IBM Curam Sample Interview Question(s)

Introduction:  This post contain various import questions which asked during interview process. Candidates who are planning to prepare interview for Curam technology will get help from this post. It explains all important questions which candidate may face, please check questions from below list and prepare answer yourself. if you are facing any problem to get correct answer please post your questions so we can answer to your question.

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Previous experience

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1. Tell us something about yourself and your experience.

2. Can you tell me about you the previous Cúram projects that you were involved in?

3. What was your role and responsibility on those projects?

4. How do you take criticism?

 

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Requirement Gathering & Design

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1. In your previous projects, what software development methodology was followed?

2. Have you worked on Rational Requisite Pro?

3. Name four good traits of a Use Case.

4. When do you include and extend a Use Case?

5. Define and describe a Requirement.

6. What is the difference between Sequence and Activity diagrams?

7. How do you generate Class diagrams?

8. How do you conduct Data Mapping?

9. Have you participated in UAT?

10. Have you facilitated JAD sessions?

11. If you were thrown in a room with 20 business users, would you be comfortable in leading and facilitating the session?

 

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General Java

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1. How long have you been working with Java?

2. Any work on DB2?

3. What is the difference between String and String Buffer?

4. In JDBC type operations, what are the core classes?

5. What does “Synchronize” do in Java, and what are the 2 ways to use it?

6. How comfortable are you in SQL? Did you work on SQL as a developer or a DBA?

7. What are SQL JOINS?

8. Give me an example of a sub-select statement

9. Have you written any PL/SQL programs and how would you rate yourself in PL/SQL programming on a scale of 1-10?

10. What tools you have used in Database client? Have you used Toad?

11. What is a Left Outer Join?

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Technical Development (Cúram)

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1. Are you Cúram certified? How did you attain your certification?

2. What is the difference between Medicaid and Medicare?
   

3. Can you tell me a little bit about the food stamps program?

4. How you determine whether a participant is eligible for food stamp from his income?

5. What is FPL (Food Stamp Poverty Level)?

6. Describe Case Management.

7. How do you load the Cúram model and deploy generated components in servers?

8. How and why do you use CIARA?

9. What are Structs in Cúram and how are they used?

10. What is a Mass Change and how do rules play a part in it?

11. Have you developed Rules?

12. Can you generate a Cúram screen?

13. Have you worked on any Eligibility based system?

14. How does Cúram handle Eligibility processing

15. What is Case in Cúram? Can you elaborate on the processing behind the different Case types in Cúram?

16. Have you done any coding/development work before?

17. Name me four entities in the Cúram logical model.

18. What is your experience in administration of Web sphere Administration Server?

19. How comfortable are you in Cúram Data model?

20. Have you worked on web services? Can you explain on the specific services?

21. You have a button on a page which has to be displayed sometimes depending upon user input, How do you do that in Cúram?

22. Now when we click on one button sometimes it should take you to one page, sometimes to other page. How do you do that?

23. What is a Rate table?

24. If we have given a business requirement that needs to be tracked, which user updated the record and when they last updated the record, how will you do you do it in Cúram?

25. How do we prevent multiple users from updating the same record at the same time?

26. How do you define optimistic locking?

27. What other locking options do we have besides optimistic locking?

28. What is pessimistic locking?

29. Have you developed UIM’s? Explain.

30. What is IEG?

31. You have a node with two attributes, Value Array called children of type node. You have given a function to design to return a array of nodes that takes a parameter as top node of the tree and second parameter a value. Write a function whose job is to go through that tree and find all nodes of that value and then return the arrary of nodes that has that value.

32. Have you written batches using Cúram? Describe.

33. Have you worked on Cúram IEG?

34. What is the difference between Cúram IEG 1 and Cúram IEG 2

35. Can you elaborate on the different components in an IEG script?

36. What is the difference in an Intake script and a Triage script?

37. Have you worked on the Cúram Citizen Self Service module?

38. How does the IEG Script reads data from the database?

39. What is a question group in IEG?

40. Have you used Workflows? Describe.

41. What is the escalation strategy?

42. What is a transition?

43. What kind of transitions are there?

44. In the Batch work how do you control the commit frequency of your update?

45. Do you know truncking? Have your used Cúram truncking?

46. Do you have any exposure to Cúram V6?

47. What type of documentation have you done in your project?

48. Can you generate a Cúram screen?

49. What is Case in Cúram? Can you elaborate on the processing behind the different Case types in Cúram?

50. How does Cúram handle security?

51. Have you used any tools in Data conversion projects?

52. In Cúram, if you want to hide a cluster or something on the screen, describe two different ways that you can do it.

53. How do we map data collected from an IEG script to Evidences?

54. What is Persistence Infrastructure (PI) and Module.java?

55. How do we customize an existing PI code?

56. What are the different Workflow activity types?

57. What is the linking /common entity for all Cúram participants?

58. What are the different case types in Cúram and in which entities the details are stored?

59. Tell us the basics of Cúram Financials and Fund Management.

60. Explain how you do Rules development?

61. What is the difference between CER and Classic development?

62. What are timelines how is it used?

63. Have you worked on evidences, static and dynamic? Explain.

64. How would you customize static evidences?

65. What are the different types of participants in Cúram?

66. Do you know how to do dmx integration? Explain.

67. What are the different Cúram solution areas?

68. What are the different IEG configuration files?

69. How would you do validations in IEG?

70. How do you do modeling in RSA?

 

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General Questions

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1. If given a choice, what would you like to be, a business lead, a test lead or a development lead?

2. Do you know any of the eSystems member working in this project?

3. What do you do when you come across people with an attitude in JAD sessions?

4. What would you like to achieve from this project?

5. Explain process from requirements to design. How did you participate in that?

6. How many people were in your team? What is the structure there, where were you in the structure?

7. Were you reporting to a team lead?

8. There was technical team lead, group of developers and project co-ordinators. How did it work? What was the structure there?

9. Talk about projects that you have worked on very high level?

10. How long is your exposure to Cúram?

11. What all have you worked in Cúram?

12. Have you worked on any modules like income support or childcare support?

13. What was your role in the team?

14. Did you ever produce a technical design?

15. Have you developed any technical (coding) or design standard document? Can you briefly elaborate on it?

16. Have you prepared any documents for technical recommendations?

17. What tools did you use to prepare those design documents?

18. How were those documents approved before they were used?

19. What do you think is your strongest point and weakest point that you will bring to this project?

20. What will you do if a deadline is approaching and you think that you will not be able to finish the job in time?

21. How should be the ideal relationship with a colleague according to you?

22. Why is it that you are leaving your job or project and looking for another job or project?

23. Have you faced any hurdles at anytime working with your team? If yes, how did you go about resolving the issue?

24. How do you cope with pressure and challenges?

25. Tell us about your views of Team Dynamics.

26. Will anything bother you in close team environment?

27. What do you do when you come across people with an attitude in JAD sessions?

28. Are you good in working in a group as a team player and interacting with other members or an Individual meeting the deadlines?