Antonia Iroko
Welcome to Business Objects Certified Professional (BOCP) 930 Practice Questions for Crystal Reports XI R2. Each chapter covers questions on the various sections of Crystal Reports utilization, functionality and development.
Crystal Reports is an advanced reporting software package, which provides users with an exceptional reporting tool for data presentation. Crystal Reports is utilized by many companies to achieve their reporting requirements in the areas of accounting, finance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and many more. The study guide questions will test the reader’s knowledge of the functionalities within Crystal Reports and how these functions can be applied to various aspects of reporting to achieve specific goals.
The study guide questions are aimed at Crystal Reports Designers and Developers preparing for the certification exams (BOCP), it also acts a knowledgebase for Beginners to Advanced users. Readers are advised to use this study guide in conjunction with hands-on-practice and classroom based courses, this will give readers a greater insight into the functionalities of Crystal Reports.
Antonia Iroko is the Director of Projection Programmers Ltd - a Crystal Reports Consulting Company which over the years had provided consulting and training services to financial, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceutical fortune 500 companies both nationally and Internationally.
Antonia is the editor of the Examhints.com (http://www.examhints.com) which is one of the first websites to provide study guides for the Crystal Reports Certified Professional exams. Antonia has authored many customized training manuals for various companies, which are currently being used for user training.
Antonia graduated from the university of Nottingham with a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management and then went on to Study for an MSc in Computer Science. Antonia now provides consulting services to many financial companies. For consulting services visit http://www.projectionpro.com
There are 17 chapters in this book, which include a total of 930 questions. The chapters are organized as follows:
Chapter 1 Report Settings and Options: In this chapter questions relating to report settings are covered, this consists of subject matter relating to Report Options and Options settings which can be applied to reports prior to creation or during the report development stage. This chapter consists of 71 questions. At the end of this chapter the user will have been tested on the following report settings: Layout, Database, Format Editor, Reporting, Fields, Dependency Checker and Field setting.
Chapter 2 Creating a Datasource: In this chapter questions relating to the creation of data sources are covered. Creating a data source is the first stage of report development and must be implemented before designing a report. There are several datasource connections available including an ODBC or DSN connection. The main sample databases used to derive questions for this section are Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server. This chapter consists of 17 questions.
Chapter 3 The Database Expert: Questions in this chapter relate to the utilization of the Database Expert to create links between database tables, subject matter covered in this chapter includes links and joins types, setting a database location, mapping fields and creating new data sources. There are 67 questions in this chapter.
Chapter 4 Creating and Working with Formulas: This chapter covers the question on the Functions and Operators of within the Formula Workshop. Areas covered include date formulas, number formulas, variables, arrays, strings, financial functions, processing reports and report alerts. There are a total of 213 questions in this chapter.
Chapter 6 Using the Select Expert: Consists of 36 questions based on the functionalities which exist within the Select Expert for record and group selection.
