My Barclays Cognos Interview Experience

Hi all,

The following are the questions asked in Barclays Interview.

FM related:
1.What are the updations in 8.3 from 8.2?
2.How to give various types of security to FM Models/packages?
3.What is Dimensional Modeling?
4.What are the Governer settings?
5.What is Circular join?
6.Why shortcut is better than aliasing of Query Subjects in FM?
7.How to create IQD files?
8.Have you create Stored Procedure Query Subjects?
9.How to resolve Loops?

Report Studio:
1.Tell me about Migration Procesess?
2.Substantial differences in Reportstudio of v8.3?
3.What is Conditional Formatting and Conditonal layout?
4.Types of Prompts used?
5.What is Tree view prompt?
6.How to improve performance in a Report Studio report?
7. How to create a Union Report?
8.In Powerplay Transformer what are the various types of input?

As evident, these questions are the ones to test one's basic Cognos knokwledge.

Thanks Anu, for taking down all of this stuff.