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 9498

What is model filter and query filter?

Wipro,

2 7225

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 8283

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

CTS,

5 9942

what happens when date function has taken as attribute

TCS,

1 4913

what use of surgate key in project

HCL, TCS,

3 7960

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,

2326

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

TCS,

2 8010

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 9047

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2243

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

IBM,

2375

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 4593

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 5701

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 5471

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

DELL,

2 8412

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What are the methods by which it non-durable model could be changed into the durable model?

1010

tell me two or three issues from client side and how to solve those issues?

2220

what is the main advantage of impromptu over cognos reportnet?

1091

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

1026

how to test reports in cognos?

1082

What is the difference between a data mart and a data warehouse?

1092

what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagnos and which is better?

1208

Define cognos report net?

1014

How to limit the cut,copy and paste operations for an user in reportlevel? Can anyone please send me the steps as i am new to cognos?

2624

Why cognos decision stream is used?

1206

What is defined as Cognos Impromptu?

1130

Explain the different types of views used in cognos.

984

Can the expiration parameter of 365 in the cognos 8 configuration how to increase common symmetric key lifetime in days

3672

2. We have asked to create a repots showing sales by region in order to determine which regions are generating the most revenue and highest sales volume. The report needs to include the revenue and quantitiy sold of each subcategory with in category.

2274

Tell me about Dnamic and Static Dashboards?

2404

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