Role-specific Oracle Forms 4.0 Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Explain What is the content view and stacked view?

A content view is the "Base" view that occupies the entire content pane of the window in which it is displayed. A stacked view differs from a content canvas view in that it is not the base view for the window to which it is assigned

2. Explain What is a Layout Editor?

The Layout Editor is a graphical design facility for creating and arranging items and boilerplate text and graphics objects in your application's interface.

3. Explain what is a display item?

Display items are similar to text items but store only fetched or assigned values. Operators cannot navigate to a display item or edit the value it contains.

4. Explain the Abbreviation for the following File Extension:
1. FMB
2. MMB
3. PLL

FMB ----- Form Module Binary.
MMB ----- Menu Module Binary.
PLL ------ PL/SQL Library Module Binary.

5. Explain What is a Check Box?

A Check Box is a two state control that indicates whether a certain condition or value is on or off, true or false. The display state of a check box is always either "checked" or "unchecked".

6. Explain What is a Navigable item?

A navigable item is one that operators can navigate to with the keyboard during default navigation, or that Oracle forms can navigate to by executing a navigational built-in procedure.

7. Can we change the color of the push button in design time?

No

8. Explain What is the built-in function used for finding the alert?

Find_alert
Editors

9. Explain What are the triggers associated with a check box?

Only When-checkbox-activated Trigger associated with a Check box.

10. Explain System.effective_date system variable is read only True/False?

False