SAP XI Interview Questions and Answers

   1. What are the activities for SAP NetWeaver XI integration, implementation, post go-live?

SAP NetWeaver XI integration where the Involvement of charing the information between SAP and Non SAP System comes into Picture.
Implementation where the SAP involvement into the business coming into Picture.
Go Alive After Developing the interface after come acrossing various stages like testing the Interface is made alive or used to the real time scenario is said to be GO ALIVE.

   2. What is CCMS button in RWB?

It is an alert or montoring for the error messages. To monitor SAP components . CCMS is SAP Computing Center Management System. RWB is smoothly integrated with CCMS and CCMS alerts can be viewed thro' the Runtime WorkBench. It provides alert monitoring for SAP Exchange Infrastructure Which is used for monitoring any system errors and administration errors. Enables monitor entire system centrally.

   3. What systems used in your XI/PI Implementation?

Usually we will use Development System, Testing System(QA), Production System. But some times we will use Pre-Prod (Pre Production System) also. Before you moving all interfaces to Production will use Pre-Prod to test all interfaces with huge volumes. So totally will use following systems for an implementation:

DEV

QA

Pre-Prod

Prod

   4. Daily Activities and responsibilities of XI Developer?

Monitoring after golive. troubleshoot performance issue when a ticket arises. on development part it will be creating BS, objects in IR, configuring in ID
Based on the scenario that what you are working in the lowlevel Working on SLD,IR,ID,RWB + developing the scenario's+Documentation + Based on the requirements design + monitoring check + Performance+..etc

   5. Experience with Requirements Gathering?

If you have been interacting with the client for gathering the req need to explain them on what basis the req were gathered.

These are the things you can ask the client to get the requirements:

1) What is the problem? This will give answer for why they are going for XI? Here try to Understand the business as well as integration? Where XI come into the picture?

2) Total number of systems involved in integration? That is their SLD? Details?

3) Scenarios (interfaces)? Total? What kind of? But here once again this is depends on project. Some times client will give this (or) based on the requirement you people have to decide? It is fully depends..!!!! take care

4) Then based on the scenario you need to get the full information ....this is
place where you can ask all the questions from scenario to scenario. Get all the details as mentioned below apart from the basics try to ask some thing technically.

5) Are they providing any XSD,WSDL, documents, Naming conventions..etc

6) Protocals related like http, ftp, smtp, soap....

7) If file related then CSV, Fixed....like that delimiter specific details.very imp this one.

8) If R/3 present then ....it is Idoc, Rfc, BAPI,....any proxies and webservices for
direct communication ....etc
These are the basic things for XI integration project and after that every thing is specific to scenarios.

    6. Where would you look to find Logical System in the SLD.?

Business system wizard

    7. What 2 Data Types are automatically created when the Namespace is saved in the Integration Repository?

ExchangeFaultdata and Exchange log data.

   8. Which Development Object in SAP XI forms the "ROOT NODE" of an XML document when an 
XI message is generated?

MESSAGE TYPE 

   9. What is the relationship between Product, Product Version, Software Component and Software Component Version? Give an example.

PRODUCT: Represents a collection of all versions of a product. In SAP environment, a product corresponds to an SAP technical Component, e.g. 4.6c, 4.6d, and 4.7

COMPONENT: Represents a collection of all versions of a software components Examples of Software components are SAP_APPL, SAP_ABA, SAP_HR Software

    10. JMS adapter can talk with what type of systems? Give some examples...

Messaging systems to the integration engine

    11. What format can JDBC adapter communicate in? Should you use native SQL?

 JDBC adapter converts data base content to XML messages and the other way around.

    12. If communications with JDBC using XML format, what are 4 actions you could do?

SELECT, INSER, DELETE, UPDATE.

    13. Can JDBC adapter query DB tables? Can it insert?

Yes

    14. Can RFC adapter be used for asynchronous processing?

YES, RFC adapter can be used for asynchronous processing.

    15. Is it necessary to create the partner profiles in case of file to idoc scenario?

NO, it is not always necessary to create the partner profiles in case of file to idoc scenario if you are doing it for testing purposes otherwise you have to configure partner profile to assure XI for receiver client.

   16. What is difference between the party and the business service and in which cases they are used with details?

A Communication party represent a layer unit which is involved in cross-system process (eg. a company). and Business service represent an abstract, addressable unit. business services are used in cross-company process. for eg if the parties involved have only published there interfaces and not there system landscape or it is partly known. normally we use business services to communicate with different systems in same company.

   17. What are the usual project scenarios on the job (Legacy systems or ERP)?

It depends on the client requirement but you shold know about the R3-MDM integration.most of the requirement it would be use. Related scenarios as I mentioned are MDM-BIW integration, SRM-MDM Catalog, MDM-XI-R3 integration, RPCM,enrichment adaptor etc....

   18. How long are usually the projects?

It depends on the client requirement.+