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  1. How to use the tool Onto builders educational institution
  2. What is the use of surrogate key in business objects
  3. What is Molap and Rolap? What is Difference between Them
  4. What is degenerated dimension &it's uses
  5. What is the difference between ODS and Staging
  6. How can one connect two fact tables?is it possible how
  7. Suppose data are coming from different locations and those data will not change
  8. What is the difference between aggregate table and fact table ? how do you load these
  9. Where can one get more info about Data Warehousing
  10. What Oracle features can be used to optimize my Warehouse system
  11. How can Oracle Materialized Views be used to speed up data warehouse queries
  12. What is the difference between Oracle Express and Oracle Discoverer
  13. When should you use a STAR and when a SNOW-FLAKE schema
  14. What is a star schema? Why does one design this way
  15. When should one use an MD-database (multi-dimensional database) and not a relational
  16. What Oracle tools can be used to design and build a W/H
  17. What is the difference between an ODS and a W/H
  18. What is the difference between OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP
  19. What is the difference between a W/H and an OLTP application
  20. What is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart
  21. What is a ETL? How does Oracle support the ETL process
  22. What is a Data Warehouse
  23. What are the types of dimension tables
  24. What is the difference between ETL tool and OLAP tools
  25. What is data validation strategies for data mart validation after loading process
  26. Which automation tool is used in data warehouse testing
  27. How can one transfer LOB and user defined data from oracle to warehouse using ETL
  28. What is a Data Cube
  29. Give me a broad concept of what a data warehouse is, and what it might be used for
  30. What is Discover and Execute in XMLA
  31. What is XMLA
  32. How does data mining and data warehousing work together
  33. What are algorithms provided by Microsoft in SQL Server
  34. What is Sequence clustering algorithm
  35. Explain Association algorithm in Data mining
  36. What is Time Series algorithm in data mining
  37. Explain clustering algorithm
  38. Can decision tree be implemented using SQL
  39. What is a Decision Tree Algorithm
  40. How are models actually derived
  41. What is Discrete and Continuous data in Data mining world
  42. What are different stages of Data mining
  43. What are the different problems that Data mining can solve
  44. What is MODEL in Data mining world
  45. Can you explain how analysis service works
  46. What are different deliverables according to phases
  47. How did you plan your Data ware house project
  48. What is MDX
  49. What is multi-dimensional analysis
  50. What is META DATA information in Data warehousing projects
  51. What are the primary ways to store data in OLAP
  52. What are CUBES
  53. What is Analysis Services
  54. What is Data purging
  55. What is Conceptual, Logical and Physical model
  56. What is an OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) System
  57. Can you brief about the Data warehouse project you worked on
  58. What is DTS
  59. What is Bulk Insert
  60. How can we import and export using BCP utility
  61. What is BCP
  62. How can we do ETL process in SQL Server
  63. What is ETL process in Data warehousing
  64. What is Snow Flake Schema design in database
  65. What are Fact tables and Dimension Tables
  66. What are Data Marts
  67. Why do we use DSS database for OLAP tools
  68. What is subject area
  69. What is up date strategy and what are the options for update strategy
  70. What is data merging, data cleansing and sampling
  71. What is staging area
  72. What is difference between a connected look up and unconnected look up
  73. What is a look up function? What is default transformation for the look up function
  74. What is query panel
  75. What is mapplet
  76. How can you define a transformation? What are different types of transformations in
  77. What is DTM session
  78. What is hash partition
  79. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH
  80. What is power play plug in
  81. What is Cognos script editor
  82. What is IQD file
  83. What is the capacity of power cube
  84. What is confirmed dimension
  85. What is factless fact schema
  86. What is meta data and system catalog
  87. What is operational data source (ODS)
  88. Advantages of de normalized data
  89. What are cursors
  90. What are parallel queries and query hints
  91. Explain reference cursor
  92. What is aggregate awareness
  93. What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation
  94. How many repositories can we create in Informatica
  95. Explain grouped cross tab
  96. Difference between DSS & OLTP
  97. What is source qualifier