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Cognos Question 2
Cognos Question 2
1.
What is Cognos Reporting tool?
Cognos is a Reporting tool from IBM which helps in reporting and analysis of var
ious data from a data warehouse.
2.
What is Cognos Connection?
It is a Web portal for Cognos 8 and a component which interracts with the Conten
t Store. It is a frontend to publish, find, manage, organize, and view organizat
ion s business intelligence data.
3.
What is Report item?
Report item is nothing but a query item when it is drag and drop into the work a
rea.
4.
What is Cardinality?
Cardinality is nothing but relation between tables.
One to One > One to Many > Many to Many > Many to One
5.
What is data mining?
Data mining is a process of extracting hidden trends within a data warehouse.
6.
What are the types of prompt in Cognos?
Value prompt ,Text Prompt, Date prompt, Time prompt, Date and time prompt
7.
What is Drill Through?
Drill-through reporting allows you to link from one report to another. You can d
rill through in a number of ways. > A Drill Through id developed with two report
s.
1. Parent Report > 2. Child Report.
8.
What are the components of Report Net?
Framework manager ,Cognos connection, Query Studio, Report Studio
9.
What is difference between content store and content manager?
A content store is a data base which stores the meta data of the reports.
But where as a content manager is a service which is available in dispatcher. wh
ich it manages the security.
10.
What is OLAP?
OLAP stands for On Line Analytical Processing, a series of protocols used mainly
for business reporting.
11.
What are components of report studio?
Insertable Objects pane > Properties pane > Explorer bar >Report Viewer
12.
What is Snap Shot?
snapshot is a static datasource it is a picture of of report once u created a sn
apshot report u can't add a data item.
13.
How do you define a cube?
Its a multidimensional view of dimension and measures. It is used to analyze the
data in various aspects, which is called slicing and dicing.
14.
What is the Difference between PowerPlay transformer and power play reports?
Powerplay transformer' is an MOLAP tool using which one can create multi dimension
al structure called CUBE .
Powerplay for reports is used to generate report from the cube.Only one report c
an be generated from one cube.If u want n reports u must create n cubes.
15.
What is cube size?
2.0 GBIt depends on ur project requirements.
16.
What is meant by Junk Dimension?
The Junk Dimension also called as garbage dimension.
A junk dimension is a convenient grouping of typically low-cardinality flags and
indicators.
17.
What is transformer?
Transformer is used for building the Cubes (Multidimensional Structure used for
OLAP
18.
What is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos?
A catalog is a file containing the information (Database tables) that Impromptu
users need to create reports. > personal > distributed > hared > secured
19.
What is Cardinality?
Relationships exist between two query subjects. The cardinality of a relationshi
p is the number of related rows for each of the two query subjects. The rows are
related by the expression of the relationship; this expression usually refers t
o the primary and foreign keys of the underlying tables.
20.
How to join multiple db in catalog?
Mutiple database could not be connected in a single catalog. So that we use hotf
ile for thispurpose.
21.
How to generate cubes in cognos?
Power Play Transformer contain dimension,measure,model and cube. we can generate
cube different way. > Just right click on cube name and build.
we can write script in unix. using that we can generate cube.
22.
What is snapshot?
A Snapshot is the copy of data, when we create a snapshot it copies the exact da
ta that'srelated to the at perticular report, we use snapshot when ever we want
to compare reports.(Example :we want to compare this months report with previous
months).
23.
Define datastores in Cognos?
Data sources, also known as query databases, are relational databases, dimension
alcubes, files, or other physical data stores that can be accessed through IBM C
ognos8. Application Tier Components use data source connections to access data s
ources.
24.
What is metric store database?
A metric store database is a special case of a query database. A metric storedat
abase is used to store the information associated with metrics that appear insco
recards, including targets performance metrics , thresholds , embership in sorec
ards
links to related reports.
25.
What is difference between view and materialized view?
Views contains query whenever execute views it has read from base table Where as
M views loading or replicated takes place only once which gives you better quer
y performance.
26.
What is difference between data mart and data warehouse?
A data mart designed for a particular line of business, such as sales, marketing
, or finance.
Where as data warehouse is enterprise-wide/organizational
The data flow of data warehouse depending on the approach.
27.
What is DTM?
DTM transform data received from reader buffer and its moves transformation to t
ransformation on row by row basis and it uses transformation caches when necessa
ry.
28.
What are the different uses of a repository manager?
Repository manager used to create repository which contains metadata the informa
tica uses to transform data from source to target. And also it use to create inf
ormatica user s and folders and copy, backup and restore the repository.
29.
What is a folder?
Folder contains repository objects such as sources, targets, mappings, transform
ation which are helps logically organize our data warehouse.
30.
Explain Informatica Architecture?
Informatica consist of client and server. Client tools such as Repository manage
r, Designer, Server manager. Repository data base contains metadata it read by i
nformatica server used read data from source, transforming and loading into targ
et.
31.
How do you call a store procedure within a transformation?
In the expression transformation create new out port in the expression write :sp
.stored procedure name(arguments).
32.
What is difference between Informatica power mart and power center?
Using power center we can create global repository
Power mart used to create local repository
Global repository configure multiple server to balance session load
Local repository configure only single server
33.
What are the batches and it s details?
Sequential(Run the sessions one by one
Concurrent (Run the sessions simultaneously)
34.
What is main difference mapplets and mapping?
Reuse the transformation in several mappings, where as mapping not like that.
If any changes made in mapplets it automatically inherited in all other instance
mapplets.
35.
Source table has 5 rows. Rank in rank transformation is set to 10. How many rows
the rank transformation will output? Ans ) 5 Rank.
36.
What is bitmap index?
A bitmap for each key value replaces a list of rowids. Bitmap index more efficie
nt for data warehousing because low cardinality, low updates, very efficient for
where class.
37.
Why need staging area database for DWH?
Staging area needs to clean operational data before loading into data warehouse.
Cleaning in the sense your merging data which comes from different source
38.
What is slowly changing dimension?
Dimension attribute values may change constantly over the time. (Say for example
customer dimension has customer_id,name, and address) customer address may chan
ge over time.
39.
What is difference between primary key and unique key constraints?
Primary key maintains uniqueness and not null values Where as unique constrains
maintain unique values and null values.
40.
What are the types of index?
Bitmap index ,B-tree index, Function based index ,reverse key and composite inde
x. We used Bitmap index in our project for better performance.
41.
What are the different uses of a repository manager?
Repository manager used to create repository which contains metadata the informa
tica uses to transform data from source to target. And also it use to create inf
ormatica user s and folders and copy, backup and restore the repository.
42.
What are shortcuts? Where it can be used? What are the advantages?
There are 2 shortcuts(Local and global) Local used in local repository and globa
l used in global repository. The advantage is reuse an object without creating m
ultiple objects. Say for example a source definition want to use in 10 mappings
in 10 different folder without creating 10 multiple source you create 10 shotcut
s.
Cognos 8 and 10 Interview Question
1) What is a Data Warehouse?
A Data Warehouse is a collection of data marts representing historical data from
different operation data sources (OLTP). The data from these OLTP are structure
d and optimized for querying and analysis in a Data Warehouse.
2) Define Cognos Report Net?
Cognos Report Net is the web-based, dynamic, business intelligence reporting sol
ution from Cognos.
3) What are the tiers of the ReportNet Architecture?
The ReportNet architecture can be separated into three tiers:
* Web server
* Applications
* Data