This set of SQL Server Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Reporting Services – 2”.
1. A _________ report solution includes a main report that displays summary information with hyperlinks to one or more reports that display detailed information.
a) Main
b) Detail
c) Drillthrough
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: The drillthrough report opens separately from the main report. A hyperlink can be defined on any report item that has an Action property.
2. Point out the correct statement.
a) A published report is a report definition (.rdl) file
b) A saved report is a published report definition that is converted to a newer schema when a report server is upgraded
c) Report history is a collection of report snapshots
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Report history is not intended for reports that contain confidential or personal data.
3. An ___________ report is a fully paged report saved in a specific file format.
a) exported
b) fully processed
c) compiled
d) all of the mentioned
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Explanation: Export formats depend on installed rendering extensions and can be customized. By default, export formats include Excel, Word, XML, PDF, TIFF, and CSV.
4. Which of the following is a list type in RDL with base 64 encoded value?
a) Boolean
b) Binary
c) Enum
d) Name
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Explanation: Name is a property with a string text value.
5. Point out the wrong statement.
a) A report snapshot is a report that contains layout information and query results that were retrieved at a specific point in time. Unlike on-demand reports
b) A detailed report is a saved copy of a compiled report and report data
c) A report model is a user-friendly description of an underlying database, with pre-established data relationships and auto-generated queries
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Cached reports are used to improve performance by reducing the number of processing requests to the report processor and by reducing the time that is required to retrieve large report datasets.
6. You can use Report Manager in ________ mode and SharePoint site administration pages in ________ mode.
a) Native, Sharepoint
b) Sharepoint, Native
c) Native, Native
d) Sharepoint, Sharepoint
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Explanation: Schedule operations are not available in every edition of SQL Server.
7. __________ are portable, multipurpose items that contain ready-to-use schedule information.
a) Report-specific schedule
b) Shared schedules
c) File schedules
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Shared schedules are system-level items, creating a shared schedule requires system-level permissions.
8. The Schedule and Delivery Processing feature must be enabled through the ____________ property.
a) ScheduleEventsDeliveryEnabled
b) ScheduleEventsAndReportDeliveryEnabled
c) ScheduleEventsAndReportDelivery
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: The Scheduling and Delivery Processor requires that the Report Server service and SQL Server Agent are started.
9. The functionality that SQL Server Agent provides to Reporting Services can be replaced with custom code that uses the _________ method to add schedule events to the queue.
a) FireEvent
b) FireEventdata
c) Eventdata
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: ReportingService2010.FireEvent Method raises an event based on the supplied parameters.
10. Which of the following statement is used to retrieve rows from the view ExecutionLog3?
a) select * from ExecutionLog3 order by TimeStart DESC
b) select * from ExecLog3 order by TimeStart DESC
c) select * from ExecutionLog4 order by TimeStart DESC
d) none of the mentioned
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Explanation: ExecutionLog3 view added additional performance diagnostics node inside the XML based AdditionalInfo column.
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