1.What is the difference between ODS and Staging?

 
2. Explain the situations where snowflake is better than star schema
3. Can you convert a snowflake schema in to star schema?
4. What is BUS Schema?
5. What is Data warehosuing Hierarchy?
6. What is aggregate fact table
7. What is meant by metadata in context of a Datawarehouse and how it is important?
7. aggregate fact table ... any examples of both
8. What is the difference between OLAP and datawarehosue?
9. If data is missing that is required as a primary key in a data mart entity from what sources can
this information be gathered?
10. What is the use of bridge table. Can give a simple example?
11. What is DATA integration
12. Explain Bill Inmon's versus Ralph Kimball's Approach to Data Warehousing.
13. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH?
14. What is staging area?
15. OLAP architecture?
16. What is subject area?
17. Why do we use DSS database for OLAP tools?
18. How do you connect two fact tables ? Is it possible ?
19. What is the main FUNCTIONAL difference between ROLAP,MOLAP,HOLAP?
20. What is the life cycle of data warehouse projects
21.Do u need seperate space for Datawarehouse & Data mart
22.How data in datawarehouse stored after data has been extracted and transformed from
hetrogeneous sources
23. What is meany by survey and extraction tables in DW?
24. What is Difference between E-R Modeling and Dimentional Modeling.
25. .what is incremental loading?2.what is batch processing?3.what is cross reference table?
4.what is aggregate
26. What type of Indexing mechanism do we need to use for a typical datawarehouse

27. What is the purpose of Factless Fact Table?

28. What is Virtual Data Warehousing?

29 in which scenario will you use Semi-additive and factle1ss facts

30. What is snapshot with reference to data warehouse?  

31. Talk about the concepts of ODS and information factory.

32. What is a level of Granularity of a fact table?
33.what is data convergence?
34. How do you load the time dimension?
35. What are slowly changing dimensions (SCD)?
36. Why is Data Modeling Important?
37. What is a Cube and Linked Cube with reference to data warehouse?
38. What is surrogate key?
39. What is the difference between data warehousing and business intelligence?
40. What are the nine decision points of data warehousing?
41. How many dimensions in a cube?
42. What is the difference between Power Center & Power Mart?
43. What is difference between dc and adc?
44. What is a source qualifier?-

45. What is ER Diagram

46. What is snapshot

47. offline datawarehousing

48. is fact table normalized or denormalized? It has links to dimension files…

49 What is system catalog

50. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH?