Business Objects Administrator Interview Questions - 3

Question: 11

What are the standard mode and extended mode and secured mode?

Standard mode – able to access users only within that group

Extended mode - to allow the group supervisors’ access to users outside their own group(s) so that they can add or remove users to their own groups, then you can do so by setting Scope Management to Extended Mode.

Secured mode – restrict the access of specific users to specific commands. the general supervisor by default uses the “Secured” mode of operation.

Question: 12

What does a cluster consists of?

A cluster is a collection of server machines, which communicate with each other via CORBA calls.

There are two types of servers in a cluster:

The cluster manager, which is the central coordinator between all the servers in the system.

Cluster nodes, the subsequent servers, which handle scheduling, and document processing.

Question: 13

What are dimension measure detail objects?

When creating universes, universe designers define and qualify objects. The qualification of an object reveals how it can be used in analysis in reports. An object can be qualified as a dimension, a detail, or a measure.

A dimension object is the object being tracked; in other words, it can be considered the focus of the analysis. A dimension can be an object such as Service, Price, or Customer.

Dimension objects retrieve the data that will provide the basis for analysis in a report. Dimension objects typically retrieve character-type data (customer names, resort names, etc.), or dates (years, quarters, reservation dates, etc.).

A detail object provides descriptive data about a dimension object (or attribute of a dimension). It is always associated with a specific dimension object. However, a detail object cannot be used in drill down analysis. E.g. Address & phone number can be attributes about the customer dimension.

 A measure object is derived from one of the following aggregate functions:

Count, Sum, Minimum, Maximum or average or is a numeric data item on which you can apply, at least locally, one of those functions. This type of object provides statistical information.

Question: 14

Can a universe have more than one fact table?

Yes. Typically a universe can have more than one fact table and numerous aggregated tables.