Questions for the C2090-623 were updated on : Sep 01 ,2024
An administrator needs to address an environment that is not running optimally and conduct an
architecture review.
Which performance attributes should be considered?
C
Explanation:
Conduct an architecture review to assess the physical architecture and software installation.
References:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/pdf/dk/service-
shop/IBM_Cognos_BI_Health_Check_Service_FINAL_10-21-11.pdf
An administrator sees that an environment has a long startup time and wants to remedy the issue.
Which solution should be used?
A
Explanation:
If your IBM Cognos servers operate within a load balancing infrastructure, you can turn off the
weighted round robin format of load balancing for the dispatcher. Otherwise, load balancing may be
duplicated by the cluster and by IBM Cognos software, which can degrade performance.
You can set the dispatcher property named loadBalancingMode either to weightedRoundRobin or
clusterCompatible.
References: IBM Cognos Administration Version 10.1.0, Administration and Security Guide, page 163
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?
B
Explanation:
The metric score for each entry is based on the performance of individual child entries. The status
that is displayed for each entry is the lowest status of the child entries. For example, if all the metrics
for a dispatcher are good, but one service on that dispatcher has a poor metric, the metric score
shown for the dispatcher is poor.
Status is one of the following:
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.doc/c_panes_system_status_page.html
An environment has twenty dispatchers. The administrator wants to change one property to the
same value for all dispatchers.
How can that be accomplished?
A
Explanation:
Grouping dispatchers in configuration folders.
Configuration folders are useful to organize dispatchers if your installation includes many dispatchers.
You can group dispatchers so that you can apply the same configuration settings once to all the
dispatchers and services in the folder.
Note: You can have more than one dispatcher in your IBM Cognos environment. In such distributed
installations one dispatcher is configured for every instance of the Content Manager or Application
Tier Components that are installed and configured in your environment.
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.doc/c_reportnet_components.html
An administrator is implementing security by managing and working with the Cognos namespace.
Which statement is true?
D
Explanation:
The Cognos namespace includes predefined objects to help you quickly set up initial security.
You use the predefined objects and other features of the Cognos namespace for ongoing security
management.
You can create groups and roles in the Cognos namespace.
Initial access permissions are applied to all predefined objects. You can modify the permissions from
the object properties.
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ca_cognos_namespace.html
An administrator wants to exclude Request level logging details from being captured.
Which logging level must be set?
A
Explanation:
The higher you set the logging level, the more it degrades system performance. Normally, you set the
level to Minimal or Basic to collect errors, or to Request to collect errors and warnings.
Note: Report validation levels and logging levels
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.doc/c_logginglevels.html
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?
D
Explanation:
Problem(Abstract): Datasource connections not listed in Data server by default
Symptom: We can see the datasource in the Admin console but not in the list of data servers.
Cause: This is default behavior.
Resolving the problem
Go to the Administrative Console -> Configuration -> Set properties -> Connections tab.
On the bottom, you will see "Data source capabilities"
Inside that, check the box which says "Allow web-based modeling"
Once you check this, the datasource would be present as data server.
References:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21978718
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?
C
Explanation:
The Presentation service
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?
B
Explanation:
Unlike routing keywords, the order in which the routing rules are listed affects how they are applied.
A rule is matched when properties associated with the package or the group or role involved in the
request satisfy the criteria of the rule. The rules are evaluated in order until the first one is matched,
and the request is routed to the server group named by the first rule that was matched. You can
change the order of the rules by clicking Modify the sequence.
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.2.2.doc/t_asg_set_routing_keywords_server.html
All users have unrestricted access in a secured environment.
What must be modified to control this access?
B
Explanation:
You can disable the Anonymous user account by changing the configuration parameters in the
configuration tool.
This entry represents a user account shared by members of the general public who can access IBM
Cognos software without being prompted for authentication. For example, this type of access is
useful when distributing an online catalog.
Anonymous users can see only those entries for which access permissions are not set, or are set
specifically for this account or for the Everyone group.
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?
C
Explanation:
Specify if Configuration Objects and Children are Part of Deployment.
You can specify if configuration objects and their children are included as part of deployment. By
default, they are not included.
You can change the default setting using the advanced setting
CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION.
By default, it is set to False (do not include configuration objects in deployments).
To change the default to include configuration objects and their children, set it to True.
References: IBM Cognos Administration Version 10.1.0, Administration and Security Guide, page 384
An environment is configured to use Compatible Query Mode (CQM).
Which statement is true about request flow?
C
Explanation:
OLAP style queries, like those against SAP BW, Oracle Essbase and IBM Cubing Services type data
sources, will go to the OLAP query planner.
References: The IBM Cognos 10 Dynamic Query Cookbook (2010), page 7
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?
C
Explanation:
You can combine multiple sources into one data module. After you add a source, click Add sources
(Add a data source.) in Selected sources to add another source.
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ca_mdlg.doc/c_data_modules.html
An administrator needs to exclude users from rendering reports as PDF output.
How can this be enabled?
A
Explanation:
By default, all users have permissions for the following capabilities:
These separately secured functions support the management of system resources. To control the
formats options that users can see and run in the user interface, set access permissions for these
capabilities.
References:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.doc/c_specifyreportformat.html
An administrator created a Content Store export and included the user account information.
How can a listing of the content be exported?
D
Explanation:
You can specify if configuration objects and their children are included as part of deployment. By
default, they are not included.
You can change the default setting using the advanced setting
CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION.
By default, it is set to False (do not include configuration objects in deployments).
To change the default to include configuration objects and their children, set it to True.