Arcon TechSolutions Quality Assurance Interview Questions and Answers

To select the 3rd highest salary from the employee table, you can use a SQL query with the 'LIMIT' and 'OFFSET' keywords.

• Use a SQL query like 'SELECT salary FROM employee ORDER BY salary DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 2' to get the 3rd highest salary.

• The 'ORDER BY' clause sorts the salaries in descending order, 'LIMIT 1' limits the result to 1 row, and 'OFFSET 2' skips the first two rows.

• Make sure to adjust the 'OFFSET' value if

Put is used to create or replace a resource, while patch is used to update a resource partially.

• Put is idempotent, meaning multiple identical requests will have the same effect as a single request

• Patch is not idempotent, as multiple identical requests may have different effects

• Put requires the client to send the entire updated resource, while patch only requires the specific changes to be sent

The == operator checks for reference equality, while the equals method checks for value equality in strings.

• Use == to check if two string variables refer to the same object in memory.

• Use equals() method to check if two string variables have the same sequence of characters.

• Example: String str1 = "hello"; String str2 = "hello"; str1 == str2 will return false, but str1.equals(str2) will return true.

String can be declared using double quotes, single quotes, or the String constructor.

• Declare using double quotes: String str1 = "Hello";

• Declare using single quotes: String str2 = 'World';

• Declare using String constructor: String str3 = new String("Java");

String builder is not synchronized, while String buffer is synchronized.

• String builder is faster than String buffer because it is not synchronized.

• String buffer is thread-safe, while String builder is not.

• String builder is preferred for single-threaded applications, while String buffer is preferred for multi-threaded applications.

Convert array to ArrayList of strings

• Create a new ArrayList

• Use Arrays.asList() method to convert array to ArrayList

• Example: String[] array = {"apple", "banana", "orange"}; ArrayList list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(array));