hiiiiiiiii friends

[Former Member]

I am just doing the XI course right now , i need help from the experts of SAP ,

like,

what r the possible interview questions in xi,(pls reply me with answers) , i will be very much thankful.

here r some of the questions from my side

1) what is the company landscape.

2)what is the patch , which patch r u using

3)diff in 2.0 , 3.0 versions , 3.0&7.0 versions.

4)roles & responsibilities of xi process consultant

[Former Member]

THank u friends

[Former Member]

Above replies almost cover good amount of portion ,

few more that were posted in sdn itself are

1. What are different design time components used by XI?

2. What services does the integration server provide?

3. What are the 4 functions does adapter framework provide?

4. What is Java webstart and why is it used?

5. What are the different XI components?

6. What is XI domain?

7. What is XI pipeline and what is a pipeline service?

8. Describe the alert functionality of the runtime workbench?.

9. Name different monitoring functions of the runtime

workbench?

10. Web application server 6.2 has an integration engine.

Why is this so?

11. In BPM Async-Sync bridge, does the QOS change?

12. List 4 ways to enable logging / trace?

13. What is logging / trace?

14. Properties of an Async message?

15. Inbound XI message has problem, where do you look for

solution?

16. Describe XI message format?

17. Describe end-end monitoring?

18. In XI 3.0 where do you configure adapters?

19. Different steps to make an IDOC adapter work?

20. What is a mail adapter?

21. JMS adapter can talk with what type of systems?

22. What format can JDBC adapter communicate in?

23. If communications with JDBC using XML format, what

are 4 actions you could do?

24. Installing PCK what platforms can you install it on?

25. How does PCK and adapter framework engine differ?

26. Can JDBC adapter query DB tables?

27. JMS adapter scenario messaging system provider needs

to submit what?

28. What are the properties of receiving IDOC adapter?

29. JDBC/JMS require certain steps before they can work?

30. Properties of the PCK who developed it? What is it

similar too? Does it support B2B?

31. What is ALE audit with respect to IDOCS?

32. Properties of the HTTP adapter, does it use or need a

sender or receiver? Or communications channel

agreement?

33. What does a RFC adapter support?

34. Is EOIO supported by RFC?

35. What are advantages and why would you install a

decentralize adapter engine?

36. Comment on the following, adapter engine is also known

as a PCK?

37. What are the different monitoring status? Where do you

find them?

38. What adapters are not in adapter engine?

39. Which ABAP proxy, in or outbound has code you can

type in?

40. With an optional node what is the cardinality? How do

you make sure the subordinates fields get mapped?

41. What is it WSDL? Where do you find it in DR? Does Is

used in Java or ABAP Proxy?

42. In XI 3.0 Stack 9, what are the supported mapping

types?

43. What are prerequisites for importing customer defined

IDOC?

44. What are the three IDOC transactions in XI?

45. Context object replace what?

46. Two things can make up a collaboration agreement,

what are they?

47. What is a logical system, with respect to SLD?

48. What is the sender communications channel?

49. If error during inbound or outbound binding, where do

you look to solve?

50. What is URI, URL, and URN and what are their difference?

51. To perform content based routing, two places it can be

done, what are the two places?

52. What is an integration process

53. Message Mapping, advanced user function, can you test

for context changes, if yes how?

54. What is multi-mapping? Where is it used? What are the

advantages?

55. What are the two XSLT tags, previously that could not

be used in XI Why?

56. Using a simple user defined function how can you send

trace information to be monitored?

57. What is function exists in message mapping?

58. What Jar file is required to perform Java Mapping?

59. What is context in message mapping?

60. What is remove context and what is Split by Value?

61. Source message occurs 3 times, target only once what is

wrong?

62. Java mapping class, which class must it implement?

63. What is scope of mapping template?

64. How does a Boolean function work in message mappings?

65. Where can you use a user defined function, scope?

66. In simple mapping – one source results in 4 identical

target messages, with regarding cardinality what is the

problem?

67. What is a prerequisite to do ABAP mapping for a

complex transformation?

68. What step can be inserted into an exception branch?

69. Where can you find business process engine?

70. What actions can you perform in SXICACHE?

71. What is a wait step and why is it used?

72. What is a block step and why is it used?

73. How do you get an error condition to generate an alert?

74. Could multiple instances of an integration process be

running at the same time? If so, how does a message

find its way to the correct instance?

75. Which XI objects can be used in an integration process?

76. What happens after an exception is raised in BPM?

77. Send message within an integration process to 8

receivers at the same time, how can I do this?

78. Describe the triggering of exceptions in BPM?

79. What is a correlation and what is local correlation?

80. Which steps can trigger an alert?

81. What does a control step do?

82. How does integration process kill itself? What are other

possibilities?

83. What is the 2 visibility of container elements?

84. What are the different types that a container element

can be based on? Can container elements be based on

dictionary structure MARA?

85. What is the relationship between an integration process

and business workflow?

[nisarkhan_n]

In general any interviewer will try to first find out

1. How much knowledge you have on the product.

2. Are you able to explain thngs in your CV what you have written.....

My suggestion will be:

understnad the XI as a product intially....

Through with the interface you have developed ( some part of Business also)

this links might also be helpfull

Getting XIted:

/people/satinder.singh3/blog/2005/12/27/getting-started-getting-xited

/message/2701952#2701952 [original link is broken]

Please see the below links for FAQ.

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/06/28/xipi-faq-frequently-asked-questions

XI : FAQ's Provided by SAP (Updated) - /people/sap.user72/blog/2005/11/22/xi-faqs-provided-by-sap-updated

[Former Member]

Hi summi,

<b>1) what is the company landscape.</b>

it means what are the systems ur company is using..viz...PI/XI, Database,legacy systems etc...

<b>2)what is the patch , which patch r u using</b>

to see that

open IR or ID and in the menu goto teh menu -> help -> Information. You will find the details.

OR

In XI start page -> Adminitration -> System Information

-> Software Build Information

also check

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii

<b>3)diff in 2.0 , 3.0 versions , 3.0&7.0 versions.</b>

XI 2.0

1. J2Se adapter engine

2. BPM was not avialable

XI 3.0

1. J2Se adapter engine was replaced with J2EE Adapter Engine.

2. BPM was available from XI 3.0

3. Part of Netweaver 2004

PI 7.0

1XI renames as Process Integration

2.. Part of Netweaver 2004s.

3. Has all features of XI 3.0 and every SP of Pi 7.0 has a corresponding release for XI 3.0.

4. Runs on WAS 7.0 and has same features as XI 3,0

From functional point, there is no difference between XI3.0 and PI7.0. There are changes only wrt SP. For every SP release on PI7.0 a corresponding SP for XI3.0 is also released.

<b>4)roles & responsibilities of xi process consultant</b>

1)understanding the busines flow.

2)understanding the functional specification.

3)Design of effective technical specification

4)Development of interface

5)Testing of interface from quality point of view ...etc etc...

<b>The type of questions which can be asked are :</b>

-->Steps required to configure a scenario

-->Types of mapping

-->which all configurations you need to do in R/3

for an Idoc to file scenario

-->Questions regarding the interfaces you have worked

on

-->Qestions on adapters eg. Idoc , RFC etc

-->How to configure JDBC Adapter(Sender & Receiver)

-->Qestions on Content conversion

-->Questions on BPM and the step types in BPM.

-->Questions on ALERTS. How to configure Alerts, alert rules, etc.

-->Architecture of XI.

For help on all these, just check the following link,

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

-->Steps required to configure a scenario

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

>>Types of mapping

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.

-->Qestions on adapters

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

2. Use of each adapter

-->Qestions on Content conversion

1. how and why is content conversion performed.

-->Questions on BPM and the step types in BPM.

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.

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

2. How do you test an Alert.

3. Alerts in a BPM

-->Architecture of XI1. 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.

How do you monitor your messages in XI.

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 ).

Also check these links for further details...

XI Interview Questions

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/06/28/xipi-faq-frequently-asked-questions

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/more-than-100-abap-interview-faqs.htm

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3240

http://www.techinterviews.com/?p=198.

http://www.fundoosite.com/interview-questions/type.asp?iType=72

http://www.sapassist.com/documents/document.asp?i=3240

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/more-than-100-abap-interview-faqs.htm.

http://www.sap-img.com/business/sap-bw-interview-questions.htm

http://www.sap-img.com/business/sap-bw-interview-questions-2.htm

http://www.techinterviews.com/?p=184

http://rapidshare.de/files/3829216/Bw_Interview_Questions.pdf.html

/thread/358955 [original link is broken]

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