1. What is OLAP and types of OLAP?

OLAP: Online Analytical Processing

Types are:
1. ROLAP (Relational OLAP)

2. MOLAP (Multidimensional OLAP)

3. HOLAP (Hybrid OLAP)

4. DOLAP (Desktop OLAP)

5. WOLAP (Web based OLAP)

2. What are Repository Domains? (6.5)

1. Secure
2. Document
3. Universe

3. What is Bo-main key (authentication)?(6.5)

It is an access key to browse the repository content.

4. What is Strategy types?(6.5)

1. Buitlt-In(Default)
2. External

5.What is Universe and types of Universes?

Universe is a collection of Classes and Objects.
Types are:
1. Personal
2. Secured
3. Shared

6. What are the types of Objects?

Object types are:
1. Dimension:
A Dimension object, denoted by a blue cube, is typically textual information by
which users analyze numeric measures, such as product, region, or month.
2. Detail:
A Detail object provides additional information about a particular dimension.
3. Measure:
A Measure is a number that users wish to analyze;

7. What is Candidate Objects?

To use the Candidate Object browser to insert objects extracted with an external strategy.

8. What is LOVs(List of values)?

To determine the values for the objects of the classes.

9. Aggregate awareness?

To specify aggregate navigation options to define objects that are incompatible with aggregate
tables in the universe.

10. What is Loop and how do you resolve them?

A closed circular join which causes less no. of rows
1. Alias
2. Context

11. What is Alias and Context?

Alias is alternative table.
Contexts are a collection of joins which provide a valid query path for Business Objects and Web
Intelligence to generate SQL

12. What is Hierarchy?

Set of related levels used for Drill analysis

13.Wat is Prompt and Syntax ?

Prompt is nothing but an object it needs a input value at run time from the user.

Syn: @prompt ('enter the values','a','class\object’ mono\multi,free\constraint).

14. Scope of analysis:

To determine the subset of data

1. One level
2. Two level
3. Three level
4. Custom

15. Combine queries:

To combine any two queries with the help of operators like

1. Intersect,
2. Minus,
3. Union.

16. Testing of reports:

Get the query from the query panel and test at database.

17. What are Alert, Break and Filters?

Alert highlights the field, when the condition satisfied.

Break is to break the report like group.
Filter is nothing but where clause.

18. What is Variable?

It is an object to generate report level calculations

19. What is Slice and Dice?

Changing the data position from x to y and y to x directions.

20. Wat is Drill-Up, Drill-Down, Drill-By and Drill Through

Drill-Up is to move upwards

Drill-Down is to move down wards
Drill-By is to move either upwards or down wards
Drill Through is to move across the hierarchy.

21. Linking of reports:

To link the two reports by using

22. What are other data providers?

1. Personal
2. Freehand SQL
3. Stored Procedures
4. VB Procedures
5. Web Connect
6. XML Data Provider

23. What is Cross tab (measure is a must) and Master/Detail and Chart and Graph?
Cross Tab: It contains tabular values
Master: Main module or parent module
Detail: Sub modules or Child modules
Chart: Pictorial Representation.
Graph:

24. What is Thin and Thick Client?

Thin is to view the report
Thick is to modify the report

25. What are enterprise and workgroup modes?

Enterprise=with repository
Workgroup=without repository

25. What are the types of Joins?

1. Self Restricted-Join
2. Equi-Join
3. Theta-Join
4. Short-cut-Join
5. Outer (Left/Right)-Join

26. What is Offline and Online?

Online: Universe is connected to the database.

Offline: Universe is not connected to the database.

27. What ZABO (Zero Administration BOs)?

28. What Cascading Prompts?

The prompt depends on other prompts
eg:city depends on state

29 IS IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE A DETAIL OBJECT WITH OUT DIMENSION

30. CAN I APPLY A FILTER ON VARIABLE

31. CAN I APPLY SECTION ON CROSS TAB

32. WAT IS TABLE MAPPING.

33. WAT IS MERGE DIMENSION.

34. TYPES OF VIEWS.