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What are fact tables and dimension tables?

Answer

Business facts or measures and foreign keys are persisted in fact tables which are referred as candidate keys in dimension tables. Additive values are usually provided by the fact tables which acts as independent variables by which dimensional attributes are analyzed.


Attributes that are used to constrain and group data for performing data warehousing queries are persisted in the dimension tables.


 

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The systematic risk of the market is measured by

A) alpha B) beta
C) gamma D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) beta

Explanation:

Beta is the measurement of the systematic risk of the market.

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Q:

Distinguish between speculator and hedger?

Answer

The main difference lies in the motive of the two parties. The main motive of the hedger is to hedge(minimize) the risk from the occurence of some events. 


The motive of the speculator is to gamble in the market in order to make the profit by buying/selling the derivative products.


 

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Q:

What are the dialog boxes that are supported in android? Explain.

Answer

AlertDialog : An alert dialog box supports 0 to 3 buttons and a list of selectable elements, including check boxes and radio buttons. Among the other dialog boxes, the most suggested dialog box is the alert dialog box.


ProgressDialog: This dialog box displays a progress wheel or a progress bar. It is an extension of AlertDialog and supports adding buttons.

DatePickerDialog: This dialog box is used for selecting a date by the user.

TimePickerDialog: This dialog box is used for selecting time by the user.

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If I call performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: – is the object retained?

Answer

Yes the object is retained. It creates a timer that calls a selector on the current threads run loop. It may not be 100% precise time-wise as it attempts to dequeue the message from the run loop and perform the selector.

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Q:

What files are important in a bootable Windows XP operating system?

Answer

There are four important files in order to make a bootable Windows XP operating system. These are Ntldr, Ntdetect, Boot.ini and Ntfs.sys

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Q:

What do you understand by Intercompany Settlement ?

Answer

A company may also have various company codes across the different locations. There will be exchange of services between these company codes. These goods and services which are shared or exchanged between these company codes are bring to terms during the month end process. The exchange difference has to be settled by a company code in the way of money transfer.


This process is known as Intercompany Settlement. 

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What is Marshalling?

Answer

Marshalling is the process of gathering data from one or more applications or non-contiguous sources in computer storage, putting the data pieces into a message buffer, and organizing or converting the data into a format that is prescribed for a particular receiver or programming interface.  

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