Documentum FAQs

Got these set of questions from a friend:

DCTM FAQs

1. What is Documentum all about?
2. What do you know about Documentum?
3. What are all the products you have worked?
4. What are your roles& responsibilities?
5. How will you do customization using WDK?
6. How will you customize a page that shows only my custom type?
7. How will you differentiate repeating fields and single value fields
8. What is workflow?
9. What is BOF framework?
10. What is the object type for workflow?
11. What is the WDK architecture?
12. what about security in Documentum
13. what is the diff between super user and administrator
14. what are all the permissions related to document objects
15. what do u mean extended permissions
16. What is dfc& dmcl, differenctiate both.


Questions from CTS
1. Explain WDK architecture.
2. Differences between iAPI and DQL
3. Under what scenarios will you use iAPI
4. What is a Permission Template?
5. How do you configure publishing to various locale web sites?
6. How will you customize check-in component so that it shows a specific custom attribute while checking in.
7. How will you implement the following scenario?
• There is an English site to which we also need a German site. The translation is done by a third party. He sends the file to a person of the organization and they look at it and approve the page before it comes on the German site.
8. What is docapp and Documentum Application Installer?
9. Have you customized DFC?
10. How do you install a WDK for customizing?
11. Do you interact with Documentum clients?

WDK

1. Explain WDK architecture and how it functions on an App Server
2. What are Components?
3. What are Actions?
4. What is a container and why do you need one?
5. What is ACL?
6. What is an alias set and when do you need an alias set?
7. What are the WDK services you are aware of and which are the ones you have used?
8. How do you call a component from an action?
9. Different ways to nest calls between components.
10. Tell me the 2 different ways to create a session from WDK layer
11. You have a component and from that you go to another component and then return to first component. How do you make sure that the state of the first component is maintained properly?
12. How do you create a new DCTM tag?
13. How many Java files are needed to define a DCTM tags and what are they? Name the functions in each of these classes.
14. Difference between Read and Relate permission.
15. What is the default permission of a document created?
16. What is folder security?
17. What is the object type that saves lifecycle information?
18. How do you create new users?
19. What is preference service?
20. What is authentication service and how do you call the same?
21. What are SBO and TBO?