Object Oriented Programming & Methodology (CY-305) - Important Questions

Compare object-oriented programming with procedural programming and explain the key features/characteristics of the object-oriented paradigm.

Explain what object-oriented programming/paradigm is, its main features/OOP concepts, and its merits/advantages and demerits/disadvantages.

Describe the various control statements with examples.

Explain construction and destruction of objects in OOP, including constructors and destructors and object lifecycle.

Explain the concept of objects in object-oriented programming in terms of state, behaviour and identity.

Explain public, private and protected access specifiers/modifiers in C++, including their visibility/inheritance and role in data hiding.

Explain the process of message passing in object-oriented programming and its role in enabling communication between objects, with example.

Explain association and aggregation relationships in OOP with examples, and explain what an abstract (base) class is and why it is used.

Explain the concepts of interfaces and abstract classes in object-oriented programming.

Explain the concept of inheritance in OOP and its types including multiple, multilevel and hybrid with diagrams and syntax.

Compare and differentiate compile-time (static) and run-time (dynamic) polymorphism with examples of how each is achieved.

Explain polymorphism through method overloading vs method overriding and differentiate overloading and overriding.

What is a friend function in C++, why and when is it used, and what are its limitations regarding encapsulation and security?

Explain the concept of exception handling and how runtime exceptions are handled gracefully.

Explain Array Index Out of Bounds Exception and Null Pointer Exception.

Write short notes on multi-threading and data collections in OOP and discuss their applications in building concurrent and data-intensive systems.