Biztalk Functoid Interview Question:

Orchestrations Based Biztalk Functoid Interview Questions:

Submitted by: Muhammad

☛ 1. What is an Orchestration ?
☛ 2. Read about each and every shape used in Orchestration. Specifically – Parallel, Listen, Compensate
☛ 3. Transactions in Orchestration.
☛ 4. Difference between Atomic and Long Running Transactions.
☛ 5. How to handle Delivery Failures ?
☛ 6. How do you ensure FIFO ?
☛ 7. Different Orchestration Patterns.
☛ 8. What is an Orchestration Instance.
☛ 9. How can you build a Singleton Pattern in Orchestration.
☛ 10. Convoys.
☛ 11. Race Condition and Zombie /Orphaned messages.
☛ 12. How can you deploy 2 Orchestration side by side ?
☛ 13. How do you update a deployed Orchestration with 0 or Less downtime.
☛ 14. How do you debug an Orchestration ?
☛ 15. How do you trace the messages processed by an Orchestration ?
☛ 16. Difference between call and start Orchestrations
☛ 17. Direct Binding ?
☛ 18. What are dynamic ports. How will you dynamically set the port.
☛ 19. Can we have dynamic send and receive ports ?
☛ 20. How do you consume a web/wcf service in an Orchestration ?
☛ 21. What are Persistence points ?
☛ 22. How do you count the Number of Persistence Points ?
☛ 23. What is Correlation ?
☛ 24. What are subscriptions ?
☛ 25. Which shapes will yield persistence points ?
☛ 26. How do you enable FIFO ?
☛ 27. What is a Multipart Message ? How do you use that ?
☛ 28. What is the use of Compensate shape ?
☛ 29. Assume you are using Transactions in your Orchestration. How do you set Timeout incase if you dont receive a response from an external system ?
☛ 30. What is XPath ? How can you use that ?
☛ 31. Difference between using XPath and using Distinguished fields.
☛ 32. Can you control the number of instances created for an Orchestration ?
☛ 33. How do you execute a Pipeline from an Orchestration ?
☛ 34. What happens when to try to use the Promoted Propery whose value (missing element/node) is not present in the message ? (Missing Property Exception)
☛ 35. How do you test the existence of a Promoted Property before using it ?
☛ 36. How do you ensure that a message is delivered to the destination ?
☛ 37. How do you call a non-serialazable class from an Orchestration ?
☛ 38. Advantage of having an Atomic scope.
Submitted by: Muhammad