Which of the following is correct regarding report execution requests?

A. A low affinity request is directed to the same process that served up the originating low affinityrequest if the process is available and there is an available high affinity connection.

B. A low affinity request can be processed using a high affinity connection when a low affinityconnection is not available.

C. An absolute affinity request does not require a connection because it has priority.

D. A high affinity request can be processed using a low affinity connection if there are no highaffinity connections available.

If anonymous access is disabled, when a user accessesCognos BI, what is the correct flow ofthe request?

A. To Cognos Access Manager which queries the content store for user information and displaysthe log on page through the dispatcher and the gateway

B. To the monitoring service which monitors the user authentication request and displays the logon page through the dispatcher and the gateway

C. To the presentation service which displays the log on page through the dispatcher and thegateway

D. To Cognos Application Firewall which monitors the user authentication request and displaysthe log on page through the dispatcher and the gateway

Which of the following BEST describes the group of users who would typically use these Cognos8 components: Metric Studio, Analysis Studio, and Query Studio?

A. Executives

B. Analysts and Authors

C. Knowledge workers and decision makers

D. Information Consumers

Which of the following BEST describes the relationship or differences between Iterative Approachand Cognos SIM?

A. The Iterative Approach is a specific technique used to iterate through the Design phase.

B. The Iterative Approach is a series of steps defined in the Analysis and Development phases ofCognos SIM.

C. The Iterative Approach is a philosophy of development while Cognos SIM is a collection oftasks, documents, and techniques to guide development.

D. Cognos SIM is the current Cognos development standard and is intended to replace theIterative Approach for development of BI applications.

When deploying an application from a development environment to a production environment, which of the following is correct when each environment uses a separate LDAP instance?

A. There are no issues because the Access Control List (ACL) references the same usernames.

B. Use theCognos BIsecurity objects.

C. Do not useCognos BIsecurity unless you are deploying your application using Series 7Cognos Access Manager for authentication.

D. There are no issues because LDAP objects are always replicated between the environments.

Companies often create a collection of summary tables as their first attempt at a data warehouse.While there are several drawbacks to this approach, there are also some advantages.

Which ofthe following is an advantage of this approach over reporting from an operational database?

A. It is easier to understand because there are fewer summary tables.

B. Specific reports for which the summary tables were created will run faster.

C. It is easy to leverage many new reports from the summary tables.

D. Over time summary tables often naturally group into business subject areas.

Which of the following describes an advantage of using the dimensionally modeled relational(DMR) technique to access a normalized data structure?

A. eliminates the need for aggregate tables

B. reduces the time needed to fetch the required data

C. enables drill up/down functionality in reports and ad hoc queries

D. enables creation of IQDs for creating Power Cubes

Which of the following describes the models contained in the '24 Ways' book referenced in the BIProfessional Workshop course?

A. Framework Manager models that map over an example normalized database, which one mightfind in a manufacturing enterprise.

B. Physical, star schema data models for constructing data marts for the various departments in ageneric business enterprise.

C. Logical models that contain dimensions and key tactical metrics for the various departments ina generic business enterprise.

D. Cognos 8 OLAP Modeler (Transformer) models that describe how to map data from amanufacturing database into a PowerCube.

Which of the following is true regarding hierarchies and dimensions?

A. Hierarchies help users understand the data through rollup levels within dimensions.

B. All dimensions must have hierarchies.

C. All hierarchies are defined by the inherent nature of their dimensional data.

D. It is considered poor design to split a hierarchy across multiple dimensions.

Which of the following must be moved manually instead of as part of a Cognos 8 deploymentpackage?

A. report output versions

B. run history

C. schedules

D. system.xml