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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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






2. Create the Project Source - Create the Database Instance






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






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






5. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






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






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






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






9. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels






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






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






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






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






14. 3 Ways: - Metric Value: Qualifies on a Metric value - Rank: Qualifies on a numeric rank of Metric values - Percent: Qualifies on the % of a Metric value being ranked






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






16. OnLine Analytical Processing - Organized by dimension and business subject - uses batch loaded - reporting - read-only - spiked usage (based on time of data-warehouse loading)






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






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






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






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






21. Top menu/dropdowns - Toolbar - Right-click popup menus






22. Simple - Compound - Nested - Derived






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






24. OLTP data storage measure






25. Schema Objects - Application Objects - Configuration Objects






26. OLAP retains data ________






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






28. A feature that enables users to delivers reports to the history list - cache or mobile






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






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






31. Create attribute ID form - Create attribute description forms - Select lookup table(s) - Create attribute relationships






32. 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.






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






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






35. A method of organizing the appearance of report results in a Grid report based on a criteria






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






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






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






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






41. Used to create or edit complex attributes - facts - hierarchies - and logical tables






42. It creates the System Hierarchy - when you define Attributes and their corresponding relationships






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






44. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






45. 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






46. It contains the ID column of the parent attribute






47. OLTP retains data ________






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






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






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