Cognos Reports QnA

1) What are the different types of reports which can be created by Report Net?

2) Can report net connect multiple data source at a time in report creation time?

3) What function should you use to display the value entered or selected by a user in
Response to a prompt?

4) How can we limit the max no of rows retrieved in the report?

5) Difference between filter and condition?

6) What are the advantages of query studio compared to report studio?

7) What are components of reportnet?

8) What is difference between query studio and report studio?

9) How can i create prompts in report net?

10) What is the Crosstab and Graphs in Report Studio?

11) What is the main advantage of impromptu over cognos reportnet?

12) What are the filter and how many types of filters available in reportnet? Explain briefly.

13) Is it possible to convert the repeater to “List” after I convert the List to Repeater?

14) What are the various file formats involved in reportnet?

15) What is the difference between Native SQL and Cognos SQL?

16) How can I test report in reportnet?

17) What are components of report studio?


18) Report Studio allows you to create the data model from a query and thereby skipping Framework Manager. Given that this feature is available, in what scenarios would one want to skip Framework Manager? Is Framework Manager an un-needed overhead?

19) What is the difference between drill through and master-detail reports?

20) What is calculation and how many types of calculations are there?

21) What is the meaning of drill down and drill up in cognos?

22) What is the level span in cognos?

23) What is the Repeater report in Cognos?

24) What is prompt? Types of prompts? Use of prompts? Syntax of prompt?

25) What is cascading prompt?

26) What is the difference between parameter and variable in report studio?

27) What is conditional formatting?

28) What is a drill through report?

29) What is diff. between Master Detail and Drill Through report?

30) What is bursting of Reports?

31) How can we improve performance at report level?

32) How can we set security at report level?

33) How many reports you created so far in your career?

34) What is the complex report you created and explain about it?

35) What is Cognos Connection? Explain about it?


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