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About the test:

The Business Intelligence Developer test uses scenario-based multiple-choice questions to evaluate a candidate's knowledge and skills related to data modeling and ETL processes, data warehousing and data mining, BI reporting and visualization, data analysis and predictive modeling, and BI project management. Candidates are also be evaluated on their ability to use BI tools and technologies such as SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, and other related tools, and their proficiency in applying data analysis and business intelligence techniques to solve complex business problems.

Covered skills:

  • Power Pivot
  • Power Map
  • Power Query
  • Data source connectors
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9 reasons why
9 reasons why

Adaface BI Developer Test is the most accurate way to shortlist BI Developers



Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The BI Developer Test helps recruiters and hiring managers identify qualified candidates from a pool of resumes and take objective hiring decisions. It reduces the administrative overhead of interviewing too many candidates and saves expensive engineering time by filtering out unqualified candidates.

You can use the Adaface BI Developer Test to screen candidates for the following roles:

  • BI Developer
  • Data Analyst
  • Data Engineer
  • Business Analyst
  • Database Administrator
  • Data Warehouse Manager
  • ETL Developer
Reason #2

No trick questions

no trick questions

Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.

The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.

Why we started Adaface ->
Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this BI Developer Test will be non-googleable.

🧐 Question

Medium

Many-to-one error
Data Modeling
Solve
Consider the following two tables in Power BI:
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We received the following error when we tried to set many-to-one cardinality between devices to users tables: “The cardinality you selected isn’t valid for this relationship”. What should we do before creating the many-to-one relationship?

Medium

Power Query Functions
Power Query
Solve
Review the following Microsoft SQL Server table:
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Complete the following Power Query formula used to create a custom column to replace the numbers present in last 11 characters of ISBN with 11 ‘*’. Example ‘978-0-365-51051-4’ is converted to ‘978-0-***-*****-*’
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A: Text.Insert
B: Text.Replace
C: Text.Start
D: Text.End

Medium

Data Filtering
Report Development
M Language
Data Visualization
Solve
You are creating a Power BI report where users need to dynamically filter data based on a range of dates. The report has a Sales table with columns Date, ProductID, and Amount. You decide to use a Power Query parameter to allow users to select a start and end date, which will then filter the Sales table accordingly. The parameter is named DateRange and has a type of List. You need to write a Power Query M formula to filter the Sales table based on the selected date range. The DateRange parameter contains two dates: the first item is the start date, and the second item is the end date. How should the M formula be structured to achieve this functionality?
A: Table.SelectRows(Sales, each [Date] >= DateRange{0} and [Date] <= DateRange{1})

B: Sales{[Date] >= DateRange{0}, [Date] <= DateRange{1}}

C: Table.FilterRows(Sales, each [Date] >= List.First(DateRange) and [Date] <= List.Last(DateRange))

D: Table.SelectRows(Sales, each [Date] >= List.First(DateRange) and [Date] <= List.Last(DateRange))

E: Filter.Table(Sales, [Date] >= DateRange{0}, [Date] <= DateRange{1})

Medium

Calculated Properties
Data Analysis
Solve
Here’s sample data imported into Tableau:
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Assume only three rows of data is present in the source. Once the data is imported, we added to new calculated fields:

Measure 1 with the formula: SUM([Profit])/SUM([Sales])
Measure 2 with the formula: SUM([Profit]/[Sales])

If we dragged Profit, Sales, Measure 1 and Measure 2 in the viewer as shown here:
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Pick the correct statements regarding columns Measure 1, Measure 2 and the row Grand total:
A: Values of Measure 1 would be 0.08, 0.075 and 0.1
B: Values of Measure 2 would be 0.08, 0.075 and 0.1
C: Values of Measure 1 would be 0.08, 0.769 and 0.08
D: Values of Measure 2 would be 0.08, 0.769 and 0.08
E: Values of Measure 1 would be 0.08, 0.155 and 0.255
F: Values of Measure 2 would be 0.08, 0.155 and 0.255
G: Grand total of Measure 1 would be 0.08
H: Grand total of Measure 2 would be 0.08
I: Grand total of Measure 1 would be 0.255
J: Grand total of Measure 2 would be 0.255

Medium

Change display icon
Solve
What steps would you take to change the following view so that Office Supplies is represented by a different symbol?
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A: Click on shapes in the marks area. Then select Office Supplies and the icon of choice and click okay.
B: Right-click on product category, select default properties, and select shape. Then select Office Supplies and the icon of choice and click okay.
C: Right click on the square and select "change shape" from the popup menu. Select the icon of choice and click okay.
D: A, B or C
E: None of these would work

Easy

Pie Chart
Data Analysis
Charts
Solve
We have the following dataset in Tableau:
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Which of the following Marks settings will result in following Pie chart?
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A: Drag Name to Color
B: Drag Share to Color
C: Drag Name to Label
D: Drag Share to Label
E: Drag Name to Angle
F: Drag Share to Angle
G: Drag Name to Detail

Medium

Applying Functions
Data frames
Functions
Math
Solve
Consider the following R code:
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This script defines a function apply_fun that calculates the mean of a vector and adds it to the standard deviation of the vector. The apply function is then used to apply this function to each column of the data frame df. What will be the value of result after the script is run?

Medium

Dataframe Transform
Solve
Review the following Dataframe 'bazinga':
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Which of the following commands would turn it into the Dataframe shown below:
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Medium

Matrix Manipulation
Matrices
Lists
Solve
Consider the following pseudo code:
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What will be the state of list_of_matrices after running the script?
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Medium

ZeroDivisionError and IndexError
Exceptions
Solve
What will the following Python code output?
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Medium

Session
File Handling
Dictionary
Solve
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The function high_sess should compute the highest number of events per session of each user in the database by reading a comma-separated value input file of session data. The result should be returned from the function as a dictionary. The first column of each line in the input file is expected to contain the user’s name represented as a string. The second column is expected to contain an integer representing the events in a session. Here is an example input file:
Tony,10
Stark,12
Black,25
Your program should ignore a non-conforming line like this one.
Stark,3
Widow,6
Widow,14
The resulting return value for this file should be the following dictionary: { 'Stark':12, 'Black':25, 'Tony':10, 'Widow':14 }
What should replace the CODE TO FILL line to complete the function?
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Medium

Max Code
Arrays
Solve
Below are code lines to create a Python function. Ignoring indentation, what lines should be used and in what order for the following function to be complete:
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Medium

Recursive Function
Recursion
Dictionary
Lists
Solve
Consider the following Python code:
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In the above code, recursive_search is a function that takes a dictionary (data) and a target key (target) as arguments. It searches for the target key within the dictionary, which could potentially have nested dictionaries and lists as values, and returns the value associated with the target key. If the target key is not found, it returns None.

nested_dict is a dictionary that contains multiple levels of nested dictionaries and lists. The recursive_search function is then called with nested_dict as the data and 'target_key' as the target.

What will the output be after executing the above code?

Medium

Stacking problem
Stack
Linkedlist
Solve
What does the below function ‘fun’ does?
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A: Sum of digits of the number passed to fun.
B: Number of digits of the number passed to fun.
C: 0 if the number passed to fun is divisible by 10. 1 otherwise.
D: Sum of all digits number passed to fun except for the last digit.

Medium

Multi Select
JOIN
GROUP BY
Solve
Consider the following SQL table:
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How many rows does the following SQL query return?
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Medium

nth highest sales
Nested queries
User Defined Functions
Solve
Consider the following SQL table:
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Which of the following SQL commands will find the ‘nth highest Sales’ if it exists (returns null otherwise)?
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Medium

Select & IN
Nested queries
Solve
Consider the following SQL table:
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Which of the following SQL queries would return the year when neither a football or cricket winner was chosen?
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Medium

Sorting Ubers
Nested queries
Join
Comparison operators
Solve
Consider the following SQL table:
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What will be the first two tuples resulting from the following SQL command?
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Hard

With, AVG & SUM
MAX() MIN()
Aggregate functions
Solve
Consider the following SQL table:
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How many tuples does the following query return?
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Easy

Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
Solve
We want to register students for the next semester. All students have a receipt which shows the amount pending for the previous semester. A positive amount (or zero) represents that the student has paid extra fees, and a negative amount represents that they have pending fees to be paid. The students are in a queue for the registration. We want to arrange the students in a way such that the students who have a positive amount on the receipt get registered first as compared to the students who have a negative amount. We are given a queue in the form of an array containing the pending amount.
For example, if the initial queue is [20, 70, -40, 30, -10], then the final queue will be [20, 70, 30, -40, -10]. Note that the sequence of students should not be changed while arranging them unless required to meet the condition.
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Note:
- The first line of the input is the length of the array. The second line contains all the elements of the array.
- The input is already parsed into an array of "strings" and passed to a function. You will need to convert string to integer/number type inside the function.
- You need to "print" the final result (not return it) to pass the test cases.

For the example discussed above, the input will be:
5
20 70 -40 30 -10

Your code needs to print the following to the standard output:
20 70 30 -40 -10

Medium

Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
Solve
A manager hires a staff member to keep a record of the number of men, women, and children visiting the museum daily. The staff will note W if any women visit, M for men, and C for children. You need to write code that takes the string that represents the visits and prints the count of men, woman and children. The sequencing should be in decreasing order. 
Example:

Input:
WWMMWWCCC

Expected Output: 
4W3C2M

Explanation: 
‘W’ has the highest count, then ‘C’, then ‘M’. 
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Note:
- The input is already parsed and passed to a function.
- You need to "print" the final result (not return it) to pass the test cases.
- If the input is- “MMW”, then the expected output is "2M1W" since there is no ‘C’.
- If any of them have the same count, the output should follow this order - M, W, C.
🧐 Question🔧 Skill

Medium

Many-to-one error
Data Modeling
2 mins
Power BI
Solve

Medium

Power Query Functions
Power Query
2 mins
Power BI
Solve

Medium

Data Filtering
Report Development
M Language
Data Visualization
2 mins
Power BI
Solve

Medium

Calculated Properties
Data Analysis
3 mins
Tableau
Solve

Medium

Change display icon
2 mins
Tableau
Solve

Easy

Pie Chart
Data Analysis
Charts
3 mins
Tableau
Solve

Medium

Applying Functions
Data frames
Functions
Math
3 mins
R
Solve

Medium

Dataframe Transform
3 mins
R
Solve

Medium

Matrix Manipulation
Matrices
Lists
3 mins
R
Solve

Medium

ZeroDivisionError and IndexError
Exceptions
2 mins
Python
Solve

Medium

Session
File Handling
Dictionary
2 mins
Python
Solve

Medium

Max Code
Arrays
2 mins
Python
Solve

Medium

Recursive Function
Recursion
Dictionary
Lists
3 mins
Python
Solve

Medium

Stacking problem
Stack
Linkedlist
4 mins
Python
Solve

Medium

Multi Select
JOIN
GROUP BY
2 mins
SQL
Solve

Medium

nth highest sales
Nested queries
User Defined Functions
3 mins
SQL
Solve

Medium

Select & IN
Nested queries
3 mins
SQL
Solve

Medium

Sorting Ubers
Nested queries
Join
Comparison operators
3 mins
SQL
Solve

Hard

With, AVG & SUM
MAX() MIN()
Aggregate functions
2 mins
SQL
Solve

Easy

Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
30 mins
Coding
Solve

Medium

Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
30 mins
Coding
Solve
🧐 Question🔧 Skill💪 Difficulty⌛ Time
Many-to-one error
Data Modeling
Power BI
Medium2 mins
Solve
Power Query Functions
Power Query
Power BI
Medium2 mins
Solve
Data Filtering
Report Development
M Language
Data Visualization
Power BI
Medium2 mins
Solve
Calculated Properties
Data Analysis
Tableau
Medium3 mins
Solve
Change display icon
Tableau
Medium2 mins
Solve
Pie Chart
Data Analysis
Charts
Tableau
Easy3 mins
Solve
Applying Functions
Data frames
Functions
Math
R
Medium3 mins
Solve
Dataframe Transform
R
Medium3 mins
Solve
Matrix Manipulation
Matrices
Lists
R
Medium3 mins
Solve
ZeroDivisionError and IndexError
Exceptions
Python
Medium2 mins
Solve
Session
File Handling
Dictionary
Python
Medium2 mins
Solve
Max Code
Arrays
Python
Medium2 mins
Solve
Recursive Function
Recursion
Dictionary
Lists
Python
Medium3 mins
Solve
Stacking problem
Stack
Linkedlist
Python
Medium4 mins
Solve
Multi Select
JOIN
GROUP BY
SQL
Medium2 mins
Solve
nth highest sales
Nested queries
User Defined Functions
SQL
Medium3 mins
Solve
Select & IN
Nested queries
SQL
Medium3 mins
Solve
Sorting Ubers
Nested queries
Join
Comparison operators
SQL
Medium3 mins
Solve
With, AVG & SUM
MAX() MIN()
Aggregate functions
SQL
Hard2 mins
Solve
Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
Coding
Easy30 minsSolve
Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
Coding
Medium30 minsSolve
Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

customers in 75 countries
Brandon

With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!


Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito

Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment BI Developer Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.

Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the BI Developer Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.

Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.

API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.

invite candidates
Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & benchmarks

Reason #8

High completion rate

Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.

This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.

test completion rate
Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring


What topics are covered in the BI Developer Test?

Power Pivot enables you to import millions of rows from heterogeneous sources of data into a single Excel sheet.

Power Pivot

Power Query helps in finding, editing and loading external data.

Power Query

Power Map is an Excel add-in that provides a powerful set of tools to help us visualize and gain insight into large sets of data that have a geo-coded component.

Power Map
Data source connectors
Import to Power BI
Loading data

To do basic calculation and data analysis on data in power pivot, we use Data Analysis Expression (DAX).

DAX
Power BI Conditional Column
Template files
Dashboard sharing
Direct Query
Visualising data

Slicers in Power BI are the simple forms of filters that play a key role in designing customized charts and reports on the Power BI Desktop.

Slicers
Bookmarks
Dates

Content packs for services are pre-built solutions for popular services.

Content packs
Data View
Data Integration
File Optimization

Power Desktop is an aggregated tool of Power Query, Power View, and Power Pivot.

Power BI Desktop
Data sources
Data connectors
Data types
Marks
Extracts
Sort & Filters
Actions
Drill
Aggregations
Tableau Desktop
Layouts
Formatting
Distribution & Publishing
Charts & graphs
Dashboards
Formatting
Custom fields and calculations
Tableau Server
Dimensions and measures
Calculations & LOD
Parameters and Legends
Analytics with R & tools
Introduction to Statistics
Data Manipulation using R
Machine Learning Techniques using R
Exploratory Data Analysis
Regression Analysis
Data Science Basics
String Manipulation
Vector
Matrix
Dataframe
CSV
Rmarkdown
linear regression

A confusion matrix can be used to evaluate the accuracy of the model built.

confusion matrix
Random Forest
Analytics with R & tools
package
R6 Class
shinyR

The apply function allows one to make entry-by-entry changes to data frames and matrices.

apply function
Clustering
kmeans clustering
hierarchical clustering

Rattle is a popular GUI for data mining using R.

rattle
White Noise model

Principal Component Analysis is a method for dimensionality reduction.

Principal Component Analysis

initialize() function is used to initialize the private data members while declaring the object.

initialize()
evaluate_model()
Predictive Mean Matching
preloaded datasets
next
custom function
by()
factor variable
Radix
R decision tree
Data import
Strings and Numbers
String Formatting
Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples, and Sets
Collections
Functions and lambdas
Decorators
Scope
args/kwargs and default parameter values
The concept of mutability
Built-in Functions
Debugging and Error Handling
Type hinting
Modules and installing libraries
Object-Oriented Programming
Functional Programming
Lambdas
Decorators
Generators
Composition and Inheritance
File I/O
Database interactions
Unit testing
Regex (Regular Expressions)
Web Scraping
Algorithms and Data Structures
Asynchronous programming
Closures
The Relational Model
SQL Basics
SQL Functions
Data Modification Language
Data Query Language
CRUD
SQL Filtering / WHERE Statement
Subqueries
Indexes
3 Valued Logic
SQL JOINS
Window Functions
Date Filtering and Timestamps
Aggregate Functions
Operator Precedence
ORDER BY
GROUP BY
Top-Down Design
Bottom-Up Design
Entity Relationship Diagram
Normalization
Database Types
Multi-Table SELECT
Permission Management
Backup Strategies
Transactions
Data Types
Views
Sharding
Replication
Backups
Vertical + Horizontal Scaling
Distributed vs Centralized Databases
Database Security
SQL Injections
Access Control
Computer fundamentals
Letter Coding
Number Coding
Substitution
Coding-Decoding Puzzles
Non-verbal Reasoning
SQL concepts
Business analysis
Coding-Decoding
Programming languages
Computer architecture
Basic DBMS concepts
SOLID principles
Automation systems
Decision making
Non-verbal Reasoning
Problem-solving approach
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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.


85%
reduction in screening time

FAQs

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

  • Non-googleable questions
  • IP proctoring
  • Web proctoring
  • Webcam proctoring
  • Plagiarism detection
  • Secure browser

Read more about the proctoring features.

How do I interpret test scores?

The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.

What experience level can I use this test for?

Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.

I'm a candidate. Can I try a practice test?

No. Unfortunately, we do not support practice tests at the moment. However, you can use our sample questions for practice.

What is the cost of using this test?

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Can I get a free trial?

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I just moved to a paid plan. How can I request a custom assessment?

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