Can a static variable be Serialized
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True
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False
Static variables belong to the class itself rather than to any instance. They are not serialized because serialization is meant to save the state of individual objects, and static variables represent shared class-level state. Serializing them would duplicate shared state across deserialized instances, breaking the design.
False — a static variable cannot be (meaningfully) serialized. Java serialization operates on instance state: it captures the non-transient, non-static fields of an object instance. A static variable belongs to the class itself, not to any particular instance, and is shared across all instances (and even across JVM instances/class loaders it isn't tied to serialized object graphs), so it is deliberately excluded from the default serialization mechanism (ObjectOutputStream). When an object is deserialized, static fields simply retain whatever value the class currently has in the running JVM — they aren't read from or written to the stream. So the statement 'a static variable can be serialized' is correctly marked False.