1. What is object security in framework manager?

If a query subject should be accessed only by the Management level people, What security mode d... 2. Cognos Decision Stream Cognos Decision Stream is for extraction, transformation and loading a data into datamart?

3. Materialized view If there are no calculations and the data is summerized, will you use Materialized view? Give Reason.

4. Import two data sources to Framework Manager in Cognos Please explain me how to import two data sources into Framework Manager? Can anyone tell me, what is the role of report writer in Cognos? Yes, you can import two data sources in frame work manager like this for example you are having database ... 5. Performance tuning in model and report level Hello, Can any body help me how to tune performance in cognos8 or Report Net to run report or create model. In report level: 1) You can reduce the calculation and conditions in the report 2) You can limit the c... 6. Could u explain briefly what is Static Choice? Static Choice is set of choice you provide to user for selection. These choices are manually entered... 7. What are complex reports? Hello, what are complex reports and normally what issues do we face while creating complex reports in Report Studio? Please help me soon on this question.

A complex report is when we have to retrieve the metadata from different data sources where located a... 8. What is the difference between parameter and variable in report studio Parameter is a value which we can what data will be displayed on a report, and variable is &nb... 9. Query Studio Why do we prefer to query studio for simple reports and any extra feature is there in query studio other than report studio?

10. Framework Manager What is usage property? Where do we set usage property? What is usage property for fact and dimension tables. What are the properties of usage property? Framework Manager allows you to create a project. The project provides metadata development environment.... Read / Answer 1. Cognos Decision Stream 2. Materialized view 3. Query Studio 4. Cognos improve report performance 5. How to build a cube in Cognos 8 using Framework Manger? 6. How to combine two cross-tab reports in to single cross-tab report? 7. What is data processing? 8. How can we use NVL function / Dataformat to resolve the Blank spaces in our report. Explain with navigation... 9. Does Cognos 8.2 have the capability to mouse over a data field to allow a field definition to appear? ... 10. How do you partition time dimension in Cognos? 11. What is meant by MIME type in Frame Work Manager? 12. What is the difference between Calculated Measure and Measure Folder? 13. What is the Cognos report development life cycle? What are the phases involved in the report development? 14. How do you pass the variable that is entered into a prompt from a Macro of a Hotfile and get the data... 15. State the criteria for determining whether we need to create a cube model or report model in a report... 16. What is the difference between Cognos planning 8 and 7.3? 17. What is the technique to know total load of Data in Cognos Decision Stream7 18. What are the different performance tuning techniques of a Cognos cube?

19. How to configure the Cognos configurations to work in the Windows 2000 Server machine. 20. How to perform single signon in Cognos by using URL? 21. Import two data sources to Framework Manager in Cognos 22. Static Choice 23. Query Studio 24. What is the difference between parameter and variable in report studio 25. Framework Manager 26. Cognos improve report performance 27. What are complex reports? 28. Performance tuning in model and report level 29. What is the difference in data item label and data item value 30. How did you update your tables in the Framework Manager? Do they dynamically update or do you manually make changes? 31. What is the difference between drill down and drill thru? 32. How do you schedule prompted reports? 33. What is incremental cube build? Do you recommend incremental cube builds? 34. What is the major difference between series 7 and series 8? 35. How to create connections to multiple databases (environments) using one data source connection? 36. What is Cognos 8 report development life cycle? 37. What are the criterions for creating cubes? Why should user opt to create cubes? 38. What is hierarchy in FM? 39. What is in Cognos.ini file? 40. What is in trnsfrmr.ini? 41. What is in cmplst file? 42. What is the extension on the configuration file? 43. What is a conditional block? When do we use conditional blocks? 44. What are the limitations in rendering a report in CSV format? 45. How do you import a stored procedure into FM? 46. What does Cast function do? 47. What are catalog tables? 48. What is the difference between UNION and UNION ALL? 49. Does the function "sum" work in Cognos? What is the equivalent of Sum in Cognos? 50. When do you set auto group and summarize to "Yes"? 51. Can you create grand totals from the result set of different queries? 52. How do you define left outer joins within FM? 53. How do you avoid loops within FM? 54. What is a namespace and how many namespace do you have a in a typical project? 55. Explain steps to create and publish cube? 56. Can you publish to a network location? 57. Where do you define the drill thru reports in Series 7? 58. Where do you define drill thru reports in Cognos 8? 59. Can you pass multiple parameters from a dimension in Analysis Studio? 60. Can you formatted and printable reports in Analysis Studio? What is your plan if users request printable/formatted analysis studio reports?