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Technologies - Interview Questions - Realtime

General Questions
Please tell me about your BW background breifly.
Master Data & InfoObjects
What is a Navigational Attribute? Give an Example that you used in your design.
What do you mean by time dependent attributes?
What are non-cumulative key figures and exception aggregation?
What is Flexible Master data update and Direct Master data update
What is Compounding? Can you give me an example.
What setting in the infoobject definition makes it available for direct updating, flexible updating
Can IOBJ have KF attributes
I have US data and Can data in separate cubes, how do I report on it?
can aggregates have F fact tables?
Besides Infoset, how can I integrate data?
What is a global transfer routine.
InfoCubes & Data Modeling
What is a MultiProvider? How is data stored in the Multi Providers ?
What is the use of Aggregates?
How you write Query for an Aggregates
What are Flat Aggregates?
What are Line Item Dimensions? What is the result of declaring a dimension to be a line item?
Can you delete the Request if you have an aggregate?
What do you mean by data compression?
What do you mean by turning off an aggregate?
What is the meaning of data partition in cube, and how and why do we use this concept?
What is BW Stats cubes
What are the different tables generated when you create a cube and How DIM ids and SID Ids are different .
Most Challenging issue you faced on BW design
what are the criteria for good aggregates?
If you have multiple aggregates, do you have to fill them individually
What is the roll-up hierarchy
What are min/max aggregates
Differrence between switching an aggr off and deactivating it
can I include a char and its nav attr in the aggr
I need attr from 0CUSTOMER and 0CUST_SALES how?
How do I do zero elimination
How do you design the Dimensions of a Infocube for better performance (hint: Grouping of Characteristics)
Explain me briefly about a challenging data model that you worked on
What is a transactional InfoCube? Where is it used? How do we load data into it?
Can we have update rules for a Transactional InfoCube?
Data Flow & Administration
How can you monitor Process chains?
What is attribute Change Run? What is its impact on Data Loading?
How do you set Global Cache settings in a BW System.
What is the use of RSRV ? Have you ever use that
How do you control datapacket size?
I am able to activate data for some IOBJ but not for others which need a change run, why?
What is global cache, how is it filled and how is it invalidated
one datasource to multiple infosources, multiple datasources to one IS
one flatfile with attr/text, how do you update attr and text at the same time
Where would you apply transformation UR/TR?
can you send delta to different data target based on data content?
What is a Translation key (in currency conversion)?
What is the Reporting Agent? What are its benefits?
When is global cache invalidated
What is Information Broadcasting? How is it accessed?
Can we pre-calculate workbooks? If yes, How?
What is a role and a profile? How do you maintain roles and profiles?
How do you test/trace the user defined Authorization Objects?
How do you test the SAP delivered Authorization Objects?
ODS Objects:
 What is a DataMart? When is it useful?
How do you trouble sheet ODS Data load issues
What do you mean by data activation in ODS?
Compare ODS object with a Infocube. What are the advantages and disadvantages of ODS over Infocube.
What is the use of Change logs. Can we delete Change log? What are the implications of deleting changelog data.
When is ODS mandatory
Can I create aggregates on ODS objects
Key of activation queue, key of change log
New data target, how do I update it from an existing ODS?
Did you ever work with Transactional ODS Objects? Where did you use it? If not, do you know where it can be used?
ABAP
What is a Start Routine? What are the advantages of a start routine?
How is start routine different from a transfer or Update routine?
How do you debug update rules?
Data Extraction & Source Systems
What is transaction RSA3?
What is main different between LO Cockpit and FI Extractors
How you enhance LO Cockpit Data source. (Remember RSA6 Append is not allowed)
What are the Delta types? Give one example.
How does the data flow from R/3 into BW for LO extractors.
Can we use delta extraction using generic extractors? How?
How does the setup tables work and what is the use?
What is UD Connect? What kind of sources are connected by using UDC?
Query and Analysis
What is a Formula Variable?
What is Web Publishing?
What is Book Marking of a web template?
A challenging query development issue you worked on.
Once a query is detached from a workbook, is it possible to reestablish the link?
How is a permanent workbook template created?
What is Authorization Variable and how does it work?
What is a Condition. Can I create a condition on two keyfigures at once?
What is an Exception?
What is the Use of Reporting agent?
How can we do offline reporting?
What is RSRT?
How can we write Queries on Multiple Cubes?
What is the Use of Jump target? Do we need to buy another software for that?
Can we use calculated Key Figures under restricted key figures?
Where can we do Currency Translations?
What is Contant selection?
How many structures can a query have at the maximum.
How is a Jump Target set up?
What steps can you take for performance tuning of the query? Like if the run time of report is more than 45 minutes…
What is Transaction RSRT? How is it useful?
What is ad-hoc reporting? What is the main restriction on Ad-hoc Reporting.
Is it possible to perform several navigation steps in a report, without it being refreshed after each step? How?
Dynamic column heading with RKFs
Differences between personalization and variants?
Need to derive one variable based on user input of another?
Which functions are not allowed in tabular reporting?
Others
What is APD? (Analysis Process Designer) Did you ever use it?
What is an Open Hub Service?
Any Idea About OSS search/and service market place? How often you use?
If they have used MM module then ask what is the Process Keys.
Where can you store stylesheets and icons to be used in web reports?
How we can count any characteristic by any other characteristic in BW?
BW Certification
Functional Areas
Any functional experience?
Which modules?