James D. Miller - IBM Cognos TM1 Developers Certification Guide

James D. Miller has been in the IBM Cognos TM1 consulting practice since 2004 with a primary focus on architectural design, development, and implementation of business performance management projects from inception through implementation, including the Rapid Assessment and Design (RAD) process, full-scale system design, project management, technical leadership, evaluations, and team building. Overall, he has over 30 years of relevant experience in business management, systems design and implementation, data rationalization, and proven project delivery. His key roles have been Senior Solutions Architect, Project Manager, Team and Technical Leader, and Mentor. He has also spent time as a Technical Instructor and Trainer.

James currently owns IBM certifications including IBM Certified Developer - Cognos TM1 (perfect 100 percent score on exam), IBM Certified Business Analyst - Cognos TM1, IBM Cognos TM1 Master 385 Certification (perfect 100 percent score on exam), and IBM Certified Advanced Solution Expert - Cognos TM1.

Heartfelt thanks to three very special womenNanette, Shelby, and Paige who each in their own way contributed and supported me, and therefore, this bookThanks!

Abhishek Sanghani majored in Computer Engineering and began his career in 2004 as a Business Intelligence and Cognos Consultant. He has worked with leading IT and Finance Services companies since then.

He pursued a Finance Management degree along with his work in the field of Cognos and BI, successfully winning awards and certifications year after year. Presently, he is working in the United Kingdom, utilizing his skills of Cognos, SQL, BI, and Data Warehousing. In his free time, he writes technical blogs and also provides training on demand.

He wrote his first book, IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook , with Packt Publishing. This book covers many basic to advanced features of Report Authoring. It begins by bringing readers on the same platform and introducing the fundamental features useful across any level of reporting. Then it progresses to advanced techniques and tricks to overcome Report Studio 8 limitations.

I find this book a very useful and systematic guide to learn TM1 and prepare for the certification exam. It was a great pleasure to review this book. Thanks to James D. Miller for producing such useful work and to Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to review. I hope my feedback proved useful.

I would also like to thank my lovely wife Dolly for all her support.

Blog: www.BIandCognos.blogspot.com

Sameer Sheth has worked as a Solution-Oriented Business Intelligence Specialist with over a decade of experience in implementing Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing solutions across the Oil and Gas industry, Education Sector, Retail, Financial Spectrum, Health Care, and Airline Industry.

It is a treat to have an opportunity to formally express appreciation to Shruthi Sheth, my love, who has always been beside me during the ups and downs of life.

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Preface

This book attempts to provide some general information about certification, specifics of the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (Test COG-310) certification exam, as well as gives a focused review of key material on the topics that you will need to master to successfully pass the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (Test COG-310) certification exam and earn your certification.

The chapters in this book are based upon the current certification exam topics and each will:

• Indicate the chapter topic (that it will focus on)
• Provide detail on the most important information of the chapter topic
• Show working examples (where appropriate) to reinforce concepts covered in the chapter topic
• Provide a chapter topic summary
• Give a two minute drill outlining the key points in the chapter topic
• Include a self test to help the reader determine his or her mastery of the chapter topic