COG170 Chapter 9: Summaries Cogito Fundamentals 100% SOLUTIONS QUESTION AND CORRECT ANSWER

COG170 Chapter 9: Summaries Cogito Fundamentals 100% SOLUTIONS QUESTION AND CORRECT ANSWER 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? - ANSWER Check the list of Available and Used columns in the Display tab of your report. What controls the list of available measures in SlicerDicer? - ANSWER Measures are chosen from the list of filters (FDS records) available in a given data model. True or False: In table components, the colored indicators can have different thresholds for each row. - ANSWER True. On the Thresholds tab in the Output Format form, you can specify overrides for each row to have its own thresholds. 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 d. Alerts should always be ordered from lowest to highest severity, or highest to lowest severity - ANSWER b. The thresholds do not account for decimal percent values Whichever summary format the report builder chooses, they will have to specify how the data is grouped - what does that mean? - ANSWER Grouping - All summarization formats fundamentally group data by common characteristics, and then perform summarization functions on all the data which shares that characteristic. What is a summarization function? - ANSWER Once data has been grouped, summarization functions aggregate the data and define how it should be displayed for each group. Choosing the wrong summarization function can obfuscate the data