SAS BI Frequently asked questions

1) What are the categories of gauges that can be selected from the drop-down list?

Ans :- Dials, Dynamic Gauges, Indicators, Sliders and Traffic Lights And from these categories you can choose different types of gauges

2) which repository holds information about the other repositories in the environment?

Ans :  repository manager

3) Sas configuration directory on each server must be protected by

A. Metadata access controls

B. Operating system controls

C. Authorization manager of sas management console

D. Default access control template (ACT)

Ans : B

4) Identify the object type that can be promoted

A.  ACT’S

B. roles

C. libraries

D. users

Ans : C

5) To support seamless access to the database servers or sas processing servers, the login id for the outbound may be defined in the metadata:

An outbound login must include:

A: User ID, password and authentication domain

B:  User ID, password

C:  User ID

D: User ID, Authentication domain

Ans : A

6) Which process does not create log file by default?

A  Metadata server

B   workspace server

C   object spawner

D   OLAP server

Ans : B

7) Which permissions are found in all metadata item types?

A.   RM WM RMM RW administer

B. RM WM RW administer

C. RM WM administer

D. RMWM

Ans : D

8) How do you know if you can change the size or indicator type or in other words can you personalize indicator?

Ans :- If personalization has been enabled the little square icon is displayed in the lower-right corner of the indicator

9) In sas etl studio what is stored as a metadata identity?

A. The location of the sas metadata server

B. A user or group of users of the metadata environment.

C. A list of warehouse server names and port numbers

D. The library containing the data in the warehouse

Ans : B