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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. OLAP retains data ________






2. Simple - Derived






3. 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. Based on facts or attributes - Place at least 1 aggregation inside of another - Include 1 or more level definitions - May include 1 or more conditions - May include 1 or more transformations






5. Enables you to format report values based on a condition - such as highlights - font colors - etc.






6. The default entry-points.






7. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






8. How users can share comments for reports to other users






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






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






11. Compound - Homogeneous - Heterogeneous






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






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






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






15. Level of OLAP integration






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






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






18. Made up of attributes - facts - metrics - etc. that make up the Metadata. All project info is stored in the Metadata.






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






20. 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






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






22. Reduced number of JOINS in the generated SQL






23. An environment in which the MSTR Desktop connects directly to the Metadata database.






24. 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






25. OLTP data storage measure






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






27. Homogeneous - Heterogeneous






28. 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






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






30. A shortcut to an existing Object in a Project






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






32. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






33. A condition data must meet - created "on-the-fly" - in order to be included in a report. Does not affect the SQL.






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






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






36. Simple: Single column unique identifier - Compound: 2 or more columns per unique identifier






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






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






39. OLTP retains data ________






40. A Project Source can house ________ . A single Metadata can be used by multiple Projects.






41. Prompts to select filtering criteria from hierarchies - attributes - attribute element lists - and metrics.






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






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






44. Using the Prompt Generation Wizard - Inside the Report Editor






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






46. The Attribute Form maps to the same column name in multiple tables






47. Right-click on the attribute - Double-click it - Click the drill icon from the Toolbar






48. 1 - List info from the data source 2 - Identify facts 3 - Identify attributes 4 - Determine direct attribute relationships 5 - Organize hierarchies






49. 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.






50. It contains the ID column of all higher-level attributes