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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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1. It creates the System Hierarchy - when you define Attributes and their corresponding relationships






2. Enables you to search for a specific Object or group of Objects that meet a certain criteria.






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






4. Enables you to format report values based on a condition - such as highlights - font colors - etc.






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






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






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






8. Provide convenient paths for browsing attribute data - as defined by the user. They don't follow the logical model. May not consist of directly related attributes.






9. Enables you to further narrow down a report view - using only those objects in the report without altering the SQL of the report query. They are executed after-the-fact.






10. An environment in which the MSTR Desktop connects to the MSTR Intelligence Server (or iServer) - which connects to the Metadata database.






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






12. Schema Objects - Application Objects - Configuration Objects






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






14. A method of organizing the appearance of report results in a Grid report based on a criteria






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






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






17. The unique values of an attribute obtained from the data-warehouse






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






19. 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






20. Enables you to rearrange the columns and rows in a report.






21. Level of OLTP integration






22. Template - Filter - View of a Report






23. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






24. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






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






26. 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






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






28. Simple - Compound - Nested - Derived






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






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






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






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






33. OLAP data storage measure






34. Less storage - Simple SQL - Complex ETL






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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. Simple - Derived






41. 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






42. 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.






43. Used to "fine-tune" your Project






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






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






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






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






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






49. Primary keys






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