IBM Lombardi Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is IBM BPM Lombardi?

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It was a software company that was based in Texas. The enterprise is known for creating business process management. This was formed in the year of 1988. IBM is known to have obtained it in the year 2010. The purpose was to focus on the development of the designs. 

Q2. What is BPM in IBM?

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Business process management is an approach that focuses on making the workflow of any organization better effective and efficient and increases the capability of adapting to the continuous change in the environment. The business processes are the set of various activities of one set activity that will help in accomplishing a specific goal of any of organization. The IBM Business Process Manager is nothing but a consumable and all-featured platform. It consists of run time and tooling for various process designs and executing them alongside the capabilities for monitoring and making the optimal work that can be executed within this said platform. 

Q3. What are some of the components of Teamworks?

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The different components of teamwork are shared models which include and manages performance data, process, events, conditions, etc. Process Server which includes and aggregates the events and the performance data. Next is the performance server and the server consoles which maintain the process and the performance server. Next is the authoring environment which contains many interfaces which help inspect, model, and simulates the processes. It also contains the process portal which lets the client perform the tasks and launch the services which are attached to these tasks and also the performance of the processes. 

Q4. Explain about Error Handling capabilities in IBM BPM?

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• Error handling is of BPD level and Service level.
• Error end events in processes and services that throw errors. You can assign error codes and error data to errors that are thrown by the error end events.
• Error intermediate events in processes and services that catch errors.
• An error start event in processes event sub-processes that catch errors.
• To capture errors we need to use ‘tw.system.step.error’ in BPD level and ‘tw.system.error’ in Service level.

Q5. What are coach views and coaches? Explain the primary function of coaches?

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The coaches in IBM BPM are the name given to the web pages or user interfaces. This IBM process designer allows users to work on to build human interactions. Coach views are new features available in the latest version of IBM BPM 8.0, these are reusable templates. Coach views are mainly used in business objects, and help to reuse multiple coaches.

Q6. Explain the serialization in BPM?

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Serialization is mainly used to convert the XML file to the teamwork’s objects. When we start using any web service integration service by that time we will use serialization. The output of the Business process management web service will be available in the XML forms. So we need to convert it to the team work’s objects.

Q7. What is Blueprint?

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It is one of the tools which were created by Lombardi and it is a tool which is like a discovery tool and documentation of the process. 

Q8. Explain Teamworks?

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It is a tool which has been developed by Lombardi Software. This helps in collaborating the efficient processes. It helps in analyzing the performance and it also has an Authoring Environment which helps in merging with the other tools of development. 

Q9. What are the key components of IBM BPM?

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• Process server
• Process designer
• Process center
• Process center console
• Performance data warehouse
• Process portal
• Process admin console

Q10. Differentiate between the toolkit and the process app

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The major difference between these two is that one of them is deployable, that is the process app but the one that isn’t deployable is the toolkit. 

Q11. Explain what an Undercover Agent is?

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The UnderCover Agents are majorly used in receiving and sending various messages inside the teamworks. The teamworks service defines the contents of the messages which are being attached on the UnderCover Agents.

Q12. What is an Event Listener?

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1. An event listener is a widget that is added to our BPD. It basically tells our process to do something if an event occurs.
2. An event is anything that may happen outside our process or in our process that affects how our process runs.
3. Event listeners cannot be added to the service layer. Presently they are used in our business process layer.

Q13. What is Routing?

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The main function of routing is to assign a task to either any of the participants or any of a specific group. Now the same person can perform one or many tasks or assign that person to one or many activities.

Q14. What is tracking?

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Tracking group is used for tracking some specific value which runs along the different process. To do this the person needs to go to the authoring environment and choose the option on file and then send it to the performance data. 

Q15. What is a Business Process Definition?

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BPD is necessary to generate a model for various processes. It is a reusable model and evaluates what is common in the runtimes in the model. It can consist of a lane which is there for each of the systems or for the group which participates in these processes. A lane is nothing but a container in which all the activities are carried by a particular group of either the systems or the users. The Business Process Definition can be divided into two lines. Lanes are the lines which are horizontal and Milestones are the lines which are the vertical ones. 

Q16. Explain about sub processes

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Sub processes are the collection of steps which are a logical representation within the main process. Sub processes can be viewed as one activity which is like a simpler and a higher view version of the main process. The sub processes can be drilled for more minute view of the contents present. So the sub processes are very different from the main processes.

A participant or a group which looks after the activities of the sub processes can be different that the participant or the group which looks after the activities which are the part of the main group. The sub processes can be made to run a multiple times with the help of the execution of the main process by the way of configuration of the looping system of the sub processes activity factor in the main processes. 

Q17. What is a linked process?

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A call to another reusable process. The process called by the linked process activity can contain multiple start events, but must contain at least one start event with an implementation type of none. Variable data is local to each process, therefore data mapping is required to pass data into and out of the linked process.

Q18. Explain about Web Services?

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Web services are two types. Inbound and Outbound web services.

• Inbound web services are used if an external system wants to call into IBPM.
• Outbound web services are used if IBPM wants to use an external system/Application.

In two ways it can be configurable

1. Provide Inline Configuration.
2. From Process App Settings.

Q19. What’s the difference between CRM and BPM systems?

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CRM is an abbreviation for customer relationship management and is a phrase used to describe all aspects of interaction that a company has with its customer, whether it is sales or service-related. It’s a business strategy that helps your business to better understand your customer, retain customers, provide excellent customer service, win new clients and increase profitably.

Q20. Explain the infrastructure administration that can be performed in the IBM BPM

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One can monitor, prepare and modify the runtime into the applications, the resources, and the modules which are supposed to be deployed.