Top 20 real time spring boot interview questions
2 min readApr 29, 2024
I’ve compiled the top 20 real interview questions for Spring Boot. These questions cover key concepts and scenarios frequently encountered in interviews. Whether you’re preparing for your next interview or looking to deepen your understanding of Spring Boot, these questions offer valuable insights into what to expect
- How would you handle inter-service communication in a micro service architecture using spring boot
- How would you implement caching in spring boot ?
- If your spring boot application is experiencing performance issues at high load. What are the steps you would take to identify and address the issue?
- Have you implemented REST Apis versioning? What was the need and how did you implement ? what are the possible ways to implement versioning in spring boot application
- What are conditional annotations ? Have you used any such annotations?
- What is the use of @EnableAutoConfiguartion annotation in spring boot. How does spring boot achieve auto configuration
- If we do not want a dependency to be auto-configured by AutoConfiguration, what steps do we need to take?
- How do you monitor your spring boot application in production. Which dependency you use ?
- How would you handle multiple beans of same type?
- How spring profiles work in spring boot application ? How many profiles you have in your project?
- How does spring boot decide which server to use ? How to change server if required?
- Suppose I want to List out all the beans used in spring boot application? How to get the list?
- How does Spring Boot handle externalized configuration? What are the ways ?
- Can you differentiate between spring Authentication and Authorization in spring security ? If the requirement is to allow certain Apis to few people, how will you achieve that ?
- How do you secure your Rest Apis ? What are the ways to secure Apis ?
- Which all starter dependencies you have used in application? Have you created your own starter dependency ?
- What is rate limiter ? Have you used one?
- What are interceptors and How are you using it in your spring boot application
- Explain life cycle of interceptors (different phases involved)
- What does spring boot application do internally
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