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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Tables that contain fact data and attribute ID columns that describe the level at which the fact values are recorded






8. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






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






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






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






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






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






14. Columns - Tables






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






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






17. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels






18. Simple - Derived






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






20. User reporting requirements - Query performance - Data volume - DB Maintenance






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






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






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






24. More storage - Complex SQL - Simple ETL






25. Facts associated to the same column name in 1 or more tables






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. Descriptive data that provides context for Facts.






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






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






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






36. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






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






38. Compound - Homogeneous - Heterogeneous






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






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






41. 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






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






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






44. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






45. Level of OLTP integration






46. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format






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






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






49. OLTP retains data ________






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