MCITP 2008 Business Intelligence Certification Training

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Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Business Intelligence Developer (MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer) is the premier certification for business intelligence system designers and developers. This certification demonstrates that you can design analysis solutions, data transformations, and reports.

Business intelligence developers design and implement multi-dimensional database models (logical and physical), data marts, data warehousing, data transforms, data analytics, and reporting solutions. This includes programming and customizing servers that use Multidimensional Expressions (MDX), customer transforms, and custom reporting solutions. Business intelligence developers are typically employed by mid-sized to large-sized organizations.

• Microsoft Exam 70-448: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
• Microsoft Exam 70-452: Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft Exam 70-448

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance

Exam: 70-448 - This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Implementing an SSIS Solution

• Implement control flow.
• Implement data flow.
• Implement dynamic package behavior by using property expressions.
• Implement package logic by using variables.
• Implement package configurations.
• Implement auditing, logging, and event handling.
• Extend SSIS packages by using .NET code.

Configuring, Deploying, and Maintaining SSIS

• Install and maintain SSIS components.
• Deploy an SSIS solution.
• Manage SSIS package execution.
• Configure SSIS security settings.
• Identify and resolve issues related to SSIS solution deployment.

Implementing an SSAS Solution

• Implement dimensions in a cube.
• Implement measures in a cube.
• Implement a data source view.
• Configure dimension usage in a cube.
• Implement custom logic in a cube by using MDX.
• Implement data mining.
• Implement storage design in a cube.

Configuring, Deploying, and Maintaining SSAS

• Configure permissions and roles in SSAS.
• Deploy SSAS databases and objects.
• Install and maintain an SSAS instance.
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Implement processing options.

Implementing an SSRS Solution

• Implement report data sources and datasets.
• Implement a report layout.
• Extend an SSRS solution by using code.
• Create an SSRS report by using an SSAS data source.
• Implement report parameters.
• Implement interactivity in a report.
• Implement report items.
• Embed SSRS reports in custom applications.

Configuring, Deploying, and Maintaining SSRS

• Configure report execution and delivery.
• Install and configure SSRS instances.
• Configure authentication and authorization for a reporting solution.
• Deploy an SSRS solution.
• Configure SSRS availability.

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Microsoft Exam 70-452

Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Exam: 70-452 - This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Designing and Managing Reports

Design report architecture.
This objective may include but is not limited to: linked reports, drill-down reports, drill-through reports, migration strategies, access report services API, sub reports, Code-Behind strategies

Design a data acquisition strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: data query parameters, creating appropriate SQL queries for an application (MDX queries), managing data rights and security, extracting data from Analysis Services, balancing query-based processing vs. filter-based processing, managing data sets through the use of stored procedures

Define a report parameter strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: report cache parameters, expressions, Code-Behind

Design a report layout.
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting report components (crosstab report, TABLIX, design chart), report templates (Report Definition Language), Report Designer, generating report template RDL, adding third-party controls, Visual Studio Report and Development platform

Design reports by using Report Builder.
This objective may include but is not limited to: designing a Report Builder model, using Report Builder templates

Manage a report environment.
This objective may include but is not limited to: specifying users and roles, subscriptions strategy, designing data sources, designing a deployment plan for completed reports, integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Designing Data Mining Models

Design a mining model and structure.
This objective may include but is not limited to: assigning a data source, specifying filter properties, reconciling heterogeneous data sources, selecting a refresh strategy (partial or full)

Design strategies for staging data for mining.
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting a method for cleaning data (closed-loop process), specifying partitioning of data into testing and training sets

Select a strategy for visualizing data mining results.
This objective may include but is not limited to: DMX queries (drill-through queries, structured and unstructured columns, column aliasing), data mining Microsoft Office Excel add-in, designing a report by using reporting services

Select data mining algorithms.
This objective may include but is not limited to: sequence, clustering, time series, neural net, association, classification, decision tree

Refine testing models.
This objective may include but is not limited to: applying predictions, analyzing results, performing cross-validation

Administering a BI Solution

Maintain server health.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Resource Governor, performance counters, Analysis Server dynamic management views (DMV)

Select a subscription strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: data-driven rights management

Manage integration services.
This objective may include but is not limited to: loading and scheduling an SSIS package to run, SSIS storage solutions, migration of packages

Design a backup strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: offsite backup, setting up SSAS backup, Reporting Services backup (databases and keys)

Plan and manage upgrades.
This objective may include but is not limited to: data migration, code migration, data security, parallel systems

Plan and manage reporting services configuration.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Reporting Services Configuration Manager, SSL management, encryption key management, mail management, Web service interface management, configuration files

Designing the BI Architecture

Design integration between data visualization components.
This objective may include but is not limited to: MOSS, SSRS, SSAS, designing Excel PivotTable reports, application architecture (Microsoft ASP.NET, Web Service, MicrosoftReportViewer Windows Forms control), Windows Mobile, other data visualization tools (Microsoft ProClarity, Microsoft PerformancePoint)

Design the data warehouse.
This objective may include but is not limited to: datamarts, integrating legacy data, creating a dimensional model (star schema, snowflake, matrix bridge, conformed dimensions), utilizing upsert in design (TSQL-merge)

Plan for scalability.
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting the appropriate edition of SQL server, selecting the right hardware topology (service distribution), designing the caching strategy (report snapshots, on-demand reports, on-demand-from-cache reports), managing historical data (report history, archiving), selecting the appropriate service host, designing resource utilization of the SSIS package, Read-Only Analysis Server scale-out

Plan for performance.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Resource Governor, Proactive Cache, selecting the appropriate storage settings (ROLAP, MOLAP, partition)

Manage team development issues.
This objective may include but is not limited to: integrating Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, TFS, VSTS for database pro, selecting BI entry points (SSIS, reporting services), online or offline cube deployment (synchronization)

Plan the configuration of a primary data source.
This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring CDC in a server, insert over DML

Design a security strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: cube, project, reports (security roles, folders, field-level security), encryption keys, SQL services accounts management, encrypted data transmission, SSIS vs. SQL server authentication issues (derail Trojan attacks)

Designing and Deploying SSIS Packages

Design control flow.
This objective may include but is not limited to: tasks and precedence constraints, fuzzy logic control, maintenance tasks, accessing remote data (Web services, FTP), using appropriate variables, data profile

Design data flow.
This objective may include but is not limited to: data transformation, blocking transformations (lookup task), extractions (design constraints), designing the load process, creating a package to load facts, creating an SSIS package to load dimension (SCD2), using capture CDC to locate changed data for SSIS

Plan the deployment of SSIS packages.
This objective may include but is not limited to: design the structure of packages, troubleshoot and design form problems with package, create a package that reports any errors to a log

Design the configuration file for an SSIS package.
This objective may include but is not limited to: enabling configurable values to be consumed by a package

Design a logging and auditing strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: exception handling, data flow exceptions

Designing an Analysis Services Database

Design cube architecture.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating and populating a cube, creating KPIs, actions, calculated members, drillthrough, designing SSAS aggregation, creating and manipulating dimensions (Ragged hierarchy, Flexible, Rigid, Semi-additive, Periodicity, Fact Relationships), selecting a processing mode

Design for international implementation.
This objective may include but is not limited to: currency conversion, translation, localization

Design a data source view.
This objective may include but is not limited to: named queries, denormalization strategy

Design perspectives.
This objective may include but is not limited to: enhancing usability through the use of perspectives

Design and create business-driven Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) calculations.
This objective may include but is not limited to: calculated measures, creating a named set in MDX

Analyze cube performance.
This objective may include but is not limited to: optimizing SSAS aggregation, query cube design

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