IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring Developer Sample Questions:

1. A user is using a Real-time Monitoring dashboard object in Business Insight. This dashboard object is built on a cube. The object is configured to update every five seconds. The user wants the object to stop updating so that they can perform some analysis. What are two ways to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

A) by drilling down on the widget
B) by clicking on the pause option in the widget actions menu
C) by maximizing the widget
D) by restoring the widget

2. Which two statements about perspectives in the Real-time Monitoring dashboard are true? (Choose two.)

A) They can be used to display a collection of filters on a dashboard.
B) They can be passed from a dashboard onto a dashboard object's detailed view.
C) They can be applied directly onto a dashboard object from its detailed view.
D) They can be changed from being publicly owned to private.

3. Acustomer has built a lookup table named "Prods" on a database with the following query: SELECT Product_ID, 'D' || cast(Product_ID as VARCHAR) as ProductTag, Product_Name, Product_Description, UnitPrice FROM PRODUCTS.They have built a dimension named "Prod_dim" on this lookup table with the following structure: Hierarchy: Product_Name, Product_ID Key Field: ProductTag. What are two ways to improve performance, assuming there are no other objects using Prods? (Choose two.)

A) Add an index to the ProductTag field.
B) Remove the Product_Description and UnitPrice fields from the lookup table query.
C) Add an index to the Product_ID field.
D) Increase the invalidation schedule frequency.

4. Click the Exhibit button.

A customer has recently added a proxy Web server in front of the Real-time Monitoring (RTM) server. The proxy has been configured to route all requests on port 80 with a URL path starting with "rtm/" to the RTM server. The customer has a flat file agent running outside the proxy. The exhibit shows an agent configuration file that was correct before the proxy was added. Which two changes to the configuration file are required? (Choose two.)

A) Add a "serverPath" attribute to the "VCAgent" element with the value of "/rtm/realtime/ffs".
B) Change the hostname value from "my.company.com" to "my.company.com/rtm".
C) Change the value for attribute "serverPort" to "80".
D) Change the value for attribute "agentPort" to "80".

5. A user wants to build a dashboard for an operations manager who wants to monitor the number of unsatisfied customer calls which were not resolved by thecall center representative and had to be escalated. The operations manager wants to monitor this over five minute intervals, over one day, and compare them with a similar trend over the last ten years. Daily transactional data is stored in a database, andis loaded into a data warehouse nightly for historical analysis and purged weekly. Which two actions achieve this using the Cognos suite of products? (Choose two.)

A) Use Real-time Monitoring (RTM) to model both a five minute and a 10-year trend chart using the temporal windows functionality based on the database data only.
B) Use RTM to model both a five minute and a 10-year trend chart using the temporal windows functionality based on the database data for data streams and the data warehouse for a lookup table.
C) Use Business Intelligence to model both the 10-year trending and the five-minute trend chart based on the data warehouse and display them in the Business Insight workspace.
D) Use Business Intelligence to model a 10-year trend chart based on the data warehouse and RTM to model a five minute trend chart based on the database and display them together in the Business Insight workspace.

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