INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is the difference between server jobs and parallel jobs? 1.

How u capture the duplicated data? if I have duplicates ? 1. How u remove a data set in UNIX?(UNIX) 1. What is the difference between lookup and join? 1. How u run our routines in UNIX?(UNIX) 1. What is the command to see the disk usa!e?(UNIX) 1. How u remove dataset in "ata sta!e environment? 1. What is meant b production server? 1. How can ou compile our #X routines? 1. How man $"%&s ou used in our last project? 1. What is meant b preserve partition mode? 1. What are the partitionin! techni'ues available? 1. What is the difference between union and union all (oracle)? 1. When u use hash( round robin partitionin! how data is moved to nodes? 1. How to find out the second hi!hest salar (oracle)? 1. Wh u use "ata warehousin!? 1. )ell me %"*+ in our project? 1. When we chan!e the link order does look up perform ri!ht outer join? 1. What is the si,e of our "ata warehouse? 1. What are the t pes of parallelisms available? 1. What is the difference between UNIX and *inu-?(UNIX) 1. Which UNIX version u r usin!?(UNIX) 1. What is the command to see the list of files?(UNIX) 1. What is the command to see the dataset records in UNIX?(UNIX) 1. What is meant b conductor node? 1. What are the operations we can perform usin! .!!re!ator? 1. "o ou have an idea about "% ."/IN? 1. How ou connect to "% %01201? 1. Have ou install "% server or +lient in our or!ani,ation? 1. How man jobs ou did in our last project?

1. What is the comple- job u faced in u r last project? 1. If I have 3 jobs I would like to run 4 jobs in server (usin! job se'uencer) and
remainin! 4 in parallel? How I can run?

1. $ne da default the server connection is failed to our client s stem at that time
all jobs !one5 )hen our admin enable our connection at that time if our jobs have locked how ou release locks?

1. In join sta!e one source table have one column sal with data t pe decimal(64)(
another source table havin! one column havin! sal varchar4(64) If I join these two sta!es I did not !et output wh ?

35. If m source havin! 67 records but in transformer we put constraint in tar!et we

has one stream link and reject link? We did not !et an output? constraint8salar 94777

35. If I have some records but the have some duplicate records5 I want to !et the
ma- salar of emplo ee on that duplicate data? 0no ename acno amount 64777 63777 6776 suresh 6776 suresh records? %:I676 %:I676

.ccordin! to our data 6776 is duplicate record( how can ou remove those two

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amount4 4777

I want to displa like this 0no 677 677 ename suresh suresh esal acct amount 6777 4777 67777 %:I6 67777 %:I4

How can ou solve this?

38. What is meant b "ata modelin!? What are the t pes available in "ata modelin!? 38. What are the disadvanta!es u find in "ata %ta!e? 38. Wh we use "ata sta!e rather than other tools? 38. How can we capture the duplicated data in parallel? 38. How man wa s in parallel to remove duplicates? 38. Which normal form we follow in dimensions tables? 38. What is the use of sta!e variable?

38. What r the environment var we use? 38. Which partiton method is better for sortin! the data? Wh ? 38. In the source we have three duplicated records for the id column( how can we !et
the second record? %ource; id( name 677( murth 677( madan 677( saran tar!et; id( name 677( madan

48. How can we run batch jobs( se'uence jobs in UNIX? <ive me some UNIX scripts? 48. What is the diff between stastic hash file and d namic hash file? 48. How can we pass the parameters for job while runnin! the UNIX environment? 48. What r the t pes of dimension tables? 48. Which portionin! method is better to load the data into fact table? 48. Which inde- is follows the dimensions tables? Wh ? 48. What is the use of tri!!er in job se'uence? 48. What is the version control? 48. How can we chan!e the data t pes b usin! modif sta!e? 48. What is the mean of optimi,ation of job?
=>scenario source /urth ( ABC Diran( E>C /adan( >=4 in source file s?name (tot@marks kal an(E>C raju(E36 )ar!et file becomes s@id( sname( tot@marks 6( murth ( ABC 4( kiran( E>C B( madan( >=4 tar!et 6( murth ( ABC 4( kiran( E>C B( madan( >=4 %?name( tot marks s@id( sname( tot marks

Ne-t time we insert two records

3( kal an( E>C =( raju( E36 / 'uestion is how can we implement the s?id column in tar!et file without usin! transformer sta!e in parallel?

60. What is job control? When we use it? 60. What is the diff bFw batch jobs and job se'uence? 60. What is multiloadGfastload utilities? With e-amples5 60. What are the oracle services? 60. What is the difficult job in our project? How did solve that job? 60. How to connect to data sta!e server? 60. )ell me dimensions in our last project? 60. If ou have 3 jobs in that first 4 jobs compile and run Brd job is aborted ?so
second time run the same se'uence what happened ?

60. How ou compile se'uence of jobs with out "ata %ta!e "irector? 60. "o ou have an idea about routines? 60. Which lan!ua!e ou used to write routines? 60. What t pe of database ou are usin!? 60. How to import 0X+0* files in "ata %ta!e E5=-4? 60. How to import X/* files in "ata sta!e E5=-4? 60. Where can we use the link collector In data sta!e? 60. What is the difference between smart link and hard link? 60. How to find out the process id in UNIX? 60. What is the difference bFw se'uential file sta!e and hash file? 60. Hob parameters at run time !ive the values manuall or have an method? 60. How can ou test the job? 60. How to remove the duplicates from se'uential file? 60. How to remove the duplicates from transformer sta!e? 60. +an ou remove duplicates from source sta!e? 60. +an ou tell me lo!ic of %+"4? 60. Without header in se'uential file how ou load the "ata? 60. +an we insert or update data at %tatic hash file? 60. What is the diff bFw static and d namic hash file?

60. When we use snow flake schema? 60. How to create lable in a job? 60. How to implement a surro!ate ke in a "ata sta!e? 60. How can ou send data parallel in server jobs? 60. In $+I sta!e can we access onl one table? 60. +an we join multiple tables in $+I sta!e? 60. Which one are ou usin! inter process or in process? 60. +an we connect more than one se'uential file to transformer sta!e? 60. +an we use se'uential file for lookup purpose? 60. "ifference bFw batch file and se'uential file? 60. How can ou pass parameters in job se'uence? 60. Where the "ata warehouse server is placed it is in client place or compan ?
677) what t pe of server ou are usin!? 676) what is our "ata warehouse si,e? 674) How to kill the particular job? 67B) How can ou schedule the jobs? 673) when we run the job which process starts? 67=) wh are ou implementin! %+"? 67A) Is %+" effects in particular row and total columns or onl particular columns? 67E) what is meant b deplo ment? 67>) what is the diff bFw rapidl chan!in! dimensions and slowl chan!in! dimensions? 67C) what are the t pes of fact tables are available? 667) How did ou handle NU** values? 666) How do ou find out which column has NU** values? 664) where have ou applied factless fact table in our project? 66B) what is the diff bFw cumulative fact table and snapshot fact table? 663) How can ou schedule the jobs onl on /onda ( Wedness "a ( Irida ? 66=) what are the NU** functions available? What are the ? 66A) How can ou compare the two files without compare sta!e and ke columns? 66E) How did ou handle aborted se'uence? 66>) what are tri!!ers? 66C) what are the partitions available in oracle? 647)what is the pre 0)* process? 646) from where ou !et the "ata?

644)How can ou read 0-ternal files? 64B) how man modules ou have developed in our last project? 643) How to write test cases? 64=) How to write report for client? 64A) How to remove hash file? 64E) what are the sta!es ou used to remove the duplicates? 64>) what is the collection method ou used in chan!e capture? 64C) what is the best partitionin! techni'ue ou used in a!!re!ator? 6B7) which sta!e supports the one input and man outputs( one reject link? 6B6) when we !et +.%0 statement in %WI)+H sta!e? 6B4) In lookup %ta!e which link has rejected data? 6BB) When we use 1ow <enerator %ta!e? 6B3) wh we use #00D sta!e? 6B=) which t pe of sta!e is +han!e .ppl ? 6BA) which %ta!e is used to send the 1ow binar data to output files? 6BE) which sta!e ou used to send the mail in job se'uencer? 6B>) which sta!e is used to compare the two different sources? 6BC) which sta!e is used to send the data to the out put forcel after that the job will be aborted? 637) what is the column !enerate when the chan!e capture is used? 636) what is the sta!e ou used to !roup the data from different sources when the metadata is similar? 634) which t pe of sta!e is the #00D sta!e? 63B) which sta!e ou used to to !et the vertical data? 633)In look up we want to !et the unmatched records when the lookup is failure? 63=) what is the method ou used to !et the rejected data from a file set? 63A) How to find out the avera!e of different databases? 63E) what is the data sta!e processor ou used? 63>) what is the diff bFw star and snowflake schema? 63C) what is our uni- port number? 6=7) what are the active and passive sta!es? 6=6)How to remove the ( in the fields?

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6=B) How to connect with the UNIX? 6=3) How to schedule the jobs in UNIX? 6==) How to improve the performance in oracle? 6=A) what is the difference between hash file and lookup file set? 6=E) what is the functionalit of link collector and link partitioner? 6=>) what t pe of sta!es are the link collector and link partitioner? 6=C) what is the functionalit ou done throu!h interprocessor sta!e? 6A7) )ell me the functionalit of se'uencer? 6A6) How ou improve the performance b usin! hash file? 162) what is the functionality of APT_DUMP_SCORE 16!) what is functionality of APT_CO"#$%_#$&E 'hat is its (efault )ath 16*) Tell +e the synta, of "ODE confi-u.ation 16/) when we sen( (ata f.o+ se0uential file to se0uential file it will -o only Se0uentially 1ow we will sen( (ata )a.allel 166) 1ow you inc.ease the 2uffe. si3e fo. hash file 164) what is functionality of OS1_DUMP 6A>) "o ou have an idea about +1#B4? How ou implement? 165) when we use s)a.se loo6u) an( when we use no.+al loo6u) 6E7) what is meant b parallelism? What are the t pes of parallelisms are .vailable? 6E6) what are the partitionin! techni'ues available? What is the difference between 1ound 1obin( 0ntire( %ame partition techni'ues? 6E4) How ou write our routines? 6EB) How ou send a mail responsible person when the job is fail? In the se'uencer?

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6E3) what is our project architecture? 6E=)How can ou run the two jobs parallel in job se'uencer? 6EA) How can ou delete a sin!le character in UNIX? 6EE) How to delete a line in UNIX? 6E>) what are the common commands ou used in UNIX? 6EC) I have a default confi!uration file that has 3 nodes and I create one confi!uration file that has A nodes I would like to run m job on the A node confi!uration file what I will do to run in that wa ? 6>7) which sta!e ou used in either join sta!e and lookup sta!e? 6>6)I want to transform m data to tar!et database which sta!e I would like to use? 6>4)if I want to add one environment variable to a sta!e how can I add it? 6>B) what is meant b sta!in! area? what is the purpose of it? 6>3) what is meant b top?down approach and :ottom?up approach? 6>=) what are the uses of H0." and ).I* sta!e? 6>A)How can I !et onl 47th 1ecord in a 677 records file b usin! H0." and ).I*? 6>E)what is the output for the command ls ? ltr 6>>)which tool ou used to submit the %J* 'ueries? 6>C)In a job se'uencer if I have = jobs to run in those B jobs are successfull run and after that the 3th job aborted and I want to run the from 3th job onwards how I can run those jobs? 6C7)what are the commands ou used to move one line up( down( to move to previous( ne-t character without usin! the 3 arrows? 6C6) wh ou used the 2i editor in UNIX? 6C4) what is the command ou used to see the disk usa!e? (du Ks what isLs& here) 6CB) what is the use of 1ow !enerator and column !enerator? 6C3) How man default rows the row !enerator can create? 6C=) $nl one sta!e I want to use in a job? :ut m job could run successfull ? 6CA) what is the difference bFw server jobs and parallel jobs? 6CE) What we will add to run job at back!round? 6C>)How can we add permissions to the owner( !roup (read( write) but no permissions to the others? 6CC)How can we add permissions to the "irector and its subdirector ? 477)How can I find out the deptno which has emplo ees more than =7?

476)If im runnin! a job in director after B7 minutes m connection with administrator is failed but it should run 6 hour then what will happen?

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474) what is meant b container? What is the use of it? 47B)what is meant b %lowl chan!in! dimension and 1apidl chan!in! "imension? 473)what is meant b de!enerated dimension? 47=)what is meant b junk dimension? 47A)What are the t pes of fact tables are available? 47E)what is meant b $"%? What are the t pes of $"%&s we have? 47>)what is the difference bFw $*)# and $*.# s stems? 47C)What are the t pes of $*.#&s are available? 467) what is the use of sta!e variables? 466)what is the difference bFw *ookup ( mer!e( join? 464)what is meant b confi!uration file? 46B)what is a 2I0W? What are the t pes of 2iews available? 463)where we can schedule our jobs? 46=)what is the order of e-ecution in the transformer sta!e? 46A)what is meant b 1+#? Where we can use it? 46E)what are the /odelin! tools ou know? 46>)what is the 'ualit sta!e ou used? 46C)How can ou implement %+" t pe6 G t pe 4 in both server and in parallel? 447)if ihave 4 tables )able6 6. 6: 6+ 6" 4. 4: 4+ 4" 40 )able4 6.( :( +( " 4.( :( +( "( 0

How I can !et data as same as in table4? 446) What is the crust bFw ""*( "/* in $1.+*0? 444) What is the use of .WD +ommand in uni-? 44B)what is the function ou used to compare the two dates if the havin! two different date formats? 443) what is the function ou used to convert the one date format to another date format? 44=)what is meant b slicin! and dicin!? 44A)what is meant b dimensional modelin!? How we can convert the star schema to snowflake schema? 44E)"o ou have an idea about routines? What is the use of it? 44>)How did ou schedule the jobs ?what are the tools ou are usin! to schedule the jobs? 44C)can ou use se'uential file as reference link in lookup in server jobs? 4B7)How do ou implement parallelism in server jobs? 4B6) What are the challen!es ou faced in our project? 4B4)In m source I have 6777 records ( tar!et I !et =77 records then job is aborted then if ou start that job a!ain what will happened? 4BB)what is the difference bFw partitions in $1.+*0 G "atasta!e?

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4B3)What is the difference bFw lookup and join sta!es? 4B=)What is the difference bFw funnel and join? 4BA)What t pe of load ou have used in our project? 4BE)What t pe of data warehouse schema ou have followed in our last project? 4B>)How man fact tables and dimension tables are there in our project? 4BC)How do ou kill the job process in both uni- and windows environment? 437)what is the difference bFw se'uential file and dataset? 436)What is delta load and subse'uent load? 434): usin! the which sta!es ou have implemented the %+"? 43B)What is meant b a container? 433))ell me about our project? 43=)Which container ou are used in our last project? 43A)What is a surro!ate ke how ou implement it? 43E)What is the difference bFw server and parallel jobs?

43>)What is our )ar!et "atabase? 43C)What is the source s stem? 4=7).re ou maintained historical "ata? What is the lo!ic ou implemented to maintain historical data? 4=6) "o ou have "ocuments for mappin!? 4=4) How do ou run job in the job se'uencer?

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4=B)How man nodes ou are usin! in our project? 4=3)What is the confi!uration file? 4==)What is modulus partitionin!? How it is work in project? 4=A)What is environment variable? How it is use? 4=E)What is the job se'uencer? 4=>)How do ou e-ecute parallel jobs in project? 4=C)+an ou run a job in a job se'uencer individuall without an comments? 4A7)How man jobs did ou implement in our last project? 4A6)How to schedule the jobs in data sta!e E5=-4? 4A4)If ou have 67 jobs in p-4(shall ou run all jobs at a time? 4AB)If i have = jobs (6?=)( I connect with each other( but I want to run from B?= onl how? 4A3)What is the %./0 portionin!? 4A=)If I have 37 <: hard disk in I have B7 <: data how I confi!ure the nodes for partion? 4AA)"id ou write an code for data sta!e project? 4AE)"id ou write an code for parallel job e-ecution in our project? 4A>)+an ou schedule all jobs at a time?

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4AC)what is the environment variable( job properties? 4E7)What is the relationship bFw the tables in oracle? 4E6)How can ou create the se'uencer? 4E4)What are the client components? 4EB))ell me about "atasta!e administrator? 4E3))ell me about "atasta!e mana!er? 4E=)What is joinin!? 4EA)What is the diff bFw !rep and f!rep commands? 4EE)What is meant b 1+#?

4E>)How to open the file? 4EC)How do ou cleanse the "ata in our project?

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4>7))ell me about our current project? 4>6)What is the paddin! character? 4>4)se'?? se' e-plain its behavior and e-ecution mode and which parallism techni'ue is used? 4>B)se'??se' ( se'??cop ??se' which one is the best and efficient? 4>3)How man reject links do we have to a transformer? 4>=)How man reject links does a join sta!e supports? 4>A)How to desi!n #X routine? 4>E)How can we call a job with in another job? 4>>)What is the difference bFw batch and se'uencer? 4>C)What is the chan!e capture? <ive briefin! of that? 4C7)What is the chan!e code? 0-plain it? 4C6)How do ou call UNIX in data sta!e? 4C4)How do ou call H+* in uni-? 4CB)How do ou pass the job status of one job to another job?Have se'uencer? 4C3)How do ou find a file in e-isted director ? 4C=)How can ou call parallel jobs in transformer? 4CA)How can ou e-ecute the jobs in command line? 4CE)What is meant b tunnin! of s'l 'uries? 4C>)What is orchestratin! metadata? 4CC)What are the third part tools ou used in our project? B77)What are the s stem variables ou have used in our last project? B76)What is the virtual "ataset? B74)How do ou handle reject link to a peek sta!e? B7B)What is the )ransaction table? B73) which one is the efficient from followin!? .) $":+ enterprise :) $1.+*0 enterprise B7=) "ifference bFw "ataset and lookup fileset? B7A)In look up (sort what kind of partition techni'ues ou applied? ou desi!n an job

B7E)How can ou handle e-ceptions in job se'uence? B7>)I have a job with B possibilities Iinish with status ok .bort Warinin! How do ou handle these B in job se'uence? B7C) How do ou connect both $D and Warnin! +an we? B67)How to find which process is runnin! currentl ? B66)How do ou combine 4 se'uential files havin! same metadata of same file names? B64)0-plain the situation where ou have applied %+" in our project? B6B)How do ou appl new chan!es to ? B63)What is the difference bFw chan!e capture and chan!e appl ? B6=) 0-plain about the compare sta!e? B6A) How to solve problem of NU** values? S8"MA9 %&O:A& SO&UT$O"S

B6E) Which sta!e is used to read the data into e-ternal applications? B6>)+an we convert the data into 1ow binar data? B6C)How can ou specif the X/* path? B47)When we use the Hash partitionin! in a!!re!ator sta!e? B46)How man reject llinks the transformer sta!e supports? B44)"ata sta!e debu!!er available in which sta!e? B4B))ell me two parts of "ata %ta!e? B43)What is the function is used to handle the NU** values in /odif %ta!e? B4=)"efault e-ecution mode for e-ception handler? B4A) /a-imum e-ception handlers allowed in se'uencer? B4E)What t pe of sta!e is "ataset? B4>)%i- pa!es of +omple- 'uer I have how to simplif it ? B4C) How do ou tri!!er 0-ceptions in job se'uences? BB7) Usin! which sta!e the row binar data is converted into dataset?