Answer:

Explanation:

By using SQL Profiler, you can intercept two classes of trace events from Analysis Services, DAX Query Plan and DirectQuery events, both generated by the DirectQuery engine. Here, in this scenario we have a DAX Query.

DAX Query Plan events are generated by the DAX formula.

By using the In-Memory mode, you store a copy of data in the xVelocity (VertiPaq) storage engine.

Figure: This is how a query is executed by using In-Memory mode.

References: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, The BISM Tabular Model,

Microsoft Press (July 2012), page 331

From Scenario: Users report that the query takes a long time to complete.

Topic 4, Mix Questions

10.  - (Topic 4)

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution. Determine whether the solution meets the stated goals.

You have an existing multidimensional cube that provides sales analysis. The users can slice by date, product, location, customer, and employee.

The management team plans to evaluate sales employee performance relative to sales targets. You identify the following metrics for employees:

You need to implement the KPI based on the Status expression. Solution: You design the following solution:

Does the solution meet the goal?

A. Yes

B. No

Answer:

Explanation:

By using SQL Profiler, you can intercept two classes of trace events from Analysis Services, DAX Query Plan and DirectQuery events, both generated by the DirectQuery engine. Here, in this scenario we have a DAX Query.

DAX Query Plan events are generated by the DAX formula.

By using the In-Memory mode, you store a copy of data in the xVelocity (VertiPaq) storage engine.

Figure: This is how a query is executed by using In-Memory mode.

References: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, The BISM Tabular Model,

Microsoft Press (July 2012), page 331

From Scenario: Users report that the query takes a long time to complete.

Topic 4, Mix Questions

10.  - (Topic 4)

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution. Determine whether the solution meets the stated goals.

You have an existing multidimensional cube that provides sales analysis. The users can slice by date, product, location, customer, and employee.

The management team plans to evaluate sales employee performance relative to sales targets. You identify the following metrics for employees:

You need to implement the KPI based on the Status expression. Solution: You design the following solution:

Does the solution meet the goal?

A. Yes

B. No

Answer:

Explanation:

Box 1: ProcessData

Processes data only without building aggregations or indexes. If there is data is in the partitions, it will be dropped before re-populating the partition with source data.

Box 2: Process Update

Forces a re-read of data and an update of dimension attributes. Flexible aggregations and indexes on related partitions will be dropped.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/multidimensional-models/processing-options-and-settings-analysis-services

Topic 2, Case Study #2

Background

Wide World Importers has multidimensional cubes named SalesAnalysis and ProductSales. The SalesAnalysis cube is refreshed from a relational data warehouse. You have a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services instance that is configured to use tabular mode. You have a tabular data model named CustomerAnalysis.

Sales Analysis

The SalesAnalysis cube contains a fact table named CoffeeSale loaded from a table named FactSale in the data warehouse. The time granularity within the cube is 15 minutes. The cube is processed every night at 23:00. You determine that the fact table cannot be fully processed in the expected time. Users have reported slow query response times.

The SalesAnalysis model contains tables from a SQL Server database named SalesDB. You set the DirectQueryMode option to DirectQuery. Data analyst access data from a cache that is up to 24 hours old. Data analyst report performance issues when they access the SalesAnalysis model.

When analyzing sales by customer, the total of all sales is shown for every customer, instead of the customer’s sales value. When analyzing sales by product, the correct totals for each product are shown.

Customer Analysis

You are redesigning the CustomerAnalysis tabular data model that will be used to analyze customer sales. You plan to add a table named CustomerPermission to the model. This table maps the Active Directory login of an employee with the CustomerId keys for all customers that the employee manages.

The CustomerAnalysis data model will contain a large amount of data and needs to be shared with other developers even if a deployment fails. Each time you deploy a change during development, processing takes a long time.

Data analysts must be able to analyze sales for financial years, financial quarters, months, and days. Many reports are based on analyzing sales by month.

Product Sales

The ProductSales cube allows data analysts to view sales information by product, city, and time. Data analysts must be able to view ProductSales data by Year to Date (YTD) as a measure. The measure must be formatted as currency, associated with the Sales measure group, and contained in a folder named Calculations.

Requirements

You identify the following requirements:

*Data available during normal business hours must always be up-to-date.

*Processing overhead must be minimized.

*Query response times must improve.

*All queries that access the SalesAnalysis model must use cached data by default.

*Data analysts must be able to access data in near real time.

Answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: Set the default mode for the data model to DirectQuery.

You discover that the project has been deployed with the Direct Query Mode option set to OFF.

Step 2: Set the mode for the FactInternetSales table's partition to DirectQueryOnly. Initially, even DirectQuery models are always created in memory. The default query mode for the workspace database is also set toDirectQuery with In-Memory. This hybrid working mode lets you use the cache of imported data for improved performance during the model design process, while validating the model against DirectQuery requirements.

From Scenario: Most queries that use the SalesAnalysis data model use data from a table named FactInternetSales that is 20 gigabyte (GB) in size. Cached data must be available for the FactInternetSales table. All queries accessing the SalesAnalysis model must be executed in near real time.

Step 3: Run Process Full for the FactInternetSales partition.

When Process Full is executed against an object that has already been processed, Analysis Services drops all data in the object, and then processes the object. This kind of processing is required when a structural change has been made to an object, for example, when an attribute hierarchy is added, deleted, or renamed

Answer: B

Answer: A

Answer:

Explanation:

Scenario:

Box 1, Processing option:Default

Process Default detects the process state of database objects, and performs processing necessary to deliver unprocessed or partially processed objects to a fully processed state. If you change a data binding, Process Default will do a Process Full on the affected object.

Note: Processing Method This setting controls whether the deployed objects are processed after deployment and the type of processing that will be performed. There are three processing options:

Default processing (default) Full processing

None

Box 2, Transactional deployment: False

If this option is False, Analysis Services deploys the metadata changes in a single transaction, and deploys each processing command in its own transaction.

Scenario: The CustomerAnalysis data model will contain a large amount of data and needs to be shared with other developers even if a deployment fails. Each time you deploy a change during development, processing takes a long time.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/multidimensional- models/deployment-script-files-specifying-processing-options

Topic 3, Case Study #3

Background

You are a developer for a Seattle-based company. The company is expanding globally. Many company employees speak fluent Mandarin and read Simplified Chinese.

You have six tabular data models that are deployed to two instances of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).

Users report that the query takes a long time to complete.

You are planning the disk space allocations for a new Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services deployment. You plan to move several relational data file databases to the new SSAS instance. The databases require a total of 10 GB of disk space.

You also plan to deploy Cubes and Aggregations and use Object Processing. Cubes will have small fact tables and few dimension members. No unnecessary aggregations will be created. You plan to process an entire cube in a single transaction.

Data Models

One of the data models is named CustomerSales. This data model contains eight tables. The model includes a table named Sales that defines several measures, including a measure named PriorYearSales. The PriorYearSales measure is referenced by other measures, and is not intended to be analyzed directly by users. You must translate the metadata for all fata the CustomerSales data model to Simplifies Chinese. Team members from the Shanghai office assist with identifying appropriate translations.

A data model named OrderAnalysis is deployed to one of the SSAS instances. Order data is loaded into the OrderAnalysis data as part of an overnight process. You observe that the model is not up-to-date.

The business analysis team uses a variety of client applications to issue MDX queries against OrderAnalysis. Order data must be completely up-to-date.

The OrderAnalysis model has two user-defined hierarchies that are defined in a table named Order. New customers are only added once per day. The overnight process is sufficiently up-to-date for the Customer data to provide optimal performance while achieving the data currency goals whenever possible.

Databases

You deploy a database named DB1 to an SSAS instance as a project by using SQL Server Data Tools. Data analysts report that they cannot access near real time data from the SSAS SalesAnalysis model from DB1. You discover that the project has been deployed with the Direct Query Mode option set to OFF.

Most queries that use the SalesAnalysis data model use data from a table named FactInternetSales that is 20 gigabyte (GB) in size. Cached data must be available for the FactInternetSales table. All queries accessing the SalesAnalysis model must be executed in near real time.

Answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: Open the cube editor, and open the Dimension Usage tab.

Step 2: Configure a relationship between the Customer dimension and the Sales measure group. Use Day as the granularity.

From scenario: The SalesAnalysis cube contains a fact table named CoffeeSale loaded from a table named FactSale in the data warehouse. The time granularity within the cube is 15 minutes. The cube is processed every night at 23:00. You determine that the fact table cannot be fully processed in the expected time. Users have reported slow query response times.

Step 3: Reprocess the cube.

Step 4: Deploy the project changes.

Answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: Set the default mode for the data model to DirectQuery.

You discover that the project has been deployed with the Direct Query Mode option set to OFF.

Step 2: Set the mode for the FactInternetSales table's partition to DirectQueryOnly. Initially, even DirectQuery models are always created in memory. The default query mode for the workspace database is also set toDirectQuery with In-Memory. This hybrid working mode lets you use the cache of imported data for improved performance during the model design process, while validating the model against DirectQuery requirements.

From Scenario: Most queries that use the SalesAnalysis data model use data from a table named FactInternetSales that is 20 gigabyte (GB) in size. Cached data must be available for the FactInternetSales table. All queries accessing the SalesAnalysis model must be executed in near real time.

Step 3: Run Process Full for the FactInternetSales partition.

When Process Full is executed against an object that has already been processed, Analysis Services drops all data in the object, and then processes the object. This kind of processing is required when a structural change has been made to an object, for example, when an attribute hierarchy is added, deleted, or renamed

Answer: A

Explanation:

By default, tabular models use an in-memory cache to store and query data. When tabular models query data residing in-memory, even complex queries can be incredibly fast. However, there are some limitations to using cached data. Namely, large data sets can exceed available memory, and data freshness requirements can be difficult if not impossible to achieve on a regular processing schedule.

DirectQuery overcomes these limitations while also leveraging RDBMS features making query execution more efficient.

With DirectQuery: +

Data is up-to-date, and there is no extra management overhead of having to maintain a separate copy of the data (in the in-memory cache). Changes to the underlying source data can be immediately reflected in queries against the data model.

Datasets can be larger than the memory capacity of an Analysis Services server. Etc.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/tabular-models/directquery-mode-ssas-tabular