Input & Output Basics - Java Questions & Answers

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1. What does AWT stands for?
a) All Window Tools
b) All Writing Tools
c) Abstract Window Toolkit
d) Abstract Writing Toolkit
View Answer

Answer: c
Explanation: AWT stands for Abstract Window Toolkit, it is used by applets to interact with the user.

2. Which of these is used to perform all input & output operations in Java?
a) streams
b) Variables
c) classes
d) Methods
View Answer

Answer: a
Explanation: Like in any other language, streams are used for input and output operations.

3. Which of these is a type of stream in Java?
a) Integer stream
b) Short stream
c) Byte stream
d) Long stream
View Answer

Answer: c
Explanation: Java defines only two types of streams – Byte stream and character stream.

4. Which of these classes are used by Byte streams for input operation?
a) InputStream
b) InputOutputStream
c) Reader
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer

Answer: a
Explanation: Byte stream uses InputStream and OutputStream classes for input and output operation.

5. Which of these classes are used by character streams for output operations?
a) InputStream
b) Writer
c) ReadStream
d) InputOutputStream
View Answer

Answer: b
Explanation: Character streams uses Writer and Reader classes for input & output operations.

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6. Which of these class is used to read from byte array?
a) InputStream
b) BufferedInputStream
c) ArrayInputStream
d) ByteArrayInputStream
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Answer: d
Explanation: ByteArrayInputStream: This class is designed to allow reading byte streams from a byte array. It provides methods to read bytes from the array, such as read() which reads the next byte of the ByteArrayInputStream.

7. What will be the output of the following Java program if input given is ‘abcqfghqbcd’?

```
    import java.io.*;
```
```
    class Input_Output
```
```
    {
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        public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException

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        {	
```
```
            char c;
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            BufferedReader obj = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

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            do
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```
            {
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```
                c = (char) obj.read();
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	        System.out.print(c);
```
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            } while(c != 'q');
```
```
        }
```
```
    }
```

a) abcqfgh
b) abc
c) abcq
d) abcqfghq
View Answer

Answer: c
Explanation: The do-while loop in the program only prints the output from the stream from the beginning to the q character including q.
Output:

$ javac Input_Output.java
$ java Input_Output
abcq

8. What will be the output of the following Java program if input given is “abc’def/’egh”?

```
import java.io.*;   
```
```
class Input_Output
```
```
{
```

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException

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    {	
```
```
        char c;
```

        BufferedReader obj = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

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        do
```
```
        {
```
```
            c = (char) obj.read();
```
```
            System.out.print(c);
```
```
        } while(c!='/');
```
```
    }
```
```
}
```

a) abc’
b) abcdef/’
c) abc’def/’egh
d) abc?def/
View Answer

Answer: a
Explanation: Since / is used to terminate the loop to print the character from stream. And the ‘ use in the statement without \ it will not be recognized without an escape sequence.
Output:

$ javac Input_Output.java
$ java Input_Output
abc'

9. What will be the output of the following Java program?

```
    class output
```
```
    {
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        public static void main(String args[])

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        { 
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             StringBuffer c = new StringBuffer("Hello");

             System.out.println(c.length());

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        }
```
```
    }
```

a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
View Answer

Answer: b
Explanation: length() method is used to obtain length of StringBuffer object, length of “Hello” is 5.
Output:

$ javac output.java
$ java output
5

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