1. Difference between Master-Detail and Drill-Through.

BY USINS MASTER DETAILED RELATIONSHIP WE CAN NAVIGATE LINKS IN THE SAME REPORT WHERE AS BY USING DRILL-THROUGH OPTION WE CAN NAVIGATE REPORT TO REPORT LINKING You need to have a common column in the master and detail queries, you use this column in the master-detail relationship. What effectively happens is the detail query is 'filtered' based on the value in the master query. 2. Types of prompts. Textbox prompt, Value Prompt, Date, Date and time, Search and select, Generated, Tree prompt. 3. What is Tree Prompt. Tree Prompts are used in dimensional reporting and allow the user to submit a value from any displayed level within a dimension's hierarchy. 4. What is limited local. Database only specifies that all query processing is performed on the database, and none is performed and cached by the IBM Cognos report server. The query executes successfully only if all query operations can be performed by the database. Limited Local specifies that little, or possibly none, of the query processing is performed by the Cognos report server. Local processing only occurs if the database cannot handle the query. Database Only = ALL Queries are processed by the Database. If this is not possible, you get an error and your reports won't worl Limited Local = Cognos is allowed to process Queries, which can't be processed completely on the Databse, at the local Cognos Machine. This improves the flexibility, but may slow down your things. Sometimes you HAVE to use this Feature, for example when you make Models/Joins with objects from two different Data Sources. 5. What is Static Choice. In value prompt if you want to pass values which are not in DB then we use static choices and pass them. 6. Types of Variables. Boolean and string variables, Language. 7. Difference between Conditional block and Render Variable. In conditional block the object you put in the block(list, crosstab etc) can be made invisible or not depending on the variable. we assign this conditional block to render variable. While in case of render variable only the column that you want to cut off from ur report will be rendered by the variable condition. 8. What is cascade prompt. Cascading prompt uses the value from the previous prompt to filter the value in the current prompt.

For Cascading no need of two reports.If a report having two related columns (e.g. Country & States),then we can cascade these two columns by adding two value prompts. 9. How multiselect works in cascade prompt. If the child is having multi select it works normal. If parent u need multi select then u need to add reprompt then only user can select the multiple values. If u use multi select we cant use Auto submit as YES. Make the source prompt as Multiselect and then make the target prompt also multi select. Add the prompt button to the prompt page and change the Type to Reprompt. 10. What is ancestor button. In the properties pane ancestor button is uesed to select the element of the ancestor can be selected. Now go to the report page. Select anything on the page. Using ancestor button, select the whole Page object. 11. What is balanced hierarchy and un-balanced hierarchy. In a balanced hierarchy, all branches of the hierarchy descend to the same level, and each member's logical parent is the level immediately above the member. The Product dimension in the FoodMart 2000 sample database is a good example of a balanced hierarchy. Each member in the Product Name level has a parent member in the Brand Name level, which in turn has a parent member in the Product Subcategory level, and so on. Also, every branch in the hierarchy can be traced, from highest to lowest level, to a member in the Product Name level. In an unbalanced hierarchy, branches of the hierarchy descend to different levels. For example, an Organization dimension contains a member for each employee in a company. The CEO is the top member in the hierarchy, and the division managers and executive secretary are immediately beneath the CEO. The division managers have subordinate members but the executive secretary does not. The Employees dimension in the FoodMart 2000 sample database is a good example of an unbalanced hierarchy. 12. Difference between Filter and Prompt. If you want to restrict some data based on some condition. Prompt is used to give user to select or give the value for applying the filter condition. 13. Difference between Excel2000, Excel2002 (Single Sheet) and Excel2007. The report output will be displayed in the corresponding version of output. 14. What is Template in Crosstab report? 15. What is parameter? Parameter is a value which user selects in the prompt and it is passed to filter the data. 16. Define Data source, model and stored procedure query subjects. 17. What is stitched query? 18. What is determinents? 19. What is Embedded and Standalone filter?

20. What is Dimensional modeled relationship? 21. What are the different ways to connect to database? 22. What is deployment? 23. What is detailed and summary filter and What is the difference? 24. What is star and snow flake schemas and differences? 25. How to retrieve 5th and 7th row? 26. What is auto summary group in FM? 27. What is query set? 28. What is scope relationship? 29. What is session parameter? 30. What is non-local? 31. What is dashboard? 32. Difference between Primary key and surrogate key? 33. What is Parameter map? 34. Types of joins? 35. What is self join? 36. What is Dimension and Fact Table? 37. What is cardinality? How to set cardinality in FM? 38. What is IQD? 39. How to create a cube? 40) What is Portlet? 41) Page1 - pdf; page2 - xl. How you create? 42) Star Schema, Snowflake Schema and Galaxy Schema 43) What is Cognos Architecture 44) When report runs, which service runs 45) When Job Schedules , which service runs 46) Detailed filter and Summary filter 47) Which SQL generates when before auto aggregation happens and after aggregation 48) What is Star Schema grouping 49) What is your Complex report 50) What is shortcuts in FM 51) What is roll-up aggregation 52) How to create model in FM 53) Features in Oracle 9i 54) Group span 55) Slicer 56) Can we have more than one measure in crosstab 57) How to do Scheduling of the report 58) What is set page break 59) What is layout component reference 60) What is layout calculation 61) What is bursting of the report 62) What is Query processing 63) What is Junk Dimension 64) How many types of Schemas present 65) What is testing life cycle 66) What is Drill-Through reports 67) What is crosstab space 68) What is White space

69) Context filter 70) What is Report Specification 71) Content Manager 72) Cognos Access Manager 73) What is Unit testing 74) What is Drill-Through bookmarks 75) Difference between Report Studio and Analysis Studio 76) How to see the cognos generated SQL 77) What is Performance testing 78) Difference between 8.3 and 8.4 79) What is SQL override 80) What is Dashboard? How to create it 81) Conditional format 82) How many types of SQL in Cognos 83) What is Business Layer and Presentation layer 84) Pagination 85) What is Inner join and Outer join 86) Union and Union all 87) Union in FM 88) Synchronization in FM 89) View and Materialised view 90) What is set governer 91) Confirmed Dimension 92) Factless Fact table 93) Stitched Query 94) What is Usage properties 95) Degenarated Dimension 96) What is Aggregation and Roll-up Aggregation 97) What is BI 98) Cognos Connection 99) Regular Dimension and Measured Dimension 100) Slicing and Dicing 101) What is Timestamp 102) What is Substring 103) Present Project 104) Present Report 105) Difference between Relational and MultiDimensional Models 106) Difference between Cascading and Drilling 107) How many types of Explorers are there in Report Studio 108) What is Package 109) Difference between Query Studio and Report Studio 110) What is Singleton 111) Difference between lend span and group span 112) Dispatches in Cognos 113) Types of Variables 114) Disadvantages of Value Prompt 115) Multi select and Auto Submit 116) Inline Query 117) What is Delete,Truncate and Drop

118) What is Cardinality 119) What is cube? 120) What is clean house? 121) What is alternate drilldown column.? 122) What is DWH and datamart. 123) Types of fact tables? 124) What is Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD)? 125) Types of SCD? 126) Characterstics of Data Warehouse? 127) Difference between Aggregation and Roll Up Aggregation? 128) Approaches to develop a Data Warehouse?

Master detail report: This relationship allows to merge a master query and detailed query A master detail relationship provides navigation from summary to detail with in a report we cannot navigate to another report. Drill throug report: A drill through allows you to navigate the information from summary to detail from one report to another A drill through is developed with two reports 1.parent report which contains summary data 2.child report which contains detailed data