General Questions:

1.
What is the Control-M Version you have worked on?
2.
What is the latest version and fix pack of the Control-M?
3.
What is the new features available in the Control-M new version?
4.
What is the difference between Control-M older version and the newer version (e.g.
Difference between Control-M Version 7 and Control-M Version 8 and Control-M Version 9)?
5.
Do you work on the administration or on the scheduling?
6.
What is the architecture of the Control-M?
7.
How do different components of the Control-M communicate to each other?

Installation Related Questions:

1.
On which operating system platform you have installed Control-M?
2.
What version of the Control-M have you installed?
3.
What is the prerequisite for installing Control-M?
4.
What all different types of databases supported by Control-M?
5.
What is the prerequisite for installing Control-M?
6.
Can multiple instances of Control-M server be installed on a machine?
7.
Can multiple instances of Control-M EM be installed to handle one Control-M server?
8.
Can there be multiple gateways connected to a Control-M server?
9.
Is oracle database supported for Control-M installation?
10.
What are the different types of high availability installation have you performed?
11.
What is DC-DR high availability?
12.
What is cluster installation?
13.
Is Control-M Cluster aware or cluster non aware tool?
14.
How do you do a DC-DR setup?
15.
What is the prerequisite for installing Control-M on cluster?
16.
Does Control-M Support load balancer?
17.
Can two instances of Control-M agent be installed on a machine?
18.
Can a lower version and an upper version of Control-M can be installed on a single
server? (e.g. Can Control-M version 7 agent and Control-M Version 8 Agent be installed on a
same machine?)
19.
Can a Control-M agent authorized to perform the requests from multiple Control-M
Server?
20.
What is the port for Control-M Agent and Control-M Server communication?
21.
Can Control-M agent and server communicate using one port?
22.
What is persistent connection?

LDAP Integration:

1.
Does Control-M Support LDAP Integration?
2.
Which option do we use to do LDAP Integration?
3.
Post integration how Control-M users are authenticated?
4.
If LDAP Is down can users be authenticated through Control-M?
5.
If you have same user created in Control-M as well as in LDAP then how the
authentication will work? Will rules applied to Control-M will be applicable or rules applied to
LDAP Will be applicable?

Troubleshooting and Logs:

1.
What are the various logs get created in Control-M Server/EM and Agent?
2.
How do we check if any service stops working?
3.
What all various types of Control-M Processes available?
4.
In which directory logs get generated when a few or all process/services fail?