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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suppose i want to do drill through a column only for the values which is having more than > 50000. how can i do that?

2 Answers   Mind Tree,

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how u provide security to reports??how u provide security to packages ?

5 Answers   Wipro,

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how to change the colour of the bar in charts...?

3 Answers   IBM,

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What are the procedures (or) methods using in Migration process in cognos? I.e. the created report is in development server that moves into production server (client server). Shall we drag or copy the file moving from development to production? It is possible or could you tell me that how will we do it?

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I have two queries in first query i have to show all values,in second query i have to show 3 values and want to hide 3 values what prompt ur going to use, why that prompt

0 Answers   CTS,

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What DB View and Bus View?

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Is cognos models are version compatible?

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write a query to display the third record from the employee table?

6 Answers   HCL,

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How can I disable the drill-down for the last level of my dimensional hierarchy ????

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Difference between cognos report net and cognos8

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can any one explain about blue prints&performance tuning in cognos? 

1 Answers   TCS,

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