Hyperion Essbase Interview questions

Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS) that provides a

multidimensional database platform upon which to build analytic applications. Es
sbase, whosename derives from "Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE", was originally d
eveloped by ArborSoftware, which merged with Hyperion Software in 1998. Hyperion
Solutions Corporation wasacquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007, so Essbase is
now available as Oracle Essbase. Untillate 2005, it was also marketed by IBM as
DB2 OLAP Server1) Difference between ASO & BSO?2) What is Incremental Dimensiona
l Built and one time Dimension Built?3) What are the different types of LOG File
s?4) What is the Extension of Cal Scripts and Rule File?5) Why are Filters used?
6) What are dense and sparse dimensions?7) What are Filters?8) What are Attribut
es?9) Different Types of Attributes?10) What is Substitution Variable?11) How is
Data Stored in Essbase?12) What is an hour glass modle?13) Types of Build Metho
ds?14) What is Two Pass Calculation?15) What is TB First and TB Last?16) How do
you calculate the Size of the datablock?17) How many data blocks are there in yo
ur cube?18) What is meant by Descendents and can you give me the best example to
describe it?19) How do you do the Data Load?20) Where is IS Member Command used
?21) What is the difference between FIX and If Command?22) What is intelligent C
alcuation?23) What is meant by Clean block and Dirty block?24) Commands of Intel
ligent calcuation?25) How do you calculate the subset of a cube?26) Difference b
etween standard dimension and attribute dimension?27) Difference between UDA and
Attribute Dimension?28) What is meant by XREF Function?29) Can you give the sam
e name to different members in UDA?30) What is Data Cahce ?31) What is the Diffe
rence between the Data Cache and Data File Cache?32) What is the Size of your cu
be?33) What is Shared members? Can shared members can have children below it ?34
) What are the different storage properties in Essbase?35) What is the differenc
e between Dynamic calc and Dynamic Calc and Store?36) How does Essbase consolida
tes the Data?37) Different types of Dimension Building?38) What is Label only? G
ive the the example of it?39) Difference between calc all and Calc Dim
Hyperion Essbase Interview questions
40) Explain me about your project? And tell me any difficulities that you have f
aced and how didyou resolve it?41) What is Commit Block?42) Tell me different st
eps so that your can optimze the performance your cube?43) What is Partition?44)
What are different types of Partition? Have you ever worked on partation?45) Wh
at is MAXL ? and where is it used?46) What is Alias?47) How many Alias Tables ca
n be created?48) How is Data Retrived from Essbase?49) How is Data Stored in ASO
?50) Different types of Attributes in ASO?51) Tell me about your project and wha
t is your role in your project?52) Did you write any MDX Member formulas in your
Project?53) What are different Types of Data Blocks?54) Where do you check the
data has been loaded properly or not?55) What is Fact Table ? What are supportin
g Dimensions?56) What is your Fact Table in Cube?57) How do you create shared me
mbers in your cube?58) Why do you use Fix Command?59) Can you use the same logic
which are used in calculation scripts in MDX formulas?60) You have 5 dimensions
in your cube and to load the data in the cube you have got only 4columns what d
o you do?61) Why do you use set update cal on and set update calc off?62) What i
s mean by free form data load?63) When do delete one member from the outline wha
t will be status of the block?64) What are different Types of blocks?65) What is
the difference between Attributes and UDA?66) What is meant by location Alias