Assignment Questions for

Group: 1
Short Answer Questions
1. List any five applications of Data Warehouse.
2. What does the subject oriented data warehouse signifies?
3. Explain Warehouse Manager.
4. Define Metadata.
5. What does the Query Manager responsible for?
6. List the process that are involved in Data Warehousing.
7. What kind of costs is involved in Data Marting?
8. What are the reasons for partitioning?
9. Define functions of Warehouse Manager.
10.Which language is used for defining Schema Definition?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. Explain Data granularity in Data Warehouse.
2. Explain with reference to Data Warehouse: Data inconsistencies are
removed; data from diverse operational applications is integrated.
3. Write the difference between time-series databases and sequence databases.
4. What are the advantages of Star Schema? Explain.
5. What are the various Star Schema Keys? Explain With the help of an
example.

Case Study Question

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amt (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment_type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 2
Short Answer Questions:
1. What is the benefit of Normalization?
2. Explain Load Manager.
3. What is data Cube?
4. What do you mean by Data Extraction?
5. List the phases involved in Data warehouse delivery Process.
6. Out of Star Schema and Snowflake Schema, the dimension table is
normalised?
7. What is Normalization?
8. List the functions of data warehouse tools and utilities.
9. What does Meta Data Respiratory contains?
10.How many fact tables are there in Star Schema?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. Compare and contrast data warehouse and data mart. Also specify the
reasons for creating the data mart.
2. Write about the multidimensional data model. Explain, how is it used in data
warehousing?
3. Discuss about the typical OLAP operations on multidimensional data with
an example.
4. Explain in detail about the architecture and implementation of data
warehouse.
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Top-Down Approach and
Bottom-Up Approach for data warehouse design?

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time, doctor and
patient, and the two measures count, and charge where charge is the fee that a
doctor charges a patient for a visit. Enumerate and draw all the schema diagrams.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 3
Short Answer Questions:
1. How many dimensions are selected in dice operation?
2. State the need of data cleaning.
3. How many dimensions are selected in Slice operation?
4. List the functions performed by OLAP?
5. Which one is faster Multidimensional OLAP or Relational OLAP?Justify.
6. List the types of OLAP server.
7. Define the function of Load Manager?
8. What is Summary Information?
9. What is Virtual Warehouse?
10.Explain Data mart?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. How is a data warehouse differing from data base? How are they similar?
2. Discuss (i) Various methods for data cleaning. (ii) Various strategies for data
reduction.
3. What is a multiprocessor architecture? List and discuss the steps involved in
mapping a data warehouse to a multiprocessor architecture.
4. What is business analysis? List and discuss the basic features that are
provided by reporting and query tools used for business analysis.
5. Giving the suitable examples, describe the various multi-dimensional
schema.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amt (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment_type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 4
Short Answer Questions:
1. Define Dimension?
2. How does a Data Cube help?
3. What is the very basic difference between data warehouse and Operational
Databases?
4. List the Schema that Data Warehouse System implements.
5. What is multi-dimensional database?
6. List the three important issues that have to address during data integration.
7. What is data Transformation? Give example.
8. Classify OLAP tools.
9. State why data processing is an important issue for data warehouse and data
mining.
10.Define Metadata.

Descriptive type Questions:

1. With a neat sketch explain the architecture of data warehousing.
2. Explain the types of OLAP server.
3. Explain the data model which is suitable for data warehouse with examples.
4. Discuss the typical OLAP operation with an example.
5. Distinguish the features bet-ween OLTP and OLAP.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time, doctor and
patient, and the two measures count, and charge where charge is the fee that a
doctor charges a patient for a visit. Enumerate and draw all the schema diagrams.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 5
Short Answer Questions:
1. What is data Transformation? Give example.
2. State why data processing is an important issue for data warehouse and data
mining.
3. Define Metadata.
4. Define factless fact table with an example.
5. How can the data warehouse data can be accessed efficiently?
6. What is the use of back end process in data warehouse design?
7. Mention the two types of tables involved in producing a star schema and the
type of data they hold.
8. Give reason, why it is necessary to separate data warehouse from operational
database.
9. Differentiate between Data Warehouse and Data Mart.
10.What do you understand by information packages?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. What are the characteristics of the OLTP and the basic data warehouse
environments as they relate to information delivery needs?
2. There are mainly two models of OLAP ROLAP and MOLAP. State the
characteristics of these two models of OLAP.
3. List and explain activities of ETL process.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Top-Down Approach and
Bottom-Up Approach for data warehouse design?
5. With a neat sketch explain the architecture of data warehousing.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amt (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment_type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 6
Short Answer Questions:
1. What is the benefit of Normalization?
2. Explain Load Manager.
3. What is data Cube?
4. What do you mean by Data Extraction?
5. List the phases involved in Data warehouse delivery Process.
6. Out of Star Schema and Snowflake Schema, the dimension table is
normalised?
7. What is Normalization?
8. List the functions of data warehouse tools and utilities.
9. What does Meta Data Respiratory contains?
10.How many fact tables are there in Star Schema?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. Compare and contrast data warehouse and data mart. Also specify the
reasons for creating the data mart.
2. Write about the multidimensional data model. Explain, how is it used in data
warehousing?
3. Discuss about the typical OLAP operations on multidimensional data with
an example.
4. Explain in detail about the architecture and implementation of data
warehouse.
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Top-Down Approach and
Bottom-Up Approach for data warehouse design?

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time, doctor and
patient, and the two measures count, and charge where charge is the fee that a
doctor charges a patient for a visit. Enumerate and draw all the schema diagrams.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 7
Short Answer Questions:
1. How many dimensions are selected in dice operation?
2. State the need of data cleaning.
3. How many dimensions are selected in Slice operation?
4. List the functions performed by OLAP?
5. Which one is faster Multidimensional OLAP or Relational OLAP?Justify.
6. List the types of OLAP server.
7. Define the function of Load Manager?
8. What is Summary Information?
9. What is Virtual Warehouse?
10.Explain Data mart?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. How is a data warehouse differing from data base? How are they similar?
2. Discuss (i) Various methods for data cleaning. (ii) Various strategies for data
reduction.
3. What is a multiprocessor architecture? List and discuss the steps involved in
mapping a data warehouse to a multiprocessor architecture.
4. What is business analysis? List and discuss the basic features that are
provided by reporting and query tools used for business analysis.
5. Giving the suitable examples, describe the various multi-dimensional
schema.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amount (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 8
Short Answer Questions:
1. Define Dimension.
2. How does a Data Cube help?
3. What is the very basic difference between data warehouse and Operational
Databases?
4. List the Schema that Data Warehouse System implements.
5. What is multi-dimensional database?
6. List the three important issues that have to address during data integration.
7. What is data Transformation? Give example.
8. Classify OLAP tools.
9. State why data processing is an important issue for data warehouse and data
mining.
10.Define Metadata.

Descriptive type Questions:

1. With a neat sketch explain the architecture of data warehousing.
2. Explain the types of OLAP server.
3. Explain the data model which is suitable for data warehouse with examples.
4. Discuss the typical OLAP operation with an example.
5. Distinguish the features bet-ween OLTP and OLAP.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time, doctor and
patient, and the two measures count, and charge where charge is the fee that a
doctor charges a patient for a visit. Enumerate and draw all the schema diagrams.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 9
Short Answer Questions:
1. What is data Transformation? Give example.
2. State why data processing is an important issue for data warehouse and data
mining.
3. Define Metadata.
4. Define factless fact table with an example.
5. How can the data warehouse data can be accessed efficiently?
6. What is the use of back end process in data warehouse design?
7. Mention the two types of tables involved in producing a star schema and the
type of data they hold.
8. Give reason, why it is necessary to separate data warehouse from operational
database.
9. Differentiate between Data Warehouse and Data Mart.
10.What do you understand by information packages?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. What are the characteristics of the OLTP and the basic data warehouse
environments as they relate to information delivery needs?
2. There are mainly two models of OLAP ROLAP and MOLAP. State the
characteristics of these two models of OLAP.
3. List and explain activities of ETL process.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Top-Down Approach and
Bottom-Up Approach for data warehouse design?
5. With a neat sketch explain the architecture of data warehousing.

Case Study Question:

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amt (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment_type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.
 Assignment Questions for
Group: 10
Short Answer Questions
1. List any five applications of Data Warehouse.
2. What does the subject oriented data warehouse signifies?
3. Explain Warehouse Manager.
4. Define Metadata.
5. What does the Query Manager responsible for?
6. List the process that are involved in Data Warehousing.
7. What kind of costs is involved in Data Marting?
8. What are the reasons for partitioning?
9. Define functions of Warehouse Manager.
10.Which language is used for defining Schema Definition?

Descriptive type Questions:

1. Explain Data granularity in Data Warehouse.
2. Explain with reference to Data Warehouse: Data inconsistencies are
removed; data from diverse operational applications is integrated.
3. Write the difference between time-series databases and sequence databases.
4. What are the advantages of Star Schema? Explain.
5. What are the various Star Schema Keys? Explain With the help of an
example.

Case Study Question

Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer, product, sales
person and sales time, and the three measures Sales Amount (in rupees), VAT (in
rupees) and Payment type (in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that
are popularly used for modeling data warehouses.