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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Design View - Grid View - Graph View - Grid/Graph VIew - SQL View






2. Reduced number of JOINS in the generated SQL






3. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






4. A condition data must meet in order to be included in a report. Does affect the SQL.






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






6. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






7. View Filters can only ___________.






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






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






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






11. 1 - List info from the data source 2 - Identify facts 3 - Identify attributes 4 - Determine direct attribute relationships 5 - Organize hierarchies






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






13. Design the logical data model - Design the data-warehouse schema - Create the project in Architect - Manage the project schema






14. To see data at completely different levels - other than that of the original Grid or Graph






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






16. The logical associations between attributes that exist based on a business rule






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






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






19. 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.






20. 1 - Form definition 2 - Form general info 3 - Form category 4 - Form format






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






22. A user interface for creating and maintaining a BI environment






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






24. You can _____________ in the Architect Graphical Interface.






25. Cube analysis - Derived elements - In-memory OLAP with use of report objects - View filters - Derived metrics






26. OLAP retains data ________






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






28. Enables you to lock column headers so that they always appear when scrolling






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






30. It contains the ID and DESC columns of all higher-level attributes






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






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






33. Metrics that perform multiple aggregations; one calculation inside of another.






34. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to a single column - no matter the number of tables






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






36. Simple - Derived






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






38. Source Systems - ETL Processes - Data-Warehouse - Metadata - MSTR Applications






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






40. Formula - Level (Dimensionality) - Conditionality - Transformation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Schema Objects - Application Objects - Configuration Objects






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






50. Enables users to gather business insight through data analysis. It is a request for specific - formatted data from a data-warehouse.