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BizTalk 2006 Interview questions January 22, 2007

Posted by balajinjl in BizTalk 2006.
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For the last couple of weeks I was interviewing candidates for BizTalk developers and architects. I did select a few but unfortunately I was not able to find candidates with core understanding of BizTalk.

Some of the questions I would generally ask BizTalk architects

  1. Have you ever used BizTalk server in a scenario other than in a typical messaging environment?
  2. How will you create an Error handling framework in BizTalk?
  3. What are the draw-backs of BizTalk?
  4. What is the future direction of BizTalk?
  5. Why do we need convoy?
  6. How to resubmit a suspended message? What is possible and what is not possible?
  7. What is the difference between Windows Workflow and BizTalk server? Explain the scenarios
  8. What is the need to create MSMQT by BizTalk team when MSMQ is already available?
  9. Explain the Pub-sub model of BizTalk ?
  10. Architect a solution that would receive 100 messages of 50 – 100 MB in size and process them in 3 mins?
  11. How to deploy BizTalk in a highly available scenario?
  12. How to deploy BizTalk in a multicomputer scenario. Assume there would be DMZ and Corpnet?

Some of the questions I would generally ask BizTalk developers

  1. What is a targetNamespace? Why do we need it?
  2. What is a MessageType?
  3. What is correlation? Why do we need it?
  4. What is the difference between MSMQ and MSMQT? Why do we need MSMQT?
  5. What are the security groups created by BizTalk?
  6. What is the difference between distinguished fields and Property fields? Give an example with usage scenarios for each.
  7. How to debug an Orchestration?
  8. In the Orchestration what is the difference between Exception and Compensation? Give an example of its usage scenario.
  9. Can we do messaging in BizTalk without Orchestration? If yes how?
  10. What is a Convoy? Why do we need it? Give usage scenario for each Convoy.
  11. Explain the Publisher – Subscriber model of BizTalk
  12. What is a Message Box?
  13. What is BAM?
  14. What is BAS?
  15. What are adapters? What do we need it?
  16. What are the different ways BizTalk can be integrated with SAP?
  17. In a BizTalk project how to consume an external web service?

All the best for your interviews,

-Balaji NJL

Comments»

1. Nik Swider - March 22, 2007

Can you answer these for us. I was searching google and found your page, but I am looking for the answers, I already have the questions :)
thnks,
Nik

2. linda - March 11, 2008

Please write the correct answers ,if possible.
thanks in advance

3. balajinjl - June 18, 2008

Regarding answers – I am leaving it as an exercise to the readers. If you know answers to 90% of the questions above, I am sure you will clear your BizTalk interview.

All the best.
-Balaji NJL

4. Pimiento - June 19, 2008

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Pimiento!

5. R - July 20, 2008

Here is a good collection of Biztalk Interview Questions

http://www.oopsconcepts.com/Biztalk+Interview+Questions