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,

1696

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

HCL,

3 8055

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

HCL, Satyam,

5 8366

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

HCL,

1 10069

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

HCL,

2 5863

what is a query subjects item?

HCL,

1 3478

difference between drill through and master detail report?

HCL, Zensar,

2 23454

write a query to display the departments with no employee?

HCL,

1549

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

HCL,

2 4670

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

HCL,

4 6838

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

HCL, Syntel,

1 17119

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

HCL,

6 7437

what is an sid (surrogate key)?

IBM,

4 8772

What is the difference between filter & Condition?

MetLife, TCS,

3 8472

What is the difference between macro & Parameter

IBM,

1 2434


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Can you define cube?

580


What is the use of powerhouse?

612


10. How many queries did you use in the complex reports? 11. How will you use the joins in the queries used in your report? 12. How many reports did you create in your project? 13. How many cubes did you create in your project? 14. How will you create .iqd file in FM. 15. Was your package multilingual or single language? 16. If you have created a single language package…and you have a client who need to access that in other language…how will you do that? 17. How many dimensions and facts did you use in your reports? 18. How will you use your package in Analysis studio? 19. Something like types of files in power play like pyi..i don’t remember this question. 20. If you want to create a prompt with 4 list, not containing any value using value prompt, which when we will see in the run time…if we will select any list, it should show us the data related to that list. 21. What all kind of packages you can create using FM. 22. In your project was your cube a relational or multidimensional? 23. I replied MD for the above question then they asked why did you use that? 24. How do you publish a cube? 25. Slicer and dicer….its use…where is it used? 26. Bursting…. 27. How many types of query subjects are there? 28. Difference between before and after aggregation?

2000


how to develop dynamic dashboards, and what is the difference between static and dyanmic dashboards in report studion and need with example. plz mail me on this email id vasucognos4@gmail.com

3462


hi all i am searching for cognos jobs pls inform about the jobs to:santosh.koora@gmail.com

1966






What is the difference between Standard and Metrics folder?

570


Which lifecycle we will use for reporting?

560


What are all types of Batches?

575


Mention the difference between ‘macros’ and ‘prompt’?

601


can anyone let me know some tips or interview questions on framework manager metadata modeling, creating joins, and all other aspects related to Cognos 8 framework mgr

1564


Can you define a query subject?

603


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

1630


what is the difference between native sql and cognos sql?

511


What are all the types of hierarchies?

674


What are the types of studio present in Cognos?

613