Top 15 Robotic Process Automation Interview Question and Answers

1. What is Robotic Automation?

Robotic automation is a kind of automation where a machine performs human’s task in completing rules based jobs.

2. What is Blue Prism’s Robotic Automation?

Robotic Automation infers process Automation’s where computer software drives present enterprise application software in a similar way that a user does. Automation is a gadget that operates other application software through the present application UI.

3. Is Robotic Automation like screen scraping or macros?

No, Robotic Automation is a generation on from old machineries like screen scratching or macros. The major differences are: Robots are general application orchestrators – any application that can be used by a man can be used by a modern day robot, bespoke application, whether mainframe, legacy, web service enabled or even a close-by pariah API encouraged service. Robots assemble procedural realizing which after some time joins with a common library that can re-used by some other robot or contraption. Applications are "read" by the robot, either through submitted APIs where they exist, through the OS before application show up, or through the screen concerning the neighborhood application. In this last case the front line robot “reads “an application screen in setting and correspondingly a customer does. As a noteworthy part of the robot setting it up is exhibited to examine the application's show much like a customer is shown. 

4. What are benefits of Robotic Process Automation?

Benefits of RPA are:

• Faster: As bots are dealing with the execution here, a greater measure of work can be done in a relatively much shorter period. A faster delivery, coupled with accuracy.
• Consistency: It is a safe, non-invasive technology that doesn’t interfere with the inherent systems and provides impeccable consistency in performing the activities across the board, each and every time.
• Cost Effective: It has been projected that using robotics cuts operational costs, Robots can operate 24*7 and take no leave, when compared to humans.
• Increased Customer Satisfaction: Providing better quality of work with optimum accuracy and improved customer/client interaction leads to increased customer and client satisfaction.
• Accuracy & Quality: RPA offers better services to processes that have a high probability of human error, thereby increasing accuracy. Robots are reliable, consistent and do not whine when expected to work tirelessly.
• Improved Analytics: Having access to error free, perfect data from various sources would improve the quality of analytics in the process.

5. What systems can Blue Prism robotically integrate?

Blue Prism has assimilated several years of experience of integration and several technologies into its software. The tools used are secure, reliable and robust. Instead of creating new adaptors for each unique application we have developed technology adaptors for all the technologies employed at the presentation layer, Web, Java, Windows, Green Screen/Mainframe and even Citrix. This combined with a broad assortment of dedicated tools that have been developed means that we are confident in being able to link any system with the click of a button. This proven application orchestration ability ensures that new processes can be quickly designed, built and tested without any impact on existing systems.

6. What hardware infrastructure do I need to run Blue Prism’s Robotic Automation Platform?

Blue Prism has been exclusively designed for flexibility and to meet the robust IT standards for IT operational integrity, security and sup portability. The software can be organized either as a front office or back office process, running quite happily on a standard desktop in the front office or on any scale of systems for back office processing.

7. Is Blue Prism’s Robotic Automation Platform secure and auditable?

Security and audit ability are merged into the Blue Prism robotic automation platform at numerous levels. The run time environment is completely separate to the process editing environment. Approvals to design, create, edit and run processes and business objects are particular to each authorized user. A full audit trail of changes to any process is kept, and comparisons of the before and after effect of changes are provided. The log created at run-time for each process provides a detailed, time-stamped history of every action and decision taken within an automated process. Clients tend to find that running a process with Blue Prism gives them a lot more control than a manual process, and from a submission point of view assures that processes are run consistently, in line with the process definition.

8. How do I get started on delivering processes using Blue Prism?

Blue Prism acclaims a phased method to getting started as the Operational Agility framework is very mountable. It is typical to target the configuration of between 1 and 10 processes in the beginning with a rolling program of processes being introduced once the outline is established. Read More

9. How much does robotic automation cost?

An office robot is near about a 1/3rd the cost of universally sourced agents. The litheness and ease of disposition means that this comparison is easy to keep up and judge the nest method to a given tasks.

10. What is the difference between thin client and thick client?

Thin client: It is any application that we cannot get the quality properties while spying using any RPA tools. e.g.  Any virtual environment Thick client: It is any application that we get pretty handful of attribute features using RPA tools e.g. calculator, Internet explorer

11. Does blue prism require coding?

Blue Prism’s digital workforce is fabricated, managed and asserted by the user or customer, spanning operations and technology, sticking to an enterprise-wide robotic operating model. It is code-free and can computerize any software. The digital workforce can be applied to automate processes in any department where managerial or administrative work is performed over an organization.

12. What are the differences between Blue Prism and UiPath?

UiPath and Blue Prism both the tools have their own software and they are very good. UI and BP both have graphic process designers for developing the solutions.

Blue Prism	UiPath
Uses C# for coding	UiPath uses VB for coding
UiPath control room – The Orchestrator – is web based; you can access it from the browser or mobile.	BP has client based servers, accessible only through their apps.
Lower cost	High cost

 

13. What are the Popular RPA Tools?

Popular RPA Tools to automate the Business Processes:

• Blue Prism: It is a trading name of the Blue Prism Group, a UK multinational software corporation, the term Robotic Process Automation was invented by Blue Prism, that itself proves they are the innovators in RPA Software Development.
• Automation Anywhere: Automation anywhere is another top RPA vendors providing strong and User- friendly RPA tools to automate tasks of any complexity.
• UiPath: UiPath is a Windows desktop Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Software is used for automation for various web, desktop, citrix, etc. based applications.

Other Popular tools are Pega, Nice, Workfusion, etc...

14. What are the important Phases of RPA Life Cycle?

Phases of RPA Life Cycle:

• Analysis: The first phase in RPA begins with analysis. Business team and RPA Architect work together to understand a business process for RPA development.
• Bot Development: RPA developer (Team) starts working on the requirement in their environment possibly a distinct development environment.
• Testing: Some companies conduct Testing by Separate Testing Team, while some have a dedicated testing team which performs a dedicated QA like normal SDLC flow. Best Practice is to have a dedicated testing team which performs QA of developed bot.
• Deployment and Maintenance: After the Development and Testing phases, a bot is ready for distribution and enters maintenance phase.

15 What are Limitations of Robotic Process Automation? Limitations of RPA are:

• RPA surely improves company efficiency by powering repetitive human effort, but there are limitations to the types of work that it can be applied to – especially ones that require judgment.
• Enterprises need to be aware of various inputs coming from multiple sources.
• It cannot read any data that is non-electronic with unstructured inputs.
• RPA is not a cognitive computing solution. It cannot learn from experience and therefore has a ‘shelf life’.
• Implementing RPA to a broken and incompetent process will not fix it. RPA is not a Business Process Management solution and does not bring an end-to-end process view. Read More

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