Hotfile:: In impromptu , snapshot of a report is saved as hotfile. As .ims file if scheduled first .

ims file has to be refreshed at data source refreshed time.

http://www.allinterview.com/Interview-Questions/Cognos.html Indexes? Normalisation types? How to create cube in Transformer? Governers? Materialised view & normal view Security in FM Locking & Unlocking? Use of Determinents? Running total? Layers in framework manager? Drill through and master detail? SCDs Usage property? Regular dimension & measured dimension? What is parameter and macro? Types of variables? Stored procedure in FWM? What is work flow ? Can we create reports without having metadata? How to use query explorer and page explorer?

Roll up line set? Stored procedure and function? What is unknown function? Commit and roll back differences? Mphasis

http://interviewquestionsandanswers.biz/13-types-of-job-interview/ Cognos interview questions 2013 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. Why did you leave your last job? 3. What is your greatest weakness? 4. What kind of salary are you looking for Cognos.position? 5. What experience do you have for Cognos role? 6. What are new Cognos techniques that you recommend for our company in 2013? 7. What do you know about our company and products? 8. What are job trainings that you attended in 2012? 9. What is your career plan for 2013 that related to Cognos role? 10. What are top 3 knowledge/top 3 skills for Cognos position? 11. What tertiary qualifications have you attained that related to Cognos position? 12. What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to Cognos position?

1.Explain the Cognos Architecture? 2.What is Singleton? 3.What is Fact less Fact table?

4.Diff b/w Prompts and Conditional Blocks? 5.Diff b/w Level span and Group span? 6.What is Conditional Formatting? 7.Types of Prompts Used? Ever used Tree prompt? 8.How to create Template? 9.How to create Portal tab? 10.Types of Variables? 11.Know what is Dispatcher in Cognos? 12.What are the Layout Components? 13.What is Render Variable? 14.What is meant by Macro? Any diff b/w Macro & Prompt? 15.How to schedule a report which has a prompt in it? 16.What is Primary key and candidate key? 17.Diff b/w Primary and Surrogate keys? 18.Dis-advantages of Value Prompt, if any? 19.What is DOLAP? where we use it? 1. How to build a cube in Cognos 8 using Framework Manger? 2. Master detailed relationship 3. fact less fact table 4. How to evaluate the cube? 5. what are the different performance tuning techniques of a cognos cube? 6. what is the difference between the render variable and the style variable? 7. Framework Manager 8. Query Studio 9. what is the difference between a cascading report and drillthru report?why do we go for drill thru what is the difference between a cascading report and drillthru report? why do we go for drill thru report? 10. How can I create a dynamic column name in Cognos 11. Import two data sources to Framework Manager in Cognos 12. What is object security in framework manager? 13. Cognos Decision Stream 14. Materialized view

15. Performance tuning in model and report level 16. Static Choice 17. what are complex reports? 18. What is the difference between parameter and variable in report studio 19. how to configure content store in Cognos? 20.What is level span? How it is used in Cognos? what is the main advantage of level span. 21. cognos improve report performance 22. What different kinds of SQL you can write at the report level What is tabular SQL,Tabular Modal and Tabular Set 23. Cognos Model 24. What is usage property? 25. How to show the data reported horizontally For example employee skill1 a1 b1 c2 d2 e2 fReport result:1 abc2 def 26. How to combine two crosstab reports in to single crosstab report?

27. How do you handle this DB Schema changes in our Framework manager to update automatically our meta How do you handle this DB Schema changes in our Framework manager to update automatically our meta data run metadata wizard in FM 28. How to create Cube from Power play transformer by using SQL Server Database(with out creating IQD file using Cognos Impromptu from SQL Server)

29. what is drill down and slicing and dicing whats the difference between them.

30.what is model and say about process how to create model and how to test model 31. Define Dimensions, measures, Regular dimensions and Measure Dimensions 32. What is data processing?

33. How can we use NVL function/Dataformat to resolve the Blank spaces in our report. Explain with navigation 34. How do you utilize Java Script within Cognos? 35. How do you speed up the report execution even though it has lot of charts. 36. How to pass multiple values from picklist prompt to sub report filter

37. what is spanning of tree 38. How to use Lookup Command? 39. What are the steps involved in migrating CRN enviroment to Cognos 8 40.how can i schedule reports in cognos 41. what is snapshot What is meant by Junk Dimension? How do you perfom while running the report? What is meant by Junk Dimension?How do you perfom while running the report? Where will you see the time of running report? Size of the cube? What are the types of prompts in ReportNet? What is macro and how it will be work? What is difference between Cognos and Cognos ReportNet? How do you create cube in ReportNet? There are 10 facts are there.How will you connect all? 43. what is incremental refreshing of a cube and how can we do it

44. When You Import data into catalog You have complex columns names. How do you change the Name of those columns? 45. What are the Ways to Import Data into Catalog?(2 ways)

46. What is catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos and which is better 47. what is the difference between cognos 8 and cognos reportnet 1.1mr1,cognos reportnet 1.1mr2?

48. What do you mean by slow dimensions? 49. 1.In middle level project aprox How many Number of Dimension and Facts exist? 2.In a complex report how many maxm. No. of dimensions exist in a Cube? 50.How to improve Report performance in ReportNet. What is meant by Junk Dimension? How do you perfom while running the report? Where will you see the time of running report? Where will you see Size of the cube? What are the types of prompts in ReportNet? What is macro and how it will be work? What is difference between Cognos and Cognos ReportNet? How do you create cube in ReportNet? There are 10 facts are there.How will you connect all?

SQL-Questions: 20.What is Inline query? 21.Diff b/w Delete, Truncate & Drop?