Data warehouse interview questions

  1. What is source qualifier?
  2. Difference between DSS & OLTP?
  3. Explain grouped cross tab?
  4. Hierarchy of DWH?
  5. How many repositories can we create in Informatica?
  6. What is surrogate key?
  7. What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation?
  8. What is aggregate awareness?
  9. Explain reference cursor?
  10. What are parallel querys and query hints?
  11. DWH architecture?
  12. What are cursors?
  13. Advantages of de normalized data?
  14. What is operational data source (ODS)?
  15. What is meta data and system catalog?
  16. What is factless fact schema?
  17. What is confirmed dimension?
  18. What is the capacity of power cube?
  19. Difference between PowerPlay transformer and power play reports?
  20. What is IQD file?
  21. What is Cognos script editor?
  22. What is difference macros and prompts?
  23. What is power play plug in?
  24. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH?
  25. What is hash partition?
  26. What is DTM session?
  27. How can you define a transformation? What are different types of transformations in Informatica?
  28. What is mapplet?
  29. What is query panel?
  30. What is a look up function? What is default transformation for the look up function?
  31. What is difference between a connected look up and unconnected look up?
  32. What is staging area?
  33. What is data merging, data cleansing and sampling?
  34. What is up date strategy and what are th options for update strategy?
  35. OLAP architecture?
  36. What is subject area?
  37. Why do we use DSS database for OLAP tools?
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11 Comments on Data warehouse interview questions

  1. Pramod Verma
    Posted 12/11/2004 at 2:38 am | Permalink

    Sir, Plz send me the answer of Question of related to Data warehouses

  2. wajid syed
    Posted 3/17/2005 at 12:58 pm | Permalink

    hello,
    please send me the answers to questions on datawarehouse.
    thanks

  3. Manoj Kumar
    Posted 3/31/2005 at 5:19 am | Permalink

    Could you pls send me the answer to the Questions related to Data warehouse.

    Regards,
    Manoj

  4. John
    Posted 4/22/2005 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    I would encourage those asking for the answers to actually do some research and find the answers.
    You may learn answers to more that way. If you were to get a job based on memorizing a set of answers like this, I am sure you would have difficulty succeeding once you got into the position. When I interview candidates, I dig a little deeper if they give me a “text book” answer to make sure they understand the answer.
    I often also give a written test. Use the list of questions as a guide to things you should actually know. It is a good list.

  5. Vijay
    Posted 8/23/2005 at 1:32 am | Permalink

    Dear John,

    I fully agree with you on u r view that one has to find out answers as that will give them more understanding of the subject. May I suggest that it will be useful you can give a link to some of the useful sites which are helpful to the candidates…….hope you find it fit to reply this suggestion.

  6. Siddhartha
    Posted 10/26/2005 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Vijay,

    There are quite a few places to find answers as part of learning process. I think the first thing that anyone who wants to take up a DW Career should do is read ” The Data Warehouse Toolkit” and half of the questions would already be answered. Rest are tool specific and am sure that the help within the tool will provide ample information.

    Regards,
    Sid

  7. Babu
    Posted 8/1/2006 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    I am interested in taking up Data warehouse career. Would you please send me the answers for the interview questions, so that i can update myself and build confidence level to attend interviews. If so i will be greatly thankfull to you

  8. Pallav
    Posted 8/8/2006 at 5:59 am | Permalink

    Currently working on Business Intelligence (Reporting Domain). I want to work on warehouse domain. Please send me answer of these questions.

    Thanks and Regards

  9. srinivas
    Posted 3/18/2007 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    hi friends
    i am srinivas…i have some doughts regarding informatica

    1)what is complex mapping? plz send coplex mapping design if any?
    2)how much is your repository size?
    3)how many flat tables can we call by lookup t/r at atime?

  10. alwin
    Posted 3/22/2007 at 1:03 pm | Permalink

    pls friends ,

    help me.

    1)what is complex mapping? plz send coplex mapping design if any?
    2)how much is your repository size?
    3)how many flat tables can we call by lookup t/r at atime?
    4)wat is parameter file?
    5)wat is the excat use of mapping parameter?
    6)

  11. Guru
    Posted 6/8/2007 at 6:58 am | Permalink

    I agree with John and the best part is DW tool kit and ETL tool kit. These two will give foundation to DW and later learning tools to implement these methodologies will be easy which can be related by understand the features provided by Informatica or Datastate and like wise BI tools like BO,COGNOS etc.

    Apart from all these we should understand how we can use database features and drive DW to higher standard, write/develope maps/jobs with good performance. These are skills you should concentrate while you start your career and continue the same. Please teach others and you will become master as they ask more questions you will have to learn more to answer those questions. :) Good Luck.

    Ref: DM review, twdi, database, datamodel.org are some of the resources, Read and contribute to those sites if possible they have taken effort to put things together.

    Cheers !

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