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BI Interview Questions I faced as of now

Interview questions. (5th July 2012)

Tell me about urself.....
1) What are ASAP METHODOLOGIES?
A:-1.Project preparation
2. Blue print
3. Realization
4. Go-live
5. Production support
2) What are conditions?
A:- Conditions are used for know the business optimized report. By using (TOP N
,BOTTOM N, MAX, MIN.ETC..)
3) What are contents of attributes?
A:- those are characters and display and navigational attributes.
4) Update types
A:-To load the data into Bi we will use ( Full , init , delta )
5) What are types of attributes, what are table attributes?
A:- Display , Navigational , time dependent , time independent .
6) How does u delete data in DSO change log?
A:- To delete change log data select menu option select delete change log. So all
records in change log will be deleted.
7) What is the use of index ( i explained about primary and secondary indexes)
A:- Index play key role in data loading time. Using the process chain data load into
cube at that we have to delete the index and then generate the index so that we
can improve the performance.
Indexes are two types primary and secondary index.
8) What is the difference between star schema and extended star schema?

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A:- Star schema doesnt not store master data separately but extended star schema
stores master data separately.
Star schema not support for multiple language but ext star schema supports.
In ext star schema fact table surround by dimension table and dimension table
connects sid table and sid table maintains master data separately.
But in star schema fact table surrounded by dimension table and dimension table
contain all sid along with master data.
So comparatively ext star schema show high performance.

How do u rate yourself in on a 10 scaled of BI and ABAP, i said both as rating 7 in scale

1) what is early data initialization

With early delta initialization, you have the option of writing the
data into the delta queue or into the delta tables for the application
during the initialization request in the source system.
This means that you are able to execute the initialization of the
delta process (the init request), without having to stop the updating
of data in the source system.
You can only execute an early delta initialization if the DataSource
extractor called in the source system with this data request supports
this.
Extractors that support early delta initialization were delivered with
Plug-Ins as of Plug-In (-A) 2002.1
You cannot run an initialization simulation together with an early
delta initialization
2) What is v3?
V3 is a batch/background job using this job we can upload the records
in background.
In LO cockpit using job schedule option we will do this
3) What are extractors?
Extractors are two types
1. Application component---again divide in to two type a. Business
content b. Customer specific Application (LO,hr,copa,fi)
2. Cross application (generic extraction)
4) What is the diff b/w includes and function modules?

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5) There are 2 process chains, how can u start the 2nd process chain
once 1st process chain is completed
By using trigger chain event i can do this.
Or else I will write abap program for this to run second chain.
Or I will use time schedule so that second chain will run
automatically
6) What you worked in module pool, how module pool used in BI?
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