Microsoft BizTalk Server| Interview Questions| Set 2

Hi folks,

We are back with set 2 of Biztalk server developer Interview Questions.

Let's have a look then.

1. State and explain stages of receive and send pipeline.
2. Difference Between XML receive pipeline and passThru pipeline.
3. State minimum components required in a pipeline.
4. State maximum components used in a pipeline.
5. Which property is required using Flat file dissambler and what happens if it is not set.
6. What are the base types of pipeline components.
7. What Interfaces are used for developing a general custom component pipeline.
8. What Interfaces are used for implementing a dissambler custom pipeline component.
9. How to execute a pipeline in an Orchestration.
10. How to set properties of an adaptor dynamically in an Orchestration.
11. What is message box and its purpose in Biztalk server.
12. Types of subscription in Biztalk.
13. Is it possible to have more than one port with same name.
14. In which state can a send port do not subscribe to a message.
15. Why multiple receive locations can be there in a receive port.
16. What is a send port group and can maps be applied to it 
17. What is ordered delivery on a send port and its impact.
18. What is back up transport and when is it used.
19. When error report properties get promoted.
20. What is orphaned and zombie message in Biztalk server.
21. State the types of Databases are in Biztalk server.
22. Which is the service that looks after known issues in Biztalk.
23. Which SQL agent job runs continuously in an Biztalk server 
24. Which Db stores messaging objects i.e receive port send port... Etc..
25. What job needs to be configured when you install Biztalk server.
26. What are thresholds and how to set them.
27. How can you measure BizTalk performance.
28. What things need to be backed up for complete Disaster recovery.
29. What is Scaling up and Scaling out in terms of Biztalk.
30. Which Adapter cannot run with 64 bit OS.
31. What's TDDS?
32. What is trusted and Un trusted hosts.
33. Different subscriptions in BizTalk.
34. What is BRE , basic idea 
35. Explain how can you execute Business rule in orchestration.
36. What is Policy and vocabulary.
37. Is it position change business rule policy after it was published.
38. What is long term fact and short term fact.
39. Difference Between deploying and publishing a rule.
40. What is RETE algorithm 

Following are some questions which, if you answer in an Interview you are surely getting the job 😀 ( That's just my experience though!)

1. Atomic scopes in orchestration have a retry feature, how does it work.
2. Are orchestrations instances processed in any order by default?
3. Give the code to create an Xlang message.
4. What is the property schema Base property of the schema Base element.
5. Can we create 2 receive locations with same URL and poll them.

The above set plus the set 1 in previous post together make the entire set of Theoretical based questions that can be asked in an Biztalk server developer Interview for 2-4 years experience.

I'll be sharing the answers and useful links for you to answer these questions.

In the Upcoming posts I'll be sharing some scenario based questions that can be asked as a Biztalk developer.

Till then keep sharing and learning as we gain experience.

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#Peace.