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Friday 7 October 2011

Cognos Interview Question and Answers 5

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41. What are the different uses of a repository manager?

Repository manager used to create repository which contains metadata the informatica uses to transform data from source to target. And also it use to create informatica 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 global used in global
repository. The advantage is reuse an object without creating multiple 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
shortcuts.

43. What are the responsibilities of Cognos Administrator?

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.

44. Roles of the Application Developer?

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

45. Components of Cognos?

1.      Framework manager.
2.      Cognos connection
3.      Query Studio
4.      Report Studio
5.       Analysis Studio
6.       Event Studio
7.       Metric Studio, Map manager and Metrics designer

46. What are phases the workflow process consists in Framework Manager?
The workflow process consists of the following phases:

  • Design and create project
  • Prepare Metadata
  • Prepare the Business View
  • Create and Manger Packages
  • Set Security
  • Publish
  • Manage the Project
47. How you set the security Framework manager?

To set the security you have to set as:
  • Define access to packages.
  • Create security filters
  • Define access to objects
  • Define package administration access
48. What is the Cognos Namespace? And what it contains?

The Cognos namespace is the Cognos built-in namespace
It contains Cognos objects:
  • Groups
  • Roles
  • Sources
  • Distribution lists
  • Contacts
49. What a Project contains?
  • A Model
  • Namespaces
  • Data sources
  • Parameter maps
  • Packages
  • Folders
  • Query Subject
  • Query Item
  • Relation ship
50. What is meant by Governors?

To apply privileges and restrictions for a user class. Governor settings are used to set restrictions on queries by user class, such as
  • Sorting on non-indexed columns
  • Outer joins
  • Suppress duplicates
  • Cross-product queries
  • Retrieval of large text items
  • Number of records
  • Number of tables
  • Query execution time
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