1. What is the purpose of the @RequestBody annotation?

2. How is a resource defined in the context of a REST service?

3. Which property is given precedence by Spring?

4. What property can be used to set the active Spring profiles

5. What is component scanning?

6. What is a bean in the context of Spring?

7. What is dependency injection?

8. How do you inject a dependency into a Spring bean?

9. What is the purpose of the Spring IoC (Inversion of Control) container?

10. What methods does this Pointcut expression?
'within(com.linkedin.service..*)'

11. How filters are used in Spring Web?

12. What is the root interface for accessing a Spring bean container?

13. Which is a valid example of the output from this code (ignoring logging statements) ?
java
@SpringBootApplication
public class App {
public static void main(String args[]) {
SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
System.out.println('startup');
}
}
public class Print implements InitializingBean {
@Override
public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
System.out.println('init');
}
}

14. What does a ViewResolver do?

15. What is a RESTful web service?

16. What is a security context?

17. Modularization of a concern that cuts across multiple classes is known as a(n)'____'.

18. In the Spring Bean lifecycle pictured, what should the third step of the process be?

19. What interface can be specified as a parameter in a controller method signature to handle file uploads?

20. Which annotation can be used within Spring Security to apply method level security?

21. What is a transaction in the context of Spring Data?

22. How can you access the application context in a Spring integration test?

23. What happens when a class is annotated with the @Controller annotation?

24. What is printed when this code is run as a @SpringBootApplication?
java
@Component
public class Test implements InitializingBean {
@Autowired
ApplicationContext context;
@Autowired
SimpleDateFormat formatter;
@Override
public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
System.out.println(context.containsBean('formatter'));
System.out.println(formatter.getClass());
}
}
@Configuration
class TestConfig2 {
@Bean
public final SimpleDateFormat formatter() {
return new SimpleDateFormat();
}
}

25. What is the result of calling the map controller method using the following HTTP request?

POST localhost:8080/map
{'b' : 'b', 'd' : 'd'}

java
@RestController
public class SampleController {
@RequestMapping('/map')
public String map(@RequestBody SampleObject sampleObject) {
return sampleObject.getB() + sampleObject.getC();
}
}

java
public class SampleObject {
String b;
String c;
public String getB() { return b; }
public void setB() { this.b = b; }
public String getC() { return c; }
public void setC() { this.c = c; }
}