Siebel Interview Preparation Guide

Siebel Interview Preparation Guide
To help you guys to prepare better for Siebel Config/Admin/EAI interview I am giving few tips.
Hope these tips are helpful..

1.Resume:
Resume would be your first face before you go face to face with the Interviewer.Please keep your resume as simple as possible.
Do not write stories which would make your Resume looklike a Textbook rather than having the Skill Set.
I have seen resumes going for around 10 pages but to be honest no Interviewer has patience to read your Stories.
Please dont Mention Created Applet,Create Join,Created Link under the Projects you have worked.This is really senseless thing that has been observed.Employees do a Cut and Paste with few wording Changes under the "Role in the Project";again This is a page filling Technique that we used to do while explaining Diagrams in Semester Exams:)

-Skills in Your Resume
Please be specific about what you have worked and what not?

 Configuration Skills:
-Applets
-Business Components/Business Objects
-Impilcit/Explicit Joins
-MVL/MVGs
-Views/Screens
-Symbolic STrings/Symbolic URLs
-Siebel Localization Concept
-Table Extension /Table Creation
-Scripting-Server/Browser
-WorkFlows-Runtime Events/Policies/Actions/Database Triggers
etc..

Adminsitration Skills: -Siebel Installation/Siebel Server/Webserver Installation and Configuration on Windows/Unix/Linux???
-Repository Migration/DDLSynup
-SRF migration
-Jobs Monitoring
-Data Refresh Activities
-Access Montoring/Security
-Infrastructure setup for Developers/Local Database Extractions
-Deployment Package Creation
etc..

Enterprise Application Integration:
-Siebel Integration Objects/External Integration Objects
-Workflows/Plocies
-Webservices-Inbound/Outbound Webservices
-DataMaps
-Debuggin/EAI Value Maps
-Workflows/IOs/Instance Monitoring
-Debugging Skills in Live Environemnt
-Webservices Testing Skills
-Webservice Security Implemnetation
-Siebel Transports-HTTP/MQ/JMS
-Debugging Webservices
-Siebel Adapters-EAI Siebel Adapter
etc...

Domain Experince:  -Telecom/Loyalty/Finance/Sales etc
Certification Details-Please add if you have done any certification

Project Experince:
Brief about the Project and your role.In addition add What was special in the Project?
       Role :Configuration/Integration/Migration Specialist??
       Please try to be more specific on your role here

2.Now How do we Prepare for the Skills mentioned ??

Configuration: 1.Just Go through the Configuration PPTs you have.

2.You may Say I have gone throgh 20 times why should I go through the PPts  again.

3.But going through the PPTs would give you the Picturization of  
Architecture/DataModeleEntities etc.

4.There is a PDF under Siebel Bookshelf DevDep.pdf.Please go through this pdf this would defintely help you a lot.

5.Then Comes the ConfigApps.PDF which is an essential for any Configuration Person before he goes for an interview

6.If you want Workflows then go throgh BusinessProcess.pdf

7.If you have gone thorgh the above all PDFs and PPts then I guarantee You that have the maximum Probabilty of Clearing.

Eanterprise Application Integration:
1.Once Again Please go throgh all the Config PPts

2.Thorougly go throgh all the EAI PPts

3.There are 4 EAI.pdfs.Its tough to go throgh all and most of the time all the four are not relevent for your skills hence Identify the one which is best suitable for you

4.Webservices-Please Take few examples of WSDLs and thoroghly study the major sections of the WSDL

5.Learn about the Webservices In depth as there would be multiple Questions in this area

6.Go throgh BusinessProcess.pdf for Worklflows Theory.

7.Vanilla Business Services provided by Siebel and the properties

8.XML Concepts

9.Logging mechanisms

10.Debugging worklflows

11.Creating ".dmp" files for the webservices to capture the outgoing message and incoming message in the local thick Client

Hope this would be helpful in one or other way.