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MS Desktop's 3 Types of Uses
- Desktop (Designer or Analyst)
- Architect (MetaData)
- Administration
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OLTP vs OLAP differences
- Organization: By Application - By Business Subject
- Data Retention: Short Term - Long Term (2+ years)
- Data Integration: Minimal - High (ETL)
- Storage: GB - TB
- Use: RealTime, Write - Batch Load, Read
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OLAP
Data Warehouse - OnLine Analytical Processing System
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OLTP
Source Systems - OnLine Transaction Processing System
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What does MSBI Archtitecture look like?
- Source Systems
- ETL - Extraction, Transformation, Loading
- Data Warehouse
- MetaData
- MicroStrategy
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Benefits of MS Designer/Analyst?
- Complete BI Console
- Delivering the Enterprise Mandate
- Intuitive Reporting
- Advanced Analysis
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Benefits of MS Architect?
- Flexible Application Design
- Make Data Accessible
- Simplified, Rapid Development
- Reduced System Maintenance
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Benefits of MS Administration?
- User Management
- Comprehensive Security Model
- Intelligence Server Administration
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What's a Project Source?
- Highlest level Object in MS.
- Connection to MetaData or Intelligent Server
- Through the Connection, you create, manipulate, and admin projects.
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What is a Project?
The intersection of a Data Warehouse, MetaData, and User Community.
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5 Typical Folders of a Project?
- History
- My Personal Objects
- Public Objects
- Schema Objects
- Data Explorers
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Three types of MS Objects?
- Schema Objects
- Application Objects
- Configuration Objects
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Types of Schema Objects?
- Attributes
- Facts
- Hierarchies
- Transformations
- Partitions
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Types of Application Objects?
- Templates
- Filters
- Metrics
- Custom Groups
- Consolidations
- Prompts
- Searches
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3 Areas on Desktop Interface?
- Folder List
- Object Viewer
- Shortcut Bar
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What is a Report?
Request for Specific, Formatted Data from the Data Warehouse. Made up of Template and Filter.
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CrossTab vs Tabular Layout?
CrossTab has Metrics in Rows, Tabular has Metrics in Columns.
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What is Consolidation?
- Virtual Attributes, which are created as groups of existing attributes.
- Can also use Custom Groups (row level filter conditions).
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What is Drilling?
Enables you to see data at levels other than the level of the original report.
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Drilling to a Template?
Lets you move to a different Template with the same filter.
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What objects can you page by?
- Attributes
- Metrics
- Hierarchies
- Consolidations
- Custom Groups
- Object Prompt (all of the above)
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Types of Data Pivoting?
- Move objects from Row to Column (vice versa)
- Change order of Row or Column Objects
- Move objects to and from Page field
- Swap Row and Columns
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Outline mode?
Enables Indented grouping of related attributes.
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6 types of Exporting of reports?
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- MS Access
- Text
- HTML
- PDF
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Schedule Delivery to?
- History List
- Update Cache
- Mobile
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What is a Threshold and its four types?
- Conditional Formatting -
- one of four types:
- Format
- Replace Text
- Image
- Symbol
- (you can also copy and paste these thresholds)
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What is Banding?
It's a method of organizing the appearance of results by a certain criteria or pattern.
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Properties of Graphs?
- Undo/Redo is allowed.
- Nested Labels and Brackets help to reduce labels.
- Set maximum number of categories for either axis.
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