SAP BODS Online Quiz


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Questions and Answers

Q 1 - Which of the following is not a component in Data services?

A - Management console

B - Designer

C - Adapters

D - Job Servers

E - BI Launchpad

Answer : E

Explanation

Data Services component include −

  • Job Server
  • Adapters
  • Real-time Services
  • Address Server
  • Management Console
  • Designer
  • Repository
  • Engines
  • Access Server

Q 2 - In SAP Data services, file format is a type of datastore?

A - True

B - False

Answer : B

Explanation

File format defines the set of properties to define structure of a flat file.

Q 3 - Which of the following is used to pass information to a data flow, work flow or to a replication job when called using a function?

A - Variable

B - Parameter

C - Both of these

D - None

Answer : B

Q 4 - Which of the following is used to create a local repository in Data services?

A - Data Services Server Manager

B - Data Services Workbench

C - Data Services Repository Manager

D - Data Services Locale selector

E - CMC

Answer : C

Explanation

Create a database Local_Repo and go to Data Services Repository Manager. Configure database as local repository.

Q 5 - Which of the following property of data flow can be used to improve the performance of operations such as joins, groups, sorts, filtering, lookups, and table comparisons?

A - Degree of parallelism

B - Use Database links

C - Cache Type

D - Execute only once

Answer : C

Explanation

You can cache data to improve performance of operations such as joins, groups, sorts, filtering, lookups, and table comparisons. You can select one of the following values for the Cache type option on your data flow Properties window −

In-memory − Choose this value if your data flow processes a small amount of data that can fit in the available memory.

Pageable − This value is the default.

Q 6 - Which of the following transformation can be used for Column mapping from input to output schemas, assigning primary keys, etc.

A - Data Integration

B - Data Quality

C - Query Transformation

D - Merge Transformation

Answer : C

Explanation

Query transformation is most common transformation used in Data Services and you can perform the following functions −

  • Data filtering from sources

  • Joining data from multiple sources

  • Perform functions and transformations on data

  • Column mapping from input to output schemas

  • Assigning Primary keys

  • Add new columns, schemas and functions resulted to output schemas

  • As Query transformation is the most commonly used transformation, a shortcut is provided for this query in the tool palette.

Q 7 - Which of the following transformation is used to analyze and process large volume of text data, searching entities, assigning them to appropriate type and presenting metadata in standard format?

A - Text Data Processing

B - Entity Extraction

C - Data Cleansing

D - Query transformation

Answer : B

Explanation

In Data Services, text data processing is done with the help of Entity Extraction, which extracts entities and facts from unstructured data.

This involves analyzing and processing large volume of text data, searching entities, assigning them to appropriate type and presenting metadata in standard format.

Q 8 - To enable recovery in Data Services, when a job fails which of the following option can be used to enable this option?

A - Execution Options

B - Trace

C - Global Variable

D - Substitution parameter

Answer : A

Q 9 - Which of the following returns multiple values based on single or multiple conditions?

A - Lookup()

B - Lookup_ext()

C - Lookup_seq()

D - None of these

Answer : B

Explanation

lookup() : It returns single value based on single condition.

lookup_ext(): It returns multiple values based on single or multiple condition(s)

Q 10 - Which of the following represents data access methods?

A - Push and Pull

B - Union

C - Push method

D - Parallel Load

Answer : A

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