Test COG-185: IBM Cognos 8 Migration Professional Exam

This test will certify that the successful candidate has important knowledge and skills necessary to plan, estimate and implement the migration of Series 7 to Cognos 8 BI.

Section 1 - Migration Assessment (8.5%)

1. Describe the steps in a migration assessment
2. Determine eligibility for migration - candidate for migration
3. Describe migration methodology

Section 2 - Migration Planning (21.5%)

1. Describe the process of pre-assessment
2. Identify considerations in setting a security strategy
3. Identify consideration for automation and backup/recovery strategies
4. Describe constructs for successful projects

Section 3 - Migration Approaches (23%)

1. Describe impacts of using approaches
2. Describe interoperability
3. Describe the use of tools for a migration

Section 4 - Migration Execution (11.5%)

1. Describe importance of architecture/product compliance
2. Describe process to migrate BI objects
3. Describe considerations for tuning

Section 5 - Migration Concepts (5.5%)

1. Describe the overall migration process
2. Identify the technical migration approaches

Section 6 - Series 7 Concepts and Terminology (11.5%)

1. Identify considerations for drill-through and how they are relevant to Cognos 8
2. Identify which Series 7 components can be migrated to Cognos 8
3. Describe the impact of Series 7 security on Cognos 8

Section 7 - PowerPlay Migration (18.5%)

1. Describe the overall migration process for PowerPlay 7 to PowerPlay 8 migration
2. Identify the content that can be migrated and where that content is hosted in Series 7
3. Identify 3 differences between Series 7 PowerPlay and Cognos 8 PowerPlay