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Certified Project Designer Cpd

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






2. Template - Filter - View of a Report






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






4. Extraction - transformation - loading






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






6. Define the analytical calculations to perform on the data-warehouse. Made up of Facts.






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






8. OLTP retains data ________






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






10. 1 - Quick Sort: Only accessible from Grid view 2 - Advanced Sort: Available in Grid or Graph views






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






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






13. It contains the ID column of the parent attribute






14. Less storage - Simple SQL - Complex ETL






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






16. View Filters are saved with the _____________.






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






18. It contains links to specific folders in the Folder List






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






20. 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.






21. Attribute Creation Wizard - Attribute Editor






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






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






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






25. All Attributes must have an _______.






26. Subtotals reflect accumulations at selected attribute levels






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






28. A full-featured version that enables Report Developers to design complex and sophisticated reports and documents






29. All report-level options overwrite ___________.






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






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






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






33. Up: To see data at a higher-level attribute of the same hierarchy - Down: To see data at a lower-level attribute of the same hierarchy - Other Directions: To see data at any level of any hierarchy






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. One that uses 2 or more columns as its ID






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






41. Simple - Derived






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






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






44. OLAP data storage measure






45. Facts - Attributes - Hierarchies






46. Primary keys






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






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






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






50. Reduced number of JOINS in the generated SQL