Top 100 Data Analytics Interview Questions ๐
SQL Interview Questions
1. What is SQL?
2. What is the difference between SQL and MySQL?
3. What are primary keys and foreign keys?
4. What is normalization?
5. What is denormalization?
6. Difference between WHERE and HAVING?
7. Difference between DELETE, DROP, and TRUNCATE?
8. Difference between INNER JOIN and LEFT JOIN?
9. What is RIGHT JOIN?
10. What is FULL OUTER JOIN?
11. What is SELF JOIN?
12. What is CROSS JOIN?
13. What are aggregate functions?
14. Difference between COUNT and COUNT DISTINCT?
15. What is GROUP BY?
16. Difference between GROUP BY and ORDER BY?
17. What is a subquery?
18. What are CTEs?
19. What are window functions?
20. Explain ROW_NUMBER().
21. Explain RANK() and DENSE_RANK().
22. What are indexes?
23. What causes slow SQL queries?
24. How do you optimize SQL queries?
25. What are views?
26. What are stored procedures?
27. What are transactions?
28. Explain ACID properties.
29. Find duplicate records in SQL.
30. Find second-highest salary using SQL.
31. Calculate running totals using SQL.
32. Find top-selling products using SQL.
33. Calculate month-over-month growth.
34. Difference between UNION and UNION ALL?
35. What are NULL values?
36. Difference between CHAR and VARCHAR?
37. What is a primary key?
38. What is a foreign key?
39. Difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes?
40. Explain query execution plans.
*Excel Interview Questions*
41. What is VLOOKUP?
42. Difference between VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP?
43. What are Pivot Tables?
44. What are slicers in Excel?
45. Explain conditional formatting.
46. Difference between COUNT, COUNTA, and COUNTIF?
47. What are absolute and relative references?
48. What is data validation?
49. Explain IFERROR().
50. What is Power Query?
51. What are dashboards in Excel?
52. Difference between SUMIF and SUMIFS?
53. Explain INDEX MATCH.
54. What are macros?
55. What is VBA?
56. How do you clean data in Excel?
57. How do you remove duplicates?
58. What is flash fill?
59. What are named ranges?
60. Explain text functions in Excel.
61. What are charts in Excel?
62. How do you create dynamic dashboards?
63. What is Goal Seek?
64. What is Solver?
65. Explain What-If Analysis.
*Power BI Interview Questions*
66. What is Power BI?
67. Difference between Power BI Desktop and Service?
68. What is DAX?
69. What is Power Query?
70. What are calculated columns?
71. Difference between measures and calculated columns?
72. Explain relationships in Power BI.
73. What is star schema?
74. What is snowflake schema?
75. What are slicers?
76. What are bookmarks?
77. What is drill-through?
78. Explain row-level security.
79. What are KPIs?
80. Difference between dashboard and report?
81. What is data modeling?
82. Explain CALCULATE().
83. Explain FILTER().
84. Explain ALL().
85. Explain time intelligence functions.
86. What is incremental refresh?
87. Difference between Import and DirectQuery?
88. Explain Power BI gateways.
89. How do you optimize dashboards?
90. What causes slow reports?
91. How do you handle large datasets?
92. What are custom visuals?
93. Explain workspace management.
94. How do you publish reports?
95. Explain deployment pipelines.
*Tableau Interview Questions*
96. What is Tableau?
97. Difference between Tableau and Power BI?
98. What are dimensions and measures?
99. Explain Tableau filters.
100. What are calculated fields?
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