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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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






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






3. 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






4. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






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






6. Create the Project Source - Create the Database Instance






7. Less storage - Simple SQL - Complex ETL






8. The System Hierarchy is automatically updated whenever you make a change to an __________________.






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






10. Data is read/write - Data is assigned by application - Data formatting may not be uniform - Data may be limited to recent/current data






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Reduced number of JOINS in the generated SQL






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






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






21. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






22. Folder List - Object Viewer - Shortcut Bar






23. ID columns - Description columns - Fact columns






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






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






26. Used to: - Create the Project - Select Project tables - Create basic Facts - Create basic Attributes and their relationships






27. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format






28. It contains the ID column of the parent attribute






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






30. Attribute Creation Wizard - Attribute Editor






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






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






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






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






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






36. User requirements - Existing source data - Technical and performance considerations






37. Specifies what info to retrieve from a data-warehouse - and how to display it






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Primary keys






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






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






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






48. OLAP retains data ________






49. Store info about attributes - including IDs and any descriptions. Used for easier browsing.






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