Python Interview Prep

Basic Topics

1. range vs xrange
2. list comprehension
3. Dictionaries (Merge two dict with update(), sorting by key & value, Key collision)
4. Method Overloading & Overriding
5. self - keywords
6. super method
7. zip function
8. Difference Module, Package and Script
9. Serialization and Deserialization
10. Map, Reduce and Filter function
11. Diff between args & kwargs
12. String Slicing
13. Unit Test

Intermediate Topics

1. Generators
2. Decorators
3. Defaultdict & Orderdict (Collections)
4. Dunder Methods (_new_(), _init_(), _repr_(), _str_())
5. Copy (Shallow & Deep)
6. Context Manager & Custom Context Manager
7. Monkey Patching
8. Basic DS (Queue, Stack, LinkedList)
9. Packing & Unpacking
10. Profilers
11. SOLID Principles (Restrict Object Creation of a class once first object is created)
12. Iterators
13. Generators (Generators vs List Comprehension)
14. Enumerators
15. Access Modifiers and their Calls
16. _name_ == _main_ works
17. Lazy Function (How to use Lazy function to read excessive big files)
18. OOPS Concept (MRO, Operator overloading, Call by Ref, static, instance and class methods, ABC, restrict class variable creation in class)
19. .pyc files
20. List.sort() and sorted(list)
21. Data Classes
22. "is" vs "=="
23. Memory Management
24. Scope in Python(Global vs NonLocal)
25. Enum

Advance Topics

1. Metaclass
2. Static Typing
3. Warlus Operator
4. Else Clause (In try/except & for loop)
5. Descriptors
6. Design Pattern (Factory, Adapter, Singleton)
7. Garbage Collection, Reference Counting, Cyclic Reference
8. Destructor (_del_()), Del Keyword
9. Compilation & Linking
10. Wheels and Eggs
11. Acces Module from C (& vice versa)
12. fstrings
13. Hashable Objects
14. GIL
15. Thread vs Process
16. Multithreading, Multiprocessing & Asyncio
17. Thread safety
18. _slot_
19. _call_
20. Python Arrays
21. Type Hints (Any, Union, Optional, Iterable)
22. Parameterized Decorators
23. Mixin Classes
24. Functional Programming
25. Closure
26. Metaprogramming
27. Composition
28. Prpoerty (getter & setter)

Managerial Question

AGILE

1. Kanban
2. Agile
3. Agile - ceremonies

Database

1. Clusterring
2. Indexing
3. NoSQL
4. Sharding
5. Partitioning
6. Database Transaction