1. What will happen if we removed all columns from detail level of the Dimension Hierarchy? 2.

What all measure you have created in your project. 3. If there is column in database having data type as long then how will you import in RPD. 4. Suppose there is managers group and we want to give the access to data for managers only not for others then how you will achieve this. 5. If we want to hide Answers link for particular user then how you will do that. 6. What is dimension hierarchy? 7. How will you achieve data level security in RPD and Web cats (UI)? 8. Why we create complex join. 9. What will happen if we removed all the Logical complex joins? 10. User of level based measures. 11. Difference between BI and Siebel analytics? 12. Which Tool Do you think is more comfortable out of these two? 13. How will you provide a tool tip in OBIEE? 14. If a user want that on clicking on the chart a drilldown is possible then what is the option you have to select? 15. Suppose there are three columns in a request and a user want that the first two columns remain static and the last column user can change at run time how you will achieve the task? 16. Is the option of Radio button is available in OBIEE? If yes then how & if no then what is the solution for that? 17. Suppose there is a dimension hierarchy in the repository for Periods. If the user want to restrict on the UI how is it possible? 18. What is difference between column filter prompt and image filter prompt? 19. What do you understand by Guided Navigation link? 20. What happens when ever we add a new Section to a pivot table? 21. How will you set restriction on your data? 22. How will you imply a formula on a column in presentation Services? 23. Can we use the column of two different Subject area in a single request? 24. Diff ways to improve the performance of your reports? 25. How will you restrict the number of records displaying in your BI Answers? 26. How will you restrict the value of one prompt based on another prompt? 27. How will you merge two catalog folders? 28. One subject area is working fine but other is giving error why? 29. How to create iBots in Delivers? 30. How will you achieve object level security? 31. In which View you can change the column name dynamically? 32. How will you connect two fact tables? 33. What are Confirmed Dimension? 34. What are connection pool properties? 35. Which call interface do you use in your repository? 36. What are the diff variable in obiee? 37. What do you mean by Star Schema? 38. Difference between Star and Snowflake Schema? 39. Which dimension hierarchy you have created in your Report?

40. What is alias Table and in which Scenario you have used? 41. When do you use Use logical column as a source and when to use Use Physical column as a source? 42. What is the concept of Bridge table? 43. What is LTS? 44. What are uses of Content Tab of LTS? 45. When to use complex join and when to use physical joins? 46. Do we have multiple star schema in one business model? 47. What is implicit fact? 48. If you are using 4 prompts in a report and values of two prompts are entered same then can you have a pop up window which shows an error message? Is it possible, how? 49. What are aggregate tables? 50. What is a dimension hierarchy and how will it help you in BI? 51. What are services which are required while OBIEE is being executed? 52. How will you assign permissions to users? 53. How will you add 500 or 1000 users in your OBIEE? 54. How will you assign permissions to all the 1000 users? 55. How will you connect your data source to your repository? 56. How many folders get created when you install OBIEE? 57. From where can we set our log levels for the Users? 58. We have run a query and now we need to modify the same but it has not appeared in our logs why? 59. What are permissions and privileges in OBIEE? 60. How to move repository from development to production environment? 61. How to move dashboard to another location created locally on your machine? 62. There are 5 dashboards and few pages on each dashboard, data is retrieved for first 4 dashboards very quickly, but lot of time is taken for last dashboard,so how u will analyze the problem? 63. Difference between column selector and view selector 64. How to add page in dashboard? 65. Use of Narrative view, Real time Use. 66. What was the development environment in which you used to work? 67. Which variables u have created in your project

68. Can we merge two repositories? 69. What is project flow of ur latest project? 70. In ur project data came from which system? 71. describe the architecture of BI ? 72. what is diff bet architecture of OBIEE and siebel analytic web? 73. Diff people from diff cities should be able to see same report and they should see data only of their respective region.? 74. How to create user group and users? 75. What is the use of Time series function? 76. How can I see seven days before reports?

77. Describe ur roles and responsibilites in project? 78. When the user login, he should see previous month data.How you will implement this? 79. What is the use of BINS? 80. If the column contains null values and you want to put certain value Instead of showing null, how you will do this? 81. How the performance is increased by cache management? 82 Concept of cache management at presentation services and BI Server. 83. How Cache improves the performance? 84. Why there are different logging levels provided? 85. Name some of the reports you have created. 86. You have a request on the dashboard which contains two columns say country and dollars and you want to see dollar related to particular country only, how will u implement this scenario? 87. Can we create complex join in physical layer if yes how and when? 88. How we create drilldown in UI? 89. When to use Pivot table View and when to use simple table view. 90. What is briefing book? 91. What is Dashboard prompts. 92. What is MUD and how did you set up that in your project? 93. In Which mode you have done the development, online or offline? 94. If you want to import 5 tables from SQL server database and 5 Tables from oracle database can we do this? 95. Where Presentation variables are declared and use 96. Scenario 1. I wont to use static Yes and No Functionality in Dashboard prompt How to achive 97. Scenario 2. User dont want particular value from column in dashboard prompt how to achieve this like Region column contain East West North South and user dont wont south 98. Scenario 3. I have state and population in one request and when user drill on population he wil navigate to another request which contain City Name etc I want to constrain City in second request with state in first request. 99 : What are Level based measures. 100. What are Fact & dimension tables and relationship between them. 101: What are Left outer join, inner join. When do you use inner join and when Outer Join. 102: Modes of RPD when & how can you access. 103: How many BI servers can one presentation server can point & vice versa. 104: On which port schedular is configured. 105: How database authentication is performed. 106 which databases have you worked? 107 Can you write PL/SQL? 108 Do you know sub queries? What are the correlated sub queries? 109 What is Indexing? 110 Tell me how exactly does indexing works.

111 What is the difference between Union and Union All? 112 What do you mean by surrogate key? 113 What is the difference between Primary Key and surrogate key? 114 Assume a scenario where I want to purge the cache as soon as the ETL completes. How could this be achieved in OBIE? 115 Tell me about the scope of dashboard prompts. 116 Suppose I want to deliver the reports (using iBots) to few people on their E-Mail IDs which are not in the repository. (These users are not OBIEE users). How this could be done using iBots? 117 Tell me the syntax of Ago () Function. 118 What kind of views have you used in your project? 119 How do you handle Snowflake schema in BMM Layer? 120 What is Row Wise Initialization block? 121 Can we join fact table with fact table 122 In pivot table, sorting of column can be done 123 In pivot table, drill down and navigation is possible 124 Repository variable can have multiple values or not? 125 How to pass parameters of column values from summary report to detailed report 126 If name of Subject area is changed and it has 80 reports. Then how to access that reports. 127 I want to know the difference between applying content of filter and referencing the filter when using saved filters 128. I have two dahboards ,say A and B.every time when I login I see dashboard A.Now I want to make dashboard B as default dashboard so that whenever I login I see dashboard B. 129. There are 400 values to be displayed in dashboard propmt,but if I select dashboard prompt type to be drop-down then at the max I can see 256 values,so I want to know what is the solution for this. 130. I want to hide request on a dashboard page,how can I do this? 131. I want to show table headings along with column headings. 132. I want to know the importance of Limited Values while using it for column filter prompt. 133. I have two prompts defined on the same column.One prompt is having page scope and other propmt is having scope for dashboard,so i want to know which prompt will be applied to that column? 134. How to enable sorting of columns in request on the dashboard? 135. How to add multiple navigation target to the column value? 136. What is the concept of Act As option in Dashboard Editor. 137. Dashboard prompt is present but still not filtering the report even though is prompted is applied.What can be the reason behind this? 138. Can there be join between two business models? 139. Can presentation catalog refer to more than one business model? 140. What is Parallel dimensional hierarchy 141. What is Event Polling Table

142. How would you come to know about the updations in tables present in physical layer of repository, after ETL has been executed? 143. With LDAP authentication implemented, how admin password can be reset? (In repository or in LDAP server?) 144. Is it possible to have presentation server pointing to more than one BI servers? 145. What are the specific tasks we can perform on repository only in online mode? 146. What are the spesific tasks we can perform on repository only in offline mode? 147. what are Database Hints? 148. What all objects are get created after running time series wizard. 149. Different ways to purge the cache. 150. Use of aliases tab (Presentation table) 151. what are the ways to avoid circular joins 152. If you have 3 facts and 4 dimension and you need to join would you recommend joining fact with fact? If no than what is the option? 153. What is connection pool and how many connection pools did you have in your last project? 154. Did you create any new logical column in BMM layer, how? 155. Can you use physical join in BMM layer? 156. Can you use outer join in BMM layer? 157. What are other ways of improving summary query reports other than Aggregate Navigation and Cache Management? 158. What is Object and Data Level Security? 159. How do you implement security using External Tables and LDAP? 160. If you have 2 fact and you want to do report on one with quarter level and the other with month level how do you do that with just one time dimension? 161. Did you work on a stand alone Siebel system or was it integrated to other platforms? 162. If you want to limit the users by the certain region to access only certain data, what would you do? 163. Define pipeline. Did you use it in your projects? 164. Where are passwords for userid? Ldap,external table authentication stored respectively? 165. what is Ragged hierarchy? and how do u manage it 166. What is the difference between Single Logical Table Source and Multiple Logical Table Sources? 167. Can you let me know how many aggregate tables you have in your project? On what basis have you created them? 168. How do you know which report is hitting which table, either the fact table or the aggregate table? 169. Suppose I have report which is running for about 3 minutes typically. What is the first step you take to improve the performance of the query? 170. Have you heard of Implicit Facts? If, so what are they?

172. Can you have multiple data sources in OBIEE? 173. How do you deal with case statement and expressions in OBIEE?

174. Do you know about Initialization Blocks? Can you give me an example where you used them? 175. Oracle doesnt recommend Opaque Views because of performance considerations, so why/when do we use them? 176. what is the full form of rpd? Ans There is no full form for rpd as such, it is just a repository file (Rapidfile Database) 177. how can i disable cache for only 2 particular tables? 178. I want To display Request, in which region and customer are two columns and filter is applied on Region Column. I want Result like whatever the region is selected in request it should display that region with some greeting just bellow that request with specific format. like if region is east then color is red and background is pink and image is diffrent if region is west then color is blue background is yellow and image is diffrent. 179. In chart i want to display the result of only one row of measure How i can do this? 180. How to change color in pie chart view? 181. Is it possible to set combination of both name of x and y axis label in the data label in chart view. 182. Is it possible to sort the column in runtime while selecting values of dashboard prompt. Eg, if we select 1 then ascending and if we select 2 then descending. 183. Show department wise maximum salary and only display department related column 184. Is it possible to replace value of dashbard prompt.eg 'a' should be repalced with 'b'. 185. There are two columns employee and manager and we want to display manger 'x' related information. Tell the sql query for this as well as how to set filters. 186. What are the different dashboard prompt controls? 187. How you override the session variable values from dashboard? 188. If I have 2 years data and I have created level based measures of dollars on year, if I create a report by taking only yearly dollar (level based measure) column how many rows it will return? 189. Difference between ToDate (time series function) and RSUM () function.? 190. What is use of filter function? (Filter in a expression builder).? 200. what are slowly changing dimensions? 201. if you navigate to a particular request then how do you navigate back? 202. How do you manage the scheduling the cache using job manager? 203. What are the different views that you have used in your project? 204 In a multi select dashboard prompt is it possible to redistribute values from the presentation variable? if yes then how? 205.What is the difference between materialized view and view? 206. Is it possible to drill from one dimension heirarchy to other? if Yes then dimension must have any relation or not? 207. How many logs files You used? What is name of the log files? What is use of NQQUERY. Log and NQSERVER.Log?

208. we have 2 measures in request can we show 1 at X axis & other at Y axis? 209. If we have 20 pages in one dashboard then all pages are shown in one line can we make 2 line which contain 10 pages each?