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

Cognos Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is limited local? and the uses?

Ness Technologies,

2 9363

What is model filter and query filter?

Wipro,

2 7090

suppose i want to do drill through a column only for the values which is having more than > 50000. how can i do that?

Mind Tree,

2 8153

How can we give the same color for alternate(1,3,5.... and 2,4,8...) cells in a column?

CTS,

5 9691

what happens when date function has taken as attribute

TCS,

1 4818

what use of surgate key in project

HCL, TCS,

3 7812

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

CTS,

2279

I want to schedule the report as sysdate-1.....how to do

TCS,

2 7883

How can you schedule a report based on different time zone ?(ex: local time should be same as 10 am . Japan should get the report at 10 am. USA should get the report at 10 am).Is that possible?

HCL, iGate,

1 8960

hi, i am searching job in cognos and datastage, does any can provide me the real time experieced scenerios and questions related to cognos and datastage projects, so if anyone provide me the documents related this can very helpful to me, my mail id is tchiru01@yahoo.com

2189

what r the reports u faced critical and how it can be solved .. any once can u give a best ans for interviw

IBM,

2309

Hi Friends, Please tell me at What situations we use the Segment, Link in FM, What is the Main Difference functionality wise? Thank You

1 4522

Hi Friends, Just want to know, day to day is increasing or decreasing Cognos Usage in the Market? New Reporting tools to driving Reporting Market Spotfire, Tableau,Qlick View, some other New Tools. Which Reporting tool can generate Lot of Opportinities in the Market? Please Reply to this, My Advanced Thank to you. Thank You Kumar

2 5589

Hi Friends, What is the Max no.of rows in a report & a page? If we have Master, Detail Reports, I have define drill through, Requirement is When i run Master Report it should run in HTML, when i drill through to detailed report it should get into PDF is it Possible in Cognos? Thank You Kumar

2 5349

Why Star Schema is de-normalized? Please explain in detail probably with some examples.

DELL,

2 8264

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Un-Answered Questions { Cognos }

1. We have been asked to add summary information to sales reprasentatives performance report. The report needs to be grouped by country and city to compare performance between areas Also we need to include revenue totals for each city and each country.

2197

What do you understand by the term 'dynamic cube'?

1007

Can you define slice?

1034

Can you define a datastore in cognos?

1030

Write various indexes used in cognos?

967

--------------Explain Table of contents?

2018

What is meant by Reportstudio shortcut?

2186

how to create measures and dimensions?

1101

how u burst the reports? if u r bursted reports is not reached to destination how u identify???

11733

-------------What is Coditional Prompting?

2147

What are various types of gateways in cognos?

1051

hi, this is harish. i had finsihed cognos course recently.can some one help in the area of project explination, interview questions,real time scenarious....this is my maild id nanagupta907@gmail.com

1933

Which studio is used to create reports?

1106

Can you define query studio?

958

What do you mean by Drill down and Drill Up?

994

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