Part 1 : Cognos

1.What are the technologies that are used in cognos?
2.What are complex reports?
3.What is page break?
4.What is layout component?
5.How do you use extract function?
6.What is the use of Crosstab space?
7.What is Rank()?
8.What is the use of Query calculation and layout
calculation?
9.What is Slicer and Dicer?
10.How can you create users in Cognos?
11.What is last child member?
12.What is the use of Conditional blocks?
13.What is Conditional Formatting?
14.What is group span?
15.In which types of reports does the page breaks
applicable? Is it applicable in excel reports?
16.I want to show a up arrow and down arrow image in cross
tab report, if the revenue is > 5000 (up arrow) and if
<5000 (down arrow)? How will you achieve this?
17.What are types of Filters in RS? What is Summary Filter
and Detail Filter?
18.What is Cast Function?
19.How will you create prompts for the example like this :
In a single report I want
a) List report (Need a prompt for this) b) Crosstab report
(Need a separate prompt for this) c) Chart ()(Need a
separate prompt for this)

Part II : Framework Manager (FM)

1. What is Determinant in FM?
2. What is Cardinality?
3. What are the types of filters used in FM?
4. Can we create cubes with Relational Data sources?
5. What is Aliasing and Shortcut?
6. What is Session Parameter & Parameter Maps?
7. How many types of securities that we have in FM?
8. What is Data Security in FM?

Part III : Data warehousing

1.What are various types of Schemas?
2.What is Star Schema and Snow Flow Schema? Difference
between both?
3.What is surrogate key?

Part IV : Databases

1.What are NVL Functions?
2.What is left outer join? Give an Example?
3.Can we straightaway use the tables that we have in the
database instead of creating the package’s FM and making
use of them, through Report Studio (RS)?

Answer Posted / pavan

you could use native sql in report studio to build your
report directly using the tables from databse. how ever it
will slows the report performance

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