Objective C Test 2015

1. What's the difference between copy and deepCopy?

Answers:

• They are the same

• deepCopy doesn't exist

• copy creates a copy at the first level, while deepCopy copies the instance variables

• copy creates a proxy object, while deepCopy allocate a new object

• None of the above

2. Which of the following can be inherited?

Answers:

• Categories

• Protocols

• Classes

• None of the above

3. Which of the following is the fastest?

Answers:

• @synchronized

• Explicit locking

• Condition locking

• Mutex implicit locking

4. A method can be tagged to be called only by a specific class and its subclasses.

Answers:

• True

• False

5. Which of the following is not recommended?

Answers:

• Adding an (id)sender argument to methods

• Using static variables inside methods

• Using C code inside Obj-C methods

• None of the above

6. A class can have two methods with the same name, but with different argument types.

Answers:

• True

• False

7. What are @try and @catch?

Answers:

• Exception handlers

• Exceptions

• Exception keywords

• All of the above

8. A class can conform to only one protocol.

Answers:

• True

• False

9. How do you free an object?

Answers:

• free(obj)

• [obj dealloc]

• [obj release]

• [obj free]

• None of the above

10. Which of the following creates a class that conforms to a protocol?

Answers:

• @interface ClassName [ProtocolName]

• @interface ClassName <ProtocolName>

• @interface ClassName < ProtocolName

• @interface ClassName::ProtocolName

• @interface ClassName(ProtocolName)

11. What is the isa variable in objects?

Answers:

• Object size

• Object memory footprint

• Object class identification

• Object serial number

• None of the above

12. What is true regarding C functions inside .m files?

Answers:

• They can contain Obj-C code

• They are slower than if in a .c files

• They cannot use C libraries

• They can be static

13. What is the id type?

Answers:

• A generic C type that Objective-C uses for an arbitrary object

• A memory address type

• A type to hold serialized objects

• The type used for Classes

• None of the above

14. What is a @finally block?

Answers:

• A block that is executed when the program quits

• A block that is executed within a dynamic library when it's unloaded

• A block of code that is run whenever an exception is thrown or not

• None of the above

15. Is the following code a correct allocation?

MyClass myObj;

[&myObj aMessage];

Answers:

• Yes

• No

16. What does the following imply?

Worker *ceo = [[Worker alloc] init];

ceo->boss = nil;

Answers:

• That the ceo object is statically typed

• That the boss instance variable is declared @protected

• That the boss instance variable is declared @public

• That the ceo is in fact a structure

• This code is not correct

17. What is not supported in Obj-C?

Answers:

• Recursive method call

• Variable argument count to method

• Byte manipulation

• Method argument default value

• None of the above

18. Which of the following does not happen when you throw an exception in a @synchronized block?

Answers:

• The object is deallocated

• The object is unlocked

• An exception is thrown

• None of the above

19. Can you send messages to nil?

Answers:

• Yes

• No

20. In which version of Objective-C did the fast enumeration system appear?

Answers:

• 2.0

• 1.5

• 1.0

• 3.0

21. What can be linked to an Obj-C program without any particular process?

Answers:

• C libraries

• Java jar files

• C++ libraries

• scripts

• Executables

22. What is the C type used to work with objects in Obj-C?

Answers:

• int

• structure

• pointer

• array

23. What is a category?

Answers:

• A namespace

• A category is a way to add instance variables to a class which already exists

• A category is a group of classes

• A category is a way to add methods to a class which already exists

• None of the above

24. Protocols are like classes; they can inherit.

Answers:

• True

• False

25. What comments are supported in Obj-C?

Answers:

• // Line comments

• /* Block comments */

• # Line comments

• ; Line comments

• -[[ block comments ]]

26. Which of the following is false?

Answers:

• Method lookup is done at runtime

• When a method is called, the send is automatically available as the sender variable, like self or super

• Messages can be sent to nil

• Methods in static libraries must be present at link time

27. What happens if two categories define methods with the same names for the same class?

Answers:

• The code won't compile

• At runtime, either method will be called

• A runtime exception will be thrown

• None of the above

28. What type of variable do you need to use to implement singletons?

Answers:

• static

• auto

• const

• volatile

29. As categories can't have instance variables, what class could you use to implement a full class only with categories?

Answers:

• NSArray

• NSMutableDictionary

• NSSet

• None of the above

30. What can you do with categories?

Answers:

• Add instance variables to a class without subclassing it

• Add methods to a class without subclassing it

• Override methods of a class without subclassing it

• None of the above

31. How do you throw an exception?

Answers:

• raise Exception

• @throw exception

• RAISE exception

• THROW exception

• None of the above

32. What is true regarding strings?

Answers:

• C string literals are automatically mapped to objects

• C string literals can be used in Obj-C

• Obj-C strings are not of static storage

• Obj-C strings are like C strings

33. In which version of Objective-C did the properties system appear?

Answers:

• 3.0

• 2.5

• 2.0

• 1.5

• 1.0

34. How do you include the root "Object" class?

Answers:

• #include <Object.h>

• #include <objc/Object.h>

• #include <Object/Object.h>

• #include <ROOT.h>

• It depends on the compiler

35. What is the default visibility for instance variables?

Answers:

• @private

• @package

• @public

• @protected

• None of the above

36. What is true regarding @protected?

Answers:

• The instance variable is accessible within the class that declares it and within classes that inherit it

• The instance variable is accessible everywhere

• The instance variable is accessible only within the class that declares it.

• This is analogous to private_extern for variables and functions. Any code outside the class implementation's image that tries to use the instance variable will get a link error

• None of the above

37. What happens if you release an unretained object twice?

Answers:

• Nothing, too many releases are handled correctly

• Undefined behaviour

• MemoryException is raised

• None of the above

38. What is a protocol?

Answers:

• A class that uses functions instead of methods

• A method signature

• A class signature

• An interface without an implementation

• None of the above

39. In Obj-C 2.0, what do the fast enumeration protocols rely on to provide fast Enumerations?

Answers:

• C arrays

• Java Vectors

• Ruby hash

• Obj-C Array

• None of the above

40. Which of the following is incorrect?

Answers:

• [self release]

• [super release]

• [AClass release]

• They are all correct

41. What can you use to avoid the msgSend function overhead?

Answers:

• SEL

• IMP

• You can't use anything

• None of the above

42. How do you allocate an object?

Answers:

• MyClass *obj = malloc(sizeof(MyClass));

• MyClass *obj = [MyClass alloc];

• MyClass *obj = alloc(MyClass);

• MyClass *obj = [MyClass new];

• None of the above

43. Which C feature is not supported in Obj-C?

Answers:

• Bitfields

• Compound literals

• Structures

• C arrays

• Support is compiler dependant

44. What does Obj-C not support?

Answers:

• Instance variables

• Class variables

• Static variables

• Automatic variables

45. What will be the output of the following code?

static int

a (void)

{

printf ("a\n");

return 0;

}

static int

b (void)

{

printf ("b\n");

return 1;

}

static int

c (void)

{

printf ("c\n");

return 2;

}

int

main (int argc, const char *argv[])

{

printf ("%d %d %d", a (), b (), c ());

return 0;

}

Answers:

• a b c 0 1 2

• a b c 2 1 0

• c b a 0 1 2

• c b a 2 1 0

• None of the above

46. When using the garbage collector, which method, that is normally called without the collector, is not called on your objects where they are collected?

Answers:

• free

• dealloc

• destroy

• uninit

47. What is nil?

Answers:

• The null object

• The null class

• It doesn't exist

• None of the above

48. What can be used as Object instance variables?

Answers:

• int

• structures

• pointers

• unions

• None of the above

49. Can an exception caught in @catch be re-thrown?

Answers:

• Yes

• No

50. What is a SEL?

Answers:

• A selection

• The C type of a message selector

• The C type of a class

• A pointer to a method

• None of the above

51. What is an IMP?

Answers:

• A special type used for computation

• An alias for SEL

• A preprocessor directive defined to the implementation name

• The C type of a method implementation pointer

• None of the above

52. What is true regarding @public?

Answers:

• It doesn't exist in Objective-C

• It breaks encapsulation

• It can be used only on singleton objects

• None of the above

53. What class specifiers are supported?

Answers:

• FINAL

• STATIC

• FAST

• ITERATIVE

• There is no such thing as class specifiers

54. Which of the following declares a protocol?

Answers:

• @proto ProtocolName

• protocol ProtocolName {};

• @protocol ProtocolName

• @interface <ProtocolName>

• @interface ProtocolName::Protocol

55. What is an autoreleased object?

Answers:

• A C object.

• A static object.

• An object that is garbage collected.

• An object that will be released when the current AutoreleasePool is deallocated.

• None of the above

56. If you need to allocate custom memory, in which method will you do so?

Answers:

• + alloc

• - alloc

• + init

• - init

• None of the above

57. What is #import

Answers:

• A namespace import rule

• A namespace definition

• A recursive include

• C preprocessor construct to avoid multiple inclusions of the same file

• None of the above

58. What is the Obj-C runtime?

Answers:

• A C library

• A compiler

• A language

• A dynamic loader

59. What is true regarding messaging?

Answers:

• Messaging is static and messages are replaced by function call at compile time

• Messaging is fully dynamic, which means you can compile some code that sends a message to a class that doesn't implement it, and add a category later, in a dynamic library for example

• Messaging is only a syntax sugar to call functions

• None of the above is true