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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. Extraction - transformation - loading






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






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






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






5. Used for - Initially populating the Metadata - Creating schema objects






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






7. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






8. 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






9. Prompts to specify the level of a metric. They are not placed directly on a report - but rather embeded in a metric.






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






11. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






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






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






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






15. A new tool for project design tasks - used for fine-tuning a project after initial creation






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






17. Prompts to select filtering criteria from hierarchies - attributes - attribute element lists - and metrics.






18. To define the level of aggregation for a specific metric - Used for qualifications






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






20. A full-featured version that enables Report Developers to design complex and sophisticated reports and documents






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






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






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






24. Level of OLAP integration






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






26. Design the logical data model - Design the data-warehouse schema - Create the project in Architect - Manage the project schema






27. Schema Objects - Application Objects - Configuration Objects






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






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






30. Include 1 or more aggregate functions - Based on 1 or more facts or attributes - Include a specified level at which they are calculated - May include conditions - May include transformations






31. To see data at completely different levels - other than that of the original Grid or Graph






32. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






33. It contains the ID column of all higher-level attributes






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






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






36. What tool do you use to create the Metadata shell?






37. View Filters can only ___________.






38. MS Excel - MS Word - MS Access - PDF - HTML - Plain text






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






40. Direct: 2-tier - Server: 3-tier






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






42. 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






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






44. The Attribute Form maps to the same column name in multiple tables






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






46. Used to dynamically alter the contents of a report. With prompts - you can determine at run-time the objects you want to retreive for a report and filtering conditions.






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






48. It contains links to specific folders in the Folder List






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






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