1. Multivalue and Syntax error
2. While resolving loops, how to decide whether alias or context to be used?
3. How many ways we test the universe & Report?
4. can we apply Rank and Sort at a time on a single report
5. What are the user requirements in a universe?
6. When to use local filter and when to use global Filter?
7. What is the difference between user and versatile user in superviser product?
8. my query takes 30 min to refresh ...there is any performance tunning is there to reduce refresh time?
9. Is there any significance of testing the BO report by getting the Dataprovider SQL and running it against the
DB to check whether the report and the DB gives the same data?
10. Business Object Security
11. How do I synchronise Microcubes generated by different queries?
12. How do you link different data providers in a single report?
13. What are the different types of Filters available in BUSINESS OBJECTS?
14. There are two ways to transfer data from a report to Excel Can you describe them?
15. What's the major difference between regular universe & metric universe?
16. How to create predefined filters in BO
17. What is the difference between condition and filter? What is thumbnail?
18. Different background in alternative rows
19. Explain about Synchronization Error in Business Objects
20. How many alters can we apply in single column of a report and max no of alters for a whole report.
21. How can we use the multiple data providers in a single report?
22. Can you add the Cascading promprts in Business Objects? (Based on Country prompt selection you need to
provide the option to select Sate/Province in the next State prompt. That means dynamically refresh the data
load in the state list values)
23. Query not returning any value?
24. Multiple data cubes for one report?
25. what is canned universe and canned reports in bo?
26. Explain scenario where you would use theta Join in Business objects ?
27. What are the Different Data Providers support in Web Intelligence and DeskTop Intelligence?
28. Snow flake schema is normalized or denormalized? Explain how?
29. Difference Between ForEach and ForALL ?
30. what is the difference between break and section in Reports.
31. How to suppress the reports in BO?
32. @aggregate aware function
33. When there are 2 prompt statements given one after the other which one is prompted first when RUN?
34. How would I achieve Traffic Lighting in Business Objects
35. What operator would you use to allow wild card characters in a query?
36. How would I hide fields in a report other than formatting the cells?
37. Queries can be combined, what are the three ways of combining queries?
38. Explain scenario to get multiple values in a cell (multi value error)
39. What is off-peak time?
40. What is the concept of Micro Cube in Business Objects and explain business reason for the usage.
42. How would I export a report to Word?
43. How do you export reports to repository
44. BO Data Providers
45. What is file watcher? What is the use of it?
46. What is Broad casting Agent?
47. What is meant by Report Bursting ?
48. What is Candidate Object?How to resolve #overflow error?
49. can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects?
50. I have three predefined prompts. In a report it will come randomly. How they will come in a specified
format?
51. what is a cube in Business objects? how to create a cube in Business objectsXI?
52. If I needed to restrict a report to show the 50 most used contractors How would I select the top 50?
53. A Business Objects Universe consists of classes, within each class are objects, name and describe the three
types of objects.
54. What is a microcube?
55. What is a section in a business objects report?
56. How do I change AND to OR in the query pane?
57. can someone please let me know the things we can do in WEBi and cannot do it in FULL CLIENT and vice
versa for BO6.5
58. what is the difference between condition & filter.
59. How would I set up a variable to show a rolling 4 week average of, for example Arrears?
60. BOXIR2 is Which type of OLAP?
61 product date salesp1 20/Jan/1999 100p1 20/Feb/1999 200p1 20/apl/1999 100p1 20/DEC/1999 50p1
20/Jan/2000 100p1 20/mar/2000 500now i want query like product ,sum of actual year ,sum of business yearp1
450 750here actual year means 1 Jan 1999 to 31 st Jan 1999business year means 1 st APR 1999 to 31 st mar
200pls give me answer as early as possible..
62. Scnario: Let you have a reporting period one object in a prompt, and one measure say 'Limit amt' another
object you want to show in a report. Now once user enters the prompt, you want reporting period data prior to
the entered value in the report along with which is entered in prompt.That means say reporting period is 2007,
but you should show 2006 data also in the report. How do you implement it?
63. How do you get list of all reports used by Business Objects users?
64. what is a bo repository
65. give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects
66. What is the difference between BO 6.5 Webi & Xir2 Webi?What is the difference between BO 6.5 desktop
intelligence & xir2 Desktop Intelligence?
67. What Error do you get when you create any invalid variable in the BO Webi XI R2 report ?
68. Is it possible to have multiple data sources..? How can you extract data from flat files and oracle and create
a single report in WEBi.
69. what is difference between custom hierarchy and report based heirarchy?
70. If in a report i get 4 times the actual value then what are the various soloutions to rectift it
72. What’s universal join in BOs?
73. How we drill up week to Month?
74. what is the diferrence between slice and dice and cross tab report?
75. Can you create Alerts in WEB Intelligence?
76. What is the difference between section and master in BO 6.5 desktop intelligence.
77. What is incremental aggregation/2. What is rapidly changing dimension?3. How can we merge the two
dimensions?4. Can we edit the lov’s? How many ways we can edit?5.What is the difference between rank and
dense rank?6. Tell me the process of creating universe?7. How can you send webi reports to the repository?8.
Have u created folders?9.What is the object? Difference between XI R2 and 6.5?10. How can we migrate from
development server to productions server?
78. What is context in Business Objects and their usages?
79. What is the difference between COGNOS 8 & Business Objects & which business intelligent tool is best for
reporting purpose?
80. How many types of user profiles are there in business objects WI?
81. What is info bust in BO, What is the main purpose of this?What is meant by report tracing in BO?When and
where we use @variable function in BO?
82. what if a cartesian product pop up block appears when running a report. Does it give wrong values? how to
solve this issue?
83. Explain about data profiling & data synchronisation with real-time usage.
84. what is zabo and where it is used
85. How to configure B.C.A in B.O?
86. How to configure LDAP protocol?
87. Explain about scorecards & dash boards in Business Objects
88. How do you migrate ZABO reports from one server to another?
89. what is the Hardware & Software system requirement of installation of Business objects xi R2
90. What is Business Objects Auditor and what can you do by using Auditor?
91. what are the major difference between B.O XI R/2 and B.O XI R/1?
92. When do we need to use 2 or more data providers to make a report??
93. what is a derived table in data warehousing?
94. How to join two reports in for webi when they are on two different tabs?
95. how many types of errors we can face while creating a universe and generating a report
96. How do you apply ranking on crosstab ..? Is there any limit for rows and columns in the crosstab
97. Why we are using Crystal Reports as a Reporting Tool in B.O XI instead of Desktop Intelligence. What are
major advantages in crystal reports when you compared with desktop intelligence?
98. what is bust in BO ?
99. Business Objects Basic questions
100. how to add two data providers
102. Business objects is which type of the OLAP Tool?
103. How achieve the many to many relation ship in Business Objects...
104. what are the advantages of universe and WEBI reports.
105. What is a fantrap in Business Objects?
106. How to debug the universe in designer module
107. how can we add two universe?
108. What’s new in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 compared to BusinessObjects XI Release 1?
109. What is the connection string in Business Objects?
110. How to test the report without using SQL editor?
111. What are the Testing responsibilities in BO ?
112. what is difference between crystal report and desktop intelligence
113. what is the difference between derived tables and a view? Which one gives better performance ?
114. in a report if we have two tables , can we hide one of the table ?
115. Can we open the full cleint reports on thin cleint and vice verse?
116. can we save or create more than one universe in one repository.
117. What is the differnce between count & count all function
118. What is Infoview in BO? andWhat are the differences between BO 6.5 and BO XIR2?
119. What is Business Object
120. how many tabs can be added in a report i.e. how many times can we drill a report
121. how do we check the data is correct or not in the report after generating the query?
122. How do you validate Business Objects Report
123. how to improve performance at universe level and at report level ?
124. how to do row level security in Supervisor??
125. What are the problems faced in report generation & universes?
126. What is UNIT Testing Method in BO?
127. How to bring data from 5 different providers into one block...(they are not getting synchronized and all of
them has different data types
128. Explain about online linking of Reports ?
129. What happens to business objects report if the cardinality is not specified??
131. What is the difference between Sort and Filter function
132. Why there is no global or local repository like in informatica?Why BO is not using any server like
informatica repository server or informatica server?
133. what is dashboard and canned report?what is difference between canned and dashboard report?how many
type reports are there?
134. In BO supervisor how many types of users are there. and what are they.
135. How to Import universes and user from business object 6.5 to XI R2, it is showing as some ODBC error is
there any setting to change?when i start the Import Wizard it is asking the Source environment, i selected the
source evironment as BO 6.x, i gave the username and password, I gave the key file of BO6.x and then when i
gave next it is showing as"Error logging on to server. Please check logon information and try
again.(ERR101)Failed to intialize the active manager [DBD,[Microsoft OLE DB p
136. can any one tell me if there is two user groups as follows.Group1user1 -------Report-1user2Group2user1 --
-------Report-2user3The user group1 has access to report-1 and user group2 has access to report-2. then can the
user1 of Group2 has access to report-1 .
137. What are BO best practises?
138. What is meant by Ascential Datastage Manager and where is it applied?
139. what is the diferrence between slice and dice & drill through
140. what is the multi value error ?Is there any types of Error in BO\
141. How can you create Cascading prompts in Bo?
142. explain the difference between Condition and Filter.
143. can we overrite the sql query after creating the report
144. How do I prevent overlapping of the tables in webi?
145. what is Data Profiling in Business Objects?What is Data Synchronization in Business Objects?
146. Hi all.Can you please tell me whether we can able to create a Universe for a text file. If yes, w
147. what are the differences between BO's 5.x and 6.x
148. Can a universe be connected to different databases?
149.1. What is an Universe? 2. How many Universes did you create? 3. Tell me how many classes where there,
and objects in each class? 4. What is Object qualification? 5. Tell me about a complicated object you have
created? 6. What was the size of the database? Which server? 7. How many user were there? 8. What problems
you have faced while creating an universe? tell me an incident and how you went about solving it? 9. Were any
experts called from BO while you were on the project? 10. What was the D
150. What is the difference between conditions and filter in Data Warehousing.
151. How do u migrate BOs Universes,users and user groups,and report from version BO6.5 to XIR2?
152. what is casual dimension?
153. What is a Thin Client Report? Please Explain
154. when do we go for cross tab , master-detail and chart blocks in a report ?
155. How do you check whether the data in the report is correct ot not ?
156. Hi recently i am attending Interviews on Business Objects positions..could you please help me regarding
the questions that i am facing..1) what type of problem u got while working?2) How did u solved?
157. Architecture of Business Object?
158. Hi... Can you please tell me how to delete a duplicate rows in a Report. Whether it is posible.
159. explain the difference between Condition and Filter. Regards.vvk kotamraju
160. Hi all....What is Presenter? Tell me what is the difference between Presenter and Condition.
161. we create X reports using template.can we change the template?
162. Name some of the business objects dashboard analytics?
163. Does anybody have any information regarding interviewing with Business Objects for a BA position?Al
Does anybody have any information regarding interviewing with Business Objects for a BA position?Also any
information regarding the Excel test administered there?
164. tell me about Business objects architecture
165. Explain about Business Objects Architecture
166. How Can We Restrict a database connection to a particular user? what i want ask is, particular connection
should user only by that user when creating universes, no one should use that connection, how can we do that?
167. can anyone specify the address from where we can get the information about dashboard in business
objects?
168. hi,can we make an object as nessessary object, i.e without that object that report will not work,how can we
do that?
169. Hi, Could any of u say the answer for the following question which i faced in the interviewthe question is
"When will training occur in BO?"
170. what are the requirements for cube creation in business objects XI?
171. in a report can we hide an particular object ?
172. what is drill filter and it's usage ? How many types of filters are there ?
173. what are all difference between business objects 6.5 and XI R2
174. What is a Data Cube ? What is its use ?
175. What is aggregate awareness and how can we use it?
176. How to break a Date field into Year, month, week,day?(For example: I have a field INVOICE_DATE.
Now i want to break it as Year, month..... i.e. in time dimension.) DO i need to have some changes in Universe?
177. How does the hierarchy and scope of analysis helps in Reports. How does these both gets related.
178 How do you Find the average of an object with out using the Average Function and by using only
sum,average,max,min?
179. is there any other repository domains rather than universe,security,doccument?
180. In the BO universe, how to link two universe, like i have one universe in sales.uni and another is
181. What is diference between datamart and datawarehouse?
182. clearly explain the difference between union and group
183. What is BO SDK?
184. Are Data mart and DWH normalised or denormalised ? Do both of them exist inthe same tier ?
185. what all will be exported to the repository, when we export a universe ?
186. what is the difference between detect alias and detect context?
187. State the difference between Webi and Infoview
188. diffrence between ZABO and webi
189. Kindly numberWhat are the steps to be taken to schedule the report?
190. What is meant by Object Stores?
191. How do we test the reports in the business objects? How to creates the tabs in the reports?
192. which versions are used in the BO dashboard work?
193. What are the steps to do to use Alerts in BO?
194. how to execute the plsql procedure from the report by clicking with mouse
195. when we use aggergate awarness function in designer?
196. How to schedule the report in B.O?
197. Please explain about Alerts in Bo's, Under what situation we need to use alerts
198. What is report template in B.O?
199. how many universes can be created in a project
200. How to generate the report from excel sheet?
201. how to select different data providers in business objects?
203. Is there any tool that can compare two Unvs / two Rpts , built using BO 5.1 / BO 6.5 ?
204. How Do U Create Report in BO,If given Fixed length file ( Notepad) as source?
205. what is Nested prompt and how to create this prompt?
206. what is thumbnail?
207. How can we do load testing for Webi Reports? (Example if I have have to test one webi reoprt for
Concurrent users refreshing report at one time)
208. Can someone please give some information on REPORT BURSTING and how to do it in BCA as i have to
split the report and send diff reports to diff people
209. can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects? when we will use
these two?
210 I would like to know if Business Objects can be installed on Solaris server. If no is their a way were in I can
install BO on windows(Microsoft server) and interface it with Solaris (solaris has the crystal reports).
212. Currently I am sending the report to users in excel format,if there is no data also the report will be sent,Is
there any option in BO to stop report from being sent if there is no data in the report?
213. List of charts and graphs we can generate in Business Objects, with some supporting document( any
supporting link or pdf file as it is to be sent to client)?
214. what is the diferrence beteeen tabular report& cross tab report
215. How to filter repeatative values in the report to get distinct values.Example: In any database we can use
distinct command But My Report source is flatfile.Therfore,I cann\'t manipulate source system. Is there any
command or function to filter repeating records/values i