BPEL Interview Questions/BPEL FAQs

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Is Oracle SOA same as Oracle Fusion Middleware What is SOA Governance How to increase performance increase in bpel (BD Adapter/file adapter) Predefined errors in BPEL? Is it possible to use MS SQL Server as dehydration store with SOA Suite?if yes how? What are the various elements in WSDL What is structure of SOAP message Can I call an asynchronous process from a synchronous process. Are their any limitations (how much time is permissible for async process to return) 9. How to ensure that parallel flows implemented through Flow activity are 'really' parallel 10. How to develop a web service bottom up 11. How to return a fault from BPEL process. Do I need to change the WSDL. Do I need to do it manually 12. How to add a specific catch handler for binding fault 13. How to add a specific catch handler for timeout 14. How to use sensors 15. How to use BPEL properties to externalize constants in BPEL processes 16. Is it possible to set a timeout when calling a synchronous process 17. Is it possible to timeout a asynchronous process 18. What are the various interaction patterns that can be implemented 19. Is it possible to escalate a notification during human task 20. What are the various options of calling Java code from BPEL processes 21. What are the various options available for scheduling a BPEL process 22. How to call BPEL from java 23. How to call BPEL from PLSQL 24. How to call BPEL from Excel 25. How to use business rules in BPEL process 26. How to delete a file on a FTP server through BPEL 27. How to use In-memory, File based and AQ-based JMS 28. How to use Apps adapter to call a concurrent program 29. How to use content based and header based routing 30. How to change the filename when writing a file through adapter 31. What is DVM 32. What is OAGIS 33. How to do error handling in ESB. Is error handling different across synchronous and asynchronous ESBs 34. What happens if an adapter rejects a file or a message when reading it. How to retrieve this message 35. What is AIA. Why is it such a cool idea...why is it such a hot skill! 36. How to set log levels for performing detailed debugging 37. How to see logs in enterprise manager 38. What is meant by logfile rotation 39. Would you provide questions, roadmap and resources for Interview Preparation 40. my file having huge data (more than 10 mb) how to send this data? 41. How to set timeout error? 42. What is the difference between database adapter and oracle apps adapter? 43. What is diff between BPEL adapters and ESB adapters? 44. Diff between BPEL and ESB

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Benefits of ESB? Explain diff types of bindings? Diff between physical path and logical path in file adapter? and how to set in bpel.xml? what are the activities you are used in syn process and asyn process? Explain about pick activity where we use this? Explain XSLT,XML,XSD,WSDL,XQUERY ? how to define the rolls in dpel? How to identify weather the webservice id syn or asyn? Diff between bpel webservice and other webservices? How to generate SOAP bindings in BPEL? Explain about MCF Properties?
What are differences between synchronous and asynchronous process Why we will use the partition? How many types of variables are there? Types of WSDL? What is end point URI? What is domain? How can we write web services our own?(how to create dynamic web services) What is interface? Types of interface? Why we use metadata schema? What is one-way & two-way process? What is deployment plan? What are the configuration files in adapters? What is use of OESB/ESB/Mediator/OSB/ALSB? What are the operations in WSDL? How can do the customization in adapters? Are there any changes in XML files? What is work list application? What are the dehydration storage tables? What is automated roll-back & manual Roll-back? What is inline schema? What is success reply and failure reply? What is difference between imports & include? What is difference between services & references? What of process of choreography? Which file could deploy in SOA 10g? (Ans:- .jar files) Can we use Jdeveloper in OSB? (Ans:-No) What RMI & RPC? When we use correlation for synchronous & asynchronous services? What is XSL & XSLT, Differ those? What id ODI? What is idempotent? What is WSDL which one we give to client? What is JTA? After consume the data from queue or topic is there any packets? Can we use two pick/ receive activities or one pick & receive? Why we call ESB in 10g as mediator in 11g? Can we use customize XSLT? If yes how? Is it compilation done by ant-script? How? What are transaction boundaries? What is difference between file adapter & FTP Adapter? What is OAGIC?(Open applications group integration specification)

97. Describe about the SOAP? 98. From we can retrieve the schema? 99. What is cube_instance? 100. What is cluster based deployment? 101. Can we use throw called without catch & catch all? 102. What is path of deployment file? 103. In which folder .jar files created? 104. What is file debatching? 105. What is chunk file? 106. Can we give time for synchronous & asynchronous? By which activity? 107. How much size can file accept through file adapter? If it extends what happened? 108. How can find particular fault message in catch all activity? 109. How can we associate faultpolicy.xml with fault binding.xml? 110. What is the best process A) sync-Async 111. B) Async-sync. 112. What are the different design patterns in SOA? 113. What are different types of installations in SOA Suite 10g & 11g? 114. What is the significance of target namespace in a WSDL? 115. What are different message exchange patterns in BPEL? 116. Flow activity is sequential or parallel? 117. What is nonblockinginvokeall property? 118. What is DSP max thread & receiver thread properties? Why they are important? 119. What is error handling framework? 120. What is FlowN activity & how does it beverages the flow activity? 121. How do we handle transactions in BPEL? 122. What are transient and durable BPEL? 123. What is XA data source & how it differs from non-XA data source? 124. What are MFC properties? 125. What all operations can be performed by file adapter? 126. What is synchronous file read operation? Is it in bound or out Bound operation? 127. What all errors handled by BPEL process? 128. Why do we need JMS queue?

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What is the benefit of JMS queue using over AQ queue?

What is get preference property? &how do we set it and what advantage it provides? How can we make partner link dynamically? How do we resubmit faulted process? Types of deployment? How do we embed or use of JAVA code in BPEL? When do we use ESB over BPEL? What is out of box error handling in ESB? How can we get instance ID in ESB? How can we make routing in ESB dynamic? What is domain value mapping? Explain about the buckets? How to create dictionary? Explain about JNDI connections? How to process the variable from one instance to another instance? What is signal & receive signal?

145. Why do we need to have messages in WSDL, aren't operations and types enough to describe the parameters for a web service