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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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






2. Used to limit a possibly overwhelming set of potential prompt answers






3. Simple - Derived






4. 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






5. 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






6. Prompts to select a single value on which to qualify a date - number or text string.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. ID columns - Description columns - Fact columns






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. A connection to the Metadata database. It's also the highest icon in the folder list window of Desktop.






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






25. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






26. Descriptive data that provides context for Facts.






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






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






29. Top menu/dropdowns - Toolbar - Right-click popup menus






30. View Filters can only ___________.






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






32. User management - Security profiles - Server parameters - like report length - idle time and report prioritization






33. Template - Filter - View of a Report






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






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






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






43. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






44. You can _____________ in the Architect Graphical Interface.






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






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






47. Seach for - Object name - Object ID - Object location - Object date range - Object type - Object owner






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

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






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