Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Assignment No-1
Programme: MCA Semester: IV Paper Code: MCA 204 Academic Year: 2019-20
Max. Marks:20
Course Objectives: At the end of the course students will able to:
1. To provide students with in-depth knowledge, advanced skills and understanding in the
areas of Data Warehousing and Data Mining and to develop them into professional s in the areas of
Information Management, ‘Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems’, potentially working
in a wide range of application areas. (Knowledge Based Learning)
2. To provide underpinning knowledge understanding and skills in the areas of data mining
algorithms which underpin the Knowledge Discovery enterprise.(Analytical and application based
learning)
3. To provide students with high level analytical and operational skills in the use of state of
the art software for KD/DM and DW/DSS, based on understanding of basic principles and the use of
real world case studies.(Comprehension and application based learning)
4. To provide students with independent exploratory and research skills, linked with
abilities to synthesise, integrate and critically analyse and compare all features of the KD/BI/DW area.
(Synthesis and evolution based learning)
Course Outcomes:
1. Understanding design , modeling techniques and architectures for building, deploying and
managing data warehouses, data mining, data visualisation and Data mining technologies
(Achieve course objective 1 and 3)
2. Analyse, design, build and deploy data warehousing systems using a variety of current
application technologies and architectures (Achieve course objective 2 and 4)
3. Critically evaluate existing and emerging technologies in terms of their suitability for DW
software development purposes. (Achieve course objective 2 and 4)
4. Plan, design and deploy the necessary data mining technologies to support a software
system. (Achieve course objective 3 and 4)
5. Abstract essential information from unstructured sources to understand the technology at
a sufficient level to be able to keep themselves up to date and converse with computing
professionals. (Achieve course objective 3 and 4)
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Relevant
S. No. Questions Course
Outcomes
Name at least five pioneer organizations in dataware house industry
1. CO1
Enumerate the popular dataware house products available and being used in
2. CO1
industry
Do we have open source products available for the same, if so name them
3. CO2
You are the IT Director of a nationwide insurance company. Write a memo to the
4. Executive Vice President explaining the types of opportunities that can be realized CO1 & CO2
with readily available strategic information.
For an airlines company, how can strategic information increase the number of
5. frequent flyers? Discuss giving specific details. CO1& CO3
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Assessment Criterion for Written Assignment
Note: Student can earn 80 points in total across 4 parameters (20 each in Knowledge of fundamentals, Enquiry
Based Learning, Understanding/ Critical Thinking and Appl. Of Theory) which will be divided by 4. For example,
if a student earns 64 points then his assignment marks will be 64/4=16 out of 20.