BI0-122 Cognos 8 BI Administrator v2
Question No : 1 –
In Cognos Connection, how can an administrator specify different prompt values and run
options for a report without modifying the report itself?
A. Produce a report output.
B. Create a report view.
C. Schedule a report.
D. Burst a report.
Question No : 2 –
When the user is accessing a report on a remote computer, what configuration must be
made to avoid a Cognos Application Firewall error?
A. Anonymous Access must be set to false.
B. TheCognos Application Firewall must be enabled on an internal dispatcher.
C. The third-party VSS checking must be enabled.
D. The name of the remote computer must be added to the list of valid domain or hosts.
Question No : 3 –
Which is a valid option for load balancing requests across report servers?
A. Configure load balancing to cluster compatible.
B. Configure dispatchers together with the gateway.
C. Configure dedicated web servers.
D. Rely on automatic load balancing weighted round robin.
Question No : 4 –
Which service is responsible for generating an HTML page?
A. Report service
B. Content Manager service
C. Job service
D. Delivery service
Question No : 5 –
What can an administrator create to ensure that multiple users do not have to enter
database credentials when they run reports?
A. Singlesignon
B. Collation sequence
C. Signon
D. Connection sequence
Question No : 6 –
Which system metric for the Report Service would the administrator set as having a
performance pattern of “Low values are good”?
A. Number of successful requests
B. Successful requests per minute
C. Queue length high watermark
D. Percentage of successful requests
Question No : 7 –
What is a recommendation for tuning during high interaction request processing?
A. Set the number of jobs lower during peak hours.
B. Increase the processing capacity on the dispatcher.
C. Set the number of jobs higher during peak hours.
D. Increase the peak period hours.
Question No : 8 –
How must the gateway component be configured when there are multiple report servers in
a distributed installation to ensure failover?
A. The gateway must be configured to know the location of a single dispatcher.
B. The gateway must be configured to know the location of the content manager.
C. The gateway must be configured to know the location of multiple dispatchers.
D. The gateway must be configured to know the location of the content store.
Question No : 9 –
Why would an administrator want to copy a user profile?
A. The user was deleted using a third-party authentication provider.
B. The user has changed names and the administrator is setting up an account in the new name.
C. The administrator wants to copy trusted credentials for multiple users.
D. The user requires enhanced security permissions before logging on toCognos 8 for the first time.
Question No : 10 –
When the default active Content Manager fails, which of the following occurs?
A. The system automatically activates all standby Content Managers and spreads the load of requests across them all.
B. The system automatically switches to a standby Content Manager, and at some point the administrator must make it the default active Content Manager.
C. The system automatically switches to a standby Content Manager, and requests are directed to it.
D. Users are prompted to rerun requests on the standby Content Manager of their choice.
Question No : 11 –
Which of the following is true regarding the Cognos 8 gateway?
A. If the gateway is installed on a machine that is separate from where otherCognos 8 components are installed, the services for the gateway must be started first.
B. When more than one dispatcher is available, the gateway can automatically balance the load of requests by sending them to any dispatcher.
C. The gateway can be configured to send requests directly to the Content Manager.
D. For failover, the gateway can be configured to know the location of multiple dispatchers.
Question No : 12 –
A user wants to be able to view the contents of a container entry, such as a package or a
folder, and view general properties of the container itself without having full access to the
content. Which permission does the administrator assign to the user?
A. Traverse
B. Write
C. Set Policy
D. Read
Question No : 13 –
At what level should the logging be set to capture the following set of details?
user account management and runtime usage of Cognos 8,
use requests, and service requests and responses.
A. Request
B. Minimal
C. Trace
D. Basic
Question No : 14 –
Which statement describes Cognos 8 BI architecture?
A. The two-tiered architecture is component based and typically separated by firewalls.
B. TheBIBus is the communication tier of the Cognos 8 BI architecture.
C. Communication between components is SOAP on HTTP Protocol.
D. The content manager consists of a set of protocols governing communication amongCognos BI services.
Question No : 15 –
To be able to access and modify any object within the portal, regardless of any security
policies set for the object, the administrator must be a member of which built-in role?
A. Report Administrators
B. Server Administrators
C. Directory Administrators
D. System Administrators
Question No : 16 –
When creating the following Cognos 8 data sources, which one requires specifying a local
path or a network path?
A. XML
B. SAP BW
C. Cognos Planning – Contributor
D. Cognos PowerCube
Question No : 17 –
Which is a function of the first tier in the Cognos 8 BI architecture?
A. Authenticate users to the correct namespace.
B. Pass requests to aCognos 8 BI dispatcher for processing.
C. StartCognos 8 BI services configured and enabled on a computer.
D. Render theCognos Connection and Metric Studio interfaces.
Question No : 18 –
After the installation of Cognos 8, what must be done to ensure that only select users have
unrestricted access to Public Folders in Cognos Connection?
A. Add the Anonymous user to the Directory Administrators role.
B. Remove the Everyone group from the Server Administrators role.
C. Remove the Everyone group from the System Administrators role.
D. Remove the All Authenticated Users group from the Directory Administrators role.
Question No : 19 –
An administrator wants to show the folder hierarchy of Cognos Connection in a portlet.
Which portlet must the administrator use?
A. Cognos Viewer
B. Cognos Extended Applications
C. Cognos Search
D. Cognos Navigator
Question No : 20 –
When monitoring the status of services in Cognos Administration, which services are
listed?
A. Only services that are running
B. Only services that are enabled inCognos Connection
C. Only services that are running and stopped
D. Only services that are enabled inCognos Configuration
Question No : 21 –
What is one of the purposes of Tomcat in the Cognos 8 BI environment?
A. Acts as aservlet container for Cognos 8 presentation services.
B. Monitors the dispatcher and all user requests are lost upon failure.
C. Monitors theCognos 8 service and restarts the service upon failure.
D. Acts as aservlet container for the report and batch report services.
Question No : 22 –
Below is a partial diagram of the processing that occurs when a user submits a request for
authentication through the log on page in their browser. Which of the following components
represents X?
A. Content store
B. Cognos Access Manager
C. Authentication provider database
D. Query database
Question No : 23 –
Under what circumstances would full logging level be most appropriately used?
A. Whenever detailed troubleshooting is required.
B. Whenever more than one dispatcher has been configured.
C. Whenever the default configuration for logging has been changed.
D. Whenever users cannot access the data.
Question No : 24 –
What permission is needed to view and change the permissions of a Cognos 8 object?
A. Execute
B. Read
C. Set Policy
D. Traverse
Question No : 25 –
There are 2 load balanced report servers.
The dispatcher on Computer X has the following characteristics:
RAM:1024 MB
CPU: Dual P4 1.5 Ghz
Hard drive: 80 GB
The dispatcher on Computer Y has the following characteristics:
RAM:2048 MB
CPU: Dual P4 3.8 Ghz
Hard drive: 80 GB
The processing capacity for Computer X is set to 1. What would an administrator set the
processing capacity on Computer Y to?
A. 4
B. 8
C. 2
D. 1
Question No : 26 –
When installing and configuring a standby Content Manager, what must the administrator
do to ensure failover?
A. Ensure that services are started on the machines hosting the standby Content Managers before they are started on the machine hosting the default active Content Manager.
B. Configure authentication providers the same way on all machines hosting Content Managers.
C. Install the first standby Content Manager on the machine with the highest processor speed.
D. Configure the content store to know the location of all standby Content Managers.
Question No : 27 –
The following values are set for the Interactive report service:
Number of high affinity connections = 1
Number of low affinity connections = 2
Maximum number of processes = 4
What are the total connections available for high affinity requests?
A. 2
B. 1
C. 8
D. 4
Question No : 28 –
An administrator wants to email a report to a recipient; however, this recipient is not part of
the Cognos security system. What can the administrator create in Cognos Administration?
A. Signon
B. Contact
C. User
D. Role
Question No : 29 –
There is a load balancing infrastructure set up in a Cognos 8 environment. In order to
disable the Cognos 8 internal load balancing mechanism, what value must be selected for
the Load Balancing Mode setting?
A. Custom balancing
B. Server-side processing
C. Weighted round robin
D. Cluster compatible
Question No : 30 –
An administrator creates a shortcut that points to an invoice report. What happens if the
invoice report is renamed?
A. The shortcut contains the original name and can be used to view the latest output before the report was renamed.
B. The shortcut contains the original name and no longer works because the link to the report is broken.
C. Cognos Connection automatically updates the report name in the shortcut, and the shortcut remains fully functional.
D. Cognos Connection automatically deletes the shortcut.
Question No : 31 –
When configuring for a distributed installation, why must the administrator configure and
start services for the content manager computer first?
A. To ensure the external dispatcher URI is specified before the dispatcher is configured and services started.
B. To ensure that the BI server can connect to the underlying reporting data sources.
C. To ensure the internal dispatcher URI on the content manger computer is specified before the dispatcher is configured and serviced started.
D. To ensure that the certificate authority service is available to issue certificates to other computers in the distributed installation.
Question No : 32 –
When an administrator sets up package-based drill-through, what does the scope
represent?
A. The target report in the drill definition that is shown to the user.
B. The source report or analysis for the drill-through.
C. The format of the drill-through target report.
D. The Run options for the target report.
Question No : 33 –
The Report Upgrade task in Cognos Connection provides options for upgrading report
specifications. Which of the following is one option?
A. By group
B. By folder
C. By role
D. By namespace
Question No : 34 –
Machine 1 is set up as a gateway.
Machine 2 is set up as an application server.
Machine 3 is set up as an application server and a failover content manager.
Machine 4 is set up as the default content manager.
Where does the administrator need to disable anonymous access?
A. Machines 1, 2, and 3 only
B. Machines 2 and 3 only
C. Machine 4 only
D. Machines 3 and 4 only
Question No : 35 –
What is true about servlets and services?
A. Theservlet container manages the threads for each user request.
B. Report service and batch report service run within theservlet container.
C. The dispatcher creates the threads that are then passed to the report service for processing.
D. If a service fails, users get email notification.
Question No : 36 –
When an administrator exports entries from Cognos 8, what file gets created?
A. Deployment archive file
B. Object extract file
C. Configuration export file
D. Content store file
Question No : 37 –
Before sending a report by email, where must the administrator specify the mail server
account?
A. Framework Manager
B. Cognos Configuration
C. Cognos Administration
D. Cognos Connection
Question No : 38 –
To administer the contents of namespaces, the administrator must be a member of which
predefined role?
A. Directory Administrators
B. System Administrators
C. Server Administrators
D. Report Administrators
Question No : 39 –
When a namespace is no longer used for authentication, what must the administrator do to
permanently remove it from the content store?
A. Delete the namespace inCognos Configuration, and then delete it in Cognos Administration.
B. Delete the namespace inCognos Administration, and then delete it in Cognos Configuration.
C. Delete the namespace inCognos Administration only.
D. Delete the namespace inCognos Configuration only.
Question No : 40 –
A user must be able to only view the contents of the Americas Inventory folder. What
permissions must be granted to the user for the folder?
A. Traverse
B. Write
C. Set policy
D. Execute
Question No : 41 –
Which statement is true about the definition of the Application tier?
A. The Application tier hosts the content manager, which contains data such as a report specification,Cognos namespace, and so on.
B. The Application tier hosts the dispatcher and content manager that reside in aservlet container.
C. The Application tier hosts the BI server and the content store.
D. The Application tier hosts the dispatcher, which includes theCognos Application Firewall and Access Manager.
Question No : 42 –
From within Cognos Connection, what must an administrator deploy to move an entire
Cognos 8 application into a new and empty environment?
A. Content manager
B. Cognos namespace
C. Content store
D. Public Folders
Question No : 43 –
Which type of logging indication can show user calls that are made from Cognos 8
components?
A. Trace logging
B. Performance logging
C. Event logging
D. Audit logging
Question No : 44 –
Below is a partial diagram of the processing that occurs when a user launches saved
output in Cognos Connection and views it in Cognos Viewer. At the level of the dispatcher,
which of the Cognos 8 services is used to process the request?
A. Report service
B. Presentation service
C. Delivery service
D. Batch report service
Question No : 45 –
Where must an administrator set up package-based drill-through?
A. Analysis Studio
B. Framework Manager
C. Cognos Configuration
D. Cognos Connection
