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Wednesday 2 July 2014

Top 20 Informatica Interview Questions with Answers-Part-3

1]    HOW TO EXPORT MAPPINGS TO THE PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT?
Answer: In the designer go to the main menu and one can see the export/import options. Import the exported mapping in to the production repository with replace options.

2]    HOW TO GENERATE THE METADATA REPORTS IN INFORMATICA?
Answer: You can generate PowerCenter Metadata Reporter from a browser on any workstation, even a workstation that does not have PowerCenter tools installed.

3]    IN MY SOURCE TABLE 1000 REC'S R THERE.I WANT TO LOAD 501 REC TO 1000 REC INTO MY TARGET TABLE ? HOW CAN U DO THIS ?
Answer: You can overide the sql Query in Wofkflow Manager. LIke select * from tab_name where rownum<=1000 minus select * from tab_name where rownum<=500; This will work fine. Try it and get back .

4]    CAN U GENERATE REPORTS IN INFORMATCIA?
Answer: It is a ETL tool, you could not make reports from here, but you can generate metadata report, that is not going to be used for business analysis.

5]    IF I DONE ANY MODIFICATIONS FOR MY TABLE IN BACK END DOES IT REFLECT IN INFORMATCA WAREHOUSE OR MAPING DESGINER OR SOURCE ANALYZER?
Answer: NO. Informatica is not at all concern with back end data base.It displays u all the information that is to be stored in repository.If want to reflect back end changes to informatica screens.

6]    HOW TO RECOVER THE STANDALONE SESSION?
Answer: A standalone session is a session that is not nested in a batch. If a standalone session fails, you can run recovery using a menu command or pmcmd. These options are not available for batched session.

7]    CAN U COPY THE SESSION TO A DIFFERENT FOLDER OR REPOSITORY?
Answer: In addition, you can copy the workflow from the Repository manager. This will automatically copy the mapping, associated source,targets and session to the target folder.

8]    WHAT IS DATA CLEANSING..?
Answer: Data cleansing is a two-step process including DETECTION and then CORRECTION of errors in a data set.

9]    WHAT ARE THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TRANSFORAMTIONS?
Answer: An active transforamtion can change the number of rows that pass through it.A passive transformation does not change the number of rows that pass through it.

10]    THE DESIGNER INCLUDES A "FIND" SEARCH TOOL AS PART OF THE STANDARD TOOL BAR. WHAT CAN IT BE USED TO FIND?
Answer: This is used for finding source columns in workspace.

11]    CAN U USE THE MAPING PARAMETERS OR VARIABLES CREATED IN ONE MAPING INTO ANOTHER MAPING?
Answer: NO. You might want to use a workflow parameter/variable if you want it to be visible with other mappings/sessions.

12]    WHERE SHOULD YOU PLACE THE FLAT FILE TO IMPORT THE FLAT FILE DEFINITION TO THE DESIGNER?
Answer: Place it in local folder.

13]    IF YOU ARE WORKFLOW IS RUNNING SLOW IN INFORMATICA. WHERE DO YOU START TROUBLE SHOOTING AND WHAT ARE THE STEPS YOU FOLLOW?
Answer: When the work flow is running slowly u have to find out the bottlenecks in this order target source mapping session system.

14]    WHAT DOES THE EXPRESSION N FILTER TRANSFORMATIONS DO IN INFORMATICA SLOWLY GROWING TARGET WIZARD?
Answer: EXPESSION transformation detects and flags the rows from source. Filter transformation filters the rows that are not flagged and passes the flagged rows to the Update strategy transformation.

15]    HOW CAN WE JOIN THE TABLES IF THE TABLES HAVE NO PRIMARY AND FORIEN KEY RELATION AND NO MATCHIG PORT TO JOIN?
Answer: without common column or common data type we can join two sources using dummy ports. 1.Add one dummy port in two sources. 2.In the expression trans assing '1' to each port. 2.Use Joiner transformation.

16]    WHAT IS POLLING?
Answer: It displays the updated information about the session in the monitor window. The monitor window displays the status of each session when you poll the informatica server.

17]    WHY YOU USE REPOSITORY CONNECTIVITY?
Answer: When you edit,schedule the sesion each time,informatica server directly communicates the repository to check whether or not the session and users are valid.All the metadata of sessions and mappings.

18]    WHAT IS CODE PAGE USED FOR?
Answer: Code Page is used to identify characters that might be in different languages. If you are importing Japanese data into mapping, you must select the Japanese code page of source data.

19]    WHAT ARE VARIOUS TYPES OF AGGREGATION?
Answer: Various types of aggregation are SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, FIRST, LAST, MEDIAN, PERCENTILE, STDDEV, and VARIANCE.

20]    WHAT IS CHANGE DATA CAPTURE?
Answer: Change data capture (CDC) is a set of software design patterns used to determine the data that has changed in a database so that action can be taken using the changed data.

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