linkedin-skill-assessments-quizzes

Kotlin

Q1. You would like to print each score on its own line with its cardinal position. Without using var or val, which method allows iteration with both the value and its position?

fun main() {
  val highScores = listOf(4000, 2000, 10200, 12000, 9030)
}

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Q2. When the Airplane class is instantiated, it displays Aircraft = null, not Aircraft = C130 why?

abstract class Aircraft {
  init { println("Aircraft = ${getName()}") }
  abstract fun getName(): String
}
class Airplane(private val name: String) : Aircraft() {
  override fun getName(): String = name
}

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Q3. Kotlin interfaces and abstract classes are very similar. What is one thing abstract class can do that interfaces cannot?

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Q4. Inside an extension function, what is the name of the variable that corresponds to the receiver object

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Q5. Your application has an add function. How could you use its invoke methods and display the results?

fun add(a: Int, b: Int): Int {
  return a + b
}

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Q6. What is the entry point for a Kotlin application?

Q7. You are writing a console app in Kotlin that processes tests entered by the user. If the user enters an empty string, the program exits. Which kind of loop would work best for this app? Keep in mind that the loop is entered at least once

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Q8. You pass an integer to a function expecting type Any. It works without issue. Why is a primitive integer able to work with a function that expects an object?

fun showHashCode(obj: Any){
  println("${obj.hashCode()}")
}
fun main() {
  showHashCode(1)
}

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Q9. You have started a long-running coroutine whose job you have assigned to a variable named task. If the need arose, how could you abort the coroutine?

val task = launch {
  // long running job
}

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Q10. You are attempting to assign an integer variable to a long variable, but the Kotlin compiler flags it as an error. Why?

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Q11. You have written a snippet of code to display the results of the roll of a six-sided die. When the die displays from 3 to 6 inclusive, you want to display a special message. Using a Kotlin range, what code should you add?

when (die) {
  1 -> println("die is 1")
  2 -> println("die is 2")
  ___ -> println("die is between 3 and 6")
  else -> println("die is unknown")
}

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Q12. The function typeChecker receives a parameter obj of type Any. Based upon the type of obj, it prints different messages for Int, String, Double, and Float types; if not any of the mentioned types, it prints “unknown type”. What operator allows you to determine the type of an object?

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Q13. This code does not print any output to the console. What is wrong?

firstName?.let {
  println("Greeting $firstname!")
}

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Q14. You have a function simple() that is called frequently in your code. You place the inline prefix on the function. What effect does it have on the code?

inline fun simple(x: Int): Int{
  return x * x
}

fun main() {
  for(count in 1..1000) {
    simple(count)
  }
}

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Q15. How do you fill in the blank below to display all of the even numbers from 1 to 10 with least amount of code?

for (_____) {
  println("There are $count butterflies.")
}

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Q16. What value is printed by println()?

val set = setOf("apple", "pear", "orange", "apple")
println(set.count())

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Q17. Which line of code shows how to display a nullable string’s length and shows 0 instead of null?

Q18. In the file main.kt, you are filtering a list of integers and want to use an already existing function, removeBadValues. What is the proper way to invoke the function from filter in the line below?

val list2 = (80..100).toList().filter(_____)

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Q19. Which code snippet correctly shows a for loop using a range to display “1 2 3 4 5 6”?

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Q20. You are upgrading a Java class to Kotlin. What should you use to replace the Java class’s static fields?

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Q21. Your code need to try casting an object. If the cast is not possible, you do not want an exception generated, instead you want null to be assigned. Which operator can safely cast a value?

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Q22. Kotlin will not compile this code snippet. What is wrong?

class Employee
class Manager : Employee()

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Q23. Which function changes the value of the element at the current iterator location?

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Q24. From the Supervisor subclass, how do you call the Employee class’s display() method?

open class Employee(){
  open fun display() = println("Employee display()")
}
class Supervisor : Employee() {
  override fun display() {
    println("Supervisor display()")
  }
}

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Q25. The code below was compiled and executed without issue before the addition of the line declaring errorStatus. Why does this line break the code?

sealed class Status(){
  object Error : Status()
  class Success : Status()
}
fun main(){
  var successStatus = Status.Success()
  var errorStatus = Status.Error()
}

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Q26. The code below is expected to display the numbers from 1 to 10, but it does not. Why?

val seq = sequence { yieldAll(1..20) }
  .filter { it < 11 }
  println(seq)

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Q27. What three methods does this class have?

class Person

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Q28. Which is the proper way to declare a singleton named DatabaseManager?

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Q29. In order to subclass the Person class, what is one thing you must do?

abstract class Person(val name: String) {
  abstract fun displayJob(description: String)
}

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Q30. The code snippet below translates a database user to a model user. Because their names are both User, you must use their fully qualified names, which is cumbersome. You do not have access to either of the imported classes’ source code. How can you shorten the type names?

import com.tekadept.app.model.User
import com.tekadept.app.database.User

class UserService{
  fun translateUser(user: com.tekadept.app.database.User): User =
    com.tekadept.app.model.User("${user.first} ${user.last}")
}

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Q31. Your function is passed by a parameter obj of type Any. Which code snippet shows a way to retrieve the original type of obj, including package information?

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Q32. Which is the correct declaration of an integer array with a size of 5?

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Q33. You have created a class that should be visible only to the other code in its module. Which modifier do you use?

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Q34. Kotlin has two equality operators, == and ===. What is the difference?

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Q35. Which snippet correctly shows setting the variable max to whichever variable holds the greatest value, a or b, using idiomatic Kotlin?

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Q36. You have an enum class Signal that represents the state of a network connection. You want to print the position number of the SENDING enum. Which line of code does that?

enum class Signal { OPEN, CLOSED, SENDING }

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Q37. Both const and @JvmField create constants. What can const do that @JvmField cannot?

class Detail {
  companion object {
    const val COLOR = "Blue"
    @JvmField val SIZE = "Really Big"
  }
}

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Q38. You have a when expression for all of the subclasses of the class Attribute. To satisfy the when, you must include an else clause. Unfortunately, whenever a new subclass is added, it returns unknown. You would prefer to remove the else clause so the compiler generates an error for unknown subtypes. What is one simple thing you can do to achieve this?

open class Attribute
class Href: Attribute()
class Src: Attribute()
class Alt: Attribute()

fun getAttribute(attribute: Attribute) : String {
  return when (attribute) {
    is Href -> "href"
    is Alt -> "alt"
    is Src -> "src"
    else -> "unknown"
  }
}

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Q39. You would like to know each time a class property is updated. Which code snippet shows a built-in delegated property that can accomplish this?

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Q40. Why doesn’t this code compile?

val addend = 1
infix fun Int.add(added: Int=1) = this + addend
fun main(){
  val msg = "Hello"
  println( msg shouldMatch "Hello")
  println( 10 multiply 5 + 2)
  println( 10 add 5)
}

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Q41. What is the correct way to initialize a nullable variable?

Q42. Which line of code is a shorter, more idiomatic version of the displayed snippet?

val len: Int = if (x != null) x.length else -1

Q43. You are creating a Kotlin unit test library. What else you should add to make the following code compile without error?

fun String.shouldEqual(value: String) = this == value
fun main(){
  val msg = "test message"
  println(msg shouldEqual "test message")
}

Q44. What is the difference between the declarations of COLOR and SIZE?

class Record{
  companion object {
    const val COLOR = "Red"
    val SIZE = "Large"
  }
}

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Q45. Why does not this code snippet compile?

class Cat (name: String) {
  fun greet() { println("Hello ${this.name}") }
}

fun main() {
  val thunderCat = Cat("ThunderCat")
  thunderCat.greet()
}

Note: By default, constructor parameters can only be used in the initializer blocks or property initializers declared in the class body. Therefore, to let the greet function have access to the name parameter, it should be declared as a property: class Cat (val name: String) { ... }

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Q46. The code below shows a typical way to show both index and value in many languages, including Kotlin. Which line of code shows a way to get both index and value more idiomatically?

var ndx = 0;
for (value in 1..5){
  println("$ndx - $value")
  ndx++
}

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Q47. The Kotlin .. operator can be written as which function?

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Q48. How can you retrieve the value of the property codeName without referring to it by name or destructuring?

data class Project(var codeName: String, var version: String)
fun main(){
  val proj = Project("Chilli Pepper", "2.1.0")
}

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Q49. This function generates the Fibonacci sequence. Which function is missing?

fun fibonacci() = sequence {
  var params = Pair(0, 1)
  while (true) {
    ___(params.first)
    params = Pair(params.second, params.first + params.second)
  }
}

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Q50. In this code snippet, why does the compiler not allow the value of y to change?

for(y in 1..100) y+=2

Q51. You have created a data class, Point, that holds two properties, x and y, representing a point on a grid. You want to use the hash symbol for subtraction on the Point class, but the code as shown will not compile. How can you fix it?

data class Point(val x: Int, val y: Int)

operator fun Point.plus(other: Point) = Point(x + other.x, y + other.y)
operator fun Point.hash(other: Point) = Point(x - other.x, y - other.y)

fun main() {
    val point1 = Point(10, 20)
    val point2 = Point(20, 30)
    println(point1 + point2)
    println(point1 # point2)
}

Q52. This code snippet compiles without error, but never prints the results when executed. What could be wrong?

val result = generateSequence(1) { it + 1 }.toList()
println(result)

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Q53. An error is generated when you try to compile the following code. How should you change the call to printStudents to fix the error?

fun main() {
    val students = arrayOf("Abel", "Bill", "Cindy", "Darla")
    printStudents(students)
}

fun printStudents(vararg students: String) {
    for(student in students) println(student)
}

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Q54. Both y and z are immutable references pointing to fixed-size collections of the same four integers. Are there any differences?

val y = arrayOf(10, 20, 30, 40)
val z = listOf(10, 20, 30, 40)

Q55. The code snippet compiles and runs without issue, but does not wait for the coroutine to show the “there” message. Which line of code will cause the code to wait for the coroutine to finish before exiting?

fun main() = runBlocking {
    val task = GlobalScope.launch {
        delay(1000L)
        println("there")
    }
    println("Hello,")
}

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Q56. You would like to group a list of students by last name and get the total number of groups. Which line of code accomplishes this, assuming you have a list of the Student data class?

data class Student(val firstName: String, val lastName: String)

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Q57. Class BB inherits from class AA. BB uses a different method to calculate the price. As shown, the code does not compile. What changes are needed to resolve the compilation error?

open class AA() {
     var price: Int = 0
        get() = field + 10
}
class BB() : AA() {
     var price: Int = 0
        get() = field + 20
}

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Q58. What is the output of this code?

val quote = "The eagle has landed."
println("The length of the quote is $quote.length")

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Q59. You have an unordered list of high scores. Which is the simple method to sort the highScores in descending order?

fun main() {
    val highScores = listOf(4000, 2000, 10200, 12000, 9030)

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Q60. Your class has a property name that gets assigned later. You do not want it to be a nullable type. Using a delegate, how should you declare it?

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Q61. You want to know each time a class property is updated. If the new value is not within range, you want to stop the update. Which code snippet shows a built-in delegated property that can accomplish this?

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Q62. Which line of code shows how to call a Fibonacci function, bypass the first three elements, grab the next six, and sort the elements in descending order?

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Q63. You have two arrays, a and b. Which line combines a and b as a list containing the contents of both?

val a = arrayOf(1, 2, 3)
val b = arrayOf(100, 200, 3000)

Q64. This code occasionally throws a null pointer exception (NPE). How can you change the code so it never throws as NPE?

println("length of First Name = ${firstName!!.length}")

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Q65. What is the execution order of init blocks and properties during initialization?

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Q66. Both const and @JvmField create constants. What can @JvmField do that const cannot?

class Styles {
  companion object {
    const val COLOR = "Blue"
      @JvmField val SIZE = "Really big"
   }
}

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Q67. What are the two ways to make a coroutine’s computation code cancellable?

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Q68. Given the code below, how can you write the line this.moveTo(“LA”) more concisely?

data class Student (val name: String, var location: String) {
  fun moveTo (newLoc: String) { location = newLoc }

}

fun main() {

  Student ("Snow", "Cologne").run {

  this.moveTo ("LA")

}

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Q69. For the Product class you are designing, you would like the price to be readable by anyone, but changeable only from within the class. Which property declaration implements your design?

var price: Int = 0
  public get()
  private set

var price: Int = 0
  private set

var price: Int = 0
  val set

val price: Int=0

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Q70. What will happen when you try to build and run this code snippet?

class SpecialFunction : () -> Unit {
  override fun invoke() {
    println("Invoked from an instance.")
  }
}
fun main() {
  try { SpecialFunction()() }
  catch (ex: Exception) { println("An error occurred") }
}

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Q71. Which statement declares a variable mileage whose value never changes and is inferred to be an integer?

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Q72. What is the preferred way to create an immutable variable of type long?

Q73. Which line converts the binaryStr, which contains only 0s and 1s, to an integer representing its decimal value?

val binaryStr = "00001111"

Q74. In a Kotlin program, which lines can be marked with a label

  1. article -
  2. reference

Q75. All classes in Kotlin inherit from which superclass?

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Q76. You have written a function, sort(), that should accept only collections that implement the Comparable interface. How can you restrict the function?

fun sort(list: List<T>): List <T> {
    return list.sorted()
}

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Q77. Kotlin classes are final by default. What does final mean?

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Q78. You have created an array to hold three strings. When you run the code below, the compiler displays an error. Why does the code fail?

val names = arrayOf<String>(3)
names[3]= "Delta"

Q79. If a class has one or more secondary constructors, what must each of them do?

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Q80. When you can omit the constructor keyword from the primary constructor?

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Q81. How many different kinds of constructors are available for kotlin classes?

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Q82. What is the default visibility modifier in Kotlin?

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Q83. The code below compiles and executes without issue, but is not idiomatic kotlin. What is a better way to implement the printlln()?

fun main() {
  val name: String = "Amos"
  val grade: Float = 95.5f
  println("My name is " + name + ". I score " + grade + " points on the last coding quiz.")
}

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Q84. You have enum class Signal that represents a state of the network connection. You want to iterate over each member of the enum. Which line of code shows how to do that `?

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Q85. You’d like to create a multiline string that includes the carriage return character. What should you use to enclose the string?

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Q86. You want your class member to be visible to subclasses. Which modifier do you use?

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Q87. Which line of code shows how to create a finite sequence of the numbers 1 to 99 and then convert it into a list?

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Q88. What is wrong with this class definition?

class Empty

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Q89. What is a higher-order function in Kotlin?

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Q90. What is Kotlin?

Q91. Who developed Kotlin?

Q92. Which of the following platforms can Kotlin be used for?

Q93. What are some key features of Kotlin?

Q94. Why do some developers switch to Kotlin from Java?

Q95. How does Kotlin work on Android?

Q96. What is the difference between variable declaration with var and val in Kotlin?

Q97. What is the difference between variable declaration with val and const in Kotlin?

Q98. How can you create a singleton in Kotlin?

Q99. What is a primary constructor in Kotlin?

Q100. What do you understand by Null safety in Kotlin?

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Q101. How can you ensure null safety in Kotlin?

Q102. What is a data class in Kotlin?

Q103. What is the default behavior of Kotlin classes?

Q104. Does Kotlin provide support for primitive data types?

Q105. Does Kotlin provide support for macros?

Q106. What is the use of the open keyword in Kotlin?

Q107. What do you understand by the Ranges operator in Kotlin?

Q108. Where should we use var and val in Kotlin?

Q109. What is the difference between a safe call (?.) and a null check (!!) in Kotlin?

Q110. What is the basic difference between fold and reduce in Kotlin?

Q111. What are the advantages of “when” over “switch” in Kotlin?

Q112. Why does this code snippet not compile?

interface Vehicle

fun main() {
  val myCar = Vehicle()
}

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Q113. What is the difference between a primary constructor and a secondary constructor in Kotlin?

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