EDI and Sterling Integrator Interview Questions

1, Explain the EDI Retail transaltion Flow?

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Byer will send EDI 850 purchase order transaction to seller
Seller will send immediate EDI 997 functional Acknowledgment to buyer
Seller will send corresponding EDI 855 purchase order acknowledgemnt to buyer for order confirmation
Sellet will send corresponding EDI 856 Advance Shipment Notice with shipping information to buyer

2, How the translator will work?

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3, If you want to add 6 days with your date what function you should use?

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4, In the given string how will you count the characters of the string?

ANS : len function

5, what is the use of select in the standard rule?

ANS : pull the data from process data and use it in map

6, what is code list?

ANS : you can store the information and convert it into another given value

7, What is the difference between Internal code List and External Code List

ANS : Internal codelist will be used for only one partnr and store less values (2). it can convert one value to another
External codelist will be used for multiple partners and it can used to store multiple values

8, Difference between promote and split?

ANS : Promote will create single instace of repeated group or segment more than one time
Split will create 2 sets of repeated group or segment more than one time

9, what is the use of user exit code ?

ANS : it will be used to write java code perform operations or functions which cannot be implmented in map editor
For Example . converting datetime formats into format which is not available in map editor

10, what is the use of syntax tokens?

ANS : to define set of characters to be allowed in the specific field, example : alphanumeric or numeric etc

11, what is the use of cerror?

ANS : to test the values which are coming to field or not and to raise explicit error during map execuation

12, What are different standard rules are available in map editor

ANS : Selecte , Update , Use code , Use accumulator , use conistant , Loop count ,Use system varaiable
Select : retrieve values from process data to map
Update : push any value to process data from map
use code : convert one value to another
use accumulator : to do arthimetic operatons in map (mostly used in EDI 856)
use conistant : to define static value which can be used anywher in the map
use system varaible : to get the current system date and time
Loop count : to count no of repetations of given group or segment loop

13, what is the use of strstr function in extended rules ?

ANS : to find the position of first instance of given substring

14, what is use of mid function in extended rules?

ANS : to find the subsgtring in given string

15, what is the use of trim function in extended rules?

ANS : to remove the spaces defore after the given string

16, what is use of strdate function in extended rules ?

ANS : to convert date to string

17, What is the use date function

ANS : to convert string to date into given format

19, Envelop structure in X12 and EDIFACT?

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20, Types of Errors?

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21, what is Conditional Relationship Error?

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18,What is the difference between Normal segment and Floating segment?

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21, Explain the structure of 850 and where you find the Hash Total and which is the detail level?

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22,What are the levels of ASN in that which one is optional?

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23, What is the difference between 4.3 and 5.2?

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24,what is the difference between Public key and Private Key?

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25,What is the difference between FTP and SFTP and FTPs?

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26,In Which envelop you will find the Test Indicator at which element?

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27, What is the difference between Restart and Resume?

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28, Difference between services and Adapter?

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29,What are the services you are used?

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30, What are the services you are used for configuring the FTP?

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31,What is Primary Document and What is Process Data?

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32,What is Encoder Service?

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33,Expalin Inbound and Outbound BP Flow?

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34,What is DOMto Doc and DOCto DOM?

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* Tell us about your system architecture

*  expalain about AS2 partner setup

*  what are the services and adapters are used recently

*  why we are using LWJDBC adapter in BP

*  What is EDI deenvelope service