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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels






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






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






4. Simple - Nested - Compound - Numeric Constants - Simple metrics with levels - conditions or transformations as part of their definition






5. More storage - Complex SQL - Simple ETL






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






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






8. Cannot be directly put onto a Report - must be aggregated in a Metric - which can be added to a Report






9. Create attribute ID form - Create attribute description forms - Select lookup table(s) - Create attribute relationships






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






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






12. OLAP data storage measure






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






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






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






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






17. Extraction - transformation - loading






18. Attribute Creation Wizard - Attribute Editor






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. The Attribute Form Expression that maps to multiple columns from the same table. May also contain an operator (aggregation).






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






22. A simplified version of Desktop - providing interactive "slice-&-dice" capabilities






23. Create the Project Source - Create the Database Instance






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






25. 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






26. Represent business performance. Typically numeric. Must be aggregated to produce a meaningful result. Are directly linked to columns in the data-warehouse.






27. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






28. Creating multiple attributes quickly. Used during the initial project creation.






29. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






30. 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






31. Metrics aggregate on the lowest-level attribute __________.






32. Objects that map directly back to the data-warehouse. Can be used directly or used to build objects pulled onto reports






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






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






35. Define browsing attributes - Set entry-points - Set element display - Define attribute filters - Configure for drilling - Define the sort order for browsing - Define the sort order for drilling






36. Create an empty Metadata database - Create the Metadata DSN connection - Create the Metadata shell






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






38. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






39. Simple: 1 fact to 1 column - Derived: 1 fact to an expression that combines multiple facts to create a derived expression






40. 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






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






42. The report will retreive data for all Objects under the report definition (regardless of whether or not they exist on the template)






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






44. Template - Filter - View of a Report






45. A new tool for project design tasks - used for fine-tuning a project after initial creation






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






47. View Filters can only ___________.






48. OLTP data storage measure






49. Homogeneous - Heterogeneous






50. Descriptive data that provides context for Facts.