10 Apr, 2007
General Interview Questions
- Explain detail objects? -
Sol: Detail objects are attached to dimensions, one cannot drill on details nor link on details when linking multiple data providers. While Customer ID would be a dimension, customer name, address, phone and soon should be details.
- What is BOMain.Key? -
BoMain.Key file contains the information about the repository site i.e it contains the address of the repository security domain.
- What is Business objects Repository? -
it is nothing but metadata.
- What is domain? How many are there in a basic setup? What are they? -
Domain is nothing but logical grouping of system tables, There are three domains usually in a basic setup, They are Secure, Universe, Document. Business objects are sometimes called domain objects (where the word domain means the business), and a domain model represents the set of domain objects and the relationships between them.
- When is the Repository created? -
In 5i/6i versions after installing the software, whereas in Xi version a repository is created at the time of installation.
- Can we have multiple domains? -
Yes. (Security domain can not be multiple).
- How do you restrict access to rows of a database? -
In XI version it can be done by using row-level security in designer module whereas in 5i/6i it is done by supervisor.
- What is a category? -
It is nothing but grouping of certain entities.
- What is a Universe? -
It is a semantic layer between Database and the designer used to create objects and classes. (It maps to data in Database).
- What is an Object? -
It is an instance of class, its nothing but an entity.
