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ÔÊ Wat is pass thru function?

ÔÊ pow to create prompt in prompt filter or cascading filter?
ÔÊ ciff between star and snowflake?
ÔÊ Wat schema does mstr support?
ÔÊ Wat is a true key?
ÔÊ dv of using fact id on count functions?
ÔÊ Why do we need update schema?
ÔÊ hresholds?
ÔÊ ciff between simple and compound metric?
ÔÊ how does the ordering change affect the calculation?
ÔÊ pes of cache?
ÔÊ ntelligent cubes?
ÔÊ 3erform unit testing?
ÔÊ Jatest version of mstr?
ÔÊ ciff between user and system hierarchy?
ÔÊ Wat is meta data?
ÔÊ co you have total in page by
ÔÊ pow do u create subtotals?
ÔÊ aonsolidation and custom groups w.r.t query?
ÔÊ cocument and dashboard?

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ÔÊ What is a aommand manager?

ÔÊ What is an Object manager?
ÔÊ n the Rc documents, a metric pops up when you run it, how to delete it(there are
three ways to delete it)?
ÔÊ nstallation of MSR?
ÔÊ aonfiguration?
ÔÊ n a document how to repeat a section?
ÔÊ 2uery builder?
ÔÊ Report wizard?
ÔÊ Report builder?
ÔÊ aonfiguring data mart?
ÔÊ act level extension?
ÔÊ ciff types of reports?
ÔÊ ypes of objects?
ÔÊ pow to cancel cartisan product?
ÔÊ ciff types of selector
ÔÊ Œlement selector
ÔÊ What is panel stack in rdf
ÔÊ ciff types of documents?
ÔÊ Why do we use relation between 2 attributes(filter)
ÔÊ cocuments: a.) pulling the report b.) pulling the attribute
 ÔÊ What is a crill map?
ÔÊ Ñse of hierarchy?
ÔÊ ypes of hierarchy?
ÔÊ co we create object before creating metric?
ÔÊ ypes of error?
ÔÊ Odbc error?
ÔÊ Why aggregate tables are used?
ÔÊ Wat is logical table size?
ÔÊ Wat is an attribute?
ÔÊ Wat is a fact (emp id is a fact)?
ÔÊ 3erformance tuning?
ÔÊ Which engine does view filter works
ÔÊ a. which engine does report filter works
ÔÊ b. types of engines?
ÔÊ pow do u relate attribute relation
ÔÊ able logic server?
ÔÊ pow to bring current date?
ÔÊ Wat is level metric?
ÔÊ ypes of mapping methods?
ÔÊ o get the year wat to do?
ÔÊ Wat is base formula?how to create ?adv?
ÔÊ ggregate/ nested metrics?
ÔÊ pow did u performance tuning in ur project?

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ÔÊ What is reeform S2J?

ÔÊ What is an OJ3 cube report?
ÔÊ pow to apply OJ3?
ÔÊ pow to handle many to many relationships?
ÔÊ f there are diff. customers how to define the data?
ÔÊ pow to create dual key(dual key in composite key)
ÔÊ What is VJc
based performance tuning?
ÔÊ pave u used stored procedures to invoke MSR?
ÔÊ What is compound metrics(is m1 + m2 a compound metrics)
ÔÊ What is petreogenous mapping?
ÔÊ pow to apply function in an attribute?
ÔÊ What is Smart otals?
ÔÊ What is a Smart Metric?
ÔÊ pow to change default total for a metric?
ÔÊ pow to apply a function inside a filter?
ÔÊ pow to apply a compilation function inside a filter?
ÔÊ aan dimensionality of a metric be changed in run-time?
ÔÊ What is the drawback of custom group?
ÔÊ pow to change date format(example from ÑS to ŒÑRO3Œ)
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1. What is ScanMc?

2. What is Mc coctor?

3. What is clustering?

4. pow will you reset password of all users?

5. What are different modes you can run -Server?

6. pow can you make sure that -Server would be running even if the application mode has
crashed and how
to get back the instance?

7. What are various authentication modes?

8. pow can you configure Wp authentication?

9. coes cJS affect MicroStrategy? What you need to do incorporate it?

10. What is Object Manager?

11. What will you do when -Server crashes?

12. What will you do if your dministrator has forgotten password or the account is locked?

13. pow can you monitor the error received while running -Server and report?

14. ttribute role, Security role, Security filter and ccess control?

15. pow to create an event based schedule?

16. aan MicroStrategy be installed on Solaris or Ñ w/o Root access? aan such a server
be (re)started?

17. f you have a 2uad core a3Ñ and MSR license to use a3Ñs, can you set to use two
particular cores
dedicatedly for -Server (s other core may have been programmed for some other dedicated
work)

18. crawbacks on 4G switch?

19. aan you cap the number of reports run at a time by users? What happens when this limit
is breached?

20. aan you some how disable Web users to use only one -Server?
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1.Ê What is metadata?

2.Ê What is two-tier connection?
3.Ê What is three-tier connection?
4.Ê What is difference between 2, 3 and 4 tier connections?
5.Ê pow do you achieve schema object version control (similar to VSS)?
6.Ê What are different kinds of objects in MicroStrategy?
7.Ê What¶s fact table?
8.Ê Where is dministrator¶s password stored? s it stored in encrypted?
9.Ê Why do we use dimensional modeling in cW? Why not Relational?
10.ÊWhat is a batch?
11.Êcifferences between ROJ3, MOJ3 and pOJ3?
12.ÊWhat is ŒJ?
13.ÊWhat types of cW¶s are most common?
14.Êpow many MSR projects have you worked?
15.ÊWhat are the types of MSR objects available?
16.ʌxplain the step-by-step technical approach after you get the Requirements from the
alient.
17.ÊWhat¶s a System call error? pave you seen Object variable error?
18.Êpave you ever manually edited the metadata? why?

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1. What is the difference between RW document and pMJ document?

2. What¶s smart metric?

3. What is a bridge/relationship table?

4. pow will you resolve double counting in M-M relationship between two attributes?

5. What is a aÑ
Œ?

6. What are differences between View ilter and Report ilter?

7. What are the different types of ilters available? Œxplain each with example.

8. What is derived metrics? Œxplain the example from your project.

9. What are 3rompted ilters or cascaded prompts?

10. pow will you customize the display for ull Values?

11. aan you enable/disable the thresholds based on some condition/prompt answers?
12. n a cocument, there are 5 reports and 5 out of them need to have a prompt so that 10
user can select
first day of the week for which user want to execute the report. pow many prompts would be
required to be
made?

13. What¶s MJ aache?

14. What¶s a
ulk export report?

15. aan you have a prompt in free form S2J report?

16. What will happen when the network connection between the webserver and one of the
clustered -server
is lost? Will report run smoothly?

17. aan you prioritize report execution?

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1.Ê Should you have cŒ as c attribute form?

2.Ê What is compound key?
3.Ê What is a fact and an attribute?
4.Ê What are actless facts?
5.Ê What are ransformations? s there any transformations implemented in your project?
6.Ê Œxplain act Structure(types, one by one)
7.Ê Œxplain Jevel Œxtension. pow it is used in your project?
8.Ê Œxplain act Relation.
9.Ê Œxplain act cegradation.
10.ÊWhat is aompound Key ttribute? Give example from your project.
11.Êaan you update a table in Warehouse using MicroStrategy?
12.Êpow will you resolve an issue when (by chance) an aggregate table at higher level has
a higher JS than an aggregate table at lower level?
13.ÊWhat happens if JS is high for a higher level table?
14.ÊWhat are the criteria used by the MicroStrategy S2J Œngine to build the join tree of a
report¶s S2J?
15.Êaan MicroStrategy logical primary keys and the true (warehouse) primary keys
differ?
16.ÊOracle has a pseudo column named ROWc which is not ³directly´ exposed to front-
end? aan this table be used in MicroStrategy? Why one would do that?
17.Êaan you create Schema objects in 2 tier connection? s it recommended?