to do by using Spring JMS support? Select one or more correct answers.

1. Register any Spring bean as JMX MBean

2. Register an existing MBean with a MBeanServer

3. Accessing to remote MBean

4. Control the attributes and the operations of a Spring bean exposes as a MBean

Question 50

What is the purpose of the @ManageResource annotation? Select a single answer.

1. Expose a bean’s property (getter/setter) to JMX

2. Expose a bean’s method to JMX

3. Identify a Spring bean as a JMX MBean

4. None of the above

Response

Container

Question 1

Answer 2 is correct. Those beans are anonymous because no id is supplied explicitly. Thus Spring

container generates a unique id for that bean. It uses the fully qualified class name and appends a

number to them. However, if you want to refer to that bean by name, through the use of the ref

element you must provide a name (see Naming Beans section of the Spring reference manual). To be

correct, the 2nd bean has to declare a jpaDao id attribute in order to be reference by the

repository property of the first bean.

Question 2

Answers 1 and 4 are correct.

1. To set bean’s property with the p:propertyName shortcut, you have to declare the

http://www.springframework.org/schema/p in your xml configuration file. No xsd is

required.

2. The bean is anonymous. Spring generates a unique id:

com.spring.service.BankServiceImpl#0

3. To reference another bean with the p namespace, you have to use the p:propertyName-ref

syntax

4. Due to the above explanation, NationalBank is not a bean reference, so it is a simple String

and thus a scalar value.

Question 3

Correct answer is 3.

The @Bean annotation defines a String bean with the id "clientRepository". JpaClientRepository is

the implementation class of the bean. The data source is injected and is not declared in this class.

Question 4

The only possible answer is the number 3.

1. The <util:constant static-field="constant name"/> tag enables to reference a Java constant or

enumeration into a spring configuration file

2. ConstantPlaceholderConfigurer does not exist. You may think about the

PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean post processor.

3. The <context:property-placeholder location="file:/myApp.properties" /> tag activates the

replacement of ${...} placeholders, resolved against the specified properties file.

4. The c: namespace is for simplifying constructor syntax (since Spring 3.1) and don’t provide

such feature.

Question 5

The statements number 5 is right.

1. You may auto-wiring properties by constructor, setter or properties in the same bean

2. The <constructor-arg> tag helps to instanciated a bean without default or no-args

constructor

3. The <constructor-arg> tag could take type and index to reduce ambiguity, but not name

which requires debug symbols.

Question 6

Answers 1, 3, 4 and 5 are rights.

1. The @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy and @Resource annotations are defined in the JSR-250

2. They belong to the javax.annotation package. You should add an external jar to use them in

Java 5. Java 6 and 7 integrates them.

3. The <context:component-scan> automatically detects stereotyped classes and turns on the

<context:annotation-config>

4. The <context:annotation-config > activates the Spring infrastructure for various annotations

to be detected in bean classes, including the JSR 250 annotations

5. The CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor supports common Java annotations out of the

box, in particular the JSR-250 annotations.

Question 7

Correct answer in the number 3.

1. In a web application, the ContextLoaderListener is in charge to create an

WebApplicationContext.

2. In an integration test based on Spring, the SpringJUnit4ClassRunner creates the application

context for you. The @ContextConfiguration annotation allows to specified application

context configuration files.

3. In a main method, you have to instanciated a class implementing the ApplicationContext

interface (examples: ClassPathXmlApplicationContext or FileSystemXmlApplicationContext)

Question 8

Answer number 4 is right.

1. When using the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, the classpath: prefix is default one

so you could omit it

2. In a Spring location resource, package separator is a slash and not a dot. Thus the

com/example/myapp/config.xml syntax has to be used.

3. ClassPathXmlApplicationContext starts looking from root of the classpath regardless of

whether specify "/"

Question 9

Answers number 3 and 4 are valid.

1. The @Autowired annotation has no name property, just a required one.

2. Autowiring a field, the @Inject or the @Autowired or the @Resource annotations are

mandatory.

3. The @Qualifier("name") annotation complements the use of the @Autowired annotation by

specifying the name of the bean to inject

4. When 2 beans are eligible to auto-injection, Spring uses the field name to select the

appropriate one.

Question 10

Answers number 1 and 4 are valid.

1. With modern mock API like Mockito or EasyMock, interfaces are not mandatory for mocking

or stubbing the service. But using interface remains easier when you have to manually mock

the service in unit test.

2. Auto-injection is possible with class. Spring uses CGLIB.

3. Dependency checking is an advantage of dependencies injection.

4. The Inversion of Control pattern requires an interface to separate 2 classes. This pattern

provides code more flexible, unit testable, loosely coupled and maintainable.

Question 11

Correct answers: 4

1. In the bean lifecycle, method annotated with @PostConstruct is called after the properties

set step and the BeanPostProcessors#postProcessBeforeInitialization step

2. Destroy methods of prototype beans are never called

3. In the bean lifecycle, the afterPropertiesSet callback method of the InitializingBean is called

after the method annotated with the @PostConstruct annotation and before the init-method

declared in the XML configuration file.

4. In the bean lifecycle, the method annotated with the @PreDestroy annotation is called

before the destroy callback of the DisposableBean interface and before the destroy-method

declared in the XML configuration file.

Question 12

Correct answers are 1 and 2.

1. In order to be taken into account by Spring, the ApplicationConfig class has to be annotated

with the @Configuration annotation

2. Default or no-arg constructor is mandatory. Here, the provided constructor with a

dataSource parameter is not taken into account

3. The bean name is clientRepository. The name property of the @Bean annotation is specified

thus the method name jpaClientRepository is ignored.

Question 13

Correct answers are 3 and 4

1. Use <tx:annotation-driven /> to enable @Transactional annotation scanning

2. Use <aop:aspectj-autoproxy /> to enable detection of @Aspect bean

3. Turns on <context:annotation-config /> or <context:component-scan /> to enable

@Autowiring annotation

4. Turns on <context:component-scan /> to enable @Component annotation scanning

Test

Question 14

The only correct answer is number 3.

1. The Spring context is cached across tests unless you use @DirtiesContext annotation

2. With the Spring test module, dependency injection is available in test case. So you may autowired

the bean to test

3. By default, a @ContextConfiguration annoted class inherits the spring context configuration

file locations defined by an annotated superclass. The inheritLocations of this attribute

allows to change this default behavior.

4. If no context configuration file is provided to the @ContextConfiguration annotation, Spring

use a file convention naming. It try to load a file named with the test class name and suffices

by the "-context.xml" suffice (i.e. MyDaoTest-context.xml)

Question 15

Correct answers are 1, 3 and 4.

What are the main advantage(s) for using Spring when writing integration tests?

1. More than testing multiple classes together, integration test may allow to test your spring

configuration file and/or to reuse it.

2. Mocking or stubbing is more frequent in unit tests than in integration tests. And Spring does

not provide any implementation or abstraction of mock framework.

3. The framework may create and roll back a transaction for each test method. Default rollback

policy could be change by using the @TransactionConfiguration annotation. And default

mode could be overridden by the @Rollback annotation.

4. DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener provides support for dependency injection and

initialization of test instances.

Question 16

The correct answer is the number 3.

What are the main advantage(s) for using Spring when writing unit tests?

1. You don’t need Spring container to writer unit test

2. Refer to the answer number 1.

3. The org.springframework.mock package provides mock classes like MockHttpSession or

MockHttpContext. They could be helpful for unit test in the presentation layer and when you

don’t use any mock framework such as Mockity or EasyMock.

Question 17

Answer 5 is correct.

What is right about the spring test module?

1. The spring test module does not provide an abstraction layer for open source mock

frameworks like EasyMock, JMock or Mockito

2. The @Mock annotations comes from the Mockito framework

3. The spring test module does not provide mechanism to generate mock objects at runtime

Question 18

Correct statements are number 1 and 4.

1. The transactionManager property of the @TransactionConfiguration annotation enable to

set the bean name of the PlatformTransactionManager that is to be used to drive

transactions.

2. Method annotated with @Before is executed inside the test’s transaction. You have to use

the @BeforeTransaction to execute code outside the test’s transaction.

3. The REQUIRES_NEW propagation suspends the current test’s transaction then creates a new

transaction that will be used to execute the service. A commit at the service level could not

be changed by the test.

4. The transaction for the annotated method should be rolled back after the method has

completed.

AOP

Question 19

The correct answer is the number 4.

Considering 2 classes AccountServiceImpl and ClientServiceImpl. Any of these 2 classes inherits from

each other. What is the result of the pointcut expressions?

execution(* *..AccountServiceImpl.update(..))

&& execution(* *..ClientServiceImpl.update(..))

Poincut expression could not satisfied both first and second execution point. Do not confuse the &&

operator and || operator.

Question 20

Correct answer is the number 4.

Due to the proxy-based nature of Spring's AOP framework, protected methods are by definition not

intercepted, neither for JDK proxie nor for CGLIB proxies. As a consequence, any given pointcut will

be matched against public methods only!

To intercept private and protected methods, AspecJ weaving should be used instead of the Spring’s

proxy-bases AOP framework.

Question 21

The 2 correct statements are 1 and 5.

What are the 2 correct statements about AOP proxy.

1. An object created by the AOP framework in order to implement the aspect contracts

2. If the target object does not implement any interfaces then a CGLIB proxy will be created.

You could also use CGLIB proxy instead of JDK dynamic proxy

3. If the target object does not implement any interfaces then a CGLIB proxy will be created.

4. When CGLIB proxy is used, final methods cannot be advised, as they cannot be overridden.

5. AOP Proxies are created by the AbstractAutoProxyCreator#postProcessAfterInitialization

method.

Question 22

The answer number 2 is correct.

1. A before advice could throw an exception

2. An after throwing advice is executed if a method exits by throwing an exception

3. An advice that executes before a join point is named a before advice

4. Spring supports after throwing advices

Question 23

Correct answer: 4

1. This is an after (finally) advice

2. This is an around advice

3. This is a before advice

4. True

Question 24

Correct answer: 1

1. Definition of an advice

2. Definition of a joint point

3. Represents nothing

4. Definition of a point cut

Question 25

Correct answer: 2

1. Definition of an advice

2. Definition of a pointcut

3. Represents nothing

Question 26

Correct answers: 1, 3

Select methods that match with the following pointcut:

execution(* com.test.service..*.*(*))

1. True

2. The pattern (*) matches a method taking one parameter of any type

3. The com.test.service.account sub-package matches the pointcut

4. False for the same reason as answer number 2.

Question 27

Correct answers: 2

1. Interception of constructors requires the use of Spring-driven native AspectJ weaving instead

of Spring's proxy-based AOP framework

2. The @annotation designator enables to select methods that are annotated by a given

annotation

3. The staticinitialization AspectJ designator is not supported by Spring AOP

4. Pointcut expressions can be combined using &&, || and !

Question 28

Correct answers: 1

1. The execution of all public method

2. The * return type pattern indicates any return value or void

3. The (..) param pattern indicates 0, 1 or many parameters

4. No package name is specified. So classes of any package could match.

Data Access

Question 29

Correct answers: 2 , 4

1. Spring exception translation mechanism has nothing to do with read-only transaction

2. Read-only transaction prevents Hibernate from flushing its session. Hibernate do not do dirty

checking and it increases its performance.

3. No

4. When jdbc transaction is marked as read-only, Oracle only accepts SELECT SQL statements.

Question 30

Correct answers: 1, 3, 4

1. JDBC is supported: JdbcTemplate, JDBCException wrapper …

2. Some NoSQL databases are supports through the Spring Data project

3. Hibernate is supported: HibernateTemplate, AnnotationSessionFactoryBean …

4. JPA is supported: LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean, @PersistenceContext annotation support

Question 31

Correct answer: 1

1. A JdbcTemplate requires a DataSource as input parameters

2. JdbcTemplate uses the probided datasource to open then close a JDBC connection

3. Callback methods of JdbcTemplate throw SQL Exception and Spring converts into

DataAccessException

4. For example, the queryForInt method executes an SQL statement

Question 32

Correct answer: 3

1. RowMapper : result set parsing when need to map each row into a custom object

2. RowCallbackHandler : result set parsing without returning a result to the JdbcTemplate caller

3. ResultSetExtractor : for result set parsing and merging rows into a single object

4. ResultSetMapper : this class does not exist

Question 33

Correct answer: 3

1. False. This is supported by the AnnotationSessionFactoryBean using annotedClasses

2. False. This is supported by the AnnotationSessionFactoryBean using packagesToScan

3. True using mappingLocations

4. False

Transaction

Question 34

Correct answer: 2

1. <tx:jta-transaction-manager />

2. Id of the transaction manager bean could be customized (ie. txManager)

3. DataSourceTransactionManager is a transaction manager for a JDBC data source.

HibernateTransactionManager may be used to manage transaction with Hibernate.

4. The AbstractPlatformTransactionManager has a defaultTimeout property that could be

customized

Question 35

Correct answer: 2

In proxy mode, only external method calls coming in through the proxy are intercepted. In the code

snippet, the add() method is self-invocated. This means that, the @Transactional annotation of the

add() method is not interpreted. The REQUIRES_NEW propagation level is not taken into account.

To summary, when the transferMoney() methods calls add() method directly, the transaction

attributes of add() method are not used

Question 36

Correct answer: 1

1. The TransactionTemplate class provides an execute(TransactionCallback) method

2. The TransactionService class does not exists

3. The @Transactional annotation is for declarative transaction management

Question 37

Correct answer: 3

1. PROPAGATION_REQUIRED

2. PROPAGATION_NESTED

3. PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW

Question 38

Correct answer: 2

1. False.

2. True

3. False

4. False

Sping @MVC

Question 39

Correct answer: 1

1. Spring does not allow to return an absolute path to the view

2. Controller could return a String that matches with a logical view name

3. A JstlView with the .jsp path (i.e. /WEB-INF/accountList.jsp)

4. void forward to the default view

5. null forward to the default view

Question 40

Correct answer: 2, 4

1. Spring MVC controllers are beans. So you can declare them into a Spring application context

XML configuration file that could be loaded by the DispatcherServlet.

2. In the web.xml, you may declarer and a ContextLoaderListener and a DispatcherServlet that

are in charge to load XML Spring configuration files. But you cannot declare controllers

directly in these file.

3. The @Controller annotation may be used to annoted Spring MVC Controller beans that

handle HTTP requests.

4. JSP is the View of the MVC Pattern. Thus this is not the right place to declare controllers.

Question 41

Correct answer: 3

1. HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse have to be mocked. Id of the account to display

could be set into the http request parameters.

2. HttpServletRequest and HttpSession have to be mocked. Id of the account to display could be

set into the http request parameters.

3. This method is not dependent of the servlet API. Id of the account to display may be directly

passed through the call stack. Thus test methods are simplified.

4. The @PathVariable annotation has to be bound to a URI template variable. This is not the

case.

Sping Security

Question 42

Correct answer: 4

1. @Secured annotation is a Spring Security annotation

2. @RolesAllowed is a JSR-250 annotation that is supported by Spring Security

3. Spring Security could be configured in a XML way to intercept particular URLs

Question 43

Correct answer: 1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 44

Correct answer: 2

1. You cannot mix EL and constant in the same configuration file

2. If more than one intercept-url matches, the top one is used

3. Ant pattern is used by default. But you can change to use regular expression.

4. Security rules may apply to request URL, request method (GET, POST …) but not to request

parameters.

Remoting

Question 45

Correct answer: 4

1. No more interface to implement. RMI Client and Server could be POJO.

2. No more class to extend. RMI Client and Server could be POJO.

3. Spring Remoting wraps the cheched RemoteException into RuntimeExcpetion.

4. Object that are transferred via RMI are serializabled/unserializabled. So they have to

implement the Serializable interface.

Question 46

Correct answers: 1, 3

1. HttpInvokerServiceExporter requires a HTTP web server to process incoming http request.

Tomcat or Jetty is possible candidates. Spring also supports the Oracle/Sun's JRE 1.6 HTTP

server.

2. Only the POST method is supported. Maybe due to the 256 characters limit of the GET

method.

3. Spring comes with 2 http client implementations: for Commons HttpClient and classic JavaSE

API. You can create a custom one by extending the AbstractHttpInvokerRequestExecutor

class.

4. Does not support SOAP web service. Use the Spring web service module or use the JAX-WS

or JAX-RPC remoting support.

JMS

Question 47

Correct answer: 2

1. The convertAndSend method sends a given object to a destination, converting the object to

a JMS message.

2. The onMessage method does not exist.

3. The receiveAndConvert method receives a message synchronously then convert the

message into an object

4. The setDefaultDestination method sets the destination to be used on send/receive

operations that do not have a destination parameter.

Question 48

Correct answers: 1, 2 , 4

1. The javax.jms.MessageListener interface could be used with the

SimpleMessageListenerContainer

2. The SessionAwareMessageListener interface could be used with

DefaultMessageListenerContainer and SimpleMessageListenerContainer

3. Business code is required to handle and process the JMS message.

4. A JMS Listener could be a POJO. The name of the handler method to invoke has to be

specified in the <jms:listener /> tag.

JMX

Question 49

Correct answers: 1, 2, 3, 4

1. The MBeanExporter class allow to expose any Spring bean as a JMX MBean

2. Exiting MBean could be declared as Spring bean. Then the <context:mbean-export />

directive enables their registration to the MBeanServer

3. Remote MBean could be access through a proxy

4. Implementations of the MBeanInfoAssembler interface do the job

Question 50

Correct answer: 3

1. @ManageAttribute exposes a bean’s property (getter/setter) to JMX

2. @ManageOperation exposes a bean’s method to JMX

3. @ManageResources identify a Spring bean as a JMX MBean

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