INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Tell me about self (or) take me through your resume?

2. What are the different types of Logs?
3. Difference between Errors and Qmgr errors?
4. How you enable Trace?
5. What does the FDC contain?
6. Channel in doubt and in flight state?
7. Sequence number wrap?
8. Difference between Full & Partial Repository?
9. Where do we find the cluster information?
10.What does contain in Auto define channel?
11.What is the backup Queue of the QMGR?
12.How you set Authentication?
13.Will you give permission only for USER or GROUP, if GROUP why?
14.Difference between Receiver & Requester channel?
15.Why do we go clustering?
16.Components of the cluster?
17.Which types of Logs are using in your Organization?
18.How you check the Status of the Queue?
19.Default path of the Error logs & Transaction Logs?
20.What is the use of PROBID in Fdc?
21.Difference stopping status of QMGRs?
22.How do you enable the Trigger?
23.Which types of tickets do you mostly resolved?
24.How to Suspend a Qmgr from the cluster?
25.How to add existing Qmgr into the cluster?
26.How do add a QMGR into the cluster?
27.Why do we give Conname at Receiver Channel side in Cluster?
28.How can you install all the Packages in Linux at a time?
29.Tell me the process of installation on Windows and Linux?
30.Difference between V5, V6 & V7?
31.Differences between persistent and non persistent messages?
32.Types of tickets?
33.How many Qmgrs are in your current project?
34.How do you convert linear to circular?
35.How many applications connect to your current project?
36.Reason codes for 2033, 2053, 2085, 2035, 2537
37.What are the errors we can get at the time of installation?
38.How do you connect MQ Client to MQ Server?
39.Qmgr attributes?
40.What is listener and port?
41.Where the configuration information stores on Linux and windows?

42.What is the difference between qm.ini and mqs.ini file?

43.How do you configure the Qmgr before you install fix pack?
44.Difference between up gradation and migration?
45.Which tool you use to connect with Linux and mainframes?
46.How many channels we can create in Distribution Queuing for a Qmgr?
47.If you create 100 channels for a Qmgr How can you create 101 Channel?
48.How many years of experience you have?
49.Are you supporting for L2 or L3?
50.Who is your Vendor?
51.Who is your Client?
52.Project name?
53.Which ticketing tool you are using?
54.Which monitoring tool you are using?
55.Your monitoring and ticketing tools belong to?
56.Your mail server and chat server?
57.At which location your L3 team will be?
58.How can you recover the damaged object and its syntax?
59.Channel attributes?
60.Different status of channel?
61.Are you supporting for 24*7 or on-call?
62.Why do we go for MQ Client?
63.In your company which Client-Server architecture is using?
64.Do you raise any PMR so far?
65.Who send the tickets to you?
66.How do you escalate the ticket to L3?
67.Have you ever raised any tickets so far?
68.Have you ever raised change order?
69.Which flavor you are using on Linux?
70.Differences between MQI and MSG Channels?
71.Default objects in Cluster?
72.Differences between Full Repos and Partial Repos?
73.Difference between Dead-Letter Header and Handler?
74.What is sync point?
75.Tell me something about unit of work?
76.Can you change the log file size?
77.Where the latest information stores in error logs and why?
78.Can you increase the no. of error logs?
79.What is the command to check the disk space on Linux?
80.Which command we use to check the installed packages on Linux?
81.Command to kill the process on Linux?
82.Do you run the runmqdlq program every time?
83.How can you check the listener port is running from your desktop?
84.What is the use of telnet, ping and tracert?
85.How can you connect to remote server from your desktop?
86.How many primary and secondary logs we can create on windows & Linux (Max)?
87.Explain the concept of cluster workload balance?

88.What are the attributes of workload balance?

89.Explain client-server architecture?
90.What are the pre-requisites for MQ before install?
91.Explain the process migration?
92.Have you ever done migration and how?
93.How can we take the Qmgr backup?
94.Error log file name?
95.What is the use of client channel tables?
96.How many max channels can connect to a Qmgr?
97.How can you find the max channels are connected to a Qmgr?
98.Channel components?
99.What is the use of trig data in channel?
100. What does initiation queue contain?
101. How can we check whether the Qmgr contain Dead-latter queue or not?
102. How many servers, Qmgrs in your environment?
103. Which programs you use for running the trigger monitor when you use your own
initiation queue?(in application and channel triggering)
104. What is the default size of /var /mqm and /opt /mqm?
105. What is the difference between Control & Runmqsc Commands?
106. In Cluster for Round-Robin process defbind (open) what is happen?
107. Explain the distributed queuing setup?
108. What meant by distribution queuing?
109. What is difference between distribution and clustering?
110. Why we go for clustering?
111. In cluster we have 4 Qmgrs and having same instance in all Qmgrs I have to send
messages to a particular Qmgr then how u configure?
112. Tel me prerequisites for MQ admin?
113. R u configured SSL setup?
114. Which key u r using in SSL?
115. What is the command to see the authentications?
116. What may be reasons for getting channel is in retrying state?
117. What are the reasons for getting messages in dead letter queue?
118. What happen to messages(persistence& non persistence) if destination queue is
full if there is no dead letter queue?
119. What is channel state in above case?
120. Tel me some system default queues?
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