IBM Cognos BI Professional

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Using the diagram below to install and configure Cognos 8 BI, which of the following components will NOT address automatic failover?

Cognos 8 BI Content Manager (Active) Cognos 8 BI Content Manager (Passive) Cognos 8 BI Report Server Cognos 8 BI Gateway

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Which of the following is a valid strategy for addressing failover for the content store?

Install active and passive instances of the content store. Install active and passive instances of the Content Manager service. Take advantage of failover protection in the Applications tier by installing the content store ona serverthat hosts multiple instances of the report service. Take advantage of database backup and failover strategies and policies already in place intheenvironment.

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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?

There are no issues because the Access Control List (ACL) references the same usernames. Use the Cognos 8 BI security objects. Do not use Cognos 8 BI security unless you are deploying your application using Series 7CognosAccess Manager for authentication. There are no issues because LDAP objects are always replicated between the environments.

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A multi-server installation of Cognos 8 BI must be performed. Which of the following is a valid strategy for installing across multiple servers?

Separate the gateway component from other server components to restrict report requestprocessing to
the Web server tier. Enable dedicated request processing, by installing a dispatcher in the Web server tier to act asaprimary dispatcher for routing requests to other dispatchers. Scale the system vertically by installing one instance of all Cognos 8 services on a largercomputercapable of managing more concurrent request threads. Enable load balancing of requests for content management services by installing multipleinstances ofContent Manager.

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Which Cognos 8 BI architectural component is written in C++?

Batch report service Job service Monitoring service Presentation service

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Which of the following requires additional configuration for installing Cognos 8 BI in a development and production environment?

The application in the development environment and in the production environment will use the Tomcat servlet container as the application server. The development environment will include workstations hosting Framework Manager andCognos 8OLAP Modeling, while the production environment will not. The environment contains customized port and firewall settings for the default http andapplicationserver port. The development and production environment will use data sources that are in Unicode.

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While Cognos 8 BI will support any data warehouse design, which of the following designs does Cognos recommend for new warehouse development?

Operational Data Store Dimensionally Modeled Relational Normalized Enterprise Dimensional Bus

8.

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

It is easier to understand because there are fewer summary tables. Specific reports for which the summary tables were created will run faster. It is easy to leverage many new reports from the summary tables. Over time summary tables often naturally group into business subject areas.

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

does not allow access to all relational items in Query and Report Studio may increase the time needed to fetch required data does not allow access to member functions may bypass aggregate aware tables

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All of the following describe design intent of an operational database EXCEPT:

record the day to day operations of the company maximize the speed of inserts and updates to the database enhance reporting through foreign keys and indexes facilitate performing specific functional tasks

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