Question 1

Consider that all Spring beans have been declared within a package called "com.springsource.service". To enable component scanning one must do the following:

Accepted Answer

A) Nothing (component scanning is enabled by default) B) Add to your XML configuration C) Add to your XML configuration D) Remove all other bean definitions from the XML configuration

Question 2

To register for a bean destruction callback, one can (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A) Decorate the destroy method with @PreDestroy B) Decorate the destroy method with @PreDestroy and add a xml declaration C) Set the bean instance in a "prototype" scope D) Set the lazy-init attribute within the tag

Question 3

Which statement is NOT true concerning Spring's RMI Proxy Generator (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  Spring provides a FactoryBean implementation that generates the RMI client-side proxy 
B)  The client-side proxy converts checked RemoteExceptions into Spring's runtime hierarchy of RemoteAccessExceptions 
C)  The proxy does not have to dynamically implement the interface of the remote service implementation 
D)  The client-side proxy contains all necessary information to connect to the remote service, such as the RMI Registry URL

Question 4

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Spring Remoting? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  Spring exporters handle the binding to a registry or exposing an endpoint 
B)  Spring provides FactoryBeans that generate proxies to handle client-side requirements 
C)  The client-side implementation must catch RemoteExceptions 
D)  Spring proxies convert RemoteExceptions to a runtime exception hierarchy

Question 5

In what order will these events occur during the initialization of the application? (Select one) Select the best response 1 Setter Dependency Injection 2 Bean constructor 3 call BeanFactoryPostProcessors 4 call BeanPostProcessors

Accepted Answer

A)  3, 2, 1, 4 
B)  4, 2, 1, 3 
C)  2, 1, 4, 3 
D)  3, 1, 2, 4

Question 6

Which of the following statements about the FactoryBean interface is NOT true? (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  A FactoryBean can be used to generate Spring beans of any type 
B)  The Spring configuration <property name="someValue" ref="myFactoryBeanImpl"/> will ALWAYS inject the instance of the FactoryBean implementation 
C)  FactoryBean is a Spring interface 
D)  Factory objects used in Spring do not necessarily have to implement the FactoryBean interface

Question 7

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the BeanPostProcessor Extension point? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  BeanPostProcessors are called during the init phase 
B)  BeanPostProcessors are called after the dependencies have been injected 
C)  BeanPostProcessors are called before the BeanFactoryPostProcessors have been called 
D)  Custom BeanPostProcessors can be implemented

Question 8

Which of the following statements about use of the @Transactional annotation in a JUnit integration test is NOT true? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  Annotating a test with @Transactional will cause the test method to run in a transaction 
B)  Annotating a test class with @Transactional will cause all its test methods to run in transactions 
C)  Application code that runs in a transaction with REQUIRES_NEW propagation can have those changes rolled back by an @Transactional test

Question 9

Which of the following statements is NOT a characteristic of Spring Transaction Management? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  It abstracts the differences between local and JTA transactions 
B)  It simplifies migration to distributed transactions 
C)  The use of JTA transactions is a requirement 
D)  Both declarative and programmatic transaction management is supported

Question 10

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types and exception handling?  (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  If a Before advice method throws an exception, the target method will not be called 
B)  An Around advice type can swallow, or halt the propagation of, an exception thrown by the target method. 
C)  An AfterReturning advice type can swallow, or halt the propagation of, an exception thrown by the target method.

Question 11

@Configuration public class AppConfig {     @Bean     public ClientService clientService()
{         ClientServiceImpl clientService = new ClientServiceImpl();         
ClientService.addClientDao(new ClientDao());         
Return clientService;     }
In the example above, which statement is NOT true with regards to Spring Java configuration? (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  The declared bean is a singleton by default 
B)  This bean might be wrapped by a proxy 
C)  This bean cannot use a method starting with "add" to inject a dependency 
D)  The bean is of type ClientService

Question 12

What is true regarding bean definition inheritance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Parent bean definitions should always be abstract 
B)  Parent bean definitions may be abstract 
C)  The class attribute can be declared in a parent bean definition 
D)  It is not useful to declare an id for a parent bean definition

Question 13

Identify the correct statement about the following pointcut expression: execution(@javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed * rewards.restaurant.*.*(..)) (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  The return type of the target method is RolesAllowed 
B)  All method parameters should be annotated with @RolesAllowed 
C)  The target method may have one argument 
D)  All of the above

Question 14

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  The Before advice method is able to obtain information about the target method's return type 
B)  The After advice method is able to obtain information about the target method's return type 
C)  The Before advice method is able to obtain the target method's return value 
D)  The After advice method is able to obtain the target method's return value

Question 15

Consider the following bean definition <bean id="clientService" class="com.springsource.service.ClientServiceImpl" /> Using Spring AOP, you have declared a Pointcut targeting all methods inside the clientService bean. ClientServiceImpl implements 3 different interfaces. Which interfaces will the proxy class implement? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  All interfaces 
B)  The proxy class does not implement any interface 
C)  A Spring bean should never implement any interface

Question 16

Which of the following statements about Pointcut expressions is true? (Select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  A Pointcut can be defined either within annotations in Java code or within XML configuration 
B)  A pointcut expression can include operators such as the following: && (and),|| (or), ! (not) 
C)  A Pointcut expression can be used to select join points which have been annotated with a specific annotation 
D)  All of the above is true

Question 17

Which of the following statements about the @Autowired annotation is NOT true? (select one)

Accepted Answer

A)  The default behavior is that if a dependency cannot be satisfied with @Autowired, the ApplicationContext will throw a RuntimeException 
B)  @Autowired is a Spring-specific annotation 
C)  Multiple arguments can be injected into a single method using @Autowired 
D)  It cannot be used to annotate fields, only constructors and methods

Exam 1: Core-Spring (based on Spring 3.2)

Consider that all Spring beans have been declared within a package called "com.springsource.service". To enable component scanning one must do the following:

To register for a bean destruction callback, one can (Select one)

Which statement is NOT true concerning Spring's RMI Proxy Generator (select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Spring Remoting? (Select one)

In what order will these events occur during the initialization of the application? (Select one) Select the best response 1 Setter Dependency Injection 2 Bean constructor 3 call BeanFactoryPostProcessors 4 call BeanPostProcessors

Which of the following statements about the FactoryBean interface is NOT true? (select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the BeanPostProcessor Extension point? (Select one)

Which of the following statements about use of the @Transactional annotation in a JUnit integration test is NOT true? (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT a characteristic of Spring Transaction Management? (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types and exception handling? (select one)

What is true regarding bean definition inheritance?

Identify the correct statement about the following pointcut expression: execution(@javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed * rewards.restaurant..(..) ) (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types (select one)

Which of the following statements about Pointcut expressions is true? (Select one)

Which of the following statements about the @Autowired annotation is NOT true? (select one)

Exam 1: Core-Spring (based on Spring 3.2)

Consider that all Spring beans have been declared within a package called "com.springsource.service". To enable component scanning one must do the following:

To register for a bean destruction callback, one can (Select one)

Which statement is NOT true concerning Spring's RMI Proxy Generator (select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Spring Remoting? (Select one)

In what order will these events occur during the initialization of the application? (Select one) Select the best response 1 Setter Dependency Injection 2 Bean constructor 3 call BeanFactoryPostProcessors 4 call BeanPostProcessors

Which of the following statements about the FactoryBean interface is NOT true? (select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the BeanPostProcessor Extension point? (Select one)

Which of the following statements about use of the @Transactional annotation in a JUnit integration test is NOT true? (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT a characteristic of Spring Transaction Management? (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types and exception handling? (select one)

What is true regarding bean definition inheritance?

Identify the correct statement about the following pointcut expression: execution(@javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed * rewards.restaurant.*.*(..) ) (Select one)

Which of the following statements is NOT true about advice types (select one)

Which of the following statements about Pointcut expressions is true? (Select one)

Which of the following statements about the @Autowired annotation is NOT true? (select one)

Identify the correct statement about the following pointcut expression: execution(@javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed * rewards.restaurant..(..) ) (Select one)