Generic Interview Questions - OIM

1. What are different versions of OIM?
2. How you will find version of OIM?
3. What are differences between  OIM 11g R1 and OIM 11g R2 ?
4. What are differences between  OIM 11g R2 PS2 and OIM 11g R2 PS3 ?
5. What are new features in R2?
6. What are new features in R3?
7. What are event handler?
8. What are different types of event handler? 
9. How do you register/unregister an event handler?
10. How will you troubleshoot event handler?
11. What is Orchestration ?
12. What are different stages of orchestration?
13. How many types of adapter are there in OIM?
14. How adapters are trigerred?
15. How entity adapter are used in OIM 11g R1/R2?
16. How attribute changes from user profile is propagated to target system?
17. What are different types of reconciliation?
18. How will you do trusted reconciliation from multiple trusted system?
19. What are different stages of reconciliation event?
20. What are different reconciliation rules for Trusted and Target Reconciliation?
21. How will you do transformation of data during reconciliation? e.g.  Status is present in source system as A but need to change to Active in OIM
22. How will you implement custom scheduler?
23. What are major differences between 10g scheduler and 11g scheduler?
24. Explain in detail different component of connector?
25. What will be approach for designing the connector? 
26. What questions you will ask to application owner?
27. What all connector you have worked on?
28. How will you extend OOTB connector?
29. What are ICF Connector?
30. What is connector Server? 
31. What are different types of connector server?
32. How will you uninstall connector?
33. What is connector cloning and how will you clone a connector?
34. How many types of approval policy are there in R2?
35. Have you worked on custom approval/soa composite?
36. What is ldapsync? 
37. How will you place user in different directories/container based on organization/employee type? e.g. all Employees to cn=Users container where as all contractors to cn=people container
38. How will you change logo/Branding? Steps?
39. What is sandbox?
40. How will you recover after publishing sandbox system crashes?
41. How will you add new attribute/UDF?
42. Steps for UDF Creation?
43. How will you add new attributes to Create/Modify and View pages
44. Which OIM Api have you used?
45. What is difference between calling oim api from command line and calling it from oim scheduler or adapters?
46. What are major differences between 10g api and 11g api?
47. What is application instance?
48. What is difference between application instance of trusted and target system?
49. What are entitlement?
50. Where entitlement are stored? 
51. How will you identity entitlements from configuration?
52. How will you populate entitlement?
53. Have you worked on any upgrade project?
54. What are major challenges of an upgrade?
55. Explain in detail process of upgrade
56. Name different tables in OIM?
57. Custom Reports?
58. How will you deploy code/configuration from test/dev to production?
59. What is access policies?
60. What is retrofit access policies in OIM?
61. What is MDS and what is its role in IdM?
62. what is purging and why it is required? Give one example where purging is required?
63. What is command to purge?
64. How do you take backup ?
65. How do you bulk load users in OIM? Steps?
66. What is disconnected resource provisioning?
67. Is Eventhandler contains any plugin point ?
68. what is hashtable
69. what is the difference between string buffer and string builder ?
70. To deploy a custom connector, is there any dependencies while deployment ?
71. How does user flow from OIM to Target ?
72. How will you rectify reconciliation related issues?
73. Steps for Migration from PS1 to PS2 or PS2 to PS3 ?
74. How does custom udf is created in Target system and how does data flows from OIM to Target considering the custom UDF is mandatory field?
75. How does web services calls works?
76. How does web services connector deployed in OIM?