You need to configure per-user security authentication for reporting against the Sales cube
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure per-user security authentication for reporting against the Sales cube.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the complete solution. Choose
all that apply.)
You need to configure SSRS to meet the maximum number of snapshots requirement
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure SSRS to meet the maximum number of snapshots requirement.
What should you do? (Each answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
How should you configure the attribute relationships?
DRAG DROP
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to optimize the Regions dimension.
How should you configure the attribute relationships? (To answer, drag the appropriate
attribute from the list of attributes to the correct location in the hierarchy relationship. Use
only attributes that apply.)
Which SSAS feature should you use?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to modify the Sales cube to support the planning requirements.
Which SSAS feature should you use?
Which SSAS feature should you use?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to modify the Sales Regions hierarchy to meet the reporting requirements.
Which SSAS feature should you use?
You need to develop the executive reports
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to develop the executive reports.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose ail that
apply.)
Which Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) function should you use?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure the UserRegions role.
Which Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) function should you use?
Which value should you use for the FormatString property?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Contoso, Ltd
Background
You are the business intelligence (BI) solutions architect for Contoso Ltd, a multinational
sales company with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brisbane, Tokyo, and New York.
Contoso sells office consumable products such as pens, printer ink, and paper.
You produce solutions by using SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
Technical Background
Contoso’s products are categorized by using four levels while some use only two or three
levels. Products are categorized as shown in the following table.
Contoso sells products through mobile sales staff, direct marketing, and its website. Sales
personnel are located in various regions around the world, and each region has a sales
manager who is paid a quarterly bonus based on the total sales in the region during the
quarter. Regions are categorized as shown in the following table.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is used to host a multidimensional database. The
database contains a single cube named Sales and three database dimensions named Products,
Regions, and Date. A single measure named Sales Total has been defined in the cube. The
data source for the database is a SQL Server data warehouse.
The Products dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Products. To prevent
the display of empty members when users browse the Products dimension, the Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) process populates all missing values as shown in the following diagram.
The structure of the Products hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Regions dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Sales Regions. The
dimension is based on a single dimension table in the data warehouse and the attribute
relationships have not been modified since the dimension was created by using the
Dimension wizard. The structure of the Sales Regions hierarchy is shown in the following diagram.
The Date dimension contains a single user-defined hierarchy named Calendar. The structure
of the Calendar hierarchyis shown in the following diagram.
A role named UserRegions has been created in the SSAS database that will be used to filter
members in the Regions dimension based on the authenticated user.
Administrative staff from around the world will produce sales reports with Microsoft Excel
2010 based on the Sales cube.
Developers will produce reports with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) based on the
Sales cube and the reports will be delivered to users through report subscriptions and a web
browser-All users log on to an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
contoso.com.
All client computers and servers are joined to the contoso.com domain.
Business Requirements
The BI system must meet the following reporting requirements:
• Display all sales figures in euro currency, regardless of the client’s reporting location
• Include a new measure named AD Sales that calculates average daily sales for a
selected month
• Support near real-time reporting while maintaining good performance for
multidimensional queries
• Support reports that show currency exchange rates
• Deliver executive reports that are parameterized and rendered from report snapshots
In addition, cube objects must use terms familiar to users from around the world. For
example, in the SalesRegions hierarchy, users from Great Britain must see the State level
presented as County when browsing the Sales cube.
The Sales cube must support a new measure group named Sales Planning. The measure group
must consist of a single measure named Sales Plan that enables the management team to use
Excel 2010 to enter sales plans for future monitoring.
The BI system must meet the following technical requirements:
Architecture requirements
o The system must use separate servers for each of the following components:
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Analysis Services in multidimensional mode SharePoint Server with
the Reporting Services Add-in
o All servers must be installed using U.S. regional settings.
o The system must source currency exchange rate data from a database hosted in
Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
Security requirements
o When possible, the system must use Windows authentication for all database
connections.
o The system must prevent users from querying data from outside of their region.
o The system must allow certain users to query data from multiple regions.
Development requirements
o When browsing the Products hierarchy, repeating values for different levels of a given
drill-path must be avoided. For example, Papers -> Copy Paper -> Copy Paper ->
Copy Paper should appear simply as Papers -> Copy Paper.
o The system must support report snapshots. The default maximum number of retained
snapshots must not exceed five.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure the format of the Sales Total measure.
Which value should you use for the FormatString property?
You need to create the KPI in the AdhocReports project
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Data Architect
General Background
You are the data architect for a company that uses SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. You
design data modeling and reporting solutions that are based on a sales data warehouse.
Background
The solutions will be deployed on the following servers:
• ServerA runs SQL Server Database Engine, ServerA is the data warehouse server.
• ServerB runs SQL Server Database Engine, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in
multidimensional mode, and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
• ServerC runs SSAS in tabular mode, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) running
in SharePoint mode, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
The data warehouse schema currently contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the
Exhibit button.)
Business Requirements
The reporting solution must address the requirements of the sales team, as follows:
• Team members must be able to view standard reports from SharePoint.
• Team members must be able to perform ad-hoc analysis by using Microsoft Power
View and Excel.
• Team members can have standard reports delivered to them on a schedule of their
choosing.
The standard reports
• Will use a sales territory hierarchy for organizing data by region.
• Will be accessible from SharePoint.
The Excel ad-hoc reports
• Will use the same data store as the standard reports.
• Will provide direct access to the data store for the sales team and a simplified view for
the executive team.
Technical Requirements
The standard reports must be based on an SSAS cube. The schema of the data warehouse on
ServerA must be able to support the ability to slice the fact data by the following dates:
• Order date (OrderDateKey)
• Due date (DueDateKey)
• Ship date (ShipDateKey)
Additions and modifications to the data warehouse schema must adhere to star schema design
principles to minimize maintenance and complexity.
The multidimensional and tabular models will be based on the data warehouse. The tabular
and multidimensional models will be created by using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). The
tabular project is named AdhocReports and the multidimensional project is named Standard
Reports.
The cube design in the Standard Reports project must define two measures for the unique
count of sales territories (SalesTerritoryKey) and products (ProductKey).
A deployment script that can be executed from a command-line utility must be created to
deploy the StandardReports project to ServerB.
The tabular model in the AdhocReports project must meet the following requirements:
• A hierarchy must be created that consists of the SalesTerritoryCountry and
SalesTerritoryRegion columns from the DimSalesTerritory table and the
EmployeeName column from the DimEmployee table.
• A key performance indicator (KPI) must be created that compares the total quantity
sold (OrderQuantity) to a threshold value of 1,000.
• A measure must be created to calculate day-over-day (DOD) sales by region based on
order date.
SSRS on ServerC must be configured to meet the following requirements:
• It must use a single data source for the standard reports.
• It must allow users to create their own standard report subscriptions.
• The sales team members must be limited to only viewing and subscribing to reports in
the Sales Reports library.
A week after the reporting solution was deployed to production, Marc, a salesperson,
indicated that he has never received reports for which he created an SSRS subscription. In
addition, Marc reports that he receives timeout errors when running some reports on demand.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to create the KPI in the AdhocReports project.
What should you do?
Which design should you use?
DRAG DROP
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Data Architect
General Background
You are the data architect for a company that uses SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. You
design data modeling and reporting solutions that are based on a sales data warehouse.
Background
The solutions will be deployed on the following servers:
• ServerA runs SQL Server Database Engine, ServerA is the data warehouse server.
• ServerB runs SQL Server Database Engine, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in
multidimensional mode, and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
• ServerC runs SSAS in tabular mode, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) running
in SharePoint mode, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1.
The data warehouse schema currently contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the
Exhibit button.)
Business Requirements
The reporting solution must address the requirements of the sales team, as follows:
• Team members must be able to view standard reports from SharePoint.
• Team members must be able to perform ad-hoc analysis by using Microsoft Power
View and Excel.
• Team members can have standard reports delivered to them on a schedule of their
choosing.
The standard reports
• Will use a sales territory hierarchy for organizing data by region.
• Will be accessible from SharePoint.
The Excel ad-hoc reports
• Will use the same data store as the standard reports.
• Will provide direct access to the data store for the sales team and a simplified view for
the executive team.
Technical Requirements
The standard reports must be based on an SSAS cube. The schema of the data warehouse on
ServerA must be able to support the ability to slice the fact data by the following dates:
• Order date (OrderDateKey)
• Due date (DueDateKey)
• Ship date (ShipDateKey)
Additions and modifications to the data warehouse schema must adhere to star schema design
principles to minimize maintenance and complexity.
The multidimensional and tabular models will be based on the data warehouse. The tabular
and multidimensional models will be created by using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). The
tabular project is named AdhocReports and the multidimensional project is named Standard
Reports.
The cube design in the Standard Reports project must define two measures for the unique
count of sales territories (SalesTerritoryKey) and products (ProductKey).
A deployment script that can be executed from a command-line utility must be created to
deploy the StandardReports project to ServerB.
The tabular model in the AdhocReports project must meet the following requirements:
• A hierarchy must be created that consists of the SalesTerritoryCountry and
SalesTerritoryRegion columns from the DimSalesTerritory table and the
EmployeeName column from the DimEmployee table.
• A key performance indicator (KPI) must be created that compares the total quantity
sold (OrderQuantity) to a threshold value of 1,000.
• A measure must be created to calculate day-over-day (DOD) sales by region based on
order date.
SSRS on ServerC must be configured to meet the following requirements:
• It must use a single data source for the standard reports.
• It must allow users to create their own standard report subscriptions.
• The sales team members must be limited to only viewing and subscribing to reports in
the Sales Reports library.
A week after the reporting solution was deployed to production, Marc, a salesperson,
indicated that he has never received reports for which he created an SSRS subscription. In
addition, Marc reports that he receives timeout errors when running some reports on demand.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to complete the design of the data warehouse.
Which design should you use? (To answer, drag the appropriate tables and relationships to
the correct location in the answer area. Use only the tables and relationships that apply.)