COG170 Cogito Fundamentals 2025
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What is the fastest way to create a new dashboard? - ✔✔Dashboard Options > Create Dashboard
When building custom reports, dashboards, and components, which parts of your record will be visible
and searchable in the Analytics Catalog? - ✔✔Display name, Tags, and description
You have built a component record. Now, in the Designer UI, you click Add Component but can't find
your component in the catalog. Why not? - ✔✔Your component isn't enabled.
True or False. Every source dashboard has exactly one view. - ✔✔False. Each user can create one or more
views of a single source dashboard.
True or False. SlicerDicer can be used to report any data that has ever been entered into Epic. - ✔✔False.
SlicerDicer can only be used to report on data that has been extracted to Caboodle.
A SlicerDicer population is showing all smokers with PCPs in your clinic. You would like to see these
patients grouped by their different PCPs, with on bar per provider. How would you do this? - ✔✔Add a
slice.
What controls the list of available measures in SlicerDicer? - ✔✔Measures are chosen from the list of
available SlicerDicer Filters (FDS) Records available in a Data Model, and the summary functions that
apply to that Filter's data type. For example, you can apply a sum, average, max, or min to a numeric
filter, but not to a string.
On which screen can you choose to integrate dashboard parameters and dates with your SlicerDicer
session? - ✔✔When saving your session.
,How does the "Use dashboard dates" setting for a SlicerDicer component determine the component's
behavior on a dashboard? - ✔✔If "Use dashboard dates" is not selected, the session will always show
data for the date range chose when saving the session. Otherwise the dashboard date range will
immediately update the SlicerDicer session whenever it is changed.
How can you tell if a summary level parameter will affect a SlicerDicer component on a dashboard? -
✔✔Hover over over the dashboard parameter and see which components have outlines around them
OR Open the SlicerDicer session and check the settings in the "save" or "update" window to see which
dashboard parameters are enabled.
True or False. Creating a new SlicerDicer component from an existing one using the Explore Detail option
will add the new component to the source dashboard. - ✔✔False. This method will add the SlicerDicer
component to a view.
Which of Epic's databases contains real-time data? - ✔✔Chronicles
Which of Epic's databases are relational databases? - ✔✔Clarity & Caboodle
True or False. You can use the Record Viewer to look up a list of columns in the Clarity Table. - ✔✔False.
Use the Record Viewer to view data from a record in Chronicles. Use the Data Dictionary in the Analytics
Catalog to look up the columns in a Clarity table.
A user ran a report to find all geriatric patients but now wants to limit the report to only patients who
have arthritis. The report includes a column to display the patient's medical problems. How can the user
limit the report to only arthritic patients without re-running it? - ✔✔Use the Filters tab and filter the
Medical Problem column on the value "arthritis".
Who can find a public report in the Analytics Catalog? - ✔✔If a user can see a template in the Analytics
Catalog, they will be able to view and run all the public reports made from the template.
True or False. A private report is one that anyone can run, but only the creator can edit. - ✔✔False.
, What is the difference between a parameter and a display column? - ✔✔A parameter is used by the
query. It will determine which results are found at run time. A display column is used to display
information about the results that are found.
What Master File stores one record for every display column in Chronicles? - ✔✔PAF
What should you do before creating a new display column? - ✔✔Check to make sure there isn't a column
already created that you can use.
In the Report Settings window, you are using the Summary Tab to build a grouped summary. What
options are available to you for use in grouping or aggregating your data? - ✔✔The columns listed in the
available and Selected columns on the display tab.
True or False. In table components, the colored indicators can have different thresholds for each row. -
✔✔True. On the Output Format form in the Component Editor, you can specify Threshold Overrides for
each row.
What is the difference between a record and a contact? - ✔✔A record is a single entity. A contact
represents a single set of data (usually representing a unique time period) on that record.
What is the difference between a multiple response item and a response each time item? - ✔✔These
refer to different item characteristics. "Multiple response" refers to a particular Response Type. A
multiple response item can hold multiple answers on one contact. "Response each time" refers to a
particular Add Type. A response each time item can hold different answers on different contacts.
True or False. A patient who has been seen twice at your facility should have two records in the Patient
Master File. - ✔✔False. The patient should only have one record, but that record will have two contacts.
A user shows you a field in Hyperspace that they want to report on. How can you find where in
Chronicles that field files to? - ✔✔CTRL + Click the field. If that doesn't work, try using Record Viewer.
What master file stores dashboard resources? - ✔✔IDK
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What is the fastest way to create a new dashboard? - ✔✔Dashboard Options > Create Dashboard
When building custom reports, dashboards, and components, which parts of your record will be visible
and searchable in the Analytics Catalog? - ✔✔Display name, Tags, and description
You have built a component record. Now, in the Designer UI, you click Add Component but can't find
your component in the catalog. Why not? - ✔✔Your component isn't enabled.
True or False. Every source dashboard has exactly one view. - ✔✔False. Each user can create one or more
views of a single source dashboard.
True or False. SlicerDicer can be used to report any data that has ever been entered into Epic. - ✔✔False.
SlicerDicer can only be used to report on data that has been extracted to Caboodle.
A SlicerDicer population is showing all smokers with PCPs in your clinic. You would like to see these
patients grouped by their different PCPs, with on bar per provider. How would you do this? - ✔✔Add a
slice.
What controls the list of available measures in SlicerDicer? - ✔✔Measures are chosen from the list of
available SlicerDicer Filters (FDS) Records available in a Data Model, and the summary functions that
apply to that Filter's data type. For example, you can apply a sum, average, max, or min to a numeric
filter, but not to a string.
On which screen can you choose to integrate dashboard parameters and dates with your SlicerDicer
session? - ✔✔When saving your session.
,How does the "Use dashboard dates" setting for a SlicerDicer component determine the component's
behavior on a dashboard? - ✔✔If "Use dashboard dates" is not selected, the session will always show
data for the date range chose when saving the session. Otherwise the dashboard date range will
immediately update the SlicerDicer session whenever it is changed.
How can you tell if a summary level parameter will affect a SlicerDicer component on a dashboard? -
✔✔Hover over over the dashboard parameter and see which components have outlines around them
OR Open the SlicerDicer session and check the settings in the "save" or "update" window to see which
dashboard parameters are enabled.
True or False. Creating a new SlicerDicer component from an existing one using the Explore Detail option
will add the new component to the source dashboard. - ✔✔False. This method will add the SlicerDicer
component to a view.
Which of Epic's databases contains real-time data? - ✔✔Chronicles
Which of Epic's databases are relational databases? - ✔✔Clarity & Caboodle
True or False. You can use the Record Viewer to look up a list of columns in the Clarity Table. - ✔✔False.
Use the Record Viewer to view data from a record in Chronicles. Use the Data Dictionary in the Analytics
Catalog to look up the columns in a Clarity table.
A user ran a report to find all geriatric patients but now wants to limit the report to only patients who
have arthritis. The report includes a column to display the patient's medical problems. How can the user
limit the report to only arthritic patients without re-running it? - ✔✔Use the Filters tab and filter the
Medical Problem column on the value "arthritis".
Who can find a public report in the Analytics Catalog? - ✔✔If a user can see a template in the Analytics
Catalog, they will be able to view and run all the public reports made from the template.
True or False. A private report is one that anyone can run, but only the creator can edit. - ✔✔False.
, What is the difference between a parameter and a display column? - ✔✔A parameter is used by the
query. It will determine which results are found at run time. A display column is used to display
information about the results that are found.
What Master File stores one record for every display column in Chronicles? - ✔✔PAF
What should you do before creating a new display column? - ✔✔Check to make sure there isn't a column
already created that you can use.
In the Report Settings window, you are using the Summary Tab to build a grouped summary. What
options are available to you for use in grouping or aggregating your data? - ✔✔The columns listed in the
available and Selected columns on the display tab.
True or False. In table components, the colored indicators can have different thresholds for each row. -
✔✔True. On the Output Format form in the Component Editor, you can specify Threshold Overrides for
each row.
What is the difference between a record and a contact? - ✔✔A record is a single entity. A contact
represents a single set of data (usually representing a unique time period) on that record.
What is the difference between a multiple response item and a response each time item? - ✔✔These
refer to different item characteristics. "Multiple response" refers to a particular Response Type. A
multiple response item can hold multiple answers on one contact. "Response each time" refers to a
particular Add Type. A response each time item can hold different answers on different contacts.
True or False. A patient who has been seen twice at your facility should have two records in the Patient
Master File. - ✔✔False. The patient should only have one record, but that record will have two contacts.
A user shows you a field in Hyperspace that they want to report on. How can you find where in
Chronicles that field files to? - ✔✔CTRL + Click the field. If that doesn't work, try using Record Viewer.
What master file stores dashboard resources? - ✔✔IDK
