Exam 25: Reporting Systems and Olap

What are reporting systems? What are the fundamental operations they perform?

Which of the following is an electronic report medium that can be customised for a particular user?

The ________ in a reporting system indicates the channel to be used for sending a report to a user and whether the report is to be pushed or pulled.

What is the difference between push and pull reports?

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

A reporting system uses ________ to prepare and deliver reports to proper users on a timely basis.

The sales manager of a retail store wants a list of customers who have made more than three repeat purchases from the store.Which of the following operations of a reporting system would help the store manager obtain such a list?

Describe online analytical processing.

A pull report refers to a report ________.

Explain the different types of reports.

Reports that are not subject to change and are prepared from underlying data are referred to as ________.

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

A(n)________ enables people to create information by processing data from disparate data sources and delivering that information to its proper user on a timely basis.

Which of the following describes the reports,users,groups,roles,events,and other entities involved in the reporting activities of a reporting system?

A report on the current stock prices in a market is an example of a(n)________.

Which of the following types of reports allows users to dynamically change report grouping structures?

Reporting systems cannot generate reports that require calculations on data.

Push reports are generated only on receiving a user request.

In an OLAP report,a data item that is to be processed is called a ________.

The process of dividing the data in OLAP reports into more details is termed drill-down.