What components you have used? Why do you prefer lookup over join? What is DB Join Component?

How does it differ from normal join component? How do you debug Ab Initio graph? What version of Ab Initio graph you are using? What flavor of Unix you are runni ng? Where do you save your files? In local machine or server? What is Effective Metadata Management? If an xfr file changes, how do you figure out which dependent graphs have been c hanged? (Ans - search for that xfr in ksh scripts) What is multifile? What m_ commands you have used? What is difference between gather & merge? How does gather works internally? What is difference between Rollup & Scan? (Ans- Rollup = summary, Scan = running (cumulative) total) What is normalization component? What is re-partition? What is sandbox? What is is_valid, is_blank, is_defined? What are different kinds of partitions? How do you find top 5 employees basis of their salary (using graph only)? (Ans- use rollup & increment a variable) Explain phasing & checkpoint. How do you improve performance of a graph? What is phasing & checkpoint? How do you terminate running of a graph? [Ans - force_error] What is local lookup? What's difference between AI_SORT_MAX_CORE & AI_GRAPH_MAX_CORE? How do you improve performance of a graph? What is .abinitiorc file? What is the advantage of EME?

How do you find difference between two dates? 1. What is adhoc multifiles? 2. How can you SORT an already partitioned (round-robin) data ? 3. How internally partition by key decides which key to send in which partition ? 4. What is PDL ? Give him a shell type parameter and ask him to convert it to PD L. 5. As shell type parameters are not supported by EME, then how you can use shell type parameter (If you don't want to use PDL) without hampering lineage diagram ? 6.How you can generate dml from a COBOL copy book ? 7. How you can convert from ebcdic to packed decimal ? 8.What is regex (lookup)? When you should use it? 9. Why creation of temporary files depends on the value of MAX CORE ? 10. What is the diff between abinitiorc and .abinitiorc files ? 11. What is the use of allocate()? 12. What is use of branch in EME ? 13. How you can break a lock in EME ? How can you lock a file so that only no on e other than EME admin can break it ? 14. When you should be using ablocal() ? How you can use ablocal_expr? 15. Why you should not keep the layout as 'default' for input table component ? 16. What is dynamic lookup ? 17. What is dependent parameter ? 18. What is BRE ? (Business Rule Environment - This is a recent addition in abin itio package) 19.What is output index ? 20. How you can track the records those are not getting selected from select in re format component ? 21. Can we have more than one launcher process for a particular graph ? How abou t agent ? 22. There are lot of new fuctions added in 2.15 , you can ask about them ? 23. How can you run multiple instances of a graph in parallel? 24. In which scenario, .rec files will not get created even if graph fails ? 25. What is diff between force_error & force_abort? 26.What is the best way of creating huge test feeds ? 27. Can you read multiple input files using one input file component ? (Same DML ) 28.What is diff between API & Utility mode ? Why we need to use API mode when Ut ility mode had both the option - direct load and conventional load ? 29. What is the significance of record required indicator of Join component ? 30. What is flow buffering ? How it reduces the chances of having deadlock ? 31. When we should use 'jobid' for commit table (Output table component?? 32.Layout - L1*, L1 - What is the difference ? 33. What is standard environment ? 34. How we can remove temp files of a failed job if .rec is not available ? 35. why Skew should always be 0 ? 36.You can ask about different vector functions. 37. What mpjret contains ? 38. Can you use scan to generate sequence number ? 39. How you can generate surrogate key? 40. You can ask about - meta pivot, leading records, read & write multiple files component ? 41. What is meta programming ? Can you generate xfr dynamically? 42. How you can delete an object from EME data store ? 43. How you can delete an object from a tag ? 44. If you check in one file twice in EME, one with a tag and second without a t ag - Will the version number change ?

43. What is use of creating a save files? 44. What is air-project parameter ? 45, Can you run air sandbox run using pset ? 46.How you can create cross joined output using join component ? 47.What is the default layout of watcher files ? 48.Why you get 'too many open files' error ? 49.What is the significance of vnode folder under AB_WORK_DIR ? 50, What is the significance AB_AIR_BRANCH? 51. How can you select only unique records from a set of records ? 52. How next_in_sequence work in parallel layout ? 53. Why you want to set a modest number in limit ? 54. How you can encrypt a password and use it in dbc file? 55. Which function you should be using if you do not want to process non printab le char from a feed file ? 56. How you can run a component for certain conditions ? 56. What is catalog and when you should use it ? 57. How you can use reformat as a router ? 58. How many process gets created for a n-way parallel component ? 59. Why delimited DMLs take more time to process than fixed length DMLs? 60. How can you select only first and last record from a file without using next _in_sequence? 61.Why you should always keep largest input as driving input for Join ? 62. What a catalog file contains ? 63. What Is private project and public project ? 64. Why you should not use checkpoint after replicate ? 65. Broadcast and replicate does the similar work , what s the diff then ? 66. How can you export a component s internal parameters ? 67. How you can test a dbc file ? 68. What is the significance of mp run command ? 69. How can you run a graph continuously without using continuous components ? 70. How can you get all the fields form a lookup files ? (Which function) 1)What is endianness? is it hardware specific? I would be looking for his knowledge on base type integer and whether he knows t he difference why integer and real exists eventhough Ab Initio has provided deci mal 2)Which one of the base type gives better performance,integer or decimal? Why? 3)How many types of sort can you manage to do through Ab Initio I would be looking for his knowledge on key specifiers..whether he knows about t ext,phonebook,index and machine sort 4)how is a "date" stored by Ab Initio.If i had an input of 90 and need an output of 01:30,how do you do that using this concept 5)If i had to migrate the character sets of my existing graphs..what are the opt ions available. 6)If you had to write a transform in reformat component without using the reform at function and run the graph successfully with functionality of reformat..how d o you do that?Co>Op used is post 2.16 High Level Package of Reformat Component will take the last function as the prim ary function for the package.