COG170 Chapter 9
COG170 Chapter 9: Summaries Cogito
Fundamentals Questions with Correct
Answers
1. How could you find out what options are available for you to use in
dividing up a pie chart, choosing categories for your bar graph, or
setting up levels of a grouped summary? - ANS ✔Check the list of
Available and Used columns in the Display tab of your report.
2. What controls the list of available measures in Slicer Dicer? - ANS
✔Measures are chosen from the list of filters (FDS records) available in
a given data model.
3. True or False: In table components, the colored indicators can have
different thresholds for each row. - ANS ✔True. On the Thresholds
tab in the Output Format form, you can specify overrides for each row to
have its own thresholds.
COG170 Chapter 9: Summaries Cogito Fundamentals Questions with Correct Answers
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What causes of concern would we have about a table component with the
following threshold settings?
Column Lower Bound Upper Bound Alert
Percent 34 67 Yellow
Percent 0 33 Green
Percent 68 Red
a. Percent thresholds should divide into perfectly equal parts (e.g. 33.33,
66.66)
b. The thresholds do not account for decimal percent values
c. Percent values are unavailable for threshold logic
4. d. Alerts should always be ordered from lowest to highest severity,
or highest to lowest severity - ANS ✔b. The thresholds do not
account for decimal percent values
5. Whichever summary format the report builder chooses, they will
have to specify how the data is grouped - what does that mean? -
ANS ✔Grouping - All summarization formats fundamentally group
data by common characteristics, and then perform summarization
functions on all the data which shares that characteristic.
6. What is a summarization function? - ANS ✔Once data has been
grouped, summarization functions aggregate the data and define how it
COG170 Chapter 9: Summaries Cogito Fundamentals Questions with Correct Answers