What three time period management tasks can you perform in Strategic Modeling? (Choose three.)
A. Combine periods of years, halves, quarters, months, and weeks for historical forecast data.
B. Configure time periods to reflect the detail required by financial models, such as different levels of granularity for different years.
C. Enable the input option for upper level time periods when you add time detail.
D. Create period-to-date, trailing periods, deal periods, and sub periods to record transactions.
E. Select and combine periods of years, halves, quarters, months, and weeks for the beginning balance year.
Which three are benefits of using EPM Enterprise Cloud Service over EPM Standard Cloud Service? (Choose three.)
A. enable preseeded configurable content including dimensions, models, forms, rules, dashboards, infolets, and reports for Strategic Modeling
B. with Free Form Planning, deploy Planning business processes with no dimension requirements and create business processes using Essbase outline files
C. Custom Planning, which allows a high degree of business process customization to support business requirements
D. use of the Groovy scripting language to create or customize business rules
E. deploy more than one supported business process in the same instance
What are the two primary use cases for an ASO reporting cube? (Choose two.)
A. You want to create and execute Calculation Manager business rules
B. You want to report on Smart Lists in Planning, which you can't do in Planning
C. You want to report on new Planning data originating from any source, such as a data warehouse
D. You want to create, maintain, and report on Attribute dimensions
Which two methods can be used to push data between cubes? (Choose two.)
A. Data Management
B. Import Data
C. Data Maps
D. Copy Data
In Data Management, what are the steps you need to perform to synchronize the application metadata in the target application? (Choose the best answer.)
A. In Data Management, navigate to Application Dimensions and click Refresh Dimensions.
B. In Data Management, navigate to Import Format and select your Planning application. Click Refresh Dimensions.
C. In Data Management, navigate to Target Application and select your Planning application. Click Refresh Members.
D. In Data Management, to Target Application and select your Planning application. Click Refresh Metadata.
What would be the recommended module-based cube architecture for a company wanting to enable Financials and Capital, as well as create a Detailed Sales Forecasting cube with complex allocations and calculations, corresponding sales reporting cube, and consolidated reporting cube? (Choose the best answer.)
A. 3 BSO cubes (1 required for the modules +2 custom BSO cubes), 2 ASO cubes
B. 2 BSO cubes (1 required for the modules +1 custom BSO cubes), 2 ASO cubes
C. 3 custom BSO cubes, 2 ASO cubes
D. 3 BSO cubes (2 required for the modules +1 custom BSO cube), 2 ASO cubes
In Strategic Modeling Simulations, what are the three guidelines for selecting the appropriate probability distribution? (Choose three.)
A. Select the distribution where the conditions of the distribution match those of the input.
B. Randomly generate a range of values for assumptions and enter best guess estimates one cell at a time.
C. Evaluate the input in question, and list the conditions surrounding this input.
D. Review the descriptions of the probability distributions.
E. Use the Monte Carlo method to best guess your probability distribution options based on a range of assumptions.
What is the purpose of selecting the Project Benefits option when enabling Projects? (Choose the best answer.)
A. To track the Workforce expense benefits calculated on each Contract project
B. To plan detailed project revenue for Contract projects
C. To help justify the need for projects and plan non-financial benefits
D. To plan detailed project expenses for projects
Which two clients or command line tools can you download from Planning? (Choose two.)
A. Data Management
B. EPM Automate
C. Strategic Modeling Smart View add-on
D. Calculation Manager
Which two tasks can be scheduled as a job in Planning? (Choose two.)
A. Import or export data
B. Create snapshots
C. Promote a Planning Unit
D. Execute Data Maps