IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide

by James D. Miller

Preparing for your COG-310 certification is more engaging and enjoyable with this tutorial because it takes a hands-on approach and teaches through examples. There are also self-test sections for each exam topic. In Detail IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets. It is a real time, in memory tool that helps any sized business perform planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as other financial exercises. This book prepares you to master COG-310 certification using an example-driven method that is easy to understand. The IBM Cognos TM1 Developers Certification guide provides key technical details and background to clear the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (test COG-310) certification exam. This certification book covers all the modules of the certification clearly and in depth. The initial chapters cover in detail the components that make up Cognos TM1 and designing and creating dimensions and cubes. The book then dives deep into basic and advanced scripting using TurboIntegrator and then we learn to understand and write basic Rules. We then learn about the drill-through functionality of TM1, virtual and lookup cubes and lastly Time, and presenting and reporting data What you will learn from this book Approach This book is packed with real word examples. Each major certification topic is covered in a separate chapter, which helps to make understanding of concepts easier. At the end of each chapter, you will find a variety of practice questions to strengthen and test your learning. Who this book is written for If you are a beginner to intermediate level Cognos TM1 developer looking to add an important IBM certification to your resume but don’t know where to start, this book is for you!

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2012