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Certified Project Designer Cpd
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1. User reporting requirements - Query performance - Data volume - DB Maintenance
The 3 MSTR Tools
Fact Expression
4 factors to consider when designing a data-warehouse schema
User Hierarchies
2. Contains info that facilitates the transfer of data from the source systems to the data-warehouse
3 functions of Attribute Forms
ETL process
MSTR Desktop
Application Objects
3. Prompts to specify the level of a metric. They are not placed directly on a report - but rather embeded in a metric.
Logical Data Model
Level Prompts
Attributes
Report Template
4. How users can share comments for reports to other users
Report Definitions
Notes
4 properties you must know in order to create attributes using the Attribute Editor
Project Source
5. They store the column data type - and must be changed when creating a derived fact expression with conflicting data types
Components of a Derived Metric
To qualify a Metric in a Set Qualification
ETL process
Column Aliases
6. Combining 1 or more metric objects with 1 or more mathematical operations or constants. May include simple - nested or other compound metrics.
Minimal or none
By default
Methods are there to creating Attributes
Compound Metric
7. ID columns - Description columns - Fact columns
Gigabytes (GB)
View Filters
View Filter
3 column types of a Physical Schema
8. 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
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
Search Object
3 Schema types
4 types of Metrics
9. Facts are _____ in the data-warehouse. In MSTR - you created fact schema objects which reference those facts stored in the warehouse
'View of a Report'
Stored
Project Source
4 factors to consider when designing a data-warehouse schema
10. Enables you to specify the order in which the data in a report for a particular row/column appears; ascending or descending
Data warehouse characteristics
User Hierarchies
Sorting
Thresholding
11. Extraction - transformation - loading
ETL
4 basic Schema objects
Warehouse Catalog
2-Tier Architecture
12. SUM - AVG - Standard Deviation - Moving Average - Correlation - U-tiling
Characteristics of Nested Metrics
Shortcut Bar
Sample Metrics commonly performed on Facts
4 tasks of the Attribute Creation Wizard
13. OLAP retains data ________
Cannot create project objects
Using a Search Object
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
2-Tier Architecture
14. A feature that enables users to delivers reports to the history list - cache or mobile
The 3 MSTR Tools
Report Subscription
Source system characteristics
Attribute or its relationship(s)
15. A condition data must meet in order to be included in a report. Does affect the SQL.
Report Filter
Minimal or none
Facts
Physical Schema
16. Architect Graphical Interface _____________ - Does not support transformations or other advanced architect techniques - Does not auto-save
Cannot create project objects
3 Sections of the MSTR Desktop interface
Desktop Architec
Simple Attribute Expression
17. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies
Components of the Logical Data Model
Lookup Table structure of a completely denormalized schema
Sample Metrics commonly performed on Facts
Very high; part of ETL process
18. Needed to create other application objects - like reports or documents - such as templates - filters - metrics - etc.
Outline Mode
Application Objects
Simple Metrics
Short-term (2 - 6 months)
19. 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
Simple Metrics
Attributes
'View of a Report'
Desktop Administrative Functions
20. An add-on product to the Intelligence Server to greatly enhance the type of analysis you can perform
MSTR OLAP Services
Simple Attribute Expression
Report Editor
MSTR applications
21. Used to "fine-tune" your Project
Types of drilling
Filter Definition Prompts
Very high; part of ETL process
Architect Graphical Interface
22. Define the analytical calculations to perform on the data-warehouse. Made up of Facts.
OLAP
Shortcut in MSTR Desktop
Metrics
Cannot create project objects
23. If you need to ____________ based on a specific Attribute Form - that form should be its own attribute.
Limitations of the Attribute Creation Wizard
Aggregate a Metric
Attribute Elements
Derived Metrics
24. Made up of attributes - facts - metrics - etc. that make up the Metadata. All project info is stored in the Metadata.
Report Template
Types of drilling
Objects you are allowed to Page-by
Schema
25. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to multiple columns from the same table. May also contain an operator (aggregation).
ID form
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
Value Prompts
Derived Attribute Expression
26. A Project Source can house ________ . A single Metadata can be used by multiple Projects.
Simple Metrics
Report Formatting
Project Source
Unlimited
27. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format
Desktop Architec
3 Schema types
4 properties you must know in order to create attributes using the Attribute Editor
Project Source
28. OLAP data storage measure
Terabytes (TB)
User Hierarchies
3-Tier Architecture
Heterogeneous Attribute
29. Graph Properties - accessible under Top Menu > Graph > Preferences from Graph View
Tasks when defining a User Hierarchy
Thresholding
To edit the appearance of a Graph in a report
Report Editor
30. View Filters can only ___________.
Reference Report Objects
Logical Data Model
Column Aliases
Page-by
31. It creates the System Hierarchy - when you define Attributes and their corresponding relationships
3 components of a Report
4 properties you must know in order to create attributes using the Attribute Editor
The System
To qualify a Metric in a Set Qualification
32. Simple - Compound - Nested - Derived
4 types of Metrics
3 column types of a Physical Schema
Compound Metric
3 types of Attributes
33. Data is read/write - Data is assigned by application - Data formatting may not be uniform - Data may be limited to recent/current data
Table Keys
Lookup Tables
3 Methods of MSTR Desktop navigation
Source system characteristics
34. Used to limit a possibly overwhelming set of potential prompt answers
Desktop Administrative Functions
Homogeneous Fact
Search-based prompts
Stored
35. 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
Project Source
Default Project folder structure
Fact Expression
Using a Search Object
36. Direct: A parent > child relationship - Indirect: 2 or more attributes are related only through a fact or set of facts
Terabytes (TB)
Highest-level attributes
2 types of Attribute Relationships
'View of a Report'
37. Top menu > View > Page-by - Drag-&-Drop categories onto the Page-by field window - Right-click a category and "move" to Page-by field
Value Prompts
Report Formatting
Different methods for creating Page-by fields
4 types of Report Filters
38. Metrics that perform multiple aggregations; one calculation inside of another.
Nested Metrics
2 types of Table Keys
Schema Objects
Object Prompts
39. An environment in which the MSTR Desktop connects directly to the Metadata database.
Report Formatting
Thresholding
Fact Expression
2-Tier Architecture
40. A shortcut to an existing Object in a Project
Facts
Notes
Shortcut in MSTR Desktop
5 steps to creating a logical data model
41. Tables that contain fact data and attribute ID columns that describe the level at which the fact values are recorded
Level Prompts
Sample Metrics commonly performed on Facts
Very high; part of ETL process
Fact Tables
42. A detailed - graphical representation of the physical structure of a database. Usually based on a logical data model.
ETL
Heterogeneous Attribute
Physical Schema
Configuration Wizard
43. Attribute Qualification: A condition an attribute element must meet - Set Qualification: To restrict report results based on a Metric - Shortcut to a Report: A resultset of an existing report - Shortcut to a Filter: To use 1 or more existing filters
View Filter
Display views you can Print by
4 types of Report Filters
Attribute or its relationship(s)
44. Metrics aggregate on the lowest-level attribute __________.
Facts
Attributes
Configuration Wizard
By default
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
Types of drilling
Source system characteristics
Hierarchies
Attributes
46. Enables you to format report values based on a condition - such as highlights - font colors - etc.
3 column types of a Physical Schema
Characteristics of a Compound Table Key
Thresholding
2 types of Table Keys
47. A method of organizing the appearance of report results in a Grid report based on a criteria
To "drill down" on a report
Long-term (2 - 5 years)
Column Aliases
Banding
48. Facts associated to different column names in 2 or more tables
Required on the report for Outline Model to work
Heterogeneous Fact
To create a Report Prompt
To edit the appearance of a Graph in a report
49. Groupings of directly related attributes. Also commonly known as "dimensions".
Objects you are allowed to Page-by
File types are allowed for exporting a Report
Types of drilling
Hierarchies
50. Metrics you create within a report using only those objects in the report.
Components of a Derived Metric
Methods are there to creating Attributes
2 ways you can configure the Project Source to connect to the Metadata database
Derived Metrics
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