BusinessObjects Interview Questions

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I have recently decided to take my life into my own hands and look for contracting work rather than permanent jobs. I have an interview coming up and have been told there will be some sort of test on my knowledge of Business Objects Designer and Supervisor tools and Web Intelligence report creation. Has anyone else had to take one of these test, or given one? and if so do you have any example questions/answers I could look at? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks A…

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BusObj Questions Remember, there are many ways to do the same thing with all of the BusObj applications. General Questions Q) Tell me about yourself, your employment history. Q) How many years of experience do you have in BusObj? Versions? Q) What was your role in the current project? Q) How many users were there? Q) On a scale of 1 - 10, rate yourself on BUSOBJ? Q) Supervisor Q) Designer Q) BusObj Q) Webi Q) Broadcast Agent Q) Business Query Q) Were any experts called from BUSOBJ whil…

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I saw this on Tek-tips. Anyone want to take a crack at it? These are some of the questions I was asked on the interview. My opinion is that all of them are to trick you into a wrong answer. Try to answer them without looking up in BusinessObjects - if you’re not dealing with reports 7x24 but you answered all corectly than you’re a real guru … How can you suppress the ‘No data to fetch’ messages in Reports? How can you create a graph with horisontal bars? When getting ‘No data to fetc…

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Bob (BOB member since 2002-06-06)

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Interview tips

Don’t panic mods, it’s not yet another request! More the reverse angle - tips from interviewers to interviewees of what not to do… 1/ Don’t lie. If I find out you’ve lied on your cv, you’re not getting the job. If you’ve stretched the truth and can spin it well, that’s ok 2/ Don’t claim to be an expert after using something for 3-6 months. Not good, especially when it’s in with a lot of other things you’ve been doing in that time period. 3/ Don’t expect stock interview questions. Yes, there …

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Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)