COGITO FUNDAMENTALS CORE EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔Saving settings in the Dashboard Editor - ✔✔The easiest way to save your settings
is to navigate to another form in the Dashboard Editor.
✔✔Hard refresh your dashboard - ✔✔While viewing your dashboard, use the keyboard
shortcut of ALT + = (Mac users: Option + Command + =).
✔✔Analytics Catalog reporting resources - ✔✔Can be used to find: a) Workbench
reports, c) Radar dashboards, d) Dashboard components, f) Epic-Crystal reports.
✔✔Every Report model - ✔✔Is a record in the HSQ Master File.
✔✔Creating a link from a dashboard - ✔✔You need the activity descriptor for the
activity.
✔✔Component not appearing on a dashboard - ✔✔Could be because the component is
not set as ready for use or is not listed on the Content form of the dashboard.
✔✔Components require a defined Display title - ✔✔True - It is a required field.
✔✔SlicerDicer for today's appointments - ✔✔No, SlicerDicer does not contain today's
data, so a list of scheduled appointments wouldn't change throughout the day.
✔✔SlicerDicer for surgical cases - ✔✔Yes. Even though the list has to include cases
scheduled in the future, all such surgeries scheduled at least a day earlier will be
displayed.
✔✔SlicerDicer reporting capability - ✔✔False. SlicerDicer cannot be used to report on
any data that has ever been entered into Epic.
✔✔SlicerDicer - ✔✔Can only be used to report on data that has been extracted to the
Caboodle.
✔✔Chronicles - ✔✔Contains real-time data.
✔✔Clarity - ✔✔Is a relational database.
✔✔Caboodle - ✔✔Is a relational database.
✔✔Item Numbers - ✔✔Do not necessarily carry meaning across master files.
✔✔Record Viewer - ✔✔Use to view data from a record in Chronicles.
, ✔✔Clarity Dictionary - ✔✔Use to look up the definition of a table in Clarity.
✔✔Record - ✔✔A single entity; what kind of thing depends on the master file.
✔✔Contact - ✔✔Represents a single set of data (usually representing a unique time
period) on that record.
✔✔Multiple Response Item - ✔✔Can hold multiple answers on one contact.
✔✔Response Each Time Item - ✔✔Refers to a particular item characteristic that
records responses each time.
✔✔Patient Master File - ✔✔Should only have one record for a patient, but that record
will have multiple contacts.
✔✔Chronicles Field - ✔✔Can be found by control left-clicking it.
✔✔Metric-Based Component - ✔✔Can only have one resource when multiple summary
locations are allowed.
✔✔Add Button - ✔✔Used to add more summary targets to the component.
✔✔Dashboard Resources - ✔✔Stored in a master file.
✔✔Metric Definitions - ✔✔Stored in a master file.
✔✔Data Source of Component Record - ✔✔Will not leverage the metric framework.
✔✔Metric Definition Reference - ✔✔May be referenced by more than one dashboard
resource record.
✔✔Filters Tab - ✔✔Used to limit reports to specific values without re-running them.
✔✔Public Report - ✔✔Can be viewed and run by any user who can see the template in
the Library.
✔✔Private Report - ✔✔Is one that only the creator can edit.
✔✔Display Column - ✔✔Must be checked for existing columns before creating a new
one.
✔✔Reporting Workbench Security Class - ✔✔Should be reused as often as possible.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔Saving settings in the Dashboard Editor - ✔✔The easiest way to save your settings
is to navigate to another form in the Dashboard Editor.
✔✔Hard refresh your dashboard - ✔✔While viewing your dashboard, use the keyboard
shortcut of ALT + = (Mac users: Option + Command + =).
✔✔Analytics Catalog reporting resources - ✔✔Can be used to find: a) Workbench
reports, c) Radar dashboards, d) Dashboard components, f) Epic-Crystal reports.
✔✔Every Report model - ✔✔Is a record in the HSQ Master File.
✔✔Creating a link from a dashboard - ✔✔You need the activity descriptor for the
activity.
✔✔Component not appearing on a dashboard - ✔✔Could be because the component is
not set as ready for use or is not listed on the Content form of the dashboard.
✔✔Components require a defined Display title - ✔✔True - It is a required field.
✔✔SlicerDicer for today's appointments - ✔✔No, SlicerDicer does not contain today's
data, so a list of scheduled appointments wouldn't change throughout the day.
✔✔SlicerDicer for surgical cases - ✔✔Yes. Even though the list has to include cases
scheduled in the future, all such surgeries scheduled at least a day earlier will be
displayed.
✔✔SlicerDicer reporting capability - ✔✔False. SlicerDicer cannot be used to report on
any data that has ever been entered into Epic.
✔✔SlicerDicer - ✔✔Can only be used to report on data that has been extracted to the
Caboodle.
✔✔Chronicles - ✔✔Contains real-time data.
✔✔Clarity - ✔✔Is a relational database.
✔✔Caboodle - ✔✔Is a relational database.
✔✔Item Numbers - ✔✔Do not necessarily carry meaning across master files.
✔✔Record Viewer - ✔✔Use to view data from a record in Chronicles.
, ✔✔Clarity Dictionary - ✔✔Use to look up the definition of a table in Clarity.
✔✔Record - ✔✔A single entity; what kind of thing depends on the master file.
✔✔Contact - ✔✔Represents a single set of data (usually representing a unique time
period) on that record.
✔✔Multiple Response Item - ✔✔Can hold multiple answers on one contact.
✔✔Response Each Time Item - ✔✔Refers to a particular item characteristic that
records responses each time.
✔✔Patient Master File - ✔✔Should only have one record for a patient, but that record
will have multiple contacts.
✔✔Chronicles Field - ✔✔Can be found by control left-clicking it.
✔✔Metric-Based Component - ✔✔Can only have one resource when multiple summary
locations are allowed.
✔✔Add Button - ✔✔Used to add more summary targets to the component.
✔✔Dashboard Resources - ✔✔Stored in a master file.
✔✔Metric Definitions - ✔✔Stored in a master file.
✔✔Data Source of Component Record - ✔✔Will not leverage the metric framework.
✔✔Metric Definition Reference - ✔✔May be referenced by more than one dashboard
resource record.
✔✔Filters Tab - ✔✔Used to limit reports to specific values without re-running them.
✔✔Public Report - ✔✔Can be viewed and run by any user who can see the template in
the Library.
✔✔Private Report - ✔✔Is one that only the creator can edit.
✔✔Display Column - ✔✔Must be checked for existing columns before creating a new
one.
✔✔Reporting Workbench Security Class - ✔✔Should be reused as often as possible.
