Topic

Questions Option (A) Option (B)

DM
A data warehouse is which of the
following? Can be updated by end users
Contains numerous naming
conventions and formats.
DM
A star schema has what type of relationship
between a dimension and fact table? Many-to-many One-to-one
DM Fact tables are which of the following? Completely demoralized Partially demoralized
DM
A snowflake schema is which of the
following types of tables? Fact Dimension
DM
A goal of data mining includes which of the
following?
To explain some observed event
or condition To confirm that data exists
DM
OLAP databases are called decision support
system ? TRUE FALSE
DM In Star Schema Dimension tables are Short and Fat Long and Thin
DM The data in Data Warehouse is generally Clean Data Dirty Data
DM Choose two
Ralph Kimball believes that
portions of data can be
combined based on relevance of
data and can be used for
reporting
Inmon believes that portions of
data can be combined based on
relevance of data and can be
used for reporting
DM
In which type of SCD(Slowly changing
dimensions) do we preserve history of data: Type One Type Two
ETL During ETL load we generally have Unsorted data for Aggregator Sorted data for Aggregator
DM
Sequence of jobs to load data in to
warehouse
First load data into fact tables
then dimension tables, then
Aggregates if any
First load data into dimension
tables, then fact tables, then
Aggregates if any
DM Snowflaking means Normalizing the data Denormalizing the data
OLAP
Drill Across generally use the following
join to generate report Self Join Inner Join
DM In general data in Data Warehousing is Normalized Denormalized
DM Consolidated data mart is First level data mart Second level data mart
DM
In 4 step dimensional process, declaring
gain of business process is First Step Second Step
DM Dimensions are Confirmed when They are different
They are either same or one is
subset of another
DM
You need to create an index on the SALES
table, which is 10 GB in size. You want
your index to be spread across many
tablespaces, decreasing contention for
index lookup, and increasing scalability and
manageability.Which type of index would
be best for this table? bitmap unique
DM Which of the following statements is true?
A data warehouse is useful to all
organisations that currently use
OLTP's
A data warehouse is valuable
only if the organisation has an
interest in analysing historical
data.
DM Analytical processing is
the act of using software to
analyse highly consolidated
data, often to view the changes
over time.
the act of exporting data into a
spreadsheet for analysis
DM Which of the following statements is true?
The fact table of a data
warehouse is the main store of
descriptions of the transactions
stored in a DWH
The fact table of a data
warehouse is the main store of
all of the recorded transactions
over time.
DM
Which of the following is associated with a
data warehouse A relation A flat file
DM Which of the following statements is true?
The more data a data warehouse
has, the better it is
A data warehouse
automatically makes a copy of
every transaction recorded in
an OLTP system
DM A data warehouse
must import data from
transactional systems whenever
significant changes occur in the
transactional data.
takes regular copies of
transaction data
DM Granularity refers to
The number of fact tables in a
data warehouse
The level of detail of the data
descriptions held in a data
warehouse
DM Dimensionality refers to
The level of detail of data that is
held in the fact table
The data that describes the
transactions in the fact table.
DM
The main organisational justification for
implementing a data warehouse is to
provide
lagre scale transaction
processing
Cheaper ways of handling
transactions
OLAP OLTP stands for On Line Transaction Processing On Line Terminal Protocol
DM Data in a data warehouse in a flat file format
must be in normalised form to
at least 3NF
DM A data warehouse needs to be time varient Subject orientated
DM Transaction processing is
the act of processing individual
transactions
the act of analysing each
transaction to verify that it is
valid
OLAP OLAP stands for On Line Analytical Protocol
On Line Abstraction
Processing
DM
What is a formal way to express data
relationships to a database management
system? Attributes Entity identifier
DM
What is a technique for documenting the
relationships between entities in a database
environment? Attributes Entity identifier
DM
What indicates having the potential to
contain more than one value for an attribute
at any given time? Constraint Single-valued
DM
Which relationship is between two entities
in which an instance of entity A can be
related to zero, one, or more instances of
entity B and entity B can be related to zero,
one, or more instances of entity A? One-to-many relationship One-to-one relationship
DM
Which of the following uses a series of
logically related two-dimensional tables or
files to store information in the form of a
database? Database Database management system
OLAP
All of the following terms describe OLAP,
except
The gathering of input
information Processing input information
DM
Which tool is used to help an organization
build and use business intelligence? Data warehouse Data mining tools
DM What does the data dictionary identify? Field names Field types
DM
Which of the following is a data
manipulation tool? File generators Query by example tool
DM
When gathering business information
requirements, you should focus only on the
requirements provided by the business
groups. TRUE FALSE
OLAP
One difference between the design of
online transaction processing (OLTP) and
online analytical processing (OLAP)
systems is that the OLTP system design is
optimized for getting data into the database. TRUE FALSE
DM
Designing a data warehouse in first normal
form (1NF) is not recommended. TRUE FALSE
DM
Cardinality is defined as the number of
relationships existing between entities. TRUE FALSE
DM
It is not important to include metadata when
designing a data warehouse. TRUE FALSE
DM
There is no need to include a time
dimension in the data warehouse. TRUE FALSE
DM
The level of granularity you choose for the
time dimension has no significant impact on
the size of your database. TRUE FALSE
DM
Surrogate keys are generated on tables in
the data warehouse after the table is
populated. TRUE FALSE
DM
To improve performance, all tables in the
data warehouse should be indexed. TRUE FALSE
DM
Fact tables are often referred to as the
measures of business performance. TRUE FALSE
DM
Dimension tables are used to provide
descriptions of the business subjects and
descriptive information about each row in
the fact table. TRUE FALSE
DM
A high level of granularity means more
detail; a low level of granularity mean less
detail. TRUE FALSE
DM
One method of managing the history in
dimension tables is to drop the dimension
and rebuild the table from scratch. TRUE FALSE
DM
You do not need to be concerned with
maintaining the history of changing data in
the dimension tables. TRUE FALSE
DM
Effective use of summaries is the best
technique for improving performance in
data warehouses. TRUE FALSE
DM
Summary data cannot be combined with
detailed fact data. TRUE FALSE
DM
When choosing a level of summarization,
there are two approaches: summarizing the
entire dimension, or summarizing part of
the dimension and partially improving
performance TRUE FALSE
DM
Table partitioning splits the storage of a
table into smaller individual units. TRUE FALSE
DM
Denormalization is the factor that increases
the sparseness in a database. TRUE FALSE
OLAP
What are the actual data values that occupy
the cells as defined by the dimensions
selected? Nesting Aggregation
OLAP
The term that defines filtering data in an
OLAP cube is ___________ . dicing slicing
OLAP
What is an item that matches a specific
description or classification? Category Measure
OLAP
The cube structure in OLAP achieves the
__________ functionality. shared information
OLAP
Aggregation provides OLAP with
__________ multidimensional data pre-calculated data
OLAP What is the acronym that defines OLAP? FHTMI FASMI
OLAP
__________ in OLAP allows you to define
a subcube of the original space. Dicing Slicing
OLAP
What term in OLAP defines changing the
dimensional orientation of the report from
the cube data? Dicing Slicing
OLAP
The _________ in OLAP enable you to
drill-up or drill-down to view different
levels of detail about your data. dimensions measures
OLAP When you nest in OLAP, you _________ .
select multiple cube
aggregations select multiple cube measures
ETL Which of the following describes ETL?
A process that transforms
information using a common set
of enterprise definitions
A process that loads
information into a data
warehouse
DM What is data mining
A particular attribute of
information
The common term for the
representation of
multidimensional information
DM
A collection of related data fields is called a
____. byte record
DM A DBMS is a(n) ____.
interface between the database
and application programs data repository
DM
A(n) ____ is a generalized class of people,
places, or things for which data is collected,
stored, and maintained record entity
DM
Which attribute would make the best
primary key? Social security number Last name
DM
The ____ data model follows a treelike
structure. distributed hierarchical
DM
The most popular database model currently
in use is the ____. relational model hierarchical model
DM
A primary key is a field or set of fields that
uniquely identifies a record. TRUE FALSE
DM
One of the goals of a DBMS is to increase
data redundancy thereby making it less
vulnerable to hackers. TRUE FALSE
DM
A Data Warehouse would most likely be
part of a(n) ERP System Small MIS System
DM Data Mining would most likely be used
to streamline a Transaction
Processing System to model data in a DBMS
DM Which of the following is a valid key field A Book Title House number + Street Name
DM A Table Can only store data of one type Consists of Alphanumeric data
DM
A RDBMS cannot store data without
knowing the data type. Which of the
following statements are true?
A Logical data type can store
three values, TRUE,
UNKNOWN and FALSE
Numerical data can be stored
in different formats
DM
A FLAT FILE database management
system is
A database design that only has
one table in it
A DBMS that can only have
simple data tables in it
DM
Assume you are extending the design of
The College Student Records System to
include details on each classroom. The
college is never likely to have more than ten
classrooms and definitely not ever going to
have more than 25 classrooms. What data
type would you select Numeric - Byte Numeric - Single
OLAP A report must
be exported to a word processor
for printing
be based on an underlying data
source (a table or a query)
OLAP
The layout of a report is independant of the
number of records held in a table or query True FALSE
OLAP A report is used to
produce output that is ready for
e-mailing
produce output that is ready
for publication on the Web
(HTML)
DM
The rule that prohibits transitive
dependencies is third normal form first normal form
DM
The rule that requires that each non-key
field (attribute) should be fully functionally
dependent on the primary key is Third Normal Form First Normal Form
DM
The rule that specifies that there should be
no repeating fields and that fields should be
atomic is third normal form second normal form
DM
The process of combining two tables in a
relational database is known as a Join a Combine
DM The ER model is meant to
enable low level descriptions of
data replace relational design
DM The Entity Relation Model models Entities Relationships
DM
Which of the following statements best
decribes the function of an entity relation
model?
An ER model provides a view
of the logic of the data and not
the physical implementation.
An ER model is concerned
primarily with a physical
implementation of the data and
secondly with the logical view
DM SQL stands for Sequential Question Language Structured Query Language
DM
Which of the following are elements of
SQL? Data Query Language Data Definition Language
DM
Consider the table (STUDREC). Which of
the following statements will list columns
INIT, SNAME, GENDER and KIDS (in
that order) for all students who have more
then 1 child.
SELECT init, sname, gender,
kids FROM studrec WHERE
kids <1;
SELECT init, sname, gender,
kids FROM studrec WHERE
kids >1;
OLAP A typical data warehouse consists of Staging area Data Marts
OLAP
What are the three layers of Data
warehouse architecture?
Data staging layer, Data Extract
layer, Data transactional layer
Data Modelling layer, Data
Accesses layer, Data Storage
layer
OLAP Staging Area comes under which layer? Data Storage layer Data Access layer
OLAP
What are Limitations of Traditional
techniques ? Extensive programming Redundant reporting
OLAP Different categories of Data Access are? Web Access Data Mining
OLAP OLAP stands for Online Access Processing Online Analytic Processing
OLAP
A process that uses a variety ofstatistical
and artificial intelligenceframeworks to
discover patterns and relationships in data Data Access Process Data Mining Process
OLAP
A category of data access solutions in
which information is viewed through a web
browser Data Access Process Data Mining Process
OLAP What is importance of Data Access?
Businesses today face
challenges like
Data Access is the last mile
that enables decision makers to
OLAP What are different types of reporting? Transaction Systems Reporting
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Reporting
OLAP
In Transaction Systems Reporting,
Reporting Tool has a native connectivity to
? Views Tables
OLAP
An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is
designed to
To combine data from multiple
OLTP systems
To provide consolidated and
cleansed data to an array of
data marts
OLAP Examples of Managed Query Tool Business Objects MS Query
OLAP Which are the OLAP features ?
Multidimensional viewing
Capabilities
Time Intelligence - Time
Series analysis
OLAP OLAP system is Decision support
Relatively standardized and
simple queries returning
relatively few records
OLAP What is measure? Is not a number represents factual data
OLAP What is ROLAP?
Data is stored in
multidimensional cubes
Support for large databases
with good performance
SQL Which one is DDL command? Insert Update
SQL
How many types of Normalization rules are
there? 4 5
SQL Which are pseudocolumns CURRVAL NEXTVAL
SQL
Can you use select in FROM clause of SQL
select ? YES NO
SQL
Describe the use of %ROWTYPE in
PL/SQL ?
It allows you to associates a
variable with a single column
type
It allows you to associate a
variable with an entire table
row
SQL How many types of triggers are there? 9 10
SQL
What is the default ordering of an ORDER
BY clause in a SELECT statement? Descending Ascending
SQL Union All returns
All rows selected by either
query
All rows selected by either
query and including duplicates
ETL What is ETL process?
ETL is the set of processes by
which data is extracted from
various sources, transformed
and loaded into target systems
ETL is the set of processes by
which data is extracted from
various sources and loaded
into target systems
ETL What is Importance of ETL?
Closely integrated with
RDBMSs
High speed loading of target
data warehouses
ETL Which are ETL Activities ?
Data Extraction, Data
transformation, Data loading
Data Extraction, Data
Extraction Cleanup, Data
loading
ETL Data Extraction Methods are Incremental Extraction Real Time Extraction
ETL Which are the examples of ETL tools? Informatica PowerCenter Ab Initio
ETL What is Bulk Load?
Format of Archived data
different from operational data
It limits your ability to recover
because no database logging
occurs
ETL Which one is not GUI based Scheduler ? Tool Specific Autosys
ETL
What do you mean by Source alteration
stage in ETL ?
perform a variety of
transformations unique to the
source, depending on business
requirements
performs the access and
extraction of data from the
source system and builds a
temporal view of the data at
the time of extraction
ETL
What are the different types of Commit
intervals? Target-based commit Source-based commit
ETL Which is the first step of the ETL process ? Data Extraction Cleanup Data Extraction
ETL Which is not pros of Batch Extraction ?
Quick and relatively easy to
write scripts for doing exports
and imports
Does not usually require
additional hardware
ETL
Which tool does not support Change-Data-
Capture Feature ? Ascential Data Stage XE Informatica PowerCenter
DW What is Data Warehouse ?
Data Warehouse is integarted of
data in support of management's
decisions
A data warehouse is a subject-
oriented, integrated,
nonvolatile, time-variant
collection of data in support of
management's decisions
DW What is the Need of Data Warehousing ? To store Operational Data
Better business intelligence for
end-users
DW
Which one is not Characteristic of Data
Mart ? Restrictive, non extensible Short life/tactical
DW
Which is the information need for recent
data ? ODS OLTP
DW
What type of Data Structure Characteristic
does Data Warehousing has ? Detailed Summarized
DW
What are Components of a Data Warehouse
Architecture ? Data Cleansing tool ETL tool
DW What is use of Data Cleaning Tools ?
Clean up source data in-place
on the host
Generate and maintain
centralized metadata
DW What is the use of Data Mining Tools ? Slice and Dice What If analysis
DM What is Database ?
A known fact that can be
recorded and that have implicit
meaning
The data is perceived by the
user as tables
DM What is Data Model ?
A collection of concepts that
can be used to describe the
structure of a database
Representation of a set of
business requirements in a
standard structured framework
understood by the users
DM
Which Data Modelling approach suit for
corporate data Warehouse ? Dimensional Approach Entity Relational Approach
DM
What are the different types of relationship
notations ? IEX IDFIX
DM What is Physical Data Model ? Conceptual
Geared for performance and
may consists of redundant data
DM What are different types of Data Model ? Physical model, Logical model, Hybrid model
DM
Can we have multiple foreign keys in a
table ? TRUE FALSE
Option (C) Option (D)
Answer
s
Organized around important
subject areas. Contains only current data. C
One-to-many All of the above B
Completely normalized Partially normalized C
Helper All of the above D
To analyze data for expected
relationships To create a new data warehouse A
A
Long and Fat Short and thin A
Clean and Dirty Data None of above A
Inmon believes that DW is built
and should be used for
reporting.
Ralph Kimball believes that DW
is built and should be used for
reporting. B and D
Type Three None of above B
Does not matter if we use Sorted
or Unsorted data for
Aggregation None of the Above B
First Aggregates then load data
into dimension tables, then fact
tables
Does not matter if we load either
of fact, dimensions, or
aggregates B
None of Above A
Outer Join None of the Above C
None of Above C
All of these None of Above B
Third Step Fourth Step B
When they can be compared
mathematically None of these B
partitioned reverse Key C
A data warehouse is valuable to
thiose organisations that need to
keep an audit trail of their
activities
A data warehouse is necessary
to all those organisations that
are using relational OLTP's B
the act of using a relational
database to produce reports
giving data summaries on a
regular basis (e.g. monthly)
the act of sumarising data on a
regular basis (e.g. month end
summaries) A
A fact table describes the
granularity of data held in a
DWH
A fact table describes the
transactions stored in a DWH B
A hierachical and/or network
structure A star schema D
A data warehouse is a relatively
straighttforward thing to set up.
Adding data for the sake of it
may well degrade the
effectiveness of data
warehouseing analysis D
takes regular copies of
transaction data and stores it in a
way that is optimised for query
and reporting
has to work on live transactional
data to provide up to date and
vaild results C
The level of detail of the data
stored in a data warehouse.
The number of dimensions in a
data warehouse C
The level of detail that is held in
the Data Warehouse
The number of dimension tables
that exist in a star schema B
Storing large volumes of data Decision support D
On Line Terminal Processing On Line Transaction Protocol A
can be normalised but often isn't
must be in normalised form to at
least 2NF C
Capable of integrating data from
a wide variety of sources non-volatile A,B,C,D
the act of analysing transactions
on a regular basis (e.g. monthly)
the act of processing, recording
and storing individual
transactions in a database D
On Line Abstraction Protocol On Line Analytical Processing D
Data model Entity-relationship diagram C
Data model Entity-relationship diagram D
All of the above None of the above D
Many-to-many relationship Many-to-one relationship C
Data warehouse None of the above D
Updating existing information to
reflect to the gathered and
processed information None of the above D
Database management systems All of the above D
Field formats All of the above D
Structure question language All of the above B
B
A
B
A
B
B
B
B
B
A
A
A
B
B
A
B
A
A
A
Dimensions Measures D
rotating nesting B
Dimension Nest A
collection multidimensional D
nested data slow data retrieval B
ASFMI MASHF B
Rotating Nesting A
Rotating Nesting C
nesting aggregation A
select multiple cube dimensions select multiple cube slices C
A process that extracts
information from internal and
external databases All of the above D
The process of analyzing data to
extract information not offered
by the raw data alone
Uses a variety of techniques to
find patterns and relationships in
large volumes of information
and infer rules from them that
predict future behavior and
guide decision making C
character bit B
knowledge base unique group of records A
attribute file B
First name Age A
network relational B
network model object model A
A
B
DBMS Expert system A
to help transform data into
useful information that can be
used by a DSS
to help transform data from
different sources so that they
can be stored in a single Data
Warehouse. C
Car Registration number
Initials + Family Name + Date
of Birth C
Consists of Rows and Columns Cannot be empty B
Some DBMS's can use DATE
data types
A Character (Text) data type can
contain 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 B,C,D
A DBMS that can only have one
table in it
A DBMS that contains records
that have a large number of
fields in them C
Numeric - Integer Numeric - Long integer A
Be redefined each time it is used be password protected B
A
produce output that is formatted
for display on a computer screen
produce output formatted for
print D
second normal form None of the Above A
Second Normal Form None of the Above C
first normal form None of the Above C
a Relate a Construc A
be close to a users perception of
the data
enable detailed descriptions of
data query processing C
Entities, Relationships and
Processes Entities and Relationships D
An ER model is entirely
concerned with modelling the
physical implemetation
An ER model is concerned
primarily with a logical view of
the data and secondly with the
physical implementation A
Structured Question Language Sequential Query Language B
Data Modification Language Data Manipulation Language A,B,D
SELECT init, sname, gender,
kids FROM studrec WHERE
kids >'1';
SELECT init sname, gender,
kids FROM studrec WHERE
kids >1; D
Analytical environment All of the above A
Data Extraction layer, Data
Accesses layer, Data Storage
layer None C
Data Extract layer None D
SQL does not have a natural way
of providing flexible view
reorganizations that will
transpose the data All of the above D
Both A and B None C
Both A and B None B
Web Access Process None B
Web Access Process Reporting C
Prompt, reliable data access All of the above D
Both A and B None C
OLAP OLTP D
Both A and B None C
Microsoft Access All of the above A
Only A Both A and B D
Both A and B None A
description of subject Both B and C B
Good to access pre-aggregated
data
Compilation intensive
architecture B
Drop Select C
6 7 B
ROWID All of the above D
A
It allows you to associate a
variable with an entire table
column Both A and C B
11 12 D
B
All distinct rows selected by
both queries
All rows selected by the first
query but not the seconds B
Both A and B None A
Both A and B Only A C
Data Extraction, Data loading
Data Extraction, Data
transformation, Data Extraction
Cleanup, Data loading D
Full Extraction All of the above D
Business Objects Both A and B D
Lengthy and Complex process All of the above B
CRON jobs All of the above C
performs final formatting of data
to produce load-ready files for
the target table; identifies and
segregates rows to be inserted
vs. updated (if applicable);
applies remaining technical meta
data tagging; and processes data
into the RDBMS
final stage, uses the load- ready
files from Stage 4 to build
aggregation tables needed to
improve query performance
against the warehouse A
Only A Both A and B D
Data transformation Data loading B
Not event driven--does not
facilitate notification or change
in another application at the time
of a change in first application
Almost all applications provide
utilities for exporting and
importing C
Ab Initio All of the above B
Both A and B None B
Used by Operational users Both B and C B
Project Orientation Flexible, extensible D
OLAP All of the above A
Detailed and Summarized Detailed and lightly summarized C
Data Modelling tool All of the above D
Automatic generation of data
extract programs All of the above A
Dill Down Static Reports B
It is designed, built, and
populated with data for a
specific purpose All of the above C
Both A and B None A
Both A and B None B
IE Both B and C C
Both A and B None B
Conceptual model Both A and C D
A