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title: "What are runtime exceptions?"  
description: "What are runtime exceptions?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-02-10  
updated: 2020-09-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1920/what-are-runtime-exceptions  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are runtime exceptions?

Runtime exceptions are those exceptions that are thrown at runtime because of either wrong input data or because of wrong business logic etc. These are not checked by the compiler at compile time.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

Runtime exceptions are those exceptions that are thrown at runtime because of either wrong input data or because of wrong business logic etc. These are not checked by the compiler at compile time.


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