PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Applications (Beta) Certification Exam

Tomorrow morning I go to take the Microsoft Technology Specialist 71-556 Microsoft(R) Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, Applications certification exam. This exam is in beta right now and should be available in December. I have been using PerformancePoint off and on for about a month now and there are a lot of things you can do with it. Following are the areas that will be included in the exam (from an email from the Microsoft BI team):

Configuring Dimensions

Configure properties of predefined dimensions

Configure the time dimension

Configure a member property

Populate dimensions and member sets

Update dimension members and member set, and member properties

Configuring Models

Create a PPS model

Configure the current period

Configure model and dimension usage within sites

Transfer data between models

Configuring Business Roles and Process Management

Configure business roles

Configure security for users

Configure assignments

Configure an approval structure

Developing Business Rules

Develop an assignment rule

Develop a definition rule

Develop an allocation rule

Configure template rules

Configure rule execution

Building Excel Add-In Forms and Reports

Build an Excel Add-In report

Configure an Excel Add-In report as a form

Configure report filters

Format an Excel Add-In report

Developing Dashboards

Create a report by using the Dashboard Designer

Add a data source connection

Add a new Web page report

Configure a KPI by using Dashboard Designer

Create a scorecard

Build a dashboard

Installing PerformancePoint Server

Install the monitoring and planning services

Configure a PerformancePoint application

Configure the PerformancePoint server

Assign users to administrator roles

I will be including posts on PerformancePoint as I lean more about it.