Thursday 21 June 2012

Siebel administrator interview questions.


Guys,
I am trying to list down most possible interview questions for Siebel administrator.  Please feel free to suggest/correct/add if I am missing anything.

1.       Tell me something about your past/current projects and your roles & responsibilities.
2.       Explain Siebel architecture or Explain request flow in detail.
3.       How to do repository migration & DDL synch?
4.       How do you do daily health checks?
5.       Why to generate browser scripts & how to generate browser scripts.
6.       Explain performance tuning steps
7.       Which authentication method are you using?
8.       Why to do apply and activate?
9.       How to troubleshoot server busy error?
10.   What is siebns.dat file? Can you edit that? 
11.   Briefly explain Siebel server installation pre-requisites & installation steps. 
12.   How to generate lbconfig.txt file?
13.   Which reporting tool are you using? Is it actuate /BIP/OBIEE? How to integrate BIP/OBIEE with Siebel? 
14.   Steps to extract local database and to set up Siebel tools & mobile clients?
15.   What is the difference between position and responsibility?
16.   How to cleanup Siebel file system?
17.   Have you ever been involved in resolving Siebel interfacing issues with other applications?
18.   Most recent issues & steps you have taken to troubleshoot those.
19.   How to setup Siebel email profiles?
20.   Emails are not getting triggered from the application, how will you troubleshoot?
21.   How to troubleshoot components crashes?
22.   How to decode & analyze FDR files?
23.   Have you ever been involved in DB refresh activity?
24.   Roles of SCbroker, SRbroker & SRproc components.
25.   How to deploy workflows? What is activate & why it is required?
26.   How workflow monitor agent works?
27.   What are SARM files and why to generate those?
28.   Have you ever been involved in Siebel version upgrade?
29.   Have you been involved in automating routine tasks?
30.   You achievements/ challenging assignments as Siebel admin

Hope you will find this helpful.

9 comments:

  1. Hai...
    can u please provide the answers for these questions ...?

    it helps us alot

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  2. If possible..even answer these questions..

    4,6,8,9,11,13,23

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  3. Hi Naresh,

    4-
    Daily health check includes:
    Check status of all the components and servers, Check status of Jobs/RCR's/Tasks, check memory/CPU/Diskspace utilization, you can even analyze AWR reports on daily basis which will give you idea on DB health.

    8-
    I have added post on apply and activate.You can check that.

    9-
    You can check earlier post for this.

    I will try to add few posts on other topics soon.

    Thanks,
    Aniket

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  4. thanks alot Aniket..

    HOw we can check cpu usage,Diskspace in windows?

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  5. please post a article about MAXMTS,MINMTS and Tasks...

    If we have 1000 end-users for our application,how will calculate maxmts,minmts,tasks?Can U please give me a clear Explanation.....?

    Once again great thanks for valuable reply...

    Naresh..

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  6. Hi Naresh,

    In windows you can find out cpu/memory usage using Windows Task Manager.

    On Linux on Unix Top command can be usefull.

    On you second question, I have added new post, please check.

    Thanks,
    Aniket

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  7. Hi Aniket,

    Can you please answer the 11 th question (Briefly explain Siebel server installation pre-requisites & installation steps)? Interview point of view.

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  8. first check the supported platforms in certifications tab in oracle support.
    suppose if you are installing 8.2.2.14 check os,ohs,db versions supported.
    and check the OS packages.
    down load installables from edelivery.
    1. install java and update in .bash_profile
    2. install 64 bit db server.
    3. install 32-bit client. before modify gcc and file limit config.
    4. install OHS and add ports in iptables file
    5. create install image.
    6. install siebel enterprise.
    7. configure enterprise.
    8. Create TABLE/INDEX/TEMP Table Space
    9. create db user and admin user.
    10. configure siebel db server.
    11. configure siebel server on enterprise.
    12. configure swse.
    13.c heck url


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