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Synchronization vs Concurrent Collections — when & why?
Tests whether you know wrapping a collection with Collections.synchronizedX() locks the whole structure on every operation (and still needs external synchronization for iteration), while java.util.concurrent collections use finer-grained or lock-free techniques internally -- so you default to concurrent collections for throughput under real contention, not synchronized wrappers.
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