Documentum Interview Questions

(1) What is i_chronicle_id ?

(2) How do you use the data dictionary?
(3) How many levels of acls do exist?
(4) Do you know how Documentum manage the passwords? (give at least two means)
(5) Practical knowledge of how to setup, use and develop apps in Documentum.
(6) Concepts like lifecycles, workflows, ACLs, docapps and object customization.
(7) Would you install Content Server, Database, and Application server on one machine?
(8) How do you change the access privileges of a particular user or group as a document goes
through a workflow?
(9) Describe the Documentum object model?
(10) Describe the Documentum security model.
(11) What is the difference between a workflow and lifecycle?
(12) Describe how you would use and leverage third-party data in Documentum?
(13) Are you familiar with “dm_policy” objects?
(14) What tools do you use to create custom object types?
(15) Have you worked with DocApps?
(16) How you will write methods?
(17) Auditing and Archiving
(18) Where you will find information about workflow regarding task, activity, running instance
etc?
(19) Object level permission and extended permission.
(20) What is composite attribute?
(21) What are virtual documents?
(22) Data dictionary questions.
(23) Explain the steps involved in making an auto-activity available to be used in a workflow
template.
(24) Explain how would you create a new workflow auto-activity?
(25) How you will register TBO and how you will write TBO’s?
(26) Difference between onRender() and onRenderEnd() and other inherited methods?
(27) Workflow manager related questions.
(28) Difference between role and domain.
(29) What is the difference between a group and role?
(30) Can you tell me some of the dql commands?
(31) Did you design a workflow? How did you do it?
(32) Have you done dump and load? Did you come across any problems with dump and load?
(33) What is DFC?
(34) Difference between workflow and Lifecycle?
(35) When customizing an action or creating a new action, what are some of the files types that
you would modify or create?
(36) Hierarchy of object types?
(37) What is docapp? What is the functionality of the DAB?
(38) If we get an “Page can not be displayed” message while logging in to the application what
are steps you take to resolve it.
(39) What do you know about documentum workflows?
(40) List out the steps to deploy a workflow.
(41) What is dm_method, how to create a proper dm_method?
(42) List out the different between a job and a method?
(43) Explain the data types of some of the native documentum attributes.
(44) What is a method server?
(45) How to configure a docbase?
(46) Where to set the dfc.properties?
(47) What is a docbroker?
(48) How to configure ACL’s?
(49) How to setup DA?
(50) How to run a job in DA?
(51) How to set user permissions using ACL’s?
(52) What are workflows?
(53) How to configure lifecycles?
(54) How to set pooling to false?
(55) How to upgrade a docbase from 5.3 to 6.0
(56) What are SBO’s and TBO’s?
(57) Explain how Content Server and Docbase communicate with the Database?
(58) What is BOF?
(59) How can you create custom objects?
(60) What is DAB?
(61) What are CTS and MTS?
(62) What are renditions?
(63) What are major and minor versions of documents?
(64) List native Documentum types?
(65) List native Documentum attributes?
(66) What can be done if base Documentum types and/or attributes cannot handle business
specific data?
(67) Explain different ways new object types and attributes can be created?
(68) What is a lifecycle and how can we create lifecycles?
(69) What is a workflow and how can we create workflows in documentum?
(70) What is a Virtual Document?
(71) How can we implement security in documentum?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1) What’s new new Documentum 6.5 and 6.6?

2) What is the difference between workflow and lifecycle?
3) How to implement and deploy dm_method?
4) What is method server? What application server used as method server in Documentum 6.0
and 6.5?
5) How to setup and run a job?
6) How to upgrade Documentum 5.3 to 6.5?
7) What are CTS and MTS?
8) What are renditions? Where are renditions stored?
9) What is object type for storing workflow template?
10) What is a Virtual Document?
11) What is folder security in Documentum?
12) How ACL are assigned to new object?
13) Are you familiar with “dm_policy” objects?
14) What is r_chronicle_id?
15) What is dmr_content object?
16) List down Documentum admin jobs?
17) What is the use of dm_clean job?
18) What are the Object level permission and extended permission?.
19) What is the use of light weight sysobject?
20) What is Aspects?
21) What is DAR and which tool is used to create DAR file?
22) How do you use the data dictionary?