OBI study guide
OBI · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) certification validates that a practitioner can work competently across the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition platform - from the BI Server repository that defines business models, through the presentation layer, to the analyses and dashboards that end users actually see. It suits BI developers, data modelers, report authors, and administrators who already touch the platform in their day-to-day work and want a structured, credential-backed confirmation of that skill, or who are moving into an OBI role from another BI tool. The OBI study guide has 7 sections and about 2,254 words.
01Oracle BI Architecture and Components
Oracle BI is best understood as a chain of tiers, each with a distinct job. The client tier is the browser and the analyses or dashboards it renders.
339 words, about 2 min02Data Modeling and the BI Server Repository
The RPD is organized into three cooperating layers. The Physical layer describes sources: connections, tables, joins, and keys.
347 words, about 2 min03Building and Administering the Presentation Layer
The presentation layer is the user-facing skin of the repository. It renames logical columns into business-friendly terms, organizes them into subject areas and folders, defines presentation hierarchies for drill-down, and controls which columns are visible.
307 words, about 2 min04Creating Analyses and Dashboards
An analysis is a single query with criteria, filters, and views (table, chart, pivot, gauge). A dashboard is a page composed of multiple analyses, prompts, and other objects arranged in columns and sections.
327 words, about 2 min05Security and User Management
Oracle BI security operates at several levels that must agree. Authentication verifies identity, often delegated to an external directory or single sign-on.
304 words, about 2 min06Performance Tuning and Caching
Performance in Oracle BI is a layered problem. At the source , indexes, partitioning, and well-designed aggregate tables matter.
323 words, about 2 min07Integration and Administration Tasks
Administration covers deployment, migration, and integration. The RPD and the catalog are the two assets that must be migrated between environments, and they are migrated separately.
307 words, about 2 min