XI Interview Questions

[Former Member]

Hello XI gurus,

Is there any source which can help me preparing for XI job interviews?

Thank you very much in advance

my email is mmukuto@yahoo.com

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

Could you pls sned me some interview Q&A on XI.

My mail id is snehasap@yahoo.com

Regards

Sneha H

[Former Member]

Having successfully just gone through the process (start on 26 March)

I was asked - tell me what you have done in XI. What were your responsibilities in XI? We then discussed this for 30 minutes!

[Former Member]

Simaple Questions :-

1. what are the various compoents of SAP XI

2. Define Integaration Builder.

3. What is Software Component Version.

4. Explain IR and ID.

From IR :

--> What is data type, message type, Message Interface etc.

--> What is context Handling

--> Context object (How to create and use )

-->

5. ID :

-->What are the various steps in the ID for configuration and expain each one.

-->What are pipe line services.

6. Define central adapter engine

7. what are the various type of Adapter.

8. Idoc adapter and File adapter.

9. which are the adapter that exist in the ABAP stack.

10 Different type of Mapping, there merits and demerits.

11 Define Simple and Advance function, how we create it

12 Just overview of the Run Time Workbench

Hard questions :-

1. (a)How you create the Idoc to File or File to Idoc scenerio(Complete Flow)

(b)What are the steps to send the Idoc to XI.

(c)How can you varify that Idoc is sent to the XI or not.

(d)What is Metadata, how can you check the Idoc metadata(t-code IDX2)

2. What are the Various steps for the Java Mapping.

3. What is Value Mapping?How we can use it, where the table get stored

4. What is MultiMapping, what interface we used for it.

5. Define BPM, there basics steps(Like Fork,Block,Loop etc)

6. Sender Agreement is required for Idoc adapter if no then Why?

[Former Member]

Hi

Add the following question to the above list and SDN "Interview questions" Plenty

threads there

Steps required to configure a scenario

Types of mapping

Configurations 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)

Questions 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.

they may ask you like

1) What the business systems used ? (Note this is SLD related)

2) They will give you scenario and aks you howmany BS,TS and logical names

you will create

3) Some more things on SWC versions, SAP R/3 Settings like pushing IDOC

receive IDOC ...etc

4) Naming conventions you used ? for BS, LS,TS.....

5) Why sender IDOC,HTTP adpter not required? explain in detail ?

6) What adapters you used ? Tell all the parameters?

7) Any java mapping written? how to write? Packages? UDF....

😎 Mapping functions details...like node functions etc....

Scenario's what they asked me ...:::))))

1) SOAP to RFC to SOAP explain in details what you will do

2) Multiple files to Single IDOC using BPM

3) RDBMS to SAP R/3

4) Can you built Sysn-Async Bridge in BPM ? How ?

5) How to write ABAP/Java proxies ? Write all the steps?

6) How will you alert Configuration ? give T.Codes?

7) Given one exp...asked create multi mapping ?

Etc...but that all depends on which scenario's you worked

The type of questions which can be asked are :

-->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 ).

I hope this will help you

All the best

prasad k

[former_member91687]

Hi,

You could use the wealth of information available here on sdn in the form of blogs and articles to prepare for your interview, here is one thread which lists most of the blogs on xi:

<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/weblogs/topic/16">xi blogs</a>

Apart from this you have help.sap.com to help you out further:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Regards,

Chandra

[moorthy]

HI,

This thread will answer your question-

/thread/132287 [original link is broken]

Very good info.

All the best

Regards,

Moorthy