Saturday 26 May 2012

IBM Cognos Interview Questions, Cognos Interview Questions PDF free download

1. What are products of cognos? 
2. How can i test reports in cagonos?
3. How can i schedule reports in cognos?
4. How can create users and permissions in cognos?
5. What is Cognos Visualizer and Cognos Scripting?
6. How do add dynamic titles in PP?
7. What you mean by Drill across and what is the difference between drill through, drill across?

8. What is loop in framework manager?
9. How create measures and Dimensions?
10. what is meant by alternate drill down with ex?
11. What is the difference between enterprise data warehouse and data warehouse?
12. How you drill from powerPLay to Impromptu? Explain all Steps?
13. What is Zero-foot print? What are the other methods working as deployment functionality?

14. What is difference between PAGE BREAK and Section Report?
15. Give me any example of semi and non additive measures?
16. What is drill down and slicing and dicing whats the difference between them?
17. What is the difference between a cascading report and drill through report?why do we go for drill thru report?
18. What Junk Dimension contains?
19. In my report contain Product name, Amount, Country, Sales person.
20. What is meant by Junk Dimension?
21. Suppose you run a report with empty data, how will you inform the end user that it has no data while running the report in report studio? is it possible, if so how?
22. What is the difference b/w macros and prompt?
23. What is Cognos Powerhouse and what is it used for?
24.  How can we create a dynamic column name in Cognos?
25. What is the security module used in cognos?
26. What is report burn and where it occurs?
27. What is difference between drill through and drill down?
28. How can I change reports to another package?
29. How to create users and permissions in cognos?
30. What is the difference between macros and prompt?
31. What is Cognos Visualizer and Cognos Scripting?
32. What is query subject?
33. What are the Ways to Import Data into Catalog?
34. When we save a report in report studio with what extn it save?
35. How can I convert a list report/Cross tab Report in Cognos EP series into a bar chart or pie chart etc.?

36. How many numbers of cubes can we create on a single model? How can wenavigate between those cubes?
37. What is the difference between drill down and drill through?
38. What is the difference between group and association?
39. What is Cardinality?
40. How to test reports in cognos?
41. How you create security to reports?
42. How to configure the Cognos configurations to work in the Windows 2000 Server machine?
43. What is drill down and slicing and dicing what are the difference between them?
44. What are the enhancements in Cognos Reportnet ?
45. Explain the different stages in creating a report in cognos report net?
46. What is Report item?
47. How to perform single sign on in Cognos by using URL?
48. What is loop in framework manager?
49. How you migrate reports to cognos 8 from previous versions?
50. What are the filters in Framework Manager and Report Studio?
51. How u migrate the reports from impromptu to reportnet?

 52. What is IQD? What is contained in IQD?
53. How we check the errors before running the report, Plz let me know the answer?
54. What are the special features in COGNOS REPORT NET?
55. How you create IQD In ReportNet Framework?
56. How to pass multiple values from pick list prompt to sub report filter?
57. What is Stitch Query in Reportnet?
58. What is Snapshot ?
59. What is cube size?
60. What is log in cognos?
61. What is associated grouping? And how it works in cognos impromptu?
62. What are the limitations of cognos reportnet?
63. What is loop in framework manager ?
64. What are the different ways of adding data in Transformer?
65. What are slowly changing dimensions? Why we are used SCD?
66. What r the names of the reports that u prepared?
67. What is the importance of Dimension in the cognos.?
68. What is exact catalog size?
69. Give me some examples for Lifecycle reporting, I mean which life cycle we will use for reporting?
70. HOW MANY LEVELS CAN BE USED IN DRILL THROUGH REPORTS?
71. Where u can save the Report net documentation in our local system?
72. What is model and how to create model and how to test model?
73. How to crate cubes in transformer ?
74. How to create measures and Dimensions?
75. How to select multiple values from Type-in prompt?