please help answer the mcq

interface Base {
boolean m1 ();
byte m2(short s);

}

Which code fragments will compile? (Choose all that apply.)
A. interface Base2 implements Base { }
B. abstract class Class2 extends Base { public boolean m1() { return true; } }
C. abstract class Class2 implements Base { }
D. abstract class Class2 implements Base {public boolean m1() { return (true); } }
E. class Class2 implements Base { boolean m1() { return false; } byte m2(short s) { return 42; } }

Which is true? (Choose all that apply.)

A. "X extends Y" is correct if and only if X is a class and Y is an interface.
B. "X extends Y" is correct if and only if X is an interface and Y is a class.
C. "X extends Y" is correct if X and Y both are classes or both are interfaces.
D. "X extends Y" is correct for all combinations of X and Y being classes and/or interfaces.

What's an "mcq"?

In any case, what do *you* think the answers are, and why? Let's start there.

And welcome to JavaRanch!

Edited to remove direct answer. We try to provide direction, and try to help people learn how to learn--not just give out answers. Please see DoYourOwnHomework.

MCQ is of course Multiple Choice Question.

As people will see from the "Beginning Java" title page, simply giving out answers helps nobody, so thank you David for deleting that post.
Please tell us what you think the correct answer is, and let us see what we think about it.

I earlier wrote:MCQ is of course Multiple Choice Question.

[pedantic mode]But those are not MCQs; they are true-false questions.[/pedantic mode]

Edited to remove answers

As noted in a response above, we do not give out direct answers due to our do your own homework policy.

Siddhesh, Giving away direct answers is not the norm here.

To avoid any more direct answers, I shall close this thread. I am pulling rank.

Shoeb Sattar: please PM me with what you think are the correct answers, in a format like "1a 1c 2b 2c 2d", then I shall reopen the thread and you can post them and we shall all see what we think of them.

I, yesterday wrote:Shoeb Sattar: please PM me . . . then I shall reopen the thread . . .

No reply, no thread opening.

He replied saying "B" is correct for the first question.

"B" will compile, but the answer is not complete. this is not an MCQ (where there is one correct and 4 wrong answers) but a true-false, so I wasn't simply being pedantic. There may be more than one correct answer.

Please supply your answer for the 2nd question.

If you work on the second question first then it would be clear that 'B' cannot be part of the answer to question 1.

In 1st ques.... I think E is also correct

shoeb sattar, welcome to JavaRanch.

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Shoeb,

With a question like this it is very easy to compile it and see the answer. If you did compile E then you will learn something about 'weaker access privilege'. That should take you into understanding rules for method overriding.

Incidentally I should have also mentioned that in an interface all the methods are implicitly public and abstract whilst all the variables public static and final. This applies whether you state it or not in the definition.

One of the Java rules about method overriding is that you cannot assign weaker privilege to an overridden method. Imagine people invoked your method in good faith that it implements a public method but only to discover that it isn't so in the implementing class. The compiler will never allow you to break a contract.