EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: An administrator wants to describe the internal architecture and request flow for a Query service of an executed DQM report.
How is this done?

Question2: An environment is configured to use Compatible Query Mode (CQM).
Which statement is true about request flow?

Question3: An administrator needs to exclude users from rendering reports as PDF output.
How can this be enabled?

Question4: An administrator wants to start the LifeCycle Manager service.
How can this be done?

Question5: An administrator has set up audit logging but needs to diagnose, trace, and filter for a specific user during peak period of system usage.
How can this be done?

Question6: The following distributed environment has been configured:

The administrator wants to limit writes to the audit database connection from the Content Manager server only.
What needs to be configured?

Question7: An administrator is evaluating system status using the Scorecard pane on the Status > System page in the IBM Cognos Administration console.
Which statement is true?

Question8: An administrator wants to render a report and ensure the completed HTML is sent back to the gateway.
Which service is responsible for the rendering task?

Question9: An administrator created a Content Store export and included the user account information.
How can a listing of the content be exported?

Question10: An administrator is implementing security by managing and working with the Cognos namespace.
Which statement is true?

Question11: An administrator is creating a datasource for an IBM Cognos PowerCube. On the datasource creation page, the 'Configure JDBC connection' check box is played out and cannot be selected.
What is the reason for this?

Question12: A report author gets the following error message:
"An error has occurred. Please contact your administrator. The complete error has been logged by CAF with SecureErrorID:2004-05-25-15:44:11.296-#9."
How can the administrator get the complete error message?

Question13: An administrator wants to implement load balancing without using an external load balancing mechanism.
What is one approach that can be used to achieve this?

Question14: An administrator is implementing security by modifying access to the secured functions and secured features.
Which statement is true?

Question15: Which component stores and retrieves application data, including report specifications, report output, security, and configuration data?

Question16: An administrator deleted a group inadvertently then recreated it, but now the access permissions based on that group no longer work.
What must be done?

Question17: A high user load and interactive reporting system on a distributed installation is throwing timeout error messages.
How is this resolved?

Question18: An administrator wants to ensure that a datasource can be referenced when creating data modules in the IBM Cognos Analytics Portal (New > Data module).
What must be done to accomplish this?

Question19: An administrator has a requirement to specify system-wide accessibility settings for all entries (reports, jobs and schedules).
How can this be done?

Question20: An administrator needs to add users from multiple authentication providers to a single role.
What needs to be done?

Question21: An administrator has configured authentication.
Which statement is true for users logging on to the application?

Question22: IBM Cognos Analytics is installed on a non-Windows platform. An administrator receives the following error after setting up a datasource connection:
"XQE-DS-0014 Unable to logon to the data source. An unexpected error from the JDBC driver
"com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver":
"java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8 is not supported by this driver. Use the sqljdbc4.jar class library, which provides support for JDBC 4.0." What should the administrator do to rectify this problem?

Question23: The database containing the Content Store crashed. The administrator needs to restore the Content Store in its entirely including all of the configuration settings that were defined.
What must be done to recover the configuration settings?

Question24: What is the role of Cognos Access Manager (CAM)?

Question25: Which statement is true about the Default User Profile?

Question26: An administrator is reviewing the memory allocations listed below in the current environment.

Which action should the administrator take?

Question27: An administrator wants to use one of the sample audit reports to view the percentage of successful and failed requests for the current day.
What must be done before they can successfully run this report?

Question28: Which statement is true when working with datasource credentials?

Question29: An administrator is attempting to import a backup of the entire Content Store into an existing Content Store.
What is an instance of when an object will be kept by the default conflict resolution rule?

Question30: An administrator is managing authentication namespaces and needs to delete a namespace.
Which statement is true?

Question31: An administrator needs to ensure that users do not have to enter/select Database credentials when running reports.
What must a datasource have in order to accomplish this?

Question32: Why would an administrator use IPF (Indication Processing Facility) logging?

Question33: In a LifeCycle Manager Project, a user can create either a Benchmark task or a Comparison task.
Which statement is INCORRECT when describing the application of Benchmark tasks?

Question34: An environment has two dispatchers with report servers installed on two machines with following configuration:
Dispatcher 1 on Computer A
RAM: 16384 MB

CPU: 2 Core 2.0 GHz

Storage: 512 GB

Dispatcher 2 on Computer B
RAM: 32768 MB

CPU: 4 Core 3.4 GHz

Storage: 1024 GB

What should the setting of processing capacity for Dispatcher 2 be set to, if the capacity for Dispatcher 1 is set to 1?

Question35: In a multi-server environment, an administrator wants to ensure that items in the Content Manager Cache service are re-validated every thirty seconds.
Which option would accomplish this?

Question36: A CQM report successfully runs in another environment but fails in IBM Cognos Analytics. Environments are identical except for the versions.
How could the issue be identified?

Question37: Which attribute can an administrator enable to prevent malicious scripts from reading or manipulating the CAM passport cookie during a user's session with their Web browser?

Question38: To monitor performance, an administrator has set thresholds on a system metric and notices that over time, the metric score has changed from green, to yellow, to red, and then back to yellow.
Which system metric is the administrator monitoring?

Question39: An administrator is tuning the Caching services to improve Dynamic cube report performance. At the same time, there is a need to control the memory usage and Clear Cache.
How is this done?

Question40: Where can a report or dashboard be saved?

Question41: An administrator must troubleshoot query execution related issues in a DQM executed report.
How is this achieved?

Question42: Which policy rule is defined by this statement?
"If a policy has not been explicitly defined for an IBM Cognos Analytics object, then the policy that is applied to its parent object will be used to evaluate if the object can be accessed."

Question43: Where can uploaded visualizations within the IBM Cognos Administration console be managed?

Question44: After a user added numerous schedules, the Content Store database has been locked because some schedules contain invalid data.
What can an administrator do, to prevent the system from being locked in the future?

Question45: An administrator is operating in a hybrid operating systems environment, trying to establish a datasource connection. The compatible portion succeeds, however, the JDBC portion failed with following error: XQE- JDB-0004 A problem occurred finding the driver class
"com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver".
What is the possible cause for this error?

Question46: The folder "AP" has reports that can retain output for 12 months. The administrator needs to remove report output that is at least 30 days old from the Content Store, and archive it to an external repository while keeping up to 12 months of run history.
How can this be accomplished without losing any output or run history?

Question47: All users have unrestricted access in a secured environment.
What must be modified to control this access?

Question48: A user needs to create a data module that uses a datasource named MyDatabase.
What actions must be taken to enable the user to access this datasource?

Question49: An environment has the following routing rules set:

If a report using the 'Australia Package' is run by a user belonging to 'Australia Group', which server group will the request be sent to?

Question50: A user has been given administration capabilities to manage tasks without going into the IBM Administration console.
Which of the following options can be performed? (Choose two.)

Question51: An administrator wants to exclude Request level logging details from being captured.
Which logging level must be set?

Question52: An administrator is performing tasks in the IBM Cognos Administration console.
Which task can be performed on the Status > System page?

Question53: An administrator needs to setup security for a newly installed environment.
Which of the following is a valid step?

Question54: An administrator is configuring settings for the Cognos Analytics Mobile app.
Which settings can be managed?

Question55: An administrator would like to log the activity for a single user.
Which action is required?

Question56: An environment has twenty dispatchers. The administrator wants to change one property to the same value for all dispatchers.
How can that be accomplished?

Question57: An administrator sees that an environment has a long startup time and wants to remedy the issue.
Which solution should be used?

Question58: An administrator is checking the current activities and recognizes one activity with several successful tasks with two still running. The administrator cancels this activity.
Where will this activity be shown?

Question59: An administrator needs to address an environment that is not running optimally and conduct an architecture review.
Which performance attributes should be considered?

Question60: An administrator wants to control server workload by putting routing rules in place.
Which components can be used?