Check the answer(s) that apply:

1. Which of the following statements refer to a Remote Cube?

This question has more than one answer.
a. InfoCube that gathers data from several Basic Cubes
b. Transaction data that are not managed in SAP BW but are available to SAP BW users
c. Remote Cubes do not contain data
d. A cube built in a non-BW data warehouse
e. None of the above

Comentário : acertei.

2. If product price is a slowly changing dimension, how do you model product price if
you want to report on the price at the time of the query?
This question has more than one answer.
a. As a characteristic on the material dimension
b. As a time-dependent navigational attribute
c. As a time-dependent hierarchy of material
d. As a time-independent navigational attribute of material
e. None of the above

Comentários : Errei, achava que o correto era B e C. A resposta é a D, pois se o preço

muda pouco e vc quer a o relatório mostrando o valor do produto no tempo da query o
preço do produto não pode ser dependente de tempo.

23. If product price is a slowly changing dimension, how do you model product price if you
want to report the price at any point in time?
This question has more than one answer.
a. As a time-dependent navigational attribute
b. As a time-dependent navigational attribute of material
c. As a time-independent navigational attribute of material
d. As a characteristic on the material dimension
e. As a time-dependent hierarchy of material

3. Which of the following refer to pointer tables that provide the technical link to the
master data outside of the InfoCube?
This question has only one answer.
a. Dimension tables
b. Set IDs
c. M tables
d. SID tables
e. ODS transparent tables

Comentários : Acertei .

4. Which of the following Dimensions are delivered by SAP BW for each InfoCube?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Unit
b. Time
c. Transfer package
d. Currency unit
e. Info packet (Info package)
f. GIS

Comentários : Errei, confundi InfoPacket com Transfer Package .

5. Which of the following statements describes a categorical dimension?

This question has only one answer.
a. An artificial dimension used to describe the status of another dimension
b. An artificial dimension/attribute used to categorize another dimension
c. An artificial dimension used in a reporting scenario where the comparison of the
same key figure is needed
d. A dimension that is used across all cubes
e. None of the above

Comentários : Errei

6. Which of the following is an example of a slowly changing dimension?

This question has only one answer.
a. Customer on a sales order
b. Date
c. Person responsible for a cost center
d. Value of a purchase order
e. None of the above

Comentários : Acertei .

7. Fact tables may be partitioned by which of the following characteristics?

This question has only one answer.
a. 0CALDAY
b. 0CALMONTH
c. 0CALYEAR
d. 0CALPERIOD
e. 0CALWEEK

Comentários : Acertei .

8. Which of the following statements are correct concerning the operational data store
(ODS)?
This question has more than one answer.
a. The data in the ODS are compressed and do not have a Request ID attached
b. ODS can consolidate data from different source systems
c. Data in the ODS cannot be reported upon
d. The ODS is the inbound layer of the SAP BW system and data are written directly
to it from the source system
e. The ODS generally holds transaction data only

Comentários : Errei
9. A Fact table consists of which of the following elements?
This questions has more than one answer.
a. Characteristic InfoObjects
b. Key figures InfoObjects
c. Calculated key figures InfoObjects
d. Hierarchies
e. DIM IDs

Comentários : Errei

10. If you worked for a retail company that changed prices on a very frequent basis,
how would you model the price?
This question has only one answer.
a. In the master data table as an attribute
b. In the transaction table as a new characteristic
c. In the ODS to enhance performance
d. In the fact table
e. None of the above

Comentários : Errei

11. Which of the following occurs as a result of degenerating dimensions?

This question has more than one answer.
a. The grain of the fact table represents actual working documents like order number
or invoice number
b. All descriptive attributes of the grain are located in other dimensions
c. The InfoCube becomes very weak and performs poorly when it is run
d. The degenerating dimensions cannot be modeled using normal star schema
e. None of the above

Comentários : Errei, esqueci de marcar a opção B.

12. What values can a key figure retain?

This question has only one answer.
a. Last value
b. Average value
c. First value
d. Sum
e. All of the above
f. None of the above

Comentários : Acertei

13. Which of the following describes an unbalanced hierarchy?

This question has only one answer.
a. A hierarchy with too many leaves within one branch
b. A hierarchy with fewer nodes within one or more branches
c. Hierarchy without leaves
d. The term used for data that are delivered from two or more sources on different
aggregation
levels
e. None of the above

Comentários : Errei

14. How many hierarchies can be created for a key figure?

This question has only one answer.
a. 10
b. 2
c. 5
d. More than 1
e. None

Comentários : Acertei – Não há hierarquias para Key Figures

15. Which of the following represents a characteristic that spans an entire data model and
upon which all other entities are dependent?
This question has only one answer.
a. Many-to-many relationship
b. A degenerated characteristic
c. A strong entity
d. An attribute
e. A data model characteristic

Comentários : Colei

16. Navigational attributes behave in a query like which of the following?

This question has only one answer.
a. Attributes
b. Variables
c. Characteristics
d. Filters
e. None of the above

Comentários – Acertei

17. When should an attribute be placed in a separate dimension?

This question has only one answer.
a. Always
b. If the attribute changes frequently
c. If the attributes have a large number of distinct values
d. Never
e. None of the above
Comentários – Errei ; Um atributo só deve ficar numa dimensão separada se ele mudar
frequentemente.

18. Which of the following objects is not provided in business content?

This question has only one answer.
a. InfoCube
b. InfoSource
c. KPIs
d. Queries
e. SAP R/3 extractor program
f. None of the above
Comentários – Errei ; O BI Content provê Cubos, infosources, KPIs , Queries e também
programas dos extratores.

19. Which of the following objects keeps the aggregate and InfoCube in sync?
This question has only one answer.
a. Dim pointer
b. Read pointer
c. SID pointers
d. Surrogate pointer
e. None of the above
f. All of the above

Comentários – Acertei

20. A MultiCube joins numerous other InfoCubes via which of the following?
This question has only one answer.
a. A common set of characteristics
b. A common set of key figures
c. A common set of InfoSources
d. A common set of DataSource
e. None of the above

Comentários – Acertei

21. Why do we want to normalize a data model?

This question has only one answer.
a. To avoid redundancy
b. To make it look good
c. To increase performance
d. To comply with the multidimensional data modeling rules
e. None of the above

Comentários – Errei

22. Hierarchy can be which of the following?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Time-dependent name
b. Version dependent
c. With intervals
d. Time-dependent structure
e. Used by multiple InfoCube
f. None of the above

Comentários – Errei

23. If product price is a slowly changing dimension, how do you model product price if you
want to report the price at any point in time?
This question has more than one answer.
a. As a time-dependent navigational attribute
b. As a time-dependent navigational attribute of material
c. As a time-independent navigational attribute of material
d. As a characteristic on the material dimension
e. As a time-dependent hierarchy of material

Comentários – Acertei

24. Name the three differences between OLAP and OLTP systems?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Software used
b. Current data versus history required
c. One to two months of data versus two to seven years of data
d. Detailed transaction data versus summarized data
e. None of the above

Comentários – Acertei

25. Sometimes we have to combine unrelated characteristics into one dimension, due to
which of the following facts?
This question has more than one answer.
a. We run out of dimensions and we have to include the data in the same InfoCube
b. We are running out of space on the database
c. We are looking for higher performance
d. Lower number of dimensions is a way to optimize data staging
e. To reduce the number of joins
f. All of the above

Comentários – Acertei

26. Which of the following items refer to InfoObjects?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Characteristics
b. Key figures
c. Queries
d. Attributes
e. None of the above
Comentários – Acertei

27. What are the three predefined dimensions in SAP BW?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Date
b. InfoPackage
c. Time
d. Unit
e. None of the above

Comentários – Acertei

28. What are the advantages of a smaller dimension?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Available immediately after transaction data load
b. Improves query performance
c. Overhead during load time
d. It is not an advantage but a liability
e. None of the above

Comentários – Errei

29. What are the limitations of a Remote Cube?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Additional requirements for extractors
b. Slow
c. System dependent
d. Only for transaction data
e. Small volume

Comentários – Errei , não sabia q era só pra Transaction data.

30. Which of the following are examples of characteristics?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Monthly sales
b. Products
c. Cost centers
d. Company codes
e. Sales person

Comentários – Acertei