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  • 1. 

    Select the list of departition components from the below

    • A.

      Gather

    • B.

      Merge

    • C.

      Filter by Expression

    • D.

      Roun Robin

    • E.

      Intereave

    • F.

      Concatenate

    Correct Answer(s)
    A. Gather
    B. Merge
    E. Intereave
    F. Concatenate
  • 2. 

    Is it possible to increase the count vaue of reformat ?

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 3. 

    In memory sort is present in DeDup component

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 4. 

    Use of Generate component

    • A.

      To collect the junk data

    • B.

      Act as an inter mediate file

    • C.

      Generate random records

    Correct Answer
    C. Generate random records
  • 5. 

    Which is the key based component from the below

    • A.

      Concat

    • B.

      Merge

    • C.

      Interleave

    • D.

      Gather

    Correct Answer(s)
    B. Merge
    C. Interleave
  • 6. 

    Adhoc Multifile is parallel file, but not stored in a multiple directory

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 7. 

    Usage of intermediate file do not increase the phase

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 8. 

    Which command is use to generate dml

    • A.

      M_db generate dml

    • B.

      M_db gendml

    • C.

      M_db gen

    Correct Answer
    B. M_db gendml
  • 9. 

    2 important keys used in sort within group

    • A.

      Major key

    • B.

      Minor Key

    • C.

      Both

    • D.

      None of the above

    Correct Answer
    C. Both
  • 10. 

    Is it possible to extract data from 2 different source or database using AB INITIO graphs

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 11. 

    Which is the command used in GDE to run unix commands

    Correct Answer
    F8
  • 12. 

    Which departition component is best way to use, when the data is not in a sorted order

    • A.

      Concat

    • B.

      Merge

    • C.

      Gather

    Correct Answer
    C. Gather
  • 13. 

    When does the data format error occurs

    • A.

      When the input file is not given properly

    • B.

      When the layout is not specified properly

    • C.

      When the dml and data is not matching

    Correct Answer
    C. When the dml and data is not matching
  • 14. 

    When we use force_error, the parameter reject_threshold should be never abort

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 15. 

    Parameters involved in Run sql component

    • A.

      Num_error

    • B.

      SQLFile

    • C.

      DB Config File

    Correct Answer(s)
    A. Num_error
    B. SQLFile
    C. DB Config File
  • 16. 

    Which component is used to delete the data in table

    • A.

      Delete table component

    • B.

      Truncate table component

    • C.

      Run table component

    Correct Answer
    B. Truncate table component
  • 17. 

    Which is true about redefine

    • A.

      Change the value

    • B.

      Change the field name

    • C.

      Change the data type

    Correct Answer(s)
    B. Change the field name
    C. Change the data type
  • 18. 

    Scenario :  input file -> reformat -> output file1.  10 records in my input file2.   In reformat , select i give the code next_in_sequence()==2What ll be the output this graph or how many records will be received in the output file

    • A.

      1

    • B.

      2

    • C.

      10

    Correct Answer
    A. 1
  • 19. 

    Which is the correct in the below for MFS

    • A.

      ((next_in =sequence()-1)*number_ofpartition()+this_partition())

    • B.

      ((next_in =sequence()-1)*number_ofpartition()+this_partition())+1

    • C.

      ((next_in =sequence()-1)+number_ofpartition()+this_partition())+1

    Correct Answer
    B. ((next_in =sequence()-1)*number_ofpartition()+this_partition())+1
  • 20. 

    Which is correct syntax to create MFS file

    • A.

      M_mkfs

    • B.

      M_db_mkfs

    • C.

      M_mfs

    Correct Answer
    A. M_mkfs
  • 21. 

    Whats the manual command used to clean up the activity, before re-executing the graph

    • A.

      Rm rec_file

    • B.

      M_rm rec_file

    • C.

      M_rollback -d rec_file

    Correct Answer
    C. M_rollback -d rec_file
  • 22. 

    In conditional component, value 1 will pass the records, value 0 will disable the component or the subgraph

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 23. 

    Which parameter will help us to find the status of the exectued graph

    • A.

      $AB_GRAPH

    • B.

      $mp_graph

    • C.

      $mpjret

    Correct Answer
    C. $mpjret
  • 24. 

    By doing what the output file is changed into a lookup file

    • A.

      Using intermediate file

    • B.

      Click add to catlog in output file component

    • C.

      Using adhoc multifile

    Correct Answer
    B. Click add to catlog in output file component
  • 25. 

    Which component is used to run the shell script

    • A.

      Run SQL

    • B.

      Run Program

    • C.

      Join with DB

    Correct Answer
    B. Run Program
  • 26. 

    To take the data from 1st to specific record which component form the below i should use

    • A.

      Join with DB

    • B.

      Leading records

    • C.

      Trash

    Correct Answer
    B. Leading records
  • 27. 

    Which component from the below is used to capture the log information and used for analysis purpose

    • A.

      Intermediate file

    • B.

      Look file

    • C.

      Gather Log

    Correct Answer
    C. Gather Log
  • 28. 

    Replicate is a component which do not gather all the data records into one single flow.

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 29. 

    Which component break pipeline parallelism

    • A.

      Intermediate file

    • B.

      Look up file

    • C.

      Sort

    • D.

      All the above

    Correct Answer
    D. All the above
  • 30. 

    Which component in the below behaves like a where clause component

    • A.

      Replicate

    • B.

      Gather

    • C.

      Filter by Expression

    • D.

      Redefine

    Correct Answer
    C. Filter by Expression
  • 31. 

    Which component from the below do not have any parameter

    • A.

      Replicate

    • B.

      Redefine

    • C.

      Trash

    • D.

      All the above

    Correct Answer
    D. All the above
  • 32. 

    Select the list of partition component from the below list

    • A.

      Partition by Key

    • B.

      Partition by load balance

    • C.

      Partition by expression

    • D.

      All the above

    Correct Answer
    D. All the above
  • 33. 

    By default what is the count of reformat and multireformat

    • A.

      Reformat count 1, multireformat 2

    • B.

      Reformat count 1, multireformat 1

    • C.

      Reformat count 2, multireformat 1

    Correct Answer
    A. Reformat count 1, multireformat 2
  • 34. 

    Co>Op is optional in AB INITIO

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 35. 

    EME is optional in AB INITIO

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 36. 

    Its not possible to run an AB INITIO graph without GDE

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
    Explanation
    We can run the graph through unix

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  • 37. 

    Is it possible to do a check in / check out using GDE ?

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 38. 

    Unix command to do check in

    • A.

      Air project import -basedir

    • B.

      Air project export -basedir

    • C.

      Air project -basedir

    Correct Answer
    A. Air project import -basedir
  • 39. 

    Which component from the below give the accumulated output

    • A.

      Partition by expression

    • B.

      Filter by expression

    • C.

      Scan

    Correct Answer
    C. Scan
  • 40. 

    Which command is used to remove the leading and trailing space

    • A.

      String_trunc()

    • B.

      String_lrtrim()

    • C.

      String_del()

    Correct Answer
    B. String_lrtrim()
  • 41. 

    What is the output of this expressiondecimal_strip("+   26 abc ")

    • A.

      +26abc

    • B.

      +26abc

    • C.

      +26

    Correct Answer
    C. +26
  • 42. 

    Whats the output of this excpressionis_define(NULL)

    • A.

      1

    • B.

      0

    • C.

      NULL

    Correct Answer
    B. 0
  • 43. 

    Whats is the output of this expressionis_null(NULL)

    • A.

      1

    • B.

      0

    • C.

      " "

    Correct Answer
    A. 1
  • 44. 

    Join types in AB INITIO

    • A.

      Inner,full outer, explicit

    • B.

      Semi join, left outer, right outer

    • C.

      Inner, left outer, right outer

    Correct Answer
    A. Inner,full outer, explicit
  • 45. 

    While doing a join, key form one flow is id and from other flow is emp_id.Using which from the below i can use this 2 keys to join

    • A.

      Driving port

    • B.

      Overriding

    • C.

      Dedup

    Correct Answer
    B. Overriding
  • 46. 

    How to touch a multifile

    • A.

      Touch filename

    • B.

      M_touch filename

    • C.

      Both

    Correct Answer
    B. M_touch filename
  • 47. 

    What happens when the data for join is not in sorted order

    • A.

      Graph fails

    • B.

      Graph executed

    • C.

      Get struck

    Correct Answer
    A. Graph fails
  • 48. 

    What happens when data for merge  is not in a sorted order

    • A.

      Grpah fails

    • B.

      Graph does not fail, not correct output

    • C.

      None of the above

    Correct Answer
    B. Graph does not fail, not correct output
  • 49. 

    Trash component cannot store any output data

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 50. 

    What are the types of parallelism in AB INITIO

    • A.

      Data,component,pipeline

    • B.

      Component, process,data

    • C.

      Pipeline,connection,data

    Correct Answer
    A. Data,component,pipeline

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