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Certified Project Designer Cpd
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1. An add-on product to the Intelligence Server to greatly enhance the type of analysis you can perform
4 factors to consider when designing a data-warehouse schema
4 types of Metrics
Default Project folder structure
MSTR OLAP Services
2. 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
ETL process
Thresholding
View Filters
Default Project folder structure
3. A user interface for creating and maintaining a BI environment
Compound Attribute
MSTR Desktop
3 functions of Attribute Forms
3 column types of a Physical Schema
4. A full-featured version that enables Report Developers to design complex and sophisticated reports and documents
4 tasks of the Attribute Creation Wizard
Desktop Designer
Nested Metrics
Search-based prompts
5. Attribute Creation Wizard - Attribute Editor
Report Filter
Page-by
Lookup Tables
Methods are there to creating Attributes
6. It contains links to specific folders in the Folder List
Subtotals
Shortcut Bar
Project
Facts
7. ID columns - Description columns - Fact columns
3 column types of a Physical Schema
2 methods to creating Facts
Sample Metrics commonly performed on Facts
4 tasks of the Attribute Creation Wizard
8. Prompts to specify the level of a metric. They are not placed directly on a report - but rather embeded in a metric.
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
To drill through User Hierarchies
Level Prompts
Using a Search Object
9. Enables you to rearrange the columns and rows in a report.
Data Pivoting
Project-level options/settings
Short-term (2 - 6 months)
3-Tier Architecture
10. The System Hierarchy is automatically updated whenever you make a change to an __________________.
Report Objects
Attribute or its relationship(s)
Different methods for creating Page-by fields
Metrics
11. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels
Level Prompts
Compound Metric
2 options for Sorting
Subtotals
12. The unique values of an attribute obtained from the data-warehouse
Components of the Logical Data Model
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
Attribute Elements
2 options for Sorting
13. Enables you to select and display subsets of a report as separate pages.
Attribute Forms
Page-by
Report Prompts
Subtotals
14. Prompts to select filtering criteria from hierarchies - attributes - attribute element lists - and metrics.
Data warehouse characteristics
To create a Report Prompt
ETL
Filter Definition Prompts
15. Store info about attributes - including IDs and any descriptions. Used for easier browsing.
Heterogeneous Attribute
Notes
Value Prompts
Lookup Tables
16. A new tool for project design tasks - used for fine-tuning a project after initial creation
Architect Graphical Interface
Required on the report for Outline Model to work
Fact Expression
Compound Metric
17. Simple - Nested - Compound - Numeric Constants - Simple metrics with levels - conditions or transformations as part of their definition
Short-term (2 - 6 months)
Components of Compound Metrics
Default Project folder structure
Lookup Tables
18. It contains the ID column of all higher-level attributes
Components of a MSTR architecture
Lookup Table structure of a moderately denormalized schema
Desktop Analyst
Architect Graphical Interface
19. Level of OLAP integration
Very high; part of ETL process
4 basic Schema objects
Gigabytes (GB)
OLTP
20. Columns - Tables
Advantage of a completely denormalized schema
Value Prompts
2 components of a Physical Schema
Report Definitions
21. Create an empty Metadata database - Create the Metadata DSN connection - Create the Metadata shell
ETL process
Process for creating the Project Metadata
Source system characteristics
Search-based prompts
22. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to multiple columns from the same table. May also contain an operator (aggregation).
Compound Attribute
4 tasks of the Attribute Creation Wizard
3 components of a Report
Derived Attribute Expression
23. Enables you to specify the order in which the data in a report for a particular row/column appears; ascending or descending
5 Report display views
Derived Attribute Expression
Sorting
Terabytes (TB)
24. You can save your auto-style from the Top Menu > Grid > Save AutoStyle As...
Factors to consider when designing a logical data model
Sorting
To save a Report Format
MSTR Connectivity Wizard
25. Enables you to select which tables from the data-warehouse to store in the Metadata database
Warehouse Catalog
MSTR Connectivity Wizard
Reports
Heterogeneous Attribute
26. Descriptive data that provides context for Facts.
3-Tier Architecture
Page-by
Attribute Forms
Attribute Creation Wizard good for
27. Specifies a condition data must meet in order to be included in a report
Lookup Table structure of a moderately denormalized schema
Report Objects
Report Filter
2 types of Attribute Relationships
28. Prompts to select a single value on which to qualify a date - number or text string.
Value Prompts
3-Tier Architecture
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
Sample Metrics commonly performed on Facts
29. OLTP retains data ________
Short-term (2 - 6 months)
Aggregate a Metric
Architect Graphical Interface
Metrics
30. Metrics you create within a report using only those objects in the report.
3 column types of a Physical Schema
Derived Metrics
ETL
Metrics
31. Store info on relationships between 2 or more tables (attributes) - like an Index table.
Relationship Tables
Search-based prompts
Level Prompts
Heterogeneous Attribute
32. Source Systems - ETL Processes - Data-Warehouse - Metadata - MSTR Applications
Desktop Architec
Components of a MSTR architecture
Required on the report for Outline Model to work
4 basic Schema objects
33. Using the Prompt Generation Wizard - Inside the Report Editor
2 types of Facts
To create a Report Prompt
Report Filter
Components of a Metric
34. If you need to ____________ based on a specific Attribute Form - that form should be its own attribute.
Schema
Aggregate a Metric
Derived Attribute Expression
2 types of Table Keys
35. OLAP Services does not add any ______ to the report query.
Desktop Architec
Data warehouse characteristics
Project-level options/settings
New SQL
36. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies
4 basic Schema objects
Simple Metrics
Types of analysis you can perform with OLAP Services
Components of the Logical Data Model
37. 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
4 types of Report Filters
To qualify a Metric in a Set Qualification
Simple Metrics
Architect Graphical Interface
38. An environment in which the MSTR Desktop connects to the MSTR Intelligence Server (or iServer) - which connects to the Metadata database.
3-Tier Architecture
4 factors to consider when designing a data-warehouse schema
Banding
Components of a Metric
39. Combining 1 or more metric objects with 1 or more mathematical operations or constants. May include simple - nested or other compound metrics.
Compound Metric
Subtotals
3-Tier Architecture
Outline Mode
40. Cannot be directly put onto a Report - must be aggregated in a Metric - which can be added to a Report
To create a Report Prompt
Facts
Heterogeneous Fact
Source system characteristics
41. It contains the ID and DESC columns of all higher-level attributes
Subtotals
4 types of Report Filters
Lookup Table structure of a completely denormalized schema
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
42. You can e-mail reports by going to _____
Search-based prompts
Value Prompts
File > Email Reports As
ETL
43. Facts associated to the same column name in 1 or more tables
New SQL
Attribute Elements
2 types of Facts
Homogeneous Fact
44. Attributes must be homogeneous - Attributes can only have simple form expressions - No more than 2 attribute forms (usually an ID and primary description)
Advantage of a completely denormalized schema
Value Prompts
Tasks when defining a User Hierarchy
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
45. A method of organizing the appearance of report results in a Grid report based on a criteria
2 ways you can configure the Project Source to connect to the Metadata database
Banding
4 types of Report Filters
3 functions of Attribute Forms
46. Seach for - Object name - Object ID - Object location - Object date range - Object type - Object owner
ETL process
Short-term (2 - 6 months)
Stored
Using a Search Object
47. User requirements - Existing source data - Technical and performance considerations
Page-by
By default
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
Factors to consider when designing a logical data model
48. 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.
Types of drilling
View Filters
Attribute Elements
Simple Metrics
49. All Attributes must have an _______.
ID form
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
Desktop Designer
Reference Report Objects
50. Simple: 1 fact to 1 column - Derived: 1 fact to an expression that combines multiple facts to create a derived expression
4 types of Metrics
2 types of Fact Expressions
Highest-level attributes
File > Email Reports As