70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam

70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 exam makes you Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert which distinguish you as an expert Business Intelligence developer and architect. It is designed to assist you in gaining a level of proficiency that can be taught hands-on labs, simulations, and the real world application of skills.

About 70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam:

By passing 70-467 exams distinguish you as an expert Business Intelligence developer and architect. It is designed to assist you in gaining a level of proficiency that can be taught hands-on labs, simulations, and the real world application of skills. Before the exam candidate must have a basic understanding of dimensional modeling (star schema) for data warehouses, ability to create Integration Services packages that include control flows and data flows, ability to create a basic multidimensional cube with Analysis Services, ability to create a basic tabular model with PowerPivot and Analysis Services, ability to create Reporting Services reports with Report Designer, ability to implement authentication and permissions in the SQL Server database engine, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services and Familiarity with SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam details:

70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam is offered in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)and Chinese (Simplified). It is specifically designed for IT Professionals and the technology used is Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

Target Audience

This course is intended for BI professionals such as BI Architects or database professionals who need to design BI solutions. BI Architects are responsible for the overall design of the BI infrastructure, including how it relates to other data systems in use. In addition, their responsibilities include Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube design and integration with Microsoft SharePoint or line-of-business applications.

Topics of 70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam:

It covers a range of objectives such as;

Plan business intelligence (BI) infrastructure: It covers 15% of the exam and includes Plan for performance, Plan for scalability, Plan and manages upgrades and Maintain server health.

Design BI infrastructure: It covers 16% of the exam and includes Design a security strategy, Design a SQL partitioning strategy, Design a backup strategy and Design a logging and auditing strategy.

Design a reporting solution: It covers 24% of the exam and includes Design a Reporting Services dataset, Manage Excel Services/reporting for SharePoint, Design a data acquisition strategy, Plan and manage reporting services configuration and Design BI reporting solution architecture

Design BI data models: It covers 34% of the exam and includes Design the data warehouse, Design a schema, Design cube architecture, Design fact tables, Design BI semantic models and Design and create MDX calculations.

Design an ETL solution: It covers 11% of the exam and includes Design SSIS package execution, Plan to deploy SSIS solutions and Design package configurations for SSIS packages.

How to pass 70-467, Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam:

In order to pass the 70-467 exam the candidate has to go through all the online and instructor led trainings available. The recommended resources that cover all the objectives of the exam are Proactive caching (partitions), Partition storage modes and processing, Upgrade SQL Server BI features to SQL Server 2012 SP1, Granting cube access, Partitioned tables and indexes, RESTORE (Transact-SQL), Configure Windows Authentication on the Report Server, Different ways to update data in PowerPivot, Add dataset filters, data region filters, and group filters (Report Builder and SSRS), Defining a many-to-many relationship, Define Relationship Dialog Box (Analysis Services - multidimensional data), Set aggregation options (Usage-Based Optimization Wizard), Data profiling task, Create package configurations and Deployment of projects and packages.