RPA UiPath interview Questions

Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone today to configure a “robot” to emulate and integrate the actions of a human interacting within digital systems to execute a business process.

As demand is increasing so, we have to update ourselves with latest trending questions in the market. So lets look at some basic Questions related to RPA UiPath.

• What is RPA?
• Automating the rule based tasks.

• What is RPA LIFE CYCLE?
• Analysis & L4 (Process Maps)
• Development
• Unit Testing
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Production Deployment
• Maintenance & Support

• How many types of variable present in UiPath?
• String, Int32, Double, Data Table, Array, List ,Generic Value, Boolean. For more variable you can click browse for types in variable panel.

• What are some common properties present in UiPath Activities?
• ContinueOnError
• DelayAfter
• DelayBefore
• TimeoutMS
• WaitForReady

• Difference between Full & partial Selector.
• Full selectors: 
• Contain all the elements needed to identify a UI element, including the top-level window.
• Generated by the Basic recorder.
• Recommended when switching between multiple windows.
• Partial selectors: 
• Generated by the Desktop recorder. 
• Do not contain information about the top-level window. Activities containing partial selectors are enclosed in a container (Attach Browser or Attach Window) that contains a full selector of the top-level window.
• Recommended when performing multiple actions in the same window.

• What is UiPath Explorer?
• UI Explorer is an amazing tool of UiPath which enables you to create a custom selector for a specific UI element. It enables you to simply inspect elements without building a process. It also Displays a tree of the UI hierarchy and enables you to navigate through it, by clicking the arrows in front of each node.

• Types of recordings available in UiPath?
• Basic:- Generates a full selector for each activity.
• Desktop:- Suitable for all types of applications and it is faster than the Basic recorder, and generates partial selectors for each activity with container.
• Web:- Recording in browsers and generates partial selectors and have some advanced properties available in this as compare to desktop recording.
• Image:- Used to record virtualized environments (such as VNC, virtual machines, Citrix, and more) or SAP. It permits only image, text and keyboard automation, and requires explicit positioning.
• Native Citrix :- Is the equivalent of the Desktop recorder, but for Citrix environments. Only use this in your Native Citrix automation projects.


• What is difference between Data scrapping & screen scrapping?
• Data scraping enables you to extract structured data from your browser, application or document to a database, .csv file or even Excel spreadsheet.
• Screen scraping methods refer to those activities that enable you to extract data from a specified UI element or document, such as a .pdf file.

• Activities you use to wait for next element to appear.
• Element Exist
• Find Element
• Delay

• Types of ways to filter mails in UiPath?
• Provide filter condition in Get outlook filter option.
• Use if condition in for each loop.
• Use LinQ on Results (list of) Get outlook activity.

• Difference between Floating & Standard Robot?
• Standard Robot works on a single Standard Machine only, namely the one defined while creating it. This is ideal for the scenario in which a user always works on the same machine.
• Floating Robot works on any machine defined in Orchestrator, be it Standard or Template, as the machine name is not relevant while creating it. Only Attended and Development Robots can be floating.