Top 30 Magento Interview Questions for 2024

1) What is Magento?

2) What architecture Magento use?

3) What are the various edition of Magento?

• Magento Community Edition
• Magento Enterprise Edition
• Magento Professional Edition
• Magento .go

4) What are the disadvantage of Magento?

• It uses larger disk space and memory.
• It takes much time to build the customized functionality.
• It is very slow compared to other E-commerce sites.
• It needs proper hosting environment, if the hosting environment is improper the user can face the problems.

5) Why Magento is used?

• It is open sources E-commerce software.
• It is easy accessible and offer companies to build business.
• It provide the searching and sorting of products in different ways.
• It is easy to integrate with third-party sites which are needed to run effective E-commerce website.
• It provides customer to order or purchase number of multiple products.

6) How can we enhance Magento performance?

• Disable the Magento log
• Disable any un-used modules
• Magento caching
• Optimize image
• Optimize server
• It uses CDN (Content Delivery Networks)
• Put Stylesheets at the top
• Put script at Bottom
• Avoid CSS Expressions (eg 100/2)

7) Which technology Magento use?

• PHP (Zend Framework)
• MYSQL/MYSQLI and MongoDB (Database)
• CSS
• JavaScript
• HTML

8) What are the differences between Mage::getModel () and Mage::getSingleetone() in Magento?

• Mage::getModel(): It is used to creates new objects.
• Mage::getSingleton(): It is used to find a new object if existing object is not created.

9) What are the basic features of Magento?

• Reporting and Analytics
• Product and Catalog Browsing
• Customer Accounts
• Oder Management
• Payment
• Site Management
• Shipping
• SEO( Search Engine Optimization) etc.

10) What are the limitations of Magento?

• Disable the Magento log
• Combine external CSS/JS into one file
• Disable any unused modules
• MySQL Query Caching
• Enable Magento caching
• Enable Gzip compression
• Optimize your image

11) What is EAV?

12) How does Magento ORM works?

• Converts different types of data into objects.
• Converts objects to various types of data.

13) How many tables will be created in EAV module in Magento?

• module
• module_datetime
• module_decimal
• module_int
• module_text
• module_varchar

14) What is the folder/file structure of Magento?

15) How CMS page is call in our Module's PHTML file?

$this->getLayout ()→createBlock('cms/block')→setBlockId('blockidentifier')→toHtml();

16) How to run custom query in Magento?

$db = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');    

$result=$db->query('SELECT * FROM users where id=4');

17) How can we add/remove content from core's system.xml file in Magento?

<config>  

     <sections>  

        <catalog>  

           <groups>  

              <frontend>  

              <label>Overriding Catalog Frontend in system config</label>  

              </frontend>  

            </groups>  

        </catalog>  

    </sections>  

</config>

<config>  

     <sections>  

         <payment>   

            <groups>  

              <cashondelivery>  

                   <fields>  

                    <!--changing cash on delivery payment method settings-->  

                    </fields>  

              </cashondelivery>  

          </groups>  

      </payment>  

    </sections>  

</config>

18) What are magic methods in Magento ?

_call()

_get()

_set()

_uns()

_has()

_isset()

_toString()

_construct() etc

19) Where do we write business logic in Magento?

20) What are the different modules of Magento?

• Core modules
• Commercial modules
• Community modules

20) What are Polls in Magento?

21) How can we make Magento more secure for the client?

• Use a strong password and change them at regular interval.
• Disable remote access to Magento Connect Manager.
• Disable Downloader on production sites.
• Restrict access to safe IP addresses.

22) Is it possible to have more than one grid in Magento?

23) How many design patterns in Magento ?

• Model View Controller Pattern
• Front Controller Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• Singleton Pattern
• Registry Pattern
• Prototype Pattern
• Object Pool Pattern
• Iterator Pattern
• Lazy Loading Pattern
• Service Locator Pattern
• Module Pattern etc.

24) How we can reset Magento file & Directory permissions?

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

chmod +x mage

25) What are Magento product types?

• Magento simple product: It is used for a single item without any specific selectable variations. For example, a pen, copy etc.
• Magento grouped product: It is used for a combination of Magento simple product. For example, a pen and copy together.
• Magento configurable product: It is used for a single item with specific selectable variations. For example, a pen with different color options.
• Magento virtual product: It is used for a virtual item or non touchable item. For example, reservation, insurance etc.
• Magento bundle product: It is used for a bundle of simple products. For example, laptop with various items such as processor, hard disk, RAM etc.
• Magento downloadable product: It is used for online software items. For example, PowerPoint presentation, MP3 files, servers etc.

26) How many types of sessions are there?

• customer session
• checkout session
• core session

27) What are the web hosting sites of Magento?

• SiteGround
• BlueHost
• HostGator
• Inmotion
• Arvixe
• site5

28) What is Payflow Pro in Magento?

29) What is WSDL?

30) What database does Magento support?