Hi All,
I posted some of the coldfusion interview questions for you. I will post the answers in the next post. You can also help me to answer these simple questions. While answering a question please mention the question number. It will help to me to create consolidated answer list.
1. Explain the structure of Cold fusion?
2. What is Web Server?
3. What is Application Server?
4. How can you communicate with web server (Apache or IIS) from Coldfusion?
5. What are the advantages of Cold fusion?
6. Compare Cold fusion with other programming languages?
7. What is the benefit of using Cold fusion from Developer point of view?
8. What is the benefit of using Cold fusion from Client point of view?
9. Difference between Cold fusion 5 and Cold fusion MX 6?
10. Difference between Cold fusion MX 6 and Cold fusion MX 7?
11. What is “Application.cfm”?
12. Can we have multiple “Application.cfm” file in an Application?
13. What is the working process for “Application.cfm”?
14. Scenario: You have “Application.cfm” in your Root directory, another “Application.cfm” file in child directory. If you are running a cold fusion page from child directory what will happen? Which one (Application.cfm) will execute? Whether both or?
15. What is cfapplication tag?
16. What all are the attributes in cfapplication?
17. How can you set the Client Management?
18. How can you set the Session Management?
19. What are Session Timeout and Application Timeout? Where we have to do this process?
20. How can you clear the cache?
21. What is Scope Variables?
22. What is the different type of Scope variables?
23. What is Application Variables? How can you clear these variables?
24. What is Session Variables? How can you clear these variables?
25. How can you list out all the Session variables in an Application?
26. How can you delete the session variables?
27. What is a client variable?
28. What is the default storage for client variable?
29. What is URL token?
30. What is Cookie Variables?
31. What is the difference between Client and Session variables?
32. What is Structure? What are the different functions in Structure?
33. What is the difference between Structure and Array?
34. How can you set common footer?
35. What is OnRequestEnd.cfm? When it will execute?
36. Can we have multiple OnRequestEnd.cfm in an Application? How its works?
37. What is Custom tag? Why we go for Custom tag?
38. How Custom tag is working (Process Model)?
39. Where we can place the custom tag?
40. What are the different ways to call custom tag?
41. What is CFInclude?
42. What is CFModule?
43. What is the difference between CFInclude and CFModule?
44. What is the difference between Custom tag and Coldfusion Component?
45. What is CFX tag? What is the use?
46. What is Coldfusion component?
47. What is the advantage of using CFC?
48. How can you invoke CFC?
49. Whether CFC supports for OOPS? If yes means how?
50. What are the different ways to access CFC?
51. What is CFobject?
52. What is CreateObject?
53. What is Webservices?
54. What are the different operations in Webservices?
55. How can you invoke Webservices?
56. How can you call the external exe files?
57. What is cfexecute? What are the attributes? What is the drawback of using this?
58. What is WDDX? Where all are applicable?
59. What is CFMail?
60. Where can we do the settings for CFMail?
61. How can I track the status of Mail?
62. How can I do the Attachment?
63. What is CFpop?
64. How can I list the Mails?
65. What is CFHTTP? What are the different ways to process?
66. How can I get reply when we use CFHTTP?
67. What is CFFile? What are the different operations in CFFile?
68. What is CFDirectory? How can you list the directory?
69. What is CFScheduler?
70. What is language within language? (CFSCRIPT)
71. What is error handling?
72. What are the different ways to handle the error?
73. Can we have multiple CfCatch within CFTry?
74. What is CFError?
75. What is Client Side Error?
76. What are the different properties in CFCatch?
77. What is CFTransaction?
78. Can we have more than Data Source within CFTransaction?
79. What are the different attributes in CFQuery?
80. What is Query in Query?
81. What are the different types of Securities?
82. What is Sandbox security?
83. How can you call Stored Procedure?
84. How can you login into the Coldfusion Administrator after missing the password?
85. How can you connect with database from Coldfusion?
86. How can you create dynamic data sources?
87. Where all data sources are saved?
88. What is a log? Where it is stored?
89. How can you interact with Flash?
90. How can you create Tab strip?
91. What is Flash form?
92. How can you show the report in PDF?
93. What is SaveContent?
94. What is CFFlush?
95. What is the difference between HTMLEditFormat and HTMLCodeFormat?
96. What is URLFormat?
97. What is CFAbort?
98. What is the difference between CFAbort and CFBreak?
99. What is CFQueryparam? What is the use?
100. How can you create dynamic query?
101. What is the difference between cfabort, cfexit, cfbreak
102. What is the difference between cfset, cfparam
103. How can you implement cfparam into cfscript
104. What is the use of cfcookie expires attribute? What is the default value for the same?
105. What is the difference between cfquery & cfinsert/cfupdate
106. cfquery/cfstoredproc Which is good for stored proc call?
107. What is the use of cfsetting?
108. Explain about enableCFoutputOnly, showDebugOutput attributes of cfsetting tag
Apr 28, 2009 at 11:42 PM Dude, Excellent post for the people who r going to attend interviews.In this recession time, u shared useful information.
May 20, 2009 at 6:26 AM can u please send the answers for the above questions.It will be really helpful<br />thanks for ur co-operation.
Aug 10, 2009 at 7:19 AM Thanks. Very useful
Oct 5, 2009 at 6:50 AM Really this is very useful for the people who are going to attend the interview.
Oct 7, 2009 at 4:44 AM awesome post......<br />it will really helpful for all ColdFusion geeks.