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Data Modeling Interview Questions Guide

The document contains interview questions related to data modeling. It includes general data modeling questions, logical data modeling questions, and physical data modeling questions. Some of the topics covered are the differences between logical and physical data modeling, concepts like star schemas, snowflake schemas, and slowly changing dimensions, and how to recover from corrupted data modeling files or compare changes between versions. The overall purpose is to assess a candidate's knowledge of data modeling concepts, techniques, and best practices.

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Data Modeling Interview Questions Guide

The document contains interview questions related to data modeling. It includes general data modeling questions, logical data modeling questions, and physical data modeling questions. Some of the topics covered are the differences between logical and physical data modeling, concepts like star schemas, snowflake schemas, and slowly changing dimensions, and how to recover from corrupted data modeling files or compare changes between versions. The overall purpose is to assess a candidate's knowledge of data modeling concepts, techniques, and best practices.

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Data Modeling Interview Questions:

General Questions:

» Have you exported objects from the data model to different database? What is the use of it?

» What is aggregated data and why do you need aggregated data?

» What is the role of a logical data modeler and physical data modeler?

» How do you gather requirements for creating data model?

» What is the naming convention you follow?

» What are the different notations that can be used?

» What is cardinality?

» What is identifying and non identifying relationship?

» Why do you need phrases in a data model?

» Have you generated reports for data models? Why do you need reports from data model?

» How you will recover if data modeling file is corrupted?

» What is Meta data? What kind of Meta data do you capture in a data model?

» Explain a difficult situation in data modeling and how did you resolve it?

Logical Data Modeling Questions:

» What is logical data modeling?

» What is conceptual data modeling? Why do you need that?

» What is enterprise data modeling? Why do you need that?

» What is relational data modeling? When you will use relational data modeling?

» When you will go for relational data modeling?

» What is OLTP?

» What is OLAP data modeling?

» What is dimensional data modeling?

» What is a dimension?

» What is a slowly changing dimension? What are the types of slowly changing dimension? Which one you

will use it?

» What is super type and sub type? Where you will use in logical or physical data model? If you generate

the super type and sub type structure it in a database, what are the consequences?

» What is Star Schema? When you use Star Schema?

» What is Snow Flake? When you will use Snow Flake Schema?

» What is the difference between Snow Flake and Star Schema?

» Can you compare logical data model with data base? How?
» How you will find out the difference between the logical data models created previous month and

current month?

» What is Data Ware House?

» What is Data Mart?

» What is the difference between data ware house and data mart?

Physical Data Modeling Questions:

» What is physical data modeling?

» What is the difference between logical and physical data modeling?

» Can you compare physical data model with data base? How?

» How version controlling is done in a data model?

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