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SA INFORMATICA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS With Answers

This document contains 41 questions and answers related to OBIEE and Informatica. Key topics covered include: 1. The different types of joins in OBIEE including foreign key joins and complex joins. 2. The role of dimensions in a data model, which generally adds a group by within SQL. 3. The types of transformations used in Informatica including expression, router, filter, lookup, aggregator and sorter transformations.

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SA INFORMATICA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS With Answers

This document contains 41 questions and answers related to OBIEE and Informatica. Key topics covered include: 1. The different types of joins in OBIEE including foreign key joins and complex joins. 2. The role of dimensions in a data model, which generally adds a group by within SQL. 3. The types of transformations used in Informatica including expression, router, filter, lookup, aggregator and sorter transformations.

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OBIEE AND INFORMATICA QUESTIONS

1. What are the different types of joins in OBIEE ?


Ans - Foregin Key join( Physical Layer) and complex Join ( Business model Layer)
Exception – when you have more than one condition on the join we go for complex in the physical layer.

2. What is the role of a dimension in a data model?


Ans – analyze by we need a dimension. Generally dimension adds a group by with in the sql.
3. Different levels of security in application testing?
4. Explain the testing evolution cycle?
5. What is the impact of SOX in qa testing? - SDLC
6. Diff between Active and Passive transformation?
Answer – Active transformation filters rows where passive transformation is N in and N out. It does not filter out any records.
Examples for Active – Filter, Router
Examples for passive - Expression
7. When do use Joiner Transformation?
Ans – hetregenous sources . when u have homogeneous sources we can directly write the sql in source qualifier transformation
8. Diff between variable and Parameter?
Ans – Variable basically gets updated and changes values in consecutive runs. Where as paramter does not update the value within the
mapping.
9. Diff between Connected and Unconnected Lookup?
Ans – Unconnected look up can return back any number of ports..where as connected look up can return only one port.
10. What are the different types of Transformations used?
Ans – Expression, Router,Filter, update strategy, look up, Sequence genrator, sorter,filter etc
11. Explain Aggregator, Router, and Lookup Transformation?
Ans - Aggregator - group by
Router - Will route the data to different based on certain condition
Look up – mainly used for resolving foreign keys and doing an insert Vs update ( usually in SIL mappings ( Stage to target data)
12. How many layers in the OBIEE Rpd?
Ans – 3 layers (physical, BMM,Presentation)
13. What is the difference between logical column and physical column in OBIEE Administration Tool?
14. Difference between Normalized and Denormalized Data. Explain Star Schema?
Ans – Check my desmo slides ( diff between star schema and snow flake)
15. Explain the process how to debug the queries generated by OBIEE engine. Name the location and file name in the OBIEE Server?
Ans – NQQuery. Log files to verify your sqls that are generated. Based on the Logging Level set for the user in Security screen in rpd
the Log file will have corresponding information. Minimum Value 2 to generate the sqls in the Log.
16. Is that possible to have alias columns in SA?
Ans - Yes. But not recommended as it has a burden of maintenance.
17. Different types of variables in OBIEE?
Ans – Session and Repository
Session
System and non system VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.VARIABLE_NAME)
Repository
Static and Dynamic ( Accessed by syantax VALUEOF(variable_name)
18. Different types of configuration in OBIEE (Windows/ Unix Platforms)?

19. Can we configure to connect to multiple Rpds and is it possible to bring multiple rpds Online???
Ans - YES . But we can only connect to one rpd at a time
20. Difference between static n dynamic lookup?
21. What is parameter file?
22. Difference between parameter n variable?
23. Router n filter transformation?
Ans – One router can be split into multiple FIlters
24. Object n data level security in OBIEE?
Ans - Object level security means who sees what.. where as Data level security is when I login I see my data and when you login you
should see ur data.
25. Can we add two tables in a single source and what is the difference if we have as same source n diff source?
26. Explain about change capture?
Ans - Siebel Image tables concept ..refer to the spread sheet I sent
27. Explain about auxiliary mappings?
28. Is that possible to access session variables in the front end?
Ans - YES
29. Explain Materialized view, index creation (Normal index, Bitmap index), and hints?
Ans – BITMAP – where cardinality on acolumn is low ( Foreign key on a fact)
B-tree - where cardinality on a column is high ( primary keys on a dimensions)

30. Difference types of SCD?


Ans - Type 1, type 2, type 3
31. Many to Many Problem, How to solve it?
32. Informatica internal tables? – OPS tables?
33. Tell about Joiner Transformation? Where to use & when?
34. Explain about Repository n Session Variables?
35. Why we need alias of a table, explain the purpose?
36. Explain cache mechanism in SA? What r diff ways to do that??
37. Explain how u will increase the query performance?

38. Can we create one report from multiple subject areas in OBIEE ?
Ans - YES , u can union the data from mulitple subject areas
39. What are event Polling tables in OBIEE ? Explaing the usage and implementation methodology??
40. Explain rowwise initialzation in OBIEE ? What is its usage.
Ans - if your init block sql is returning more than one value u should refine a row wise as variable can only hold one value
41. Explain different time series functions in OBIEE and give a scenario for its usage?
Ans – To date and AGO

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