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

THIS IS NOT A VALID POINTCUT EXPRESSION.

ANY JOIN POINT WITHIN THE SERVICE PACKAGE OR ONE OF ITS SUBPACKAGES

ANY METHOD IN A CLASS THAT AUTOWIRES A SERVICE BEAN

ANY JOIN POINT ONLY WITHIN THE SERVICE PACKAGE

Which property can be used to change the port of a Spring application?

SPRING.SETTINGS.PORT

PORT

SPRING.PORT

SERVER.PORT

What does a ViewResolver do?

IT GENERATES A VIEW BY MAPPING A LOGICAL VIEW NAME RETURNED BY A CONTROLLER METHOD TO A VIEW TECHNOLOGY.

IT CREATES A UNIQUE VIEW DETERMINED BY THE USER'S BROWSER TYPE, SUPPORTING CROSS-BROWSER COMPATIBILITY.

IT MAPS CUSTOM PARAMETERS TO SQL VIEWS IN THE DATABASE, ALLOWING FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT TO BE CREATED IN THE RESPONSE.

IT SUPPORTS INTERNATIONALIZATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS BY DETECTING A USER'S LOCALE.

What is dependency injection?

A WAY OF INJECTING REMOTE DEPENDENCIES INTO A PRE-PACKAGED WAR FILE FROM THE FILE SYSTEM

A METHOD BY WHICH OBJECTS DEFINE DEPENDENCIES THEY NEED AS ABSTRACTIONS THAT ALLOWS THE FRAMEWORK TO INSTANTIATE AND CONFIGURE THEM IN A CENTRAL LOCATION AT RUNTIME

A WAY OF INJECTING REMOTE DEPENDENCIES INTO A PRE-PACKAGED JAR FILE FROM THE FILE SYSTEM

A PARADIGM WHERE DEPENDENT CODE IS INJECTED INTO THE BYTECODE OF A JAVA APPLICATION ON A REMOTE SERVER

What is the purpose of the @RequestBody annotation?

TO AUTOMATICALLY VALIDATE THE CHARACTERS CONTAINED IN A REQUEST TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE A VALID CHARACTER ENCODING

TO CREATE A THREADLOCAL BYTE STREAM THAT ALLOWS A REQUEST TO BE ENCODED FOR READING DIRECTLY INTO A DATABASE

TO INDICATE WHETHER AN ANNOTATED HANDLER METHOD PARAMETER SHOULD BE BOUND TO THE WEB REQUEST BODY, WHICH IS CONVERTED BY AN HTTPMESSAGECONVERTER

TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE A THREADLOCAL BYTE STREAM FROM THE BODY OF A REQUEST THAT ALLOWS A REQUEST TO SCANNED FOR SECURITY RISKS

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

A CONTROLLER BEAN DEFINITION IS DEFINED IN THE TOMCAT CONTEXT, AND THE CONTROLLER SERVLET IS MARKED AS A WEB COMPONENT THAT READS MAPPED CONTROLLER REQUESTS FROM A YAML CONFIG FILE.

A CONTROLLER BEAN DEFINITION IS DEFINED IN THE SERVLET’S WEBAPPLICATIONCONTEXT. THE CLASS IS MARKED AS A WEB COMPONENT, AND YOU CAN MAP REQUESTS TO CONTROLLER METHODS.

A CONTROLLER BEAN DEFINITION IS DEFINED IN THE SERVLET CONTEXT, AND THE CONTROLLER SERVLET IS MARKED AS A COMPONENT THAT READS MAPPED CONTROLLER REQUESTS FROM AN XML CONFIG FILE.

A CONTROLLER BEAN DEFINITION IS DEFINED IN THE WEB CONTEXT, AND WEB SERVLET IS MARKED AS A COMPONENT THAT READS MAPPED CONTROLLER REQUESTS FROM AN XML CONFIG FILE.

What is component scanning?

A FEATURE THAT SCANS PACKAGES FOR CLASSES WITH SPECIFIC ANNOTATIONS AND, WHEN FOUND, CREATES THEIR BEAN DEFINITIONS WITHIN THE IOC CONTAINER

A METHOD BY WHICH BINARY DATA IN A DATABASE IS SEARCHED TO IDENTIFY COMPONENTS FOR INJECTION INTO THE IOC CONTAINER

A METHOD BY WHICH CLOUD REPOSITORIES ARE SCANNED TO IDENTIFY COMPONENTS FOR INJECTION INTO AN IOC CONTAINERYOU MAP AN INCOMING REQUEST TO A CON

A PARADIGM WHERE BYTECODE IS ACTIVELY SCANNED TO IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL OPTIMIZATIONS TO INJECT INTO COMPONENTS IN THE APPLICATION CONTEXT

How are authentication and authorization different?

AUTHENTICATION IS THE ACT OF GRANTING ACCESS TO SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND FUNCTIONS BASED ON CONFIG SETTINGS. AUTHORIZATION IS THE ACT OF INTROSPECTING A USER’S CREDENTIALS TO ENSURE THEY ARE NOT IMPERSONATING ANOTHER USER.

AUTHENTICATION IS THE ACT OF VERIFYING THAT CERTAIN RESOURCES AND FUNCTIONS ACTUALLY EXIST IN THE DATABASE. AUTHORIZATION IS THE ACT OF VERIFYING A USER’S CREDENTIALS TO ENSURE THEY ARE VALID.

AUTHENTICATION IS THE ACT OF VERIFYING CERTAIN RESOURCES AND FUNCTIONS ARE ACTUALLY VALID. AUTHORIZATION IS THE ACT OF VERIFYING A USER’S CREDENTIALS HAVE NOT EXPIRED.

AUTHENTICATION IS VALIDATING THAT USERS ARE WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE. AUTHORIZATION IS GRANTING ACCESS TO SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND FUNCTIONS.

What is the purpose of the @Lazy annotation and why would you use it?

IT CAN BE APPLIED TO A BEAN SO THAT THE BEAN IS NOT PERSISTED IN THE DATABASE. IT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF DATABASE OPERATIONS.

IT PREVENTS A BEAN FROM BEING CREATED AND INJECTED UNTIL YOU RUN A SPECIFIC CLI COMMAND. IT REDUCES COMPLEXITY IN THE APPLICATION.

IT PREVENTS A BEAN FROM BEING CREATED AND INJECTED UNTIL IT RECEIVES A HTTP REQUEST TO A CALLBACK HOOK. IT REDUCES DISK FOOTPRINT.

IT CAN BE APPLIED TO A BEAN SO THAT THE BEAN IS NOT CREATED AND INJECTED UNTIL IT IS NEEDED. IT CAN HELP SPEED UP STARTUP TIME FOR YOUR APPLICATION.

What is the name of the central servlet that dispatches requests to controllers?

ROUTER

DISPATCHINGDELEGATORSERVLET

DISPATCHERSERVLET

FRONTCONTROLLERSERVLET

What does @SpringBootApplication do?

THIS COMPOUND ANNOTATION APPLIES THE @BOOTABLE, @SPRINGIFY, AND @STANDARDCONFIG ANNOTATIONS THAT LAUNCH A CLI TOOL AFTER LAUNCHING THE SPRING BOOT WAR FILE THAT WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH A SERIES OF PROMPTS TO SET UP YOUR APP.

THIS ANNOTATION TAKES THE STRING LITERAL PASSED INTO THE ANNOTATION AS A PARAMETER AND AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES ALL THE CODE FOR YOUR APPLICATION AS PER THE PASSED IN TEMPLATE PARAMETER.

THIS COMPOSITE ANNOTATION—WHICH INCLUDES @CONFIGURATION, @ENABLEAUTOCONFIGURATION, AND @COMPONENTSCAN—TRIGGERS AUTOCONFIGURATION OF SPRING AND COMPONENT SCANNING IN THE BASE PACKAGE FOR COMPONENTS TO ADD TO THE APPLICATION CONTEXT.

THIS ANNOTATION SCANS THE PROVIDED SPRING-BOOT-CONFIG-CONSTRUCTION.YAML FILE IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY AND AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES ALL THE CODE FOR YOUR APPLICATION AS DEFINED IN THE YAML FILE.

What is a transaction in the context of Spring Data?

A SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS REPRESENTING A SINGLE UNIT OF WORK MANAGED AS A SINGLE OPERATION THAT CAN BE EITHER COMMITTED OR ROLLED BACK

A VERSION-CONTROLLED SCHEMA CHANGE THAT IS APPLIED TO A DATABASE

AN EXCHANGE OR INTERACTION BETWEEN VARIOUS WORKER NODES IN A MULTITHREADED ENVIRONMENT

AN ENCODED MESSAGE AND RESPONSE BETWEEN VARIOUS SHARDS OF A DATABASE

What is a RESTful web service?

REACTIVE ENTERPRISE STATUS TRANSFER IS A WEB SERVICE COMPRISING A SET OF GUIDELINES AND TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS FOR WEB SERVICES THAT MONITOR AND ALERT OF A SET OF MISSION-CRITICAL RESOURCES.

REACTIVE ENTERPRISE STATE TRANSFER IS A WEB SERVICE COMPRISING A SET OF GUIDELINES AND TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS FOR WEB SERVICES THAT HAVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND ARE ASYNC IN NATURE.

REDUNDANT ENUMERATED STATE TRANSFER IS A WEB SERVICE THAT PROVIDES REDUNDANCY IN THE CASE OF FAILURE AND OUTLINES TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS FOR WEB SERVICES THAT HAVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES.

REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE FOR CREATING WEB SERVICES THAT INCLUDES CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE, STATELESSNESS, CACHEABILITY, A LAYERED SYSTEM, AND A UNIFORM INTERFACE.

Modularization of a concern that cuts across multiple classes is known as a(n) _____.?

CROSSCUT

SIDECUT

MULTICLASS

ASPECT

What value does Spring Boot Actuator provide?

IT'S A CLI THAT ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE CONFIGURATION OF A RUNNING SPRING BOOT APPLICATION WITHOUT THE NEED FOR RESTARTING OR DOWNTIME.

IT PROVIDES OUT-OF-THE-BOX FUNCTIONALITY THAT INTEGRATES WITH THIRD-PARTY METRICS PLATFORMS TO AUTOMATICALLY SCALE UP AND DOWN THE NUMBER OF INSTANCES OF THE SPRING BOOT APPLICATION.

IT PROVIDES OUT-OF-THE-BOX FUNCTIONALITY THAT INTEGRATES WITH THIRD-PARTY METRICS PLATFORMS TO AUTOMATICALLY SCALE UP AND DOWN THE NUMBER OF THREADS IN THREADPOOLS.

IT HELPS MONITOR AND MANAGE A SPRING BOOT APPLICATION BY PROVIDING ENDPOINTS SUCH AS HEALTH CHECKS, AUDITING, METRICS GATHERING, AND HTTP TRACING.

How are filters used in Spring Web?

FILTERS ARE USED WITH A CHECKSUM ALGORITHM THAT WILL FILTER INVALID BYTES OUT OF A BYTE STREAM REQUEST BODY AND ALLOW FOR PROCESSING OF HTTP REQUESTS FROM THE DISPATCHERREQUESTSERVLET.

FILTERS ARE USED WITH A CHECKSUM ALGORITHM THAT WILL FILTER INVALID BYTES OUT OF AN OCTET STREAM MULTIPART UPLOAD AND ALLOW FOR CHAINED PROCESSING OF WEBDISPATCHERSERVLET REQUESTS.

FILTERS ARE CALLED BEFORE A REQUEST HITS THE DISPATCHERSERVLET. THEY ALLOW FOR INTERCEPTION-STYLE, CHAINED PROCESSING OF WEB REQUESTS FOR SECURITY, TIMEOUTS, AND OTHER PURPOSES.

FILTERS ARE USED TO VALIDATE REQUEST PARAMETERS OUT OF THE BYTE STREAM REQUEST BODY AND ALLOW FOR PROCESSING OF REQUESTS FROM THE DISPATCHERREQUESTSERVLET.

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

IT ALLOWS A DATABASE TO DEFINE BUSINESS OBJECTS VIA A SHARED SCHEMA AT COMPILE TIME.

IT INSTANTIATES AND CONFIGURES OBJECTS, SUPPLIED AT RUNTIME, TO CLASSES THAT DEFINE THEM AS A DEPENDENCY.

IT ALLOWS THE FRONT-END CODE TO MANAGE THE RESPONSEBODY OBJECTS PROVIDED BY A BACK-END REST API.

IT FACILITATES A REMOTE SERVER TO CONFIGURE A LOCAL APPLICATION.

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

BEANFACTORY

RESOURCELOADER

APPLICATIONEVENTPUBLISHER

SPRINGINITCONTAINER

What is the purpose of a web application context?

IT PROVIDES CONFIGURATION FOR A SPRING APPLICATION THAT IS UPDATABLE ON THE FLY DURING RUNTIME THROUGH BYTECODE WEAVING. ALSO IT ADDS AN UPDATESERVLETCONTEXT() METHOD AND DEFINES A ROOT SERVLET THAT MUST BE BOUND TO IN THE BOOTSTRAP PROCESS.

IT PROVIDES CONFIGURATION FOR A WEB APPLICATION THAT IS READ-ONLY WHILE RUNNING. ALSO, IT ADDS A GETSERVLETCONTEXT() METHOD AND DEFINES AN ATTRIBUTE NAME TO WHICH THE ROOT CONTEXT MUST BE BOUND IN THE BOOTSTRAP PROCESS.

CONFIGURES A WEB APPLICATION THAT IS ABLE TO BE DELETED AND RE-CREATED DURING RUNTIME THROUGH HOT SWAP. IT ADDS A RECREATECONTEXT() METHOD AND DEFINES A ROOT WEBDAEMON THAT MUST BE BOUND TO IN THE BOOTSTRAP PROCESS.

IT CONFIGURES A SPRING APPLICATION THAT IS ABLE TO BE MODIFIED ON THE FLY DURING RUNTIME THROUGH BYTECODE RE-ENCODING. ALSO IT ADDS AN UPDATECONTEXT() METHOD AND DEFINES A ROOT WEBSERVLET THAT MUST BE BOUND TO IN THE BOOTSTRAP PROCESS.

Which of the following is NOT a valid method on the JoinPoint interface?

GETSIGNATURE()

GETEXCEPTIONS()

GETARGS()

GETTARGET()

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

THE CONTEXT IS PRESENT IN A THREADLOCAL SO YOU CAN JUST CALL GETSPRINGAPPLICATIONCONTEXTINSTANCE() ANYWHERE IN A TEST TO GET THE CURRENT CONTEXT.

THE CONTEXT IS AUTOMATICALLY INJECTED IN EVERY TEST SO YOU CAN JUST CALL GETSPRINGAPPLICATIONCONTEXTINSTANCE() ANYWHERE IN A TEST TO GET THE CURRENT CONTEXT.

YOU CAN JUST ADD THE PARAMETER CONTEXT CONTEXT TO ANY METHOD SO THAT THE CONTEXT IS AUTOMATICALLY WIRED IN.

TEST CLASSES CAN IMPLEMENT THE APPLICATIONCONTEXTAWARE INTERFACE OR AUTOWIRE THE APPLICATIONCONTEXT.

What is Spring Boot autoconfiguration?

IT TRIGGERS AN AUTOMATED REVIEW OF CONFIGURATION BY A WEB-BASED AGENT THAT REVIEWS YOUR EXISTING WEB.XML FILE AND DETECTS POSSIBLE SECURITY ISSUES.

IT'S AN OPINIONATED, INTELLIGENT METHOD OF INTROSPECTING AN APP TO CONFIGURE BEANS THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE NEEDED. THIS CONFIGURATION CAN BE OVERRIDDEN OVER TIME WITH MANUAL CONFIGURATION.

IT TRIGGERS A LOCAL AUTOMATED REVIEW OF CONFIGURATION FILES SUCH AS WEB.XML AND DETECTS POSSIBLE SECURITY ISSUES OR AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVES CIRCULAR DEPENDENCIES.

IT PROVIDES PLUG-IN FUNCTIONALITY WHILE EDITING YOUR WEB.XML AND OTHER CONFIG FILES THAT WILL AUTOCOMPLETE COMMON DEPENDENCIES WHILE TYPING.

What is the delegating filter proxy?

IT'S THE SERVLET FILTER CHAIN THAT HANDLES REQUESTS TO THE ROUTE DEFINED IN SPRING.SECURITY.FACTORIES. ALL CALLS TO THE FILTER PROXY ARE FORWARDED TO THE ERRORSERVLET.

IT'S THE SERVLET FILTER PROXY DELEGATING TO A FILTER BEAN SPECIFIED IN WEB.XML. ALL CALLS TO THE FILTER PROXY WILL BE DELEGATED TO THAT SERVLET FILTER BEAN.

IT'S THE SERVLET FILTER CHAIN PROXY THAT HANDLES ALL REQUESTS TO THE ROUTE DEFINED IN SPRING.SECURITY.XML. ALL CALLS TO THE FILTER PROXY ARE FORWARDED TO THE ERRORDISPATCHERSERVLET.

IT'S THE WEB SERVLET DAEMON FILTER PROXY THAT DELEGATES TO A BEAN SPECIFIED IN SPRING.SECURITY.FACTORIES. ALL CALLS TO THE FILTER PROXY THAT DO NOT CONTAIN A PROPER ROUTE WILL RETURN AN ERROR.

What interface is used to represent a permission in Spring Security?

PERMISSIONMATRIX

SECURITYCHAIN

GRANTEDAUTHORITY

ACCESSRULE

The process of linking aspects with other objects to create an advised object is called _____.?

BANDING

DYNAMIC CHAINING

WEAVING

INTERLEAVING

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

IT'S AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT THAT REPRESENTS A TYPED OBJECT, DATA, RELATIONSHIPS, AND A SET OF METHODS THAT OPERATE ON IT THAT IS ACCESSED VIA A URI.

A REST SERVICE HAS A POOL OF RESOURCES COMPOSED OF ALLOCATIONS OF MEMORY THAT ALLOW A REQUEST TO BE PROCESSED.

A RESOURCE FOR A REST SERVICE IS AN EXPLICIT ALLOCATION OF A THREAD OR CPU CYCLES TO ALLOW A REQUEST TO BE PROCESSED.

A RESOURCE IS THE ACTUAL STRING LITERAL THAT COMPOSES A URI THAT IS ACCESSED ON A RESTFUL WEB SERVICE.

What annotation can be used to force one bean to be initialized before another?

@BEFORE

@REQUIRES

@MANDATORY

@DEPENDSON

How is a Spring bean uniquely identified?

A UNIQUE STRING NAME

AN AUTOGENERATED UUID

AN ID DERIVED FROM ITS LOCATION IN MEMORY

AN AUTO-INCREMENTED INTEGER ID

Assuming username and password authentication is in place, what method on the Authentication object can be used to obtain the username?

GETUSER

GETDN

GETPRINCIPAL

GETUSERNAME

Which are valid steps to take to enable JPA in Spring Boot?

ADD AN @INITJPAENTITIES ANNOTATION TO YOUR CONFIGURATION CLASS, CREATE A SPRING DATA PROPERTIES CONFIGURATION FILE, AND MANUALLY UPDATE THE SPRING STARTUP PARAMETERS TO DEFINE YOUR REPOSITORY LOCATIONS.

ADD AN @ENABLEJPAREPOSITORIES ANNOTATION TO YOUR CONFIGURATION CLASS AND CREATE A SPRING DATA REPOSITORY.

ADD AN @ENABLEDBFUNCTIONALITY ANNOTATION TO YOUR CONFIGURATION CLASS, CREATE A SPRING DATA XML CONFIGURATION FILE, AND MANUALLY UPDATE THE SPRING FACTORIES FILE TO DEFINE YOUR REPOSITORIES.

ADD AN @ENABLEJPAENTITIES ANNOTATION TO YOUR CONFIGURATION CLASS, CREATE A SPRING DATA YAML CONFIGURATION FILE, AND MANUALLY UPDATE THE SPRING XML CONFIG FILES TO DEFINE YOUR REPOSITORY LOCATIONS.

How are mocking frameworks such as Mockito used with Spring?

MOCKITO WILL SPIN UP A MOCK WEB SERVICE HOSTED IN A DOCKER CONTAINER THAT CAN RESPOND TO RPC CALLS TO MOCK OUT REMOTE RESOURCES.

MOCKITO WILL SPIN UP A MOCK WEB SERVICE HOSTED IN A DOCKER CONTAINER THAT CAN RESPOND TO HTTP REQUESTS TO MOCK OUT THIRD-PARTY APIS.

MOCKITO CAN USE ANNOTATIONS OR FACTORY METHODS TO CREATE MOCK OBJECTS THAT MAY BE INJECTED INTO TESTS IN PLACE OF DEPENDENCIES. THE BEHAVIOR OF MOCKS CAN BE EXPLICITLY CONFIGURED.

MOCKITO WILL CREATE MOCK USERS TO REPEATEDLY PERFORM REQUESTS AGAINST YOUR SPRING APPLICATION TO TEST YOUR APP’S ABILITY TO TAKE LOAD.

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