What is Star schema group?

1 Answers   IBM,

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does query is created for date prompt?

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Hi Buddies...i am lalitha. i am willing to appear for cognos bi-author certification. can anyone of you send me cognos dump. please please help me.

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Can you define query studio?

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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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-----------Diff b/w OLAP and RDBMS?

0 Answers   Bank Of America,

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What is snapshot ?

4 Answers   IBM, TCS,

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What are the different types of OLAP. Which one is Cognos Powercube?

2 Answers   HSBC,

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What is drill down and slicing and dicing whats the difference between them?

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what is dimention?explain dimentable with example?

3 Answers   Syntel,

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WHAT IS METRIC STUDIO?WHAT IS SCORE CARDS HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT AND WHAT IS THE USE OF SCORE CARD?

1 Answers   IBM,

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What is the Main Difference between Conditional Block and Render Variable in Cognos. Both are used for Condtional rendering.But what is the Main Diff?

4 Answers   Wipro,

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