Hi readers. These are the questions which normally i would expect by interviewee to know when i sit in panel.

So what i would request my readers to start posting your answers to this questions in the discussion forum under informatica technical interview guidance tag and ill review them and only valid answers will be kept and rest will be deleted. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Explain your Project? What are your Daily routines? How many mapping have you created all together in your project? In which account does your Project Fall? What is your Reporting Hierarchy? How many Complex Mappings have you created? Could you please me the situation for which you have developed that Complex mapping? 7. What is your Involvement in Performance tuning of your Project? 8. What is the Schema of your Project? And why did you opt for that particular schema? 9. What are your Roles in this project? 10. Can I have one situation which you have adopted by which performance has improved dramatically? 11. Where you Involved in more than two projects simultaneously? 12. Do you have any experience in the Production support? 13. What kinds of Testing have you done on your Project (Unit or Integration or System or UAT)? And Enhancements were done after testing? 14. How many Dimension Table are there in your Project and how are they linked to the fact table? 15. How do we do the Fact Load? 16. How did you implement CDC in your project? 17. How does your Mapping in File to Load look like? 18. How does your Mapping in Load to Stage look like? 19. How does your Mapping in Stage to ODS look like? 20. What is the size of your Data warehouse? 21. What is your Daily feed size and weekly feed size? 22. Which Approach (Top down or Bottom Up) was used in building your project? 23. How do you access your sources (are they Flat files or Relational)? 24. Have you developed any Stored Procedure or triggers in this project? How did you use them and in which situation? 25. Did your Project go live? What are the issues that you have faced while moving your project from the Test Environment to the Production Environment? 26. What is the biggest Challenge that you encountered in this project? 27. What is the scheduler tool you have used in this project? How did you schedule jobs using it? 28. Difference between Informatica 7x and 8x? 29. Difference between connected and unconnected lookup transformation in Informatica? 30. Difference between stop and abort in Informatica? 31. Difference between Static and Dynamic caches? 32. What is Persistent Lookup cache? What is its significance? 33. Difference between and reusable transformation and mapplet? 34. How the Informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?

35. Is sorter an active or passive transformation? When do we consider it to be active and passive? 36. Explain about Informatica server Architecture? 37. In update strategy Relational table or flat file which gives us more performance? Why? 38. What are the out put files that the Informatica server creates during running a session? 39. Can you explain what are error tables in Informatica are and how we do error handling in Informatica? 40. Difference between constraint base loading and target load plan? 41. Difference between IIF and DECODE function? 42. How to import oracle sequence into Informatica? 43. What is parameter file? 44. Difference between Normal load and Bulk load? 45. How u will create header and footer in target using Informatica? 46. What are the session parameters? 47. Where does Informatica store rejected data? How do we view them? 48. What is difference between partitioning of relational target and file targets? 49. What are mapping parameters and variables in which situation we can use them? 50. What do you mean by direct loading and Indirect loading in session properties? 51. How do we implement recovery strategy while running concurrent batches? 52. Explain the versioning concept in Informatica?