Part 1 : Cognos 1.What are the technologies that are used in cognos? 2.What are complex reports? 3.What is page break? 4.What is layout component? 5.How do you use extract function? 6.What is the use of Crosstab space? 7.What is Rank()? 8.What is the use of Query calculation and layout calculation? 9.What is Slicer and Dicer? 10.How can you create users in Cognos? 11.What is last child member? 12.What is the use of Conditional blocks? 13.What is Conditional Formatting? 14.What is group span? 15.In which types of reports does the page breaks applicable? Is it applicable in excel reports? 16.I want to show a up arrow and down arrow image in cross tab report, if the revenue is > 5000 (up arrow) and if <5000 (down arrow)? How will you achieve this? 17.What are types of Filters in RS? What is Summary Filter and Detail Filter? 18.What is Cast Function? 19.How will you create prompts for the example like this : In a single report I want a) List report (Need a prompt for this) b) Crosstab report (Need a separate prompt for this) c) Chart ()(Need a separate prompt for this) Part II : Framework Manager (FM) 1. What is Determinant in FM? 2. What is Cardinality? 3. What are the types of filters used in FM? 4. Can we create cubes with Relational Data sources? 5. What is Aliasing and Shortcut? 6. What is Session Parameter & Parameter Maps? 7. How many types of securities that we have in FM? 8. What is Data Security in FM? Part III : Data warehousing 1.What are various types of Schemas? 2.What is Star Schema and Snow Flow Schema? Difference between both? 3.What is surrogate key? Part IV : Databases 1.What are NVL Functions? 2.What is left outer join? Give an Example? 3.Can we straightaway use the tables that we have in the database instead of creating the package’s FM and making use of them, through Report Studio (RS)?

2 Answers   Satyam,

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What is the difference between List and Cross tab? Could some on explain with an example..

2 Answers   Barclays,

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wat is called Model dimension?

0 Answers   IBM,

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

0 Answers   IBM,

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hi all i am searching for cognos jobs pls inform about the jobs to:santosh.koora@gmail.com

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does query is created for date prompt?

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What is the deployment requirements used in cognos?

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Suppose you have a report with no data , when you run the report in report studio how can you tell the end user , that it has no data , while he runs it?Is it possible ? if so how?

5 Answers   TCS,

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what is Associated grouping? and how it works in cognos impromptu?

1 Answers   IBM,

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What is parameter maps & Session parameter?

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advantages of cascade prompt ???

3 Answers   iFlex,

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Explain the different types of views used in cognos.

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