Spring Security Interview Questions - Practice & Strengthen Application Security
Master Spring Security with practical interview questions. Explore authentication flows, authorization strategies, and secure application design with concise explanations.
Top Spring Security Interview Questions for Freshers and Experienced
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What is Spring Security and why is it used?
easy
basicssecurity
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What is authentication vs authorization?
easy
authbasics
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Explain SecurityFilterChain in Spring Security.
medium
filtersarchitecture
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What is the role of AuthenticationManager?
medium
authenticationarchitecture
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Explain AuthenticationProvider.
medium
authenticationprovider
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What is UserDetailsService?
medium
userauthentication
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What is PasswordEncoder?
medium
passwordsecurity
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Why is BCrypt recommended?
medium
passwordencryption
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What is CSRF protection?
medium
csrfsecurity
10
When should CSRF be disabled?
medium
csrfrest
11
Explain JWT authentication in Spring Security.
hard
jwtauthentication
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What are advantages of JWT?
medium
jwtperformance
13
Explain OAuth2 in Spring Security.
hard
oauth2auth
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What is difference between OAuth2 and JWT?
hard
oauth2jwt
15
What is method-level security?
medium
authorizationannotations
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Explain @PreAuthorize vs @PostAuthorize.
medium
annotationsauthorization
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What is role hierarchy?
medium
rolesauthorization
18
Explain SecurityContext.
medium
contextsecurity
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How does SecurityContextHolder work?
hard
contextinternals
20
What is session management in Spring Security?
medium
sessionsecurity
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