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XI Interview questions

Former Member
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Hi All,

Does anyone have a set of technical interview questions which can be used to assess the competence level of an XI resource, in an interview scenario?

Thanks for any assistance here.

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Former Member
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Hi,

I think Bhavesh has given you a very good set of questions. Just to add on to it. I thought it will be nice if we can brush through the basics. What actually happens many a times we forget the simple questions that can be asked. So please read the below and refresh your basics.

There are numerous questions that can be asked on XI, but if you go through the relevant material available on the link below, you will be able to understand and answer most of the basic questions related to XI.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Now I think it will be nice if I will just give u the basic steps involved in doing any scenario in XI. This is very essential for a beginner.

First of all you would need to define your product, software component, business system and configure the technical landscape in the sld.

You then go on to create the objects in the repository, you import your software component here and then begin your design steps. To import your RFCs n Idocs if you require any before proceeding.

Then under the name space which you want, you go on to define your data types, message types and message interfaces.

Then you do your message mappings where you specify your source and target message types and the relation between them, then you do your interface mapping. If you are using a BPM, you do the integration process.

Once you have this done, you will have to move to the directory, here is where you define how you use the objects and how you configure them to work as a scenario.

You assign your business system to the configuration scenario which you have created, and create the communication channels. Then you go on to configure the receiver determination, interface determination, and the sender and receiver agreements. Once you’re done you will have make sure you activate your objects. The exact parameters steps depend on what kind of scenario you are implementing.

You can use sxmb moni or the runtime workbench to monitor the entire scenario which you have done.

Also I would suggest this link on SAP help for any info that you want on XI,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Further, this thread deals with everything that is needed for a starter on XI. Do check them out,

/message/527697#527697 [original link is broken]

And after you are done with the documentation probably you can go through this scenario,

Also check the following threads which might help you a little more,

In simple words regarding learning XI, there is an abundance of information on SDN and help.sap.com…. So I think it will be better for you to search information there rather than me just providing you links….which will just go on and on and on….so I felt it is better for you to go and search so that not only you get information on SAP XI but also explore SDN in its real sense.

I hope I have answered your query.

Regards,

abhy

PS: AWARD POINTS FOR HELPFUL ANSWERS.

moorthy
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Hi,

Pls refer following link.

/thread/108641 [original link is broken]

/thread/54141 [original link is broken]

I think this will help you.

Regards,

Moorthy

bhavesh_kantilal
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Hi,

A few questions that can be asked can of this sort,

<b>-->Steps required to configure a scenario</b>

1. Interface Determination-- RB_SPLIT and RB_CLASSIC, condtional Interface Determination

2. Receiver Determination -- Conditional Receiver Determination.

3. Sender / Receiver Agreement-- Why doesnt IDOC and HTTP have a sender agreement, etc.

Flow of how XI determines the configuration scenario

<b>>>Types of mapping</b>

1. Types of Java Mapping -- DOM and SAX Parser. Advantages and Disadvantages.

2. XSLT mapping

3. Graphical Mapping--

Questions on context change, standard functions in XI etc.

<b>-->Qestions on adapters</b>

1. Which adpaters run on j2ee engine and which run on ABAP stack.

2. Use of each adapter

<b>-->Qestions on Content conversion</b>

1. how and why is content conversion performed.

<b>-->Questions on BPM and the step types in BPM.</b>

1. Correlation

2. synch/asynch bridge

3. Collect pattern.

4. For each and par for each in a block

5. send synchronously and asynchronously.

6. Step types in BPM.

<b>-->Questions on ALERTS.</b> 1. How do u define Alert Category, rules, etc.

2. How do you test an Alert.

3. Alerts in a BPM

<b>-->Architecture of XI</b>1. How and what are the stacks available in XI

2. Need for datatype, message type, message interface, message mapping, interface mapping, etc.

3. Synch/ Asynch/ outbound/inbound/ abstract interfaces, etc.

<b>How do you monitor your messages in XI.</b>

1. What is the difference between the monitoring done on the RunTimeWorkBench and the one done using SXMB_MONI.

2. What is End to End Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Cache Montioring etc.

3. What is a Business System, Technical System, Logical System, and other questions related to the System Landscape Directory (SLD ).

Hope this info helps,

Regards,

Bhavesh

PS Do award points for useful answers

There are numerous questions that can be asked on XI, but if you go through the relevant material available on the link below , you will be able to understand and answer most of the basic questions related to XI.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

former_member181999
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The info provided is very useful to my project team and me

Thank you.