1. What is the disadvantage of multi-dimensional modeling?

Answer : Slow Query

2. make data warehouse significantly different from its data sources?

Answer : Data Modelling

3. What does Stream Lookup step do?

Answer : Looking for a related data and return one row or no row

4. C:/Pentaho/BA-4.5.0-GA/java/bin/java.exe or ${pentaho_java_home}/bin/java.exe. This is sample for

Answer : wrapper java

5. What is the characteristic of type 1 SCD?

Answer : Updating the row with the same bussines key

6. What command line option do you use to refer to a transformation or a job file?

Answer : #NAME?

7. Given the transformation shown above, what does the dashed red line hop mean?

Answer : error handling of a row

8. What does “Select Values” step not able to do ?

Answer : replacing values in defined columns

9. Which is the correct variable expression in PDI?

Answer : ${VAR

10. What does “Add Sequence” step do?

Answer : Adding a series of number

Answer : a and b

12. What step to apply Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) case?

Answer : Dimension Lookup / Update

13. What is the other alias for surrogate key?

Answer : Technicall key

14. Given the job shown above ${MYNAME} variable is set to a new value using “Set Variabels” step. Is
it possible to read the new value of ${MYNAME} in “Display Msgbox Info” step?

Answer : YES

15. What is benefit of staging database?

Answer : all of the above

16. What step do you use for calculating numbers?

Answer : all of the above

17. What is most representative concept of dimension table design?

Answer : Denormalization

18. Where is the best location to implement Change Data Capture mechanism?

Answer : Data source

19. What step do you use to read data from an Oracle Table?

Answer : Table Input

20. Given the transformation stream like above, ${NAMA} variable is given a new value in “Set
Variables” steps. Is it possible to read the new value of ${NAMA} in “Write to log” step?

Answer : No
21. In What type of multi-dimensional modeling table do you put in measure columns?

Answer : Fact table

22. From the architecture shown above what capabilities, does PDI have?

Answer : All of the above

23. What file location or protocol does Microsoft Excel Input step does not support?

Answer : Haddop File System

24. In Row Normaliser step, what output field do you specify to a group of header columns ?

Answer : Type field

25. What schemas do you use in Multidimensional Modelling?

Answer : star and snowflake

26. From the star schema shown above, what table does not come from the source system?

Answer : dim_waktu

27. If I need to change a data format on existing data column, which step should I use ?

Answer : Select Values

28. You want to schedule process through a job, which step do you use ?

Answer : Start

29.What file do you create when you decide to use Windows Task Scheduler to execute a transformation?

Answer : .ktr

30. If you want the email attachment, what option you need to specify in Microsoft Excel Input?

Answer : Add filename to result

31. Do we treat surrogate and business key as the same key in data warehouse?

Answer : a or b
32. What make staging database differs from data warehouse?

Answer : Reference and helper table

33. What does Punch Through mean in the Dimension Lookup / Update step?

Answer : Updating all related rows

34. What is the benefit of using type 2 SCD?

Answer : Accurately keep

35. In What type of multi-dimensionalmodellingtable do you put in measure columns?

Answer : Fact Tables

36. What schemas do you use in Multidimensional Modelling?

Answer : star and snowflake

37. What is the other alias for surrogate key?

Answer : Technicall key

38. Do we treat surrogate and business key as the same key in data warehouse?

Answer : No, they should be in different columns

39. What is the disadvantage of multi-dimensional modeling?

Answer : Slow Query

40. What is the mechanism to generate surrogate key ?

Answer : Updating all related rows

41. What is the characteristic of type 1 SCD?

Answer : Updating the row with the same bussines key

42. What is benefit of using type 1 SCD ?

Answer : Easy to maintain

Answer : Accurately keep all historical information

44. Which is the correct variable expression in PDI ?

Answer : ${VAR}

45.

Given the transformation stream like above, ${NAMA} variable is given a new value in “Set Variables”
steps. Is it possible to read the new value of ${NAMA} in “Write to log” step?

Answer : No
46.

Given the job shown above ${MYNAME} variable is set to a new value using “Set Variabels” step. Is it
possible to read the new value of ${MYNAME} in “Display Msgbox Info” step?

Answer : YES

47.
Given the transformation shown above, what does the dashed red line hop mean?

Answer : error handling of a row

48. What file do you create when you decide to use Windows Task Scheduler to execute a
transformation?

Answer : .bat

49. What command line option do you use to refer to a transformation or a job file?

Answer : --file

50.

You want to schedule process through a job, which step do you use?

Answer : Start
51. Pentaho Data Integration is a..tool.

Answer : ETL

52. Which is not a job’s evaluation condition?

Answer : Follow when result is error

53. If you want to transform column headers into row values, what step do you use?

Answer : Row Normaliser

54. What does ETL stand for ?

Answer : Extract, Transform and Load

55. Which statement is true?

Answer : All the steps in a transformation and job are executed in parallel

56. Changing data type from string to number is part of

Answer : Transform process

57. The following task is not part of transform process

Answer : Read text file

58. Writing data into Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet is part of

Answer : Load process

59. There are four fields come into Select Value step, they are A,B

Answer : Fill Field to remove column in remove tab with C and D

60. The following task is not part of transform process

Answer : Read text file

Answer : Extract process

62. The task that is not done by transformation

Answer : Flow control

63. One of the columns that come into “Filter row” step is named “TF” which its contents is TRUE or
FALSE. If we configure filter as TF = Y, which one of the following configuration will cause the same
result.

Answer : TF TRUE

64. The keyboard shortcut to open a new transformation

Answer : Ctrl + N

65. What does ETL stand for ?

Answer : Extract, Transform and Load

66. Which statement is true?

Answer : Job can execute transformation

67. Which statement is true?

Answer : Job can execute transformation

68. What is Pan?

Answer : Pan is command line tool that that allows you execute a transformation

69. Which statement is true?

Answer : All the steps in a transformation are executed in parallel

70. What is Spoon ?

Answer : Spoon is a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows you to design, run, and test
transformations and jobs.
71. What is the most representative concept of dimension table design?

Answer : Denormalization

72. What makes data warehouse significantly different from its data sources?

Answer : Data Modelling

73. What command line option do you use to refer to a transformation or a job file?

Answer : --file

78. Which step not part of PDI’s transformation?

Answer : Start

79. What is the file extension for PDI’s Job?

Answer : kjb

80. What is the required step for a job?

Answer : Start

81. What databases can be accessed by PDI?

Answer : all of the above

82. What is the file extension for PDI’s transformation?

Answer : ktr

83. What is the prerequisite application for PDI?

Answer : Java

84. The Following concept is not available for a job

Answer : row

85.What file location or protocol does Microsoft Excel Input step does not support?

Answer : Hadoop File System (HDFS)

Answer : Job can executes a transformation

87. What option we use in Table Output’s step to produce or alter a table?

Answer : SQL

88. From the star schema shown above, what table does not come from the source system?

Answer : Dim Waktu

89.What is the alias name of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) project ?

Answer : Kettle

90. How do you include a file as attachment in job’s Mail step?

Answer : Attach general file option

91. Which application is not part of PDI?

Answer : Ant

92. From the architecture shown above what capabilities, does PDI have?

Answer : Consume external data source