COG170 COGITO LATEST 2026 EXAMS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Perform Task: Create and edit dashboards
Run through the following Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-11 Radar Exploration - ✔✔
✔✔Perform Task: Navigate the Dashboard Editor
Run through the following Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-13 Dashboard Editor - ✔✔
✔✔Perform Task: Determine the order that components will appear on a dashboard -
✔✔1. Use Chart Search to open Dashboard Editor
2. Click on Content from left menu, from here you can quickly access the Component
Editor to edit a given component on the dashboard.
3. Note: all components on the dashboard must be marked as Ready for use before the
dashboard can be marked as Ready for Use
4. To manage the component list, press F4 to insert a blank line in the table of
components.
5. To remove a line, select the line and press SHIFT+F4
6. To move a selected component higher or lower in the component list, use the up and
down arrows to the right of the component.
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a component header to launch an activity - ✔✔1. Via the
Component Editor go to the Display section
2. Enter the activity descriptor for the Hyperspace activity that launches if a user clicks
the clicks the component header.
3. To find the activity descriptor (refer to previous cards, 14, 15, and 16)
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a link component pt 1. - ✔✔Two Methods:
1. Linking from the component header
2. Listing multiple activities in a Link component
Jumping to a Hyperspace activity isn't like linking to a website, it requires a unique link
to identify a single Hyperspace activity.
Two work flows to find the activity descriptor for a given activity. (refer to previous cards,
14, 15, & 16)
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a link component pt 2. - ✔✔1. Use the Component Editor
to create a new component called "your initials" link Component
2. Fill out the appropriate Display Format for a link component
-2 options for Data Source
,- Component Record: specify links in the component you are currently building
-Code Template: specify a code template and/or routine to populate your links, not used
by analysts
3. Choose a Data source of "Component Record"
4. Give your component help test, a meaningful Display title and a default Color
5. On the Output Format form, Insert a new URL of your choice to your Link component.
(give the new URL a label.
- Web site URLs should include http:// or https//
- Enter a Tooltip for your URL
6. Add "Administration" to the Allowed report groups so you will be able to add this
component through personalization
7. Make sure you component is marked as READY FOR USE
8. Close out the Component Editor
9. Open your Dashboard via the Dashboard Editor
10. Add the component to the Content form of your dashboard
11. Launch the dashboard to view the component ( Refresh with ALT+=
✔✔Explain Concept: Dashboard-level personalization - ✔✔Several dashboard
attributes can be customized by any end user with personalization security. Including
the following:
- Changing the display title
- Changing the dashboard description
- Rearranging the components
- Add new components from the Analytics Catalog
-Change the names and colors of components on a dashboard
The aforementioned features are stored on the personalization record, and will not
impact the source dashboard.
✔✔Explain Concept: Component-level personalization - ✔✔Component personalization
records are only created if a user changes the component content (e.g., adding a badge
to a table component). The degree and manner of component-level personalization
depends on the type of component.
1. A link component is a list of links to Hyperspace activities, reports or external URLs.
Through personalization, a user could re-order their links, or even add a new URL-
based link
2. A table component displays summary data in a table. Through personalization, a user
could add thresholds that highlight results in the table above or below a certain value.
✔✔Explain Concept: The Ready for use and Enabled for user selection check boxes -
✔✔All components on a dashboard must be marked as READY FOR USE before the
dashboard can be marked as Ready for Use.
For access and distribution, the Ready for Use and Enabled for User Selection must be
checked in order to view.
, ✔✔Explain Concept: General settings for all components - ✔✔In Component Editor:
Five Forms
1. Basic Information
2. Display
3. Data Source
4. Output Format
5. Access
✔✔General Settings for Components: Basic Information - ✔✔Basic Information:
1. Source Record- Read only if copied component
2. Display Format- Component Type
-Graph
-Link
-Message Board
-Native HTML
-Report Listing
-Table
3. Data Source-Choose source, options vary per component type
4. Owning Application-Application team responsible for maintenance of this component
✔✔General Settings for Components: Display - ✔✔Contains two sections, General
Settings and Custom Messages.
1. General settings controls the display title, color of the component header and the
Hyperspace activity to launch when clicking the header of the component.
2. Custom Messages section controls custom headers or footers you want to display on
the component.
✔✔General Settings for Components: Data Source (refresh interval) - ✔✔Controls what
is used to populate your component record.
1. Refresh interval-how often to refresh in minutes
2.Allow users to refresh-allows users to refresh data
3.Show last refresh time-Display the last time the component's data was refreshed
✔✔General Settings for Components: Output Format - ✔✔The output format form will
vary depending on which component type you are editing. There are no general setting
that apply to all component types
✔✔General Settings for Components: Access - ✔✔The access form is where you
specify this component is ready for use and control which users can add the component
through personalization. The Ready for use check box must be selected before any end
user can use it.
1. Allowed report groups
End users with a report group listed here can add this component to personalized
copies of their dashboards.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Perform Task: Create and edit dashboards
Run through the following Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-11 Radar Exploration - ✔✔
✔✔Perform Task: Navigate the Dashboard Editor
Run through the following Exercises/Examples
1. pg. 2-13 Dashboard Editor - ✔✔
✔✔Perform Task: Determine the order that components will appear on a dashboard -
✔✔1. Use Chart Search to open Dashboard Editor
2. Click on Content from left menu, from here you can quickly access the Component
Editor to edit a given component on the dashboard.
3. Note: all components on the dashboard must be marked as Ready for use before the
dashboard can be marked as Ready for Use
4. To manage the component list, press F4 to insert a blank line in the table of
components.
5. To remove a line, select the line and press SHIFT+F4
6. To move a selected component higher or lower in the component list, use the up and
down arrows to the right of the component.
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a component header to launch an activity - ✔✔1. Via the
Component Editor go to the Display section
2. Enter the activity descriptor for the Hyperspace activity that launches if a user clicks
the clicks the component header.
3. To find the activity descriptor (refer to previous cards, 14, 15, and 16)
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a link component pt 1. - ✔✔Two Methods:
1. Linking from the component header
2. Listing multiple activities in a Link component
Jumping to a Hyperspace activity isn't like linking to a website, it requires a unique link
to identify a single Hyperspace activity.
Two work flows to find the activity descriptor for a given activity. (refer to previous cards,
14, 15, & 16)
✔✔Perform Task: Configure a link component pt 2. - ✔✔1. Use the Component Editor
to create a new component called "your initials" link Component
2. Fill out the appropriate Display Format for a link component
-2 options for Data Source
,- Component Record: specify links in the component you are currently building
-Code Template: specify a code template and/or routine to populate your links, not used
by analysts
3. Choose a Data source of "Component Record"
4. Give your component help test, a meaningful Display title and a default Color
5. On the Output Format form, Insert a new URL of your choice to your Link component.
(give the new URL a label.
- Web site URLs should include http:// or https//
- Enter a Tooltip for your URL
6. Add "Administration" to the Allowed report groups so you will be able to add this
component through personalization
7. Make sure you component is marked as READY FOR USE
8. Close out the Component Editor
9. Open your Dashboard via the Dashboard Editor
10. Add the component to the Content form of your dashboard
11. Launch the dashboard to view the component ( Refresh with ALT+=
✔✔Explain Concept: Dashboard-level personalization - ✔✔Several dashboard
attributes can be customized by any end user with personalization security. Including
the following:
- Changing the display title
- Changing the dashboard description
- Rearranging the components
- Add new components from the Analytics Catalog
-Change the names and colors of components on a dashboard
The aforementioned features are stored on the personalization record, and will not
impact the source dashboard.
✔✔Explain Concept: Component-level personalization - ✔✔Component personalization
records are only created if a user changes the component content (e.g., adding a badge
to a table component). The degree and manner of component-level personalization
depends on the type of component.
1. A link component is a list of links to Hyperspace activities, reports or external URLs.
Through personalization, a user could re-order their links, or even add a new URL-
based link
2. A table component displays summary data in a table. Through personalization, a user
could add thresholds that highlight results in the table above or below a certain value.
✔✔Explain Concept: The Ready for use and Enabled for user selection check boxes -
✔✔All components on a dashboard must be marked as READY FOR USE before the
dashboard can be marked as Ready for Use.
For access and distribution, the Ready for Use and Enabled for User Selection must be
checked in order to view.
, ✔✔Explain Concept: General settings for all components - ✔✔In Component Editor:
Five Forms
1. Basic Information
2. Display
3. Data Source
4. Output Format
5. Access
✔✔General Settings for Components: Basic Information - ✔✔Basic Information:
1. Source Record- Read only if copied component
2. Display Format- Component Type
-Graph
-Link
-Message Board
-Native HTML
-Report Listing
-Table
3. Data Source-Choose source, options vary per component type
4. Owning Application-Application team responsible for maintenance of this component
✔✔General Settings for Components: Display - ✔✔Contains two sections, General
Settings and Custom Messages.
1. General settings controls the display title, color of the component header and the
Hyperspace activity to launch when clicking the header of the component.
2. Custom Messages section controls custom headers or footers you want to display on
the component.
✔✔General Settings for Components: Data Source (refresh interval) - ✔✔Controls what
is used to populate your component record.
1. Refresh interval-how often to refresh in minutes
2.Allow users to refresh-allows users to refresh data
3.Show last refresh time-Display the last time the component's data was refreshed
✔✔General Settings for Components: Output Format - ✔✔The output format form will
vary depending on which component type you are editing. There are no general setting
that apply to all component types
✔✔General Settings for Components: Access - ✔✔The access form is where you
specify this component is ready for use and control which users can add the component
through personalization. The Ready for use check box must be selected before any end
user can use it.
1. Allowed report groups
End users with a report group listed here can add this component to personalized
copies of their dashboards.
