MSBI Interview Questions

ETL / SSIS Questions:

1. Name some Control flow tools in SSIS
2. What is difference between For Loop and For Each Loop Container?
3. What is FTP Task and how to configure it?
4. What is the use of Transfer SQL Server Objects Task?
5. Explain Lookup Transform

6. What is the difference b/w Pivot and Unpivot Transformations?
7. Difference b/w Merge and Merge Join Transformations?
8. Fuzzy Lookup
9. Fuzzy Grouping
10. What are Package Configurations and why do we need it.
11. Explain how to deploy SSIS Packages
12. What are Connection Manager and how to configure dynamic connections?
13. What is the life cycle of ETL Process?
14. What is the life cycle of ETL Project Development?

SSAS Questions:

1. What is SSAS?
2. Explain UDM (Unified Data Model)?
3. What are Data Sources and Data Source Views?
4. What is a Cube?
5. What is a named Calculation?
6. What is a named Query?
7. What are role-playing dimensions?
8. What is a Partition?
9. What is Multi Dimensional Expressions?
10. What are perspectives?
11. What is a metadata?
12. What is a measure group?
13. What is a difference b/w a derived measure and a calculated measure?

SSRS Questions:

1. Life cycle of SSRS?
2. What is report manger?
3. What is report server? Difference between report manger and report server?
4. What is subscription? Type?
5. How do implement security for report?
6. How many ways are there for deploying the report?
7. What is difference between SSRS 2005 and 2008?
8. What are options there in properity tab in report manger?
9. What is use of execution and History?
10. What is snapshort in SSRS?
11. How do you create share schedule in SSRS?
12. What are data regions?
13. What is difference between table and metrix report?
14. What is use of List data region? is available SSRS 2008?
15. What is expression?
16. How do we write custom code in reports? and ways? and how will you call them in reports?
17. How many collections available in report? What are they?
18. How do you get row by row group in 2008?
19. How do you implement page breaking for Metrix reports?
20. Do you have any idea about markers in ssrs?
21. What is sub report? how will you call?
22. What will you implement Drill down reports?
23. How can we implement optional parameters in ssrs?
24. we are getting blank pages in report after exporting to PDF, how do you avoid?
25. Is there any option to hide the parameter(Filter) based on conditions?
26. Difference between Logical Page an Physical Page in SSRS.
27. How to configure SSRS for Disaster recovery.
28. Describe the role of Encrpytion key in Report Server Configuration manager.
29. User want only to display only pdf as export option in report Manager .. Describe Steps to perform this .
30. Name and Describe few console utilities for SSRS.
31. Name few Endpoints exposed by SSRs 2008.
32. How can you access the Code in You report. Describe the Static and intance based method with example.
33. how to add custome Assemblies to Report.
34. What is Linked Report.
35. What are different types of roles provided by SSRS.
36. Describe different Processing Modes offered by SSRS.
37. When to Use Null Data driven Subscription?
38. What Factors need to take into consideration while desigining a international report ( Localaization ).
39. What are different option to deploy report from Dev to Prod.
40. What are the new Controls / Features added in SSRS 2008 / SSRS 2008 R2
41. How can you monitor the report Usage.
42. How can you add a new report User to report manager.
43. How can you create the dynamaic Datasource. Can a Shared Datasource be Dynamic?
44. A report is Performing poorly . What steps you would take to troubleshoot the Issue.
45. Write an Expression to perform a Division of two Integers fields and to avoid NAN error.
46. have you ever used Rank, Dense Rank Ntile, CTE and Pivot..
47. Is SSRs 2008 dependent on IIS? if not how it perform the operations.