1. What problems you have faced while creating a Business Layer?

2. Tell me an incident and how you went about solving it?

3. How many Tables was the Business Layer built?
4. What is a loop, how do you resolve them?
5. What do prefer an Alias or a context? Why?
6. What is Object qualification?
7. Tell me about a complicated object you have created?
8. Can a Business Layer connect to multiple databases?
9. What is join? Explain different types of joins?
10. What are linked Business Layers? Have you worked with them, problems faced and
solutions?

11. What are different types of joins available in Business Layer design? Explain
each
12. How do you design a Business Layer?
13. What are the components of the Designer interface?
14. What are classes?
15. What are objects?
16. What are Dimension-Measure-Detail Objects?
17. What are the filters & their types?
18. What is hierarchy
19. How to create hierarchies in BO?
20. What are Contexts?
21. What are aggregated tables and how would you use it in BO Business Layer
22. What is Incompatibility?
23. What is the typical strategy employed in developing/maintaining/distributing
Business Layers?
24. I have Customer dimension table and a fact table with cust_to_ship_key and
cust_to_bill_key. How do I get the corresponding customer names?
25. What are strategies?
26. What are the different types of Strategies?
27. How do you specify external strategies?
28. What are the visualization options available?
29. What is Join Path Problem?
30. How to add aggregate table in Business Layer in real life scenario?
31. If we have a user group and we want to give the access to the report from 1990
to 2000. and from that group we want one user to restrict to see the report from
1990 to 1995. Then what to do in BO designer, so that this can be possible( Not
in report level).
32. What is shortcut join. What is its use explain with an example

33. What is isolated join, explain with an example

34. What is cardinality and its significance in BO Business Layer
35. How will you know the version of BO designer you are using
36. What is loop in Business Layer? Explain its problem and different
methodologies to resolve it.
37. What is CHASM trap and how to resolve it
38. When any new Business Layer changes are deployed how does the end user
get the view of the new classes/objects added(apart from specs doc)?
39. I have 2 Business Layers. that is u1 and u2. From u1,i created one report that
is r1. Now i want to give the connection r1 to u2 and at the same time delete the
connection from u1 to r1 ? How is it possible explain?
40. What is meant by ZABO and FC(full-client)?
41. what happens if cardinalities are not resolved?
42. What is aggregate navigation.
43. What is Index Awareness in Business Layer.
44. What are @functions
45. What is core Business Layer
46. What is derived Business Layer.
47. What are linked Business Layers? Explain with advantages and
disadvantages.
48. What is Object Qualification
49. How to create filter in Business Layer and what is advantages and
disadvantages.
50. Why do we need to create derived table in Business Layer.
51. What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Derived Table:
52. What do mean by Nested Derived Tables
53. Explain security level in BO Business Layer
54. How to implement row level security in Business Layer.
55. How do you determine when to use alias and when to use context.
56. What are different ways to link Business Layers.
57. How to detect CHASM trap in a Business Layer
58. How does CHASM trap inflate the result of a query?
59. How to solve Fan Trap in Business Objects Business Layer
60. So whats really happening in Fan Trap
61. How to solve Fan Trap
62. How to Avoid Fan Trap
63. How do you distribute Business Layer?
64. What is the list mode?
65. What is Parse checking? .

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What are the disadvantages of Alias?

What are linked Business Layers
Explain Business Layer Design Methodology.
Explain Business Layer Development Lifecycle.
What do u mean by Theta Join &when will you go for Theta Join
What is LOOP? How many techniques are there to solve them
What are the difference between objects in OLAP & ROLAP Business Layer
What are the difference between OLAP & ROLAP Business Layer
What are the difference between Normal Table & Aggregated Tables
What is Fact & dimension Tables? How do you classify them?
How many types of keys can we define in Business Layer
Explain How to access newly added table into SAP BO from Data Base
Tell me the technique to update Business Layer structure from Data Base.
Business Objects Business Layer Optimization
WHAT IS ROW LEVEL SECURITY IN BO?
WHAT IS Table LEVEL SECURITY IN BO?
WHAT IS Object LEVEL SECURITY IN BO?
What do you mean by Associate List Of Values
What do you mean by Cascade List Of Values
What do you mean by Custom List Of Values
How many types of Hierarchies are there in Business Layer
What is the purpose of Hierarchies
What is the purpose of Cascaded Object in Business Layer
Tell me syntax foe @Variable