Q1: What is the role of TRA (Tibco Runtime Agent)?

Ans: There are two main functions of TRA:

1. TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) is responsible for starting and stopping of processes running on a
machine.

2. TRA provides runtime environment for TIBCO applications.

TRA runs on every TIBCO machine in the background.

Q2: What type of resources in TIBCO EAR file?

Ans: Following type of resources are typically added in EAR file in TIBCO:

 Local Project Resources (Processes, Schemas, Connections, Services, Variables etc)

 Library Builder Resources Files.
 Files referred in designer CLASSPATH
 Files under Designer Installation directory
Q3: What is vcrepo.dat and when this file is created in TIBCO?
Vcrepo.dat file is used to store certain properties like TIBCO RV encoding, display name; description
etc. vcrepo.dat file gets created automatically when a TIBCO BW project is saved for the first time.
This file can be used for identification purposes.

Q4: While debugging TIBCO BW processes, which activity can be used to write complete
schema information to a file?
Ans: TIBCO provides Inspector activity which can be used for debugging purposes while developing
applications in TIBCO designer. Inspector activity can be used to write all output information of
designer activities to a local file including process variables and other details.

Q5: How Restful web services can be developed in TIBCO?

Ans: TIBCO provides a Plugin for REST and JSON which can be used to develop Restful web
services in TIBCO designer.

Q6: Can we have backward transitions in TIBCO BW Processes?

Ans: In TIBCO Designer Processes, transitions between activities are always uni-directional. This
means that we can’t go back to a previous transition from any point.

Q7: What are different Panels of TIBCO designer window and what is the purpose of each?
Ans: There are following four types of panels available in TIBCO designer window:

1. Project Panel: This panel shows project hierarchy.

2. Design Panel: This panel is used to design new BW Processes in TIBCO.
3. Palette Panel: This Panel has all the available Palettes with bundled activities which can be
dragged and used in design panel during process development.
4. Configuration Panel: Configurations including input, output details for any activity are specified
in the configuration panel.

Q8: What are the three levels of validations that can be performed in TIBCO designer?
Ans: Following are the three levels of validations supported by TIBCO BW:
1. Activity level validation

2. Process level validation

3. Project level validation

Q9: What is difference between fault tolerant and Load balanced deployment in TIBCO?
Ans:

Load balancing:
Load balancing is done between two or more servers where the load is distributed between servers
to avoid any server crashes due to heavy load on a single server.

Fault tolerance:
Fault tolerance is achieved between two servers where one server acts as a primary and the second
server acts as a secondary/backup server for the primary server. Whenever failure occurs for
primary server, the backup secondary server becomes the primary server.

Q: How can we retrieve Concrete WSDL from a deployed web service EAR?
Ans: We can retrieve concrete wsdl from a deployed service by setting retrieveresource.enabled to
true in the advanced configuration of par. Then we can access the wsdl by following URL:

http://hostname:portno/inspection.wsil
1. What is the difference between sqldirect and other jdbc activities?

Ans: Other jdbc activities can only do a specific DML operation (insert, update,
modify), where as sql direct can executes all the DML operations including table
creation and deletion too.

SQL direct is mainly used for dynamic db operations

2. What is the difference between shared variable, job shared variable, process
variables and global variables?

Ans: Shared variables can be accessible by multiple process definitions, and

can

Changeable by any process definition.

Job Shared variables can be accessible within the execution jobs, and it will
maintain a copy of variable for every job (execution).

Process Variables can only be access for a particular process where it gets
defined.

Global variable can be accessible by across the project. Global variable can be
edit

at runtime too in Tibco administrator.

3. What are the archive files in .ear ?

Ans: Enterprise Archive(.ear) file contains combination .par, .sar and .aar files i.e
process archive file, shared archive files and adapter archive files.
4. Where we will go for ADB adapter and JDBC Activities?

Ans: We can go for ADB adapter where the data flow is synchronous and data
integration is required between multiple data bases. Whereas JDBC Activities can
be used for asynchronous operations and where the data integration is not
required.

5. What is the difference between Filepoller and file adapter?

Ans: File poller is a process starter activity which polls the given file for every
polling interval time. It simply read the file and processes the text or binary
output.

File adapter poll the set of files for every change event and make them sync as
per the requirement.

6. What is persistent, nonresistent queue in EMS?

Ans: Persistent in EMS (Enterprise Messaging Service) is to store the messages

on disk or database, so that we can get the data from dist or database at later
point of time when consumer is available.

Non Persistent: Non persistent in EMS that the messages were not store at dist
or database. They will remains in EMS server and expire after reaching the
expiration limit.

7. What are the transactions in tibco?

Ans: In tibco every transaction is a business related message. We have JNDI, XA

transactions available in tibco.
8. What is the difference between parsed xml and render xml?

Ans: Parse XML will parse the xml content as per the XML Schema or DTD or XSD
that we defined.

Render XML will render the data from the output and provide a xml string as per
the Shema or XSD we defined

9. Explain some errors in while deployment the .ear?

Ans: tibrv failed exception, tibhawk failed exception. No such memory found
exception. Connection issues. Port availability exceptions.

10. Explain error handling mechanism?

Ans: We can handle the errors using generate error, catch, and Re throw.

11. What is static queue, dynamic queue and temporary queue?

Ans: Static queues are those created through tibco ems admin tool.

Dynamic queues are created on top of EMS server. They can be created at
designer level

or at client level.

Temporary queues will exist until the application and client connection
exists.

12. What is the difference between RV (rendezvous) and jms?

Ans: RV and JMS both are tibco messaging transports.

a) Architecture wise RV follows BUS architecture and JMS follows client server
architecture.

b) Protocol wise RV using UDP and JMS using TCP.

c) RV follows subject based messaging where as JMS using queues and

topics.

d) RV is less secure and reliable in message transportation when we compare

with EMS as EMS stores the messages on disk.

e) RV sending data in asynchronously, EMS sends synchronously.

f) RV majorly used in Telecom sectors where as EMS used in Banking and

Financial sectors.

g) RV is a proprietary production of Tibco software inc where as EMS is

wrapper over JMS 1.1version

13. How to install tibco software components (sequence to install the

components)?

Ans: We can install tibco software in 3 ways.

a) GUI mode

b) Silent mode

c) Console mode.

And we can install tibco software in the following sequence.

TRA, BW, Admin, EMS, RV, Adapters, Hawk.

14. What is the role of tra?

Ans: TRA (tibco runtime agent) will setup the tibco environment. Which includes
tibco designer, tibco rv, jvm and jre, hawk.

15. What is the difference between parse data and render data?

Ans: Parse data will parse the text content as per the Data format defined.

Render data will render the data from the output and provide a string as per the
Data format defined.

16. What is the use of spawn option in called process?

Ans: If spawn is checked, then that process will be executes externally with main
process. And we are not support to make this spawn when we are using job
shared variables

17. What is the use of transaction?

Ans: Transaction is used to perform All or nothing .If everything is successful

then all will be commited ot else will be roll back .

It supports two types of Transactions

1.JDBC

2.XA.

The JDBC Transaction type provides transaction support only for the JDBC
activities, and it does not provide transaction support for JMS or Checkpoint
resources. The JDBC Transaction group allows you to perform multiple database
operations within the group as a single unit of work. All database operations
performed within the transaction group are either committed or rolled back.

The XA Transaction type allows you to perform JDBC and JMS operations within
the group as a single unit of work. All JDBC and JMS operations performed within
the transaction group are either committed or rolled back.
18. Explain critical section group?

Ans: A critical section group controls the shared variables modification by other
processes while the job is running at critical section group. We select lock object
along with critical section group

20. What is the difference between queues and topics?

Ans: Queues and Topics both are used in message store and transportation in
EMS.

Queues are used in point to point communication mode where as Topics are used
in Publish Subscribe communications.

Queues can assure the message deliver even if the reader/receiver is not active.

Topics case messages cannot be sent if consumer is not active. but we can
assurance by making them as durable

Queues are more secure than Topics

21. What is the use of bridges in ems?

Ans: Using bridge concept in EMS we can send messages between applications
to applications without changing the application code. We can simply using the
same application logic with defined topics and queues. Here we simply bridge the
desired topics to queues or queue to queue or topic to topic vice versa.

If u wants to send message between different messaging destinations within the

EMS serve then go for bridge and its unidirectional

22. What is the difference between reliable, certified, distributed queues in RV?

Ans: Reliable: Delivery guarantee in the reliable mode, subscriber can send the
re-transmission request for the lost packets.
Certified: Certified messaging assures that both pub/subs are in certified mode of
message delivery. And packets/messages will be stored on a ledger file. So that
lost messages or packets can be delivered as per the re-transmission request.

Distributed: Distribute Queue is to share load between the workers; this will
handled by Load balancing concept. Whoever is having highest work will be
acting as scheduler and also we can decide worker capacity as well DQ-Load
balancing!

23. What Abstract wsdl and concrete wsdl?

Ans: Abstract wsdl contains the message, port and port type information which
can be used by web service provider.

Concrete wsdl contains abstract wsdl and transport details, and which is used by
web service client.

24. What is the use of ESB BUS?

Ans:An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a distributed, message-based integration

solution based on open standards. The role of an ESB is to facilitate reliable
communications between IT resources such as applications, platforms and
services that are distributed in multiple systems throughout an enterprise.

25. What is difference between publish by value, publishby reference modes in

ADB adapter?

Ans: publish by value: in this type the changes in the source table are reflected in
the p_ table and the data is taken from there. its used when high speed is
required. it dose not support data types like oracle long.

publish by reference: in this type the data is directly taken from the source table
where only the primary key will come from p_ table. it allows data types like
oracle long.
loss of changes in the source table can be lost bcos of the waiting time.(this can
be avoided using alerter).
26. What is the use of confirm activity, checkpoint and how to use?

Ans: Confirm – is used to give client acknowledgements and also in RVCM

Concept.

Checkpoint – is to saves the state of the process, avoids duplications, and BW

Engine failures

27. What is the difference between SOAP Event Source and Service Activity?

Ans: Using the SOAP Event Source, you can run only one operation at a time.
While using the Service Palette you can run multiple operations simultaneously

The “SOAP Event Source” process starter creates a process instance for
incoming SOAP requests. SOAP is a standard protocol for invoking web services.
This allows you to create a web service using process definitions. Upon retrieval
of the WSDL, the client can perform a SOAP request to invoke the web service.

28. What is the purpose of “Retrieve Resource” activity?

Ans: The Retrieve Resources activity generates a WSDL file containing a

concrete service (Conrete WSDL) description of any process definition that has a
SOAP Event Source process starter. This allows clients to access the WSDL for a
web service. The client can then use the WSDL file to invoke the web service. The
Retrieve Resources activity can also be used to retrieve any other resources,
including XSDs and WSIL.

29. What is use of HAWK and what are the components present in HAWK?
 Ans: HAWK is the tibco monitoring tool which can monitor the health of system,
applications and can be manage the applications too.

Hawk contains 3 major components, hawk display, hawk agents, and hawk micro-
agents.

30. What is the use of Query Builder in JDBC query Activity?

No idea!! I never heard this query builder in JDBC

1. What is the use of “Override Transaction behavior” option in JDBC Activities?

Overrides the default behavior of a transaction group. If this activity is in a

transaction group, the activity is normally committed or rolled back with the other
transactional activities.

If this checkbox is checked, this activity is not part of the transaction group and
is committed when it completes. Checking this option uses a separate database
connection to perform the activity and commit the SQL statement.

32. What are the properties that we can set to a queue or topic?

Ans: Secure, failsafe, global, prefetch, maxmsgs, maxbytes, export, import,

flowcontrol, sender_name, trace, expiration, overflowpolicy, store and channel.

33. What are the protocols that RV and EMS use?

Ans: EMS uses TCP protocol where as RV uses TRDP over UDP which will
provide TRDP for secure communication.

34. What is fault tolerance and Load Balancing in tibco EMS and where to
configure?

Ans: Fault Tolerance: The arrangement of failover recovery in EMS to assist client
communications to EMS is called Fault Tolerance. Setting up primary and
secondary EMS servers in an environment.

Load Balance:

35. What are the configuration files present in EMS/?.

Ans:tibemsd.conf – EMS server config file which reads other config

files queues.conf,topics.conf, durables.conf, acl.conf, user.conf, group.conf, brid
ges.conf, route.conf etc.

36. What is force redeployment?

Ans: Selecting Force redeployment of all services to redeploy all services even if
a

service is in a synchronized state. This is useful if you have manually changed

deployment files, or if you need to define NT Services to multiple hosts in a

Microsoft Cluster.

37. Where we define error schema for generate error activity?

Ans: Will have to define in END activity error schema tab so that it will get deflect
on generate error tab.

38. What is Generate Error, Catch, and Rethrow activities?

 Ans:Generate error is for error handling and catch and rethrow is for exception
handling mechanism.

Rethrown will throw error to the next level.

39. What are the other tibco components that automatically come along with tibco
tra installation?

Ans:TRA installs the following components:

1. TIBCO Rendezvous 8.1.1

2. Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0
3. Third party core libraries 5.6.0
4. TIBCO Hawk 4.8.1
5. TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.6.0
6. TIBCO Designer 5.6.0

40. What are the acknowledgement modes available in tibco EMS?

Ans: These are the following acknowledgement modes in EMS and JMS

JMS: The JMS specification defines three levels of acknowledgement for non-
transacted

a). Auto

b) Client Acknowledgement.

c) Dups-Ok Acknowledgement.

EMS: EMS extends the JMS acknowledge modes to include:

d) NO_ACKNOWLEDGE

e) EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE
f) EXPLICIT_CLIENT_DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE

41. What are file based and process based ledgers in TIBCO RVCM?

Ans: Ledger will maintain all the data about publisher and as well subscriber.

File based will be stored in memory whereas process based with have saved in
file system

42. What is the role of domain utility?

Ans: Domain utility: is used to create, delete, and modify tibco domains.

To add machines to the specific domain.

To add EMS server plug-in to the tibco domains.

To modify server settings and http ports.

43. What is webservice and what protocol it uses?

Ans: SOAP , JMS and HTTP.

44. What is the difference between SOAP Over JMS/HTTP?

The advantage of using “SOAP over JMS” over “SOAP over HTTP” is reliability as
you may use the persistence and acknowledgment features built in the standard.
The same applies if you need to establish asynchronous communication or need
to use the load balancing features provided by JMS servers. You can achieve this
using http but the implementation would be much more complicated.

45. What is the use of durable subscribers?

Ans: Durable subscribers are those who can subscribe messages at later point of
time whenever they are active.

46. What is file based storage and database storage in TIBCO EMS and where we
will configure it?

Ans: In file based store all messages will be saved on disk. Where as in database
storage all messages will write on db. If we check in stores.conf we can find file
storage and database storage. By default any message will be stored in the file.

Note: In EMS 6.0 there is no concept of server or data base storage. By default all
the messages gets stored on the disc itself.

47.What is difference between GUI Mode, Console Mode and Silent mode of
installation?

Ans: GUI mode: In this mode we can install in graphical mode, and well instructed
steps guide us to install.

No need of change any folder permissions in this mode.

Console mode: In this mode we can install through from command line. We have
to run the command to install any tibco product with help of below command.

In this mode we have to modify the permissions for the root folders of every
product of tibco.

Silent mode: This mode is similar like Console mode, but here we are saving the
installation in a store file. We have to run the below command in Silent mode.

Here also we have to change the ownership as root for the tibco root paths.

48. How to define security to EMS sever Or use of SSL in tibco EMS?

By using this SSL we can provide security to the EMS messages for this will have
configure the SSL certificate file,
49. List the X-path functions that you recently used?

Ans: String, Date, Numbers,logical

50. What is difference between Render XML activity and tib: renderxml X-path
function?

Render xml will take inoput as string and generate to xml.

Parse xml will be sued to generate the Xml file by giving text string as input

51. What is the use of SSL and HTTPS?

Both will be used for to provide the security to TIBCO products.

52. What is flow limit, max jobs and activation limit?

Ans: Flow Limit: Maximum number of concurrently running process instances to

start before suspending the process starter.

Max Jobs: Maximum number of process instances that can concurrently be

loaded into memory.

Activation Limit: Once a process instance is loaded it must remain in memory

until it completes.

53. What is lock object and where it is used?

It will allow only one process instance to access the data at a point of time.It will
used along with critical section group in shared variables.

54. What is the use of pick first and critical section?

Already covered in prev questions

55. What protocol RV uses and explain about UDP and TRDB protocol?
Ans: TRDP (TIBCO Reliable Datagram Protocol) is a proprietary protocol running
on top of UDP. (Trusted Router Discovery Protocol) It brings mechanisms to
manage reliable message delivery in a broadcast/multicast paradigm, this
includes:
– message numbering
– negative acknowledgement

56. What is TIBCO?

Ans. It is a middleware tool. It is a completely pictorial view of programming.

1. It has no server.

2. It is simply an in and out process.

3. Runs on any platform i.e. Platform independent.

4. Supports all the languages.

5. It supports SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) i.e. it is a loosely coupled and

a distributed architecture. Hence each system is not completely and tightly
dependent on other system.

57. What is the difference between Get JMS queue and Wait for JMS queue
message activity?

The Get JMS Queue Message activity retrieves a message from the specified
queue. This activity allows you to perform a receive operation on the queue as
opposed to waiting for a queue message to be delivered to the Wait for JMS
Queue Message activity or the JMS Queue Receiver process starter.

The Wait for JMS Queue Message activity uses event key which is the
‘JMSCorrelationID’ to filter the right response with the right job. The ‘key’ is the
‘JMSMessageID’ sent by the Queue Sender activity
58. Why do we use alias file name in File palette?

No idea!

59. Why do we use JMS?

Ans. For BW to touch the EMS server we use JMS. Using this JMS we build a
connection between them and once the connection is successful we use this
connection in the JMS queue sender.

60. When do you get the error “Array Index out of Bounds Exception?”

Ans: When the data formats are not specified correctly. If we give Fixed format
instead of delimiter we get this type of error. If we give fixed format then we need
to specify the length in offset as equal to the number of characters as (0, 4, 7) and
so on.

61. How can we transfer the data between multiple EMS servers?

Ans. By using Routing concept. we need to set Global Property on Queues for
achieving this.

62. What is the caption of TIBCO?

Ans. ‘The information Bus Company’. Since it transfers the messages in the form
of a bus from one end to the other.

63. What is a domain?

Ans: Domain is a computer term for a network based group of computers. These
computers, in a domain, share a common database on that network.
64. What is the need of monitoring?

Ans: To handle network health checks even when the administrator is not before
the system we write some rule bases in HAWK and this HAWK will do the
monitoring.

65. What is a subject based messaging?

Ans: RV follows Subject based messaging where all publishers publish the
message on subject name and interested subscribers are listening on this
subject. It’s pure bus architecture.

66. What is queue and topic based messaging?

Ans: queue follows point to point mode of messaging where as topics follows
pub/hub or client server messaging modes. Both are server based messaging in
EMS.

67. Explain fail safe and non fail safe properties of a message. Also the flow of
these messages in the synchronous and asynchronous data bases.

Ans: Failsafe: Ensures that no message loss when the connection gets failed
over queues.

Non failsafe means message loss when an unconditional network glitz’s occurs.

68. What is the difference between RVD and RVRD?

Ans: RVD (Rendezvous Daemon): RVD is used to connect only within the
network.

RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon): RVRD is used to connect outside the

network and also within the network. If we have RVRD then there is no need of
RVD.

69. What is RVA?

 Ans: To receive packets coming through internet i.e. web pages we use RVA
(Rendezvous Agent)

70. How do we do performance testing for TIBCO BW?

Not remembering by now but will share later.

71. Explain peak utilization of a process.

72. Explain commands prstat, pmap, vmstat

Vmstat is to find the utilization its same like top command.

73. How do we do JVM heap size utilization monitoring during the peak load?

Interview questions for BACS:

1. What are the different modes of installation?

2. Difference between GUI and silent mode of Installation
3. What is a transaction
4. What is xxxx transaction
5. What happens in the back end when you do execute the transactions and the BW
activities
6. What is JNDI and XA
7. What are your day to day activities?
8. How do you login to UNIX box?
9. How are you doing the deployments?
10. How are you doing the production deployments
11. How are you doing the dev and QA deployments
12. What are script deployments
13. How do you do command line deployments
14. What is the difference between script and command line deployments
15. How do these scripts get executed?
16. What is appmanage utility
17. What are the advantages of script deployments over command line and GUI
deployments
18. What are batch scripts
19. How do you prepare batch scripts
20. When you are using UNIX how can you have windows for using GUI
21. How do you get the tickets for doing the deployments
22. Are you provided the ear’s and xml both or do you extract xml out of ear yourself
23. What is the command for extracting the xml out of ear and for deploying the ear
through the command line
24. What are the issues you faced while doing deployments
25. How did you fix them
26. If you increase the heap size the error “Java.Lang. No such memory Found
exception” got fixed
27. What is the Maximum memory of the Java heap size
28. If the heap size goes beyond 1024 MB what happens
29. Is this memory restricted to all other servers or only to TIBCO
30. How did you fix ‘Tibrv failed exception’ error
31. How did you fix Tibhawk failed exception’ error
32. How did you fix ‘Connection issues’ error
33. How did you fix ‘Port availability exceptions’ error
34. What are the configuration files
35. How do you check logs
36. What is the path to check the logs
37. What is fault tolerance
38. How do you do fault tolerance in EMS
39. In which configuration file you make the entries for FT
40. Which fields you modify for FT
41. Just after making the changes how does the server know to perform the FT
42. Where do you make an entry after making the changes in the tibemsd.conf file to
enable FT
43. What is there in factories.conf configuration file
44. How do you do FT in GUI
45. What is a primary server
46. What is a secondary server
47. What is peer to peer. How do you assign weights among them
48. What is master server
49. What is load balancing
50. How do you do load balancing
51. Can you do load balancing for more than two pairs of servers
52. What fields in which configuration files you make changes for enabling load
balancing
53. How does the server know to perform load balancing after making changes to
perform load balancing
54. What is there in stores.conf configuration file
55. What is the minimum heart beat interval
56. How do you add a machine
57. What for is Buildear utility used
58. What for is domain utility used
59. What are the port numbers you used for FT and load balancing pair
60. What is ACL
61. What do you mean by implementing ACL
62. How do you give permissions?
63. Is your project not following fixed standards for granting permissions.are you not
granting permissions on a group instead of granting userwise
64. What is Hawk
65. How do you do Hawk monitoring
66. How do you write a Rulebase
67. Did you write any rulebase
68. How do you write schedule
69. After writing schedule does it get executed just like that or do you need to do
anything
70. What is LDAP
71. Does you project maintain LDAP
72. How do you create users.
73. What are the UNIX commands you use in your day to day activities most
frequently
74. In ps –ef lgrep what does f stands for?
75. In ls –ltr what does r stands for
76. What does top command do
77. What does cat do?
78. What is the difference between more and cat
79. What does tail do
80. How do you read last 30 lines by using tail command
81. By simply writing cat does the command get executed? What is the syntax for
writing it
82. What does grep do?
83. Do these commands execute in solaris and Red hat linux as well
84. How many servers you have

Non Technical:

1. Do you have shifts

2. Do you have on call
3. What is your team size
4. Which regions you support
5. Do you support 24 by 7
6. What is your current CTC
7. What is your expected CTC
8. What are the internal tools you have
9. Why are using both ITSM and Maximo
10. What do you do in ITSM and Maximo
11. What is the SLA for sev1 and sev2
12. Do you patch everybody or do you have any operations team to patch or intimate
everyone during sev 1 and sev 2’s
13. How many tickets do you get daily

Interview Questions.

1. BW , EMS, BE, RV, HAWK,

2. ADMINtrouble shooting;
3. monitoring Hawk rule scripting;
4. domain util: creating domain, FT, LB:
5. adapter: adb, file adapter
6. EMS: FT, create user, topic, queues; route
7. update BW processes and handle production issues;
8. admin tracing
9. admin management
10. EMS 6.3
11. BW 5.8
12. WS SECURITY
13. WS SOAP & REST
14. UDDI
15. WS deploy accessible
16. ant SCRIPT: yes;
17. UNIX COMMAND:
18. Error and Exception Handling FRAMEWORK:
19. bc : v??
20. be : v4.0
21. iProcess:10.1