Interview Questions

•  NO_CACHE – It is used for not caching values.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE – Result column preloads and compares the column into the memory, prior to executing the lookup.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE is used when the table can exactly fit in the memory space.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE – Result column loads and compares the column into the memory when a function performs the execution.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE is suitable while looking up the highly repetitive values with small subset of data.

Look for the existence of the following items:

- Generic Data Models

- An Enterprise Data Platform

- Identify the Data Sources

- Selection of a MDM Product

- Implementation of a Customer Master Index or appropriate alternative

The main difference lies in the motive of the two parties. The main motive of the hedger is to hedge(minimize) the risk from the occurence of some events. 

The motive of the speculator is to gamble in the market in order to make the profit by buying/selling the derivative products.

Logistics management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer's requirements.

Managerial Accounting is also called as Management accounting or Cost accounting. It is the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information to managers of an organization. Then that managers use the provisions of accounting information in order to better inform themselves before they decide matters within their organizations, which aids their management and performance of control functions.

AlertDialog : An alert dialog box supports 0 to 3 buttons and a list of selectable elements, including check boxes and radio buttons. Among the other dialog boxes, the most suggested dialog box is the alert dialog box.

ProgressDialog: This dialog box displays a progress wheel or a progress bar. It is an extension of AlertDialog and supports adding buttons.

DatePickerDialog: This dialog box is used for selecting a date by the user.

TimePickerDialog: This dialog box is used for selecting time by the user.

An Android Intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service.The intent itself, an Intent object, is a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an operation to be performed.
Android provides many ways of storing data of an application. One of this way is called Shared Preferences. Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair.

In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.