Here is a list of 60 important and commonly asked interview questions for Cognos ( A reporting tool developed by IBM ). Download Complete Cognos Interview Questions PDF file. Cognos is one of the great tools to analyze the data from data warehouse. If you looking for the resources to learn online refer our Cognos Tutorials and PDF guides. Now let us look into those questions.
- Prepare for the first interview question anout the Cognos Tool. They will ask what is that tools or tell the tool in a few words like that
- What is called a Cognos Connection
- What is called a report item in Cognos
- What is called a filter. For which purpose you are going to use that
- What is meant by a query subject.
- Tell me about different types of prompt
- Have you header about Drill Through? What is that?
- Name the Report Net components
- Difference between Content store and content manager
- What is Embedded filter and stand alone filter. What are the differences ?
- Have you header about Cognos 8 BI
- Tell me about folfer types in Cognos
- What is a standalone folder
- What is a package folder
- What is a metrics folder
- What is macros and promot? what are the difference between them?
- What is called a transformer in Cognos?
- Tell me about catalog and various types of catalogs
- Expect a question about Cardinality
- Question about Security Module
- Generating cubers procedure
- Snapshot in Cognos
- Expect questions about Datastores
- Question about Metric store database
- Tell me about View and materialized view.
- Question about Data Mart and Data warehouse ( One of the important question )
- DTM
- Have you used repository manager in Cognos ? What are the uses ?
- Cascading Prompts