33 Interview Questions on Siebel Analytics,OBIEE Job Interview Questions 1: How comfortable are you in Siebel tools to get the

understanding of the Tables and joins 2: Explain the Data Modelling Fundamentals and Concepts Different Types of Data modelling (Physical & dimensional) 3: What are the d ifferent utilities in Siebel Analytics.Explain about the Admin tool,odbc client & catalog. 4: What are Joins & Keys in analytics Layers ie. Phy & Bus , creation of Aggregation Tables(Hirearchy,summary,sources) 5: What are the different stages of working in Analytics Repository 6: Datawarehouse Basics & ETLETL (A,b,c into x (a,b,c ->different Data sources) how to achieve by writing oracle procedure 7: Explain about the Visiblity Model in Siebel Analytics 8: How is advanced formatting achieved in analyitcs.How do you achieve Conditional Fomating of Reports. 9: What is a Physical SQL, NQQuery Log, NQS Config. INI, Cluster Config ? 10: Explain the difference between Integrated and Stand Alone Analytics 11.Explain the hierarchy of the Siebel Analytics Web components. 12: How is the Event polling and purging done in Siebel Analytics? 13: How do you add a New dimension to the Existing DataMart 14: Is Data model changed in Newer version of siebel analytics .Why and what measures needs to be taken while upgrading. 15: Ibot fails and ggives odbc error in Production - How to prevent the error in delivering to the recipent? 16: How to Create the report and what are the standards followed to do the same 17: What is Star and Snow Flake schema. where snow flaks can be used and which uses what schema (OLAP and OLTP) 18: What is Image Prompt and column Prompt in siebel answers 19: How a logical request works in Siebel Analytics 20: Explain about the Performance Tuning techniques applied in the Siebel Analytics

21: What is Siebel analytics clustering? How fail over recognises the other server 22: Explain properties of connection pool, multiple connection pools to the same Database 23: What is a Narrative View and Styles applied to charts and different view avalible in analytics 24: Explain the process of upgrade of a old web cat to a new Web cat After the new installation of OBIEE 25: Disconnected Who uses it and steps in configuring Disconnected application 26: How to Bypass the Repository Authenication ? 27: Which triggers the ETL and how data is refreshed ? 28: What is a Corelated sub query, Derived Tables ? 29: Explain what dou mean by Normalization and the five different normal forms 30: What is the primary key, foreign key, alternate key, composite key and candiate key ? 31: How do you bring data at run time from other database ? 33: What is Meta data?Do we actually have database or is data stored in meta

Technical Interview Questions on Siebel Analytics ,OBIEE 1: Explain Siebel Analytics Architecture ( Infrastructure & Applications) 2: What are the different Components in Siebel Analytics.Explain about BI Server, Delivers Server, BI Web, BI Cluster, Open Intelligence Interface. 3: What is Caching.Explain the different types of caching like Query , Web Server, Seed Cache, Siebel Analytic Server Cache. 4: Explain Siebel Analytics Metadata Administration (Physical Layer, Logical Layer,Presentation Layer ) 5: Explain in detail about Build, Deploy and Generating Requests (Answers, Interactive Dashboards, Delivers, Web Catalog 6: What are Informatica Mapping Tables? 7: Explain Integration of OBIEE with siebel CRM applications 8: What are Marketing Segmentation ( segment, Segment tree,List Catalog, List Import,Target Levels and Target List)

9: Explain in detail about the SQL Joins like INNER JOINs, OUTER JOINs, CROSS JOINs. How many ways OUTER JOINs are further classified? 10: How to view more than 10000 records in Siebel Analytics web in a Table or Pivot table Views. 11: What is a Bridge Table ( many to Many Relationship in dimension.) Implemenation in Siebel Analytics 12: How can objects can be Imported in Physical Layer( tables, views, Aliases, synonyms, system Tables, Keys, Fk Keys) 13: Explain what do you mean by Dimension Hierarchy ( Drill Key and Level Key, Prefered drill Path) 14: What are Business Model Complex Joins (Place holder) and hardcode foriegn key 15: Explain Physical model Connection Pool (shared Logon and Maximum connections and FIFO) 16: Explain about Shared logon in Physical layer of the RPD how it works and whats the use of it 17: What are Global Prompt and Filters, Filter( is Prompted) in SA 7.5.3 18: What are Dashboard Objects ( content, reports,section, Page , Dashboard and Folder) 19: What is a Admin page ( Sessions, Priviliges, Analytics Catalog, Web Groups and uses) 20: How do you do Performacne Tunining in Siebel Analytics ( hints and Nl,) 21: What is Event Polling ( how event polling is done and also Purging) 22: What are SDE and SIL Mappings ( Siebel data warehouse ETL, SRMW) 23: What are Slowly changing Dimension ( type1, Type2, type3) 24: What is a Assocative Entity ( Data Modelling) 25: Explain truncate and Delete ( Auto commit on truncate) 26: What are the different types of indexes in Oracle ( B* , B tree, clustered) 27: Explain Plan and TK Prof ( Tunning) 29: What is Aggreagte Navigation, Fragmentation, Intialization Blocks and Variables () 30: What is a Star and Snow flake Schema 31: Explain about SRMW Tables (Fact tables ,Dim Tables, mini Dim Tables, Subset dim Tables, 32: What are Circular Join, Factless

Why would you set default values for global filters? Choose two. A. Because setting a default value creates a larger data set B. Because not setting the value will return all the data and thus negatively impact performance C. Because the user may want it to default to a certain value D. Because Siebel 7.7 requires a default value be set E. Because setting default values ensures that a user only sees results based on his/her privileges Answer: B, C Which of the following tasks can you perform in the Catalog Manager? A. Set permissions for Web Catalog items B. Manage privileges and rights given to groups and users C. Set authentication options D. Manage Web groups and users Answer: A What type of access can view content, but not make changes? A. No Access B. Traverse Folder C. Change/Delete D. Read Answer: D Which of the following is NOT true of the Intelligence Dashboards? A. They can provide personalized views and preconfigured views B. They can be created base on a user's permission C. Users with common responsibilities or job functions can share a dashboard D. Dashboard objects are saved in the repository Answer: D The name of the symbolic URL has to be exactly the same as which of the following? A. The name of the business component B. The name of the calculated value of the field of the business component C. The name of the Web template item of the business component D. The name of the business object component Answer: B Which of the following would be true when creating filters whose values automatically change with time? Choose two. A. You can meet the requirements by creating dynamic filters B. You can meet the requirement by using parenthetical filtering C. Filters cannot be combined with other column filters from the same subject area to further constrain the results of a request D. The variables have to be constructed and saved in the repository to be used in Siebel Answers Answer: A, D Which of the following are true of iBots? Choose three. A. They are driven by events B. They can execute scripts

C. They can trigger Siebel Workflow D. They can directly trigger Siebel Assignment Manager E. They cannot be subscribed Answer: A, B, C Which of the statements are TRUE of Bulb gauges? Choose three. A. They show data with one or more indicator needles. B. Their needles change position to indicate where data falls within predefined limits. C. They are useful for scorecard-type output. D. They show data using a circle. E. The circle changes color to indicate whether data is within predefined limits. Answer: C, D, E You would like to customize the text elements that appear in Siebel Answers, Siebel Delivers, and on dashboard pages. Which of the following would you use? A. Cascading Style Sheets B. DHML Message files C. XML Message files D. Siebel Web Template items Answer: C You would like to configure your iBots so that when you are out of the office, the delivery contents will be delivered to the PDA, and when you are in the office, via emails. Which of the following would you need to set to meet the requirements? Choose three. A. Delivery profiles B. Delivery devices C. Dashboard visibility D. iBots Answer: A, B, D The members of which of the following groups can grant rights to users, set privileges to restrain access to any piece of information, and filter data so that the users have access to the data that are related to their role? A. Everyone Group B. Authenticated Users Group C. Web Administrators Group D. Administrators Group Answer: C Which of the following is NOT true of the Siebel Analytics Repository? A. Repository subject areas have a one-to-one correspondence to prebuilt Intelligence Dashboards B. Prebuilt repository subject areas are exposed in Siebel Answers according to the user's privileges C. The prebuilt Siebel Analytics Repository has industry-specific stars that map to the SRMW and Siebel OLTP database D. Business models cannot map to more than one database Answer: D

Which of the following are NOT recommended when working with the Analytics Catalog Manager? Choose two. A. Give every user the access to Catalog Manager B. Install Catalog Manager on Windows C. Modify the Web catalog in the online mode D. Stop the Siebel Analytics Web service before opening the Analytics Catalog Manager E. Stop the Siebel Analytics Server Answer: A, C Select the items that may be displayed in Intelligence Dashboards. Choose three. A. Documents B. Alerts from Siebel Delivers C. Web sites D. Images, charts, tables, text, folders E. Saved Analytics requests Answer: B, D, E Which of the statements is true of a narrative view? A. It is used to add a title, subtitle, logo, or link. B. It is used to add one or more paragraphs of text. C. It is used to show filters in effect for a request. D. It is used to display results as a marquee (moving results that scroll across a page). Answer: B Which of the following are true of a Web group? Choose two. A. Groups are created in the Admin Console in Siebel Answers B. Permissions and privileges can be assigned either in the Catalog Manager or in the Admin Console in Siebel Answers C. Web Group A is a member of the Web Group B. If Web Group A had Read access to Dashboard A and Web Group B has Deny access to Dashboard A, Web Group A has Read access to Dashboard A D. Permissions can be granted to Web Groups but not to the specific users Answer: A, B Cascading style sheets can be used to define formatting. A. True B. False Answer: A Which are system-defined Web groups? Choose three. A. Authenticated Users B. System Administrators C. Defined Users D. Web Administrators E. Everyone Answer: A, D, E What parameter controls user session timeout? A. SessionExpireMinutes

B. ClientSessionExpireMinutes C. LogonExpireMinutes D. CatalogMaxAutosaves Answer: B Which of the following are ways to add a briefing book? Choose two. A. From the Admin page under Activities, select Schedule Briefing Book. B. From the bottom of the Dashboard page, click the Add to Briefing Book button. C. From Siebel Delivers, select New Briefing Book. D. Click the Add to Briefing Book link that appears with an individual request on the dashboard. Answer: B, D Which of the following are true of the Siebel Analytics Cascading Style Sheets? Choose three. A. They cannot be modified by Siebel Analytics consultant B. They define the Dashboard user interface C. It is recommended that you keep copies of the modified file in the c:\AnalyticsData\Web\Res\folder so that changes will not be overwritten by upgrades D. Each Analytics view has its own section inside Views.css E. Each class can have only one property/value pair in the format Answer: B, C, D Oracle Siebel Analytics Interview Questions and Frequently Asked Questions in MNCs 1: What is the relationship between saved objects in Analytics Web Catalog and Repository 2: Which is the configurable NQSConfig.ini file parameters which affect disk space 3: Setting INTERRUPT_ENABLED parameter for Analytics Server using DB2 as a source 4: How do you display Multiple Time Periods in a Single Report 5: Explain PopChart image server functionality in Siebel Analytics version 7.5.x 6: How to set up LDAP Security within Siebel Analytics Repository 7: When are Subject Areas and View Privileges visible in the Admin > Manage Privileges link? 8: How can users move the "My Accounts" Link to the "My Dashboard" screen? 9: What are the standard/best practice rules to build a hierarchy? 10: How can users check the status of an iBot? 11: How to set-up multiple analytics repository access in Windows OS installs 12: How should usage tracking information be loaded into Siebel Analytics 7.5.x? 13: Can the Siebel Analytics Platform be upgraded without upgrading the Siebel application repository?

14: What is guided navigation, custom page layout, & system message 15: How do we add/control a system message, explain the steps in detail 16: What are alerts How do we schedule alerts 17: Why is the 'number of elements at a level' required for dimension 18: How do we set the Log level in Production, Locale 19: What is the process of bumping log files in prodcution and how to debug the issue in prodcution when log level set to 0 and how to get the query in the log file 20: Explain DAC system Properties design, setup and configure, indices and tasks and sessions defn in the dac 21: Explain etl configure dw_rep tables create and drop dac repository, informatica Repository Tables 22: Explain OBIEE briefing books and xml publisher 23: Whay ETL takes more time to complete how to debug and what approach to resolve the same 24: Explain session log, mapping, workflow, configuration settigns of informatica 25: What is Roll back segment error, snapshot too old error 26: Explain Performance tuning, Conformed dimensions 27: Explain change capture Process in ETL, Pruene Days 28: Design the report from scratch ( Data Model) 29: What is Level Based Measure, Grain in a fact Table 30: Explain the Architecural Difference between OBIEE & Siebel 1. Which ETL tool you used for data loading? 2. Name the databases you have worked on? 3. What are the levels of security? 4. What is the difference between Roles and Responsibilities in Siebel. 5. Describe the architecture of Siebel analytics? 6. What are Facts and Dimension tables. 7. what is an initialization block?

8. How to create a dashboard prompt? 9. What is a complex join? Give an example of many to many complex join. 10. Questions regarding datawarehouse. 11. Your role and responsibilities in this project. 12. Questions regarding datamart. 13. What is authentication? In web as well as rpd. 14. what are fact and dimension tables? 15. How did you do Data Level Security and what are the different ways of doing it? 16. What is a snowflake schema and have you worked on it? 17. What are the tasks you did as Analytics Administrator and how? 18. How did you do Cache management? 19. How did you handle security management? 20. How did you do multi-user development environment setup? 21. Were you involved in the design phase and what did you do? 22. How did you do performance tuning? 23. What kind of data source do you have in your project and how did you connect to it? 24. What happens when NQQuery log file is full? 25. Which component schedules, monitors, configure ETL routines? Ans: DAC client. 26. How can you purge the cache? 27. Can one presentation catalog refer to multiple business models? Ans: No 28. Can multiple presentation catalogs refer to one business model? Ans: Yes 29. What is Dimension Hierarchy 30. What are the types of variables?