1.

Explain your Project?2.

What are your Daily routines?3.

How many mapping have you created all together in your project?4.

In which account does your Project Fall?5.

What is your Reporting Hierarchy?6.

How many Complex Mapping‟s have you created? Could you please
tell 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
improveddramatically?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
Enhancement‟s 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 source‟s (are they

Flat files or Relational)?24.

Have you developed any Stored Procedure or triggers in this project? How did you
use them andin which situation?25.
Did your Project go live? What are the issues that you have faced while moving your
project fromthe 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.

D
ifference between Informatica 7x and 8x?29.

D
ifference between connected and unconnected lookup transformation in Informatica?
30.

D
ifference between stop and abort in Informatica?31.

D
ifference between Static and Dynamic caches?32.

W
hat is Persistent Lookup cache? What is its significance?33.

D
ifference between and reusable transformation and mapplet?34.

H
ow the Informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?35.

I
s sorter an active or passive transformation? When do we consider it to be active
andpassive?36.

E
xplain about Informatica server Architecture?37.

I
n update strategy Relational table or flat file which gives us more performance?
Why?38.

W
hat are the out put files that the Informatica server creates during running a
session?39.

C
an you explain what are error tables in Informatica are and how we do error
handling inInformatica?40.

D
ifference between constraint base loading and target load plan?41.

D
ifference between IIF and DECODE function?42.

H
ow to import oracle sequence into Informatica?43.
W
hat is parameter file?44.

D
ifference between Normal load and Bulk load?45.

H
ow u will create header and footer in target using Informatica?46.

W
hat are the session parameters?47.

W
here does Informatica store rejected data? How do we view them?48.

W
hat is difference between partitioning of relational target and file targets?49.

W
hat are mapping parameters and variables in which situation we can use them?50.

W
hat do you mean by direct loading and Indirect loading in session properties?51.

H
ow do we implement recovery strategy while running concurrent batches?52.

E
xplain the versioning concept in Informatica?53.

Hi readers. These are the questions which normally I would expect by interviewee to
knowwhen i sit in panel. So what i would request my
reader‟s to start posting your answers to thisquestions in the discussion forum
under informatica technical interview guidance tag and i‟ll
review them and only valid answers will be kept and rest will be deleted.54.

W
hat is Data driven?55.

W
hat is batch? Explain the types of the batches?56.

W
hat are the types of meta data repository stores?