Exam 25: Reporting Systems and OLAP

Describe online analytical processing.

For query reports,the report-delivery system serves as an intermediary between the user and the report generator.

Reporting systems use the ________ to prepare and deliver reports to the proper users on a timely basis.

What is the difference between push and pull reports?

Each OLAP cube in a report is a characteristic of the measures in the OLAP report.

With reference to the online analytical processing,a presentation of a measure with associated dimensions is known as an ________.

The purpose of ________ is to define who receives what reports,when,and by what means.

Push reports are generated only on receiving a user request.

How does a reporting system obtain the necessary data to generate reports?

An administrator in a company defines who receives what reports,when,and by what means.These functions performed by the administrator are referred to as report delivery.

What is an OLAP cube?

What are the different types of report? Explain.

XML Web service reports are an example of ________ reports.

Which of the following is an electronic report media that can be customized for particular users?

In the OLAP reports,the data item that is to be processed is called ________.

Data generated from public sources is a component of reporting systems.

Users can declare that they wish to receive notification of events,say,via email or on their cell phones.These kinds of reports are termed as ________.

Reporting systems use dedicated indexing systems instead of metadata to prepare and deliver reports to the proper users on a timely basis.

Which of the following types of reports is an example of a push report?

In OLAP reports,a dimension refers to an item that is to be processed in the OLAP report.