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    <periodOfReport>2018-02-14</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
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        <issuerName>COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>CTSH</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
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            <rptOwnerCik>0001684713</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Kandiah Gajakarnan Vibushanan</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>500 FRANK W. BURR BLVD.</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>TEANECK</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NJ</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>07666</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>President - Digital Business</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class A Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
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                <value>2018-02-14</value>
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            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
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                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>10000</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>15.53</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
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                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class A Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2018-02-14</value>
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            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
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                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
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            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
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                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
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                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class A Common Stock Option (Right to Buy)</value>
                <footnoteId id="F3"/>
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                <value>15.53</value>
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            <transactionDate>
                <value>2018-02-14</value>
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                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
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            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>10000</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
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            <exerciseDate>
                <value>2009-08-14</value>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2018-08-14</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class A Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
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                    <value>10000</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Includes 152 shares acquired under the Company's 2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended, on December 29, 2017.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price.  These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $79.80 to $79.82, inclusive.  The reporting person undertakes to provide to Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, any security holder of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in this footnote to this Form 4.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Such options were granted on August 14, 2008 pursuant to the Company's Amended and Restated 1999 Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended. Such options were 100% vested on August 14, 2012.  The Date Exercisable above reflects the first anniversary date of such options.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Harry Demas, on behalf of Gajakarnan V. Kandiah, by Power of Attorney</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2018-02-16</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
