Questions in Accenture interview

--------------------------------------------how do you copy a .doc file into DB and a .jpg file in to DB using java?
Why do we need interface in java?
explain the architechture of your current project?
Spring Batch Framework?
why do you need this when there are other Batch job shcedulers are available?
How do you handle the transactions?
How do you create a copy of an object without using clone() method?
DB:- ACID properties.
How do you tune the performance of a query?
What are design patterns?
Web Service
which type of webservices have you worked on?
SOAP/HTTP
WSDL file tags and elements
How security is enabled in web services?
WS Security Authentication &Authorization
How do you handle exceptions in Webservices?
What are the modules you have used in springs?
Explain AOP
-----------------OOPS basics
APIE- Abstraction,Polymorphism,Inheritance and Encapsulation
what is the difference between Interface and Abstract class. why do we need Inte
rface when we have abstract classes?
why String is immutable?
What are the ways to create an instance of a class?
Collections
------what are collections.
what are the ways available to iterate a collection.
How do you sort collection objects based on a paticular field?
what is the difference between Coparator and comparable?
What collections should we use in which scenario? like frequently accessed,frequ
ently manipulate and maintain order of insertion.
what is the difference between 1) vector and arraylist, 2) List and Set, 3)HasMa
p and Hash Table 4)Iterator and ListIterator.
Exception Handling
-------------------------What is an Error and what is an Exception who do they differ?
What is Throwable,Throw,throws?
What is the super class of all Exceptions?
What is assertion?
How do you propagate an Exception from DAO layer to jsp?
try finally without catch will it work? try catch without finally?
final,finally,finalise()
will a developer able to use finalise() method
Which version of spring is used in your project?
which version of JDK is used in your project?
why clients demand 1.6 SDK?
what are the new features in 1.6
What are Generics?

what are annotations?

Ho do you declare anotations?how is it used and how are they processed ?
JDBC
----------How do you create a JDBC connection using DriveManger Class and a DataSource?
What are pepared statement and callable statement?
Is ResultSet an interface or class?
Junit,UML related questions were also asked in few iterviews