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The document contains questions and responses related to data warehousing concepts. It discusses topics like the advantages and disadvantages of top-down approaches, the differences between data warehouses and data marts, project planning deliverables, data extraction issues, OLAP applications, the purpose of data mining, predictive modeling, responsibilities of a data warehouse administrator, issues related to data warehouse planning, and the concept of agile methodology.

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Asm654 Test Revision Muhammad Hanafi

The document contains questions and responses related to data warehousing concepts. It discusses topics like the advantages and disadvantages of top-down approaches, the differences between data warehouses and data marts, project planning deliverables, data extraction issues, OLAP applications, the purpose of data mining, predictive modeling, responsibilities of a data warehouse administrator, issues related to data warehouse planning, and the concept of agile methodology.

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PART A

QUESTION 1

a) 3 advantages and disadvantages of top-down approach

Advantages

 More stable
 Accurate at the aggregate level
 Achieves synergy among subject areas

Disadvantages

 High exposure/risk to failure


 Needs high level of cross-functional skills
 High outlay without proof of concept

b) Business Intelligence

The business intelligence is technologies, applications and practice for the collection,
integration, analysis and presentation of business information to support better business
decision making.

c) The difference between data warehouse and data marts :

Data warehouse

A Data Warehouse is a large repository of data collected from different organizations or


departments within a corporation. It helps to take a strategic decision.

Data Mart

A data mart is an only subtype of a Data Warehouse. It is designed to meet the need of a
certain user group. It helps to take tactical decisions for the business.

QUESTION 2

a) 4 deliverables of project planning:

 Provide goals and objectives


 Provide expectations and business information during preliminary survey
 Grant active top management support
 Initiate project as executive sponsor
b)

QUESTION 3

Time Product Outlet Staff


timeID productID outletID staffID
date productname outletname staffname
month productdescription outletaddress position
quarter staffaddress
yearly gender
age
staffemail
telephoneMo
Metrics sales revenue, total highest sales
QUESTION 4

a) 6 data extraction issues:

 Source identification
 Method of extraction
 Extraction frequency
 Time window
 Job sequencing
 Exception handling

b) 2 OLAP applications in Sales and Marketing

Sales:
 Sales analysis and sales forecasting

Marketing:
 Market research analysis, sales forecasting, promotion analysis, customer
analysis, and market/customer segmentation

QUESTION 5

a) Purpose of data mining:

 The tool identifies the hypothesis, and it actually tells the user where in the
data to start the exploration process.
 To yield new business information that a business person can act on

b) i) Predictive modelling

 ii) Predictive modelling is similar to the human learning experience which


uses observations to form a model of the important characteristics of some
phenomenon. Classification is used to establish a specific predetermined
class for each record in a database from a finite set of possible, class values.
It uses observations to form a model of the important characteristics of some
phenomenon. Besides that it can also analyse a database to determine
essential characteristics (model) about the data set.

c) a)Explain the responsibility of data warehouse administrator during data warehouse


maintenance stage.

 •Review the testing process and suggest recommendations.


 •Review the goals and accomplishments of the pilots.
 •Survey the methods used in the initial training sessions.
 •Verify the results of the initial deployment, matching these with user
expectations.
QUESTION 7

a) 4 issues related to data warehouse planning

 Value and expectations


 Risk assessments
 Top-down or bottom-up
 Build or buy

b) Concept of Agile Methodology:

QUESTION 8

The type of requirement gathering methods suitable for the company is group discussion.
Since the company have giving out the list name of the expert users, might as well having
group sessions to confirm the requirements in the company.

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