Cognos RS Interview Questions

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What are the different types of explorers in report studio? Difference between filter and condition? What is difference btw summary filter and detail filter? What are the various file formats involved in report net. What are the special features of o!nos " in comparison of #eport net 1.1. What is burst reportin!? &ow can we limit the max no of rows retrieved in report studio? What are the difference between o!nos #eport 'tudio and (uery 'tudio? What is an ad hoc report? What is the difference between +acro and ,rompt? What is the difference between #eport view- 'hortcut and opy? Why we use Determinants? What is the difference between .ative '(/ and o!nos '(/? What is the difference between ascadin! prompt and Drill throu!h #eport? &ow could u avoid .0// values in your report? Difference between filters and prompts. onditional 1loc2 Disadvanta!e of 3extbox prompt. What is firewall and how it provides security to the o!nos "?

21. 4f 4 delete a column from a report usin! pa!e explorer- whether that column is presented in the 5uery? 22. 23. &ow can we provide all 6 default selection in prompt pa!e. &ow can we improve performance in report studio level?

Cognos RS Interview Questions

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&ow can we do unit testin!? What is the use of #ender 7ariable? an we chan!e the report connection from one pac2a!e to another pac2a!e? &ow can we do union and intersection operation in #eport 'tudio? What is the use of 'licer? What is the difference between Drill 3hrou!h 6 +aster Detail #eport What is the use of 8au!e hart in o!nos "? &ow can we restrict the no of rows per pa!e in list report permanently? 9uto 8roup and summari:e. What complex report you created in your pro;ect? &ow can we create top 1* and bottom 1* records in the same list? What is meanin! of <,4? o!nos " is #=/9, or +=/9,? What is the use of crosstab space? What is the use of conditional formattin!? an we provide ;oins in #eport 'tudio and in which situation we can !o for outer 4s cascadin! prompt 6 tree prompt are similar? 4f a user selects a value in a prompt how can we display in report viewer? What is the use of level span >8roup 'pan?in o!nos "? What is the difference between layout calculation and 5uery calculation? What is the ma;or difference between /ist report and ross tab report? &ave you created any score card and Dash board?

Cognos RS Interview Questions

4$. &ow can we remove the duplicate records in report studio- can it improve the performance or not? 4%. 4". 4). 5*. 51. What is the use of 8enerated prompt? What is the use of /ay out omponent #ef? What is the difference between #eport 'tudio 6 9nalysis 'tudio? What is the use of 9d hoc #eport? What is the meanin! of 9!!re!ation and #ollup 9!!re!ation?

52. &ow can we hide the columns in #eport 'tudio and how can we view the hidin! =b;ects? 53. What is the use of 7iew 3abular data?

54. 4f we ta2e a Date ,rompt and run it once it will show default data- how can we chan!e it exact 1 month bac2 data? 55. 5$. 5%. 5". 5). $*. What is the use of pa!e sets? &ow to create 1urstin! #eports? ascadin! ,rompt !ive me one scenario. What is the use of lasses? What is the difference between 1oolean 7ariable 6 'trin! variable? What is the use of 'chedulin!?

$1. What is the use of Deployment? =r how can we move our reports from one @nvironment to 9nother @nvironment? $2. $3. $4. $5. $$. 4f you have a prompt in your report- after schedulin! the report will it run? &ow can you improve ,erformance in o!nos onnection ,ortal? &ow can we hide 9nalysis 'tudio in o!nos onnection ,ortal? What is the difference between #e5uired- =ptional 6 Disabled? &ow can we create Dynamic report headers?

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&ow can we create Drill 0p 6 Drill Down in #eport 'tudio? What is the use of #epeater #eport? What are the limitations of value prompts What is the difference when we #un the report in both &3+/ 6 ,DA formats &ow can we do the chan!es on +ultiple #eport at a time? What are the /imitations in o!nos ". When we apply the Drill 3hrou!h from ,DA #eport Will it wor2 in What is your 14 'erver .ame - 3ell me some of the report names =8.=' "

%5. When we run the report there is no data for the 4B, - &ow can we show the text item CD3here is no data for this 4B,. %$. %%. %". %). "*. "1. What is the use of &3+/ item? &ow can we use a Eava 'cript in #eport? What is the use of 'i:e and over flow? &ow does u display an ima!e in all pa!es of a report? &ow does u define an alert messa!e to user? &ow does u hide the rows that have null values? Difference between !roupin! and a!!re!ation?

"2. What is the use of combinational chart and difference between line and bar charts? "3. What are limitations of chart reports?

"4. 4f 4 select the current month and year how can we display previous 11 months data? "5. "$. "%. What is the meanin! of dimension info? What is the meanin! of discontinuous cross tab report? What is the difference between cross tab node and cross tab node member?

Cognos RS Interview Questions

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an we develop the reports without pac2a!e? &ow can we show the report execution time in the report output? What reports we can develop in analysis studio? &ow can we display tabs in the report Aooter >@xF,98@ 1 2 3 4 5...last??

1**. &ow reports are lin2ed to database? 1*1. What is the diff between public folders and my folders? 1*2. What is the use of section? 1*4. &ow can we drill throu!h from 1 report to 2 reports at a time based on common column? 1*5. What is the disadvanta!e of master detail 5uery is another option available in report studio? 1*$. ,ro;ect architecture. 1*%. Define Web based omponents? 1*". What is the difference between /ist and rosstab? 1*). What is difference between drill throu!h and drill down? 11*. &ow can 4 chan!e reports to another pac2a!e? 111. &ow to create a dynamic column name in o!nos? 112. &ow to select multiple values from 3ypeGin prompt? 113. When we save a report in report studio with what extn it save?