Frequently asked questions in IAM job interview

Below are list of questions asked these days in IAM interview. Normally, the interview process depends on what product specialization you have mentioned in you resume. Here i am trying to cover most general questions including Sailpoint, Okta, Forgerock, Ping, Oracle.

General -

• What is identity and access management (IAM) ?
• What is cloud identity management and tell us some example ?
• What is SSO ? Have you done SSO integration by using any product ?
• What is role based IAM model and how you can implement it by using any IAM product ?
• What is identity or digital identity ? Explain with example ?
• What is authentication ?
• What is authorization ?
• What is difference between authentication and authorization ?

Sailpoint IIQ -

• Which product you have worked on and on which version ?
• What is identity governance in Sailpoint ?
• What all capabilities IIQ provides ?
• What are IIQ default urls ?
• What is life-cycle manager ?
• What is compliance manager ?
• Do you have any experience in IdentityNow ? what is major difference between IIQ and IDN?
• What all types of OOTB role available in Sailpoint IIQ ?
• Does IIQ supports approval ?
• What is workflow ?
• What is a provisioning plan ?
• How to create custom workflow ? High level steps.
• Could you please explain password management in Sailpoint  ?
• What is the default admin username in IIQ?

OKTA -

• How much experience do you have in OKTA implementation ?
• What all OKTA products are in market ?
• What is MFA ?
• Explain OKTA universal directory and use ?
• What is single sign on ?
• What is SAML ?
• What is difference between SAML, WS-FED, and OIDC ?
• What is use of OKTA Browser plugin ?
  
• Explain life cycle management in OKTA ?
• What is the use Okta Integration Network ?
• What all factor types available in OKTA ?
• DO you know what is Trust.okta.com ?

Forgerock -

• What all products Forgerock provides ?
• What is Single Sign-On(SSO)?
• What is the difference between authentication and authorization
• What is OpenAM?
• What is OpenIDM?
• What Is SAML?
• How OpenAM authorization works ?
• What is Refresh Token?
• How to onboard an application in OpenIDM?
• High level - How to protect to web page using OpenAM?
• What is user authentication and how it works ?
• What all protocal OpenAM supports ?
• Can i install OPenIDM without any external directory and DB ? If yes then where it stores the data ?
• What is the default session cookie name in OpenAM?
• How many types of cookies generated by OpenAM?
• What is a Policy Agents ?
• What is the default admin username in OpenAM?
• What are the Agents supported by OpenAM?
• What is SAML Metadata URL in OpenAM?
• What is Refresh Token lifetime and scopes?
• What are the OAuth2/OIDC endpoints?

Stay tuned will add more questions for each products.