26) ________ involves connecting to data sources, creating report structures, and formatting reports. A) Report evaluation B) Report authoring C) Report monitoring D) Report delivery 27) The...

26) ________ involves connecting to data sources, creating report structures, and formatting reports.

A) Report evaluation

B) Report authoring

C) Report monitoring

D) Report delivery

27) The ________ in a reporting system indicate the channel to be used for sending a report to a user and whether the report is to be pushed or pulled.

A) metadata

B) microdata

C) network packets

D) data structures

28) The ________ function of a reporting system pushes reports or allows them to be pulled according to report management metadata.

A) report authoring

B) report monitoring

C) report delivery

D) report evaluation

29) For query reports, the report delivery system serves as an intermediary between a user and a report generator.

30) Explain report authoring, management, and report delivery.

31) Which of the following types of reports has the ability to sum, count, average, and perform other simple arithmetic operations on groups of data?

A) query reports

B) static reports

C) database reports

D) online analytical processing (OLAP) reports