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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. MS Excel - MS Word - MS Access - PDF - HTML - Plain text






2. A simplified version of Desktop - providing interactive "slice-&-dice" capabilities






3. Create an empty Metadata database - Create the Metadata DSN connection - Create the Metadata shell






4. roject Creation Assistant - Schema Object Editor - Architect Graphical Interface






5. Creating multiple attributes quickly. Used during the initial project creation.






6. Using the Prompt Generation Wizard - Inside the Report Editor






7. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






8. Schema Objects - Application Objects - Configuration Objects






9. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






10. Provide convenient paths for browsing attribute data - as defined by the user. They don't follow the logical model. May not consist of directly related attributes.






11. User requirements - Existing source data - Technical and performance considerations






12. Folder List - Object Viewer - Shortcut Bar






13. More storage - Complex SQL - Simple ETL






14. Metrics that perform multiple aggregations; one calculation inside of another.






15. A development environment to create BI applications - allowing users to edit the Metadata database






16. A condition data must meet - created "on-the-fly" - in order to be included in a report. Does not affect the SQL.






17. Filter definition prompts - Object prompts - Value prompts - Level prompts






18. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to multiple columns from the same table. May also contain an operator (aggregation).






19. Store info on relationships between 2 or more tables (attributes) - like an Index table.






20. If you need to ____________ based on a specific Attribute Form - that form should be its own attribute.






21. Enables you to search for a specific Object or group of Objects that meet a certain criteria.






22. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






23. Specifies a condition data must meet in order to be included in a report






24. Attributes must be homogeneous - Attributes can only have simple form expressions - No more than 2 attribute forms (usually an ID and primary description)






25. An environment in which the MSTR Desktop connects to the MSTR Intelligence Server (or iServer) - which connects to the Metadata database.






26. A subset of a report that users can manipulate without altering the SQL

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27. A condition data must meet in order to be included in a report. Does affect the SQL.






28. Enables "indented" grouping of related attributes. Useful for displaying a report at different levels quickly.






29. A diagram that shows the information you want to analyze in a project and how that information is related. It depicts the flow of data in an organization. It is not based on the physical structure of the data-warehouse. Used by the MSTR Engine to gen






30. SUM - AVG - Standard Deviation - Moving Average - Correlation - U-tiling






31. AND - OR - OR NOT - AND NOT






32. It contains the ID and DESC columns of all higher-level attributes






33. A detailed - graphical representation of the physical structure of a database. Usually based on a logical data model.






34. How users can share comments for reports to other users






35. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format






36. OLTP data storage measure






37. Groupings of directly related attributes. Also commonly known as "dimensions".






38. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






39. Level of OLAP integration






40. Simple: Single column unique identifier - Compound: 2 or more columns per unique identifier






41. Normalized: No data redundancy - Moderately Denormalized: Some data redundancy with shared Table Keys - Completely Denormalized: Lots of data redundancy with shared Table Keys and description columns






42. The logical associations between attributes that exist based on a business rule






43. Facts associated to different column names in 2 or more tables






44. One that uses 2 or more columns as its ID






45. You can save your auto-style from the Top Menu > Grid > Save AutoStyle As...






46. Enables you to specify the order in which the data in a report for a particular row/column appears; ascending or descending






47. Used to limit a possibly overwhelming set of potential prompt answers






48. Level of OLTP integration






49. Create the Project Source - Create the Database Instance






50. Cube analysis - Derived elements - In-memory OLAP with use of report objects - View filters - Derived metrics