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

Cognos Interview Questions

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What is conditional Formatting?

HCL,

2 7185

What are variable report studio?

HCL,

1 5480

What snowflake and Starschema?

HCL,

2 6058

How many fact tables you have in your project?

HCL,

1 4897

Where do you edit cognos sql in report studio?

HCL,

3 15002

what are burst options you have?

HCL, IBM, TCS,

2 8965

Where do you set security levels for users in reports?

HCL,

5 10634

What is content store?

HCL,

1 6369

What is content Manager?

HCL, Kekran Mekran,

3 7861

What is the complex report you faced in real time?

2181

What do you do to make a report result in showing 4 different regions in an xl sheet in individual sheets(like Region1-sheet1,Region2-Sheet2 soon)?

IBM,

5 8099

can we join 2 different queries? One has 10 columns and other has 5+ columns?

IBM,

2 7047

What is Conditional block? How do you use in a report?

IBM,

1 15632

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16 20980

1.How will u link a list to crosstab.?i.e link a pramater in list so that it shows further information in cross tab.? 2.I have different regions,I want region specific logo to be displayed when I run the report.How it is done ? 3.Among Drill through and Master detail relationship which is more effective? 4.How do u hide a column in list report? Ans: In properties,Burn list option-check whichever column u wanna hide. 5.What is Roll play dimension? 6.What is Data Item Value n Parameter value?,What exactly it ll take when select either of them? 7.How many types of filters are there? 8.What will happen if u use detailed filter ?,n what is da result when used on summary filter?

TCS,

2204

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Un-Answered Questions { Cognos }

What is main advantage datawarehousing over oracle?

1002

What are the types of security?

1016

What is cognos connection?

1295

What do you understand by ‘ibm predictive maintenance and quality’?

989

What is cognos powerhouse?

1024

What is meant by drill down?

975

Why is auto-regression used in forecasting used on cognos platform?

1014

Helow, i have a problem with runing-total function when i use it for a calculate row (for example : i need to diplay a running-total of total units ?)

2440

can you tell me what are the dimension tables are used in project

2296

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?

4730

Write various indexes used in cognos?

967

What is the difference between regular dimension and derminant?

2271

What are the message flows?

976

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

959

Explain informatica architecture?

995

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