StringBuilder

Direct Questions

1. What is the primary advantage of using StringBuilder over String?

◦ A) It is immutable

◦ B) It consumes more memory

◦ C) It allows mutable strings

◦ D) It is slower than String

◦ Answer: C

2. Which method is used to append a string in StringBuilder?

◦ A) add()

◦ B) append()

◦ C) join()

◦ D) include()

◦ Answer: B

3. How can you reverse the contents of a StringBuilder?

◦ A) inverse()

◦ B) backward()

◦ C) reverse()

◦ D) ip()

◦ Answer: C

4. Which method returns the length of a StringBuilder?

◦ A) size()

◦ B) length()

◦ C) getLength()

◦ D) count()

◦ Answer: B

5. StringBuilder belongs to which package?

◦ B) java.io

◦ C) java.lang

◦ D) java.string

◦ Answer: C

Scenario-Based Questions

6. You are building a report by concatenating multiple strings inside a loop. Which class
provides better performance?

◦ A) String

◦ B) StringBuilder

◦ C) StringBuffer

◦ D) Arrays

◦ Answer: B

7. After appending values "Hello" and "World" using StringBuilder, what will be the
result?
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

8. sb.append("Hello");
9. sb.append("World");
10. System.out.println(sb);
◦ A) Hello World

◦ B) HelloWorld

◦ C) WorldHello

◦ D) Error

◦ Answer: B

11. How do you insert a string "Java" at index 4 in a StringBuilder object initialized with
"HelloWorld"?

◦ A) insert(4, "Java")

◦ B) add(4, "Java")

◦ C) put(4, "Java")

◦ D) append(4, "Java")

◦ Answer: A
 12. Which method deletes characters from index 2 to 5 in a StringBuilder?

◦ A) delete(2, 5)

◦ B) remove(2, 5)

◦ C) erase(2, 5)

◦ D) clear(2, 5)

◦ Answer: A

13. You want to replace a portion of a string using StringBuilder. Which method should
you use?

• A) setValue()

• B) replace()

• C) change()

• D) modify()

• Answer: B

String API

Direct Questions

1. Which method is used to get the character at a speci c index?

◦ A) charAt()

◦ B) getChar()

◦ C) indexOf()

◦ D) subString()

◦ Answer: A

2. What does the equals() method do in String class?

◦ A) Compares references

◦ B) Compares content

◦ C) Checks length

◦ D) Returns ASCII values

◦ Answer: B
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 3. Which method converts a string to lower case?

◦ A) toLowerCase()

◦ B) lower()

◦ C) downCase()

◦ D) changeCase()

◦ Answer: A

4. How do you split a string into an array?

◦ A) divide()

◦ B) separate()

◦ C) split()

◦ D) tokenize()

◦ Answer: C

5. What is the output of "Java".substring(1,3)?

◦ A) Ja

◦ B) av

◦ C) va

◦ D) Error

◦ Answer: B

Scenario-Based Questions

6. You want to nd the index of the word "world" in the string "Hello world". Which method
will you use?

◦ A) contains()

◦ B) nd()

◦ C) indexOf("world")

◦ D) substring()

◦ Answer: C

7. How would you compare two strings ignoring their case?

◦ A) equals()
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 ◦ B) compareTo()

◦ C) equalsIgnoreCase()

◦ D) match()

◦ Answer: C

8. You have a string with leading and trailing spaces. Which method removes them?

◦ A) strip()

◦ B) trim()

◦ C) clear()

◦ D) removeSpaces()

◦ Answer: B

9. What is the result of "Hello".concat("World")?

◦ A) Hello World

◦ B) HelloWorld

◦ C) WorldHello

◦ D) Error

◦ Answer: B

10. You want to convert "123" into an integer. Which class/method is used?
• A) String.toInt()

• B) Integer.parseInt("123")

• C) parse("123")

• D) stringToInt("123")

• Answer: B

Date, Time, and Numeric Objects

Direct Questions

1. Which class is used to get current date and time in Java 8?

◦ A) DateTime

◦ B) LocalDateTime
 ◦ C) Calendar

◦ D) Clock

◦ Answer: B

2. What method returns the current system date?

◦ A) now()

◦ B) today()

◦ C) currentDate()

◦ D) getDate()

◦ Answer: A

3. Which package contains the modern date and time API?

◦ A) java.util

◦ B) java.sql

◦ C) java.time

◦ D) java.date

◦ Answer: C

4. Which class is used for formatting dates?

◦ A) DateFormatter

◦ B) SimpleDateFormat

◦ C) DateParser

◦ D) DateFormat

◦ Answer: B

5. How do you represent a speci c date in Java?

◦ A) new Date("2023-12-01")

◦ B) LocalDate.of(2023, 12, 1)

◦ C) createDate(2023, 12, 1)

◦ D) new LocalDate(2023, 12, 1)

◦ Answer: B

Scenario-Based Questions
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6. You want to calculate the number of days between two dates. Which class helps?

◦ A) ChronoUnit

◦ B) Duration

◦ C) Period

◦ D) Both A and C

◦ Answer: D

7. To represent time without date, which class should be used?

◦ A) Date

◦ B) LocalDate

◦ C) LocalTime

◦ D) Calendar

◦ Answer: C

8. What is the output of LocalTime.now().getHour()?

◦ A) Current hour in 24-hour format

◦ B) Hour in 12-hour format

◦ C) Minutes only

◦ D) Seconds only

◦ Answer: A

9. You want to parse a date string "2025-07-26". Which class is suitable?

◦ A) LocalDate.parse("2025-07-26")

◦ B) Date.valueOf("2025-07-26")

◦ C) DateTimeFormatter.parse("2025-07-26")

◦ D) Date.parse("2025-07-26")

◦ Answer: A

10. How do you get the current year?

• B) Date.getYear()

• C) Calendar.getYear()
• D) now().year()

• Answer: A