IBM C2090-180 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2090-180 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  A developer has specified a maximum of two report processes for the application. Whilemonitoring the application, the developer notices that only one report process is running. Which ofthe following would account for this?

  A. The number of affinity connections per BI Bus is set too high.
  B. The configuration size for the application is set too low.
  C. The number of low affinity connections has been exceeded.
  D. The number of report requests is too high.
  A. The number of affinity connections per BI Bus is set too high.

• Question 32:

  How are Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tracked?

  A. By aligning them to strategic and tactical goals and the business objectives of the enterprise.
  B. By comparing them against other KPIs in a balanced scorecard.
  C. By examining anomalies that appear in BI reporting and analysis.
  D. By comparing their values to acceptable minimum and maximum levels of performanceagainst a target.
  D. By comparing their values to acceptable minimum and maximum levels of performanceagainst a target.

• Question 33:

  WhichCognos BIarchitectural component is written in C++?

  A. Batch report service
  B. Job service
  C. Monitoring service
  D. Presentation service
  A. Batch report service

• Question 34:

  Which of the following is a critical component in delivering Corporate Performance Managementthroughout an enterprise?

  A. Drill down from summary to detailed information within individual subject areas.
  B. Drill across from one subject area to another through conformed dimensions.
  C. Star schema data marts designed to facilitate analysis and reporting.
  D. Event management designed to monitor the status of Key Performance Indicators.
  B. Drill across from one subject area to another through conformed dimensions.

• Question 35:

  WhileCognos BIwill support any data warehouse design, which of the following designs doesCognos recommend for new warehouse development?

  A. Operational Data Store
  B. Dimensionally Modeled Relational
  C. Normalized Enterprise
  D. Dimensional Bus
  D. Dimensional Bus

• Question 36:

  Which of the following describes the design goals of a reporting database?

  A. provide fast access to corporate data for analysis and reporting
  B. provide near real time access to summarized corporate data for analysis and reporting
  C. provide fast access to corporate data and act as a system of record
  D. provide near real time access to summarized transactional data
  A. provide fast access to corporate data for analysis and reporting

• Question 37:

  A company has several operational data stores. They wish to compare data from the various datastores against one another. The data in the various stores must be manipulated to match.Eventual report performance is more important than development time.

  Which of the followingCognos 8 components would BEST address their requirements?

  A. Report Studio and Query Studio
  B. Analysis Studio and Report Studio
  C. Data Manager and Analysis Studio
  D. Planning, Data Manager, and Report Studio
  C. Data Manager and Analysis Studio

• Question 38:

  Using the diagram below to install and configureCognos BI, which of the following componentswill NOT address automatic failover?

  A. Cognos BIContent Manager (Active)
  B. Cognos BIContent Manager (Passive)
  C. Cognos BIReport Server
  D. Cognos BIGateway
  D. Cognos BIGateway

• Question 39:

  Which of the following statements describes the critical differences between a managed reportand a query?

  A. A managed report is intended to be run on a regular execution schedule from a backgroundbatch process whereas a query is run interactively.
  B. A managed report is authored by trained developers whereas a query is authored by eithertrained developers or end users.
  C. A managed report is intended to be run on a regular execution schedule whereas a query isintended to be authored and run on-demand.
  D. A managed report prompts users for run-time parameters whereas a query does not.
  C. A managed report is intended to be run on a regular execution schedule whereas a query isintended to be authored and run on-demand.

• Question 40:

  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.
  B. Use theCognos BIsecurity objects.