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,

2075

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

HCL,

3 9518

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

HCL, Satyam,

5 10264

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

HCL,

1 11033

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

HCL,

2 6841

what is a query subjects item?

HCL,

1 4190

difference between drill through and master detail report?

HCL, Zensar,

2 24689

write a query to display the departments with no employee?

HCL,

1966

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

HCL,

2 5614

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

HCL,

4 8289

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

HCL, Syntel,

1 17859

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

HCL,

6 9215

what is an sid (surrogate key)?

IBM,

4 10477

What is the difference between filter & Condition?

MetLife, TCS,

3 10226

What is the difference between macro & Parameter

IBM,

1 3322

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how you provide security to reports? How you provide security to packages ?

1060

2. What functional area you worked on.

2345

Can we test the report other than manual testing?

2172

Can you explain the advantage of using shortcuts?

1025

What is difference between informatica power mart and power center?

1004

What do you understand by the term 'aggregate cache'?

974

Can you define slice?

1032

I have created a database "TestingDB" in MS SQL Server 2005. I have set the port properties and the Cognos Service is up. But I don't see anything in the Cognos. In the administration i have set the ODBC connection and it tested successfully.If i copy the samples to the appropriate directory then i can see the samples.But I don't know how to do the same thing with my own database "TestingDB". As i have configure the cognos in my company which is having a database (very near to production database).I am a novice in cognos. Please help me out.

2084

Actually we have 500 users when they run the report display the flage image related country user? How its possible?

2030

What is the function of cognos dispatcher?

1209

How do we convert from Numeric to be Words?

3013

I have two queries in first query i have to show all values,in second query i have to show 3 values and want to hide 3 values what prompt ur going to use, why that prompt

2276

What are the advantages of cognos?

974

Can you define confirmed dimension?

1075

how you migrate reports to cognos 8 from previous versions?

1037

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