Which Is NOT a key quality of the Models Interface In Profitability and Cost Management?
A. Setting up the flow of funds through the financial system
B. Managing and running reports
C. Managing rules and rule sets
D. Point and click model administration and calculation
Which statement Is FALSE about data grants?
A. They can be assigned to groups or individual users.
B. They can be assigned to Service Administrators or Power Users.
C. They are used to control what dimensions and members can be accessed by the assigned users.
D. They generate security filters in Essbase when the database is deployed.
Assume that the proper data permissions have been assigned In Profitability and Cost Management. Which two actions can you perform In Smart View?
A. Display Analysis Views and Profit Curves that you created in Profitability and Cost Management in an Excel spreadsheet.
B. Create reusable Smart Queries to use for ad hoc reporting and analysis In Excel.
C. Update driver data in Excel and submit the changes back to Profitability and Cost Management.
D. Update dimension members and properties In Excel and submit the changes back to Profitability and Cost Management.
Which two are valid statements about the Balance and Rule dimensions?
A. Rule names are assigned as aliases to the rule number members In the Rule dimension.
B. Data is loaded to the member Input in the Balance dimension.
C. Data Is loaded to the member Input In the Rule dimension.
D. The Balance dimension is considered a POV dimension.
E. Data for the members Allocation In and Allocation. Out are populated by Profitability and Cost Management rules.
Which role is required to create and manage user accounts for Profitability and Cost Management?
A. Service Administrator
B. Identity Domain Administrator or Security Administrator
C. Identity Domain Administrator or Service Administrator
D. Identity Domain Administrator
E. Security Administrator
After running a calculation, you are evaluating the results In the Rule Balancing screen. What can you do to Investigate the data In more detail?
A. Click on either Allocation in or Allocation Out to open an Allocation Trace.
B. Click on a value to drill down to more detail in the Rule Balancing screen.
C. Click on a rule number to open a report showing the entire allocation flow.
D. Click on a value to open a context sensitive query in Smart View.
You are creating a rule to allocate IT costs to entitles based on the Headcount for each entity. There are three business dimensions In the application (Product, Entity, and Account).
The allocation source definition:
Account: IT Cost; Product: NoProduct; Entity: Corporate HQ
The allocation destination definition:
Account: IT Cost; Product: NoProduct; Entity: Descendants of Entity
Disregarding the system and POV dimensions, this data file shows where Headcount data is loaded in the application:
Which business dimension members should you select for the driver location on the Driver Basis tab when you define the allocation rule?
A. NoProduct, Headcount
B. Headcount
C. Entity1, Entity2, Entity3, Entity4
D. NoProduct, Corporate HQ, Headcount
Which two are valid ways to delete a dimension member?
A. importing a dimension structure into the application
B. using EPM Automate
C. using the Dimension Management feature
D. using Smart View
Assume the computer hardware supports parallel calculation. Given these two rule sets, in what order will the rules be calculated?
A. Rule 1, Rule A, and Rule 5 will run In parallel; then Rule 2, Rule, 3, and Rule 6 will run in parallel (two separate calculation steps).
B. Rule 1; then Rule 2 and Rule 3 will run in parallel; then Rule 4 and Rule 5 will run in parallel; then Rule 6 (four separate calculation steps).
C. Rule 1, Rule A, and Rule 5 will run in parallel while Rule 2, Rule 3, and Rule 6 also run in parallel (one calculation step).
D. Rule 1; then Rule 4 and Rule 5 will run in parallel; then Rule 2 and Rule 3 will run in parallel; then Rule 6 (four separate calculation steps).
Which three are valid statements about Locations In Data Management?
A. A location can be assigned to more than one data load rules.
B. A location can be assigned to more than one Import format.
C. You can create duplicate locations with the same source system and application combination.
D. Different locations can use the same import format.
E. A location may have more than one source system.
