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Project Title1
: Valiant Cube
Client
Environment
Project #2
Rockwell Sales Reporting
Technologies: cognos10.1, oracle 10g
Client: Rockwell Electronics, USA
Responsibilities:
Created list reports, crosstab reports, chart reports, with conditional formatting using Report Studio.
Created Layout Calculations, Conditions & Filters, Prompt Pages, and Variables etc.
Created complex reports using drill through reports, master detail reports, book mark reports.
Q- What is a Cube?
Ans- Cube is set to be multi-dimensional view of dimension and measures and it is used to analyze the data in various forms like Slicing and
Dicing.
Q- What is HPQS ?
Ans- Data Marts are sometimes also called as HPQS (Higher Performance Query Structure).
Q- What is multi dimension analysis?
Ans- It is a technique to modify the data so that the data can be view at the different levels of details.
Q- What are the responsibilities of Cognos Administrator?
Ans- A Cognos Administrator is assigned with following responsibilities.
1. Installations and configurations in distributed network environment.
2. Creating the Repository (Content Store). 3. Perform back up and recovery of Meta Data.4. Developing the user Administration.5. Tuning the
servers.6. Deployment.
Q- Responsibility of Cognos Architect?
Ans- An Architect is responsible for designing the interface by fulfilling the user requirements.Once the interface has been designed it should be
rigorously tested before distributing to the end user population.
Q- Roles of the Application Developer?
Ans- Design the Reports according to the Report requirement templates.
Testing the each report with the following types of tests.
a. Unit Testing b. System Testing c. Performance Testing
Q- What is OLAP?
Ans- OLAP stands for Online Analytical Processing. It uses database tables (Fact and Dimension tables) to enable multidimensional viewing,
analysis and querying of large amount of data.
Q- What are the types of OLAPs?
Ans- DOLAP:-The OLAP tool which works with desktop databases are called as DOLAP
Ex:- FoxPro, Clipper, Dbase, Paradox.
Q- ROLAP:-The OLAP tool, which works with Relational databases, are called as ROLAP.
Ex:-Oracle, SQL Server, Tera Data, DB2.
Q- MOLAP: - The OLAP tool, which works with Multidimensional databases, are called as MOLAP.
Ex:- ESSBASE, Power Cube
Q- HOLAP:- The OLAP tool which works with Relational databases and Multidimensional database, are called as MOLAP.
Ex:- Cognos, Business Objects.
Q-What is OLTP?
Ans- OLTP stands for Online Transaction Processing. Except data warehouse databases the other databases are OLTPs. These OLTP databases
are designed for recording the daily operations and transactions of a business.
Q- What is an Interface?
An Interface is a gateway between the user and database.
An Interface contains a logical pointers which pointes to data in the Data Warehouse.
An Interface is isolates the complexity and diversity if data bases.
A good OLAP Interface writes an efficient SQL read on accurate data from database.
An Interface needs to be designed by fulfilling the report requirement.
Q- What is the role of a Data Warehouse in creating the Interface?
Ans- Data Warehouse acts as Source to the Interface.
Q- What are the types of components installed while loading the Cognos Report Net Software?
Ans- When we install the Cognos Report Net Software there are two types of components get installed :1.Windows based components. 2. Web based components
Q- Define Windows based components?
Ans- A Framework manager is windows based modeling tool used for creating a project (interface).
Q- Define Web based Components?
Ans- The following are the web based components.
A. Cognos connection B. Query Studio C. Report Studio D. Analysis Studio
Q- What are the phases of the Cognos ReportNet Workflow?
Ans- Plan, Manage, Model, Author, Consume.
Q- What are the advanced features of Report Net?
Ans- The Cognos Report Net has multilingual database accessibility.
The parameter maps are key value phase, which are used for working with local Language that the default value is EN.
Framework Manager
Q-What is Framework manager?
Ans- Frame Work Manager is windows based metadata development or metadata modeling tool for Cognos Report Net.
Q- Why we need Framework manager?
Ans- To create the interface known as Project.
To create model the metadata derived from one or more data sources
Q-How a project appears in a FrameWork manager?
Ans- A frame work manager project appears as a folder that contains a project file (.cpf) and the specific XML files that define the project
Q- What are the Building Blocks in Frame Work Manager?
Ans- The Query subjects are called Building Blocks in Framework Manager.
Q- What is a Project?
Ans- When we work with a framework manager you work in a project.
Project is a set of metadata organized for Report Authors according to the Business rules and Model.
A Project created appears as folder, which contains following files.
a. Project Name .CPF (Cognos Project File) > b. Model .XML > c. Preferences .XML
d. Custom data .XML >The files in the folder are unique to that Project.
Q- Define Publish?
Ans- To transfer all or part of a Framework Manager model to the ReportNet server, so that report authors can use it.
Q- What a Project contains?
Ans- A. A Model > B. Namespaces > C. Data sources > D. Parameter maps > E. Packages
F. Folders > G. Query Subject > H. Query Item >I. Relation ship
Q- What is a Model?
Ans- A model in Frame work manager is a business presentation of the structure of the data from one or more databases. Or A model is a set of
related query subjects and other objects.
Q- What are Dimensions?
Ans- Dimensions are categories by which summarized data can be viewed.
Q- What are Confirmed Dimensions?
Ans- The Dimensions which are reusable and fixed in nature.
Q- What are Fact Tables?
Ans- A Fact Table is a table that contains summarized numerical (facts) and historical data. This Fact Table has a foreign key primary key
relation with a dimension table.
Q- What are the types of Facts?
Ans-The types of Facts are:
1. Additive Facts:- A Fact which can be summed up for any of the dimension available in the Fact Table.
2. Semi-Additive Facts:- A Fact which can be summed up to a few dimensions and not for all dimensions and not for all dimensions available in
the Fact Table.
3. Non-Additive Fact:- a fact which cannot be summed up for any of the dimensions available in the Fact Table.
Q- Define Query?
Ans- A description of the data to be retrieved from a database.
Q- Explain about Data Source Query Subject?
Ans- Data Source query subjects contain SQL statements the directly reference data in a single data source. Frame work manager automatically
creates a data source query subject for each table and view that you import into model.
2. Database only: The database server does all the SQL processing and execution with the exception of tasks not supported by the database. An
error appears if any reports of report sections require local SQL processing.
Q- What is Query Subject?
Ans- A Query Subject maps to the table in the database.
A Query Subject uses an SQL to retrieve the data from the data source.
A Query Subject is also known as Business View.
Q- What are the types of Query subjects?
Ans- 1. Default data source query subjects 2. Model Query Subjects
3. Stored Query subjects
Q- What is a Query Item?
Ans- A query Item maps to columns to the database table. A Query Subject contains Query Items.
Q- How can you restrict the tables retrieved by a query?
Ans- By setting governors we can restrict the tables.
Q- What is meant by Governors?
Ans- To apply privileges and restrictions for a user class. Governor settings are used to set restrictions on queries by user class, such as
1. Sorting on non-indexed columns 2. Outer joins 3. Suppress duplicates 4. Cross-product queries 5. Retrieval of large text items 6. Number of
records 7. Number of tables 8. Query execution time
Q- What is a User Class?
Ans- A defined group of users with the same data access needs, privileges and restrictions.
Q- What is Scrubbing at Project level?
Ans- According to the report requirements derive the new Items with the help of existing Query Items. This process is known as Scrubbing at
Project level.
Q- Types of Conditions:
Conditions are of 2 types:
Ans- 1. Static Condition: - Condition doesnt change whenever you run the report.
2. Dynamic Condition: -A condition can be kept on change whenever you run the report.
Prompt in filter with usage set to always user need to supply a value to filter.
Q- Where exactly determinants are used in cognos framework manager?
ANS: A query subject that behaves as a dimension has multiple levels of granularity and will be joined on different sets of keys to fact data.
Q- How would you structure your Framework Manager Model?
ANS: A model is normally structured into two layers/views. Database/ Physical view and Business/ Presentation view. These can be implemented
using Namespaces.
You import the metadata into Physical layer from DB using data source connection. You will use Import Metadata Wizard. You will change the
Query Subjects & Query Items, create relationships (joins) and other activities here.
In the Presentation layer, you create Query Subjects taking input from the existing Physical layer. You change the names of the Query Items and
other cosmetic modifications.You can choose only the Presentation layer while creating the Packages and apply appropriate security settings.
Q- How to provide security in frame work manager for a query subject?
ANS: Procedure for providing security for query subject in frame work manager is:
Select querysubject -> in properties pane select ->security filters (click on edit)a specify data security wizard appears->click on add groups ->
cognosnamesspace(select users and groups wizard opens)
Q- How can we generate the cubes in framework manager?
ANS: You can create the IQD file from framework manager.
This IQD file will be used by Transformer to create the cube.
Q- How to generate IQD file from framework manager?
Create a Query Subject, from the properties pane select externalise, there we have 4 options in that select IQD.
Q- What is bursting? How can we burst reports and what type of reports can we burst?
Ans- We can run the report once and distribute it to recipients (like email)Create the report with group fullname and pass the id to mailMake
avlbl for burst options for the report.
Cognos Connection
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Deployment
Q- What is a job?
Ans- A group of reports and other jobs in Cognos that you run and schedule as a batch.
Q- What is a job step?
Ans- The smallest part of a job that can be run separately. Usually, a job step is a report. A job step can also be another job.
Q- Define content language?
Ans- The code or setting that specifies what language and regional preferences to use for the data that appears in a report.
Q- What is deployment?
Ans- The process of moving a Reports, models to a different instance of Cognos. For example, you often create reports in a test environment and
then deploy them to production.
When you deploy an application, you export, transfer, and import it.
Q- What is the use of Schedule?
The schedule allows you to run a report at a later time or run it on a recurring basis.
Q-What are the uses of Schedule Management tool?
Ans- * Change the properties of a job
* Modify a scheduled report
* View the run history of a report
* Run a scheduled entry once
* Delete a schedule
Q-What is a Sub Report?
A sub query that is associated with a main query. You can include several sub reports in one main query. You can have more than one query on a
page.
Q-What is a Cognos Script?
Ans- A Script visual basic used to write macros.
Q- What is a Catalog?
Ans-A Catalog is a data base for a user to create own tables, joins, items, prompts, calculations and conditions.
Report Studio
Q- Define Sections:
Like group a section also eliminates the duplicates and display the report item as a separate block and separated from rest of other report items.
Q-How to eliminate duplicates?
ANS- The duplicates can be eliminated by creating the Groups
Q- What is a prompt?
A prompt is an end users object which allows you to select the values or enter the values to restrict the data displayed in the report.
A report element that asks for parameter values before the report is run.
A Prompt is known as dynamic filter.
Prompt can be created using Parameters enclosed between ? marks.
Ex :- ?prompt?
Q- What are the types of Prompts?
The following are the types of prompts:
1.
2.
Value Prompt
3.
4.
Date Prompt
5.
Time Prompt
6.
2.
Ascending
2.
Descending
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3.
XML Format
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3.
Layout Calculation: - Calculation is performed to develop customized report titles, page No, etc...
2.
Row
2.
Column
3.
Measure
Q- What all the types of Cross Tab layouts Cognos Report Net supports?
Ans- Cognos Report net supports only Basic and Nested Cross Tab layouts.
Q- Define a chart:
ANS- A Chart is a graphical presentation of business data.
A chart Report is designed for comparative Analysis.
Q-What are the different types of charts?
1.
Column chart
2.
Bar Chart
3.
Pie Chart
4.
Line Chart
5.
Area Chart
6.
Point Chart
7.
Radar Chart
Query Studio
Q- Which server tire is responsible for transforming information to Cognos 8 Application Server?
ANS- A Web server contains one or more web gateways which is responsible for transforming the information from one server to an
appropriate server.( Cognos 8 Application Server) .
Q- Which Server Tire processes the users request?
ANS- Application Tire server, Its a main server which process users request.
Q- What is the role of Data Tire?
ANS-
Report Studio
Q- What are enhancements in list report in Cognos 8 Report Studio?
ANS- A list report is enhanced with following features:
1.
2.
3.
Gauge Charts
b. 3D point chart
c.
Query Studio
Q- What are enhancements in Cognos 8 Query Studio?
1.
Formatting :- Now query studio allows you to format the report with font, colors, and border styles.
2. Conditional Formatting :- The data in the report can be formatted based on given condition this allows you to quickly identify the data for
faster analyses.
3.
Applying Templates :-Templates can be created in report studio which can be applied to the reports created in Query Studio.
4.
Improved Filtering :- Query Studio allows you to create more advanced filters using logical operators. AND or OR.
5. Query Data from OLAP sources (cube) :- Now Query Studio supports in reading the data from multi-dimensional structures known as
Cubes.
6. Supports Hierarchy Levels :- Since Query studio reads the data from Cube which is defined with hierarchy levels it supports multidimensional analyses. (Drill Up, Drill Down, Drill Across).
Q- What is Conditional format?
ANS-
The data in the report can be formatted based on given condition this allows you to quickly identify the data for faster analyses.
Transformer
Q- What is Transformer in Cognos 8?
ANS- Its a modeling tool for creating the Power Cubes for use with Cognos EP7 series and Cognos 8.
Q- What is a Power Cube?
ANS- A file that contains data that is structured to provide for fast retrieval and exploration of data in Power Play.
Q- What is the role of Transformer?
ANS- Transformer is used to create dimensional models and also create cubes.
Event Studio
Q- Define Event Studio:
ANS- Use the event studio to perform the tasks when the business event occurs.
When an event occur people are alerted to take actions.
Q- Define burst:
ANS- To create many report results by running a single report once. For example, you can create a report that shows sales for each employee, and
run it once, sending different results to regional managers by bursting on region.
You set up bursting in Report Studio and enable it in the portal.
Q- What is a report?
ANS- A set of data deliberately laid out to communicate business information. Depending on the context, "report" may refer to report
specification or report output.
Report (more precisely, report specification) is the generic term for the objects created by edited by Query Studio, Report Studio, and Analysis
Studio.
Q-What is Report specification?
ANS- The definition of queries, prompts, layouts, and styles that make up a report. A report specification is combined with data by a run
operation to create report outputs. You create report specifications by using Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, or through the
Software
Development Kit.
Q- Define report output?
ANS- A report output combines data at the point in time when the report was run with a report specification. It is a document that can be
displayed, printed or emailed. Cognos 8 can produce report outputs in HTML, PDF, Excel, or CSV formats.
Q- Define Content Manager:
ANS- The Cognos 8 service that manages the storage of customer applications, including application-specific security, configuration data,
models, metrics, reports, and report output.
Content Manager is needed to publish models, retrieve or store report specifications, manage scheduling information, and manage the Cognos
namespace.
Q- What is data source?
A relational database, dimensional cube, file, or other physical data store that can be accessed though Cognos 8.
Q- Define data tree:
Within a studio, contains objects such as query subjects, query items, dimensions, levels, and members. A data tree is used as a palette of the
available data that can be inserted into calculations, filters, display areas, and other authoring gestures.
Q- Define drill down:
The act of navigating from one level of data to a more detailed level. The levels are set by the structure of the data.
Q- Define drill up:
The act of navigating from one level of data to a less detailed level. The levels are set by the structure of the data.
Q- What is hierarchy?
A hierarchy represents a collection of dimensional members organized into a tree structure, with each member having one or more parent
members and an arbitrary number of child members.
The root of a hierarchy has no parent, and leaf members of a hierarchy have no children.
Q- What is layout?
In reporting, layout defines the appearance of the report, including formatting, style, and design.
In report specifications, layout is the portion of the specification that defines how the data returned by queries is presented.
Q- Define level:
A level is a set of members that have common attributes. For example, a geographical dimension might contain levels for country, region, and
city. Levels are used to define the structure of hierarchies in a dimension.
Q- What is member?
A member is a unique item within a level. For example, Camping Equipment and Golf Equipment are members of the Product Line level.
Q- Define locale:
A code that is used to set the language or dialect used for browsers, report text, and so on; and the regional preferences, such as formats for time,
date, money, money expressions, and time of day.
For Cognos products, you can specify a locale for the product interface (product locale) and for the data in the report (content locale).