Excelent Scenarios and Faq's of Informatica
Excelent Scenarios and Faq's of Informatica
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What's the difference between source and target object definitions in Informatica?
What is the purpose of using UNIX commands in informatica. Which UNIX commands are generally used with informatica?
What is the difference between SQL Overriding in Source qualifier and Lookup transformation?
What is informatica
how much hike in the 6th pay commission for my basic pay of rs.5500?
How can we load the normalized data ( Vertical data) to (Horizontal data)with out using decode in the expression
transformation and the aggregator transformation.
how to do estimation before staring development in project. Here estimation in the sense how many associates are
required, etc to complete the project.
can we create index and drop index in existing table while using informatica
If we are using an aggregate but forget to mention the group by port .what will be the output??
Informatics software installation 8.1/7.1.3/7.1 with oracle 10g database (optional Teradata v2R6)
How to transform normalized data to denormalized form in informatics? Is there any logic or any transformations to achieve
this?
why do we go for update strategy tr in SCD rather using the session properties?
How many mapplets u have created? and what is the logic used
LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default?Using the Look UP Condition
How many types of relational conditions we can make
Dependency Errors in Informatica?Do u got any dependency problems while running session?
What is Throughput in Informatics,How it works, Where I can find this option to check?
Please explain in detail with example about 1.Confirmed Dimension. 2.Junk Dimension. 3.Degenerated Dimension.
4.Slowly changing Dimensions
How can i catch the Duplicate Rows From Sorter Trans in a Separate Target Table ?
What is a Shortcut and What is the difference between a Shortcut and a Reusable Transformation?
How to create a mapping ? id date 101 2/4/2008 101 4/4/2008 102 6/4/2008 102 4/4/2008 103 4/4/2008 104 8/4/2008 O/P
- shuould have only one id with the min(date) How to create a mapping for this
what is the difference between persistence and dynamic caches? On which conditions we are using these caches?
Change Data Capture in Informatics,using Incremental Aggregation.How we identify the these data in Target table.
what is the Source File limitation in Informatica?how many flat file we can use as a source in a mapping if.. 1) The Structure
of flat files are same & 2) If the Structure of flat files are different
How generate Sequence Numbers to Target Table (with out using Sequence Gen Trans,Rank Trans).
When we load flat files into target tables how do we identify duplicates? and where do load the duplicate records for further
reference?
What is the difference between Connected and Unconnected Look up Transformation.Give one or two examples
what are the difference between active and passive transformation with some examples.
What are partitions in informatics and which one is used for better performance?
when we develop a project what are the performance issue will raise??
if a table have INDEX and CONSTRAINT why it raise the performance issue bcoz when we drop the index and disable the
constraint it performed better?
Can we use different look up transformations for a same look up table (look up condition may or may not be same)with
different output ports?How the cache files will be affected?
Diff B/W MAP Parameter,SESSION Parameter, Database connection session parameters.?Its possible to Create
3parameters at a time?If Possible which one will fire FIRST?
how to run two work flow(not a sessions) sequentially, what is the process. explain detailed information.
Which gives the more performance when compare to fixed width and delimited file ?and why?
installation procedure for power center 8.1.1 especially domain_con fig how to use parameter files
Is it passive or active when check and unchecked the box of DISTINCT in Sorter transformation? why?
How to compare Source and Target table, without using dynamic look up?
How to find from a source which has 10,000 records, find the average between 500th to 600th record?
how will you remove the duplicate records from flat file without using sorter?
How will you display 10-15 letters from a name? (for ex: name="sivasubram'aniam'ramakrishnan". o/p wanted="aniam")
How will you display "Mr" for male & "Mrs" for female in target table?
how to join the two flat files using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?
What is the difference between Oracle performance and Informatics Performance? Which performance is better?
How to send duplicates to one target and unique rows to one target?target is empty
What is a poling?
How to load a relational source into file target?
how to move the mappings from your local machine to Clint place?
what is the diff b/w union and joiner and look up?
What is the difference between Junk and Confirmed Dimension? where can be used that one in Informatica?
How to write a procedure for a date which is in three different formats,and you want to load into data warehouse in any
single date format
in reporting we add some new objects,how we get the count of the newly added objects to the report
how can u generate sequence of values in which target has more than 2billion of records.
how can u connect client to Ur informatica sever if server is located at different place( not local to the client)
What is the "File Repository" and how can we use that in the Informatica ? give one example of the Process ?
What is the main data object present in between source and target
What is the term PIPELINE in informatica ?
how to load only the first and last record of a flat file into the target?
which T/r we can use it mapping parameter and mapping variable? and which one is reusable for any mapping mapping
parameter or mapping variable?
what r the properties of work flow? and write query to select dept more ten employees in dept.?
how can we update without using update transformation.wt is push down operation in informatica.which look up gives more
tuning performance. if so why
what is full process of Information source to target just like stg to production and development
what are the differences between power center 8.1 and power center 8.5?
What will happen when Mapping variable and Mapping parameter is not defined or given? Where do you use mapping
variable and mapping parameter?
how can we load 365 flat file to a single fact table (target) as a history load in single mapping?
What is Use of Factless Fact Table ? Why we use Factless Fact Schema in the Projects?
What is the actual work done in Development and in the production depts in building a data warehouse. Which dept is more
interesting and career oriented
how to duplicates from expression transformation without using sorter before that
how can v eliminate duplicate values from look up without overriding sql?
can we update records in target using update strategy without generating primary key ? explain
if we have duplicate records in a table temp n now i want to pass unique values to t1 n duplicate values to t2 in single
mapping?how
how do u use sequence created in oracle in informatics? Explain with an simple example
whether Sequence generator T/r uses Caches? then what type of Cache it is
how u know when to use a static cache and dynamic cache in look up transformation.
what is the tracing level? and difference between trace in normal and verbose and non verbose?
how DTM buffer size and buffer block size are related
why cant we put a sequence generator or up strategy transformation before joiner transformation?
In Real Time what are the scenarios u faced, what r the tough situations u have overcome, and explain about sessions
In Real Time what are the scenarios u faced, what r the tough situations u have overcome, and explain about sessions.
What is difference between Informatica 6.2 Work flow and Informatica Work flow 7.1
Without using any transformations how u can load the data into target?
How could we generate the sequence of key values without using sequence generator transformation in the target ??
In a scenario I want to change the dimensions of a table and normalize the denomralized table which transformation can I
use?
what is the logic will you implement to load data into a fact table from n dimension tables?
How will u find weather dimension table is big in size of a fact table?
explain the scenario for bulk loading and the normal loading option in Informatica Work flow manager ???
what is the (UTC) unit test cases with the examples in informatica
By using Filter Transformation,How to pass rows that does not satisfy the condition(discarded rows) to another target?
THREE DATE FORMATS R THERE . HOW TO CHANGE THESE THREE INTO ONE FORMAT WITHOUT USING
EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION ?
A TABLE CONTAINS SOME NULL VALUES.HOW TO GET (NOT APPLICABLE(NA)) IN PLACE OF THAT NULL VALUE
IN TARGET?
ONE FLAT FILE IS THERE WHICH IS COMMA DELIMETED,HOW TO CHANGE THAT COMMA DELIMITER TO ANY
OTHER AT THE TIME OF RUNNING?
two tables from two different databases r there,both having same structure but different data,how to compare these two
tables ?
TWO FLAT FILES ARE THERE , EACH HAVING NO MATCHING COLUMNS . HOW CAN U JOIN THESE TWO USING
JOINER TRANSFORMATION ?
explain how to use Normalizer transformation for the following scenario Source table | Target Table | Std_name ENG MAT
ART | Subject Ramesh Himesh Mahesh Ramesh 68 82 78 | ENG 68 73 81 Himesh 73 87 89 | MAT 82 87 79 Mahesh 81 79
64 | ART 78 89 64 | explain what should be the normalizer column(s) The GCID column 2)Also explain the Ni-or-1 rule.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT PORT IN DYNAMIC CACHE WHICH IS USED FOR INSERT,UPDATE OPERATION ?
if a session is failed after a transformation,from where that session will run again , i.e . from beginning or from that
transformation
two types of data are there ,one is mainframe and the other is ASCII format . in informatica how can you get both the data in
a single format in ASCII .
in unconnected look up , what are the other transformations , that can be used in place of that expression transformation ?
what are the transformations that are used in data cleansing ? and how data cleansing takes place ?
how many Fact Tables and Dimensions Table you have used in the Project? Which one is loaded first Fact Table or
Dimensions Table into the warehouse? What is the size of the Fact Table and Dimension Table? what is the size of the
table and warehouse
Can you use one mapping to populate two tables in different schemas
if the session fails after 100 records again we have to starts the session or we go for recovery session
how the server recognizes , if the session fails after loading the 100 records in to the target
what is metadata?
what is scd?
what r the values that r passed between informatics server and stored procedure?
What is the file name which you need to configure in UNIX while installing infromatica?
What happens if you increase commit intervals and also decrease commit Explain grouped cross tab?
What is data quality? How can a data quality solution be implemented into my informatica transformations, even
internationally?
What is up date strategy and what are the options for update strategy?
What is a look up function? What is default transformation for the look up function?
How can you define a transformation? What are different types of transformations in Informatica?
After dragging the ports of three sources(sql server,oracle,informix) to a single source qualifier, can you map these three
ports directly to target?
What are the circumstances that informatica server results an unrecoverable session?
What is difference between stored procedure transformation and external procedure transformation?
How can u work with remote database in informatica?did you work directly by using remote connections?
What is difference between partitioning of relational target and partitioning of file targets?
How can you access the remote source into your session?
What are the different options used to configure the sequential batches?
What is polling?
What are the out put files that the informatica server creates during the session running?
How the informatica server increases the session performance through partitioning the source?
To achieve the session partition what r the necessary tasks u have to do?
Which tool you use to create and manage sessions and batches and to monitor and stop the informatica server?
What are the new features of the server manager in the informatica 5.0?
What are two types of processes that informatica runs the session?
How can you recognize whether or not the newly added rows in the source r gets insert in the target?
What are the mappings that we use for slowly changing dimension table?
What are the options in the target session of update strategy transformation?
What is Datadriven?
What are the basic needs to join two sources in a source qualifier?
How the informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?
Which transformation should we use to normalize the COBOL and relational sources?
What are the Differences between static cache and dynamic cache?
What are the types of look up caches?
what are the settings that u use to configure the joiner transformation?
In which conditions we can not use joiner transformation (Limitations of joiner transformation) ?
What are the differences between joiner transformation and source qualifier transformation?
Can you use the mapping parameters or variables created in one mapping into another mapping?
what is a transformation?
How can you create or import flat file definition in to the warehouse designer?
Which transformation should u need while using the cobol sources as source definitions?
To provide support for Mainframes source data,which files r used as a COBOL files
Where should you place the flat file to import the flat file definition to the designer
How Many ways you can update a relational source definition and what are they?
While importing the relational source definition from database,what are the meta data of source U import?
what are precession,post session success and post session failure commands ?
How to identify bottlenecks in sources,targets,mappings,work flow,system and how to increase the performance?
When do we use dynamic cache and static cache in connected and unconnected look up transformations?
What are reusable transformations in how many ways we can create them?
AT the max how many transformations and mapplets can we use in a mapping ?
If we have look up table in work flow how do you troubleshoot to increase performance?
Name 4 output files that informatica server creates during session running?
What are the different tasks that can be created in workflow manager?
what are the real time problems generally come up while doing or running mapping or any transformation?
What is exact use of 'Online' and 'Offline' server connect Options while defining Work flow in Work flow ?
Two relational tables are connected to SQL Trans,what are the possible errors it will be thrown?
what are cost based and rule based approaches and what is the difference?
If you done any modifications for a table in back end does it reflect in informatca warehouse or mapping?
What is tracing level and what are the types of tracing level?
What are the types of metadata that stores in repository?
what are the enhancements made to Informatica 7.1.1 version when compared to 6.2.2 version?
How do you handle decimal places while importing a flat file into informatica?
what is worklet and what use of worklet and in which situation we can use it?
If you want to create indexes after the load process which transformation you choose?
what are the different types of transformation available in informatica and what are the mostly used
what is surrogate key?In your project in which situation u has used?explain with example?
HOW TO GET DUPLICATE RECORDS ARE ONE TABLE AND OTHER ARE ANOTHER TABLE
why sorter transformation acts as a active transformation
In Real Time what are the scenarios u faced, what r the tough situations u have faced in ur job
generally how many fact and dimension tables the banking project contains? please send me
what are the dimension and fact tables used in finance domain
i want to sample mappings,dimension and fact tables for banking project on informatica
why informatica
What is intermediate task in informatica? In what situation this task will be executed?
Why do you think you are the best for this post?
Tell us about a time when you failed to meet a deadline. What were the repercussions?
If you get a Opportunity to go with a reputed company which is ready to pay more than what we r going to pay here.Will you
quit the job from here or what?
Sometimes a person younger to you might be in a better position.Are you comfortable taking directions from him?
Why have you chosen the role you are applying for?
Give me an example of any major problem you faced and how you solved it
Tell me about a time when you were able to identify a problem and resolve it before it became a major issue
How long do you think it would be before you will make a significant contribution to the team/company?
how can we justify yourself that you are fit for this job?
What job position/s are you currently holding with your current employer?
How would you describe your ideal job?As per my interest so that I can work with full devotion and can fulfill my professional
ethics.
What will be your expected Salary? Can you justify your Salary?
what is your career aspect & if they asked in general what should i answer?
how long do you think you would want to be in the employment of the organization?
Tell me about how you have left a position better than you found it
Please explain to us one conflict situation that you have experienced in your work life and how did you solve it
Who are our major competitors and what differences do you notice in our products?
How do you determine or evaluate success? According to your definition of success, how successful have you been so far?
if you were hiring a person for this job,what would look for?
As a MBA marketing student why do you want to pursue your career in banking sector
How to describe our city(Hyderabad) in a topic round during the interview time?
Why do you think you are a qualified candidate for the job?
suppose you are asked a question concerning salary expectation, how do you tackle that question?
In your last job,what would be the one thing that your peers most disliked about you?
How soon can you travel down to any location posted to?
how can you hire me when i have no experience?but i have ability to work for your company
why do you think you are fit for this job,you don't have experience,i don't think you are fit for a job
what do you consider to be your most significant achievement?what difficulties did you encounter in realizing the
achievement and how did you overcome them
how do you work under pressure and solve your problems
Can you give an advice to those students who are technician,taking computer programs?
when the interviewer asks, what is the Architecture of your project what we have to answer...
plz provide the answer with the example
can you briefly describe your current position, its duties , and responsibilities?
Mention briefly organisation structure of the company indicating your position in the hierarchy and the levels above and
below you
what examples can you give that emphasize your interest in this kind of work
What shall i do if i do not like some people at my office place . how shall i handle this kind of situation ?
What is the difference between doing a good job and doing a great job?
what initiative you did in last company as you worked for 3 years?
Hi, Recently i have resigned a job. what i have to tell for the new employer that if he asks why you have resigned your
previous job.i have worked there for 10 months.
what value you will add to our company if you are selected
What are the values & beliefs that have guided your life so far and how do you see them influencing your future?
Please tell us briefly about a situation in your life when you have had to stretch yourself to meet a new situation or higher
standards?
give me directions on how to get here in this office from where you currently reside
what would you do if your boss needs several things done at the same time?
Why are you looking for a new position (if you are currently employed)?
kind of cement kind of pipe kind of g.i sheet size of shuttering scaffolding pipe
How do you feel about the same job or work in progress right now.
what are challenges and benefits from effective communication in the workplace
Why did you leave your earlier job without any new job in hand?
What are your short term and long term career goals?
what is personality
What will you do if your senior officer do not mind your work ?