Designer Interview Questions

1. In real time environment what do we get from the client for the development of universe. provide
me with an example document.

2. Join path Problem

3. how to add aggregate tables to a schema in real time scenario

4. Daily activities of Business Object Desinger and Reporter

5. if we have a user group and we want to give the access to the report from 1990 to 2000. and from
that group we want one user to restrict to see the report from 1990 to 1995. Then what to do in BO
designer, so that this can be possible( Not in report level).

6. what are the precautionary measures you will take in the project?

7. How do you design a universe?

9. Shortcut join

10. Enterprise mode

11. Dimension object Subscribe

12. Detail object

13. isolated joins in universe

14. Connection

15. Cartesian product

16. Cardinality

17. What do you mean by Drill Across?

18. what is the need of creating derived tables in the BO universe design

19. What type of architecture does Businees Objects 6.5 follow?

20. What are the best practices you need to follow while you are creating the Universe?

21. What are the security level used in BO?

22. What's is the Guidelines to Build Universe with Better Performance? R Performance tuning
Issues of Universes?

23. What are the main issues handled by the designer, while creating a Universe?
24. explain the Aggregate tables and how is that helps in fine tunning the performance, Please give
an example not the one which is in PDFs.Appreciate your help.Thanks All

25. How to Implement the the Built-in Strategy Script in BO designer?

26. what is row level security

27. What is the difference between BO and Web intelligence

28. 1. What is a universe?

2. Analysis in business objects?
3. Who launches the supervisor product in BO
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

29. Repository

30. How will you know the version of Bo using designer?

31. How to create metrics in the Desinger. I want to use it in the Dashboards/Performance
Management.I saw in the dashboard manager to crate metrics we have SET, Measures,
Attributes....where do the SET/Subset defined????

32. can anyone please help me with the steps to follow to design a dashboard and explain why do
we need to set a calendar for thatthanksnayana

33. hi all can u tell me the differnec between BO 6.5 and B.OXI -R2

34. How to run universe scripts?

35. In what situation we have to use alias& and in what situation we to use contexts?

37. What are steps to be taken care to create a good Universe?

38. Table Browser

39. Hey All!Can anybody please tell me the test methodology for testing BO Universes

41 i 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...?

42. what is slicing and dicing in business objects?

43. what are templates in which way it is help full?what is data provider?what is freehand sql?
difference between b.o 5.1 and 6.1b?
44. What is Infoview in BO?What are the differences between BO 6.5 and BO XIR2?

45. What is meant by Kernel Approach and component approach?

46. how to avoid the cartesian products while generating the report?

47. What is the difference between Input context and Output context

48. Online mode

49. What is the difference between transaction report and holding report?

50 what are TRPA and TRPI reports? How are they created?

51. What is the difference between Aggregate Awareness and Index Awareness? Where are they
used and how can be used?

52. How to create groups in business objects designer?

53. How do you schedule the report for different regions?

54. What are Universe requirements?

55. What is the difference between Cube, Schema, and Universe ?

56. what is block? types of blocks?what is locking systm in universe?what is shortcut join where it
is neccessary?

57. what is the difference in creating filters in Designer and Business Objects?

58. What is method overriding?

59 I have a Worker table that has a Nationality code column (10 codes, one for domestic and 9 for
international), how to creat a dimension that gives me only wither the code is domestic or
international)

60. Explain in Detail abt Measure Objects? and what is the use of it? How to create it?
61.
61. What are steps we have to follow in designing the userfriendly Universe?

62. Outer join Subscribe

63. Can anyone enlighten me:While connecting 2 subject oriented data mart for example SALES &
MARKETING, thru common key, but the common dimensional table name alone (not the structure
or columns in the table) is different say (year_sal_dim & period_fin_dim). Is it possible to link the
datamart. if yes how to solve it. Explain.

64. Equi-join Subscribe

65. Alias

66. what are the diffrences between Business Objects 5.1 & 6.5 ?
67. how to link two different universes ?

68. How to create Universe using Flat file in BO6.0

69. How to create Generic TIME CLASS, which includes Objects Year,Month and Qtr?Database in
use is Oracle.

70. How to create Context?

71. What's the Functional & Architectural Differences between Business Objects & Web
Intelligence Reports?

72. Theta join

73. could any one expain me how to create cascading prompts?

74. how toconnect one to one report?

75. Which command using Query Analyzer will give you the version of SQL server and operating
system

76. Strategy

77. List of values

78. Loop

79. Join
80. Document domain
81. Structure pane
82. Workgroup mode
83. User object
84. Universe domain
85. Subclass
86. Shared connection
87. Secured connection
88. Quick Design
89. Query
90. Personal connection
91. Offline mode
92. Measure object
93. Hierarchy
94. Qualification
95. Context
96. What is the drill up , drill down, drill by , drill trough ?
97. Condition
98. Class
99. broadcost agent

100. How do you connect the facts and dimensions in the tables
102. What is pragma?

103. i want to restrict top 26 rows ...in reportis there any rownum object from which i can do this

104. Explain the SQL Queries activated to data base from Data provider in BO ?

105. what is the local filter and global filter in bo's?

106. Object
107. How can we acheive Correlated sub-query in Designer?can anyone help me in this regard.

108. whether sevirity and priority are synonyms

109. Drill

110. Universe pane

1. Multivalue and Syntax error

2. While resolving loops, how to decide whether alias or context to be used?

3. How many ways we test the universe & Report?

4. can we apply Rank and Sort at a time on a single report

5. What are the user requirements in a universe?

6. When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?

7. What is the difference between user and versatile user in superviser product?

8. my query takes 30 min to refresh ...there is any performance tunning is there to reduce refresh
time?

9. Is there any significance of testing the BO report by getting the Dataprovider SQL and running it
against the DB to check whether the report and the DB gives the same data?

10. Business Object Security

11. How do I synchronise Microcubes generated by different queries?

12. How do you link different data providers in a single report?

13. What are the different types of Filters available in BUSINESS OBJECTS?

14. There are two ways to transfer data from a report to Excel Can you describe them?

15. What's the major difference between regular universe & metric universe?

16. How to create predefined filters in BO

17. What is the difference between condition and filter? What is thumbnail?

18. Different background in alternative rows

19. Explain about Synchronization Error in Business Objects

20. How many alters can we apply in single column of a report and max no of alters for a whole
report.

21. How can we use the multiple data providers in a single report?

22. Can you add the Cascading promprts in Business Objects? (Based on Country prompt selection
you need to provide the option to select Sate/Province in the next State prompt. That means
dynamically refresh the data load in the state list values)

23. Query not returning any value?

24. Multiple data cubes for one report?

25. what is canned universe and canned reports in bo?

26. Explain scenario where you would use theta Join in Business objects ?

27. What are the Different Data Providers support in Web Intelligence and DeskTop Intelligence?

28. Snow flake schema is normalized or denormalized? Explain how?

29. Difference Between ForEach and ForALL ?

30. what is the difference between break and section in Reports.

31. How to suppress the reports in BO?

32. @aggregate aware function

33. When there are 2 prompt statements given one after the other which one is prompted first when
RUN?

34. How would I achieve Traffic Lighting in Business Objects

35. What operator would you use to allow wild card characters in a query?

36. How would I hide fields in a report other than formatting the cells?

37. Queries can be combined, what are the three ways of combining queries?

38. Explain scenario to get multiple values in a cell (multi value error)

39. What is off-peak time?

40. What is the concept of Micro Cube in Business Objects and explain business reason for the
usage.

42. How would I export a report to Word?

43. How do you export reports to repository

44. BO Data Providers

45. What is file watcher? What is the use of it?

46. What is Broad casting Agent?

47. What is meant by Report Bursting ?

48. What is Candidate Object?How to resolve #overflow error?

49. can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects?

50. I have three predefined prompts. In a report it will come randomly. How they will come in a
specified format?
51. what is a cube in Business objects? how to create a cube in Business objectsXI?

52. If I needed to restrict a report to show the 50 most used contractors How would I select the top
50?

53. A Business Objects Universe consists of classes, within each class are objects, name and
describe the three types of objects.

54. What is a microcube?

55. What is a section in a business objects report?

56. How do I change AND to OR in the query pane?

57. can someone please let me know the things we can do in WEBi and cannot do it in FULL
CLIENT and vice versa for BO6.5

58. what is the difference between condition & filter.

59. How would I set up a variable to show a rolling 4 week average of, for example Arrears?

60. BOXIR2 is Which type of OLAP?

61 product date salesp1 20/Jan/1999 100p1 20/Feb/1999 200p1 20/apl/1999 100p1 20/DEC/1999
50p1 20/Jan/2000 100p1 20/mar/2000 500now i want query like product ,sum of actual year ,sum of
business yearp1 450 750here actual year means 1 Jan 1999 to 31 st Jan 1999business year means 1
st APR 1999 to 31 st mar 200pls give me answer as early as possible..

62. Scnario: Let you have a reporting period one object in a prompt, and one measure say 'Limit
amt' another object you want to show in a report. Now once user enters the prompt, you want
reporting period data prior to the entered value in the report along with which is entered in
prompt.That means say reporting period is 2007, but you should show 2006 data also in the report.
How do you implement it?

63. How do you get list of all reports used by Business Objects users?

64. what is a bo repository

65. give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects

66. What is the difference between BO 6.5 Webi & Xir2 Webi?What is the difference between BO
6.5 desktop intelligence & xir2 Desktop Intelligence?

67. What Error do you get when you create any invalid variable in the BO Webi XI R2 report ?

68. Is it possible to have multiple data sources..? How can you extract data from flat files and oracle
and create a single report in WEBi.

69. what is difference between custom hierarchy and report based heirarchy?

70. If in a report i get 4 times the actual value then what are the various soloutions to rectift it

72. What’s universal join in BOs?

73. How we drill up week to Month?

74. what is the diferrence between slice and dice and cross tab report?

75. Can you create Alerts in WEB Intelligence?

76. What is the difference between section and master in BO 6.5 desktop intelligence.

77. What is incremental aggregation/2. What is rapidly changing dimension?3. How can we merge
the two dimensions?4. Can we edit the lov’s? How many ways we can edit?5.What is the difference
between rank and dense rank?6. Tell me the process of creating universe?7. How can you send webi
reports to the repository?8. Have u created folders?9.What is the object? Difference between XI R2
and 6.5?10. How can we migrate from development server to productions server?

78. What is context in Business Objects and their usages?

79. What is the difference between COGNOS 8 & Business Objects & which business intelligent
tool is best for reporting purpose?

80. How many types of user profiles are there in business objects WI?

81. What is info bust in BO, What is the main purpose of this?What is meant by report tracing in
BO?When and where we use @variable function in BO?

82. what if a cartesian product pop up block appears when running a report. Does it give wrong
values? how to solve this issue?

83. Explain about data profiling & data synchronisation with real-time usage.
84. what is zabo and where it is used

85. How to configure B.C.A in B.O?

86. How to configure LDAP protocol?

87. Explain about scorecards & dash boards in Business Objects

88. How do you migrate ZABO reports from one server to another?

89. what is the Hardware & Software system requirement of installation of Business objects xi R2

90. What is Business Objects Auditor and what can you do by using Auditor?

91. what are the major difference between B.O XI R/2 and B.O XI R/1?

92. When do we need to use 2 or more data providers to make a report??

93. what is a derived table in data warehousing?

94. How to join two reports in for webi when they are on two different tabs?

95. how many types of errors we can face while creating a universe and generating a report

96. How do you apply ranking on crosstab ..? Is there any limit for rows and columns in the
crosstab

97. Why we are using Crystal Reports as a Reporting Tool in B.O XI instead of Desktop
Intelligence. What are major advantages in crystal reports when you compared with desktop
intelligence?

98. what is bust in BO ?

99. Business Objects Basic questions

100. how to add two data providers

102. Business objects is which type of the OLAP Tool?

103. How achieve the many to many relation ship in Business Objects...

104. what are the advantages of universe and WEBI reports.

105. What is a fantrap in Business Objects?

106. How to debug the universe in designer module

107. how can we add two universe?

108. What’s new in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 compared to BusinessObjects XI Release 1?

109. What is the connection string in Business Objects?

110. How to test the report without using SQL editor?

111. What are the Testing responsibilities in BO ?

112. what is difference between crystal report and desktop intelligence

113. what is the difference between derived tables and a view? Which one gives better
performance ?

114. in a report if we have two tables , can we hide one of the table ?

115. Can we open the full cleint reports on thin cleint and vice verse?

116. can we save or create more than one universe in one repository.

117. What is the differnce between count & count all function

118. What is Infoview in BO? andWhat are the differences between BO 6.5 and BO XIR2?

119. What is Business Object

120. how many tabs can be added in a report i.e. how many times can we drill a report

121. how do we check the data is correct or not in the report after generating the query?

122. How do you validate Business Objects Report

123. how to improve performance at universe level and at report level ?

124. how to do row level security in Supervisor??

125. What are the problems faced in report generation & universes?

126. What is UNIT Testing Method in BO?

127. How to bring data from 5 different providers into one block...(they are not getting
synchronized and all of them has different data types

128. Explain about online linking of Reports ?

129. What happens to business objects report if the cardinality is not specified??

131. What is the difference between Sort and Filter function

132. Why there is no global or local repository like in informatica?Why BO is not using any server
like informatica repository server or informatica server?

133. what is dashboard and canned report?what is difference between canned and dashboard report?
how many type reports are there?

134. In BO supervisor how many types of users are there. and what are they.
135. How to Import universes and user from business object 6.5 to XI R2, it is showing as some
ODBC error is there any setting to change?when i start the Import Wizard it is asking the Source
environment, i selected the source evironment as BO 6.x, i gave the username and password, I gave
the key file of BO6.x and then when i gave next it is showing as"Error logging on to server. Please
check logon information and try again.(ERR101)Failed to intialize the active manager [DBD,
[Microsoft OLE DB p

136. can any one tell me if there is two user groups as follows.Group1user1 -------Report-
1user2Group2user1 ---------Report-2user3The user group1 has access to report-1 and user group2
has access to report-2. then can the user1 of Group2 has access to report-1 .

137. What are BO best practises?

138. What is meant by Ascential Datastage Manager and where is it applied?

139. what is the diferrence between slice and dice & drill through

140. what is the multi value error ?Is there any types of Error in BO\

141. How can you create Cascading prompts in Bo?

142. explain the difference between Condition and Filter.

143. can we overrite the sql query after creating the report

144. How do I prevent overlapping of the tables in webi?

145. what is Data Profiling in Business Objects?What is Data Synchronization in Business Objects?

146. Hi all.Can you please tell me whether we can able to create a Universe for a text file. If yes, w

147. what are the differences between BO's 5.x and 6.x

148. Can a universe be connected to different databases?

149.1. What is an Universe? 2. How many Universes did you create? 3. Tell me how many classes
where there, and objects in each class? 4. What is Object qualification? 5. Tell me about a
complicated object you have created? 6. What was the size of the database? Which server? 7. How
many user were there? 8. What problems you have faced while creating an universe? tell me an
incident and how you went about solving it? 9. Were any experts called from BO while you were on
the project? 10. What was the D

150. What is the difference between conditions and filter in Data Warehousing.

151. How do u migrate BOs Universes,users and user groups,and report from version BO6.5 to
XIR2?

152. what is casual dimension?

153. What is a Thin Client Report? Please Explain

154. when do we go for cross tab , master-detail and chart blocks in a report ?
155. How do you check whether the data in the report is correct ot not ?

156. Hi recently i am attending Interviews on Business Objects positions..could you please help me
regarding the questions that i am facing..1) what type of problem u got while working?2) How did u
solved?

157. Architecture of Business Object?

158. Hi... Can you please tell me how to delete a duplicate rows in a Report. Whether it is posible.

159. explain the difference between Condition and Filter. Regards.vvk kotamraju

160. Hi all....What is Presenter? Tell me what is the difference between Presenter and Condition.

161. we create X reports using template.can we change the template?

162. Name some of the business objects dashboard analytics?

163. Does anybody have any information regarding interviewing with Business Objects for a BA
position?Al
Does anybody have any information regarding interviewing with Business Objects for a BA
position?Also any information regarding the Excel test administered there?

164. tell me about Business objects architecture

165. Explain about Business Objects Architecture

166. How Can We Restrict a database connection to a particular user? what i want ask is, particular
connection should user only by that user when creating universes, no one should use that
connection, how can we do that?

167. can anyone specify the address from where we can get the information about dashboard in
business objects?

168. hi,can we make an object as nessessary object, i.e without that object that report will not
work,how can we do that?

169. Hi, Could any of u say the answer for the following question which i faced in the interviewthe
question is "When will training occur in BO?"

170. what are the requirements for cube creation in business objects XI?

171. in a report can we hide an particular object ?

172. what is drill filter and it's usage ? How many types of filters are there ?

173. what are all difference between business objects 6.5 and XI R2

174. What is a Data Cube ? What is its use ?

175. What is aggregate awareness and how can we use it?

176. How to break a Date field into Year, month, week,day?(For example: I have a field
INVOICE_DATE. Now i want to break it as Year, month..... i.e. in time dimension.) DO i need to
have some changes in Universe?

177. How does the hierarchy and scope of analysis helps in Reports. How does these both gets
related.

178 How do you Find the average of an object with out using the Average Function and by using
only sum,average,max,min?

179. is there any other repository domains rather than universe,security,doccument?

180. In the BO universe, how to link two universe, like i have one universe in sales.uni and another
is
181. What is diference between datamart and datawarehouse?
182. clearly explain the difference between union and group
183. What is BO SDK?
184. Are Data mart and DWH normalised or denormalised ? Do both of them exist inthe same tier ?

185. what all will be exported to the repository, when we export a universe ?
186. what is the difference between detect alias and detect context?
187. State the difference between Webi and Infoview
188. diffrence between ZABO and webi

189. Kindly numberWhat are the steps to be taken to schedule the report?

190. What is meant by Object Stores?

191. How do we test the reports in the business objects? How to creates the tabs in the reports?

192. which versions are used in the BO dashboard work?

193. What are the steps to do to use Alerts in BO?

194. how to execute the plsql procedure from the report by clicking with mouse

195. when we use aggergate awarness function in designer?

196. How to schedule the report in B.O?

197. Please explain about Alerts in Bo's, Under what situation we need to use alerts

198. What is report template in B.O?

199. how many universes can be created in a project

200. How to generate the report from excel sheet?