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Interview Questions :

Set-I

1. What is a universe?

2. Analysis in business objects?

3. Who launches the supervisor product in BO for the first time?4. How can you check the universe?

5. What are universe parameters?

6. Types of universes in business objects?

7. What is security domain in BO?8. Where will you find the address of repository in BO?

9. What is broad cast agent?

10. In BO 4.1 version what is the alternative name for broadcast agent?11. What services the broadcast agent offers on the server side?

12. How can you access your repository with different user profiles?13. How many built-in objects are created in BO repository?14. What are alerters in BO?

15. What are different types of saving options in web intelligence?

16. What is batch processing in BO?

17. How can you first report in BO by using broadcast agent?18. Can we take report on Excel in BO?

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Set-2

1. Explain detail objects? - Sol: Detail objects are attached to dimensions, one

cannot drill on details nor link on details when linking multiple data providers.

While Customer ID would be a dimension, customer name, address, phone andsoon should be details.

2. What is BOMain.Key? - BoMain.Key file contains the information about the

repository site i.e it contains the address of the repository security domain.3. What is Business objects Repository? - it is nothing but metadata.

4. What is domain? How many are there in a basic setup? What are they? - Domain

is nothing but logical grouping of system tables, There are three domains usually

in a basic setup, They are Secure, Universe, Document. Business objects aresometimes called domain objects (where the word domain means the business),

and a domain model represents the set of domain objects and the relationships

between them.5. When is the Repository created? - In 5i/6i versions after installing the software,

whereas in Xi version a repository is created at the time of installation.

6. Can we have multiple domains? - Yes. (Security domain can not be multiple).7. How do you restrict access to rows of a database? - In XI version it can be done

by using row-level security in designer module whereas in 5i/6i it is done by

supervisor.8. What is a category? - It is nothing but grouping of certain entities.

9. What is a Universe? - It is a semantic layer between Database and the designer used to create objects and classes. (It maps to data in Database).

10. What is an Object? - It is an instance of class, its nothing but an entity.

11. What do you mean by Object qualification? - Object qualification represents what

kind of object is that, usually we have three types of object qualifiers they are

measure, dimension, detailed.12. What is the size of data base? - In general it will be anything between 4-8

Terabytes.

13. What is a loop? How can we overcome? - Loop is nothing but a closed circular flow; it can be overcome by making use of Alias and Context.

14. What is a join? Explain different types of joins? - Join is used to link to tables

depending upon the data requested by the user, Usually we have Inner Join, Outer Join, Left Join, Right Join, Full Outer join.

15. What are Linked Universes? - If the data provided is from two different data

providers then we can link those two universes, such type of universe is called

Linked Universe.16. What are Alerter, Filters, Breaks and Conditions? - Alters are nothing but they are

used to draw attention to a block of data by highlighting. Breaks are nothing but

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grouping the data without any change in the format. Condition is used to retrieve

data which meets certain criteria. Filters are used to get necessary data.

17. What is the difference between master-detail and Breaks? - In break commonfields are deleted (here in this case the table format is not changed) whereas in

master-detail , we declare certain entity as a master to get the detailed information

or report in this case the table format is changed.18. What is metrics? - Metrics are a system of parameters or ways of quantitative and

periodic assessment of a process that is to be measured; these are used to track

trends, productivity.19. What is a Set? - Its nothing but grouping of users.

20. What is the use of AFD? Where it can be stored? - used to create dashboards. It

can be stored in repository, corporate or personal.

21. what is the source for metrics? - measure objects.22. Why do we need metrics and sets? - Metrics are used for analysis and Sets are

used for grouping.

23. Is there any bug in 6.x? - In earlier version of 6.0 they had, but 6.5 is the best

version with out any bugs.24. What are the general issues in migration process? - Alignment, performance.

25. What is the use of BO SDK? - Bo SDK main use is to suppress “no data to fetch”using Macros.

26. How can we improve performance? - By making use of Aggregate tables.

27. Analysis in BO? - Slice-Dice and Drill analysis.28. How can you check the integrity? - By making use of Check integrity button.

29. What are Universe parameters? - Name of the universe, description and RDBMS

connection, size and rights.

30. Types of Universes? - Simple and Complex.31. What is the use of BCA? - BCA is used to refresh and schedule and export and

save as.html,.rtf,.xls ,.pdf.

1. What is a universe?

A. Universe is a semantic layer, which maps to data in the database . Collection of

classes and objects

B. universe is the Symantec layer that isolates the end use from the complex

structure of database

2. Analysis in business objects?

A. Slice and Dice and Drill Analysis is available in BO

B. There are two types of analysis. I . slice and dice ii. Drill

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3. Who launches the supervisor product in BO for the first time?

A. General Supervisor launches supervisor product

4. How can you check the universe?

A. Using check Integrity, u can check the universe. Go to Designer, Tools ->check Integrity

5. What are universe parameters?

A. You define universe parameters from the Universe Parameters dialog box

(File-> Parameters) when you create a universe. The database connection is the

onlyparameter that you must manually select or create when you create anewuniverse.

B. name of universe,description and rdbms connection

6. Types of universes in business objects?

A. Simple universe and complex universe

7. What is security domain in BO?A. security domain is bomain.key that allocates each user with a name and

password.

8. Where will you find the address of repository in BO?

A. BoMain.key,File that contains the address of the repository’s security domain. bomain.key

9. What is broad cast agent?

A. brodcasting agent are used to refresh or publish the document at a regular

interval of time broadly speaking BCA is used to schedule the document.

B. Broad Cast agent agent manages scheduling the documents.

10. In BO 4.1 version what is the alternative name for broadcast agent?

11. What services the broadcast agent offers on the server side?

A. It can also help reduce traffic on the network by running reports at off–peak

times which, of course, benefits everyone.

12. How can you access your repository with different user profiles?

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A. Distribute the Key file according to the option you chose in the Repository

Access

13. How many built-in objects are created in BO repository?

14. What are alerters in BO?A. Alerters are used to draw attention to a block of data either by highlighting or

displaying some message near to the cells

15. What are different types of saving options in web intelligence?

A. Save as a personal documentsave this document to InfoView for your personal use

Save to my computer

Save this document to your computer as:

Microsoft Excel format (.xls), PDF Format, BO report(.rep)

16. What is batch processing in BO?

A. It is scheduled process in Broadcasting Agent. Ex: you can refresh a document

at a specified date/time. This can be either a one–off process or a process to be

repeated at the same time every day, week, month etc.

17. How can you first report in BO by using broadcast agent?• While the document is open, select the Send To>Broadcast Agent command

from the File menu, or click the Send to Broadcast Agent button on the Document

Exchange toolbar.

This pops up the Send Document To Broadcast Agent Server dialogue♣ box.There are several tabs on the Broadcast Agent dialogue box.

Start with♣ the General tab. On the General tab:-

Select the BCagent server in the♣ Server list box.

Leave the Priority as Normal.♣

Type in an (optional)♣ identifying title for the document to be used by Broadcast

Agent.

On the♣ Actions tab:-

Select the appropriate action(s), i.e. Refresh Document♣

♣ Click the Add button

On the Scheduling tab, click the Change button in♣ order to enter the frequencyand the start date/time for the processing.

On♣ the Distribution tab, click the Distribute via the Repository option:

If ♣ you want to send a document to other users, click the To button in the Send

To box — the Select Users dialogue box pops up.

In the Select Users dialogue♣ box, hold down the Ctrl key and click the users

you want, then click the OK button. You return to the Broadcast Agent window.

If you click the Add my♣ Name to the List option, your user icon appears in the

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Send to box.

B. Finally, click the OK button. The document is submitted to Broadcast Agent

for scheduled processing.

18. Can we take report on Excel in BO?

A. After creating the report with extension .rep, File – Menu – Save as Excel

option can be given.

yes, we can take the report in exel sheeti hvae linked 2 data provider..and generate the report ..in that report how can i

find the which data is comming from which data provider…?

n Report, go to structure mode you can see all the data with its corresponding data provider name as ….

Empname (Dataprovidername1)

sal(dataprovidername2)

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