☛ 1. What is an Orchestration ?

☛ 2. Read about each and every shape used in Orchestration. Specifically – Parallel, Listen, Compensate

☛ 3. Transactions in Orchestration.

☛ 4. Difference between Atomic and Long Running Transactions.

☛ 5. How to handle Delivery Failures ?

☛ 6. How do you ensure FIFO ?

☛ 7. Different Orchestration Patterns.

☛ 8. What is an Orchestration Instance.

☛ 9. How can you build a Singleton Pattern in Orchestration.

☛ 10. Convoys.

☛ 11. Race Condition and Zombie /Orphaned messages.

☛ 12. How can you deploy 2 Orchestration side by side ?

☛ 13. How do you update a deployed Orchestration with 0 or Less downtime.

☛ 14. How do you debug an Orchestration ?

☛ 15. How do you trace the messages processed by an Orchestration ?

☛ 16. Difference between call and start Orchestrations

☛ 17. Direct Binding ?

☛ 18. What are dynamic ports. How will you dynamically set the port.

☛ 19. Can we have dynamic send and receive ports ?

☛ 20. How do you consume a web/wcf service in an Orchestration ?

☛ 21. What are Persistence points ?

☛ 22. How do you count the Number of Persistence Points ?

☛ 23. What is Correlation ?

☛ 24. What are subscriptions ?

☛ 25. Which shapes will yield persistence points ?

☛ 26. How do you enable FIFO ?

☛ 27. What is a Multipart Message ? How do you use that ?

☛ 28. What is the use of Compensate shape ?

☛ 29. Assume you are using Transactions in your Orchestration. How do you set Timeout incase if you dont receive a response from an external system ?

☛ 30. What is XPath ? How can you use that ?

☛ 31. Difference between using XPath and using Distinguished fields.

☛ 32. Can you control the number of instances created for an Orchestration ?

☛ 33. How do you execute a Pipeline from an Orchestration ?

☛ 34. What happens when to try to use the Promoted Propery whose value (missing element/node) is not present in the message ? (Missing Property Exception)

☛ 35. How do you test the existence of a Promoted Property before using it ?

☛ 36. How do you ensure that a message is delivered to the destination ?

☛ 37. How do you call a non-serialazable class from an Orchestration ?

☛ 38. Advantage of having an Atomic scope.