TDVAN5 Exam Questions Get Updated [2025] with Correct Answers [Q38-Q55]

Q38. The Administrator has received a request to add SELECT rights on the BusinessViews database to end users, developers, and batch accounts in the accounting unit. The following roles are set up for each group:

The Administrator created the AcctShared role and will use it in a role nesting strategy to provide the required access.
Which actions can the Administrator take to fulfill this request?

Q39. An update of a very large table was in progress when the system experienced an unplanned restart. After restarting, the system is available, but Recovery Manager shows it may be many hours before a large table is available for use. The Administrator needs to make the table available sooner.
Which option should be used to achieve this goal?

Q40. An Administrator has created a new view, ViewDB.SystemMetrics, that combines and aggregates several key system metrics. The data is non-secure in nature, and the intent is for all Vantage users to have SELECT access to it.
Which statement can the Administrator execute to meet this goal?

Q41. An Administrator reports a power user running a query that is consuming significant CPU in a final step product join and impacting other users due to the high priority of the workload.
Upon contacting the user in the application team, they are advised that the query is a request from the CEO and needs to be completed. The team decides to remediate the situation by changing the workload to a lower priority.
Which Viewpoint portlet should be used to make this adjustment?

Q42. Which QueryGrid connector can only be a target?

Q43. Which description accurately characterizes the use of external authentication for Vantage?

Q44. An Administrator manages a Vantage system that is continually updated. The system is critical to the business and must be available as much as possible. The Administrator decides to use a backup strategy that will allow changes to tables while a backup is in progress.
Which backup strategy should be used?

Q45. An Administrator has been presented with these performance metrics from the DBQLOGTBL table for four queries:

The Administrator needs to identify which query is suspected to be causing a full table scan or large redistribution.
Which query is producing this result?

Q46. The Administrator has just created a new database object on a Vantage system.
Which privilege is NOT automatically granted to that database on itself?

Q47. Given a user creation request on a 10-AMP system:
CREATE USER hr_user AS PERM = 100e9 SKEW = 10 PERCENT,
SPOOL = 100e9 SKEW = 20 PERCENT;
How does the SKEW factor affect the user’s Perm space, assuming the total space consumed is under the specified perm space limit?

Q48. An Administrator notices that a system appears to be near capacity and needs to access a dictionary to assess that AMPs are entering into flow control.
Which dictionary should be accessed for this purpose?

Q49. What is a use case for Data Mover?

Q50. A middle-tier application server logs on to the database as TrustedUser and submits requests on behalf of application end users. The server is shared by Finance and Human Resources groups and uses ProxyUser query band to identify end users to the database. Each group needs access to its own sensitive data, so the Administrator has created two separate roles with the appropriate permissions.
What is the best way to control access to each group’s sensitive data?

Q51. A client has a healthy system but often sees delays in some queries because of workload concurrency limits. These limits have been carefully chosen, so the client needs a solution that will not modify them.
What should the Administrator use to assist this client?

Q52. A system in Viewpoint is regularly reported as being in a critical state due to a lack of available AWT. No flow control is observed on the system. The Administrator identified that this is due to a recently completed cloud migration for the system that increased the number of available AWT from 80 to 120.
Which process task is required to set up the system in Viewpoint to address this problem?

Q53. On a Vantage system, the data load process has recently become much slower than normal and is now running for two hours in low concurrency. During the time the process is running, the Administrator measured the following average values from ResUsage:
System CPU busy = 75%
WIO = 25%
Inter-AMP parallelism = 90%
Average BYNET usage = 10%
Which resource is most constrained?

Q54. An Administrator is working through a set of tasks to set up a new Vantage system. The current task is to set up alerts to trigger BTEQ scripts to run when certain conditions are met.
Which action should an Administrator take?

Q55. An analytics team uses a multibillion row table that is relevant to a great number of queries with different filters and joins. The Administrator needs to identify an effective strategy to collect statistics on this table.
Which statistics should be collected?