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

Cognos Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

1. Explain your project.

IBM,

2047

2. What functional area you worked on.

IBM,

2352

3. What was the size of your cube?

IBM,

1 4152

4. How many dimensions did you use in your reports?

IBM,

1953

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

IBM,

2020

6. Which of them will increase the performance?

1 3824

7. What is performance tuning?

1996

8. Can you use calculations in report headers and footers? How?

1 4690

9. What was the most complex type of report you dealt with?

2210

10. How many queries did you use in the complex reports? 11. How will you use the joins in the queries used in your report? 12. How many reports did you create in your project? 13. How many cubes did you create in your project? 14. How will you create .iqd file in FM. 15. Was your package multilingual or single language? 16. If you have created a single language package…and you have a client who need to access that in other language…how will you do that? 17. How many dimensions and facts did you use in your reports? 18. How will you use your package in Analysis studio? 19. Something like types of files in power play like pyi..i don’t remember this question. 20. If you want to create a prompt with 4 list, not containing any value using value prompt, which when we will see in the run time…if we will select any list, it should show us the data related to that list. 21. What all kind of packages you can create using FM. 22. In your project was your cube a relational or multidimensional? 23. I replied MD for the above question then they asked why did you use that? 24. How do you publish a cube? 25. Slicer and dicer….its use…where is it used? 26. Bursting…. 27. How many types of query subjects are there? 28. Difference between before and after aggregation?

2498

what is the difference between application based and web based in cognos?can you please give a example from out of EP 7 series and 8 series?genrel exampel please?

HCL,

2 5048

what is slowly growing dimension??

Accenture,

6 17461

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1 4256

What is render variable?Where do you exactly use in developing a report?

IBM,

3 10590

What are user classes?

HCL,

1 4055

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Un-Answered Questions { Cognos }

what is log in cognos?

1200

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

1016

What is main difference mapplets and mapping?

1193

Can you explain dynamic query mode?

1057

What r the names of the reports that you prepared?

981

Can you define folder?

963

7. What is performance tuning?

1996

Can you define a catalog and types of catalogs in cognos?

1056

What are the themes in a data warehouse?

1041

What is the diff between the following Report output-- HTML O/P, PDF O/P, EXCEL 2000 and EXCEL 2003 of report outputs? Listout main differences?

2076

Explain informatica architecture?

997

Why cognos decision stream is used?

1159

What are the components used in web tier?

990

What is the diff between cognos 8.1 & cognos 8.2 & cognos 8.3? Measn whet are the enhancements are added in new versions(8.2& 8.3)?

4389

What are all types of Batches?

1028

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