IBM Cognos 10 BI OLAP Developer - COG-635 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
How can a developer include a key performance indicator that is unavailable in the Transformer
data source?

A. Add a manual category. B. Create a cube group. C. Add a calculated measure. D. Add a measure allocation.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 2
What can be done if a regular time dimension is added to a model, and the levels Year, Quarter,
and Month are not automatically generated?

A. Set the data class of the source category to Date. B. Change the numeric time sequence for each level. C. Create a non-standard time dimension with the new levels. D. Set the date input format for the time dimension.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 3
What does the developer specify when creating a test build that uses a subset of the source data?

A. The dimensions to include in the cube. B. The number of records. C. The measures to include in the cube. D. The number of categories.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
A developer added a manual level in the time dimension. During category generation, the
developer gets a warning that Transformer is not able to relate the categories to the parent levels.
What must be done to ensure Transformer relates the categories correctly?

A. Specify date input format. B. Specify a date function for each level. C. Specify an Invalid Dates category. D. Specify a time-state rollup.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 5
For a cube that represents values in Euros, what should be done for American consumers to see
the appropriate currency symbol in Euros?

A. Set up currency conversion without defining a default currency. B. Manually create and update the base currency information. C. Build Cubes using a system locale that matches the measure locale. D. Use more than one data source to supply the conversion rates.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 6
When measures are calculated after rollup, when are the calculations performed?

A. Before regular rollup takes place on all measures. B. After relative time calculations. C. Before time state rollup takes place. D. After allocated measures are calculated.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 7
As a good practice, what can a developer do to be prepared in case a model develops conflicts or
becomes corrupt?

A. Keep a backup qy? file. B. Keep a backup .mdl file. C. Keep a backup .py? and qy? files. D. Keep a backup .py? file.

Correct Answer: B