25 January 2021

#uDeploy

#udeploy

Key Concepts


Topic SubTopic Basic ✅ Intermediate ✅ Advanced ✅ Expert ✅
Introduction What is UDeploy, Features, Benefits, Use cases
Architecture Components, Server, Agents, Environments, Pipelines
Deployment Process Application deployment, Versions, Environments
Pipelines Process Designer, Stages, Steps, Automation
Integration CI/CD tools, Jenkins, Git, Maven, APIs
Configuration Management Properties, Configurations, Shared resources
Security Roles, Permissions, LDAP/AD integration, Audit
Environment Management Environment setup, Target servers, Agents
Notifications & Alerts Email alerts, Webhooks, Slack integration
Advanced Features Dynamic environments, Rollbacks, Orchestration, Plugins
Best Practices Pipeline design, Versioning, Automation, Monitoring
Troubleshooting Log analysis, Deployment failures, Error handling
API & Automation REST API, CLI, Scripting, Automation strategies
Reporting & Metrics Deployment reports, Audit logs, Performance metrics
Scaling & High Availability Clustering, Load balancing, Agent scaling

Interview question

What is UrbanCode Deploy?
What are the main components of uDeploy?
Define Application in UrbanCode Deploy.
What is a Component in uDeploy?
How is an Environment defined in uDeploy?
Explain the term "Resource" in UrbanCode Deploy.
What is the difference between an Application Process and a Component Process?
How does uDeploy manage deployment artifacts?
What is a Snapshot in uDeploy?
How do Snapshots help in deployment consistency?
Describe the architecture of UrbanCode Deploy.
What are the hardware requirements for installing uDeploy?
How do you install a uDeploy agent?
What is the function of the uDeploy server?
How does the server-agent communication work?
How do you scale uDeploy across multiple environments?
What is the use of WebSphere Liberty in UrbanCode Deploy?
How can uDeploy be configured for high availability?
What are the installation steps for uDeploy on Linux?
How do you upgrade UrbanCode Deploy?
What is a process in uDeploy?
How do you create an application process?
Explain the types of steps available in a process.
What are properties in uDeploy?
How do you pass properties between processes?
What are secure properties?
What is a Property Sheet?
How do you define conditional logic in processes?
What is an Approval Process?
What are gates in deployment processes?
How are artifacts stored in UrbanCode Deploy?
What is a version in uDeploy?
How do you import component versions?
Explain the versioning strategy in uDeploy.
What is the artifact repository in uDeploy?
How can you integrate external artifact repositories (e.g., Nexus, Artifactory)?
How do you configure component source configuration?
What is a ?Download Artifacts? step?
How can you deploy a specific version of a component?
How do you compare component versions?
How is RBAC implemented in UrbanCode Deploy?
What are the different roles in uDeploy?
How do you create a new user or group?
How can you restrict environment access?
What is a team in UrbanCode Deploy?
How do secure properties differ from regular properties?
How can you audit user actions in uDeploy?
Explain how LDAP integration works in uDeploy.
What authentication methods are supported?
How do you manage permissions for deployment processes?
How do you integrate Jenkins with UrbanCode Deploy?
How can you trigger deployments automatically from CI/CD pipelines?
How do you integrate UrbanCode with Git or GitHub?
Can uDeploy work with Docker or Kubernetes?
How does uDeploy integrate with JIRA or ServiceNow?
What plugins are available in UrbanCode Deploy?
How do you create a custom plugin?
How does UrbanCode Release relate to uDeploy?
What APIs does UrbanCode Deploy provide?
How do you use the REST API in UrbanCode Deploy?
Where are logs stored in uDeploy?
How do you troubleshoot failed deployments?
How do you enable debug logging?
What tools can be used to monitor uDeploy health?
How do you export logs for audit purposes?
How do you handle process timeouts?
What is the importance of the "Deployment Plan"?
How do you monitor agent health?
What happens if an agent is offline during deployment?
How do you handle partial deployment failures?
What are Tokens in UrbanCode Deploy?
How do you use Global Properties?
What is the difference between application and component environment properties?
Explain environment inheritance in uDeploy.
What is a resource template?
What are notification templates?
How do you use Shell scripts in deployment steps?
What is the UrbanCode Deploy CLI?
How do you backup and restore uDeploy configuration?
How do you migrate components between instances?
What is a Blueprint Designer in UrbanCode Deploy?
How does uDeploy provision cloud resources?
What clouds are supported (AWS, Azure, GCP)?
What is Heat template support?
How do you connect to IBM Cloud?
Can uDeploy integrate with Terraform or Ansible?
What is the role of UrbanCode Deploy in hybrid cloud deployments?
How do you create dynamic environments in uDeploy?
What is the importance of cloud configuration properties?
How do you manage environment drift using uDeploy?
What are some best practices for creating deployment processes?
How do you manage multiple teams using uDeploy?
How do you implement blue-green deployment in uDeploy?
How do you handle canary deployments?
What are the risks of not using snapshots?
How do you ensure rollback capability?
What metrics do you track for deployment success?
How do you handle secrets management in uDeploy?
How do you onboard a new application in uDeploy?
How do you maintain consistency across environments?

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03 January 2021

#UiPATH

UiPATH
What is RPA?
What are the components in UiPath ?
What is the Role of BA (Business Analyst)?
What is Queue and Transaction?
What are the debugging methods?
What is FTE and it usage in Automation?
What are the steps for connecting orchestrator to the robot?
What can the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template be used as?
What does building productive robots require?
What is the robot able to do when the Full Text scraping method is used?
What is the best practice to stop an ongoing job in Orchestrator?
What happens if the result of a transaction is not set?
What types of assets can be stored in Orchestrator?
What happens in the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Init state of the Main workflow?
What is UiPath Automation?
What is Value and Scope of information types in UiPath?
What are contentions in UiPath?
What are properties in UiPath?
What are Flowchart exercises in UiPath?
What are grouping exercises in UiPath?
What is state machine in UiPath?
What are Selectors and Wildcards in UiPath?
What is the Assign Activity in UiPath?
What is the Delay Activity in UiPath?
What is the While Do Activity in UiPath?
What is the If Activity in UiPath?
What is the For Each Activity in UiPath?
What is the Break Activity in UiPath?
What is bundle chief in UiPath?
What is venture troubleshooting in UiPath?
What is Automatic Recording in UiPath?
What is distributing a computerization venture implies in UiPath?
What are UI Activities Properties in UiPath?
What is Citrix Automation in UiPath? Do you have any involvement in virtual machine mechanization?
What is datatype of variable which reads excel?
What activity is used to get structured data?
What is Uipath Orchestrator?
What are the OCR engine available in Uipath?
What is Citrix automation?
What are the error handling activities available in Uipath?
What is Recording in UiPath Studio?
Name some RPA Tools.
Name looping activities.
Why UiPath is best in RPA?
Why do you performing Data Scraping in UiPath?
Which Component run the Automation or Handle Automation?
Which of the following are considered best practices?
Which activity is used to call another piece of automation?
Which of the following types of variables defined in UiPath Studio?
Which of the statuses below can a transaction have? Select all the options that apply.
Which helps is pause the process in between workflow?
Which is the default browser in Uipath?
How RPA works?
How the Robot is triggered?
How many kinds of robots can be configured in Orchestrator?
How you do effective Logging in Uipath?
How you can able to pass value between two XAML workflow file?
How will you handle Credentials?
How you deploy an automation or process in Robot using Orchestrator?
How will you automate Transaction processing / Dispatcher process without Orchestrator?
How FTE is calculated?
How can you retrieve the value stored in a Queue Item variable?
How can you ignore an item in a collection when using a For Each activity?
How can a process be allocated to three different robots?
How are Robot Keys generated?
How would you make an undertaking in UiPath?
How would you be able to empower picture and content based procedure mechanization?
How can we call another xaml file inside one xaml file?
How can we extract data from SQL database?
How can we connect and read database?
How to extract text from image?
Where the RPA is used?
Where Floating Robots will be used?
Where should credentials be stored? Select all the options that apply.
Where can the logging level of a robot be changed from?
Where can we download the packages?
Difference between UiPath versus Selenium?
In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, where can the GetAppCredentials workflow retrieve credentials from?
In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Main workflow, the State Machine includes the following states:
In a Try Catch activity, how many times is the Finally section executed if no error occurs in the Try section?
In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Main workflow, what is the default type of the TransactionItem variable?
In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Get Transaction Item state of the Main workflow, what happens before the next
After dropping an Invoke Workflow File activity in your sequence, you need to:
Does Uipath support browser other than IE?
Example of machine learning integrating activity in Uipath.
If a large item collection is processed using For Each, which activity enables you to efficiently exit the loop after a specific moment?
Is being able to use break inside if?
Is it possible to start the debugging at any particular point of workflow?
Is that regex expression can be integrated in Uipath?
Is it mandatory to clear the clipboard before using clipboard activity?
Is citrix automation possible in uipath?
The return value of the Get Transaction Item activity is of the following type:
The following heartbeat value shows that a robot is connected to Orchestrator:
While debugging,how can we pause the execution of workflow?
Windows used in Debug Mode?
UiPATH

#Blue_Prism

#Blue_Prism
Topic - SubTopic Basic Intermediate Advanced Expert
Blue Prism Basics - Overview What is Blue Prism?, Features of Blue Prism, RPA vs Traditional Automation Blue Prism architecture, Runtime resources, Control Room basics Blue Prism components (Studio, Control Room, System Manager), Blue Prism vs UiPath/Automation Anywhere Enterprise automation strategies, Blue Prism in large organizations, Best practices for scaling RPA
Process Studio Creating a process, Basic flow objects, Linking stages Decision stage, Calculation stage, Data items Sub-processes, Exception handling in processes, Process inputs/outputs Complex process design patterns, Modular process architecture, Optimizing process performance
Object Studio What is Object Studio?, Business objects, Application modeller basics Spying modes (Win32, HTML, Region, Java), Action stages, Object inputs/outputs Dynamic attributes, Surface automation, Exception handling in objects Complex object design, Reusable object frameworks, Best practices for scaling objects
Control Room Monitoring sessions, Starting/stopping processes, Scheduling basics Work queue basics, Prioritization, Resource pools SLA management, Work queue configuration, Exception queue handling Enterprise workload balancing, Multi-environment scheduling, High availability setup
Work Queues Basics of work queues, Item status, Queue management Filtering, Tagging, Prioritization, Deferred items Exception handling in work queues, Queue performance tuning Multi-queue architecture, Distributed processing, End-to-end queue monitoring
Exception Handling Recover and Resume stages, Exception flow basics Exception bubbling, System vs Business exceptions Retry mechanism, Exception handling frameworks, Best practices Enterprise exception strategy, SLA-based exception routing, Automated recovery patterns
Security & User Management Blue Prism users, Roles, Permissions Environment locking, Audit logs, User roles Active Directory integration, Credential Manager, Role-based access control Enterprise security compliance, Multi-tenant environments, Security audits
Deployment & Release Management Creating releases, Import/export processes, Environment setup Package management, Version control, Release lifecycle Multi-environment deployment, Object versioning, Process migration CI/CD integration, Large-scale deployment strategies, DevOps for RPA
Integration Basic Excel automation, Database automation, File handling Web services integration, Mainframe automation, Surface automation APIs and REST integration, Advanced Excel automation, Messaging systems Enterprise integration (ERP, CRM), Cloud service integration, Complex hybrid automation
Advanced Features N/A Scheduler, Resource pools, Analytics basics Multi-bot architecture, Custom code stages (C#), Credential management Cognitive automation with AI/ML, Intelligent automation with NLP, Scaling Blue Prism with cloud platforms

Basic

Blue Prism Basics

  1. What is Blue Prism?
  2. Key features of Blue Prism
  3. Difference between RPA and traditional automation
  4. Why do organizations use RPA?
  5. What is the role of a Digital Worker?
  6. Difference between attended and unattended bots
  7. What are the components of Blue Prism?
  8. Explain the architecture of Blue Prism
  9. Difference between Process Studio and Object Studio
  10. What is Application Modeller?

Process Studio

  1. What is a process in Blue Prism?
  2. What are flow objects?
  3. Explain start and end stages
  4. What is the calculation stage?
  5. Explain decision stage
  6. What are data items?
  7. Difference between local and global data items
  8. How do you pass values between stages?
  9. What are collections?
  10. What are environment variables?

Object Studio

  1. What is Object Studio used for?
  2. Difference between process and business object
  3. What are action stages?
  4. What is spying?
  5. What are the different spy modes?
  6. What is surface automation?
  7. Explain business object lifecycle
  8. What is Application Modeller used for?
  9. Difference between input and output parameters
  10. What is an action in Object Studio?

Control Room

  1. What is the purpose of Control Room?
  2. How to start and stop a process?
  3. What is a session?
  4. What is session management?
  5. What is scheduling in Control Room?
  6. Difference between scheduler and session
  7. What is a work queue?
  8. What is a resource?
  9. How to monitor processes in Control Room?
  10. What is session log?

General Basics

  1. What is Blue Prism dashboard?
  2. What are alerts in Blue Prism?
  3. What is release management?
  4. What is the environment variable manager?
  5. What is Blue Prism licensing model?
  6. What is environment locking?
  7. Difference between system exception and business exception
  8. What is retry mechanism?
  9. Explain the difference between development and runtime resources
  10. What is a Blue Prism runtime environment?

Intermediate

Process Studio

  1. What is sub-process?
  2. How to use page references?
  3. Difference between page reference and action
  4. How to handle multiple data items in processes?
  5. What are collections and how to use them?
  6. What is the use of calculation stage?
  7. How to use the choice stage?
  8. Difference between choice and decision stage
  9. How to manage inputs and outputs in a process?
  10. How to manage complex process flows?

Object Studio

  1. How to configure Application Modeller?
  2. Difference between region and HTML spying
  3. How to manage dynamic attributes in Application Modeller?
  4. What is surface automation and when to use it?
  5. How to handle multiple windows in Application Modeller?
  6. How to build reusable objects?
  7. What are initialization and cleanup pages?
  8. What is the use of environment variables in objects?
  9. What is exception bubbling?
  10. How to throw and catch exceptions in Object Studio?

Control Room & Work Queues

  1. What is work queue prioritization?
  2. How to filter work queue items?
  3. How to retry failed queue items?
  4. What is deferred item in a queue?
  5. How to manage SLA in work queues?
  6. What is tagging in work queues?
  7. How to manage resource pools?
  8. How to configure schedules?
  9. What is session variable?
  10. How to configure multiple bots?

Exception Handling

  1. Explain Recover and Resume stages
  2. What is the use of exception stage?
  3. Difference between resume and rethrow
  4. What is system exception handling strategy?
  5. What is business exception handling strategy?
  6. What is the retry mechanism in queues?
  7. Difference between global and local exceptions
  8. What are exception handling best practices?
  9. What is exception bubbling?
  10. How to implement exception logs?

Integration

  1. How to automate Excel in Blue Prism?
  2. How to integrate with databases?
  3. What is OLEDB in Blue Prism?
  4. How to automate emails?
  5. How to consume web services in Blue Prism?
  6. What is the difference between SOAP and REST API integration in Blue Prism?
  7. How to handle PDF automation?
  8. How to automate mainframe applications?
  9. What is surface automation use case?
  10. How to automate Citrix applications?

Advanced

Process & Object Design

  1. What are reusable objects?
  2. Difference between process layer and object layer
  3. Explain design best practices in Blue Prism
  4. How to implement modular design?
  5. What is the purpose of global data items?
  6. How to handle large-scale processes?
  7. How to optimize performance in processes?
  8. How to design scalable objects?
  9. What are initialization and cleanup best practices?
  10. How to manage dependencies in processes?

Work Queues & Control Room

  1. How to manage multi-queue architecture?
  2. How to configure SLA in Control Room?
  3. How to manage high-volume transactions?
  4. How to distribute workload across bots?
  5. How to set up multi-environment scheduling?
  6. What is deferred processing strategy?
  7. How to implement queue retry strategy?
  8. How to integrate queues with external systems?
  9. How to implement auditing in work queues?
  10. How to monitor queue performance?

Security

  1. What is Credential Manager?
  2. How to configure secure credential storage?
  3. How to integrate Blue Prism with Active Directory?
  4. How to configure role-based access control?
  5. How to audit user actions in Blue Prism?
  6. What is encryption in Blue Prism?
  7. How to configure audit logs?
  8. How to set up multi-environment security?
  9. How to implement least privilege access?
  10. What are enterprise security best practices?

Deployment & Release Management

  1. How to create a release package?
  2. How to import/export processes?
  3. What is version control in Blue Prism?
  4. How to manage environment-specific configuration?
  5. How to deploy processes across environments?
  6. How to rollback a release?
  7. How to manage process lifecycle?
  8. How to automate release management?
  9. How to integrate Blue Prism with Git?
  10. What are CI/CD strategies for Blue Prism?

Advanced Features & Integration

  1. What is scheduler best practice?
  2. How to configure high availability setup?
  3. How to design exception handling framework?
  4. How to implement audit framework?
  5. How to use Blue Prism analytics?
  6. What is queue performance optimization?
  7. How to integrate with SAP systems?
  8. How to integrate with messaging systems?
  9. How to integrate with cloud services?
  10. What are enterprise RPA best practices?

Expert

Architecture & Design

  1. What is Digital Workforce architecture?
  2. How to design scalable enterprise RPA solutions?
  3. Difference between centralized and federated RPA architecture
  4. How to design global reusable objects?
  5. What are best practices for modular design?
  6. How to implement an enterprise process framework?
  7. What are reusable process templates?
  8. How to manage dependencies across teams?
  9. What is global exception handling strategy?
  10. How to standardize process development?

Scalability & Performance

  1. How to design high-performance bots?
  2. How to optimize work queues for large volumes?
  3. What are performance tuning strategies for Blue Prism?
  4. How to handle multi-bot concurrency?
  5. How to design for high availability?
  6. How to set up disaster recovery in Blue Prism?
  7. How to monitor and scale resources dynamically?
  8. What are challenges in scaling RPA?
  9. How to optimize process execution time?
  10. How to implement workload balancing?

Security & Compliance

  1. What is GDPR compliance in RPA?
  2. How to design secure credential management?
  3. How to implement advanced encryption?
  4. What is Blue Prism security audit process?
  5. How to implement compliance in regulated industries?
  6. How to ensure SOX compliance with RPA?
  7. What are audit and logging best practices?
  8. How to manage security in multi-tenant setups?
  9. How to integrate with enterprise IAM solutions?
  10. What is risk management in RPA?

Enterprise Deployment

  1. How to integrate Blue Prism with DevOps pipelines?
  2. How to implement CI/CD for Blue Prism?
  3. What is multi-environment deployment strategy?
  4. How to manage version upgrades in Blue Prism?
  5. How to migrate Blue Prism to the cloud?
  6. What is hybrid RPA deployment?
  7. How to handle change management in RPA?
  8. What are enterprise deployment best practices?
  9. How to implement centralized monitoring?
  10. How to manage bot lifecycle at enterprise scale?

Advanced & Cognitive Automation

  1. How to integrate Blue Prism with AI?
  2. What is intelligent automation?
  3. How to use NLP with Blue Prism?
  4. How to integrate machine learning models?
  5. What is the role of cognitive services in RPA?
  6. How to automate unstructured data processing?
  7. How to implement computer vision with Blue Prism?
  8. What is cloud-native RPA?
  9. How to design intelligent process automation (IPA)?
  10. What is the future of Blue Prism in enterprise automation?