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Pentaho Solution Consultant Certification Exam

Overview The Pentaho Solution Consultant certification examination coordinates with

Pentaho's professional training offerings. The examination is delivered in an un-proctored, online format. Despite the un-proctored format, you are not allowed to use external resources when taking the exam (including books, course materials, Google searches, colleagues, and so on). The Pentaho Solution Consultant examination is 90 minutes long and consists of 75 questions chosen (at random) from a series of question pools. To pass the exam, you must achieve a score of 80% (or higher). The Pentaho Solution Consultant exam is designed to validate the knowledge and skills required to deliver rapid, high-value implementations of the Pentaho business intelligence platform. The exam is intended for experienced Business Intelligence Consultants, Business Intelligence Solution Developers, Technical Business Analysts, Content Creators, and Pentaho Partners.

Topical overview

The Pentaho Solution Consultant exam covers the following topics:

Installing and configuring the Pentaho business intelligence platform Using xactions Implementing security Using Pentaho Data Integration to create jobs and transformations Implementing OLAP cubes using Pentaho Schema Workbench Creating reports using Pentaho Report Designer Using the Pentaho User Console tools to generate content: Pentaho

Analysis, Pentaho Interactive Reporting, Pentaho Dashboard Designer

Recommended training

Pentaho offers a variety of courses to assist exam takers. Before attempting the certification exam, Pentaho Training recommends the following courses:

SLN4000: Pentaho Business Analytics for Business Analysts: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/business_analytics_for_business_analysts/

PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration for Database Developers: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/data_integration_for_database_developers.php

ADM2050: Pentaho Installation and Administration: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/installation_and_administration/

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Recommended training (continued)

For some exam subjects, the following additional course may also be useful: SLN7000: Pentaho Architects Boot Camp:

http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/pentaho_architects_bootcamp.php

Information on all Pentaho training courses can be found at: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/

Exam topics This section lists the topics found on the Solution Consultant exam and

includes resources available to assist exam takers. Sample exam questions are also included. Most exam topics are covered by the Pentaho Training curricula and the Pentaho product documentation. All documentation on the Pentaho platform can be found in the Pentaho InfoCenter at: http://infocenter.pentaho.com/help/index.jsp.

Exam takers should have a general understanding of the following topics:

Topic Resources Sample exam question Installation and deployment

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: BA Server Manual Deployment Guide Business Analytics graphical installer

guide Pentaho Data Integration Installation

Guide

What is the default location of the Hibernate configuration files?

Action sequences, Pentaho Design Studio

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Creating Action Sequences

From Pentaho Training: SLN7000: Pentaho Architects Bootcamp

What is the most common use for a global action sequence?

Security model, securing objects

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: The Pentaho Security Guide

What open source framework is used by Pentaho for authentication and authorization?

Carte, Pan, Kitchen

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Data Integration Administrators

Guide From Pentaho Training: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration for

Database Developers

Which parameters must be passed to Carte on startup?





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Topic Resources Sample exam question Metadata, metadata security

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Metadata Editor User Guide

From Pentaho Training: SLN4000: Pentaho Business Analytics for

Business Analysts

To load a metadata domain file, what files must exist in the same parent directory in the solution repository?

Mondrian The Mondrian project documentation http://mondrian.pentaho.com

What file controls Mondrian logging?

Pentaho Report Designer

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Report Designer User Guide


Business Analysts

A traffic light can be added to a data element in a report by using a ________?

Pentaho User Console

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho User Console Guide


Business Analysts

When you create a model in Pentaho Data Access, what types of models does it create?

Pentaho Interactive Reporting

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho User Console Guide


Business Analysts

True or False: Aggregate functions in Interactive Reporting require groups.

Pentaho Analyzer

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: The Pentaho Analysis Guide


Business Analysts

True or False: You cannot drill on a chart object in Pentaho Analyzer.

Pentaho Dashboard Designer

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: The Pentaho User Console Guide


Business Analysts

In what file would you find the templates used in Pentaho Dashboard Designer?






Topic Resources Sample exam question Community Dashboard Framework (CDF)

The Community Dashboard Framework documentation: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Co

mmunity+Dashboard+Framework

True or False: A FolderTree is a core CDF component.

Note: Though the exam tests knowledge of the Pentaho suite of products, exam takers may find the Pentaho Community wiki helpful as well: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Community+Wiki+Home. The Community Edition wiki contains resources on a number of exam topics including:

Creating business intelligence solutions Security Data integration (Kettle) Metadata Reporting

Recommended reading

The following publications may also be useful in preparing for the certification exam:

Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL by Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen

Pentaho Kettle Solutions: Building Open Source ETL Solutions with Pentaho Data Integration by Matt Casters, Roland Bouman, and Jos van Dongen

Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers by Will Gorman Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook by Mara Carina Roldn and

Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti



Pentaho Data Integration Certification Exam

Overview The Pentaho Data Integration exam is an un-proctored, 60 minute online

examination consisting of 50 questions derived from a larger question pool. A score of 80% is required to pass the exam. Despite the un-proctored format, you are not allowed to use external resources when taking the exam (including books, course materials, Google searches, colleagues, and so on). Before taking the exam, it is recommended that students have a minimum of six months experience using Pentaho Data Integration. Several exam questions are designed to test practical knowledge gained from deploying Pentaho Data Integration in the field. The Pentaho Data Integration certification exam is designed to validate the knowledge and skills required to deliver rapid, high-value implementations of Pentaho Data Integration (including Big Data implementations). The exam is intended for experienced Business Intelligence Consultants, Business Intelligence Application Developers, Database Administrators, Business Intelligence Solution Architects, Technical Business Analysts, and Pentaho Partners.

Topical overview

The Pentaho Data Integration exam covers the following topics: Installing and configuring Pentaho Data Integration Configuring transformation steps and job entries Performing extract, transform, load (ETL) operations in PDI Maintaining job/transformation portability Using Kitchen and Pan Clustering and partitioning Logging Big Data

Recommended training

Pentaho offers a variety of courses to assist exam takers. Before attempting the certification exam, Pentaho recommends taking the following course: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration for Database Developers:

http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/data_integration_for_database_developers.php




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Recommended training (continued)

For some exam subjects, the following additional courses may also be useful: SLN7000: Pentaho Architects Bootcamp:

http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/pentaho_architects_bootcamp.php

SLN4000: Pentaho Business Analytics for Business Analysts: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/business_analytics_for_business_analysts/

Information on all Pentaho training courses can be found at: http://www.pentaho.com/services/training/

Exam topics This section lists the topics found on the certification exam and resources

available to assist exam takers. Sample exam questions are also included. Most exam topics are covered by the Pentaho Training curricula and the Pentaho product documentation. All documentation on the Pentaho platform can be found in the Pentaho InfoCenter at: http://infocenter.pentaho.com/help/index.jsp.

Though the exam tests knowledge of the Pentaho suite of products, exam takers may find the Pentaho Community Wiki helpful as well: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Community+Wiki+Home Exam takers should have a general understanding of the following topics:

Topic Resources Sample exam question

Installation and deployment

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Data Integration Installation

Guide

What is the default location of the Hibernate configuration files?

Steps From the Pentaho Wiki: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/P

entaho+Data+Integration+Steps From Pentaho Training: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration

for Database Developers

True or False: The Modified Java Script Value step supports calling Java methods.




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Topic Resources Sample exam question Job entries From the Pentaho Wiki:

http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/Pentaho+Data+Integration+Job+Entries

From Pentaho Training: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration


What is true about job entries launched in parallel?

Carte, Pan, Kitchen

From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Data Integration

Administrators Guide From Pentaho Training: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration


Which parameters must be passed to Carte on startup?

Logging From the Pentaho InfoCenter: Pentaho Data Integration

Administrators Guide From Pentaho Training: PDI2000: Pentaho Data Integration


The easiest way to enable job logging in database tables in PDI is by_________.

Recommended reading

The following publications may also be useful in preparing for the certification exam:

Pentaho Kettle Solutions: Building Open Source ETL Solutions with Pentaho Data Integration by Matt Casters, Roland Bouman, and Jos van Dongen

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook by Mara Carina Roldn and Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti

Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide by Mara Carina Roldn

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