Paper 1:

1. Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every

year. This increase is
Answer (select correct option)
Linear
Quadratic
Logarithmic
Exponential page 15

2. ------ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the
warehouse.
Answer (select correct option)
Cube
Grain page 111
Virtual cube
Aggregate

3. After implementing change data capture, the advantage we have is that, data
is able to be integrated and transformed ---------
Answer (select correct option)
In-flight page 152
Off-flight
Stored data
Over-flight

4.---------- If fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a
record by given key.
Answer (select correct option)
A Dense index page 223
A Sparse index
An inverted index
None of these

5. A dense index , if fits into memory , costs only -------- disk I/O access to
locate a record by given key
Answer (select correct option)
One page 223
 Two
Ig(n)
n

6. ------- if too big and does not fit into memory , will be expensive when used
to find a record by given key.
Answer (select correct option)
A dense index page 223
A Sparse index
An inverted index
None of these

7.All data is ------ of something real.

1. An Abstraction
2. A Representation
Which of the following options is true?
Answer (select correct option)
1 Only page 180
3 only
2 only
Both 1 &2
None of 1 &2

8. In the information age, the --------- learning organization is at a distinct

disadvantage. This term means “impaired functioning.”
Answer (select correct option)
Functional
Dysfunctional page 181
Purposeful
Serviceable

9.Many DW projects do not deliver to full potential because they treat data
quality as a one-time undertaking as part of UAT. Here UAT stands for
Answer (select correct option)
User Acceptance testing page 193
Uninterrupted availability of testing
Universal acceptance test
Universal applied test
 10. NUMA stands for ---------
Answer (select correct option)
Non-uniform memory access page 206
Non-updateable memory architecture
New universal memory architecture

11. Parallelisms can ------- system performance on over-utilized systems or

systems with small I/O bandwidth.
Answer (select correct option)
Reduce page 202
Enhance
Maintain
Boost

12. There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index
is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Answer (select correct option)
Naïve nested-loop joins
Index nested-loop joins
Temporary index nested-loop joins page 243
None of these

13. Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ------

systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types,
multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
Answer (select correct option)
OLTP page 254
OLAP
DSS
DWH

14. In contrast to data mining, statistics is ----- driven.

Answer (select correct option)
Assumption
Knowledge
Discovery page 255
Database
 15. ------ is the technique in which existing heterogeneous segments are
reshuffled, relocated into homogeneous segments.
Answer (select correct option)
Clustering page 264
Aggregation
Segmentation
Partitioning

16. A ------ Implementation approach is generally useful for projects where

the technology is mature and well understands, as well as where the business
problems that must be solved are clear and well understood.
Answer (select correct option)
Top down page 283
Bottom up
Waterfall
Spiral

17. Implementing a data warehouse requires ------- integrated activities.

Answer (select correct option)
Slackly
Lethargically
Tightly page 289
Loosely

18. The Kimball`s iterative data warehouse development approach drew on

decades of experience to develop the -------.
Answer (select correct option)
Business definition lifecycle
Business dimensional lifecycle page 289
Data warehouse dimension
OLAP dimension

19. In DWH project, it is assured that ------- environment is similar to the

production environment
Answer (select correct option)
Designing
Development page 314
 Analysis
Implementation

20. Pipeline parallelism focuses on increasing throughput of task

execution, NOT on --------- sub-task execution time.
Answer (select correct option)
Increasing
Decreasing page 215
Maintaining
None of these

21. The application development quality-assurance activities cannot be

completed until the data is ------------.
Answer (select correct option)
Stabilized page 308
Identified
Finalized
Computerized

22. One needs to slot the alternative tools into categories that allow for
meaningful comparison in order to ---------
Answer (select correct option)
Evaluate tools page 315
Reduce cost
None of these

23. Focusing on data warehouse delivery only often end up --------.

Answer (select correct option)
Rebuilding page 315
Success
Good stable product
None of these

24. Invest years in architecture and forgetting the primary purpose of

solving business problem, results in inefficient application. This is the
example of ---------- mistake.
Answer (select correct option)
Extreme technology design
 Extreme architecture design
None of these page 315

25. Pakistan is one of the five major --------countries in the world.

Answer (select correct option)
Cotton-growing page 330
Rice-growing
Weapon producing

26. ------------ Division is cotton hub of Punjab.

Answer (select correct option)
Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan page 331
Bahawalpur

27. --------- is a systematic field sampling process that provide field

specific information on pest pressure and crop injury.
Answer (select correct option)
Pest scouting page 333
Soil survey
Seed survey
Water survey

28. The growth of master files and magnetic tapes exploded around the
mid- --------.
Answer (select correct option)
1950s.
1960s. page 12
1970s.
1980s.

29. Redundancy causes ---------- anomalies

Answer (select correct option)
Update page 43
Select
Both update & select
None of these
 30. Modification anomalies occur in ------------ form
Answer (select correct option)
2nf page 45
3nf
BCNF
1NF

31. If we remove the modification anomalies the table comes in ------ form
Answer (select correct option)
1NF
2NF
3NF page 47
4NF

32. Data transformation services (DTS) provide a set of ---- that lets you
extract, transform, and consolidate data from disparate sources into single or
multiple destinations supported by DTS connectivity.
Answer (select correct option)
Tools page 372
Documentations
Guidelines

33. Data transformation services (DTS) provide a set of tools that lets you
extract, transform, and consolidate data from disparate sources into --------
supported by DTS connectivity.
Answer (select correct option)
Single destinations
Multiple destinations
Single or multiple destinations page 372

34. Execution can be completed successfully or it may be stopped due to

some error. In case of successful completion of execution all the transactions
will be --------
Answer (select correct option)
Committed to the database page 419
Rolled back
 35. Execution can be completed successfully or it may be stopped due to
some error. If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally
and all transactions will be --------
Answer (select correct option)
Committed to the database
Rolled back page 419

36. To identify the degree of transformation required we need to perform

-------.
Answer (select correct option)
Data profiling page 437
Data anomaly detection
Data cleansing
None of the given

37. To identify the ------- required we need to perform data profiling.

Answer (select correct option)
Degree of transformation page 437
Complexity
Cost
Time

38. To judge effectiveness we perform data profiling twice.

Answer (select correct option)
One before extraction and the other after extraction
One before transformation and the other after transformation page 441
One before loading and the other after loading

39. If the dates are missing we must need to consult ------.

Answer (select correct option)
Golden copy page 457
Default system data
Silver copy
None of the given

40. In ROLAP access to information is provided via relational database

using -------- standard SQL.
Answer (select correct option)
ANSI page 78
Microsoft
Oracle
SAP

Paper 2:
1. Which of the following statement is true? 1 PB is
Answer (Select your correct option)
252 or 1013 bytes
250 or 1015 bytes page 15
250 or 1010 bytes
248 or 1012 bytes

2.Normalized design is likely to perform much faster than de-normalized

design for queries that probe.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Master table only may be
Detail tables only
Both

3. Partition elimination is not possible with

Answer (Select your correct option)
Round-Robin page 66
De-normalization
Normalization

4.ER is a logical design technique that seeks to remove the ---- in data.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Redundancy page 99
Normalization
Anomalies

5. Merging information is one of the major types of --------.

Answer (Select your correct option)
Transformation page 154
Extraction
Loading
None of these
 6. The goal of ----- is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching
records(s).
Answer (Select your correct option)
Indexing page 222
Partitioning
Joining

7. If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Answer (Select your correct option)
Dense index page 223
Sparse index
Inverted index
None of these

8.-------, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record
by given key.
Answer (Select your correct option)
A dense index page 223
A sparse index
An inverted index
None of these

9.A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only -------- disk I/O access to
locate a record by given key.
Answer (Select your correct option)
One page 223
Two
Lg (n)
n

10. ----
means meeting customer`s needs, not necessarily exceeding them.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Quality page 180
Marketing
DSS
OLAP
 11. The
purpose of the House of Quality technique Is to reduce ---- types of risk.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Two page_195
Three
Four
All

12. Parallelisms
can ----- system performance on over-utilized systems or
systems with small I/O bandwidth.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Reduce page 202
Enhance
Maintain
Boost

13. Data dependencies between different phases of computation introduce

synchronization requirements that force ---- execution.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Sequential page 204
Parallel
Analogous
Interactive parallel

14. There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. When the entire
table is scanned it is called
Answer (Select your correct option)
Naïve nested-loop joins page 243
Index nested-loop joins
Temporary index nested-loop joins
None of these

15. Data mining is a/an ---- approach, where browsing through data using data
mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user
as information that was unknown previously.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Exploratory page 249
Non-exploratory
Computer science
 16. Data mining uses ----- algorithms to discover patterns and regularities in
data.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Statistical page 251
Mathematical
Computational

17. As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with ---- valued
outcome.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Continuous page 260
Discrete
Isolated
Distinct

18. -----is the technique in which existing heterogeneous segments are

reshuffled, relocated into homogeneous segments.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Clustering page 264
Aggregation
Segmentation
Partitioning

19. Majority of data warehouse projects fail due to the complexity of the -----.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Development process page 283
Analytical process of cube
Query complexity
Indexing complexity

20. Implementing a data warehouse requires ------ integrated activities.

Answer (Select your correct option)
Tightly page 289
Loosely
Slackly
Lethargically
 21. In DWH project, it is assured that ----- environment is similar to the
production environment.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Designing
Development page 314
Analysis
Implementation
22. For a DWH, the key requirement are --------- and product experience.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Tools
Industry page 320
Software
None of these

23. Theapplication development quality-assurance activities cannot be

completed until the data is --------.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Stabilized page 308
Identified
Finalized
Computerized

24. Many data warehouse project teams waste enormous amount of time
searching in vain for a --------------------.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Silver Bullet page 315
Golden bullet
Suitable hardware
Compatible product

25. One
needs to slot the alternative tools into categories that allow for
meaningful comparsion in order to -----.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Evaluate tools page 315
Reduce cost
None of these
26. Investing
years in architecture and forgetting the primary purpose of solving
business problems, results in inefficient application. This is the example of
---- mistake.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Extreme technology design
Extreme architecture design
None of these (page # 303)

27. Pakistan
is one of the five major ---- countries in the world.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Cotton-growing page 330
Rice-growing
Weapon producing

28. -------division
is cotton hub of Punjab.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan page 331
Bahawalpur

29. ------is
a process which involves gathering of information about column
through execution of certain queries with intention to identify erroneous
records.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Data profiling page 439
Data anomaly detection
Record duplicate detection
None of these

30. Relational
databases allow you to navigate the data in ---- that is appropriate
using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Only one direction
Any direction page 19
Two directions
None of these
31. In
----- system, the contents change with time.
Answer (Select your correct option)
OLTP page 20
DSS
ATM
OLAP

32. Primarykey is repeated in ----- splitting.

Answer (Select your correct option)
Horizontal
Vertical page not sure

33. Datatransformation services (DTS) provide a set of tools that lets you
extract, transform, and consolidate data from disparate sources into --------
supported by DTS connectivity.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Single destination
Multiple destinations
Single or multiple destinations page 372

34. If
some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all
transactions will be rolled back. In this case when we will access the
database we will find it in the state that was before the -------.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Execution of package page 419
Creation of package
Connection of package

35. Execution can be completed successfully or it may be stopped due to some

error. If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all
transactions will be ----.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Committed to the database
Rolled back page 419

36. To
identify the degree of transformation required we need to perform ----.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Data profiling page 437
 Data anomaly detection
Data cleansing
None of the given

37. To
identify the ------ required we need to perform data profiling.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Degree of transformation page 437
Complexity
Cost
Time

38. To
judge effectiveness we perform data profiling twice.
Answer (Select your correct option)
One before extraction and the other after extraction
One before transformation and the other after transformation page 441
One before loading and the other after loading

39. If
the dates are missing we must need to consult --------.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Golden copy page 457
Default system date
Silver copy
None of the given

40. It
is observed that every year the amount of data recorded in an organization.
Answer (Select your correct option)
Doubles page 15
Triples
Quartiles
Remains same as previous year

Q1: The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the
analysis of past events provided by respective tools typical of ___________.
• OLTP
• OLAP
• Decision Support systems
• None of these
Q2: As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with
____________ valued outcome.
• Discrete
• Isolated
• Continuous
• Distinct

Q3: The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of
a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The _________ the
portion of the program that must be executed sequentially, the greater the
scalability of computation.
• Larger
• Smaller
• Unambiguous
• Superior

Q5: The goal of ______is to look at as few block as possible to find the matching
records.
• Indexing
• Partitioning
• Joining
• none of these

Q6: There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join, if there is an index
is exploited, and then it is called……
• Naïve nested loop join
• index nested loop join
• temporary index nested loop join
• none of these

Q7: The technique that is used to perform these feats in data mining modeling and
this act of model building is something that people have been doing for long time,
certainly before the _______ of computers or data mining technology.
• Access
• Advent http://www.netcoach.eu.com/index.php?id=188
• Ascent
• Avowal
Spring 2010
Question No: 1
A data warehouse may include
► Legacy systems
► Only internal data sources
► Privacy restrictions
► Small data mart
Question No: 2
De-Normalization normally speeds up
► Data Retrieval (page no 51)
► Data Modification
► Development Cycle
► Data Replication
Question No: 3
In horizontal splitting, we split a relation into multiple tables on the basis of
► Common Column Values page no 54
► Common Row Values
► Different Index Values
► Value resulted by ad-hoc query
Question No: 4
Multidimensional databases typically use proprietary __________ format to store
pre-summarized cube structures.
► File page no 79
► Application
► Aggregate
► Database
Question No: 7
The key idea behind ___________ is to take a big task and break it into subtasks
that can be processed concurrently on a stream of data inputs in multiple,
overlapping stages of execution.
► Pipeline Parallelism page no 214
► Overlapped Parallelism
► Massive Parallelism
► Distributed Parallelism
Question No: 8
Non uniform distribution, when the data is distributed across the processors, is
called
► Skew in Partition (P # 218)
 ► Pipeline Distribution
► Distributed Distribution
► Uncontrolled Distribution
Question No: 9
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a
computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion
of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of
the computation.
► None of these
► Sequentially page no 204
► in Parallel
► Distributed
Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
If ‘M’ rows from table-A match the conditions in the query then table-B is
accessed ‘M’ times. Suppose table-B has an index on the join column. If ‘a’ I/Os
are required to read the data block for each scan and ‘b’ I/Os for each data block
then the total cost of accessing table-B is _____________ logical I/Os
approximately.
► (a + b)M
► (a - b)M
► (a + b + M)
► (a * b * M)
Question No: 14
To measure or quantify the similarity or dissimilarity, different techniques are
available. Which of the following option represent the name of available
techniques?
► Pearson correlation is the only technique
► Euclidean distance is the only technique
► Both Pearson correlation and Euclidean distance page no 270
► None of these
Question No: 15
For a given data set, to get a global view in un-supervised learning we use
► One-way Clustering (P# 271)
► Bi-clustering
► Pearson correlation
► Euclidean distance
Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
For a DWH project, the key requirement are ________ and product experience.
 ► Tools
► Industry (P# 320)
► Software
► None of these
Question No: 24
DSS queries do not involve a primary key
► True ( p # 21 )
► False
Question No: 25
__________________ contributes to an under-utilization of valuable and
expensive historical data, and inevitably results in a limited capability to provide
decision support and analysis.
► The lack of data integration and standardization (P# 330)
► Missing Data
► Data Stored in Heterogeneous Sources
Question No: 26
DTS allows us to connect through any data source or destination that is supported
by ____________
► OLE DB (p # 373 )
► OLAP
► OLTP
► Data Warehouse
Question No: 29
If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all transactions
will be rolled back. In this case when we will access the database we will find it in
the state that was before the ____________.
► Execution of package (p # 419)
► Creation of package
► Connection of package

Spring 2009

Question No: 3
Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems
Aggregates (page # 111)
Facts
Dimensions
Question No: 5
the degree of similarity between two records, often measured by a numerical
value between _______, usually depends on application characteristics.
0 and 1 (page # 169)
0 and 10
0 and 100
0 and 99

Question No: 8
which are the least appropriate join operation for Pipeline parallelism?
Hash Join
Inner Join
Outer Join
Sort-Merge Join page 217

Question No: 10
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for
valuable
business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products
in
gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of
valuable ore.
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein

Question No: 11
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of
your data in a ________ to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining
is
complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the
model's validity.
Cell
Disk
Folder
Vault
Question No: 12
The Kimball s iterative data warehouse development approach drew on
decades
of experience to develop the _____________.
Business Dimensional Lifecycle (page # 289)
Data Warehouse Dimension
Business Definition Lifecycle
OLAP Dimension

Question No: 13
we must try to find the one access tool that will handle all the needs of their
users.
True
False [p # 315]
They believe their mission is to find the one access tool that will handle all the
needs of all their users. Don’t even try. It can’t be done. One size does not fit all.

Question No: 14
for a smooth DWH implementation we must be a technologist.
True
False (page # 306)

Question No: 15
during the application specification activity, we also must give consideration
to
the organization of the applications.
True (page # 307)
False

Question No: 17
the most recent attack is the ________ attack on the cotton crop during 2003-
04, resulting in a loss of nearly 0.5 million bales.
Boll Worm (VIDO LECTURE # 38)
Purple Worm
Blue Worm
Cotton Worm
Question No: 18
the users of data warehouse are knowledge workers in other words they are
_________ in the organization.
Decision maker (page# 10)
Manager
Database Administrator
DWH Analyst

Question No: 19
_________ breaks a table into multiple tables based upon common column
values.
Horizontal splitting (page # 46)
Vertical splitting
Question # 1
During the development phase we should follow standards for:
Naming Conventions
Calculation
Libraries
All of the given options (Page 307)

Question # 2
As per Kimball’s approach the second phase of DWH life cycle is:
Project Planning
Requirement definition (Page 299)
Requirement verification
Requirement validation

Question # 3
Bill Inmon argues that requirements are well understood only after
They are documented
They extracted and verified
Data warehouse is populated (Page 285)
All schemes are defined

Question # 4
Waterfall model is appropriate when
When budget is low
When the deadline is strict
When resources are limited
Requirements are clearly defined (Page 284)

Question # 5
A bottom up implementation approach is useful when
Technology is matured and well understands (page 283)
Organization cannot implement latest technologies
The business objectives are very much clear
All requirements are well documented

Question # 6
Technical architecture design specifies the:
Project schedule (Page 300)
Minimum project completion time
Required Components
Umbrella activities

Question # 7
_____ says that as far as company goals are concerned, the entire company
pursues in the same direction
Westerman (Page 285)
Bill inmon
Kimball
Bohnlein

Question # 8
As per Bill Inmon, a data warehouse, in contrast with classical applications is:
Data driven (Page 285)
Resource driven
Requirement driven
Time Sensitive

Question # 9
The _______ phase of fundamental data warehouse life cycle model includes data
warehouse scheduled maintenance
Deployment
Operation (Page 288)
Enhancement
Maintenance

Question # 10
Following the coding standards during development helps to:
Minimize the future rework (Page 307)
Verify the requirements
To refine the project scope
To establish the test cases

Question # 1
As per Kimball, ______ is the main operational process

Requirement extraction
Global design
Business process (Page 285)
Scheme design

Question #
In ______ phase of a fundamental data warehouse life cycle model, a working
model of data warehouse is deployed for a selective set of users
Design
Prototype (Page 287)
Deployment
Operation

Question # 3
Waterfall is a/an ______ model
Iterative
Simple linear sequential (Page 284)
Object oriented
Rapid development

Question # 4
One of the drawbacks of waterfall model is that:
Customers can not review the product during development (Page 284)
It does not work when the resources are limited
It does not define the project timeline/schedule
All of the given options

Question # 5 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Spiral model is ________
Sequence of waterfall model
Risk oriented model
An iterative model
All of the given (Page 284)

Question # 6 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

________ refers to the overall process of discovering useful knowledge from data
and data mining refers to a particular step in this process.
Statistics
Knowledge discovery in database (Page 249)
Clustering
Information cleansing

Question # 7 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In data mining, initially you _____what you are looking for.
Know
Don't Know (Page 250)
May or may not know
None of the given options

Question # 8 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of the most fundamental data warehouse life cycle model, which of the
following is NOT one of the data warehouse design activities?
End-user interviews and re-interviews
Source system cataloguing
Definition of key performance indicators
System vision development (Page 287)

Question # 9 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

A top down implementation approach is useful when
Technology is matured and well understands (Page 283)
Organization cannot implement latest technologies
The business objectives are very much clear
All requirements are well documented
Question # 10 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:
Which of the following is NOT one of the methodologies for Data Warehouse
project development?
Goal Driven
Data Driven
User Driven
System Driven (Page 283)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of data mining definition, the term "value" means
The primary key of table
Index location of the record
Importance of hidden patterns discovered (Page 250)
Numerical of string measure assigned to an attribute

Question # 2 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Data mining is all about
Knowledge discovery in database
Finding hidden patterns in data
Finding hidden relations in data
All of the given options (Page 249)

Question # 3 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of clustering, the term "distance" means
Similarity/dissimilarity of records (Page 272)
The difference between the primary keys of two records
The relation of a record with corresponding record in child table
None of the given options

Question # 4 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

We should follow a proper ____________ cycle to implement a change even if it
is smaller one.
Development -> QA -> Production (Page 314)
Production -> QA ->Development
Development -> Production -> QA
Production->Development -> QA
Question # 5 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:
For smooth DWH project implementation, one of the recommendations is to have:
Full time project manager assigned to the project (Page 318)
QA team ready for testing the code
Design of complete project before implementation
Components of complete project before implementation

Question # 6 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Normally it is recommended to have
Different servers for development and production environment
Same server for development and production environment
Interference while having different database environments on a single server
(Page 313)
All of the given options

Question # 7 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Identify the TRUE statement:
Clustering is unsupervised learning and classification is supervised
learning (Page 270)
Clustering is supervised learning and classification is unsupervised learning
Both clustering and classification are unsupervised learning
Both clustering and classification are supervised learning

Question # 8 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Mining multi-dimensional databases allow users to:
Categorize the data
Analyze the data
Summarize the data
All of the given options (Page 250)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Technical architecture design supports the communication about technical
requirements: I) within the team II) Upward to management III) Outward to
vendors
(I) only
(II) Only
(III) Only
(I), (II) and (III) (Page 300)
Question # 2 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:
Improper documentation results the problem(s) like:
Maintenance issue
New developers unable to configure already existing code (Page
314)
Lot of time required for enhancing the code
All of the given options

Question # 3 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In Four Cell Quadrant Technique, The quadrant's vertical axis refers to:
Scope
Feasibility
Resources available
The potential impact or value to the business (Page 297)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following activity executes parallel with all other activities in
Kimball’s DWH development approach?
Requirement elicitation
Project Planning
Project management (Page 289)
Deployment

Question # 5 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

“What means what”. The phrase refers to:
Meta data (Page 338)
External data
Transformed data
Internal representations

Question # 6 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is NOT one of the top-10 mistakes that should be avoided
during DWH development?
Not interacting directly with end user
Not being an accommodating person (Page 316)
Isolating IT support people from business users
Training the users with dummy data and considering it success
Question # 7 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:
In ___________ phase of kimballs approach, we identify the components needed
now and in future.
Requirement definition
Architectural design (Page 300)
Product development
Analytical application development

Question # 8 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of changed data capture
(CDC) technique?
Flat files are not required
Limited query interface is required for data extraction (Page
152)
No incremental on-line I/O required for log tape
Extraction of changed data occurs immediately

Question # 9 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

_____ technique requires a separate column to specify the time and date when the
last modification was occurred.
CheckMarks
TimeStamps (Page 150)
Just-In-Time
RealTime extraction

Question # 10 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Non uniform use of abbreviations, units and values refers to:
Syntactically dirty data (Page 160)
Semantically dirty data
Coverage anomaly
Extraction issue

Question # 1 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) process, data transformation _____
Takes place on the data warehouse server
Takes place on a separate transformation server (Page 147)
Depends on the nature of the source database
 Does not take place

Question # 2 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

If one or more records in a relational table do not satisfy one or more integrity
constraint, then the data:
Is syntactically dirty
Is semantically dirty (Page 160)
Has Coverage anomaly
Has extraction issue

Question # 3 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is not a task of Data Transformation?
Conversion
Summarization
Enrichment
Full Data Refresh (Page 135)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Robotic libraries are needed for ___________
Cubes
Data marts
Data warehouse (Page 131)
Aggregates

Question # 5 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Change Data Capture (CDC) can be challenging task because:
Aggregates don’t change in real time
Transformation of extracted data is difficult (Page 149)
Identifying the recently modified data may be difficult
Source systems may not support extraction of changed aggregates

Question # 6 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In case of multiple sources for the same data element, we need to prioritize the
source systems per element bases, the process is called:
Ranking (Page 143)
Prioritization
Element Selection
 Measurement Selection

Question # 7 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of Change Data Capture (CDC), sometimes a ____ object can be used
to store the recently modified data:
Buffer table
Change table (Page 149)
Checkmark table
Change control table

Question # 8 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is NOT one of the examples of dynamic attributes?
Daily Sale
Date of Birth cnfim not (Page 342)
Air pressure
None of the given options

Question # 9 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of requirement definition phase of Kimball’s DWH development
approach, ________ is positioned as a findings review and prioritization meeting.
System analysis
Scope definition
Requirement configuration
Requirements wrap-up presentation (Page 297)

Question # 10 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following activity/activities is/are part of project planning phase in
Kimballs DWH development approach?
Obtain resources
Establish the preliminary scope and justification
Assess organization's readiness for a data warehouse initiative
All of the given options (Page 290)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Goal driven approach of data warehouse development was result of ______ work
Bill Inmon
Ralph Kimball
 Böhnlein and Ulbrich-vom (Page 285)
Westerman

Question # 2 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In contrast to data mining, statistics is ______ driven.
Assumption
Knowledge
human (Page 255)
Database

Question # 3 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every year.
This increase is __________ .
Linear
Quadratic
Exponential (Page 15)
Logarithmic

Question # 4 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of requirement definition phase in Kimball’s DWH development
approach, activities like debriefing, documentation, and prioritization are
considered to be the part of:
Requirement preplanning
Business requirements collection
Post collection (Page 294)
None of the given options

Question # 5 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Users do not care, how advance the front end of your DWH is, what they care is
that:
Tables should be properly de-normalized
Proper partitioning technique should be used
At least star or snow flake schema should be implementing
They should get information in timely manner (Page 314)

Question # 6 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is NOT one of the activities of “Maintenance and Growth”
phase in Kimball’s DWH development approach?
Education
Technical education
Program Support
Interface Deployment (Page 309)

Question # 7 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is/are example(s) of static attributes?
Employee Name (Page 342)
Employee Date of Birth
Employee Blood Group
All of the given options

Question # 8 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Three parallel tracks in kimbal’s DWH development approach converge at
_______ Phase
Project planning
Business requirement definition
Deployment (Page 308)
Maintenance and growth

Question # 9 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which of the following is not a technique of "De-Normalization" ?
Pre-joining
Splitting Tables
Adding Redundant Columns
ER Modeling (Page 52)

Question # 10 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Which one of the following is not a technique of "Change Data Capture” in
currently used Modem Source Systems?
Timestamps
Partitioning
Triggers
Dimensional Modeling (Page 150)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

Normally the term "DWH face to the business user" refers to:
Lifecycles technology track
Lifecycle Data track
Lifecycle Analytical Applications track (Page 306)
Lifecycle Maintenance track

Question # 2 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

An effective user education program includes, among other, the following
guideline(s):
Understand the audience, don't overwhelm
Train after delivery of the data and analytic applications
Postpone education, if DWH not ready
All of the given options (Page 308)

Question # 3 of 10 (Total Marks: 1) Select correct option:

In context of analytical applications track, the application development activity
can begin after
Database Design is complete (Page 307)
A subset of historical data has been loaded
The data access tools and metadata are installed
All of the given options
Q u es ti o n N o : 1 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl ea s e ch o o s e o
ne
To identify the __________________ required we need to perform
data profiling
►Degree of Transformation (Page 437)
►Complexity
►Cost
►Time

Q u es ti o n N o : 2 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl ea s e ch o o s e o
ne
Companies collect and record their own operational data, but at the same time they also
use reference data obtained from _______ sources such as codes, prices etc.
►Operational
►None of these
►Internal
►External (Page 21)

Q u es ti o n N o : 3 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o
ne
Ad-hoc access means to run such queries which are
known already.
►True
►False (Page 18)

Q u es ti o n N o : 4 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o
ne
____________ in agriculture extension is that pest population beyond which the benefit
of spraying outweighs
its cost.
►Profit Threshold Level
►Economic Threshold Level (Page
332)
►Medicine Threshold Level
►None of these

Q u es ti o n N o : 5 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o n
e
People that design and build the data warehouse must be capable of working across the
organization at all levels
►True (Page 320)
►False

Q u es ti o n N o : 6 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o n
e
The _________ is only a small part in realizing the true business value buried within
the mountain of data collected and stored within organizations business systems and
operational databases.
►Independence on technology
►Dependence on technology (Page 320)
►None of these

Q u es ti o n N o : 7 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o n
e
Relational databases allow you to navigate the data in ____________ that is appropriate
using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.
► Only One Direction
► Any Direction (Page 19)
► Two Direction
► None of these

Q u es ti o n N o : 8 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o n
e
DSS queries do not involve a primary
key
► True (Page 21)
► False

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 0 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e o
ne
The need to synchronize data upon update is
called
► Data Manipulation
► Data Replication
► Data Coherency (Page 12)
► Data Imitation

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 1 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
Taken jointly, the extract programs or naturally evolving systems formed a spider
web, also known as
► Distributed Systems
Architecture
► Legacy Systems Architecture (Page 14)
► Online Systems
Architecture
► Intranet Systems
Architecture

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 2 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
Node of a B-Tree is stored in memory block and traversing a B-Tree involves
______ page faults.
► O (n)
► O (n2)
► O (n lg n)
► O (lg n) (Page 22)

Question No: 13 (Marks: 1) - Please choose

one
Which statement is true for De-
Normalization?
► Redundant data is a performance liability at query time, but is a performance
benefit at update time.
► Redundant data is a performance benefit at both query time and
update time.
► Redundant data is a performance liability at both query time and
update time.
► Redundant data is a performance benefit at query time, but is a performance liability
at update time.
(Page 51)

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 4 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with
____________ valued outcome.
►Discrete
►Isolated
►Continuous (Page 260)
►Distinct

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 5 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
The goal of ______is to look at as few block as possible to find the
matching records.
►Indexing (Page 222)
►Partitioning
►Joining
►none of these

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 6 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
The technique that is used to perform these feats in data mining modeling, and this act
of model building is
something that people have been doing for long time, certainly before the _______ of
computers or data mining
technology.
►Access Advent click for detail
►Ascent Avowal

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 7 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
De-Normalization normally speeds
up
► Data Retrieval (Page 51)
► Data Modification
► Development Cycle
► Data Replication

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 8 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
In horizontal splitting, we split a relation into multiple tables on
the basis of
► Common Column Values (Page 54)
► Common Row Values
► Different Index Values
► Value resulted by ad-hoc query

Q u es ti o n N o : 1 9 ( Ma r k s : 1 ) - Pl e a s e ch o o s e
one
For good decision making, data should be integrated across the organization to
cross the LoB (Line of Business). This is to give the total view of organization
from:
► Owner‟s Perspective
► Customer's Perspective (Page 16)
► Decision Maker‟s
Perspective
► Employee's Perspective

Question No: 20 (Marks: 1) - Please choose

one
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analysis of
past events provided by respective tools typical of ___________.
►OLTP
►OLAP
►Decision Support systems
►None of these

Question No : 24 ( Ma rks: 1 ) - Pleas e choo se one

DSS queries do not involve a primary
key
► True (Page21)
► False

Ques tion No : 25 ( Ma rks: 1 ) - Pleas e choo se one

__________________ contributes to an under-utilization of valuable and expensive
historical data, and inevitably results in a limited capability to provide decision
support and analysis.
► The lack of data in t eg rati on and standardization (Page
330)
► Missing Data
► Dat a S t o r ed i n Het e ro ge n eo u s S o u r
ces

Question No : 26 ( Ma rks: 1 ) - Pleas e choo se one

DTS allows us to connect through any data source or destination that is supported
by ____________
► OLE DB (Page 373)
► OLAP
► OLTP
► Data Warehouse

Question No : 29 ( Ma rks: 1 ) - Pleas e choo se

one
If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all transactions will
be rolled back. In this case when we will access the database we will find it in the state
that was before the ____________.
► Execu tion of pack age (Page419)
► Creation of package
► Connection of package

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose

one
The most recent attack is the ________ attack on the cotton crop during 2003- 04,
resulting in a loss of nearly
0.5 million bales.
►Boll Worm (Page 333)
►Purple Worm
►Blue Worm
►Cotton Worm

Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose

one
The users of data warehouse are knowledge workers in other words they are _________
in the organization.
►Decision maker (Page 18)
►Manager
►Database Administrator
►DWH Analyst

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in
a vault to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can
be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's _______.
►Validity Click here for detail
►Security
►Integrity
►None of above

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
Classification consists of examining the properties of a newly presented observation
and assigning it to a predefined ____________.
►Object
►Container
►Subject
►Class (Page 259)
Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
During business hours, most ______ systems should probably not use
parallel execution.
►OLAP
►DSS
►Data Mining
►OLTP (Page 206)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
In contrast to statistics, data mining is ______
driven.
►Assumption
►Knowledge (Page 254)
►Human
►Database

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with __________
valued outcome.
►Discrete
►Isolated
►Continuous (Page 260)
►Distinct

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the
matching records(s).
►Indexing (Page 222)
►Partitioning
►Joining
►None of above

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
An optimized structure which is built primarily for retrieval, with update being only a
secondary consideration
is
►OLTP
►OLAP
►DSS
►inverted Index (Page 232)
Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
Which of the following is not an "Orr's Law of Data Quality"?
►Data that is not used cannot be correct!"
►Data quality is a function of its use, not its collection
►Data will be no better than its most stringent use!"
►Data duplication can be harmful for the organization!"

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) (Page 181)

_______________, if too big and does not fit into memory, will be expensive when
used to find a record by given key.
►An Inverted Index
►A Sparse Index
►A Dense Index (Page 223)
►None of these

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
Which of the following is not an activity of Data Quality
Analysis Project?
►"Define"
►Measure"
►Analyze"
►"Compression" (Page 194)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of
past events provided by retrospective tools typical of ______________ .
►OLTP
►OLAP
►Decision Support Systems Click here for
detail
►None of these

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
Data mining, the ________ of hidden predictive information from large databases,
is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the
most important information in their data warehouses.
►Extraction Click here for detail
►Insertion
►Inclusion
►Enclosure

Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
If someone told you that he had a good model to predict customer usage, the first thing you
might try would be to ask him to apply his model to your customer _______, where you
already knew the answer.
►Base Click here for detail
►Drive
►File
►Log

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
Data mining uses _________ algorithms to discover patterns and
regularities in data.
►Mathematical
►Computational
►Statistical (Page 251)
►None of these

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1)
A data warehouse implementation without an OLAP tool is
always possible.
►True
►False (Page 69)
 Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
_____modeling technique is more appropriate for
data warehouses.
►entity-
relationship
►dimensional Click here
for detail
►physi
cal
►None of the
given

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
The performance in a MOLAP cube comes from the O(1) look-up time
for the array data structure.
►True (Page
79)
►Fal
se

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
Multi-dimensional databases (MDDs) typically use ___________ formats
to store pre-summarized cube structures.
►S
QL
►proprietary file
(Page 79)
►Object
oriented
►Non-
proprietary file

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
Slice and Dice is changing the
view of the data.
►Tr
ue
►False (Page
81)

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are _______
elements of decision support system.
►Unus
ual
►Essential (Page
69)
►Optio
nal
►None of the
given

Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
Virtual cube is used to query two similar cubes by creating a third "virtual" cube
by a join between two cubes.
►Tr
ue
►False (Page
86)

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a
r k s: 1)
Analytical processing uses ____________ , instead of
record level access.
►multi-level aggregates (Page
74)
►Single-level
aggregates
►Single-level
hierarchy
►None of the
Given

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k
s: 1)
The divide&conquer cube partitioning approach helps alleviate the
____________ limitations of MOLAP
►implementatio
n.
►Flexibility
►Maintainabilit
y
►Security
►Scalability (Page 85)

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k
s: 1)
In a traditional MIS system, there is an almost linear
sequence of queries.
►True (Page 72)
►False

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k
s: 1)
Data Warehouse provides the best support for analysis while OLAP carries
out the _________ task.
►Mandatory
►Whole
►Analysis (Page 69)
►Prediction

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
If each cell of Relation R contains a single value (no repeating values) then it
is confirmed that
 Relation R is in 1st Normal Form (Page
43)
Relation R is in 2nd Normal
Form
Relation R is in 3rd Normal
Form
Relation R is in 3rd Normal Form but not in 2nd
Normal Form

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
In contrast to data mining, statistics is ______
driven.
Assumption (Page 255)
Knowledge
Discovery
Database

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Which of the following is not a technique of „De-
Normalization‟?
Pre-joining
Splitting Tables
Adding Redundant
Columns
ER Modeling (Page 54)

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Which of the following is an example of
Additive Facts?
Sales Amount (Page 119)
Average
Discount
Ratios
2
0
Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct
option:
Which of the following is not technique of "changed data capture" in currently used
modem source system?
Timestamps
Partitioning
Triggers
Dimensional modeling (Page 150)

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of
past events provided
by _____________ tools typical of decision support
systems.
Introspective
Intuitive
Reminiscent
Retrospective Click here for detail

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. When the entire table is
scanned it is called
Index nested-loop join
Naive nested-loop join (Page 243)
Temporary index nested-loop join
None of these

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct option:

The relation R will be in 2nd Normal Form if

it is in 1NF and each cell contains single value

it is in 1NF and each non key attribute is dependent upon entire primary key
(Page 44)
it is in 1NF and each non key attribute dependent upon a single column of composite
primary key.
it is in 1NF and Primary Key is composite.

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct option:

Which one of the following is not data quality validation
technique?
Using data quality Rules
Data Histograming
Indexes (Page 189)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Which of the following is not a technique of Data
Mining?
Estimation
Prediction
Clustering
Normalization (Page 259)

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The STAR schema used for data design is a __________ consisting of fact and
dimension tables.
►Network odel
►Relational model (Page 87)
►Hierarchical data model
►None of the given

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
DOLAP allows download of "cube" structures to a desktop platform with the need for
shared relational or cube server.
►True
►False (Page 78)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

 option:
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join, if there is an index is
exploited, then it is called……
►Naïve nested loop join
►index nested loop join (Page 243)
►temporary index nested loop
join
►none of these

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Data mining is a/an ______ approach , where browsing through data using mining
techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information
that was unknown previously.
►Non-Exploratory
►Exploratory (Page
249)
►Compute Science
►none of these

22
Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct
option:
Pre-join technique is used to
avoid
► Run time join (Page 58)
► Compile time join
► Load time join

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Cube is a __________ entity containing values of a certain fact at a certain aggregation
level at an intersection of a combination of dimensions.
► Logical (Page 88)
► Physical
► Analytical
► None of these

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The goal of star schema design is to simplify
________
► Logical data model
► Physical data model (Page 107)
► Conceptual data model
► None of these

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Grain is the ________ level of data stored in the
warehouse.
► Atomic (Page 111)
► Summarized
► Aggregated
► Cube

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Transactional fact tables do not have records for events that do not occur.
These are called
► Not Recording Facts (Page 120)
► Fact-less Facts
► Null Facts
► None of these

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
A ________ dimension is a collection of random transactional codes, flags and/text
attributes that are unrelated to any particular dimension. The ______ dimension is
simply a structure that provides a convenient place to store the ______ attributes.
► Junk (Page 127)
► Time
► Parallel
► None of these

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
During ETL process of an organization, suppose you have data which can be
transformed using any of the transformation method. Which of the following strategy
will be your choice for least complexity?
► One-to-One Scalar Transformation
(Page 144)
► One-to-Many Element
Transformation
► Many-to-Many Element
Transformation
► Many-to-One Element
Transformation

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Change Data Capture is one of the challenging technical issues in
_____________
► Data Extraction (Page
149)
► Data Loading
► Data
 Transformation
► Data Cleansing

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Rearranging the grouping of source data, delivering it to the destination database, and
ensuring the quality of data are crucial to the process of loading the data warehouse.
Data ____________ is vitally important to the overall health of a warehouse project.
1. Cleansing
2. Cleaning
3. Scrubbing
Which of the following options is
true?
► Option 1 only (Page
158)
► Option 2 only
► Option 1 & 2
only
► Option 1, 2 & 3

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
When performing objective assessments, companies follow a set of principles to
develop metrics specific to their needs, there is hard to have "one size fits all"
approach. Which of the following statement represents the pervasive functional forms?
► Simple Ratio, Min or Max Operation, Weighted Average
(Page 186)
► Only Complex Ratio, Min Operation,
Max Operation
► Only Simple Ratio, Min or Max
Operation
► Only Min or Max Operation,
Weighted Average

Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The input to the data warehouse can come from OLTP or transactional system but not
from other third party database.
 ► True (Page 19)
► False

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Normalization effects
performance
► True
► False

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Collapsing tables can be done on the ___________
relationships
► One-to-One
► Many-to-Many
► Both One-to-One and Many-to-Many (Page
52)
► None of these

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
_________ breaks a table into multiple tables based upon common
column values.
► Horizontal splitting (Page 54)
► Vertical splitting

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
If w is the window size and n is the size of data set, then the complexity of merging
phase in BSN method
is___________
► O (n)
► O (w)
► O (w n) (Page 171)
► O (w log n)

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Data Warehouse is about taking / collecting data from different
________ sources:
► Harmonized
► Identical
► Homogeneous
►Heterogeneous (Page 21)

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
______ is class of Decision Support
Environment.
► OLTP
► OLAP (Page 30)
► DBMS
► Network

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
For a relation to be in 4NF it must be:-
► In 2NF if and only if it is in first normal form and all nonkey attributes are fully
functionally dependent on the key.
► In 3NF and every non-key column is non-transitively dependent upon
its primary key.
► In 3NF and every non-key column is non-transitively dependent upon
its Foreign key.
► In 3NF and It does not have multi valued dependencies (Page
48)

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Horizontal splitting breaks a table into multiple tables based
upon_______
► Common Row values
► Range of Data.
► Redundant data.
► Common column values. (Page 54)
Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct
option:
D-Normalization speeds up______
► Data Retrieval (Page 51)
► Data Duplication
► Data Extraction
► Data Loading

Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The most common use of range partitioning is on
______.
► Date (Page 66)
► Rows
► DSS
► None of these

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The fact table is a way of visualizing as an
_____cube
► Rolled Up
► Un-rolled (Page 87)
► Rolled Down
► None of these

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
High Granularity, more ________.
► Details Click here for detail
► Dimensions
► Aggregates
► Cubes

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Transactional fact tables do not have records for events that do not occur.
These are called
► Not Recording Facts (Page 120)
► Fact-less Facts
► Null Facts
► None of these

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Cubes not drilled down is, It is a ______.
► Data Mart
► DWH
► DOLAP
► None of these

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Full & Incremental Extraction are the types of _____________
Extraction
► Logical (Page 132)
► Physical
► Both Logical & Physical
► None of Above

Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Selectivity is low in _____
environment.
► DWH (Page 22)
► DBMS
► OLTP
► None of Above

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Normalization effects performance
► True
► False
Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct
option:
MOLAP physically builds "cubes" for direct access in a multi-dimensional database
(MDD) Therefore _______is not supported.
► One-to-One
► Facts
► ANSI SQL (Page 78)
► Dimensions
► None of these

Question # 5 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The users of data warehouse are knowledge workers in other words they are
_________ in the organization.
► Decision maker (Page 18)
► Manager
► Database Administrator
► DWH Analyst

Question # 6 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
In _________ system, the contents change with
time.
Select correct option:
►OLTP (Page 20)
►ATM
►DSS
►OLAP

Question # 7 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
The growth of master files and magnetic tapes exploded around the
mid- _______.
Select correct option:
►1950s.
►1960s. (Page 12)
►1970s.
►1980s.

Question # 8 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Naturally Evolving architecture occurred when an organization had a _______ approach
to handling the whole process of hardware and software architecture.
►Relaxed (Page 14)
►Good
►Not Relaxed
►None

Question # 9 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
________ gives total view of an
organization
►OLAP
►OLTP
►Data Warehouse (Page 16)
►Database

Question # 10 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every year. This
increase is __________ .
►Linear
►Quadratic
►Exponential (Page 15)
►logarithmic

Question # 1 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
_______ is an application of information and
data.
►Knowledge (Page 11)
►Intelligence
►Power
►Education
Question # 2 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct
option:
A single database, couldn’t serve both operational high performance transaction
processing and DSS, analytical processing, all at the same time.
►True (Page 13)
►False

Question # 3 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
B-Tree is used as an index to provide access to
records
►Without scanning the entire table (Page
22)
►By scanning the entire meta data
►By scanning the entire table
►None of these

Question # 4 of 10 (Total M a r k s: 1) Select correct

option:
in agriculture extension is that pest population beyond which the benefit of
spraying outweighs levels
►True (Page 332)
►False