Accenture Business Analyst Interview Question | Day 22

Accenture Business Analyst Interview Question

Today is Day 22 and we will work on the complete Accenture Business Analyst Interview Question

Company Name – Accenture
Location – Bangalore
Position – Business Analyst

Number of Rounds –  3
Round 1 – Technical Round(SQL and R)
Round 2 – Guesstimate Round
Round 3 – Project and HR Round

Following are the Accenture Business Analyst Interview Question

Round 1 – SQL and R
This was a face to face interview where questions were mostly asked around the basics of SQL and R. The interview lasted for 1 hour and following are the questions asked.

1. What is the use of NVL function in Oracle?
https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-what-is-the-use-of-nvl-function-in-oracle/
2. What is Correlated Subquery?
3. How to get the cumulative sum in a table with Date,Name_Of_Employee, and Age

Required table

Date Name_Of_Employee Age Cumulative_Age

Put your answers below:-
https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-cumulative-sum/

4. Explain different Joins in SQL using a venn diagram.

5. What is the result of following query?
select case when null=null then ‘Amit’ else ‘Rahul’ end from dual;

https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-sql-query/
6. What is parser?

https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-what-is-parser/

7.Can we have another column in a table other than a primary key column which will act as a primary key?
https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-primary-key/

8. If a emp table is having duplicate emp_id then can we make it primary key?

https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-if-a-emp-table-is-having-duplicate-emp_id-then-can-we-make-it-primary-key/

9. How the triggers will execute if two or more triggers?

https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-how-the-triggers-will-execute-if-two-or-more-triggers/
10. What is lapply and sapply?
https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-what-is-lapply-and-sapply/
11. Data.table vs. data.frame

https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-data-frame-vs-data-table/
12. [a-z A-Z 0-9 -.] what does this regex means?
https://thedatamonk.com/question/accenture-interview-questions-a-z-a-z-0-9-what-does-this-regex-means/

Round 2 – There were just two Guesstimate Questions in this round

Guesstimate 1 – How many digital watches are sold per day in India
The solution is in the book. For guesstimate practice, you can click here

Guesstimate 2 – What is the size of the market for disposable diapers in India?
The Solution is in the book. For guesstimate practice, you can click here

Round 3 – Project and HR

My project was on using Linear Regression to predict the number of Solar Energy Systems the Client need to deploy to optimally meet the requirement

The questions asked were mostly on Linear Regression, measuring the accuracy of the model, and it’s implementation. Some of the questions asked in the interview were:-

1. Why did you use Linear Regression?
2. How many independent variables were there?
3. How did you figure out the important variables to consider in the model?
4. What is the use of p-value?
5. How will you make a layman understand Linear Regression?
6. What is R-Squared error?
A sample data set was provided and I was asked to calculate the Standard Deviation, R-squared error, and correlation
7. How did you implement the results of the model in your database?


These questions were followed by regular HR questions. The complete solution is in the book.

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