Core Spring 3.

0 Certification Mock Exam

Container

Question 1
Given the following Spring configuration file, what is the correct answer:
<bean class="com.spring.service.MyServiceImpl">
<property name="repository" ref="jpaDao"/>
</bean>
<bean class="com.spring.repository.JpaDao"/>
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 answers.
1. Mocking or stubbing the service
2. Be able to use the Spring auto-injection
3. Can do dependency checking
4. Loosely coupled code

Question 11
Select one or many correct answers about spring bean life cycle.
1. The method annoted with @PostConstruct is called after bean instantiation and before
properties setting of the bean
2. The method @PreDestroy of a prototype bean is called when the bean is garbage collected
3. The init() method declared in the init-method attribute of a bean is called before the
afterPropertiesSet callback method of the InitializingBean interface
4. The method annotated with @PostConstruct is called before before the afterPropertiesSet
callback method of the InitializingBean interface

Question 12
Given the following configuration class, what are correct affirmations? Select one or more answers.
public class ApplicationConfig {
private DataSource dataSource;
@Autowired
public ApplicationConfig(DataSource dataSource) {
this.dataSource = dataSource;
}
@Bean(name="clientRepository")
ClientRepository jpaClientRepository() {
return new JpaClientRepository();
}
}
1. @Configuration annotation is missing
2. Default or no-arg constructor is missing
3. @Bean name is ambiguous
4. @Bean scope is prototype

Question 13
What are the features of the XML <context: namespace? Select one or many answers.
1. @Transactional annotation scanning
2. @Aspect annotation detection enabling
3. @Autowired annotation enabling
4. @Component annotation scanning

Test

Question 14
Select one or more correct statements about developing integration test with Spring support.
1. A new Spring context is created for each test class
2. To get a reference on the bean you want to test, you have to call the getBean() method of
the Spring context
3. Spring context configuration could be inherits from the super class
4. The Spring context configuration file has to be provided to the @ContextConfiguration annotation
Question 15
What are the main advantage(s) for using Spring when writing integration tests?
1. Reuse Spring configuration files of the application
2. Create mock or stub
3. Be able to use the rollback after the test pattern
4. Use dependency injection

Question 16
What are the main advantage(s) for using Spring when writing unit tests?
1. Reuse Spring configuration files of the application
2. Use dependency injection
3. Provide some mocks for servlet classes
4. All of the above
5. None of the above

Question 17
What is right about the spring test module?
1. It provides an abstraction layer for the main open source mock frameworks
2. Provides the @Mock annotation
3. It dynamically generates mock objects
4. All of the above
5. None of the above

Question 18
Select correct statement(s) about transactional support of the spring test module.
1. Transaction manager could be set within the @TransactionConfiguration annotation
2. Method annotated with @Before is executed outside of the test’s transaction
3. Spring test may rollback the transaction of a service configured with the REQUIRES_NEW
propagation
4. The transaction of a method annotated with the @Rollback annotation with its default
values is rolled back after the method has completed

AOP

Question 19
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(..))
1. Matches pubic update methods of the 2 classes, whatever the arguments
2. Matches any update methods of the 2 classes , whatever the arguments and method
visibility
3. Matches any update methods of the 2 classes , with one more arguments and whatever
method visibility
4. No joint point is defined

Question 20
Using the Spring AOP framework, what is the visibility of the method matches by the following join
point?
@Pointcut("execution(* *(..))")
private void anyOperation() {};
1. All methods, whereas there visibility
2. All methods, except private method
3. Protected and public methods
4. Public methods

Question 21
What are the 2 correct statements about AOP proxy?
1. AOP proxies are created by Spring in order to implement the aspect contracts
2. AOP proxies are always created with a JDK dynamic proxy
3. Only classes that implements a least one interface could be proxied
4. All methods could be proxied
5. Proxies are created by a BeanPostProcessor

Question 22
What is an after throwing advice? Select a unique answer.
1. Advice that could throw an exception
2. Advice to be executed if a method exits by throwing an exception
3. Advice that executes before a join point
4. Spring does not provide this type of advice

Question 23
What is an after returning advice? Select a unique answer.
1. Advice to be executed regardless of the means by which a join point exits
2. Advice that surrounds a method invocation and can perform custom behavior before and
after the method invocation
3. Advice to be executed before method invocation
4. Advice to be executed after a join point completes without throwing an exception

Question 24
What is an advice? Select a unique answer.
1. An action taken by an aspect at a particular join point
2. A point during the execution of a program
3. An aspect and a pointcut
4. A predicate that matches join points

Question 25
What is a pointcut? Select a unique answer.
1. Code to execute at a join point
2. An expression to identify joinpoints
3. An advice and a jointpoint
4. None of the above

Question 26
Select method’s signatures that match with the following pointcut:
execution(* com.test.service..*.*(*))
1. void com.test.service.MyServiceImpl#transfert(Money amount)
2. void com.test.service.MyServiceImpl#transfert(Account account, Money amount)
3. void com.test.service.account.MyServiceImpl#transfert(Money amount)
4. void com.test.service.account.MyServiceImpl#transfert(Account account, Money amount)
5. None of the above

Question 27
What are the unique correct answers about Spring AOP support?
1. An advice could proxied a constructor’s class
2. A point cut could select methods that have a custom annotation
3. Static initialization code could be targeted by a point cut
4. Combination of pointcuts by &&, || and the ! operators is not supported

Question 28
Using the Spring AOP framework, what are the joinpoint methods of the following pointcut
expressions?
execution(public * *(..))
1. The execution of all public method
2. The execution of all public method returning a value
3. The execution of all public method having at least one parameter
4. The execution of all public method in class belonging to the default java package

Data Access

Question 29
Why is it a best practice to mark transaction as read-only when code does not write anything to the
database? Select one or more answers.
1. It is mandatory for using Spring exception translation mechanism
2. May be improve performance when using Hibernate
3. Spring optimizes its transaction interceptor
4. Provides safeguards with Oracle and some other databases

Question 30
What data access technology is supported by the Spring framework? Select one or more answers.
1. JDBC
2. NoSQL
3. Hibernate
4. JPA

Question 31
What is not provided by the JdbcTemplate? Select a unique answer.
1. Data source access
2. Open/close data source connection
3. JDBC exception wrapping into DataAccess Exception
4. JDBC statement execution
Question 32
Using JdbcTemplate, what is the Spring provided class you will use for result set parsing and merging
rows into a single object? Select a unique answer.
1. RowMapper
2. RowCallbackHandler
3. ResultSetExtractor
4. ResultSetMapper

Question 33
What configuration is supported by the LocalSessionFactoryBean? Select a unique answer.
1. Listing entity classes annoted with @Entity
2. Scanning a package to detect annoted entity classes (with @Entity)
3. Listing hibernate XML mapping configuration file (.hbm.xml)
4. All above

Transaction

Question 34
What is/are incorrect statements about XML declaration of the transaction manager bean? Select
one or more answers.
1. The tx namespace provides JTA transaction manager declaration shortcut syntax
2. Id of the bean has to be transactionManager
3. Depending the application persistence technology, the HibernateTransactionManager or the
DataSourceTransactionManager could be used as bean class
4. Default transaction timeout could be given

Question 35
Assuming @Transactional annotation support is enabled and the transferMoney method is called
through a Spring AOP proxy, what is the behavior of the following code sample?
@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
public void transferMoney(Account src, Account target, double amount) {
add(src, -amount);
add(src, amount);
}
@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
public void add(Account account, Double amount) {
// IMPLEMENTATION
}
1. The add() method executes code in a new transaction
2. The add() method uses the transaction of the transferMoney() method
3. When calling the add() method, an exception is thrown
4. Other behavior

Question 36
Does Spring provides programmatic transaction management? Select a unique answer.
1. Yes with the TransactionTemplate class
2. Yes with the TransactionService class
3. Yes using the @Transactional bean post processor
4. No
Question 37
What is the transaction behavior of the PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW mode? Select a unique
answer.
1. If a transaction exists, the current method should run within this transaction. Otherwise, it
should start a new transaction and run within its own transaction.
2. If a transaction is in progress, the current method should run within the nested transaction
of the existing transaction. Otherwise, a new transaction has to be started and run within its
own transaction.
3. The current method must start a new transaction and run within its own transaction. If there
is an existing transaction in progress, it is suspended.
4. None of the above

Question 38
What is the default rollback policy in transaction management?
1. Rollback for any Exception
2. Rollback for RuntimeException
3. Rollback for checked exceptions
4. Always commit
Sping @MVC
Question 39
What could not return a Spring MVC controller? Select a single answer.
1. An absolute path to the view
2. A logical view name
3. A new JstlView
4. void
5. null value

Question 40
Where do you cannot declare Spring MVC controller? Select one or more answers.
1. In a Spring application context XML configuration file
2. Into the web.xml file of the web application
3. Into the java code by using annotations
4. Into the JSP pages

Question 41
What is the easiest method to write a unit test?
1. void displayAccount(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException
2. void displayAccount(HttpServletRequest req, HttpSession Session)
throws ServletException, IOException
3. @RequestMapping("/displayAccount")
String displayAccount(@RequestParam("accountId") int id, Model model)
4. @RequestMapping("/displayAccount")
String displayAccount(@PathVariable("accountId") int id, Model model)

Spring Security
Question 42
How could you secure MVC controller with Spring Security? Select a unique answer.
1. With the @Secured annotation
2. With the @RolesAllowed annotation
3. In a XML security configuration file
4. All of the above
5. None of the above

Question 43
What are the possible mechanisms provided by Spring Security to store user details? 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