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COMPANY NAME :
NOVARTIS
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DATE OF TEST : 7
Feb 2004,
Saturday
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PLACE OF TEST:
Leela Palace,
Airport Road,
Bangalore
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MODE :
Off-Campus
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DURATION :
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CATEGORY : JAVA
- J2EE (3+ years
experienced
category)
About Company:
NOVARTIS is a
Swiss based MNC
and world number
one in
Pharmaceutical.
It has a very
good brand name.
It's having
around 80,000
employees. It's
entering IT
insustry now to
handle the large
number of their
in-house
projects. As of
now, the only
development
center in India
is in Mumbai.
The interviews
are held for
more than 3
years experience
in JAVA, J2EE.
There are 3
rounds :
1. Technical
Test (25
questions in 45
minutes time)
2. Group
Discussion (30
minutes)
3. Technical &
HR interview (30
minutes to 90
minutes)
I wrote here all
the questions I
remember. I
think I almost
covered most of
them.
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Technical Test
______________________
All are multiple
choice
questions.
1) Question on
Static Methods,
whether they can
be overloaded or
not
2) A java
program on
nested (inner)
loops and it is
asked what is
the output of
the program.
3) Once a
Servlet is
initialized, how
do you get the
initialization
parameters ?
(a)
Initialization
parameters will
not be stored
(b) They will be
stored in
instance
variables
(c) using
config.getInitParameters()
ANS: I think
answer is (c)
4) A question on
functionality of
<forward> tag in
JSP
5) If the
cookies are
disabled, how
can you maintain
the Session.
ANS: URL
rewriting
6) If there are
strict timelines
and if you want
to get high
performance for
JSP to DB
access, what
method you
suggest ?
(a) Moving
application
server in to
same manchine as
Database
(b) By storing
results in Cache
(c) By
implementing
Connection
Pooling
ANS: I think
answer is (c)
7) A question on
MVC architecture
and the
functionality of
Controller and
View.
8) Question on
Design Pattern.
(I don't
remember it)
9) Which Design
Pattern hides
the complexities
of all
sub-systems ?
(I don't
remember the
options and also
don't know
answer.)
10) In CMP bean,
which method
executes only
once in life
time
(a)
setEntityContext()
(b) create()
(c) remove()
(d) find()
ANS: I think
answer is (b)
11) Which bean
can be called as
Multi-Threaded
bean ?
(a) Entity beans
(b) Stateless
Session beans
(c) Stateful
Session beans
(d) Pooled
Stateless
Session beans
ANS: I think
answer is (d)
12) A question
on Threads in
Java, whether we
need to mention
the word
"Daemon"
explicitly to
make a thread as
Daemon.
13) A question
on Transactions
of EJB. I think
the question is
something
similar to -
"Which is faster
?"
(a)
TRANSACTION_UNREPEATABLE_READ
(b)
TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
(c)
TRANSACTION_COMMIT_READ
(d)
TRANSACTION_UNCOMMIT_READ
(I don't know
answer and also
I am not sure of
options. but the
options are
something
similar to
this.)
14) Question on
EJB Home Object,
Remote Object
and what
functionalities
will be
performed by
each.
15) What is the
difference
between Server
and Container
(a) A Container
can have
multiple Servers
(b) A Server can
have multiple
Containers
(c) A Server can
have only one
Container
ANS: I think
answer is (b)
16) ejbStore()
method is
equivalent to
(a) SELECT
(b) INSERT
(c) UPDATE
(d) DELETE
ANS: I think
answer is (c)
17) A question
on where the
garbage
collection is
done. I think
the answer is :
"finalize()"
method
18) A question
properties of
Primary key in
Entity Beans (I
don't remember
the options
exactly.)
(a) Primary key
consists of only
basic data types
in java
(b) Primary key
can contain
composite data
types
Remarks on
Technical Test :
It's a bit
difficult and
lot of questions
are on EJBs,
JSPs and Design
Patterns.
Group Discussion
Topics:
1. Development
of India
2. Qualities to
become a
successful
manager
__________________________
Technical & HR
Interview
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1) Tell about
yourself ?
2) Explain your
projects and
what design
patterns they
follow !
3) Questions on
Project
management, Team
management,
Defect
prevention,
Quality
procedures
(These,
questions are in
detail and on
each aspect.
This went on for
around 1 hour.)
4) Tell
something about
your current
company
5) Reasons for
leaving current
company.
6) Current
salary &
Expected salary
!
6) Any Questions
?
Remarks on
Technical & HR
Interview : Be
prepared well
for projects you
did and the
Design Patterns
in J2EE. Also
the Quality
procedures. |
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