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1. Data in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is joined: When Endeca record data comes from multiple data sources. In the Integrator data graph/pipeline using an Integrator component. Using SQL or a DB View. 2. Loading relational data within the pipeline: Requires additional Record Adapters like any other data source. 3. Because the Endeca Server data store data model consists of records with arbitrary key-value pair assignments Additional metadata is extracted from unstructured text and used to enrich each record. Every record implies its own schema. 4. How is data represented in the Endeca Server? Data is a collection of attribute-value pairs. All records do not have the same number of attribute-value pairs. Data is organized into records. 5. Data is connected within the Endeca server using facets. 6. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) addresses customer requirements for overcoming limited visibility into corporate utilization. 7. A Baseline graph: Allows enabling/disabling of components. Is the main executable graph. Calls each subgraph to perform a set of tasks. 8. Complex graphs can use: Transformer and Joiner components 9. Data sources supported by Endeca Information Discovery: Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDFs. 10. Security filters are based on? –Users 11. Which of the following statements about Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) are correct? It has a model-as-you-go approach. It is an enterprise data discovery platform. It is based on a faceted data model. It is a self service tool.

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1. Data in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is joined: When Endeca record data comes from multiple data sources. In the Integrator data graph/pipeline using an Integrator component. Using SQL or a DB View.

2. Loading relational data within the pipeline: Requires additional Record Adapters like any other data source.

3. Because the Endeca Server data store data model consists of records with arbitrary key-value pair assignments

Additional metadata is extracted from unstructured text and used to enrich each record. Every record implies its own schema.

4. How is data represented in the Endeca Server? Data is a collection of attribute-value pairs.All records do not have the same number of attribute-value pairs.Data is organized into records.

5. Data is connected within the Endeca server using facets.6. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) addresses customer requirements for overcoming

limited visibility into corporate utilization.7. A Baseline graph:

Allows enabling/disabling of components. Is the main executable graph. Calls each subgraph to perform a set of tasks.

8. Complex graphs can use:Transformer and Joiner components

9. Data sources supported by Endeca Information Discovery:Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDFs.

10. Security filters are based on? –Users11. Which of the following statements about Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) are

correct?It has a model-as-you-go approach.It is an enterprise data discovery platform.It is based on a faceted data model.It is a self service tool.

12. What are complementary Oracle technologies to Endeca Information Discovery (EID)?Exalytics and BI Foundation Suite

13. Which of the following statements represent accurate Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) positioning?

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) allows non-technical business users to find the information they need and understand what they have found. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) solutions deliver results in weeks versus months using an iterative and collaborative approach to deploying discovery applications. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) offers a unique enterprise discovery platform that combines the ease of use of consumer websites with the power of business intelligence.

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14. Chart components are built on? Views

15. A View Query is used to populate a chart component but is not created by chart component.16. What are the common misconceptions about Oracle BI that we hear in the marketplace?

It is an expensive solution.17. Identify the in-memory discovery tools:

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), SpotFire, QikiView.18. Which BI tool allows integration between unstructured and structured data out of the box?

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID).19. Spotfire is a product of which BI vendor? –Tibco20. The Studio Menu gives users access to: Add Component and Control Panel21. Components found on Studio applications that are designed to perform specific functions,

Are able to filter the data displayed on other components22. The Control Panel manages portal-specific aspects of Studio including:

Attribute settings, Data Source Bindings, Server settings23. The Did-You-Mean ability of the Endeca Server which provides alternative suggestions for

searched terms: Is not configurable in the Endeca Server data store, Has a threshold of 20, Is always enabled

24. Record Stemming: Broadens search results to include word roots and word derivations

25. Potential customers for an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) solution are: Organizations that cannot decide on a data modelOrganizations that do not know all the questions that they want to ask of their data

26. When qualifying an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) opportunity, which of the following customer requirements represent a good fit?

The need to provide analytics against unstructured text data like customer surveys, insurance claims notes and/or electronic medical records. The need to provide business analysts with the ability to search and navigate through additional analytics over-and-above our standard reports/dashboards.

27. From the Windows Start menu: The Endeca Server can be stopped The Endeca Server can be started

28. When you initiate a Baseline Update in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID): A full update occurs

29. What type of data sources can be utilized / ingested with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID):

Structured, Unstructured, Semi structured30. The Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) approach is based on the following unique

principles: No data left behind, Agile delivery, Consumer ease of use.

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31. What best describes the purpose Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) was designed to meet:

Data discovery from a data warehouse. Analytics on multiple data sources. Semi-structured data analytics.

32. When preparing to build your Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) solution, which of the following statements is most accurate?

Users do not have to know the majority of the questions that they want answered before building the solution.

33. Which Studio components require Endeca Query Language (EQL) statements to display results?Cross Tab and Map.

34. Which EQL component provides the key for accessing results from the Oracle Endeca Server query result –return

35. EQL primary components are Select and Group By.36. Which concepts should the presenter emphasize during an Oracle Endeca Information

Discovery (OEID) demo? Rapidly changing data and New, dynamic, changing questions that must be answered.

37. When selling Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) it is important to emphasize value to both IT and the business. However, selling to the business first usually results in a stronger sales strategy for the following reasons:

Business constituents usually have more knowledge around challenges with information visibility. IT tends to focus primarily on technical validation and less on driving corporate value.Business use cases generally have higher value to the company.

38. What is a risk of a BI initiative led solely by the line of business? It may produce an ill-architected solution whose TCO explodes over time.

39. Why does information discovery with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) overcome new challenges to traditional BI?

Because users have unanticipated questions and because it integrates new, additional disparate types of data sources.

40. What is the quickest way to install Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) and populate sample data to show a client?

OEID components installers and load sample data.41. What operating systems are supported by the Endeca Server?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & 6, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 & 6, Windows 2008 Server Enterprise 64-bit

42. How is data represented in the Endeca Server? Data is organized into records. All records do not have the same number of attribute-value pairs.Data is a collection of attribute-value pairs.

43. Historically, customers have been challenged in implementing Business Intelligence solutions for which of following reasons?

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Duplication in data extraction.IT not involved in BI deployments.Fragmented data sources throughout the enterprise yield multiple versions of the truth.

44. Spotfire is a product of which BI vendor?-Tibco45. Which product supports full text search in conjunction with analytics?

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID)46. Endeca Query Language (EQL):

Enables applications that examine aggregate information such as trends, statistics, analytical visualizations Is used for computing aggregate information. Is a language that builds on the core capabilities of the Oracle Endeca Server

47. Security is enforced at these levels in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery:Tab/Page, Application, Record (Row).

48. It is not unusual for organizations that have grown through acquisitions to have multiple or duplicate applications such as PLM, ERP and CRM. This can lead to significant issues with inconsistent data and multiple versions of truth.

49. Integrator workspace Contains all resources created with Designer. Is stored as a directory on the file system.

50. Complex graphs can use: Joiner components and transformer components.

51. The Data Ingest Web service provides an interface to ETL tools for:Loading, uploading, and deleting records.

52. Customers need discovery solutions because: Critical business data is spread across multiple systems. They have unanticipated questions.

53. Which of the following apply to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID)? Users can search and have easy access to all related data with state-of-the-art search technology; have navigable unstructured content; use interactive visualizations that allow users to avoid formulating queries or traversing prepared hierarchies.

54. What is a core concept that should be emphasized during an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) demo?

No data left behind.55. Factors in sizing an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) application include:

Number of named users, records, Concurrency %56. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery views provide:

An abstraction layer between the physical data stored in the Endeca Server and the information a business analyst needs to configure Studio components.

57. View Manager is accessed through:Control Panel

58. Attributes in the metadata: Can be updated with metadata

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59. Once attributes have been organized in groups that makes sense for the data, they can be displayed in Studio with a

Record Details component Guided Navigation component

60. With Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), the simplicity of search and the power of BI means:

Walk-up ease of use Interactive Exploration Search & faceted navigation with interactive analytics

61. Key strategic issues that our customers face today include: Multiple data silos and disconnected business processes.

62. Unstructured Content includes:Description fields, blogs, File System content.

63. Loading relational data within the pipeline: Requires additional Record Adapters like any other data source.

64. Data in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is joined: When Endeca record data comes from multiple data sources. In the Integrator data graph/pipeline using an Integrator component Using SQL or a DB View

65. When qualifying an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) opportunity, which of the following customer requirements represent a good fit?

The need to provide analytics against unstructured text data like customer surveys, insurance claims notes and/or electronic medical records. The need to combine data from existing data marts and warehouses with additional data not yet modeled in the marts and 3rd party data such as Nielsen, RL Polk and other sources. The need to provide business analysts with the ability to search and navigate through additional analytics over-and-above our standard reports/dashboards.

66. Potential customers for an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) solution are: Organizations that cannot decide on a data model Organizations that do not know all the questions that they want to ask of their data.

67. The Studio Control Panel is used: For administrative functions

68. Users are better able to find and reuse information assets in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) because:

Search and faceted navigation can be built into the application.69. Configuring Selected Refinements component requires EID Studio developers to: Select a data

set.70. Which are required to configure a results table?

Creating an EQL statement Choosing a data source Selecting the "Use EQL Query" checkbox.

71. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) features include:

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Guided navigation, Boolean search and parametric search72. The Guided Navigation component is responsible for:

Which attribute groups are displayed, the display order of attribute groups73. The Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) discovery premise is based on:

Simplicity of search, Understand what you found, The Power of Business Intelligence.74. Unstructured text in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery: Can be linked to structured data in

the model75. Processes used to enrich metadata by reading the unstructured body and extracting key

concepts can be accomplished with: Pattern matching Theme or sentiment extraction based on natural language processing Control lists of known terms of interest

76. How can data discovery help to solve analytical problems? Data modeling for traditional BI is time consuming and costly. Because more people are analyzing data, the UI should help make complex analysis easier. More diverse types of data drive the need for fact based decision making.

77. EID Integrator panes include: Graph Editor, Navigation, Palette

78. Which Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) 3.1 capabilities address user agility needs? Self-service dashboard creation. Self-service data mash-ups

79. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery views provide: A pre-executed materialized view of data

80. Record search Allows a user to perform a keyword search against specific attribute values assigned to records.Matches search terms against values for any attribute that is enabled for record search

81. Snippeting Returns an excerpt from a record82. EID Studio is an extensible, component-based application with a focus on:

Light-weight architecture, Configurability, Standard component interfaces.83. What is the minimum amount of RAM recommended for the Endeca Server in a typical first

release Endeca Information Discovery topology?-64 GB84. Although other methods are supported for single sign-on, what is the preferred option?-Oracle

Access Manager85. The "Endeca" approach to data design is based on:

Named - value pairs, A table free approach, A faceted model86. Information discovery overcomes these data obstacles

Velocity, Variety, Volume.87. Which Studio components can use Endeca Query Language (EQL) statements to display results?

Cross Tab, Metrics bar, Chart88. The Studio Menu provides access to:

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Various Endeca Information Discovery Studio commands, Menus in the Endeca Information Discovery portal

89. What does the Sync option do when creating a view? It checks the syntax of the view EQL definition

90. "Return" is not required in a view definition statement because: The Studio component is responsible for generating the return statement

91. Select two high-level probing questions that a discovery solution helps to answer: Which data sources include unstructured data, such as long-form text?, How is market volatility affecting the business with customers, suppliers, competitors?

92. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery authentication Supports Multi-Domain Security Allows user credentials that can be validated against external systems Supports Active Directory

93. Upon completion of running a pipeline in EID Integrator: The application is automatically updated and EID Studio must be started and an application needs to be loaded.

94. The Studio Menu gives users access to: The Control Panel and Graph Component.

95. Unstructured Content includes: Blogs, File System content, Description fields96. An EID Integrator edge carries data between components and is the line that connects

component ports.97. Typical discovery opportunities include Multiple disparate data sources and Uncertain

questions that will need to be answered98. The EID Integrator Suite is composed of: EID Integrator and Integrator Acquisition System (IAS)99. Which are core Endeca Query Language (EQL) aggregate functions? STDDEV,ARB,Variance100. The FROM option in an Endeca Query Language (EQL) statement:

Allows Endeca Query Language (EQL) statements to be nested.101. Which statement best describes Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID)?

It combines users' standard reports with unstructured data.102. Which of the following statements about positioning Oracle Endeca Information

Discovery (OEID) are correct?Access to all data and self service

103. Oracle Endeca Server Data Store Features include Value search, Stop words, Relevance ranking

104. Which are core Endeca Query Language (EQL) functions? Variance and count105. Which platforms support Oracle Endeca Information Discovery? Linux and Windows.106. Security is enforced at these levels in Oracle Endeca Information Discovery: Application,

Record (row), Tab/Page.107.