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

Cognos Interview Questions

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What is diffence between query calculation and layout calculation?

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we have a column of int/varchar datatype,but when we run the report we should get the date format i.e., suppose date key is a query item consists of data as 20040105,20030503,20060410....... output should be 5 jan 2004,3 may2003,10 apr 2006..........respectively.Can i knnow the answer

IBM,

4 6872

After generating value prompt,when we run the report... then we will get the prompt in the output.. Along with that prompt we will get diff types of symbols highlited......How can we hide those symbols?

IBM,

1 4574

After applying date prompt and when we run the report we fet from date and todate prompts..so when we enter todate

IBM,

1988

How can I change reports to another package???

IBM,

3 6999

1.How to apply sorting to Crosstab report? If so please give me example? 2.How to create Report level Joins?explain with example?

Cognizant,

2 8281

how to create relationship between emp and salgrade tables in frameworkmanager?

TCS,

1 4820

what is the use of layout component reference

Satyam,

3 15781

what is the difference between group span and level span

Satyam,

1 10069

how many notations are posible(cordinolity)are there in between two tables(one is fact and another is dimension)pls give me a example pls.

1876

hi my name is siraj i want to know cognos queriy language

2214

how to find the rank in report studio? i need steps for this question.

2 5831

Re: hi,dis is Hari.I'm searhing on cognos.1 want realtime scenarios with solutions.persons having hands on experience in real time plz help me out. my mail-id is shankerhari17@yahoo.com, hope u will respond as soon as possible. thank u in advance

Satyam,

2066

what is alias what is shortcut what ia alias shortcut and diff among them if u know explain clearly

TCS,

2 14510

what is conditional query subject and example

TCS,

2 6157

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Can you define snapshot?

881

Write types of folders present in cognos?

1023

Define the cognos reporting tool?

995

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........

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5. Which type of report you build more, list, crosstab or chart and why?

1952

How can we import Excel data in to FWM?Wt is mean by Ragged dimensions?where can we observe the Regular dimensions & measure dimensions?

3250

how you burst the reports? If you are bursted reports is not reached to destination how you identify?when you import data into catalog you have complex columns names.how do you change the name of those columns?

1102

What are the types of hierarchies?

972

How can you link a query to a data container manually in Report Studio?

2309

Explain is there any comparison available for cognos reportnet vs crystal reports?

907

What is the difference between set functions and filter function in dimensional data?

2849

Can you define cube?

972

What is called cognos reporting tool?

986

What are the advantages of cognos?

918

what are slowly changing dimensions? Why we are used scd?

1058

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