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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. Enables you to rearrange the columns and rows in a report.






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






3. Metrics you create within a report using only those objects in the report.






4. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






5. You can _____________ in the Architect Graphical Interface.






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






7. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






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






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






10. The unique values of an attribute obtained from the data-warehouse






11. OLAP retains data ________






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






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






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






15. An add-on product to the Intelligence Server to greatly enhance the type of analysis you can perform






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






17. Primary keys






18. Prompts to select a single value on which to qualify a date - number or text string.






19. Seach for - Object name - Object ID - Object location - Object date range - Object type - Object owner






20. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format






21. Design View - Grid View - Graph View - Grid/Graph VIew - SQL View






22. 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






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






24. The actual column name for a fact. Every fact must have at least 1 expression.






25. May include 1 or more functions as operators - Based on the attributes and metrics in the Report Objects window - May be Simple or Compound






26. User management - Security profiles - Server parameters - like report length - idle time and report prioritization






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






28. Simple: 1 fact to 1 column - Derived: 1 fact to an expression that combines multiple facts to create a derived expression






29. Grid View - Graph View - Grid/Graph View - SQL View






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






31. Must have a one-to-one relationship with all other forms.






32. Define the analytical calculations to perform on the data-warehouse. Made up of Facts.






33. A connection to the Metadata database. It's also the highest icon in the folder list window of Desktop.






34. Compound - Homogeneous - Heterogeneous






35. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






36. Enables you to select which tables from the data-warehouse to store in the Metadata database






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






38. Template - Filter - View of a Report






39. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to a single column - no matter the number of tables






40. OLTP data storage measure






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






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






43. Desktop (2 versions: Designer and Analyst) - Architect - Administrative Functions






44. Right-click on the attribute - Double-click it - Click the drill icon from the Toolbar






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






46. Up: To see data at a higher-level attribute of the same hierarchy - Down: To see data at a lower-level attribute of the same hierarchy - Other Directions: To see data at any level of any hierarchy






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






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






49. You can e-mail reports by going to _____






50. Display: On a report or in Data Explorer - Sorting: Sort report data using attribute forms - Qualifications: To filter on the elements of any attribute form