At this point, you should be familiar with the MicroStrategy Platform architecture and understand how the different components relate to each other. Also, you should be able to install MicroStrategy and perform basic configurations such as metadata database creation, Intelligence Server configuration, and Project Source creation (in 2 and 3-Tiers).

The next chapter will introduce the important concept of MicroStrategy Objects. We will learn about a specific category, which will be the foundation for any MicroStrategy Project: The Schema Objects.