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Self-Healing Test Automation (Previously called as Liquid Automation) engine records the user actions and captures the actions in English language steps that can be reviewed later and then plays it back using a selenium engine, mimicking the human user. Now in the conventional record and play back if the UI changes, the script would fail. But with our engine the changes are auto sensed and the internal scripts are self-healed. Special packages developed for cloud native applications like Salesforce, Success factors and SAP S4 HANA etc. to effectively handle the dynamic property changes during the automation process. State of art pattern matching algorithms used for self-healing the automation scripts for cloud native application during execution.

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40% REDUCTION IN OVERALL TESTING TIMELINE FOR A MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL

• There is a heavy volume of change requests and respective functional testing needed for HR operational support across 92 countries with more than 600 locations
• Regression Testing of bi-annual release patches by SuccessFactors that can impact critical business processes and the respective confirmation that it will not affect them and also the need of detailed testing for some new features
• Recurring testing needs for change requests especially for global features and complex business scenarios

Our solution

• Automated the 50% of the employee life-cycle management test scenarios
• Intent use eliminated time and effort loss on recurring transactions i.e. ~ talent review sessions
• Batch processing of test scripts ensures independent execution of testing providing great system efficiency e.g. performance forms and all the evaluation process
• Client Delivery Value Add by improved automation from TTP to Self-Healing Test Automation
• Current used in the latest SAP SuccessFactors Release Regression testing of Release H1 2020 in Preview Stack - reducing the overall testing time-line by ~ 40%

40% REDUCTION IN OVERALL TESTING TIMELINE FOR A GLOBAL CONSUMER PRODUCTS CLIENT

• There is a heavy volume of change requests and respective functional testing needed for HR operational support across 82 countries and 350K+ employees globally
• Regression Testing of bi-annual release patches by SuccessFactors that can impact critical business processes and need detailed testing
• Recurring testing needed for change requests especially for global features and complex business scenarios within strict time-lines to support Boomi/CPI
• Automated the 90% of the employee life-cycle management test scenarios
• Intent use eliminated time and effort loss on recurring transactions i.e. ~ re-usability efficiencies in ~ 150 potential new scripts
• Batch processing of test scripts ensures independent execution of testing providing great system efficiency e.g. potential to run over 10 end to end hire scenarios for ~ 10 country specific scripts thus ~ test executions in batch processing
• Client Delivery Value Add by improved automation from Instant Automation to Self-Healing Test Automation
• Currently used in the latest SAP SuccessFactors Release Regression testing of Release H1 2020 in Preview Stack - reducing the overall testing time-line by ~ 40%

IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO SELF-HEALING FEATURE FOR LARGE EUROPEAN VIDEO STREAMING PROVIDER

• Due to the high frequency of bug fix releases, it is required to have a full automatic TNR suite for the business critical processes to run every day
• Automatic preparation of data (contracts) for the functional tests
• The suite must be executed in 3 different environments (System Test, Integration Test, Bug Fix)
• Use Self-Healing Test Automation with selenium as automation engine with target architecture structured on 3 different Self-Healing Test Automation Servers on AWS cloud so to cover 3 different environments in parallel
• Automated the 90% of the full TNR scenarios
• Script failure rate is less than 10% due to auto healing feature
• 150-180 objects auto healed during one full execution cycle
• Daily execution of the TNR suite, every morning at 09:00 the results are available for analysis
• Daily health check of delivery chain environments (System Test, Integration Test, BugFix)
• Daily execution of the data preparation, every morning at 09:00 the new contracts are available for functional test or UAT

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• Hacking the Case Interview

Accenture interviews are comprised of case interviews and behavioral or fit interview questions. If you are interviewing for Accenture’s Strategy group, you will also be given a special type of interview called the Accenture Potentia Interview.

If you have an upcoming Accenture interview, we have you covered. We’ll cover in detail:  

• The Accenture interview process
• What is an Accenture case interview?
• What does an Accenture case interview assess?
• How to solve Accenture case interviews
• The common types of Accenture case interviews
• Accenture case interview examples
• Accenture case interview tips
• How to prepare for Accenture case interviews
• How to ace the Accenture Potentia Interview
• Accenture behavioral and fit interview questions
• Recommended Accenture case interview resources

The Accenture Interview Process

Accenture is a massive professional services firm that provides management consulting, IT consulting, and back office outsourcing. Within management consulting, Accenture is broken down into three groups: Strategy, Operations, and Digital.

Accenture Strategy is the group that is most similar to McKinsey, BCG, and Bain in the type of work that they do. The Operations and Digital group is focused more on implementation rather than on pure strategy.

Depending on the office and group that you are applying for, there will be two to three rounds of interviews. Each round will have anywhere from one to three 1-hour interviews. Your interviews will be a mix of case interviews and behavioral or fit interview questions.

Below is an example of what your interview process could look like:

• Accenture first round interview : Two 40-minute interviews. The first 10 minutes will be spent on behavioral or fit interview questions and the remaining 30 minutes will be spent on an Accenture case interview.
• Accenture final round interview : Three 1-hour interviews. One interview will be focused on behavioral or fit interview questions. The other two interviews will be focused on Accenture case interviews.

One important thing to note is that if you are applying for a role in Accenture Strategy, one of your interviews will be a special type of interview called the Potentia interview.

You’ll be interviewed by more senior people as you go through the different rounds of interviews. In the first round, you’ll be interviewed by consultants or managers. In the final round, you’ll be interviewed by managing directors and senior managing directors.

We’ll cover all of the different types of interview questions in detail in the next few sections.

What is an Accenture Case Interview

An Accenture case interview, also known as a “case” for short, is a 30 to 60-minute exercise in which you and the interviewer work together to develop a recommendation or answer to a business problem.

These business problems can be anything that real companies face:

• How can Amazon increase its profitability?
• What can Apple do to increase customer retention?
• How should Tesla price its new electric vehicle?
• Where should Disney open another Disneyland theme park?

Accenture case interviews simulate what the consulting job will be like by placing you in a hypothetical business situation. Cases simulate real business problems that consulting firms solve for their clients. Many Accenture case interviews are based on actual projects that interviewers have worked on.

While consulting projects typically last between 3 to 9 months, case interviews condense solving the business problem into just 30 to 45 minutes.

Accenture case interviews can cover any industry, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial services, energy, education, healthcare, government, and technology.

They can also cover a wide range of business situations, including entering a new market, launching a new product, acquiring a company, improving profitability, and growing revenues.

Although Accenture case interviews cover a wide range of industries and business situations, no technical or specialized knowledge is needed.

Unless you are interviewing for a consulting firm that specializes in a particular industry or function, cases are designed to be solved by someone that has general business knowledge.

Nailing your Accenture case interviews is critical to get a job at Accenture. There is no way to get a Accenture job offer without passing your case interviews.

What Does an Accenture Case Interview Assess?

Accenture case interviews assess five different qualities or characteristics: logical and structured thinking, analytical problem solving, business acumen, communication skills, and personality and cultural fit.

1. Logical and structured thinking : Consultants need to be organized and methodical in order to work efficiently.

• Can you structure complex problems in a clear, simple way?
• Can you take tremendous amounts of information and data and identify the most important points?
• Can you use logic and reason to make appropriate conclusions?

2. Analytical problem solving : Consultants work with a tremendous amount of data and information in order to develop recommendations to complex problems.

• Can you read and interpret data well?
• Can you perform math computations smoothly and accurately?
• Can you conduct the right analyses to draw the right conclusions?

3. Business acumen : A strong business instinct helps consultants make the right decisions and develop the right recommendations.

• Do you have a basic understanding of fundamental business concepts?
• Do your conclusions and recommendations make sense from a business perspective?

4. Communication skills : Consultants need strong communication skills to collaborate with teammates and clients effectively.

• Can you communicate in a clear, concise way?
• Are you articulate in what you are saying?

5. Personality and cultural fit : Consultants spend a lot of time working closely in small teams. Having a personality and attitude that fits with the team makes the whole team work better together.

• Are you coachable and easy to work with?
• Are you pleasant to be around?

All of these five qualities can be assessed in just a 30 to 60-minute Accenture case interview. This is what makes case interviews so effective in assessing consulting candidates.

How to Solve Accenture Case Interviews

Accenture case interviews, also known as case study interviews, are candidate-led. This means that you will be expected to drive the case. You will be suggesting what areas to explore, what analyses to do, and what next steps should be.

Accenture cases last between 30 to 45 minutes. They tend to be based on real business situations, often drawn from an actual project that your interviewer worked on.

In  Accenture’s case interview workbook , they state that success in their case interviews does not depend on finding the correct answer. Instead, you are assessed on:

• How clearly you define the problem
• How logically you structure the analysis
• How strong your quantitative analysis skills are
• How well you communicate your thoughts to the interviewer

In addition to these hard skills, there are also soft skills that you will be assessed on. These are:

• Poise : your confidence, ability to perform well under pressure, and how you handle making mistakes
• Communication : your listening skills and how articulate you are in presenting your process and conclusions
• Flexibility : how well you can adapt your thinking to changing circumstances
• Other  intangibles : your energy and drive, initiative, time management, decisiveness, and genuine interest in consulting and the firm

Accenture suggests following six different steps to solve an Accenture case interview.

(Source: Accenture Case Interview Workbook)  

1. Listen to the case

In this step, the interviewer will give you a description of the case problem. This description can be as short as a few sentences or as long as a full page of detailed information.

During this step, make sure you are taking notes on the most important pieces of information. You should focus on understanding the context, company, and the objective.

2. Clarify the problem

Understanding the business problem and objective is imperative to successfully solving the case. Answering or addressing the wrong business problem is the quickest way to fail a case interview.

Therefore, ask clarifying questions to better understand the business situation and issue. Afterwards, make sure that you confirm or verify the objective of the case with the interviewer. This ensures that you will start the case on the right track.

3. Decompose the problem

Next, you’ll need to break down the problem in an exhaustive and logical way. You can do this by creating an issue tree or framework.

A framework is a tool that helps you structure and break down complex problems into simpler, smaller components. Think of a framework as brainstorming different ideas and organizing them neatly into different categories.

Accenture provides a few examples of frameworks that you can use to get you started thinking about how to solve different types of cases.

  (Source: Accenture Case Interview Workbook)  

We recommend that you do not just memorize these frameworks and use them in your interviews. Instead, use these frameworks as background knowledge to help you make your own frameworks that are tailored to the specific case that you are solving for.

For a complete guide on how to create tailored and unique frameworks for each case, check out our article on case interview frameworks .

4. State your hypotheses

After decomposing the problem, you should list out potential hypotheses that answer or address the business problem. A hypothesis is an educated guess on the answer based on the data and information that you have so far.

A hypothesis helps guide your analysis and keeps you on track. It ensures that you are spending your time answering the right questions and conducting the right analyses.

5. Test your hypotheses

Once you have a hypothesis, you’ll answer questions or conduct analyses to refine your hypothesis.

Sometimes, your hypothesis will be completely wrong and you’ll need to develop another hypothesis to test. Other times, your hypothesis will be generally right and you’ll need to refine and narrow down your hypothesis further.

This is an iterative process. Your hypothesis should be constantly changing and becoming more refined as you progress through the case. Once you have developed meaningful support for your hypothesis, you will move onto the final step.

6. Summarize your findings

In this step, you’ll present your recommendation and provide the major reasons that support it. It is also good to include potential next steps that you would take if you had more time or data.

Afterwards, the interviewer may tell you what actually happened with the case or project that they worked on. Don’t worry if your methodology or answer does not match what actually happened. Remember, you are not assessed on your answer, but the overall process.

Learn case interviews in 30 minutes

We've compiled all of the different steps of solving an Accenture case interview into a more easily digestible 30-minute video. We highly recommend watching the video below in its entirety.

The Common Types of Accenture Case Interviews

Accenture states that there are three types of cases you may see in your interviews:

• The “Great Unknown”
• The “Parade of Facts”
• The “Back of the Envelope”

The “Great Unknown” and “Back of the Envelope” are the most common types of cases.

The “Great Unknown” Case

For this type of case, very little information will be provided to you on the case background. For “Great Unknown” cases, you’ll be tested on your ability to probe for details, which requires having a structured framework.

Examples of cases:  

• Your client is a leading manufacturer of prefabricated kitchen furnishings. They have been steadily losing market share over the past two years. You have been hired to help them understand why this is happening and what they can do to improve their market standing.
• A major furniture retailer has experienced declining profits for four quarters, but has experienced a 25% growth in sales and has opened many new stores during this time. Why are profits declining?
• A fast food company is thinking about putting a franchise in an airport. Should they do this?
• A bread division of a large food company is facing increasing competition in the market. Should they exit the market?
• A car company is interested in developing a new car. What marketing related issues should it consider before making the investment?
• What factors influence the revenue potential of a new pharmaceutical product?
• Citibank is considering purchasing another credit card company, which would give them access to 100,000 new card holders. What is the estimated value of this acquisition?
• A commercial bank is re-evaluating the number of branches it operates and whether they should increase the number of branches or close some down. How should they make this decision?
• A large conglomerate company is facing declining profits in its railroad company division and is considering shutting it down. Is this the right course of action? What are potential alternatives?
• New York City has hired you to determine what optimal route or what destination taxi drivers should go to when they do not have a customer.

The “Parade of Facts” Case

For this type of case, a significant amount of details on the case background will be provided to you, some of them unnecessary. For “Parade of Facts” cases, you’ll be tested on the ability to synthesize and identify key issues.

Example of a case:

• Your client is a food company that wants to develop a freshly prepared meal business
• There is a trend among customers towards fresher foods with no artificial preservatives or coloring
• Consumers are currently purchasing $5B of frozen meals and there is a trend towards more upscale products
• A fresh meal plate combines a protein, vegetable, and starch and is delicately arranged in a sealed plastic dome package
• Nitrogen gas flushing is used to extend shelf life
• Product is currently in limited consumer testing at $5.50 to $8.50 per meal
• Shelf life of product is 14 days
• Product will spoil in 21 days, potentially causing food poisoning
• Client wants to know if they can make money in this business
• Client wants to know if the market is big and how will they keep competition out
• Client wants a consultant to assist in building a business case for them

The “Back of the Envelope” Case

This type of case asks a market sizing or estimation question. Very little information will be provided, but a clear question will be asked.

“Back of the Envelope” cases primarily test your analytic abilities. It requires a structured, logical thought process and competency in working with numbers and making calculations.

Examples of cases:

• Estimate the total number of dry cleaners in Philadelphia
• How much money could Continental Airlines save by giving customers half a can instead of a whole can of Sprite?
• What is the estimated value of a taxi medallion in New York City?
• Discuss what is wrong with the following statistic: The Volvo is the safest car on the road because a recent study has shown that Volvos have the fewest number of accident deaths per mile driven
• Estimate the change in the price of oil in the year 2000 from today’s price. Will it increase or will it decrease?
• Estimate the number of attendees for a free concert for U2 in Central Park in New York City

Accenture Case Interview Examples

We've compiled additional examples of Accenture case interviews below. These case interviews were actual cases given in previous Accenture interviews.

Example #1 : A consumer electronics company is looking to introduce a new smartwatch to the market. How should they launch this new product?

Example #2 : A global logistics company wants to streamline its supply chain operations. How can they lower their costs?

Example #3 : A pharmaceutical company is considering discontinuing a particular drug from its portfolio. Evaluate the reasons behind the decision and assess the financial implications.

Example #4 : A non-profit organization focusing on wildlife conservation is facing funding challenges. Recommend initiatives to enhance long-term sustainability of fundraising.

Example #5 : A financial services firm is considering adopting blockchain technology for its operations. What are some considerations that they should think through?

Example #6 : A leading e-commerce platform wants to enhance its customer experience. How can they improve customer satisfaction and loyalty?

Example #7 : A software company that currently serves small and medium-sized businesses wants to expand into the enterprise market. Should they enter this new market?

For more practice, check out our article on 23 MBA consulting casebooks with 700+ free practice cases .

Accenture Case Interview Tips

Below are six of the most useful Accenture case interview tips for acing your case interviews.

Tip #1: Take your time and don’t rush into speaking

Structure your ideas and thinking before you start talking. If needed, talk through the problem out loud so that the interviewer can follow your thought process.

Tip #2: Be flexible

There may be times when the case will take a different direction than anticipated. You may also need to completely change your approach or hypothesis. It is important that you are open-minded and adaptable throughout the case.

Tip #3: Use visual aids

To make your communication even more clear and easy to follow, use visual aids to your advantage. When presenting your framework, turn your paper around so that it faces the interviewer. When outlining a process, use a whiteboard if there is one available.

Tip #4: Be 80/20

The 80/20 principle states that 80% of the results comes from 20% of your effort. You will not have the time to answer every single question in a case interview. Therefore, take an inventory of all of the information that you have and focus on diving deeper into the areas that will have the greatest impact.

Tip #5: Pay attention to cues from the interviewer

Remember that case interviewers are meant to be collaborative. You should listen closely to what the interviewer has to say. They may provide you with hints to help you out. They may also give you feedback on your approach or structure to help steer you in the right direction. Don’t dismiss what interviewers have to say.

Tip #6: Showcase your individuality

A case interview is an opportunity to showcase your personality and experiences. If you have unique insights based on your previous work experiences, make sure that you bring it up. This can help separate your answer from other candidates.

How to Prepare for Accenture Case Interviews

There are seven steps to preparing for Accenture case interviews.

1. Understand what a case interview is

The first step in preparing for Accenture case interviews is to understand exactly what case interviews are.

When you are familiar with what case interviews are, it is important to know what a great Accenture case interview performance looks like.

Knowing what a great Accenture case interview performance looks like will facilitate how quickly you learn case interview strategies in the next step.

Before continuing onto the next step, you should be familiar with:

• The overall objective of a case interview
• The structure and flow of a case interview
• The types of questions you could get asked
• What a great case interview performance looks like

2. Learn the right strategies

Now that you have sufficient background knowledge, the next step in preparing for Accenture case interviews is to learn the right strategies to build good case interview habits.

It is much more effective to learn the right case strategies the first time than to learn poor strategies and try to correct them later.

The quickest, most efficient way to learn these strategies is to go through our Comprehensive Case Interview Course .

If you prefer reading case interview prep books instead, the three I recommend are:

• The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook
• Case Interview Secrets

Hacking the Case Interview provides strategies on exactly what to do and what to say in every step of the case interview. It is a concise and straight to the point guide. I recommend this book as the first book to read for beginners.

Case Interview Secrets teaches core concepts such as the issue tree , drill-down analysis, and a hypothesis driven approach. It illustrates these concepts through stories and anecdotes. If you have read Hacking the Case Interview, I recommend also reading this book to get perspectives from a second author. Check out our full review of Case Interview Secrets .

Case in Point provides a ton of specific and complex frameworks. However, you likely won’t be using many of these in an actual case interview because many of them are overly complex and specific. If you have time, it may be useful to skim through this book. Check out our full review of Case in Point .

At the bare minimum, read either the first or second book. If you have the time, read the first two books so that you can get strategies from two different authors.

Make sure to spend sufficient time learning the right strategies before starting to practice cases. It is ineffective to practice cases if you have no idea what strategies to practice and refine.

Before moving onto the next step, you should at least have strategies for the following parts of a case interview:

• Developing unique and tailored frameworks
• Solving quantitative problems
• Answering qualitative questions
• Delivering a recommendation

3. Practice 3-5 cases by yourself

Once you have learned the right strategies, the next step in Accenture case interview prep is to practice.

When practicing case interviews, it is usually better to practice with a case interview partner than to practice by yourself . Casing with a partner better simulates the real case interview experience.

However, when you are just starting to practice, I recommend doing the first 3 – 5 cases by yourself.

There are three reasons for this:

• You can get the hang of the case interview structure and format much more quickly working by yourself rather than having to wait to schedule a time with a partner
• There are many aspects of case interviews that you can practice without a partner, such as structuring a framework and solving quantitative problems. You can get much more practice working through these parts by yourself
• You may have difficulty finding a case interview partner if you are a complete beginner. Without having done any cases, you likely won’t know how to properly give a case or provide good feedback

4. Practice 5-10 cases with a partner

The next step in preparing for Accenture case interviews is to case with a partner.

Casing with a partner is the best way to simulate a real case interview. There are many aspects of case interviews that you won’t be able to improve on unless you practice live with a partner.

When practicing cases with a partner, ensure you are spending enough time after cases to deliver feedback.

For a case that takes around 30 – 40 minutes, spend at least 15 – 20 minutes for feedback. Much of your learning and improvement will come from these feedback sessions.

Do not move onto the next step until you have done at least 5 – 10 cases and are beginning to feel comfortable with case interviews.

5. Practice with a former or current consultant

At this point, I highly recommend asking former or current consultants to give you a practice case. This will significantly help you prepare for case interviews.

Doing a mock case with a former or current consultant is highly advantageous because they know exactly how to run cases and give feedback. You’ll receive incredibly helpful feedback that your previous case partners likely missed.

If you feel that you are plateauing with your case partner, that is a sign you should do a mock case interview with a former or current consultant.

You can find former or current consultants among:

• People you met during the consulting recruiting process
• Your broader LinkedIn network

I would not ask a consultant that is involved with the consulting recruiting process for a case too prematurely. Although these practice cases are not evaluative, some firms will actually make note of how well you perform during the practice case.

At this point, you will have accumulated a long list of improvement areas from all of the different people you have cased with.

6. Work on your improvement areas

In this step of preparing for Accenture case interviews, you will work on strengthening and fine-tuning your improvement areas. Examples of common improvement areas include:

• Creating a more complete and mutually exclusive framework
• Performing math calculations quicker or more smoothly
• Providing more structure to your qualitative answers
• Leading the case more proactively
• Delivering a more succinct recommendation

Try to focus on improving one thing at a time. This is much more effective than trying to improve everything at once.

For some areas, such as math, it will be better to work independently. For other areas, such as learning to proactively lead the case, it will be better to work with a case partner.

If you are looking for more cases, look at the resources listed in step four. If you are looking for specific drills or practice problems for a particular part of a case interview, check out The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook .

Do not move onto the next step until you have finished working on all of your improvement areas.

7. Stay sharp

If you have progressed this far, congratulations! You have almost finished preparing for Accenture case interviews.

Once you feel that you have no more improvement areas to work on, the key is to not burn yourself out by doing too many unnecessary cases.

While each case that you do makes you slightly better, there is a point when doing too many cases can create case fatigue right before your interview. Case fatigue can negatively impact your interview performance.

On the other hand, you also don’t want to go weeks without having done a case. You may end up forgetting strategies or become rusty and slow.

Once you have achieved case mastery, I recommend doing no more than 2 cases per week in the weeks leading up to your interview. This ensures that you remain sharp for case interviews, but don’t have case fatigue.

How to Ace the Accenture Potentia Interview

The Accenture Potentia interview is a 1-hour interview given to candidates that are applying for a role in Accenture Strategy. Here is the structure of the Accenture Potentia Interview:

• You’ll be given a short paragraph of text about a business topic with a problem statement. Topics are diverse and may not be work-related. Examples of topics include blood diamonds in Africa or intellectual property on the Internet
• You’ll have 5 minutes to prepare and think through the problem statement
• You’ll have a 45 to 60-minute conversation with the interviewer in which you’ll present your thoughts and the interviewer will ask follow-up questions

The purpose of the Potentia interview is to challenge your strategic thinking. There is no right or wrong answer. There are also no calculations or math involved.

Instead, the interviewer is assessing you on the structure and organization of your answer and your creativity.

Tips for the Accenture Potentia Interview:  

• Use a framework or structure for your answer : Remember that you are being assessed on how you structure and organize your answer. Therefore, instead of listing random ideas that come to mind, develop a framework to structure your ideas.
• Brainstorm as many ideas as you can : Use your framework to help you brainstorm effectively. Your framework should have three to five different areas. Meticulously think through each area and try to generate at least three ideas in each.
• Have a mix of practical and ambitious ideas : You are being assessed on creativity, so make sure you include ideas that are ambitious and impactful. However, you also want to show sound business judgment, so you will need to include ideas that are practical and easier to implement. You should have a mix of these two types of ideas.
• Bring in ideas that you learned from your prior work experience : One way to demonstrate creativity is to take ideas or solutions in one industry and apply them to another. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to leverage learnings from your prior work experience, you should definitely bring it up.
• Make it a conversation : Remember that the Accenture Potentia interview is meant to be a two-way conversation. Make sure you are listening to the feedback or questions that the interviewer has and responding accordingly.

Accenture Behavioral and Fit Interview Questions

In addition to case interviews, you will likely be asked a few behavioral or fit interview questions. There are ten questions that are most commonly asked.

1. Why are you interested in working at Accenture?

How to answer: Have at least three reasons why you’re interested in working at Accenture. You could mention that you loved the people that you have met from Accenture so far. You can talk about Accenture’s massive global presence and expertise in nearly any industry or function. You can speak to how Accenture provides strategy and implementation, so you can see the impact of your work.

2. Why do you want to work in consulting?

How to answer: Again, have three reasons why you’re interested in consulting. You could mention the fast career growth opportunity, the opportunity to develop soft and hard skills, or the level of impact that you can make by working with large companies on their most challenging issues.

3. Walk me through your resume.

How to answer: Provide a concise summary of your work experience, starting with the most recent. Focus on emphasizing your most impressive and unique accomplishments. At the end, tie your experiences to why you are interested in consulting.

4. What is your proudest achievement?

How to answer: Choose your most impressive, unique, or memorable accomplishment. Structure your answer by providing information on the situation, the task, the actions you took, and the results of your work.

5. What is something that you are proud of that is not on your resume?

How to answer: This is a great opportunity to highlight an accomplishment that is not related to your professional work experience. Perhaps there is a non-profit that you volunteer at, a side project or business that you work on, or a hobby that you have won awards or recognition for. Choose something that is impressive and interesting.

6. Tell me about a time when you led a team.

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How to answer: When answering this question, focus on emphasizing the steps you took to resolve the conflict or disagreement. Speak to the interpersonal skills you had to use in order to mediate the situation. Interviewers want to know that you are a great mediator and that you can handle conflict in a constructive way.

8. Tell me about a time when you had to persuade someone.

How to answer: Choose a time when you were able to change someone’s mind. Focus on emphasizing the steps that you took to persuade that person and what impact and results this had. Interviewers want to know that you are a great communicator and a good people person.

9. Describe a time when you failed.

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10. What questions do you have for me?

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Accenture Automation Testing Interview Questions

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Accenture Overview

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Accenture Automation Testing Interview Questions: The essential part of preparing for an interview is practice. Knowing what job interview questions you might be asked is essential – that way, you can craft your answers well in advance and feel confident in your responses when the pressure is on.

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We have tried to share some of the manual testing interview questions , selenium interview questions & testing interview questions also, but we recommend spending some quality time to get comfortable with what might be asked when you go for the Accenture interview .

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Accenture Selenium Interview Questions

Company Name:  Accenture Company Location:  Bangalore No Of Rounds: 4 Updated on: 30.04.2024

• Introduce yourself
• Explain framework
• What is Maven?
• The difference between assert and verify
• Types of locators
• Which is the best CSS selector or XPath?
• Selenium components
• Selenese and types of selenese?
• What are the different types of test automation frameworks?
• Limitations of selenium?
• Can we test the captcha and barcode reader using selenium?
• Types of waits?
• If I have to mention specific conditions like an element to be clickable or an element to be visible. which wait will we use?
• Do you have any idea about Jenkins?
• Do you have any idea about Appium?
• What is the project structure in Eclipse?
• Difference between thread.sleep and setSpeed()?
• Agile methodology?
• What is scrum?
• Difference between close and quit
• Difference methods in navigating: to, forward, back, refresh
• Difference between driver.navigate and driver.get
• Can Selenium handle Windows-based popups?
• Difference between absolute and relative XPath?
• Syntax of relative XPath
• What different types of exceptions in selenium?
• Difference between getwndowhandle and getwindowhandles?
• What is an object repo?
• Difference test case design techniques

Company Name:  Accenture Position:  Sr. QA (Agile) Company Location:  Hyderabad Experience: 6 Yrs Shared By: Srikanth Kumar No Of Rounds: 4 Updated on:  03.10.2022

For me, the Accenture Selenium Interview Questions are asked in 4 rounds of interviews. Out of those two technical rounds, a managerial round,s and HR Round.

Technical Questions:

• Basics to Project level

Technical Round Interview Questions :

Conceptual, Agile Methodology, About Project, Your Roles &Responsibilities in the project, Documentations, SQL basics, (Tell me about Webservices & mainframe testing and how you used- I was not much aware of these but was mentioned in my resume as I worked for a couple of months)

• Tell me something about yourself.
• Explain your framework.
• What is XPath?
• How to write XPath?
• How many XPath functions ?
• What is the use of Following-Sibling?
• How to go back from child to parent object?
• What is TestNG?
• Tell me the annotations present in TestNG.
• Can we write more than on @Test annotation in TestNG? If yes, why?
• Tell me about the Scrum methodology.
• What is the difference between backlog and front log?
• What is the use of Build.xml?
• How can we modify Build.xml, and where do we have to save this?
• How to see the result in TestNG?
• What is the difference between Implicit wait and Explicit wait?
• What is the latest version of the selenium web driver jar file?
• How to work with Intenet Explorer in selenium webdriver?
• Why is a browser driver not needed in Mozilla Firefox ?

Managerial Round Questions:

• How does your day start in the company/project? All situational with timelines-based questions tested my approach to all situations, and at times, I added a few points and gave advice for my answers.

HR Round Questions

• General intro, Salary discussion/Negotiations/Finalised CTC, explained benefits, Sal structure and all – After a couple of days offer letter was sent.
• The first three rounds are interactive, like a 1:1 discussion on concepts and project timelines/situations – Role and responding to each situation.

Tips:  Advice for Manual testers- Be proficient with the skills you have. For sure, you have knowledge of SQL, like mandatory. Basic knowledge of automation would be good for you.

Accenture Performance Testing Interview Questions

Company Name:  Accenture Position:  Performance Tester Company Location:  Gurgaon Experience: 2 Yrs Shared By: Akriti Sinha No Of Rounds: 4 Updated on:  03.10.2022

The interview process was very smooth and quick. 1st, there was an online assessment on Loadrunner on Mettl Secure Browser. Then 1st interview round was scheduled, which was a technical round for 1 hour, followed by a managerial and an HR round.

• Roles and responsibilities as a Performance Tester.
• What things do we collect during requirement gathering?
• How would we proceed if the client doesn’t provide tps or sla rt?
• How do we identify a business-critical scenario?
• How do we set rules in automatic correlation?
• If we have dynamic boundaries of a dynamic value, how do we correlate it
• How many types of tests have you performed?
• Have you ever come across a memory leak? How do you resolve it?
• Were you ever monitoring garbage collector graphs in AppDynamics?
• What are the different schedulers in PC?
• What is the global scheduler?
• How can you use Selenium IDE?
• What is the difference Between Selenium RC & WebDriver?
• About different locators and how you are using them in your script?
• How to write XPath for some scenarios?
• Write a code for the login page.
• What is Jenkins & Have you implemented it in your project?
• Different topics and uses of TestNG?
• How are you handling pop up’s?
• How are you handling Drop down list?
• How you are performing on a context menu

Tips:  Focus on the scripting and analysis part.

Company Name:  Accenture Position:  Functional Planning Tester Company Location:  Pune Experience: 2.7 Yrs Shared By: Mayuri Palase No Of Rounds: 3 Updated on:  03.10.2022

The first round is a technical assignment test that includes all testing topic questions that are tricky. Once you clear this around, I have attended the Face to Face Round.

• What is the burndown chart?
• What is a defect aging and formula?
• What are the testing principles?
• What is agile and the manifesto of agile?
• What are sprint backlogs and meetings?
• What are defect clusters and formulas?
• Scenario to write SQL query.
• Difference between Test cases and test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Difference between Abstract class & Interface.
• Write a program to swap numbers without 3rd variable.
• Write a program to reverse a string without using the StringBuffer class
• Write a program to find a string in another string.
• Why is a static keyword used in the main method?
• Difference between static binding & dynamic binding.
• Write an XPath of an element in the table using its adjacent element.
• What are Various annotations used in TestNG?
• What methods can be inherited by the child class?
• Is it possible to override the main method?

Tips:  For this position, please prepare for the agile model deeply.

Accenture Testing Interview Questions

Company Name:  Accenture Position:  Functional Test Planning Company Location:  Pune Experience: 4 Yrs Shared By: Rahul No Of Rounds: 2 Updated on:  03.10.2022

The interview was good. The entire interview was related to agile.

• Your Roles and responsibilities in your current company
• What is the difference between truncate and delete?
• Explain any one framework which is used in your project.
• What is the difference between QA and QC?
• What is a Test plan
• Explain the defect life cycle
• Explain HP ALM
• What are the responsibilities of the product owner
• What is velocity
• What is a deferred defect
• What is scrum
• What is a product and sprint backlog?
• Can we overload the main method in java?
• Explain the final class.
• Explain the test life cycle.
• How to handle drop-down using selenium?
• Using selenium, can we automate desktop applications?
• About V-model?
• How many locators are available in selenium, and explain each one?

Tips:  Prepare Agile in detail.

Accenture Online Skill Assessment Test For Experienced Selenium

Company Name:  Accenture Position:  Test Engineer senior analyst Company Location:  Pune Experience: 5 Yrs Shared By: Aditi Kumari No Of Rounds: 2 Updated on:  03.10.2022

Well, say general preparation and confidence are the keys. While answering the questions, make sure you answer using that method. If you’re explaining Inheritance or polymorphism, try to answer the use of that in the actual project.

As well as try to provide sufficient information on how it benefits the project.

• What is the difference between maven test and install?
• In your framework, what is called first?
• How you are handling Drop-downs.
• Explain the Maven cycle.
• What happens when we call MVN clean
• How can you perform parallel testing using TestNG?
• How TestNG priority works.
• How Data provider works.
• Have you ever Worked on an Array list?
• What is the use of Thread count?
• If I have not provided the XML suit file in surefire, what kind of exception will it throw?
• When will you get the Stale element exception?
• When you will face an Invalid argument exception
• The difference between the no such element found exception and the Stale element exception.
• What kind of exception have you faced in selenium?

Tips:  Best to Prepare yourself for the Logic.

Accenture Interview Questions For Automation Testing

Interview Location: Pune Experience : 6 years  Interview Mode: Virtual Updated Date: 27-04-2022

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BDD Cucumber Framework

• What is a scenario outline?
• How to write a step definition for login?
• How do you run 5 out of 10 test cases in BDD cucumber?
• Can priority be negative in TestNG?
• What is dependency in TestNG?
• Exclude and include in TestNG?
• When the order of priority of the test cases is the same, what will be the execution order?
• What is Map? method to add the objects, and how do you iterate?
• What is the Static keyword?
• Explain Encapsulation
• Explain the method overriding in Java .
• What are the Array list and Linked list?
• How do you convert List to Array?
• How do you fetch duplicate characters in a string?
• What is the difference between a list and a set?
• How do you handle windows, and what does it return?
• Actions Class
• How do you perform right-click?
• What is an inner join?
• What is the difference between Drop and Delete?
• How do you merge your code in GIT?
• Severity and Priority

Accenture Interview Questions

Company Location: Bangalore Updated Date: 27-11-2021

Web services:

• Tell me about yourself.
• How to perform authentication in soap web services?
• Why do we have to use Xpath in the soap UI?
• What are soap UI assertions?
• What is the difference between rest and soap web services?
• What is the purpose of web service?
• When to go for soap and rest web services?

Manual testing:

• Explain test strategy and test planning.
• Explain defect management activities.
• Explain the Jira tool.
• What is agile?
• When to give acceptance criteria?

Accenture Testing Interview Questions For Experienced

Company Location: Bangalore Experience: 2.5 to 4 years of experience Interview Date: 28.07.2021 Interview Mode: Virtual Position: Selenium Automation Engineer

• What is the difference between assert and verify
• Explain the Select class
• Testing annotations. When and where to use it. Parameter, groups.
• What are the waits in selenium
• Difference between explicit, implicit wait
• Exceptions in selenium and example for each.
• Difference between method overloading and overriding. Different with example.
• What is an abstract class?
• What is encapsulation
• What is inheritance? Give an example.
• Collection hierarchy.
• What are the interfaces which extend the collection interface?
• Difference between collection and collections.
• Difference between findelement and findelements method.
• Which collection concept do you use in your project?
• Which framework have you used? Elaborate on your project folder structure.
• Defect life cycle.
• How to handle popups, windows popup
• What are the locators in selenium
• How much do you rate yourself out of 10 in java?
• What process do you follow in agile methodologies
• How you give story points
• What is garbage collection
• Which version control tool have you used in your project?
• How do you capture failed test cases?
• If you want to execute only failed test cases, how will you execute them?
• For reporting what you use in your project.
• How will you close add pop using selenium
• How do you handle a list
• How do you handle the table?
• Have you used AutoIT in your project
• How do you set parameters in your project?

Accenture Selenium Interview Questions And Answers For Experienced

Company Location: India Interview Date: 10.03.2021 Updated on: 10.07.2021

Though the questions depend on the interviewer, I thought of sharing them for reference.

• The framework uses and explains.
• Oops concept and explain how you have implemented it in your project. Ans: be prepared with your project-related stuff though you haven’t used all the oops concepts in your project, so you can spontaneously explain and impress them.
• How to achieve parallel execution? Ans: TestNg<Parallel = test/class/> Selenium Grid by configuring nodes.
• How many tests will run at a time in parallel execution? Ans: It depends on the thread count, basically test case count/ thread count.
• How will the Webdriver understand which script to run on which thread? Ans: Refer to java ThreadSafe
• How are TestNG and BDD used in a single project? Ans: BDD for Business team demo, TestNG for functional test.. and explained how to set up and execute from Eclipse IDE till maven/ Jenkins integration.
• Explain the test runner in BDD.
• Running different test suites, e.g., smoke test, Regression, E2E Ans: using maven profiles and respective TestNG XML.
• Are you reading data from a web table? Ans: Refer to the selenium web table testing the concept
• Retrieve data from DB and use it for batch execution, where the data should be from the last batch and shouldn’t have duplicates. Ans: Db/Webdriver connection and SQL queries to sort the DB data based on date and limit values as per need and store it in a HashSet and access it to pass the data to test script
• How do you locate a eliminate that will only load when you scroll the web page, and does the element’s position vary every time? Ans: Refer to selenium JS executor, scroll-based on the visibility of an element.
• How to handle random popups? Ans: Refer, Try, Catch; finally, the concept
• Handling frames?
• Many elements in a page with the same parent/child attributes, how will you locate them uniquely? Ans: followings sibling’s concept
• Are you taking screenshots of failed test cases? Ans: explain ExtentReport, ITestListener, and integrating with Jenkins.
• When we click on a button, it changes to green color. How to verify it? Ans: using CSS color codes
• Find a missing number from 1 to 10. Ans: check google
• Reverse triangle using java? Merge conflict in GIT?
• How Are you finding the 3rd highest salary from the emp table? Ans: SQL subqueries
• What are the differences b/w unions and join in SQL?
• Apply bonus to employees based on experience in emp table? Ans: SQL case, if, else conditions

Accenture QA Interview Questions

Company Location: Bangalore, India Experience: 3-5 Years Updated Date: 18-02-2021

• Java program to find duplicates
• Java program to find a product without using multiplication
• Can we achieve multiple inheritances?
• What is the difference between merge and rebase
• What is selenium
• If there is a textbox that accepts 100 characters only when you start typing, the tooltip should display how many characters are left. How will you validate how many counts are left?
• How do you decide which test case is feasible for automation or not
• Questions on agile – process, scrum framework, retrospective meeting, team
• Questions on Api testing – different status codes, idempotent method, and some scenarios.
• How will you connect the DB to java,
• SQL query – find the second-largest salary
• Do you use Thread.sleep() frequently? If Yes, explain its limitations. If there are no reasons not to use it?
• What is the difference between findelement() and findelements()?
• Difference b/w implicitly Wait and Explicit wait.
• What is the difference between a data-driven and Keyword driven framework and a hybrid framework?
• Describe your framework.
• How can Customized or Create HTML Reports be prepared using TestNG in the hybrid framework?
• What is a fluent wait?
• What are different wait mechanisms that can be used in scripting?
• @before class @ before method, which will execute first in TestNG and Why

Accenture Interview Process

There are 3 Rounds of the interview process. Out of that, I can recall a few of them. I hope this will help all. I am so sharing here.

First-Round Selenium Questions

• Explain your project selenium framework
• Questions of selenium web drivers wait.
• Actions class
• Same Origin Policy
• How to handle window-based popups
• A lot of questions on selenium asked

Second-Round Manager Round

• How you will handle team conflicts.
• How you manage stress
• Agile vs. Waterfall
• Many days today, scenarios are given, and how you handle them

Third Round HR

• Why do you want to join Accenture
• How will you handle tough clients?
• Many questions asked

Accenture Selenium MCQ Questions

Hi team. I had the Accenture written test for functional test planning yesterday. Here 👇are the questions asked.

1) System testing is performed by

• Independent test team
• Developers with support from the independent test team
• Independent test team with the help of developers
• Users with support from the independent test team

2) A ‘REVIEW’ is what category of cost of quality

• I don’t remember the other options

3) One of the fields of a form contains a text box. It accepts alphabets in lower or upper case. Identify the invalid equivalence class value

• user000name

4) The word Big Bang Approach relates to which testing type? Answer: Integration Testing

5) Select the option which is not an iterative model:

• Spiral Model
• Waterfall Model
• All of the above

6) Which of the below is not a characteristic of RISK

• Situational
• InterDependent
• Magnitude Dependent
• Response Based

7) The document that is used to ensure that all of the requirements have been met

• Test Case Document
• Test Suite Document
• Test Case Matrix
• Traceability Matrix

8) Which of the following is not a perspective of Quality

• Transcendent
• Translucent
• Product Based
• Value-Based

9) Which process covers the kinds of software failure(s) that can occur and then quantifies how likely they will occur?

• Configuration Management
• Contingency Planning
• Risk Management
• Process Improvement

10) _____ is a metric used to measure characteristics of the methods, techniques, and tools employed in developing, implementing, and maintaining the software testing:

• Software quality metrics
• Software testing metrics
• Process metrics
• Product metrics
• Project metrics

11) ______ risks are the high-level business risks faced by the software system

• structural risks
• technical risks
• all of the above

12) What are the different costs involved under the cost of quality? Choose the best of them(Multi-select options)

• prevention cost
• cost of production
• failure cost
• appraisal cost

13) ____ is the metric used to measure the characteristics of the documentation and code

• software quality metric
• software testing metric

14) what is the main purpose of the informal review

• Discuss, make decisions
• solve technical problems
• identifying, learning to understand, and gaining product module
• An inexpensive way to get some input

15) Which model is related to STLC

• None of the above

16) Which testing is performed with planning and documentation:

• Ad-hoc testing
• Monkey testing
• fuzz testing
• End-to-end testing
• None of these

17) which document contains entry and exit criteria:

• Defect report
• Test CLosure report

18) Select the right options on the below statements: 1. A negative test is providing invalid input and expecting an error message 2. A positive test is providing valid input and expecting the software to act as per the specification

• a is correct, and b is incorrect
• b is correct, and a is incorrect
• both are correct
• a is partially correct, and b is incorrect
• a is incorrect, and b is correct

19) People who don’t participate in technical reviews

20) Tests are prioritized so that

• You shorten the time required for testing
• You do the best testing in the time available
• You do more effective testing
• You find more faults

21) Testers are typically responsible for reporting their test status regularly. Which of the following measurements generated during testing are applicable:

• Total no of tests executed to date
• Total no of completed successfully to date
• Total no of tests executed and failed to date

22) Select options valid in the test plan

• Features to be tested and not tested
• Entry criteria
• Test Environment
• Test Deliverables

23) Select different types of testing coverage techniques:

• Statement coverage
• Design coverage
• Roof Coverage
• Path Coverage
• Thread Coverage

24) Quality is:

• Meeting Requirements
• Zero Defects/Nullify the defects
• Customer satisfaction
• 1 and 3 only

25) What is TQM in terms of testing:

• Total quality management
• Tool quality management
• Test quality management
• Test quality manager

26) Which tool can be used for defect tracking:

• QA complete

27) Given the following kinds of tools, which developers would classically use tools and which by the independent test team:

• Test running, test data preparation
• Test Management
• Static Analysis
• Performance Testing
• Dynamic Analysis

Developers would typically use 2,3,5, and testers would typically use 1 and 2 A similar combination of options

28) The most important thing about early test design is:

• To stop fault multiplication
• To find all faults
• To make test preparation easier
• It means inspections are not required

29) All project goals should be smart goals, where SMART stands for:

• Specific, monitored, attributable, realistic, and traceable
• Specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, and time frame
• Specific, measurable, attributable, realistic, and traceable
• Specific, measurable, agreed upon, recognizable, and time frame
• Sophisticated, monitored, attributable, realistic, and traceable

30) According to to cross, “absolutes of quality management” refers to Choosing the best options(Multi-select options)

• The definition of quality is conformance to requirements
• The system of quality is the prevention
• The performance standard is zero defects
• The measurement of quality is non-conformance

Accenture Interview Questions For Selenium

• Selenium, Appium, and java which version used in the project.
• Waits in selenium
• Thread. sleep in selenium
• How you will select frames from multiple frames.
• Appium default server and port number
• How to do the setup for Appium testing.
• Explain excel data-driven testing.
• Explain the framework used In the project.
• Action and select class methods
• How to right-click in selenium?
• TestNg annotations.
• How will you define in testNG if other methods depend on any method?
• Types of Xpath
• Parent-child traversing in Xpath.
• Suppose there are two elements with the exact locator details then how you will select the second element.
• How will you give priority in TestNG
• Window handling in selenium
• Verify and assert the difference.
• Which external plugin is required to upload files in selenium?
• Java modifiers
• Which java modifiers have you used in your project- for the main class file, which modifier have you used?

Accenture Interview Questions For API Testing

• Rest and sop difference?
• What does mean by rest is light compared to soap
• Why soap is more secure than rest.
• Different response code
• When do we get a stale element exception?
• Explain overloading and overriding with examples.
• Explain all the oops concepts you used in your framework.
• If you cannot find any element, what techniques will you apply?
• Verification and validation with examples.
• Response time in rest and soap services. Is any difference?

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Accenture Online Assessment Test For Selenium

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1st Round on Selenium

• What is Java?
• How much do you rate yourself in Selenium and Java?
• OOPs concepts
• Access Modifiers explanation
• Interface new feature
• Questions on Collections, have you used them in your project?
• Difference between HashMap and HashTable
• How do you handle multiple windows?
• How do you handle frames? If you are on a base page, you have Frame A and Frame B, and these are siblings. How do you switch to Frame A first, and next, how do you switch to Frame B from Frame A
• How to switch to the base frame after switching to multiple frames
• Question on Agile methodology, how do you manage automation for agile
• TestNG Questions like groups, priority, data provider
• How to run the same scripts for different tests like smoke, regression
• Class A uses five web elements if you have three classes, Class B uses ten web elements, Class C uses 15 Web elements, and all the classes have common elements. How will you manage your code [Have to use inheritance concept; parent class should have all the web elements, child classes should inherit parent and can use whatever the class needs]
• Question on the framework, what are the components you are using
• How will you write code to use excel sheets?

Accenture Technical Interview Questions

• Tell me about your roles and responsibility.
• Explain JAVA
• Write a simple program to print your name with commands to compile and run the program.
• What is the meaning of p.s.v.m(String args)
• Explain exception handling
• How will you come out of try{} block
• What is the use of finally{} block
• How will you go out of finally{} block
• Difference between Hashtable and hashmap n their uses
• Can value be a key value in a hashtable?
• Explain polymorphism
• Explain method overloading and method overriding
• Explain inheritance
• What are the constructors?
• Types of access specifiers and their scope
• What is monkey testing? Who performs it?
• Given a login page with username n password text fields with cancel and login buttons. Give test scenarios
• Difference between the test plan and test lab
• What is API Testing
• Can you brief me about yourself?
• What is the difference between a hashmap and a hashtable?
• Difference between StringBuffer and string classes.
• What is testing
• What are the different types of testing
• What types of testing do you know apart from functional and performance testing?
• What is security testing?
• Where would you see yourself in the next two years?
• What is compatibility testing?
• What is code coverage?
• Why are you looking for a change?
• What are your achievements in your project?
• What are the challenges you had in your project?
• How would you rate yourself in java out of 5?
• What is a garbage collector in java?
• How do you achieve multiple inheritances in java?
• What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class?
• Write a program to find the prime number
• Some questions of reasoning, probability.
• How do you update your knowledge?
• What is stlcCan you tell me about the output of each component in STLC?
• Can you tell me if the output of each component is STLC?
• Have you done anything innovative in the past three years that pleased you?
• What tools do you use in QA automation?
• What is selenium?
• Explain your selenium framework.
• What is the repository you have used for objects in a framework?
• Can you write a sample webdriver script for the login functionality of Gmail?
• What are the different annotations in TestNG?
• What is the use of @BeforeTest annotation?
• How do you access the TestNG class file methods and parameters?
• I have a package with 10 class files, and I would like to run the first 6 class files in parallel and the rest four sequentially how to do that.
• Write the TestNG XML file structure for the above scenario with parallel values as “tests” and “classes.”
• How do you do parameterization in TestNG?
• How is the data provider different from passing parameters from the TestNG XML file?
• How do you handle dependency test cases in TestNG?
• Write the code for the following: a)Check if the given string is a palindrome or not. b) Check if the given integer is a palindrome or not. c) Write a sample code for hashmap and hashtable d) write a sample code for threads
• Given an array int a[] = int a{1,2,2,3,4,4,5,5,6,7} a)Find the duplicates in the above array      and store them in a separate array b)Find the nonduplicates and store them in another array.

Accenture Assessment Test For Automation Engineer

1st round test

• All BB selenium and TestNG maven-related questions.

2nd round- telephonic interview in their office

• Tell me about yourself. What is your project all about
• Explain Abstract class
• Can we achieve multiple inheritances in java?
• Final, and finally, keyword difference
• Collection hierarchy
• What is the difference between a set and a list?
• ArrayList and how it works
• How will you switch to different Windows?
• Maven and its lifecycle phases.
• Why is maven preferred in projects?
• What plugins do you use in maven
• Pom.xml file and Trang.xml files difference
• Nosuchelementexception and Element Not found exception what the difference between that is.
• Cucumber – how much do you know about it?
• Who is writing feature files in your project, and who should write them by your understanding
• Can we have multiple catches after the single try?
• Where do you use the collection in your framework?
• How to iterate ArrayList
• What is a hashmap, and how does it work
• Which framework are you using, and in which layer do you work
• Which version control tool are you using
• What all commands you used it git
• Write an excel sheet code
• If the excel sheet has one column as run and the value for different test cases is Y or N, how will you ensure only Y value test cases will run?
• How to set priority for any test
• How to enable or disable the test
• How to use different TestNG annotations
• How Ur framework has been built.
• If you want to run only some specific tests, then how will you make sure that
• Test with two different scenarios that you need to automate

Accenture Assessment Test

• Explain the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Why do we go for automation testing?
• What is regression testing?
• Explain exception handling.
• What is the difference between absolute XPath and relative XPath?
• Explain your current project.
• Tell me the steps to automate the Gmail login page.
• What is selenium IDE?
• What are the disadvantages of Selenium IDE?
• Why is the selenium web driver more popular?
• How many wait commands are in the selenium web driver?
• What is an alert command in Selenium IDE?
• What is the difference between Assert and verify?
• How to check whether the web element present on UI?
• How to get the text from a web page?
• What is the user of IsEnable and IsSelected in the selenium web driver?
• How to work with drop-down in selenium web driver?
• What are the features of selenium IDE?
• How many locators are available in the selenium web driver?
• Which locator is good for finding the element?
• How many ways can we launch the web page in the selenium web driver?
• I want to put a verification point in selenium IDE. Is it possible at the time of recording or manually?
• Which domain are you working on?
• What is selenium’s tool suite?
• What is the framework used in your project?
• Explain the data-driven and Hybrid framework.
• What is the difference between TestNG and JUnit?
• What is ANT?
• What are the important elements of ANT?
• What is clean in ANT?
• What is Robotium?
• What is selenese?
• What is fitneese?
• What is meant by Continuous Integration?
• What are web services? Can we test Webservices using selenium? What is a different kind of WebWebservices?
• Explain STLC.
• What are the Settings needed to run ANT from the command prompt?
• What is the use of AutoIT?
• What is the difference between Delete and Drop?
• Explain how to handle a Child browser pop-up.
• Explain the different types of wait in Selenium.
• What is shell scripting? What are the basic commands used?
• What is Regression Testing?
• Explain how you find the total number of objects on a web page.
• Explain the different kinds of locators in selenium.
• How do you convert Javascript in Selenium IDE to Java in Webdriver?
• What are the commands ANT uses in the build?XML file?
• Explain How do you handle mobile Testing using Selenium Webdriver?
• What are the tools used for Mobile browsers?
• What different Support classes are available in Selenium to test Android and iPhone mobiles?
• Can we use cucumber and fitneese? Explain
• What is JDBC?
• Explain the difference between Rowset and Resultset.
• Explain your project’s driver for the JDBC connection with connection details.

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these questions really help me .

Thanks Virender 9813212694

Happy To know that these questions help you lot, I hope you can share your interview experience and interview questions with us so that we can make this community better for all our fellow testers.

Helped me a lot, 1st round on Selenium: 1. What is Java? 2. How much you rate your self in Selenium and Java? 3. OOPs concepts 4. Access Modifiers explannation 5. Interface new feature 6. Qn on Collections, have you used in your project? 7. Difference between HashMap and HashTable 8. How do you handle multiple windows? 9. How do you handle frames, if you r on base page, you have frameA, frameB and these are siblings, how do you switch to frameA first and next how do you switch to frameB from frameA 10. How to switch to base frame after switching to multiple frames 11. Question on Agile methodology, how do you manage automation for agile 12. Testng Questions like groups, priority, dataprovider 13. how to run same scripts for different tests like smoke, regression 14. if you have 3 classes, ClassA uses 5 webelements, ClassB uses 10 webelements, Class C uses 15 Webelements, all the classes have common elements, how will you manage ur code [Have to use inheritance concept, parent class should have all the webelements, child classes should inherit parent and can use whatever the class needs] 15. Question on framework, what are the components u r using 16. How will you write code to use excel sheets

Thanks, Saritha For Sharing the latest interview questions with us. I hope this type of activity motivates others to keep sharing their experience on this platform. so that we can make a better platform for our fellow testing communities.

These questions asked in online assessment skill test or technical round

What was the questions asked for 2 years of experience.

Hi Softwaretestingo,

please share pune location interviews having 2 years experience.

Sure we will try to update

does anyone of you have applied for functional test planing position in accenture

Yes..I have interview tmrw.

How was your interview? Can you please share your interview questions with me?

Can you share your experience

I have applied for functional test planning position in Accenture. What was the questions asked for 2+ years of experience. please help me to clear the interview process.it will helps me lot

accenture is the worst company after clearing all the rounds for functional test planning position.I got a mail regarding documents upload but after that my status chnaged to “Candidature is closed” . I contacted hr and my talent coach but no one received my call. This incident shows how pathetic is accenture hr team and their recruitment process. I never seen such stupid behavior from any other company in my whole career.

HI Abhay, my interview is scheduled on 16th April 2021 for the same role. Can you tell me what they’ve asked

Can u share the details of an interview?

1. How many total rounds are there 2. Whats questions asked from you in each round

Hi Rahul and Vikhyat

Hope your interview went well. Can you share the list of questions they asked

Thanks in Advance

What questions were asked in the 1st round.Please share the questions if you remember any.

Can anyone share interview questions asked for functional test planning position in Accenture.

hey, Can you share interview questions asked for functional test planning position in Accenture.

Can any one tell me the correct answer for above functional testing question ??

Has anyone attended Accenture’s assessment test based on primary Skills(Selenium) before Interview? If yes, could you please share the questions asked.

Kaylan have attended that exam for primary skill as selenium

Hi Kalyan, If u have attended means what type of questions they have asked its purely selenium based questions or functional.if any one knows plz comment ??

Most of the questions are from Selenium only.

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Customer Case Study: Accenture and Semantic Kernel

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

March 26th, 2024 0 3

Accenture Evolves its Data Analytics with Microsoft Semantic Kernel

Below we’ve provided a brief overview of the Customer Story of Accenture. Check out the entire Accenture Customer Story featured here: Accenture evolves its data analytics with Microsoft Fabric to calibrate the new “experience office”

Accenture created DEX, an AI-enhanced experience measurement framework. Leveraging Microsoft Fabric, DEX transforms data collection and analysis with AI, prioritizing user experience and productivity and allowing you to fine-tune your digital strategies to align with your workforce’s needs and expectations. It’s a shift towards a user-focused model that simplifies complexity and paves the way for better customer outcomes. Built and tested within Accenture itself, DEX is set to transform workplace dynamics in organizations worldwide.

Quantifying success through better enterprise data analysis

As one of the world’s largest professional services companies, Accenture is a leader in the current and evolving states of workplaces across the globe. Accenture has been working to help clients measure the efficiencies of remote, in-person, and hybrid work approaches. Accenture is at the forefront of helping companies measure what’s working, what isn’t, and the ways in which employees are navigating the numerous styles of workplaces, processes, and collaboration tools.

The challenge is not the ability to accumulate data towards this goal, but rather in managing and mining insights from that data.

Reinventing workplaces by democratizing data and insights

Accenture turned to longtime partner Microsoft to help realize the first generation of its new Digital Experience Measurement (DEX) Platform; a standardized system that quantifies six dimensions of an employee’s experience within a company: usability, user adoption, sentiment, support, performance, and accessibility.

DEX uses  Microsoft Fabric  and  Microsoft Semantic Kernel  with an open-source library. Microservices move data and responses using  Microsoft Azure OpenAI  to create an AI Large Language Model (LLM) on the back end.

Fabric integrates an extensive array of datasets, pulling from diverse sources such as custom applications, data warehouses, and other disparate repositories, and consolidating them into a single, unified repository within Fabric’s OneLake.

Unlocking information from data had previously been a complex exercise – structuring data, then building custom tools to accomplish a defined set of anticipated needs. Mining the data required custom-built tools to parse and deliver a limited data set. This created a number of isolated data silos that continued to grow over time.

DEX isn’t just about bringing data together; it’s about creating a unified, secure, integrated experience from end to end. Whether it’s visualization, developer interaction, or data analysis, Fabric simplifies the complexities for Accenture.

“Creating a seamless, connected digital experience that helps our people navigate across the expert knowledge at Accenture we believe will, in turn, have a positive correlation on customer satisfaction,” says Christensen.

“That’s where DEX is ultimately headed: getting the tools in the hands of the end users themselves,” says Tybor. “Our IT department can of take a step back and focus on enabling our business goals while ensuring we have a more secure and governed data estate—ultimately enabling the businesses’ strategic goals,” he added.

Please reach out if you have any questions or feedback through our  Semantic Kernel GitHub Discussion Channel . We look forward to hearing from you! We would also love your support, if you’ve enjoyed using Semantic Kernel, give us a star on  GitHub .

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Selenium IDE is an open-source tool that is widely used in conducting automated web testing and browser automation. This tool is intended mainly for Web Application testers and developers to develop, edit, and run automated test cases for Web Applications. Selenium IDE lets you easily playback and record interactively web application activities during test automation on the browser-based interface. You don’t need much programming skills to use it. Even if you’re not great at programming, you can still make simple automated tests with it.

Key Terminologies

• Selenium IDE: Record, Edit, and Run Automated Tests for Web Applications with Selenium Integrated Development Environment.
• Test Case : One particular scenario is being tested using an automatic approach which comprises a series of instructions and commands applied on a client web application.
• Recording: Capture and Creation of Test Cases Using User Interactions in Web Applications.
• Project: A bundle of closely connected test situations.

Step-by-Step Guide to Create Your First Test Case

Selenium IDE works with Chrome Browser and Mozilla Firefox .

Step 1: Setting Up Selenium IDE

To set up Selenium IDE in your browser you can visit the Selenium IDE website or click on this link to add the extension.

Selenium IDE Installation

Step 2: Create a New Project

Open the installed Selenium IDE extension to access its default interface. Then, click “ Create a New Project “.

Creating a new project

Step 3: Name your project

The next step is to assign a name to your project. You can give any name that reflects your project’s identity.

Naming project

Step 4: Creating a New Test Case

To begin the process of creating a test case for your website, add a new test case by clicking ‘+’ on the Tests tab and name your Test.

Adding a new test

Step 5: Adding Playback base URL

A playback base URL is required to execute your test case, your test case will start from the URL that you will give. Add a playback base URL e.g., https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ in the tab as shown in the image below.

Adding a playback base url

Step 6: Recording Your Test Case

To start the recording of your Test Case, click the recording button available. It will capture every interaction with the web application in real time.

Record test case

Step 7: Performing Actions

Visit the website you intend to test and carry out the specific actions you wish to incorporate into your test case. Selenium IDE will record these actions as steps in your test case.

For example, Initiate a search for “ Selenium IDE ” in the search bar on geeksforgeeks website and press Enter to initiate the search. Click the first article that will redirect you to the Selenium IDE article webpage.

Performing Actions

Step 8: Stopping Recording

Once you’ve completed your interactions, click the “ Stop Recording ” button in Selenium IDE.

Stop Recording

Step 9: Running Your Test Case

Click the “ Run current test ” button to execute your test case and it will replay the actions that you performed. Observe the interactions and you can identify any issues during the test run.

Run test case

Step 10: Evaluate

You can easily evaluate the summary of your test case by checking the ‘log’ section below, which will help you identify whether any steps have failed or passed.

Evaluate test case

Step 11: Export Your Test Case

Click on the three dots located on the right side of your test and select ‘ Export ‘ to export your test case in your desired language so that you can use it with other Selenium tools and frameworks for various testing and automation purposes.

Export test

It will give you options to export your test case in the given languages. You can choose any of the given languages to export your test case.

Exporting Test Case

Final Output

Explanation:

After using Selenium IDE what you get is a score of your web test case. After running a test case, you can quickly measure its performance and check on the behaviour of your web application.

• The log contains a brief description indicating the success or failure of every individual step of your testing procedure. The log shows how successful you are with your automated test.
• The log enables you to determine whether any problems or mistakes arose during the test run. This detailed feedback aids in identifying bugs, anomalies, and undesirable behaviours in your web applications.
• This ensures the web application does what it is supposed to do and conforms to set standards.
• Ultimately, it generates one that assures you of a PASS or FAIL status for every phase of testing, plus a feedback mechanism to allow tuning and enhancement of automation tests.
• The Selenium IDE helps to establish a feedback loop for maintaining the reliability and quality of web applications.

Selenium IDE is very easy to use, even if one does not have any programming ability; thus, it’s excellent for beginners or professionals. Selenium makes it easy for you to set up your testing stuff, take screenshots, create projects, and view the results of recorded tests. Testing a modern website can become trickier, but this application has made it so simple that it has turned into a necessity for anyone who desires a smooth and simple process of testing modern websites.

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Industry: Utility

The Client is a US-based, leading provider of online workflow solutions in Science, Medical, Legal, Risk Management, and diverse fields in the form of research literature. The Client empowers academicians and practitioners to make better decisions, deliver better care, and make ground breaking scientific discoveries.

Business Need

• To automate test cases for admin and user portals of their core application for different OS Operating Systems and browser combinations using Selenium Webdriver.
• To expand the scope of test automation to cover all the major functionalities of user portal such as purchasing hardcover/paperbacks, creating an online course as an instructor, enrolling into online course as a student, purchasing a book by applying access code, registering for items which are in pre-order state, etc.
• To apply test automation for major functionalities covered as part of admin portal as well including fulfilling adoption requests, creating access codes for items, creating promotions, maintaining items, etc.

Client Situation

• Automate critical scenarios for regression testing
• Integrate a test management and bug tracking tool within the automation tool to update and track test results
• Open case Logs using the tracking tool for failed instances
• Run the test suite using the continuous integration tool

Technologies

Selenium Webdriver, MSExcel, Xcode, Android SDK, SQLLite

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Weblineindia developed a utility using browser stack to execute multiple scripts at a time in different browser/OS combinations that helped to identify functional issues in different browsers and proceeded with the test automation.

The layout issues were easily discovered using the browser stack and it also helped identify syntactically incorrect pages by getting the source of the web pages and check against the W3C validations.

• Client achieved 100% test automation coverage for cross browser compatibility
• Successfully managed parallel execution on multiple machines simultaneously.
• Executed all test scripts through Browser stack utility in all different browser and OS combinations which helped in identifying issues much faster than ever before.

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The Accenture Digital Assessment: What You Need to Know to Pass

• Last Updated January, 2022

Rachael Troughton

Former Accenture

If you’re applying to Accenture, you may be asked to take the Accenture digital assessment. It’s a multiple-choice test that walks you through a simulated consulting project, giving you insight into what the work of a consultant is like.

If you’re just beginning your research on careers in consulting, you may not know much about consulting cases. But by reading this article you’ll get an overview of what to expect on Accenture’s test, as well as links to further resources to help you prepare.

In this article, we’ll discuss:

• Why management consulting firms use digital tests,
• What the Accenture digital assessment looks like,
• An example question and the skills being tested,
• Tips to help you pass the digital assessment and,
• What you can expect in the Accenture recruiting process after you pass the digital assessment.

Let’s get started!

Why Management Consulting Firms Are Using Digital Tests

What the accenture discovery portal digital assessment looks like.

Example Questions on the Accenture Digital Assessment & What Skills Are Tested

6 Tips For Dealing With the Accenture Digital Assessment

What you can expect in the accenture recruiting process after you pass the digital assessment.

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Getting a job at one of the top consultancy firms has always been tough but, with firms reaching beyond a core set of schools to find candidates, it’s more competitive than ever.  

It’s extremely time consuming to read through all the applications the firms receive, so their recruiting teams are moving to a more automated process to help.

They’re turning to:

• Applicant tracking systems .  These systems search for keywords in your application that match the competencies desired by the hiring firm and acts as an initial filter.
• Pre-screening assessments. These are tests with digital or virtual reality components that assess candidates on key skills.
• Gamified assessments. These are games that assess candidates for key skills, and hopefully, make the recruitment process more fun. 

These tracking systems and digital assessments don’t just make the recruiting process more efficient for consulting companies. They also help combat one of the main challenges with human recruitment: unconscious bias.  Unconscious bias is an attitude we hold that unconsciously affects our decision-making.  

In recruitment, unconscious bias can result in lower diversity of applicants making it through the process.

Candidates applying for one of Accenture’s entry-level opportunities will apply through the Accenture Discovery Portal online.  Once your application is processed you’ll receive an email saying the next step is to complete the “Accenture Discovery Portal Digital Assessment.”

The assessment has 2 sections:

• The Situational Judgment Test &
• The Numeracy Test.

The Accenture Situational Judgment Test

This part of the Accenture digital assessment is run through a platform that simulates a typical consulting project with a client, a business problem, and a goal the client wants to achieve.  You’ll be given a number of different pieces of information: 

• Charts, and 

During the assessment, you’ll be taken through several interactive scenarios: email exchanges, informational videos, and a simulated Skype call. 

The majority of questions ask candidates to rank the answers (which are various courses of action) from 1 to 5, with 1 being the action that you would most likely take, and 5 being the least likely.

The Accenture Numeracy Test

This test uses traditional multiple-choice questions. Candidates are asked to calculate answers based on information on the graphs and charts.  There are 5 options presented and you must select one of the 5. 

The full Accenture digital assessment is expected to take around 1.5 hours to complete.

Who Is Asked to Take the Accenture Digital Assessment?

The Accenture digital assessment is currently being used for full-time hires and will likely be expanded to other recruiting processes such as summer internships.

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Example Questions on the Accenture Digital Assessment & What Skills Are Tested

The digital test assesses your situational judgment which is your ability to choose the most appropriate action when faced with a workplace problem. Situational judgment tests can be challenging as a number of the options may seem suitable. 

For example:

“You are tasked with selling a new product that doesn’t fit the target market of your company.  Sales are continuing to decrease every month.  Do you….?”

a. Report the issue to your sales manager

b. Keep trying to sell the product

c. Look for innovative ways to approach prospective customers

d. Educate yourself on the latest sales tactics and strategies

e. Stop selling the product, research better options, and present your findings to senior stakeholders

While there is no wrong answer,  there are some answers which are better than others. Accenture will consider your choice in the context of its workplace culture.  If you’re struggling, use what you know about Accenture to guide you.  

Accenture has six core values:

• Client value creation
• Best people
• One global network
• Respect for the individual
• Stewardship

Looking at our example, here is how we’d think about the answers from best to worst:

Best answer : (e) Stop selling the product, research better options, and present your findings to senior stakeholders. This answer shows you’re focused on creating value for the client and researching better options does that.  You’ve also shown integrity in not trying to continue to sell a product that isn’t suited to the market.

Next-best answers : (a), (c), or (d). These answers all show you are taking some action. (a) Report the issue to your sales manager isn’t the best answer because it’s always better to provide a potential solution than to just report a problem. (c) and (d) aren’t the best answers because the sales approach and tactics aren’t the heart of the problem. They’ll probably only improve results slightly, not dramatically.

Worst answer : (b) Keep trying to sell the product. Since Accenture values client value creation, you shouldn’t just continue to do what you’re doing when that strategy is failing.

If you get stuck, focus on answers where you act with a high level of integrity and create value and you should be good to go!

Through asking you to interpret data from charts and graphs, the digital assessment also tests math ability and cognitive function. Accenture is an insight-powered business so the ability to understand, interpret, and extract value from data is a key skill for entry-level business analysts.

1. Set yourself up for success .

Make sure that any tech you are using is fully charged and you have a good internet connection.  Take the test in an environment that feels comfortable and clear away anything that might distract you.

2. Find your focus .

Most of us know at what time of day we are most alert and able to focus.  If you can, schedule your digital assessment for a time when you know you’re most likely to perform at your best.

3. Read the information carefully.

The math required for the calculations isn’t complicated (mostly arithmetic and algebra) but make sure you have all the required information from the various charts and graphs before coming up with your answer. See our article on consulting math for more help.

4. Go with your instinct .

With situational judgment tests there are no ‘wrong’ answers, so don’t spend too long worrying over the different options.  Pick the answer that feels the best to you and move on. That said……

5. Learn about Accenture before taking the test .

While there are no wrong answers to situational judgment questions, you’ll be compared to the traits of successful Accenture consultants.  Understanding what Accenture values in its people might help you choose between 2 similar answers.

6. Don’t forget to breathe!

Your brain needs oxygen to function and taking a few deep breaths can calm any nerves you might be feeling about the test.  Take a moment before the test to breathe and give yourself a few moments between different sections to take a breath before re-focusing on the next task.

At this point, digital assessment and virtual or augmented reality platforms act as complements to the traditional recruitment process.  They provide extra information about a candidate to better predict performance on the job. So you’ll still need to prepare for the Accenture assessment day. 

At the Accenture assessment day, there will be a number of both individual and group activities as well as a final behavioral interview. Depending on where in the world you’re applying from there may be virtual reality elements as part of the assessment day.

Accenture’s Group Case Interview

Unlike other consulting firms, Accenture assesses your consultant potential in a group case study environment rather than an individual case interview.  The recruiting team is still assessing your quantitative skills, business logic, and strategic thinking but they are also able to observe how you work within a team to influence others and solve problems collaboratively.

Accenture’s Behavioral Interview

The behavioral interview explores your personal qualities, matching them against those required of a successful Accenture consultant. Be prepared to answer questions about your experience with teamwork, conflict resolution, and leadership.  Accenture values innovation so focus your examples on times where you solved problems in a creative or interesting way.

To find out more about how to prepare strong answers for these interview questions, see our article on behavioral interviews . 

After successfully navigating the assessment day, you’ll finally receive the coveted letter that welcomes you as the newest member of Accenture’s team.  Congratulations!

In this article, we’ve covered:

• Why management consulting firms use digital assessments,
• What you’ll face during the Accenture Discovery Portal digital assessment,
• Example questions from the Accenture digital assessment and what skills it tests,
• Tips to help you succeed in the Accenture digital assessment and,
• What happens after you pass the Accenture digital assessment.

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I’m asked to give 40 minutes digital assessment test in Accenture after clearing the technical and HR interview. What can I expect from this test? I’m a SAP PI/PO Consultant.

We have this article on the Accenture digital assessment. I hope it helps you and good luck! https://www.myconsultingoffer.org/case-study-interview-prep/accenture-digital-assessment/

I received my feedback after completing the online assessment. My least developed strength is “tech advocate”. Given that Accenture uses technology at its core, I guess I’ve failed to meet their criteria.

You might be right about Accenture’s interest in candidates who are tech advocates. I talked to some of our Accenture experts and they mentioned that in the past, the firm has provided new hires with 2 weeks of coding training as part of their onboarding process. This might be a blow if Accenture was one of your top picks, but you might take the opportunity to think about what type of consulting firm is the best fit for you. Reading the different firms’ “values” pages can tell you a lot about their culture and what they look for in recruits. Another consulting firm with less tech focus might be the right one for you.

Good luck with the recruiting process!

How long Accenture takes to reply(feedback) after completing your digital assessment?

We’ve heard of Accenture and other consulting firms getting back quite soon after candidates take their digital assessment, but sometimes they take a couple weeks. While it’s hard to wait for feedback, you can put the time to good use by practicing for case interviews and preparing your behavioral interview stories. Best of luck!

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One of the top IT companies in India is Accenture, which is also the top provider of management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing worldwide. Accenture has expertise in a number of important business sectors, including outsourcing, corporate strategy, supply chain management, and technology.

When Accenture was founded in 1989, its previous name was Andersen Consulting. Following a severance of links with its parent business Arthur Andersen, Accenture changed its name in 2001. The global headquarters of Accenture is in Dublin, Ireland. It operates satellite offices in more than 200 cities across 50 nations.

Accenture has a significant presence in five industries: media & technology, communications, health & public services, financial services, and products & resources. Accenture offers a wide range of services and solutions within this particular set in the fields of strategy, digital, technology, consulting, and operations. Accenture assists clients in lowering costs while providing the finest services and solutions available. It also outsources technology-related tasks.

Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help its clients improve performance and create sustainable value for their various stakeholders. Accenture unites unmatched experience and exceptional skills across 40+ industries and numerous business functions, held by the world's largest delivery network.

Read below some of the most important questions that might be asked for the interview along with general information about Accenture so that you are better prepared with the basics. 

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Accenture Recruitment Process

Some of the previously interviewed individuals have described the Accenture interview process as being a touch difficult. As a result of the relatively high number of applications received by Accenture, the candidates are frequently intimidated by the challenging questions in all interview rounds. Therefore, if you have a well-thought-out preparation plan and consistently practice, you can succeed in this interview procedure.

First, the academic requirements for applying to an Accenture interview are as follows:

• Candidates having a combined 65% in their appropriate graduate degree are eligible.
• The candidate must have passed each topic and have no open backlogs.
• The time between your studies shouldn't be more than one year.

The Accenture interview process typically consists of the following three rounds:

Online Assessment Test 

Technical interview.

• An HR interview

The Accenture interview rounds will typically not change for experienced applicants. However, for some key positions, you might have to go through two or more rounds of technical interviews before an HR interview.

Interview Rounds

As an elimination round in the Accenture interview process, this initial round is slightly more challenging than the others. Accenture's online assessments aim to gauge candidates' cognitive capacity and competence. Questions in this round are centered on verbal ability, logical reasoning, and quantitative aptitude. You must complete the stipulated amount of questions in the allotted time during this round.

If you pass the online test, you will be contacted for a technical interview. The technical round primarily assesses the candidate's coding and problem-solving abilities. To ace the technical interview, candidates should have a solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and other computer science-related topics, including OS, DBMS, CN, etc. You might anticipate being examined in various areas depending on the job function you're applying for. You might have to go through two or more rounds of technical interviews if you are an experienced candidate or vying for a vital position.

HR interview

The HR interview is the last step in the hiring process at Accenture since it provides insight into a candidate's personality and other pertinent characteristics. Here, you may be asked a wide range of questions, such as those about your introduction, education, experience, hobbies, skills, shortcomings, and expected compensation. You may also ask questions about Accenture's business during this round. An HR interview aims to assess your personality, examine your background and determine whether you are a good fit for the organization. In contrast, the other interview rounds at Accenture evaluate your abilities and accomplishments.

1. What does Java's "static" keyword mean?

Java has a non-access feature called static that is helpful for memory management.

All objects may share static properties, and when an object is formed, no separate copies of static members are made.

Static members can be accessed directly by using the class name rather than by creating an instance of the class.

For memory management, the static keyword can be used with the variable, block, function, and nested classes.

• Static variable: When a variable is declared with the static keyword, only one copy of the variable is created, and it is shared by all class objects (a class to which the static variable belongs).
• Static block: A static block aids in initializing the members of static data. It is a collection of statements included within a Java class that is only ever executed the first time the class is loaded into the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Static method: A method is deemed to be static if the static keyword is used in its declaration. One illustration of a static method is the main() method. There are limitations to static methods, such as the fact that they can only directly call other static methods and access static data.
• Static type: A static class can only be established for nested classes. A reference to the outer class is not required for nested static classes (a class in which the nested class is defined). Access to non-static members of the outer class is not permitted for a static class.

2. Why are the Java keywords "super" and "this" important?

• "super" keyword: In the Java programming language is used to refer to the instance of the parent class (superclass). It cannot be used as an identifier in Java since it is a reserved keyword. Additionally, you can use this term to call constructors and methods from parent class members.
• "this" Keyword: The "this" keyword in Java is used to refer to the current class instance. It cannot be used as an identifier in Java since it is a reserved keyword. It can be used to pass an argument in a method call or function Object() { [native code] }, refer to an object of the current class, or invoke a function Object() { [native code] } of the current class.

3. What exactly is run-time polymorphism and how does Java implement it?

Run-time polymorphism, also known as dynamic binding or dynamic method dispatch, denotes the use of run-time rather than compile-time dynamic resolution for calls to overridden methods.

In Java, method overriding is used to implement run-time polymorphism. Method overriding is the process of a child class (subclass) overriding a parent class (superclass) method when both classes share the same method name, return type, and parameters.

Example: The example below contains three subclasses: Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles under the superclass Animal. The print() function of subclasses extends the superclass. Using the parent class reference variable from the Animal class, we will call the print() method. Since the subclass method overrides the superclass function and refers to the subclass object, the subclass method is called during runtime. Run-time polymorphism is used when the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) selects how to invoke a method.

4. Distinguish between Array and ArrayList provided by Java.

5. what does java's "diamond issue" mean.

The "Diamond dilemma" typically occurs when there are several inheritances. Java does not support multiple inheritances, therefore, when you try to implement numerous interfaces, you run into the diamond problem. When two interfaces with identical method signatures are implemented as a single class, the compiler is unsure of which function to run as a result, leading to a compile-time error. It is referred to as a "Diamond issue" because of how its structure resembles a diamond.

Here, if we attempt to use the print() function using the DerivedClass3 object, the compiler will become confused as to whether it should call the print() function from DerivedClass1 or DerivedClass2.

Virtual inheritance is used to resolve the "diamond problem." It ensures that the shared base class will only ever be used once in the child class.

6. Why doesn't Java have global variables?

Global variables can be accessed from anywhere. Due to the following reasons, Java does not enable globally accessible variables:

• referential transparency is broken by global variables.
• Global variables cause namespace collisions

7. Describe JDBC.

JDBC is a collection of Java APIs for running SQL commands. A set of classes and interfaces make up this API, which enables software to create pure Java Database applications.

8. What is the Java "diamond problem"?

When multiple inheritances are carried out in Java, the diamond problem, also referred to as the deadly diamond problem or the deadly diamond of death happens. JAVA does not support multiple inheritances, hence attempting to do so would result in a compilation error.

9. What do Java lambda expressions do?

A function called a Lambda expression can be written independently of any class. It debuted with Java 8.

It serves as an interface implementation that has a user interface. It is acceptable just to write the implementation code rather than redefine the method in order to provide the implementation. As a result, a lot of coding is saved.

Since a lambda expression is seen as a function, the compiler won't produce a.class file for it.

They are typically used in functional programming using the Java Streams API or for the development of straightforward callbacks or event listeners.

The syntax for a lambda expression is (argument list) -> "body".

There are three parts to a Lamda phrase.

• argument_list: Zero or more number of arguments.
• -> (arrow-token): Used to link argument_list and body of lambda expression.
• body: Contains statements and expressions for lambda expression.

A Java example program to illustrate lambda expressions by implementing the user-defined functional interface is given below

10. What does Java Encapsulation mean?

Encapsulation refers to combining code and data into a single unit. The best illustration of encapsulation is a capsule with medicine inside of it.

In Java , a class is said to be fully encapsulated if all its data members are designated private. Once this happens, we can access the class using getter and setter methods.

Java Bean class is one instance of a fully enclosed class.

Encapsulation is also known as data hiding since it keeps its data private from other classes.

11. What do Java's recursive functions and recursion mean?

Recursion is the process of repeatedly invoking a method by itself without reaching a conclusion. Recursive methods are defined as those that call themselves repeatedly.

12. What do the Java keywords "this" and "super" mean?

The Java language's "super" keyword is used to refer to an object of the parent class. As a reserved keyword in Java, the "super" keyword cannot be used as an identifier.

this Keyword: In Java, the "this" keyword is used to refer to the class's object at hand. Since "this" is a reserved keyword in Java, it cannot be used as an identifier.

13. What does a Java interface mean? Can more than one interface be implemented in a single class?

Java provides an interface as a means of achieving abstraction. The Interface is similar to a class, but not exactly, since it can also include methods and variables, just like a class, but only contains the method signature and not the body.

• Java does not support instantiating the Interface.
• The Interface has public and abstract methods (by default).
• A class can implement an interface.
• We use the keyword interface when declaring an interface.

We can implement multiple interfaces in one class, and parent interfaces can be declared using a comma(,) operator.

14. In Java, is multiple inheritances possible? Specify your reasoning

Multiple inheritances is not allowed in Java because it leads to program ambiguity and the diamond problem. Interface in Java can be used to solve this issue.

Let's say that class A inherits from classes B and C, both of which contain a method with the same name. If we attempt to override this method, the compiler will become confused and issue a compilation error. Java does not enable multiple inheritances because of this.

15. What distinguishes Collections from Collections in Java?

Although both collections and collections are a part of the Java Collection Framework, the key distinctions between them are listed below:

Collections are a class of collection framework, and a Collection in Java is an interface.

While the Collections class has static methods that can be used for a variety of operations on a collection, the Collection interface offers methods that can be used for data structures.

16. How can we get access to a class member who is a private member?

In Java, we can use public getters and setters from outside the class to access private members of the class.

17. What are a call-by reference and call-by value?

There are two ways to pass values to functions in the C programming language:

• Call by Value: If we modify the formal parameters, the actual parameters won't be affected because a copy of the value is sent to the function. The "calling function" just uses the formal parameter's new value as a local variable without changing the parameter's actual value.
• Call by Reference: If we modify any formal parameters, the real parameter will also be affected because a reference to that value's address is supplied to the function.

18. Describe how Static and Dynamic Memory allocation differ.

There are two forms of Memory Allocation

• Static memory allocation: This is the process of allocating memory at the beginning of a program. The size of a static memory allocation is fixed; we cannot alter it during runtime. In Array, static memory allocation is employed.
• Dynamic memory allocation: This is the process of allocating memory while a program is running. At runtime, we can adjust the size according to our needs. The heap region is where the memory is allocated, and this is also where it can be released. Pointers use dynamic memory allocation.

19. What are a Variable's declaration and definition?

Variable Declaration: When a variable or function is declared, its name and type are specified so that the program can use it. The compiler can use these variables and functions. Declaring membership provides a program representation.

Definition of a Variable: When we define a variable, we are giving it a value or initializing it with a value. A variable's or a program member's definition provides all the details about it.

 20. What does a Multithreading deadlock State mean?

Multithreading results in a deadlock circumstance. In Java, this situation is referred to be a deadlock scenario because one thread is waiting for a lock object that another thread has already obtained, while the second thread is waiting for a lock object that the first thread has already taken.

21. What is a collection in a List Interface?

The Java Collection Framework has an interface called List interface. The List interface expands the Collection interface.

• It is an organized grouping of things.
• Duplicate items are present.
• It also permits elements to be accessed randomly.

22. What do you mean when you say an object was copied?

The process of making an identical replica of an object is known as object cloning. We can utilize the clone() function of the Object class to duplicate an object. The class needs to support Java. lang. We want to build a copy of the clonable interface; otherwise, it will throw an error.

Syntax of clone() method

23. What does method overriding and overloading mean?

Method overloading occurs when a method in a class has the same method name but with distinct arguments.

Method overriding occurs when a method in a class with the same name and arguments is used instead.

24. What does a Python classifier do?

An algorithm known as a classifier determines the class of an input element using a set of features. To gain comprehension of the relationship between input variables and class, it typically uses training data (huge datasets used to train an algorithm or machine learning model). It is mostly utilized in supervised learning and machine learning.

Example: Based on its qualities, also known as its "features," a classifier can be used to forecast the soap category. Its scent, appearance, color, and other characteristics may be among these. A machine learning classifier might be used to determine whether a soap is Mysore Sandal soap if it has a round form, a brown color, and a potent sandalwood scent.’

25. What is Python's Pandas Library?

Pandas is a Python-based open-source software package that is helpful for analyzing and manipulating data. It offers a wide range of data formats and functions, including the ability to edit time series and numerical tables. It is regarded as one of the key tools to master because it can handle many file kinds.

Some of the characteristics or techniques that Pandas offer are

• A list of row-axis labels is returned.
• empty: If the series is empty, it returns true; otherwise, it returns false.
• The count of items in the underlying data is returned by the size parameter.
• values: The series is given back as an array.
• head(): It returns the n rows from the beginning of a data frame or series.
• tail(): Returns the n rows from the end of a data frame or series.

26. What is the difference between a List and a Tuple?

In Python, lists and tuples are used for storing collections in items, but they have a few fundamental differences

Lists are created using square brackets [], and commas separate items. Tuples are created using parentheses (), and items are separated by commas as well.

Mutable vs Immutable

• Lists are mutable, which means contents can be modified after creation.
• Tuples are immutable, meaning the contents cannot be modified once the contents are created.

Performance

• Tuples are typically faster to access due to their immutable nature and iterate over than lists.
• When it comes to adding or removing elements from the collection, lists are faster than tuples.

27. What do you mean by “Pythonic Code”?

Pythonic code means the code is written in an idiomatic style in Python. That means following the Python community's best practices, coding styles, and conventions. The Pythonic code is easy to write, read and understand because it uses Python’s built-in functions, data structures, and syntax.

28. Explain CI/CD Concept in Python Programming

CI and CD stand for continuous integration and continuous deployment. It’s a set of tools and practices to automate software delivery processes. In Python, the concept of CI/CD involves automating the process of testing, developing and deploying the Python code.

Continuous Integration is the process of incorporating code modifications made by various developers into a single project. Early in development, it is intended to identify and resolve conflicts. Every time a change is made to a piece of code in Python, CI entails running automated tests. CI is frequently implemented in Python projects using tools like CircleCI, Travis CI, and Jenkins.

Continuous deployment involves automating the code modifications to production. The process of deployment will be expedited and improved. CD automates the deployment of Python code to production servers in Python programming. In Python projects, CD is frequently implemented using tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

29. Describe NumPy and PySpark.

In Python, NumPy and PySpark are two popular tools for data analysis, computing, and machine learning.

Numpy provides support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices. It's a core library for scientific computing and provides many tools for working these arrays. Besides, PySpark is distributed computing framework built on top of Apache Spark. It provides an interface to work with large data sets that are in parallel with a cluster of computers. This is well-suited for big-data apps.

30. How Shallow Copy is different from Deep Copy?

In Programming, a copy of a data structure or object is made in different ways, including shallow copy and deep copy. The key difference is the way they handle the reference to other objects. 

With a shallow copy, a new object is created, but references to the previous object are still present in the contents of the new object. Alternatively put, a shallow copy points to the same place in memory as the original object. The shallow duplicate will also reflect any modifications made to the original object.

In contrast to a shallow copy, a deep copy makes a new object and copies every object that the original object references in turn. In other words, a deep copy produces a new memory address for every object, including all nested objects. The deep duplicate will not show any modifications made to the original object.

31. Discuss Django Architecture.

Django is a high-level Python web framework that follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. 

• Model layer

The Model layer defines the database schema and handles data persistence. Models are Python classes that map to database tables and perform CRUD operations.

The View layer is responsible for handling user requests and generating responses. 

• Template layer

The Template layer is responsible for rendering HTML pages and other types of responses that are returned by the View layer. 

32. How is Memory managed in Python?

Python uses a technique known as Automatic Memory Management or garbage collection to manage memory. As a result, the programmer does not have to worry about manually controlling memory allocation and release during program execution since the Python interpreter handles these tasks automatically.

33. What is Docstring in Python?

Python uses docstrings, or documentation strings, to provide details on a function, module, class, or method. The first sentence of a module, function, class, or method definition is a string literal. A docstring's aim is to explain a function's or class's functionality, the arguments it accepts, the results it produces, and any other relevant details that would be helpful to a programmer using or maintaining the code.

34. What Is the Difference Between Matrices and Arrays?

Matrices and arrays are used to store and manipulate data collections in computer programs, but there are some differences between them.

An array is a collection of related data types that are kept in close proximity to one another in memory. It could be one dimension, two dimensions, or more. Any data type, including integers, floating-point numbers, characters, and objects, can be contained in an array. When storing and processing huge amounts of data, finding and sorting data, and building data structures like stacks, queues, and linked lists, arrays are frequently utilized.

On the other hand, a matrix is a specific kind of two-dimensional array that is employed in mathematical operations. It consists of a rectangular array of variables or integers set up in rows and columns. Matrices are frequently employed in linear algebra, calculus, and other branches of mathematics to represent and solve systems of linear equations, carry out transformations, and more.

35. What is the difference between range() and xrange() functions in Python?

Python 2 has two functions for generating a series of numbers: range() and xrange(). There are a few differences between the two, though:

Whereas xrange() produces an iterator with a list of all the numbers in the sequence, range() delivers a list of all the numbers in the sequence that is generated as you loop over it. As the entire series doesn't have to be stored in memory at once, xrange() is more memory-efficient, especially when working with big sequences. You cannot use indexing to access specific sequence members when using xrange() because it produces an iterator, but the range() does. Range should be used if you want to access specific sequence elements ().

36. Which Python Library Is Built on Top of Matplotlib and Pandas to Ease Data Plotting?

"Seaborn" is the name of the Python library that was built on top of Matplotlib and Pandas to simplify data plotting. Seaborn provides a high-level interface for creating engaging and helpful statistical visuals. Extracting the underlying data manipulation processes makes creating complicated visualizations like heatmaps, category plots, and time series plots easier. Moreover, Seaborn has several built-in datasets for testing and demonstration.

37. What is PEP 8?

The PEP 8 document offers recommendations for creating Python code that is simple to read and maintain. Guido van Rossum, Barry Warsaw, and Nick Coghlan are the authors of "PEP 8 — Style Guide for Python Code," which is the official name of the document. In addition to providing guidelines for indentation, line length, and commenting, the document also provides conventions for naming variables, functions, and classes.

Following the PEP 8 style guide can help other developers read and understand your code because it is widely used in the Python community. These recommendations can help you create Python code that is simpler to read, more reliable, and less prone to errors.

38. Explain PYTHONPATH.

The Python interpreter uses the environment variable PYTHONPATH to define additional directories to search to find modules and packages not included in the core Python library. The Python interpreter first searches the current directory before looking in the directories listed in the PYTHONPATH variable when you import a module or package.

39. How does it continue, break, and pass work?

continue, break, and pass are control flow statements used in programming to alter the normal flow of execution within loops or conditional statements.

• The continue statement is used to skip a specific loop iteration and move on to the next one. For example, the continue statement is used to skip the current item and move on to the next one in a loop that iterates over a list of objects if a particular condition is met.
• The break statement can be used to end a loop early, even if the loop condition hasn't been entirely satisfied. For example, the break statement ends a loop that iterates over a list of items if a specific condition is met.
• When a statement is syntactically necessary but no command or code is to be executed, a pass statement is used as a placeholder. For example, you can use the pass statement as a stand-in when developing code for a function but haven't yet included the functionality. This will allow you to test the method without encountering syntax issues.

40. What does database normalization mean?

The practice of organizing data in a database to reduce data redundancy and enhance data integrity is known as normalization (also known as data normalization or database normalization). We can arrange the data into tables and columns through database normalization and specify a relationship between these tables or columns.

The most typical normalizing forms are shown below

• Initially Normal Form (1NF)
• Second Normal Form (2NF)
• Third Normal Form (3NF)
• B. C. Normal Form (BCNF)
• Fourth Regular Form (4NF)
• 5NF, Fifth Normal Form

41. Is javascript a Compiled Language or Interpreted Language?

JavaScript is generally considered to be an interpreted language. When you run JavaScript code, the browser or runtime reads and executes the code directly without first translating it into machine code as compiled languages do.

However, some tools, like the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine or the Google Closure Compiler, can compile JavaScript code into a more effective structure. These tools can perform performance analysis, optimize the code, and produce bytecode or machine code that can be performed more quickly than the JavaScript source code.

JavaScript can therefore be compiled to increase performance even though it is primarily an interpreted language.

42. What is the difference between the keyword let, const, and var?

Variables are declared using let, const, and var in JavaScript, but there are a few differences between them:

The earliest way to declare a variable in JavaScript is with the var keyword. It is available throughout the entire function in which it is defined since it has function-level scope. Var can, however, be accessed outside of that block if it is declared inside of a block, such as an if statement or a for a loop. Variables can also be reallocated and declared again.

The let was first introduced in ES6 and has a block-level scope, which means that it can only be accessed within the block in which it is defined. Let variables can be changed, but they cannot be declared again.

Like, let, const was introduced in ES6 and has a block-level scope. But, once they have been defined, const variables cannot be changed or redeclared. It should be noted that when using const with objects or arrays, the values contained within the object or array are changeable, but the object or array itself cannot be assigned a new value.

43. What is Hoisting?

Hoisting is a behavior in JavaScript where, before the code is run, during the compilation stage, variable and function declarations are shifted to the top of their appropriate scopes (either the global scope or the function scope).

As a result of the declarations being "hoisted" to the top of the scope, variables, and functions might be utilized in the code prior to being declared.

44. What is the difference between Bind and Call?

In JavaScript, you may set this value for a function using the bind() and call() methods. Whereas call() immediately runs the function with this value set, bind() returns a new function with this value set.

The function bind() generates has the same code as the original function but a fixed this value. Any number of parameters may be used to invoke the new function in the future.

45. What is the difference between “==” and “===” ?

The "==" and "===" operators are used to compare two values in the majority of computer languages, including JavaScript, but they behave differently.

After converting two values to a common type, the "==" operator, often known as the equality operator, checks for equality between the two values. This indicates that type coercion is carried out before the comparison.

While the "===" operator compares two values for equality without applying any type coercion, it is known as the strict equality operator. This means that for the expression to evaluate to true, both the type and the value of the two operands must match.

46. What is the difference between null and undefined?

Null and undefined are two separate primitive values in JavaScript, each having a unique meaning.

The value null stands for the intentional absence of any object value. When a variable or object attribute needs an object value but none is available, it's frequently used as a stand-in value.

On the other hand, undefined denotes the absence of any value. It's frequently used to show that a variable or object property doesn't yet have a value.

47. What is the difference between function declaration and function expression?

A function declaration and a function expression are two ways to create a function in JavaScript, but they differ in how they are created and utilized.

A statement that declares a function and makes it accessible for use in the current scope is known as a function declaration. The function keyword appears first, followed by the function name, parameter list (in parenthesis), and function body (enclosed in curly braces).

On the other hand, a function expression is an expression that defines a function and applies it to a variable. The function keyword comes first, then the list of parameters and the body of the function. Finally, the assignment operator (=) is used to assign the entire expression to a variable.

48. What is a closure and how do we use it?

A closure in programming is a function that continues to have access to variables from the lexical scope it is enclosed in even after that scope has been vacated. A closure is a function that remembers the environment in which it was generated, to put it another way.

49. Explain CORS.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing is referred to as CORS. Web browsers have added a security measure that prevents web pages from sending requests to domains other than the one that hosted the original web page. A key security feature of web browsers is the same-origin policy, which prevents scripts running on one website from accessing or interacting with resources on another website.

CORS permits web servers to add extra HTTP headers to their answers, enabling cross-domain communication between web browsers and servers. These headers tell the browser whether or not a specific web page is permitted to access server resources.

50. How are you handling dependency Injections?

Dependency injection is a software design pattern that allows you to separate the creation of objects from the code that uses them. This can make your code more modular, testable, and maintainable.

Here are some steps to follow when handling dependency Injections

• Identify the dependencies
• Define interfaces
• Choose a dependency injection framework
• Register dependencies
• Use dependency injection in your code

51. What are promises in JavaScript?

JavaScript uses promises to manage asynchronous activities and their outcomes. Asynchronous operations begin right away, but their results are not immediately accessible. Instead, the process occurs in the background, and the outcome is delivered later.

52. What is Event Bubbling and Capturing?

Two mechanisms that define how events spread through the Document Object Model (DOM) in web browsers are event bubbling and event capturing.  

The method by which an event spreads from the root of the DOM tree to the destination element is known as event capturing. This means that the event is sent to the outermost element in the DOM hierarchy first, then to its children, and so on until it reaches the target element. The event moves into the bubbling phase after the target element is attained.

The alternative method, known as event bubbling, propagates an event from the target element upward through its parent elements to the top of the DOM tree. Hence, the event is first delivered to the target element, then to its parent elements, and finally to the other components.

53. What are obj.freeze and obj.seal & difference between them?

JavaScript's Object.freeze() and Object.seal() methods let programmers stop an object from changing.

An object can be frozen by using the Object.freeze() method, which prevents the addition, deletion, or modification of any of its properties. Once frozen, an object cannot be unfrozen, and any effort to change its characteristics will fail.

On the other hand, when an object is sealed using the Object.seal() function, its properties cannot be added or removed but can be changed. An object cannot be unsealed once it has been sealed, and all attempts to add or delete properties will fail.

54. What are Shallow Cloning and Deep Cloning?

Creating an exact copy of an object or data structure is referred to as cloning. There are two types of cloning used in programming: shallow cloning and deep cloning.

• While the contents of any nested objects or data structures still have references to the original objects or data structures, shallow cloning produces a new object or data structure that is a copy of the original.
• On the other hand, deep cloning makes an exact duplicate of the original object or data structure, including any nested objects or data structures. The cloned object will not reflect any modifications made to the original object or any of its inner objects or data structures.

55. What distinguishes the arrow function from the standard function?

Arrow functions are a newer syntax introduced in ECMAScript 6 (ES6) that provides a more concise way to write functions compared to the traditional function syntax.

Accenture SAP Mm Interview Questions

56. what is the sap material management (mm) system.

The SAP Material Management (MM) system is a module of the SAP Erp software that supports inventory and procurement operations. Organizations utilize the MM module, one of the basic components of the SAP system, to manage their purchasing, planning, and material requirements operations.

57. Define PR and PO?

In SAP MM (Materials Management), PR and PO are two common procurement-related terms that stand for:

• PR - Purchase Requisition

It is a document that a user or a department within an organization creates to request the purchase of goods or services. A PR includes facts on the account assignment, the quantity of the requested commodity or service, and the delivery date (cost center, project, etc.). The PR acts as the foundation for generating a Purchase Order (PO) in SAP MM once it has been accepted.

• PO - Purchase Order

It is a document made by a buyer to obtain goods or services from a supplier or vendor. A PO includes facts on the vendor, the product or service being purchased, the quantity, the price, the delivery date, and the terms and circumstances of the procurement. A PO serves as a legally binding document between the buyer and the vendor and is formed based on a PR or can be created straight without a PR.

58. How does MM calculate prices?

SAP MM (Materials Management) calculates prices using various methods depending on the valuation method used for the material.

The most commonly used valuation methods in SAP MM are:

• Standard pricing: With this method, a predetermined price per unit is used to value the substance. This price is decided at the start of a fiscal year or period. 
• Using the moving average price approach: Here, the material is valued at the mean of all sales receipts for that particular substance.
• FIFO (First In, First Out) or FEFO (First Expired, First Out): According to this method, the value of the material is determined by the sequence in which it was obtained or used. 
• LIFO (Last In, First Out): Here, the value of the material is determined by the sequence in which it was received or used. The cost of the most recent material is used to determine the material's overall value

59. Explain the importance of the batch record?

The batch record provides comprehensive traceability of the whole production process, from the procurement of raw materials to the release of the finished product. It contains details about the types of materials used, their origin and supplier, the manufacturing process specifications, the findings of quality control inspections, and any deviations or corrective measures that were made during the production process.

60. In SAP MM, mention what the transaction code to delete a batch is.

In SAP MM (Materials Management), the batch deletion transaction code is MB05. You can show and delete material documents, including batches, using this transaction code.

61. Explain how you can change the standard price of the master material?

In SAP Material Management (MM), the standard price of a material is defined in the material master record. To change the standard price of a material in the master material, you can follow these steps:

• Open the SAP system and enter the transaction code MM02.
• Choose the relevant plant and storage location before entering the material number for which you wish to adjust the standard price.
• Choose the "Accounting 1" view by selecting the "Views" tab.
• The "Valuation Price" field can be found in the "Accounting 1" view. In this section, enter the material's new standard price.
• By selecting the "Save" option, you can save the modifications.

62. Explain the terms Planned delivery and GR processing time?

Planned delivery and GR processing time are two concepts related to a business's procurement and logistics processes.

Planned delivery is the term used to describe the date set aside for a supplier to fulfill an order. This date is established based on variables that affect the availability of the requested goods, including production lead times, shipping periods, and other considerations. 

On the other hand, GR processing time describes the length of time it takes for a business to process and register the receipt of goods from a supplier. Verifying the quantity and quality of the supplied items against the purchase order and addressing any disputes are normally part of the procedure.

63. What are Consignment Stocks?

Consignment Stocks are made when a manufacturer or a supplier delivers items or products to a client, usually a retailer or distributor, but keeps ownership of the products until an end customer purchases them.

64. What is the Subcontracting Process in SAP MM?

Using the subcontracting process in SAP MM (Materials Management), a business can hire a vendor or subcontractor to handle a certain aspect of its manufacturing process on its behalf. In addition to carrying out the manufacturing process on behalf of the business, the vendor provides the raw materials or components required to make the finished product.

65. What exactly is the SAP Posting Period's role?

A posting period in SAP is a time period during which accounting transactions may be posted. The consistency and correctness of financial data are critically dependent on the posting time.

A financial transaction can only be posted if it occurs inside the posting period. A posting attempt made by a user outside of a legitimate posting window will be rejected by SAP and result in an error notice. This helps to avoid mistakes and guarantees that financial data is recorded truthfully.

66. What is Data Science?

Data science is an interdisciplinary area that focuses on the use of scientific procedures, procedures, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from organized and unstructured data. It integrates elements of statistics, computer science, machine learning, and domain knowledge to tackle complicated issues and create data-driven choices.

67. Differentiate Between Data Analytics and Data Science

Data Analytics and Data Science are two related but distinct fields that involve the use of statistical and computational methods to extract insights from data. Here are some of the key differences between the two:

Data analytics is centered on examining current data to provide specific business insights or address certain issues. On the other hand, data science entails not just analysis but also the development of fresh algorithms and models in order to find patterns in data, create prediction models, and automate decision-making.

Traditional statistical and visual methods are frequently used in data analytics. Deep learning, natural language processing, and predictive modeling are examples of more complex statistical and machine learning methods that are used in data science.

• Data Volume

Data Analytics tends to work with smaller datasets that can be easily managed and analyzed. Data Science, however, deals with big data, which requires specialized tools and techniques to process and analyze.

68. How can a good logistic model be identified?

A good logistic model can be assessed using various ways. Here are some common methods for assessing a logistic model

• Confusion matrix
• ROC curve and AUC
• Cross-validation
• Residual analysis

69. What Steps are involved in an Analytics Project?

 The steps involved in an analytics project can vary depending on the specific project but generally include the following:

• Problem definition
• Data collection
• Data cleaning and preparation
• Data exploration
• Model selection and training
• Model evaluation
• Deployment and implementation
• Communication and visualization

70. How do you build a random forest model?

Building a random forest model typically involves the following steps:

• Data preparation: Prepare the data that will be used to train and test the model by gathering and preprocessing it. This could entail activities like feature selection, normalization, and categorical variable encoding.
• Splitting data: Divide the data into sets for training and testing. The model is trained using the training set, and its effectiveness is assessed using the testing set.
• Building the decision trees: The random forest model is created by merging various decision trees used in the decision tree construction process. A random subset of the features and a random portion of the training data are used to construct each decision tree.
• Ensemble: Once all of the decision trees have been built, their predictions are combined to make a final prediction for a given data point. 
• Tuning: By adjusting hyperparameters, such as the number of trees in the forest, the maximum depth of each tree, and the bare minimum of samples needed to split a node, the performance of the model can be enhanced.
• Evaluation: Lastly, metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score are used to assess how well the random forest model performed on the testing set.

71. Differentiate between univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis.

Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses are different types of statistical analysis used in data analysis. Here's how they differ:

• Univariate analysis: A single variable is examined in univariate analysis to describe its characteristics or features. Examining the distribution and central tendency of a single variable is helpful with this kind of study. Techniques like frequency distribution, measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode), and measures of variability are all used in univariate analysis (standard deviation, variance).
• Bivariate analysis: Two variables are examined in bivariate analysis to see if there is a link between them. Exploring the link or correlation between two variables using this form of study is helpful. Techniques including scatter plots, correlation analysis, and regression analysis are used in bivariate analysis.
• Multivariate analysis: In a multivariate analysis, more than two variables are examined at once to ascertain their relationship. Understanding the intricate connections between various variables is facilitated by this kind of analysis. Techniques including factor analysis, cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis are used in multivariate analysis.

72. During analysis, how do you treat missing values? 

In data analysis, treating missing values is a crucial step. The method used to deal with missing values relies on a number of variables, including the quantity of missing data, the cause of the missing data, and the kind of analysis being done.

73. What is Box-Cox transformation in regression models? 

The Box-Cox transformation is a statistical technique used to transform non-normal dependent variables into a normal distribution. It is commonly used in regression analysis, where the assumption of normality of errors is often made.

74. Can you use machine learning for time series analysis?

Time series analysis can indeed be done using machine learning. In fact, a wide range of applications, including banking, healthcare, transportation, and many others, are increasingly using machine learning algorithms to evaluate time series data.

Time series analysis can be done using a variety of machine learning algorithms. Among the most typical are:

• Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)
• Recurrent neural networks (RNNs)
• Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks
• Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
• Support vector machines (SVMs)

75. What are recommender systems?

Recommender systems are a type of information filtering system that aim to predict the preferences or interests of a user and suggest items or content that they are likely to enjoy or find useful.

There are generally two main types of recommender systems: collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. 

• Collaborative filtering makes recommendations based on the user's past behavior and the behavior of similar users. 
• Content-based filtering, on the other hand, makes recommendations based on the features or characteristics of the items themselves.

76. What is Multicollinearity?

When two or more independent variables in a regression model have a high degree of correlation with one another, this is referred to as multicollinearity. As a result, it may be challenging to evaluate the analysis's findings and estimate regression coefficients.

77. How is machine learning deployed in real-world scenarios?

Machine learning (ML) is deployed in various real-world scenarios, including:

• Predictive maintenance
• Fraud detection
• Customer experience
• Autonomous vehicles
• Natural language processing

78. What is collaborative filtering?

Collaborative filtering is a technique used in recommendation systems to provide personalized recommendations to users based on their past behavior and preferences, as well as the behavior and preferences of other users with similar preferences.

79. What is a Confusion Matrix?

A table called a confusion matrix is frequently used to assess how well a machine-learning model is working. It displays the proportion of accurate and inaccurate predictions generated by the model in relation to the actual results. Usually, the table is divided into four quadrants:

• True Positive (TP): The model correctly predicted the positive class.
• False Positive (FP): The model predicted a positive class, but it was actually negative.
• True Negative (TN): The model correctly predicted the negative class.
• False Negative (FN): The model predicted a negative class, but it was actually positive.

80. Why is Python used for Data Cleaning in DS?

Python is a widely used language in data science for cleaning data because it provides a variety of strong tools and modules that make it simpler to complete difficult data-cleaning jobs effectively.

81. What is SAP SD?

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) is a module in the SAP ERP system that manages an organization's entire sales and distribution process. The entire sales process is covered in this module, from taking a client inquiry to processing the order, sending the items, and creating the invoice.

82. List the Components of SAP SD.

The main components of the SAP SD module are:

• Master Data: This component deals with creating and maintaining master data such as customer master data, material master data, and pricing master data.
• Sales: This component creates and processes sales orders, delivery documents, and invoices.
• Shipping: This component deals with shipping activities such as picking, packing, and posting goods to customers.
• Billing: This component creates and processes billing documents such as invoices, credit memos, and debit memos.
• Transportation: This component deals with transportation activities such as creating shipment documents and monitoring shipment status.
• Credit Management: This component deals with managing the credit limits and credit exposure of customers
• Foreign Trade: This component deals with managing the export and import of goods across international borders.
• Sales Support: This component deals with managing pre-sales activities such as inquiry and quotation management.
• Sales Information System: This component provides analytical and reporting capabilities for sales data.

83. What are the main processes in sap sd?

• Sales Order Processing
• Delivery Processing
• Billing Processing
• Credit Management
• Sales and Distribution Master Data
• Return Processing

84. What is condition master?

The Condition Master is a part of SAP SD (Sales and Distribution), which controls pricing and discounts for invoices and sales orders.

The Condition Master keeps track of all the variables that can affect pricing, including material costs, special offers, taxes, and freight costs, as well as the condition records that go along with them.

These condition records detail the pricing or discounts that are applicable for a specific set of materials, client, quantity, and time constraints.

Due to its ability to establish and manage complicated pricing strategies and discounts based on various criteria, the Condition Master is a crucial component of the pricing process in SAP SD.

85. Explain STO Configuration Steps.

The STO (Stock Transfer Order) process in SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) enables the transfer of items between two distinct plants with the same or different company codes. Here are the configuration steps for setting up the STO process in SAP SD:

• Create the necessary organizational units
• Create a vendor for the receiving plant
• Assign the supplying plant to the sales area
• Define the delivery type and item category
• Define pricing procedure
• Define route determination
• Create a customer master record for the receiving plant
• Create a stock transport order
• Post goods issue
• Receive the goods

86. While Creating Condition table field is not available in the field catalog, what do you do as a consultant?

As a consultant, if a field is not available in the field catalog while creating a condition table, I would follow these steps:

• Check if the field is available in the data dictionary
• Check if the field is available in the table
• Add the field to the field catalog
• Activate the condition table
• Test the condition table

87. How is storage location determined in a Delivery Document?

In SAP SD, the storage location in a delivery document is determined based on the following factors:

• Shipping Point
• Material Master
• Customer Master

88. What is the difference b/w Item usage and Higher-level item usage?

Item usage refers to the way in which a consumer uses a particular item or product. It refers to the specific application of the item in question, such as using a pen to write or a phone to make calls.

On the other hand, higher-level item usage describes the object's use in a wider context. It considers the overall objective or purpose that the thing is being utilized to accomplish. Using a pen to write a novel or a phone to make a business call are two examples.

89. How will stock be shown in MMBE?

MMBE is a transaction code in SAP that provides a detailed overview of the current stock situation of material in a specific storage location. The stock information displayed in MMBE includes the stock type, quantity, data valuation, plant data, and batch information.

90. What is the difference between the Alternate Calculation and Alternative Base types?

"Alternate Calculation type" and "Alternative Base type" are two different concepts and do not have a direct relationship.

• "Alternate Calculation type" often refers to a procedure other than the default or standard technique of computing a value or result. For instance, in Excel, the "SUMIF" function is a different calculation type that may be used to add up numbers in a range based on a certain criterion as opposed to just adding up all of the values in the range.
• The term "Alternative Base type," on the other hand, typically refers to a distinct system or method used to describe or measure a value or quantity. As an illustration, the alternative base type of binary is used in computer systems to represent numbers, and the alternative base type of hexadecimal is another one that is frequently used in programming.

Accenture Leadership essentials

When making decisions, responsible leaders put themselves in the position of every stakeholder. They guarantee that each person's voice is heard. This dedication to inclusivity encourages diverse viewpoints and holds leaders more accountable, which improves decision-making. Assessing how the organization's activities will affect everyone aids leaders.

The inclusion of stakeholders is crucial, in our opinion. It indicates that the organization's leadership is able to gain and maintain everyone's trust, which is a unique and priceless resource.

1. Feelings and intuition

Being genuinely human and displaying compassion, humility, and openness is how responsible leadership can inspire commitment and creativity.

Authentic leaders are modest. It's outdated to think that arrogant leaders leave a path of arrogance in their wake. Responsible leaders of today are aware of their own knowledge and skill limitations. Additionally, they don't hesitate to show weakness when the occasion arises.

For example, your team may encounter a new market disruption where the best course of action is to employ your creativity and creative instincts. You've experienced many scenarios where emotion and intuition have proven vital.

2. Mission & Goals

A vision of sustainable prosperity that can be shared by all parties involved in an organization, not just the members of that organization, is shaped and inspired by responsible leaders.

They utilize holistic, systemic thinking to ensure their organization produces beneficial results for itself and others in complicated circumstances. They use sensemaking to detect societal trends early on.Integrity is assumed to exist.

Along with honesty and openness, it is essential to meet the changing ethical problems brought on by new technology. Ethics must be allowed to fall behind in quickly addressing these new concerns.

3. Information & Innovation

We are all aware that technology cannot solve every issue our society faces, but it can contribute to the resolution of many of them. According to our research, responsible leaders actively manage the promise of technology by innovating responsibly with emerging technologies. They use technology to create new value for their businesses and society.

They develop and advance a vision that outlines the advantages of using cutting-edge technology to address issues. They also use a responsible approach to innovation, scaling up solutions and reducing its unintended repercussions.

We can see that inventiveness is also crucial in this situation. Responsible leaders encourage a creative approach to technology and innovation, increasing their problem-solving capacity.

4. Knowledge & Intellect

A path to achievement that is constantly improving can be found through sharing of knowledge and ongoing learning.

Responsible leaders encourage learning at all levels of their organization and have an insatiable desire for knowledge. They have a strong capacity for critical thought and are willing to confront preconceived notions in order to grow continuously.

Additionally, they promote novel, unbiased analysis that enhances data-to-knowledge loops inside and outside their business.

5. Leaders of all levels

These Five Elements emphasize that courageous leadership is not for the weak-willed. Additionally, it's not just one person's fault, as the several case studies in the paper demonstrate. No matter your position within a company, our concept applies at every level. It focuses on people's real roles within the company and beyond. Therefore, even if the Five Elements may be ambitious, they are actually crucial because we are all becoming responsible leaders.

Accenture FAQs

1. what is accenture's best answer.

Accenture is an international business with Irish roots that provides expert consulting and information technology services. With reported revenues of $50.53 billion as of 2021, it is one of the Fortune Global 500 corporations. More than 90 Fortune Global 100 businesses are among Accenture's clients. These statistics demonstrate the significance of Accenture interview questions for candidates looking for IT and consulting jobs.

2. Why should I hire you for Accenture?

I think I have the knowledge and expertise needed for this position. In my prior positions, I have demonstrated the ability to handle difficulties and come up with answers. Professionally, I am goal-oriented and a good team player.

3. What are the HR interview questions in Accenture?

Here are some of the most typical Accenture HR interview questions and how to respond to them:

• Why are you interested in this position?
• Tell me about yourself.
• Tell us about your achievements.
• What do you like/dislike about your current job?
• Are you happy with your career and growth till now?
• What do you know about the company?
• Tell me about your family background.

It’s extremely important at an HR interview to dress professionally, ensure positive body language, use appropriate language, and provide apt answers.

4. How do I pass the Accenture skills interview?

A skills interview, a crucial element in Accenture's hiring process, is the next phase in the interview process for many roles. During this interview, you can talk about your knowledge and competence. It allows the interviewer to find out if you have the necessary experience for the position.

• Know your audience
• Consider your body language
• Perfect your pitch
• Navigate the compensation conversation

5. Is the Accenture interview easy?

It's not at all difficult. But with a few restrictions. Your background experience, the job you've applied for, and how well you prepare for your interview are the only factors that matter. It's a very huge thing to land a job at a Fortune 500 firm.

• What are some of the questions that one should ask the interviewer at Accenture?
• What does a typical day or week look like in this role? ...
• What are the most immediate projects that need to be addressed?
• What are the current priorities and focus areas at the company?
• Can I know a bit about the working culture of the company?

6. How do I introduce myself in the Accenture interview?

Exemplary Response: "Accenture is a well-known brand in the market, which is a key factor in considering a job at this company. There is also a healthy work-life balance. Accenture offers a comfortable workplace and requires its employees to collaborate in a learning atmosphere.

7. How do you get selected for Accenture?

Uploading your resume or CV will start the online application process. Add a few more details, then hit "Submit." Our hiring team will assess your application after you've submitted it online. They'll also check to determine whether your profile fits any other roles.

Accenture Interview Preparation Tips

Your ability to think critically, program, and solve problems will essentially be tested throughout the interview. Although the technical interview portion may initially seem difficult, with the right preparation, you may easily ace it. The following are some suggestions to help you succeed in your Accenture interview:

Tips #1: Learn every concept

You must become an expert in ideas like coding, algorithms, data structures, etc. if you want to ace the technical interview at Accenture. Be sure to concentrate on algorithm-based and system design tasks while interviewing preparation and practice.

Tips #2: Enhance your problem-solving abilities

You can solve any kind of problem with enough practice. Only by continuously answering questions each day will you be able to hone this particular talent, which will change the way you think about and handle any given challenge.

Tips #3: Clear up any confusion

Join some pertinent online forums or use any other helpful sources to get your questions answered before the interview procedure. You should be ready to answer any question asked of you during the interview.

Tips #4: Practice interviewing

Try to practice by participating in simulated interviews, which will enable you to receive feedback on the areas you need to strengthen. Additionally, practicing for mock interviews will give you more confidence for the real thing.

You must remain composed and composed during the interview. Spend some time understanding the questions that have been provided to you. If necessary, attempt to jot down a plan of attack before beginning to tackle any code problems.

Tips #5: Pose inquiries

You must be ready to ask the interviewer questions at the conclusion of the interview. This will undoubtedly demonstrate your interest in and understanding of the organization and the position you seek.

This post helped you learn more about the Accenture interview process and prepared you to ace it. In this post, we have concentrated on covering a variety of topics, including the corporate profile of Accenture, interview questions for freshmen and experienced candidates, HR interview questions, and technical interview questions. Now that you are ready for every question Sign up for the Accenture certification course to improve your knowledge of the Accenture hiring process. you can enroll in Java Training   and get a certification.

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Accenture Assessment Tests & Hiring Process Online Preparation – 2024

Hiring over 721,000 employees, Accenture is one of the world’s largest private employers. Being one of the world’s largest employers means it is also one of the most popular places job seekers are most likely to apply, making the job application process very competitive. Below we’ll seek to remove the smokescreen and make the process as simple as possible.

What Is Accenture?

Formerly known as Anderson Consulting, Accenture was founded in 1989 after Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen split from Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative (AWSC). The Fortune 500 firm is headquartered in Dublin Ireland, with offices in 120 countries including India, The United States, and The Philippines. Some of the services offered by Accenture include business strategy, management consulting, digital marketing, business process outsourcing, and cloud services. Benefits which employees of Accenture can expect to enjoy are:

• Health InsuranceLife Insurance
• Profit Sharing
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Vacation

What Is Accenture’s Hiring Process?

Accenture has three hiring schemes, namely the Accenture Strategy & Consulting Graduate Program, The Accenture Client Delivery Graduate Program, and the Accenture Software Engineering Graduate Program. These schemes are specific to different roles within the organization.

• Accenture Strategy & Consulting Graduate Program This scheme is utilized by Accenture’s Analyst Consulting Group (ACG) in acquiring individuals who are vital to the clients. These candidates will be responsible for identifying business opportunities for clients and assist in solving their problems.
• Accenture Client Delivery Graduate Program This scheme is utilized by Accenture Technology Solutions (ATS) in acquiring employees to work with clients. These individuals will be responsible for working with clients to understand their needs and assist them in creating and implementing action plans.
• Accenture Software Engineering Graduate Programme This scheme is also utilized by Accenture’s Technology Solutions to hire candidates who will work on IT related projects. The employee is expected to assist in supporting Accenture’s technical infrastructure, among other things.

Online Application

Once a job is identified on Accenture’s website , you need to submit an online application. The application will have several components that need to be completed. Firstly, you need to enter your personal details and upload an up to date and detailed resume. You will also be required to answer questions about what motivated you to choose this job, as well as about your work experience and educational background. Successful candidates will move on to the next phase of the process.

Accenture Assessments Tests

• Situational Judgement Test (SJT) – The SJT exam is for candidates applying via the strategy & consulting graduate program, and they are often directed to it immediately after the online application is submitted. Candidates are presented with questions outlining possible scenarios that they may face on the job along with a number of solutions from which the candidate is to place the responses in order of most effective to least effective.
• Deductive Reasoning Test – This test is usually reserved for applicants of the client delivery program. In some cases, software engineering applicants may be asked to sit for this assessment as well. The deductive reasoning test is an online assessment designed to assess the candidate’s reasoning ability. The test is sometimes found to be extremely difficult by candidates due to the exams strict time limit.
• Accenture Excel Test – Quite a few of the jobs at Accenture require candidates to be able to use Microsoft Excel effectively. The exam assesses the candidate’s ability to use Excel’s functions and formulas.
• Accenture Aptitude Test

Digital Interview

Once candidates have successfully completed the online application and assessments, they will be invited to a telephone or digital interview (otherwise known as a video interview). The video interview is usually conducted using an online platform known as HireVue. Unlike traditional interviews, candidates record answers to the presented questions instead of interfacing directly with a recruiter.

The interview can be very awkward as each question has a time limit allotted to it and to make matters worse, candidates are only allowed to re-record answers one time. This can make the interview very stressful, but as with anything else, practice makes perfect.

It is key to note, that candidates for the Strategy & Consulting Graduate Program sometimes have to do a small case study, while Software Engineering Graduate Program candidates may need to complete coding challenges.

Accenture Assessment Day

Accenture’s assessment day is a half-day long and is hosted at their offices. There are two phases, a group case study, and interviews. In some cases, candidates will be required to participate in other activities specific to their prospective roles.

The exercises that candidates can expect to undertake during the assessment day include:

• Analytical Thought Process Exercise – Candidates applying through the Strategy & Consulting Graduate Program participate in a 25-minute case study. The candidate is required to answer five questions related to data presented in a booklet. This activity is used to assess the candidate’s efficiency.
• Group Case Study Exercise – Applicants from all programs participate in this group exercise . The candidates are expected to work as a team to design a proposal based on a case study . The group needs to comb through the information provided to them and come up with a solution within a short time frame. Following their collaborative efforts, the candidates are to present their proposal and answer any questions the recruiters might pose.
• In-Tray Exercise – The in-tray exercise is a 30-minute test of the candidates managerial and problem-solving skills. The candidate is presented with information related to different work-related issues. The candidate is then required to categorize these issues and send an e-mail to a supervisor outlining the resolution.
• Interview – A one-on-one interview conducted by either an HR personnel or prospective manager is the final stage of the assessment day. The interviewer may ask about activities that took place throughout the assessment day, the candidate’s motivation, as well as questions to assess competency. This is the absolute last opportunity for candidates to impress recruiters.

What Qualities Are Accenture Recruiters Looking Out For?

There are six core values that Accenture expects its employees to embody. These are:

• Stewardship – Accenture wants its employees to help in the development of the company. This is to ensure that the company is better not just for today, but for the future. Therefore, employees need to be forward thinkers.
• Best People – Accenture wants employees who are continually working to learn and give their absolute best to the organization.
• Client Value Creation – Accenture focuses on delivering value to its clients. Employees need to embody this by being quick thinking, innovative, and willing to serve the clients they work with.
• One Global Network – Accenture is a multinational company and therefore seeks employees who embrace globalization. These employees need to work well in teams and value the work of others.
• Respect for the Individual – At Accenture, it is important that employees work towards fostering a comfortable environment for all to work. Employees should strive to treat others in a manner that upholds the values of Accenture.
• Integrity – Accenture’s operation depends heavily on honesty and highly ethical practices.

How to Prepare for the Accenture Recruitment Process?

Like most jobs, the interview process can be intimidating, but if you prepare well, it can be a walk in the park. Accenture has prepared a few tips which they believe can help candidates perform well in an interview.

Below are four key tips:

• Do your research – It’s a known fact that it’s in poor taste to attend an interview unprepared, especially now when there’s so much information at our fingertips. Use sources like the company’s website and social media channels. Also, don’t forget to check LinkedIn, search for your recruiter and learn a bit about them. Attend the interview fully prepared to ask questions.
• Prepare a Portfolio – Interviewers like to hear about your experiences, and it’s always best to convey these experiences in a manner that’s as tangible as possible. Share these experiences in a portfolio and ensure to highlight what you’ve learned from the experience, not just what you were able to deliver. This tells the interviewer that you’re always looking for ways to improve.
• Tailor Your Portfolio/CV – Having a good portfolio and CV is one thing, but it also needs to be relevant. Ensure that the highlighted projects are directly related to the role which you are hoping to fill at Accenture. This goes hand in hand with conducting sound research into the company and your prospective position.
• Never Misrepresent Yourself – Whether it’s stretching the truth or underselling yourself, do as best as possible to avoid this. Be honest and direct in your answers. If you don’t know something, don’t be afraid to let the interviewer know, but in that same breath, ensure to speak confidently about what you do know. Be sure to relate your response to the role as best as you possibly can. Knowing the information is good, but showing that you can apply the knowledge to a prospective job is even more impressive.

Like any multinational company, Accenture is very competitive and requires job-seekers to step it up and bring their A-game. Give it your all, practice, and ensure you do not slack on your preparation. Best believe that dream job just might be yours.

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Coming together in a crisis

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Call for change

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. People around the world faced uncertainty, fear and a lack of information. Seemingly overnight, businesses and schools were closing, cities were locking down and personal protective equipment and necessities were in short supply. No one knew what the next day would bring or how this global crisis would impact all of us—physically, emotionally, or financially.

Here is our story of what Accenture did to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on our people, clients, partners, shareholders, and communities, how we navigated its challenges, and how we are planning to return to work together, greater than ever.

Fortunately, by early March 2020, Accenture had already taken action to make sure our people were safe, which—as always—is our top priority. Our global security team had established a pandemic task force in China and surrounding areas in January, using emergency and crisis management structures already in place. At the same time, cross-function teams were working to secure business resiliency and establish health and safety protocols to keep our people safe.

We were also able to respond quickly to the needs of our clients at this moment in history, because we had the technology, the infrastructure and the collaborative culture we needed in place. Every area of our business—from our people and how we work to the services we offer our clients across 120 countries—came together to set the tone for the months to come:

• Accenture specialists equipped our teams to work remotely , quickly mobilizing 95% of our people to work from home, ensuring business continuity
• We guided our clients and local communities in making the shift to remote work , including issuing a playbook that has helped nearly 600 non-profit professionals globally.
• We supported our people with services and assistance they needed to maintain their health, safety and well-being.
• By combining technology and talent, we drove business resilience through virtual workshops, coaching and peer-to-peer networks on Microsoft Teams.

Our success in reaching these milestones was the result of our unified approach, working together as one team. We communicated early and often with our people. And we made sure we all stayed connected and supported through our campaign known as #MoreTogetherNow—an all-inclusive website that continues to advise on the who, what, where, why and how of working through the pandemic.

When tech meets human ingenuity

Working remotely: a seismic shift in short order

Before COVID-19, Accenture people worked from a variety of locations—from client sites to hotels, Accenture offices or airports. Today, the vast majority of our 721,000 people are set up to securely work remotely in every country where Accenture operates. Around 96% of offices moved to work from home, including people at more than 50 Accenture Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. We quickly  enabled remote working  for our people working in procurement, payables, and other critical shared services. While this might sound like a small feat, imagine what would have happened if our 300 colleagues who process more than 1.4M invoices a year were unable to work from home.

We sent out more than 80,000 desktop computers to our people within a week. We purchased more than 33,000 Wi-Fi hotspots and enabled more than 230,000 concurrent connections using a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution. In India alone, we distributed tens of thousands of laptops and computers in less than a week—in addition to Wi-Fi hotspots and uninterrupted power sources. In addition, our local technology services enabled remote access services for 85,000 VPN users and provided 60,000 dongles to improve connectivity. Our team managed hundreds of one-to-one follow-ups and used our remote website, training and videos to support the shift.

One of our “go-to” solutions has been  Microsoft Teams . We are the largest corporate user of Teams, and at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 we saw a massive increase in its usage—as a 257% increase in audio usage and a 642% increase in video usage in one month as remote working demand grew. Teams also offers a global 24/7 chat response for our leaders and a  Microsoft Teams Rapid Resource Center , which provides how-to instructions, leading practices and additional resources to help people stay connected.

In  Corporate Services & Sustainability , we built a team of 40 people offering global workflow support. We used 11 COVID-19 dashboards to develop reports and tools and answered 990 e-mails over a 24-hour service level agreement. We handled thousands of calls diverted from the Accenture Security Operations Center.

Our security, workplace services, communications and other teams joined forces to create a comprehensive and flexible plan to return to our offices—and our clients’ offices—where permissible. Our plan balanced people’s safety and the needs of our clients in guiding a phased transition back to the office. We had personal protection equipment in 100% of our offices. We established “100 Return to Office Workplace Protocols,” introducing enhanced health and safety protocols, global checklists for office preparation and readiness, communication templates, access to digital health and safety guides, videos and more.

Guiding clients and communities: the Now and the Next

As always, continuing to work closely with our clients was a top priority for everyone at Accenture. We offered advice and support with  thought leadership  to help our clients emerge stronger from the crisis. Our Marketing teams worked closely with our business thought leaders to publish more than 60 individual pieces of content between March and July 2020 across 19 industries and six functional groups. We also released more than 800 client stories during this time.

Jill Kramer, chief marketing & communications officer at Accenture says, “We produced a collection of robust research-based recommendations that focused on what our clients needed to know to handle the reality of NOW but also what may come NEXT. We saw clients engage with the content at record levels, but our main goal was to help them act swiftly and confidently based on robust data and insights.”

But we also worked together to solve unprecedented challenges facing our communities and industries. For instance, we  collaborated with Avanade and Rolls Royce  to design, manage and operate a supply chain for hospital ventilators. We organized the purchase and shipment of 3.4 million parts from more than 100 suppliers to three manufacturing locations. The government of the United Kingdom alone ordered 5,000 ventilators via this supply chain.

We worked with Avanade and Microsoft to connect 57 health system procurement departments with a network of vendors. Launching a new service known as Critical Supply Connect, we connected 638 hospitals and 110 suppliers with more than 300 unique products—all in just eight days.

As many businesses stalled and entire industries were unable to operate, unemployment became a pressing societal concern. The chief human resources officers of Accenture, Lincoln Financial Group, Procore and Verizon joined forces to create  People + Work Connect , a free employer-to-employer initiative that brings together companies reducing their workforces with companies in urgent need of workers. Over just 14 days in April 2020, People + Work Connect moved from idea to launch, and in the next year more than 270 companies from 94 countries uploaded more than 380,000 roles to the platform.

COVID-19 didn’t stop our efforts in the non-profit sector, either. Accenture Development Partnerships works with leading international development organizations to address the world’s social, economic and environmental issues. We provided pro bono support to Dimagi Inc., a social enterprise that provides open-source software technology for underserved communities, to validate and improve training materials and user guides for COVID-19-related apps deployed on the frontlines. We donated laptops to schools in the Middle East to support eLearning, provided plastic cover pages from binders for assembling protective visors for medical staff in France and purchased 55,000 face coverings from a North America-owned business that donated 100% of profits to its healthcare system.

"The investments we made in IT technologies, infrastructure and a collaborative culture positioned us to support Accenture’s rapid move to work from home when we needed it most." — PENELOPE PRETT , Chief Information, Data & Analytics Officer, Accenture

“Our technology skills came into their own for ourselves and others. For example, the Education Department in the United Kingdom is using our digital skills toolkit for millions of furloughed workers—it helped more than 50,000 new learners in June alone.” — PAUL DAUGHERTY , Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Accenture

Driving business resilience

We relied on technology to increase the tempo of communications, delivering more than 1,100 messages across 53 countries to our people and our clients within the first few weeks of March. Our dedicated COVID-19 app team developed and rolled out more than 25 apps covering  business resilience , asset management, health attestation, donation tracking and social distance monitoring.

Crises such as the pandemic focus attention on the need for cash to keep the wheels of business turning, so our finance team  needed to act swiftly  to keep a daily pulse on our financial health, payment processes and procedures for our clients and our people. We enabled off-system new businesses and people, supporting 42 deals with 7,000 people in 32 countries with crisis response.

We provided timely data and analysis to our organization’s leaders to aid critical decision making. These and other measures strengthened our financial position and meant we could perform business critical functions—including closing our books and submitting our 10Q on time and executing 22 acquisitions in the first six months of the pandemic.

Supporting health and well-being—in all its forms

At Accenture, we strive to support our people’s health, safety and well-being, every day. But in these extraordinary times, it’s even more important to make sure that people stay happy and healthy, feel safe and connected and know they are financially secure.

By April 2020, the Corporate Services & Sustainability Mobility team had offered support to every assignee, traveler or individual on holiday. We contacted 12,000 assignees, booked 8,000 flights and helped more than 3,000 people who became stranded due to new travel restrictions. We created daily status updates to track ongoing changes to country travel restrictions, employee locations and tax implications, resulting in more than 500 reports in six months. In two weekends, we managed the rapid escalation of 20 country shutdowns. The Mobility team also secured thousands of hotel rooms and corporate apartments, including 1,000 hotel rooms in the Philippines alone.

We completed more than 6,000 COVID-19 Tax Accrual Impact Assessments for taxable travelers in 69 countries. Mobility coordinated with travel suppliers to cancel 6,000 flights in three weeks and, in just one week, they formed a team of 15 people to create a COVID-19 approval process and a tool to manage business-essential travel requests.

Mobility’s Meeting and Events team collaborated with Marketing and Communications and  Accenture Productions  to successfully convert a major in-person event to a virtual experience in just seven days. The virtual event for 300 people featured 12 hours of live content, videos, polls and feedback, played across 14 time zones and 26 countries. More importantly, Accenture avoided 766.05 tons of CO2 emissions from air travel. Throughout the pandemic, this shift to virtual events has enabled our people to remain connected, while Accenture-approved technology continues to help them get the most from meetings, despite travel and in-person event restrictions.

We deployed new capabilities to enable local government benefits and to reimburse people for additional expenses incurred when working from home. We developed analytics and data insights with key metrics to measure and manage the business and financial impact of the pandemic and to ensure people’s safety and security. We further served our talented teams by issuing 652,000 pay checks during March in 56 countries and also made early payments and reimbursements where needed, such as in India, Russia and Peru.

In addition, our HR Case Management team stayed in touch with people who were unwell and used contact tracing to maintain safety standards by making sure that anyone exposed to the virus avoided returning to the office. The team issued regular, accurate information to assist leadership decision making and inform our people. We selected and trained 600 HR professionals to serve as single points of contact for every Accenture person impacted by the pandemic. The case managers provided 24x7 telephone support for queries and concerns. Trained client response teams kept in touch with clients, vendors and landlords of our real estate, while employee relations professionals supported employees and their families who found themselves handling difficult situations.

A valuable difference

Returning to office: safety first

The next phase of our response to COVID-19 centers on our return to the workplace . We have created a comprehensive plan that focuses on the specific needs of our clients and our people. The plan includes globally organized, locally implemented evaluation and pre-approval processes and protocols that vary based on the type of space and emphasizes constant, compassionate communications with our people.

To ensure a safe return, we’re focusing on the fundamentals, such as space and access management, social distancing guidelines, enhanced cleaning and the provision of safety supplies. We’ve teamed with Salesforce to implement a secure health cloud to support our return to work, which includes case management, contact tracing, shift management and a Workplace Command Center.

The way forward

We’ve all learned a lot over the past year, but perhaps the most important lesson is that change is a constant, for all of us. No matter what may come, Accenture believes three key actions will help your organization embrace change:

Invest in the journey and your priorities ongoing. Accenture had already made moves to support our workforce in an agile way when faced with difficult decisions about how to run our business. We always want to serve our clients "on our best day," but we also aim to keep our people safe and healthy. With the need to work remotely, we had to find a balance between these two priorities—and we were ready to do so because of the investments we had made, coupled with the support of strong, empathetic leaders.

Understand where you are, then fill the gaps. As part of our analysis into how to create an elastic digital workforce , we created a diagnostic with a series of questions about readiness that we completed ourselves and also made available to clients. Based on a score of one to three, where three was the ideal score, Accenture scored three for the majority of answers. By contrast, most of our clients found they scored ones across the board. Your organization can benefit in seeing where your own gaps lie and work to address them.

Communicate freely and frequently as a way of life. A strong and regular communications strategy that includes employees, clients, suppliers and partners is essential to being transparent and staying aligned. Ongoing, daily updates help cut through the noise. By moving entirely to virtual operations, our video production team has helped connect our people working remotely—for example, producing Accenture’s biggest and most complex all-employee broadcast ever, featuring our CEO, Julie Sweet —and is still handling internal events and client events, such as virtual workshops.

By investing in the journey, filling in the gaps, and keeping lines of communication wide open, Accenture continues to create value for people, clients, partners, shareholders and communities and help them thrive in a changing world.

“Our work to ensure the well-being of Accenture people is more important than ever. We continue to implement and evolve our comprehensive plan to return to offices where permissible, with our people’s safety and the needs of our clients guiding the way.” — MARGARET SMITH , Senior Managing Director and Executive Director – Corporate Services & Sustainability and Business Operations, Accenture

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