Sunday, 5 April 2015

MSBI - SSIS,SSRS,SSAS - Interview experience-HCL

DWH and SSAS

1. How is Surrogate key different from Primary key? - It is independent of business data.
2. What is a conformed dimension? - Dimension common to more than one fact table
3. Whats is a degenerate dimension? - Dimension too small to be made into a table, hence included in fact. eg: Attendance, Boolean values.
4.Junk Dimension?- Grouping meaningful flags and texts in a single dimensional table.
5. Aggregate fact table use? fact table containing pre-calculated value,that feeds the report for faster results.
6. SCD? -
Slowly changing dimension 01 - update
Slowly changing dimension 02 - update and insert - History maintained
Slowly changing dimension 03 - First and Latest record only.
7. In a bottom up approach we always have a datamart at the bottom then the DWH and then OLAP at topmost.
8. What is a cube? - Data modelling technique to do multidimensional analysis.
9. What is a Hypercube?-To analyse more than 3 dimensions using a cube,the dimensions are merged representing single edge of the cube.Such cubes are called hyper cubes.
10.What is faster ROLAP or MOLAP? - MOLAP it is faster and is more complex as well.Supports Slice and Dice features which are not supported in ROLAP.
11.What is Slice and Dice feature of cube? - If each edge represents a single dimension of the cube, the page displayed is a slice or 2-dimensional plane of the cube.With each rotation the dimensions on the edges of the cube changes and so does the plane giving user the liberty to view and analyse the data from different angles.
12. Difference between relational model and dimensional model?

SSIS

1. What is the difference between Merge,Merge Join and Union all?
2. How can we trigger a SSRS report once a job in SSIS is completed? --sp_start_job
3. Name some native connections in SSIS? - ADO.NET,OLEDB,flatfiles,excel
4.Difference between Fuzzy lookup and lookup?
5. Container Types ={For each loop container,For loop container,Sequence container,task host}

SSRS
1. Difference between SSRS and Crystal reports.
2. How caching works in SSRS reports?
3. Deployment of SSRS in Native and SharePoint modes?
4. Is it safe to cache the report in report manager if we are required to save the credentials? - Yes as the credentials are starred.

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