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

Cognos Interview Questions

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What is diffence between query calculation and layout calculation?

4 22818

we have a column of int/varchar datatype,but when we run the report we should get the date format i.e., suppose date key is a query item consists of data as 20040105,20030503,20060410....... output should be 5 jan 2004,3 may2003,10 apr 2006..........respectively.Can i knnow the answer

IBM,

4 6890

After generating value prompt,when we run the report... then we will get the prompt in the output.. Along with that prompt we will get diff types of symbols highlited......How can we hide those symbols?

IBM,

1 4579

After applying date prompt and when we run the report we fet from date and todate prompts..so when we enter todate

IBM,

1993

How can I change reports to another package???

IBM,

3 7017

1.How to apply sorting to Crosstab report? If so please give me example? 2.How to create Report level Joins?explain with example?

Cognizant,

2 8290

how to create relationship between emp and salgrade tables in frameworkmanager?

TCS,

1 4827

what is the use of layout component reference

Satyam,

3 15790

what is the difference between group span and level span

Satyam,

1 10073

how many notations are posible(cordinolity)are there in between two tables(one is fact and another is dimension)pls give me a example pls.

1882

hi my name is siraj i want to know cognos queriy language

2219

how to find the rank in report studio? i need steps for this question.

2 5839

Re: hi,dis is Hari.I'm searhing on cognos.1 want realtime scenarios with solutions.persons having hands on experience in real time plz help me out. my mail-id is shankerhari17@yahoo.com, hope u will respond as soon as possible. thank u in advance

Satyam,

2068

what is alias what is shortcut what ia alias shortcut and diff among them if u know explain clearly

TCS,

2 14527

what is conditional query subject and example

TCS,

2 6166

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Un-Answered Questions { Cognos }

Define dimensions?

980

Explain about scorecarding?

2019

What is a Framework manager?

990

Define catalog in cognos and write its various types?

1129

Define report item?

1109

What is cognos reporting tool?

1031

what are the errors faced while bursting the reports and how to solve those errors?

1957

faq's on cognos

4003

What is meant by drill down?

933

What is the metric store database?

920

Why cognos decision stream is used?

1085

What is metric store database?

951

What is the difference between Standard and Metrics folder?

1003

what is requery in cognos?

2453

How create measures and dimensions?

1011

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