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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. Source Systems - ETL Processes - Data-Warehouse - Metadata - MSTR Applications






2. Enables you to select and display subsets of a report as separate pages.






3. Must have Subtotals enabled - or you won't see any data for higher-level attributes






4. Simple - Compound - Nested - Derived






5. History folder: To retrieve scheduled reports - MyPersonal Objects: Objects you create - visible only to you - Public Objects: Objects that can be viewed by all - Schema Objects: Objects that represent the logical data model (facts - attributes and h






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






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






8. Less storage - Simple SQL - Complex ETL






9. They store the column data type - and must be changed when creating a derived fact expression with conflicting data types






10. View Filters can only ___________.






11. Top menu > View > Page-by - Drag-&-Drop categories onto the Page-by field window - Right-click a category and "move" to Page-by field






12. Level of OLTP integration






13. Cannot be directly put onto a Report - must be aggregated in a Metric - which can be added to a Report






14. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






15. Metrics aggregate on the lowest-level attribute __________.






16. Template - Filter - View of a Report






17. The intersection between a data-warehouse - Metadata repository and a user community. It contains objects such as reports - filters - templates and metrics.






18. Data is read/write - Data is assigned by application - Data formatting may not be uniform - Data may be limited to recent/current data






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






20. Enables users to gather business insight through data analysis. It is a request for specific - formatted data from a data-warehouse.






21. What tool do you use to create the Metadata DSN connection?






22. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






23. Used to: - Create the Project - Select Project tables - Create basic Facts - Create basic Attributes and their relationships






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






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






26. Data is read-only - Data is aligned by business subject - Data formatting is uniform - Data is long-term data (2-5+ years)






27. Attribute Qualification: A condition an attribute element must meet - Set Qualification: To restrict report results based on a Metric - Shortcut to a Report: A resultset of an existing report - Shortcut to a Filter: To use 1 or more existing filters






28. Combining 1 or more metric objects with 1 or more mathematical operations or constants. May include simple - nested or other compound metrics.






29. All Attributes must have an _______.






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






31. A user interface for creating and maintaining a BI environment






32. To change the display of a report - including alignments - fonts - borders and backgrounds. You can format report headers - values or both.






33. Architect Graphical Interface _____________ - Does not support transformations or other advanced architect techniques - Does not auto-save






34. OLAP Services does not add any ______ to the report query.






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






36. 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






37. Enables you to lock column headers so that they always appear when scrolling






38. Formula - Level (Dimensionality) - Conditionality - Transformation






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






40. Enables you to further narrow down a report view - using only those objects in the report without altering the SQL of the report query. They are executed after-the-fact.






41. Direct: A parent > child relationship - Indirect: 2 or more attributes are related only through a fact or set of facts






42. Simple - Nested - Compound - Numeric Constants - Simple metrics with levels - conditions or transformations as part of their definition






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Fact Creation Wizard: Used to create simple - homogeneous facts - Fact Editor: Used to create derived - heterogeneous facts






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






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






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






49. Attributes - Metrics - Hierachies - Consolidations - Custom Groups - Object Prompts






50. Prompts to select objects to include in a report - such as attributes - metrics - custom groups - template objects - report filter objects - etc.