200+ Business Objects Interview Questions and Answers - 1

Question: 1

What is a report bursting?

Report bursting allows you to maintain the version documents based on the user profiles.

Question: 2

What is Business Objects?

Business Objects is a Dynamic Business intelligence reporting solution from Business Objects.

BUSINESS OBJECTS is an integrated query, reporting and analysis solution for business professionals that allow them to access the data in their corporate databases directly from their desktop and present and analyze this information in a BUSINESS OBJECTS document.

It is an OLAP tool that high-level management can use as a part of a Decision Support Systems (DSS).

BUSINESS OBJECTS makes it easy to access the data, because you work with it in business terms that are familiar to you, not technical database terms like SQL.

Question: 3

What are the roles of BO Administrator?

The following are the responsibility assigned to administrator.

Installations and configurations in a distributed environment

Creating the BO Enterprise Repository.

Performing back up and recovery of Metadata

Tuning the servers.

Deployment of reports.

Question: 4

What is Designer?

Designer is a Business Objects IS module used by universe designers to create and maintain universes.

Universes are the semantic layer that isolates end users from the technical issues of the database structure.

Universe designers can distribute universes to end-users by moving them as files through the file system, or by exporting them to the repository.

Question: 5

What are all the data providers supported by BO?

Queries on Universe

Stored procedure

Free hand SQL

Text files or Spread sheets

VBA Procedures

OLAP servers

SAP