IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring Developer Sample Questions:

1. Real-time Monitoring (RTM) is used as a performance management tool in a call center. An alert with the agent name and agent code is generated when the performance of an agent is below a specified threshold value. Managers have requested that the alert message provide a link to the ERP system. The link should contain the agent code as a parameter in the URL. How would you accomplish this goal?

A) Use an external reportlet with a static parameter for the agent code.
B) Use an external reportlet with a dynamic parameter.
C) Use an external portlet with a dynamic parameter.
D) Insert a direct link to the ERP system in thealert body.

2. A requirement for a Real-time Monitoring dashboard application is to color a cell in the data grid when sales revenue for a specific product is below the target value. The conditional format must be visible for a manager and the employees. How would you do this?

A) Create a watch point where the threshold is a numeric value and when the rule condition is set to "Notify me only when new data causes the condition to be met when it was not met prior to that data".
B) Create a watch point where the threshold is a percentage of the target value(s) and when the rule condition is set to "Apply this condition to all users".
C) Create a watch point where the threshold is a numeric value and when the rule condition is set to "Apply this condition to all users".
D) Create a watch point where the threshold is a numeric value and when the rule condition is set to "Notify me every time the condition met".

3. A user wants to create a cube from a fact table that hascolumns (order_ID, product_ID, region_ID, Order_Date, salesperson_ID, Order_Qty), with all fields being an integer data
type. Dimensions with the following columns and data type also exist: calendar: calendar_date (date), day (integer), day_name (char), month (integer), year (integer) product: product_ID (integer), description (char) salesperson: salesperson_ID (integer), name (char), manager_ID (integer), territory (char), quota_ID (integer) quota: quota_ID (integer), class (char), amount (decimal)Which two dimensions can be joined to the fact table in the cube? (Choose two.)

A) product
B) salesperson
C) calendar
D) quota

4. Click the Exhibit button.

A customer has recently added a proxy Web server in front of the Real-time Monitoring (RTM) server. The proxy has been configured to route all requests on port 80 with a URL path starting with "rtm/" to the RTM server. The customer has a flat file agent running outside the proxy. The exhibit shows an agent configuration file that was correct before the proxy was added. Which two changes to the configuration file are required? (Choose two.)

A) Add a "serverPath" attribute to the "VCAgent" element with the value of "/rtm/realtime/ffs".
B) Change the value for attribute "agentPort" to "80".
C) Change the value for attribute "serverPort" to "80".
D) Change the hostname value from "my.company.com" to "my.company.com/rtm".

5. Which two statements in the context of Disaster Recovery (active - passive failover) capability for a Real-time Monitoring application are true? (Choose two.)

A) Both active and passive instances share a common file system for checkpoint and recovery logs and a common metadata database.
B) Both the active and passive instances must be running at the same time.
C) Only one instance, either the active or the passive, must be running.
D) Each instance, active and passive, has its ownseparate metadata database.

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