General Java 8 Features

• What is Java 8?

• What are the main features introduced in Java 8?

• Why was a new version of Java needed in the first place?

• What advantages does Java 8 bring?

• How does Java 8 handle backward compatibility?

Functional Programming Fundamentals

• What is a Lambda Expression, and why use it?

• What are the advantages of Lambda Expressions?

• What are the disadvantages of Lambda Expressions?

• What variables do lambda expressions have access to?

• What is a Functional Interface?

• How are functional interfaces and Lambda Expressions related?

• Tell a few functional interfaces which were already available before Java 8.

• What are all functional interfaces introduced in Java 8?

• What is method reference in Java 8?

• How does Java 8 help support functional programming?

• Can you declare an interface method static?

• How to call a default interface method in a class that implements this interface?

Stream API

• What is Stream API in Java 8?

• What is a Stream in Java 8?

• What is the purpose of Stream API?

• Describe the importance of the Stream API.

• Tell a few stream methods you used in your project.

• What is Stream Pipelining?

• Why do streams use forEach() and forEachOrdered() methods?

• What are sorting operations available in Java 8 streams?

• What are the selection operations available in the Java 8 Stream API?

• What are reducing operations? Name some of the reducing operations available in the Java 8
streams.
 • What is the role of reduce in Streams?

Optional Class

• What is the Optional Class in Java 8?

• How does the Optional class help in handling null values in Java 8?

• Provide some Optional methods in Java 8.

• What is Optional equals() method in Java?

• What are some best practices for using Optional effectively? When should Optional be used,
and when should it be avoided?

Date and Time API (java.time)

• What is Date-Time API in Java 8?

• How does the new Date and Time API work?

• What are the key advantages of using the new Date and Time API over the older Date and
Calendar classes?

• List some Java 8 Date and Time APIs.

Concurrency and Advanced Topics

• What is CompletableFuture?

• What are the advantages of using CompletableFuture in Java 8?

• How do you ensure thread safety when working with Java 8 features such as streams and
CompletableFuture?

• How do you create and run a parallel stream in Java 8?

• How do you use parallel streams in Java 8 to improve performance for large datasets? What
are the risks associated with parallel streams?

• What is Nashorn, and what advantages does it provide?

• What is Metaspace in Java 8?

• What is a Spliterator?

Comparison and Differentiation

• Differentiate between Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Classes.

• What is the difference between Collection and Stream API?

• When to use map and flatMap?

• What is the difference between map() and peek() in the Stream API?

• Differentiate between Comparable and Comparator in Java.

• What is the difference between Function and BiFunction?

• What are the differences between Java 7 and Java 8?

Scenario-Based and Coding Challenges

• How would you process a list of transactions to filter and summarize data using Java
Streams?

• How would you refactor a piece of code to use lambda expressions and functional
interfaces?

• How would you use the new Date and Time API in Java 8 to calculate the difference between
two dates?

• How to iterate and modify values in a Map using Java 8?

• How to print keys & values of a Map using Java 8?

• How many ways are there to print keys & values of a Map?

• How to convert String to Date Object using Java 8?

• How many ways are there to initialize a Set?

• How to retrieve values from Set using Java 8?

• How to iterate a Map containing a List of String in Java 8?

• How to count occurrences of each character of a String in Java 8?

• How to find next/previous (tomorrow/yesterday) date using Java 8?

• How to remove all duplicates from an array of integers in Java using Java 8?

• How to count the number of occurrences of a given word in a list of strings using Java 8?

• How to filter an array of strings by a given prefix using Java 8 Stream?

• Write a Java program using Stream to create a map from a list of strings where the key is the
string and the value is its length?

• How to filter and collect a list of strings that start with a specific letter using Java 8 Stream?

• How to sort a list of strings by length using Lambda expressions?

• How to find the maximum value in a list of integers using Stream & Method Reference?

• Separate odd and even numbers in a list of integers.

• Remove duplicate elements from a list using Java 8 streams.

• Find the frequency of each character in a string using Java 8 streams.

• Find the frequency of each element in an array or a list.

• Sort a given list of decimals in reverse order.

• Join a list of strings with '[' as prefix, ']' as suffix, and ',' as delimiter.
• Print the numbers from a given list of integers that are multiples of 5.

• Find the maximum and minimum of a list of integers.

• Merge two unsorted arrays into a single sorted array using Java 8 streams.

• Merge two unsorted arrays into a single sorted array without duplicates.

• Get the three maximum and three minimum numbers from a given list of integers.

• Check if two strings are anagrams or not using Java 8 streams.

• Find the sum of all digits of a number in Java 8.

• Find the second largest number in an integer array.

• Sort a list of strings according to the increasing order of their length.

• Find the sum and average of all elements in an integer array.

• Find the common elements between two arrays.

• Reverse each word of a string using Java 8 streams.

• Find the sum of the first 10 natural numbers.

• Reverse an integer array.

• Print the first 10 even numbers.

• Find the most repeated element in an array.

• Check if a string is a palindrome using Java 8 streams.

• Find strings in a list that start with a number.

• Extract duplicate elements from an array.

• Print duplicate characters in a string.

• Find the first repeated character in a string.

• Find the first non-repeated character in a string.

• Generate the Fibonacci series.

• Print the first 10 odd numbers.

• Get the last element of an array.

• Calculate the age of a person in years.

• How do you print ten random numbers using forEach?

• How do you get the highest number that exists on a list?

• How do you get the second Friday of next month?

• Java 8 introduced several new methods like forEach(), removeIf(), and replaceAll() in the
Collection interface. Can you give examples of how you used them?