1st Round Interview Questions

1. Self introduction and description of project.

2. Roles and resposibilities in Project.
3. Without update stratergy How can you update the target ?
4. Key Constraints on
or third party tool)
7. NULL Ordering in Sorter Transformations used in the respective project.
5. Sorted Input Option in Aggregator transformation? (Performance)
6. How to schedule workflows?(Informatica Transformation?
8. Indirect File Load in Source?(Src: Flat file)
9. Sql Scenario:
I have two tables and i want to get the Uncommon data from both tables.what are the ways to do?
10. Static and Dynamic cache in Lookup?

-- Jyothsna

2nd Round Interview Questions

--Jyothsna

1. Project Related questions in detail?

2. Query to select distinct records in SQL and query for getting nth highest salary and in how many ways
you can achieve?
3. Types of join in SQL?
4. Difference between Row_id and Row_number?
5. How to run a shell script? And if you want to execute shell script in background how will you do that?
6. Difference between Source Qualifier and joiner?
7. How to improve performance of join?
8. Types of SCD?
9. What is source qualifier?
10. Union transformation in active or passive?
11. What is mapplet? Can we use target in mapplet? What are the transformations that we can’t use in
mapplet?
12. What are tracing levels?
13. Can we use mapplet inside a mapplet?
14. How can you sort data in rank transformation?
15. Two sessions are sequentially connected to workflow. My requirement is to run the first session 10
times then only second session should?

Delloitte questions
1. Intro about yourself and the project.
2. Roles and responsibilities
3. What is one’s role in that particular team the person worked and the work distributed.
4. Transformations used in the project.
5. When are static and dynamic look up cache used.
6. What scenarios can you use connected and unconnected lookup?
 7. When can you use a Joiner and when can you use Lookup.??
8. What transformations did you use in scds ?
9. Sql server –might ask might not
10. Unix- specify if you have any idea or worked on it.
11. What kind of scenarios have you faced in your project?
--Harish

1. What is SCD?? Why is it called so??

2. What is the most complex mapping you designed in your project??
3. What is persistent cache??
4. What type of cache do you use in SCD2?
5. Why don’t you use dynamic cache while implementing SCD2 ?(it is regarding my project)
6. Discussion about project.
--Harish

Delloitte questions
1. Separate Duplicate records from the table. Queries without count and sub query?
2. Router active/passive why?
3. Informatica installed in which environment unix or windows?
4. Direct indirect load option in Target?
5. Different joins and queries?
6. Union and union all diff? Performance
7. Joiner or lookup which is more preferred performance?
8. Properties of lookup?
9. Static and dynamic cache?
10. If two groups satisfy the same conditions in router, which group the will go in router?
11. Indexes and types in oracle?
12. In oracle how to get the flat file?
13. Types of flat files?
14. Why is joiner used if we can write source query
15. Informatica version differences
16. Unix commands awk, sed, grep,tail,put
17. Target load plan
18. Enable test load
19. Db2 flat files types
20. Unix shell scripting is used for ?
21. Why filter is active?
22. Transaction control
23. Stop and abort differences
24. Delete, truncate ,drop differences
25. Connected and unconnected lookup diff and properties
--Anoosha
2nd Round Interview Questions

1. Types of Scd?explain
2. Dynamic Cache Static Cache Diff?
 3. 3.Conn And Unconnected Lkp Diff?
4. 4.Mapplets and their use?
5. 5.Sql overrides use? Where are they used?
6. 6.Surrogate key and use?
7. 7.Factless Fact? Example
8. 8.If commit interval is 1million and my records are 50 in number what will happen.
9. 9.Dimension and facts types
--Anoosha
Interview Questions

1. Self introduction and description of project.

2. Roles and resposibilities in Project.
3. Difference Between Full outer join and Union ? (Performance wise)
4. If src flat file are in different Languages.
5. What is better to use Joiner Or Lookup?(Performance Wise)
6. Transact Control Trans ?
7. How to eliminate duplicate records ?
8. Can we use Agg just after Joiner ?
9. Difference between Informatica 8 and 9.
10. How to schedule workflows?(Informatica or third party tool)
11. On what platform is informatica server installed ?
-- Swati

1. Flat files if we want to load n number in one go how will you load
2. Scenario : if source table is having history details of a particular employee. Details are Name, Id,
City, Sal. Now if I want to retrieve the data of that employee on a particular date say jan1st 2006
What all the extra columns you need
3. Above scenario what will be the where clause to get the city of that particular date.
4. If source is Flat File and I want to load last 3 records into T1 and first 3 records into T2 how do you
implement
5. Number of ways to get the Source records duplicated into Target like SRC has 1,2,3 records in TGT I
need 1,2,3,1,2,3
6. Unix scripting worked or not?
7. When I said my experience in Teradata and Informatica he asked me the activities I did in Teradata
8. Work in Teradata as a database or with utilities
9. Difference between Informatica 9.1 and previous versions
10. Why is router Transformation active now
11. Types of lookup you used?
12. Connected Lookup multiple ports explanation
13. Production support activities
14. What all the Managerial(lead) activities if involved
15. Improve Performance in target perspective/if the data loading into target is very slow then what all
the activities u do to get it on track?
16. Performance tuning from database side to tune target
17. Bulk load and normal load difference
18. How many threads are there in a mapping
 19. Line sequential buffer length or default buffer block size
20. Non duplicate and duplicate records are present in one source. Using Informatica how can I
differentiate and load in different targets. Need the stages in the mapping
21. Abort and stop difference
22. Shell scripting
23. Teradata functions
24. Which scheduler you used in prod support. How did you use it
25. If spl char coming in the records how do u handle to remove them both file and table
26. Separate Duplicate records from the table. Queries without count and sub query?
27. Router active/passive why?
28. Informatica installed in which environment unix or windows?
29. Direct indirect load option in Target?
30. Different joins and queries?
31. Union and union all diff? Performance
26. Joiner or lookup which is more preferred performance?
27. Properties of lookup?
28. Static and dynamic cache?
29. If two groups satisfy the same conditions in router, which group the will go in router?
30. Indexes and types in oracle?
31. In oracle how to get the flat file?
32. Types of flat files?
33. Why is joiner used if we can write source query
34. Informatica version differences
35. Unix commands awk, sed, grep,tail,put
36. Target load plan
37. Enable test load
38. Db2 flat files types
39. Unix shell scripting is used for ?
40. Why filter is active?
41. Transaction control
42. Stop and abort differences
43. Delete, truncate ,drop differences
44. Connected and unconnected lookup diff and properties

45. can u please draw the complete architecture of your project?

46. can u explain what is dimension table & fact table?
47. give me an example for dimension table & fact table i have a table in tat product name, manufacturing
unit, cost,....like tat how can u decide which one should go to dimension table & which one to fact
table?
48. joiner & lookup difference?
49. in Informatica 9 why joiner is active? Give me an example for tat?
50. how can u update a columns?
51. what is update override? Where it is located in Informatica?
52. what is surrogate key? What is the use of it? Can I have both primary key & surrogate key in a table?