Cognos Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Cognos Interview Questions

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what are the components in the cognos connection page consists (eg: my folder, public folder,directions, schedule management tool etc.....)

HCL,

2080

what does my folder and public folder contains? difference between the my folder and public folder?

HCL,

3 9559

what is a join? what are the types of joins?

HCL, Satyam,

5 10294

what is an outer join? difference between left outer join right outer join with an example?

HCL,

1 11051

what is cardinality that you can give to employee and department query subjects in framework manager?

HCL,

2 6864

what is a query subjects item?

HCL,

1 4207

difference between drill through and master detail report?

HCL, Zensar,

2 24710

write a query to display the departments with no employee?

HCL,

1973

write a query to display to 10 max record from the employee table?

HCL,

2 5641

write a query to display the third record from the employee table?

HCL,

4 8324

what is prompt types of prompt example briefly each types of product (eg:values, date,search,prompt etc.)

HCL, Syntel,

1 17883

how can create a report like if the salary>50,000 display balance,if salary<50,000 display green?

HCL,

6 9264

what is an sid (surrogate key)?

IBM,

4 10515

What is the difference between filter & Condition?

MetLife, TCS,

3 10262

What is the difference between macro & Parameter

IBM,

1 3341

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what is a prompt value in report studio and variables ?

2718

Synchroness 1.What are hash prompts? Ans: Tree prompts in which hierarchies can be seen,they can be said as hash prompts. 2.User wants to see 5 more coloums in the report.We have package and data base,how will u implement using it in report.? Ans: 3.What is automatic optimization?what is optimization?what are the properties you set for optimization in report studio? 4.what is command to display first 10 records from a table? IGATE 1.In FM if we change a fact symbol to attribute,will it effect the report? 2.If a report is slow in generating output. How do u perform tuning? How do u reduce joins in sql? Using left outer join is it going to improve the report performance? IBM 1.How do you configure ? 2.How do you drill through report from RS to Analysis studio?

4751

what are the dimensions that you have in your current project?list them?

2074

-----------With out using DrillThrough how to do Reports?

2056

difference between impromptu and cognos8

2451

-----------Diff b/w OLAP and RDBMS?

2056

my report ended at the half of the last page but i don't want that matter in the last page I would like to adjust the matter in the previous page .how can i do this?

2006

plsreply to me...im interested to do the cgnos certifications relating to report developer.can you suggest me what kind of certifications andwhere cani get (dumps) previous quetions and answers for the certification........

2359

What are cognos connection initial page components?

1146

what are the limitations of cognos reportnet? What are the enhancements in reportnet ?

1094

What is defined as catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos?

1142

How to publish a package by running Java Script?

2093

What is the function of cognos dispatcher?

1219

1.WHAT IS XML SPECIFICATION WHAT IS PURPOSE,WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO USE.2 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RENDER VARIABLE AND CONDITIONAL BLOCK.3.WHAT IS LINK AND SEGMENT.4.WHAT IS CONDITIONAL LAYOUT.5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DETAIL FILTER AND SUMMERY FILTER AND HOW YOU ARE GOING DEFINE IN SQL (DETAIL AND SUMMARY FILTER ).. WELL THESE QUESTION I BEEN FACED IN IBM COULD SOMEBODY GET SOLUTIONS PLZ..THANKS IN ADVANCE

2151

how to explain tne project at the time of interview? where to start and how to end? plz explain in detail thax in advance

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