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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. Level of OLAP integration






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The intersection between a data-warehouse - Metadata repository and a user community. It contains objects such as reports - filters - templates and metrics.






9. Graph Properties - accessible under Top Menu > Graph > Preferences from Graph View






10. Tables - Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






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






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






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






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






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






16. Extraction - transformation - loading






17. You can _____________ in the Architect Graphical Interface.






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






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






20. A shortcut to an existing Object in a Project






21. Allow you to interact with the BI system - logically organize data to analyze complex relationships






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






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






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






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






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






27. Facts associated to the same column name in 1 or more tables






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






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






30. Level of OLTP integration






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






32. The default entry-points.






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






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






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






36. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






37. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






38. Specifies what info to retrieve from a data-warehouse - and how to display it






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






40. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 1 - List info from the data source 2 - Identify facts 3 - Identify attributes 4 - Determine direct attribute relationships 5 - Organize hierarchies






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






47. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






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






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






50. 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