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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. SUM - AVG - Standard Deviation - Moving Average - Correlation - U-tiling






5. Display: On a report or in Data Explorer - Sorting: Sort report data using attribute forms - Qualifications: To filter on the elements of any attribute form






6. ID columns - Description columns - Fact columns






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






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






9. Level of OLAP integration






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






11. A feature that enables users to delivers reports to the history list - cache or mobile






12. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






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






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






15. It contains the ID column of the parent attribute






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






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






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






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






20. A development environment to create BI applications - allowing users to edit the Metadata database






21. Create the Project Source - Create the Database Instance






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






23. Attributes must be homogeneous - Attributes can only have simple form expressions - No more than 2 attribute forms (usually an ID and primary description)






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






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






26. A subset of a report that users can manipulate without altering the SQL

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






28. A diagram that shows the information you want to analyze in a project and how that information is related. It depicts the flow of data in an organization. It is not based on the physical structure of the data-warehouse. Used by the MSTR Engine to gen






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






30. Facts are _____ in the data-warehouse. In MSTR - you created fact schema objects which reference those facts stored in the warehouse






31. The actual column name for a fact. Every fact must have at least 1 expression.






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






33. The Attribute Form maps to different column names in multiple tables






34. What tool do you use to create the Metadata shell?






35. May include 1 or more functions as operators - Based on the attributes and metrics in the Report Objects window - May be Simple or Compound






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






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






38. Enables you to select which tables from the data-warehouse to store in the Metadata database






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






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






41. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels






42. Descriptive data that provides context for Facts.






43. Store info on relationships between 2 or more tables (attributes) - like an Index table.






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






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






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






47. Primary keys






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






49. Used to modify a Report






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