Cognos Interview Question and Answers

13. How to create cubes in transformer?
  Cube can be created by using different data sources.
 
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14. What is meant by cascading prompt?
  A prompt that uses values from a previous prompt to filter the values in the current prompt or picklist.
 
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15. What are the different types of security?
  Data security:
  • Create a security filter and apply it to a specific query subject.
Object security:
  • Secure an object directly by allowing users access to the object, denying users access to the object, or keeping it hidden for all users.
Package security:
  • Apply security to a package and identify who has access to that package.
 
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16. What is query items?
  Query items are mainly used in Reporting and for BI Authors it is the most essential object from the framework manager. These have lot of properties associated with them and are present in query subjects. Query items are similar to subsets of query subjects.
 
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