An administrator needs to address an environment that is not running optimally and conduct an architecture review.
Which performance attributes should be considered?
A. capacity, scalability, availability
B. gateways, application servers, Content Manager
C. IBM Cognos implementation, capacity, infrastructure
D. infrastructure, gateways, application servers, scalability
An administrator wants to render a report and ensure the completed HTML is sent back to the gateway.
Which service is responsible for the rendering task?
A. Report service
B. Delivery service
C. Presentation service
D. Content Manager service
An environment has the following routing rules set:

If a report using the `Australia Package' is run by a user belonging to `Australia Group', which server group will the request be sent to?
A. Group 1
B. Group 2
C. The request will be sent to the first available server because there is more than one rule for the Australia Package.
D. The request would fail because there is more than one rule for the Australia Package and only one for the Australia group.
An administrator needs to exclude users from rendering reports as PDF output.
How can this be enabled?
A. Modify the permissions for the generate PDF Output capability.
B. Use Theme Manager to remove the generate PDF Output option.
C. Create a role name "PDF output", add the built-in entry group name "Everyone" and set the permission to Deny.
D. Modify the file located in
A report author gets the following error message:
"An error has occurred. Please contact your administrator. The complete error has been logged by CAF with SecureErrorID:2004-05-25-15:44:11.296-#9."
How can the administrator get the complete error message?
A. Open the cogerror.log file using a text editor.
B. Open the cogserver.log file using a text editor.
C. Run the user report errors audit report from the samples Audit package.
D. Run the user session details audit report from the samples Audit package.
An administrator deleted a group inadvertently then recreated it, but now the access permissions based on that group no longer work.
What must be done?
A. Re-implement all the access permissions.
B. On the group properties, select "Apply to all children".
C. Make sure that it has the exact same spelling as before.
D. Restore from a backup selecting only the access permissions.
What is the role of Cognos Access Manager (CAM)?
A. To serve as the relational database that stores user data.
B. To implement authentication, authorization, and encryption.
C. To start all services that have been enabled and configured.
D. To route requests from the gateway to local services for execution.
An administrator needs to ensure that users do not have to enter/select Database credentials when
running reports.
What must a datasource have in order to accomplish this?
A. No signon available to the users.
B. Only one signon available to the users through permissions.
C. At least one signon available to the users through permissions.
D. More than one signon available to the users through permissions.
An administrator wants to describe the internal architecture and request flow for a Query service of an
executed DQM report.
How is this done?
A. A report specification is executed via BIBus which directly queries via RDBMS adapter, and caches then waits for the result and generates the report output.
B. A report specification is executed via Query service which directly queries via RDBMS adapter, and caches then waits for the result and generates the report output.
C. A report specification is executed via Query service which parses the request into two trees and executes via RDBMS adapter and caches then waits for the result and generates the report output.
D. A report specification is executed via BIBus then to Query service which parses the request into two trees and executes via RDBMS adapter and caches then waits for the result and generates the report output.
Which statement is true when working with datasource credentials?
A. Users can view and delete datasource credentials from the My Data Sets page.
B. Users may be prompted for datasource credentials when they view, run, or open an entry, or when they use a schedule or a job.
C. When determining appropriate access to a datasource, the system first checks the user's profile to see if they have stored their own datasource credentials.
D. If a user wants to create a datasource credentials, the administrator must grant Write permissions for the Manage own datasource signons capability for the user.