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Objects Thanks to Ramanjaneyulu (9.30 Batch) for collecting all the questions There might be question errors and Grammatical errors which are not modified If anyone gets a answered copy for this FAQs then please post in the group, so that many can get benefitted by your work. If anyone has / come across more FAQs please post in this Group ********************************************************************** *********** ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````````````````````` What is the difference between COGNOS 8 & Business Objects & which business intelligent tool is best for reporting purpose? What is a section in a business objects report? 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 ? How to decrease time running query for report? What is a bo repository ? Give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects ? When to use local filter and when to use global Filter? What are the user requirements in a universe? I have three predefined prompts. In a report it will come randomly. How they will come in a specified format?

Can we apply Rank and Sort at a time on a single report ? How can you create Cascading prompts in Bo? What is a Thin Client Report? Please Explain ? what is the major difference between a folder and a category......when both are for organising the documents ? In the BO universe, how to link two universe, like i have one universe in sales.uni and another is marketing.uni ? What is context in Business Objects and their usages? A Business Objects Universe consists of classes, within each class are objects, name and describe the three types of objects.? What is a derived table in data warehousing? What is meant by Object Stores? What is a fantrap in Business Objects? State the difference between Webi and Infoview What is the difference between condition & filter. What would you consider as your biggest achievement and why? What is the difference between detect alias and detect context? What is the difference between User And versatile user? How can we do load testing for Webi Reports? (Example if I have have to test one webi reoprt for Concurrent users refreshing report at one time) Is there any default username & pwd for BO designer & supervisor? What is the dense rank? What is difference between custom hierarchy and report based heirarchy? What is the diferrence between slice and dice and cross tab report?

Are Data mart and DWH normalised or denormalised ? Do both of them exist in the same tier ? Can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects? when we will use these two? What is drill filter and it's usage ? How many types of filters are there ? Give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects What is the multi value error ? Is there any types of Error in BO How achieve the many to many relation ship in Business Objects... How Do U Create Report in BO,If given Fixed length file ( Notepad) as source? What is aggregate awareness and how can we use it? How many ways we test the universe & Report? How to select different data providers in business objects? what all will be exported to the repository, when we export a universe ? What is Nested prompt and how to create this prompt? Currently I am sending the report to users in excel format,if there is no data also the report will be sent,Is there any option in BO to stop report from being sent if there is no data in the report? What if a cartesian product pop up block appears when running a report. Does it give wrong values? How to solve this issue? What is a Data Cube?What is its use ? Is there any other repository domains rather than universe,security,doccument? Which versions are used in the BO dashboard work? How do you get list of all reports used by Business Objects users? What is a bo repository?

How we drill up week to Month? What is the diferrence between slice and dice and cross tab report? Can you create Alerts in WEB Intelligence? What is the difference between section and master in BO 6.5 desktop intelligence. What is context in Business Objects and their usages? What is the difference between COGNOS 8 & Business Objects & which business intelligent tool is best for reporting purpose? How many types of user profiles are there in business objects WI? Explain about scorecards & dash boards in Business Objects How do you migrate ZABO reports from one server to another? What is the Hardware & Software system requirement of installation of Business objects xi R2 What is Business Objects Auditor and What can you do by using Auditor? What are the major difference between B.O XI R/2 and B.O XI R/1? When do we need to use 2 or more data providers to make a report?? What is a derived table in data warehousing? How to join two reports in for webi when they are on two different tabs? How many types of errors we can face while creating a universe and generating a report How do you apply ranking on crosstab ..? Is there any limit for rows and columns in the crosstab 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? What is bust in BO ? How to add two data providers

How do u migrate BOs Universes,users and user groups,and report from version BO6.5 to XIR2? 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? What if a cartesian product pop up block appears when running a report. Does it give wrong values? how to solve this issue? Explain about data profiling & data synchronisation with real-time usage. What is zabo and where it is used BO Designer Interview Questions,BO Interview Questions,Business Objects Interview Questions What are the Testing responsibilities in BO ? How many tabs can be added in a report i.e. How many times can we drill a report How do we check the data is correct or not in the report after generating the query? How do you validate Business Objects Report How to improve performance at universe level and at report level ? How to do row level security in Supervisor?? What are the problems faced in report generation & universes? What is UNIT Testing Method in BO? How to bring data from 5 different providers into one block...(they are not getting synchronized and all of them has different data types Explain about online linking of Reports ? What happens to business objects report if the cardinality is not specified?? What is the difference between Sort and Filter function

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? What is dashboard and canned report?What is difference between canned and dashboard report?How many type reports are there? In BO supervisor how many types of users are there. and What are they. What are BO best practises? What is meant by Ascential Datastage Manager and where is it applied? What is the diferrence between slice and dice & drill through What is the multi value error ?Is there any types of Error in BO\ How can you create Cascading prompts in Bo? Explain the difference between Condition and Filter. Can we overrite the sql query after creating the report How do I prevent overlapping of the tables in webi? What is Data Profiling in Business Objects?What is Data Synchronization in Business Objects? Can you please tell me whether we can able to create a Universe for a text file. If yes, how? What are the differences between BO's 5.x and 6.x Can a universe be connected to different databases? What is an Universe? Overview:Business Objects Interview Questions,BO Professionals are invited to share Answers for these Interview Questions in the comment section. What are Business Object Security? How do I synchronise Microcubes generated by different queries?

How do you link different data providers in a single report? How do you connect the facts and dimensions in the tables What is pragma? Explain the SQL Queries activated to data base from Data provider in BO ? What is the local filter and global filter in bo's? What are the different types of Filters available in BUSINESS OBJECTS? There are two ways to transfer data from a report to Excel Can you describe them? What's the major difference between regular universe & metric universe? How to create predefined filters in BO? 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? What is the difference between condition and filter? What is thumbnail? Different background in alternative rows Explain about Synchronization Error in Business Objects How many alters can we apply in single column of a report and max no of alters for a whole report. How can we use the multiple data providers in a single report? 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) Multiple data cubes for one report? What is canned universe and canned reports in bo? How to suppress the reports in BO?

When there are 2 prompt statements given one after the other which one is prompted first when RUN? How would I achieve Traffic Lighting in Business Objects What operator would you use to allow wild card characters in a query? How would I hide fields in a report other than formatting the cells? How to configure B.C.A in B.O? How to configure LDAP protocol? What is casual dimension? What is a Thin Client Report? Please Explain When do we go for cross tab , master-detail and chart blocks in a report ? How do you check whether the data in the report is correct ot not ? Explain Architecture of Business Object? Can you please tell me how to delete a duplicate rows in a Report. Whether it is posible. Explain the difference between Condition and Filter. What is Presenter? Tell me What is the difference between Presenter and Condition. We create X reports using template.Can we change the template? Name some of the business objects dashboard analytics? Explain about Business Objects Architecture 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? Can anyone specify the address from where we can get the information about dashboard in business objects? Can we make an object as nessessary object, i.e without that object that

report will not work,how can we do that? 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?" What are the requirements for cube creation in business objects XI? In a report can we hide an particular object ? 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? How does the hierarchy and scope of analysis helps in Reports. How does these both gets related. How do you Find the average of an object with out using the Average Function and by using only sum,average,max,min? Is there any other repository domains rather than universe,security,doccument? In the BO universe, how to link two universe, like i have one universe in sales.uni and another is What is diference between datamart and datawarehouse? clearly explain the difference between union and group What is BO SDK? What is drill filter and it's usage ? How many types of filters are there ? What are all difference between business objects 6.5 and XI R2 What is a Data Cube ? What is its use ? What is aggregate awareness and how can we use it? Are Data mart and DWH normalised or denormalised ? Do both of them exist inthe same tier ? What all will be exported to the repository, when we export a universe ? What is the difference between detect alias and detect context?

State the difference between Webi and Infoview What is the difference between ZABO and webi? Kindly number what are the steps to be taken to schedule the report? What is meant by Object Stores? How do we test the reports in the business objects? How to creates the tabs in the reports? Which versions are used in the BO dashboard work? What are the steps to do to use Alerts in BO? How to execute the plsql procedure from the report by clicking with mouse When we use aggergate awarness function in designer? How to schedule the report in B.O? Please explain about Alerts in Bo's, Under What situation we need to use alerts What is report template in B.O? How many universes can be created in a project How to generate the report from excel sheet? What do you mean by Drill Across? What is the need of creating derived tables in the BO universe design What type of architecture does Businees Objects 6.5 follow? What are the best practices you need to follow while you are creating the Universe? What are the security level used in BO? What's is the Guidelines to Build Universe with Better Performance? R Performance tuning Issues of Universes? What are the main issues handled by the designer, while creating a

Universe? 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 How to Implement the the Built-in Strategy Script in BO designer? What is row level security? How to add aggregate tables to a schema in real time scenario? Daily activities of Business Object Desinger and Reporter 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). What are the precautionary measures you will take in the project? How do you design a universe? What is the difference between BO and Web intelligence What is a universe? What is Analysis in business objects? Who launches the supervisor product in BO How can you check the universe? What are universe parameters? In real time environment What do we get from the client for the development of universe. provide me with an example document. Types of universes in business objects? What is security domain in BO? Where will you find the address of repository in BO? What is off-peak time?

What is the concept of Micro Cube in Business Objects and explain business reason for the usage. How would I export a report to Word? How do you export reports to repository Whata are BO Data Providers What is file watcher? What is the use of it? What is Broad casting Agent? What is meant by Report Bursting ? What is Candidate Object?How to resolve #overflow error? Can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects? I have three predefined prompts. In a report it will come randomly. How they will come in a specified format? Business objects is which type of the OLAP Tool? How achieve the many to many relation ship in Business Objects... What are the advantages of universe and WEBI reports. What is a fantrap in Business Objects? How to debug the universe in designer module ? Queries can be combined, What are the three ways of combining queries? Explain scenario to get multiple values in a cell (multi value error) Explain scenario where you would use theta Join in Business objects ? What are the Different Data Providers support in Web Intelligence and DeskTop Intelligence? Snow flake schema is normalized or denormalized? Explain How? Difference Between ForEach and ForALL ?

What is the difference between break and section in Reports. How can we add two universe? Whats new in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 compared to BusinessObjects XI Release 1? What is the connection string in Business Objects? How to test the report without using SQL editor? How many Universes did you create? Can you please elaborate how many classes where there, and objects in each class? What is Object qualification? Tell me about a complicated object you have created? What was the size of the database? Which server? How many user were there? What problems you have faced while creating an universe? tell me an incident and how you went about solving it? Were any experts called from BO while you were on the project? What is the difference between conditions and filter in Data Warehousing. What is difference between crystal report and desktop intelligence What is the difference between derived tables and a view? Which one gives better performance ? In a report if we have two tables , can we hide one of the table ? Can we open the full cleint reports on thin cleint and vice verse? Can we save or create more than one universe in one repository. What is the differnce between count & count all function

What is Infoview in BO? andWhat are the differences between BO 6.5 and BO XIR2? What is a cube in Business objects? How to create a cube in Business objectsXI? If I needed to restrict a report to show the 50 most used contractors How would I select the top 50? A Business Objects Universe consists of classes, within each class are objects, name and describe the three types of objects. What is a microcube? What is a section in a business objects report? How do I change AND to OR in the query pane? Give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects What is the difference between BO 6.5 Webi & Xir2 Webi?What is the difference between BO 6.5 desktop intelligence & xir2 Desktop Intelligence? What Error do you get when you create any invalid variable in the BO Webi XI R2 report ? 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. What is difference between custom hierarchy and report based heirarchy? If in a report i get 4 times the actual value then What are the various soloutions to rectift it Whats universal join in BOs? 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 What is the difference between condition & filter. How would I set up a variable to show a rolling 4 week average of, for example Arrears?

BOXIR2 is Which type of OLAP?