Cognos Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is dash board?

Syntel,

2 5313

what is field set? what is the query calculation and layout calculation?

Syntel,

2 15199

what is tabular set? how can you break the report?

Syntel,

1 5931

what are the types of facts ? explain them?

Business Objects, Informatica, Syntel, Teradata,

2 21948

what is bobble chart?

Syntel,

1 4756

how can you get the errors in job? when loops are araised we get error?

Syntel,

1664

what is stitch query?

Syntel,

2 7277

what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?

HCL,

5 8648

what is view? types of views?

HCL,

3 6868

what is online view?

HCL,

1531

how can you create a report like if country=india then true if contry=spain then false?

Syntel,

2 5139

what is your project workflow and your role in the project?

Syntel,

5 10033

difference between stored procedure and function?

Syntel,

4 7585

how many types of formats you can run a report using cognos?

HCL,

4 8389

what are the components having in the report studio using interface eg:insertable objects pan,properties pan

HCL,

1 4198


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Which lifecycle we will use for reporting?

570


what are all the versions of cognos and cognos8 as well as mention all the advantages nd disadvantages in cognos8 versions. any one plz answer this question.

2035


my table having data like this year month revenue 2011 jan 100 2011 feb 200 2011 mar 150 like this i want My report 2011 jan 100 2011 feb 100+200=300 2011 mar 300+150=450 like this for this where we specify the condition how will specify? pls ans me pls...

3524


How is possible this scenario using in type-in prompt.?

603


Mention the difference between ‘macros’ and ‘prompt’?

614






How can I schedule reports in cognos?

608


What is the use of report studio?

621


----------------------What are the User Securities?

1471


Define datastores in cognos?

564


how to create cubes in transformer ?

626


what is degenerate key in oracle ?whare do we use it?

2075


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?

4221


What are all the types of gateway used in Cognos?

559


How to select multiple values from type-in prompt?

651


What is defined as catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos?

581