ANNAI MIRA COLLEGE OF ENGINERRING TECHNOLOGY

DEPATMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

QUESTION BANK

SUBJECT CODE: CCS341

SUBJECT NAME: DATA WAREHOUSING
BRANCH: CSE
YEAR/SEM: III/VI
PREPARED BY: J SAVITHIRI AP/CSE
UNIT-1 INTRODUCTION TO DATA WAREHOUSE

PART-A(2MARKS)

1. What is Data warehousing?

2. How is a data warehouse different from database? How they are similar? APR/MAY’2017
3. What is data discretization? APR/MAY’2017
4. List the distinct features of OLTP with OLAP. APR/MAY’2017
5. What are the different tools used for the data warehousing?
6. Why data warehousing is needed?
7. Enlist the component of data warehousing?
8. In the context of data warehousing what is data transformation? (May/June 2009)
9. Differentiate fact table and dimension table
10. Briefly discuss the schemas for multidimensional databases. (May/June 2010)
11. How is a data warehouse different from a database? How are they similar? (Nov/Dec 2007,
Nov/Dec 2010, May/June 2012)
12. What are the uses of operational database?
13. What are the benefits of data warehousing?
14. What are the sources of data warehousing?
15. Enlist the types of data warehouse architecture.
16. Write a characteristics of data warehousing.
17. Enlist the data warehouse tools?
18. Write about advantages & disadvantages of data warehouse?
19. Explain about data staging component?
20. Comparison of database vs data warehouse?
21. Write a short note on data warehouse architecture?
22. Write a principles of Data warehousing?
23. Explain about three-tier architecture?
24. Explain about top-down & bottom-up approach?
25. What is autonomous Data warehouse?
26. Define modern data warehouse?
27. Write a key features of modern data warehouse? \
28. What is snowflake schema?
29. Write a benefits of Snowflake schema?
30. Write a drawbacks of snowflake schema?
31. What is Data mart?
32. What is data warehouse metadata?
33. List out the logical steps needed to build a Data warehouse.
34. Write down the applications of data warehousing.
35. What are the applications of querying tools?
36. What are the technologies included in data warehousing?

PART-B&C

37. Draw the data

warehouse architecture
and explain its
components.
38.2. Explain the
typical OLAP operations
and compare OLAP
with OLTP.
39.3. Explain the three
tier data warehousing
architecture and its
features in detail
40. Draw the data
warehouse architecture
 and explain its
components.
41.2. Explain the
typical OLAP operations
and compare OLAP
with OLTP.
42.3. Explain the three
tier data warehousing
architecture and its
features in detail
1. Explain the 3-tier data warehouse architecture and its various components.APR/MAY2018
2. Explain mapping data warehouse with multi processor architecture with the concept of
parallelism and data partitioning.APR/MAY’2017
3. What are the different components of data warehouse explain in detail.
4. Explain different types of data warehouse architectures in detail.
5. Differentiate between operational database vs data warehouse.
6. Explain in detail autonomous data warehouse.
7. Explain difference between the autonomous data warehouse & modern data warehouse.
8. Explain in detail data warehouse architecture.
9. Define data warehouse. Explain importance of data warehouse.
10. Explain in details different types of data warehouse tools.
11. Explain source data component and data stagging component.
12. Explain about history of DWH?
13. Write a steps to implement data warehouse?
14. Write a notes on management & control component?
15. Explain in detail about snowflake schema.
16. List and discuss the steps involved in building a data warehouse.
17. Give detailed information about Meta data in data warehousing
 18. Explain the role played by sourcing, acquisition, clean up and transformation tools in data
warehousing. (May/June 2013)
19. Explain about the working principle of data warehouse
20. Write down the goals involved in data warehouse

Mark Range PART- A PART-B&C

Question No.
50- 59 1-20 1-8
60-79 1-25 1-15
Above 80 All the above All the above

UNIT-2 ETL AND OLAP TECHNOLOGY

PART-A
1. Explain ETL .
2. What is Extract in ETL?
3. What is Transform?
4. What is Load?
5. List out advantages of ETL.
6. What is top -down design approach?
7. What is bottom-up approach?
8. What is data modelling life cycle?
9. Explain about ETL process?
10. Illustrate a figure of pipelining of ETL process?
11. List out disadvantages of ETL process?
12. Comparison of ETL vs ELT.
13. Enlist the types of data warehouse?
14. What is data warehouse design?
15. Write an approach involved in DWH design?
16. Differentiate between Top-down & Bottom-up approach.
17. What is OLAP?
18. What is delivery process in data warehouse?
19. Write a guidelines of OLAP?
20. Explain the characteristics of OLAP?
21. Comparison of OLAP vs OLTP.
22. What is OLAP operations?
23. Write the types of OLAP?
24. Comparison of ROLAP and MOLAP.
25. Explain about data warehouse modelling?
26. List out advantages and disadvantage of OLAP?
27. List out the OLAP operations?
28. Comparison of ROLAP vs MOLAP vs HOLAP.
29. List out the other type of OLAP.
30. Write some listed types existing in the OLAP industries
31. What is ROLAP , HOLAP and MOLAP
32. List out advantages and disadvantage of MOLAP?
 33. List out advantages and disadvantage of HOLAP?
34. List out advantages and disadvantage of ROLAP?
35. Write about data cube
36. Write about WOLAP, DOLAP,SOLAP.
37. List any four tools for performing OLAP. (Nov/Dec 2013)
PART-B&C
1. Explain in detail ETL and ETL process with neat diagram.
2. Write down the OLAP operations and its types.
3. Compare ETL vs ELT.
4. What are types of data warehouse? Discuss with detail.
5. Compare ROLAP, HOLAP and MOLAP.
6. Explain detail about delivery process in data warehousing.
7. Explain Write down advantages and disadvantages of ETL process.
8. Explain data modeling life cycle.
9. Differentiate OLAP vs OLTP.
10. Write down of ETL process.
11. Explain OLAP.
12. Explain in detail about data warehouse design.
13. Explain about types of OLAP.
14. Comparison of ROLAP vs MOLAP
15. Explain detail about data warehouse modelling.
16. Differentiate between Top-down & Bottom-up approach.
17. Explain Top-down approach and Bottom-up approach
18. Describe the given topic
(1) WOLAP
(2) DOLAP
(3) SOLAP

PART- A PART-B
Mark Range Question No.
50- 59 1-20 1-10
60-79 1-25 1-12
Above 80 All the above All the above

UNIT-3 META DATA , DATA MART AND PARTITION STRATEGY

PART-A
1. What is meta data?
2. What is data mart?
3. What involves in designing of data mart?
4. What is partitioning?
5. What is vertical partition?
6. What is normalization?
7. What is horizontal partition?
8. Explain about categories of meta data?
9. Write about roles of metadata?
10. What is metadata repository?
11. Write the uses of meta data repository?
12. Explain about cost efficient data mart?
13. Comparison of data mart vs data ware house?
14. What is partition strategy?
15. List out the advantages & disadvantages of vertical partitioning?
16. List out the advantages & disadvantages of normalization?
17. What is row splitting?
18. Write the advantages & disadvantages of row splitting?
19. Comparison of normalization & row splitting.
20. Comparison of Horizontal & Vertical partition.
21. Write down the challenges of Meta management
22. Explain about cost data mart?
23. List out the advantages & disadvantages of horizontal partitioning?
24. Explain about operational meta data.
25. Explain about technical meta data.
26. Explain about business meta data.
27. What are the necessary reason to perform the partition.
28. What are the characteristics of data mart.
29. List out the advantages & disadvantages of data mart?
30. List out the advantages & disadvantages of meta data?
PART-B&C
1. Explain categories of meta data.
2. Explain data mart VS data warehouse.
3. Explain partition strategy and its types.
4. Write down the advantages and disadvantages of vertical partitioning.
5. Explain normalization. Give the advantages and disadvantages of normalization .
6. Detail discuss about vertical and partitioning.
7. Comparison of normalization and row splitting.
8. Comparison of horizontal and vertical partition.
9. Explain briefly about roles of meta data.
10. Explain in detail about meta data repository.
11. Explain data mart.
12. Explain about partitioning.
13. Explain about vertical partitioning and horizontal partitioning.
14. Explain detail about cost efficient data mart?
15. Explain detail about cost data mart?
16. Write down the challenges of Meta management
17. Write down the advantages & disadvantages of data mart?
18. Write down the advantages & disadvantages of meta data?
19. Explain row splitting?

PART- A PART-B
Mark Range Question No.
50- 59 1-15 1-9
60-79 1-25 1-15
Above 80 All the above All the above
 UNIT 4 DIMENSIONAL MODELING AND SCHEMA
PART-A

1) Write the key principles of Dimensional modeling?

2) Discuss the various types of warehouse schema with suitable example. (Nov/Dec’09)
3) What do you understand about database schemas? Explain. (Nov/Dec 2011)
4) Distinguish STAR join and STAR index.
5) Differentiate fact table and dimension table. (May/June 2010)
6) Briefly discuss the schemas for multidimensional databases. (May/June 2010)
7) Explain the differences between star and snowflake schema. (Nov/Dec 2008)
8) What are the objectives of dimensional modeling?
9) What are the elements in dimensional data model?
10) Draw the steps of dimensional modeling?
11) What are the key components of multi-dimensional data modeling ?
12) Define data cube?
13) What is star schema?
14) What are the features of star schema?
15) Write the advantages and disadvantages of star schema?
16) Explain snowflake schema?
17) Write a features of snowflake schema?
18) What are the advantages and disadvantages of snowflake schema?
19) Compare and contrast star schema and snowflake schema?
20) Define fact constellation schema?
21) General structure of fact constellation schema?
22) What are the features of fact constellation schema?
23) What are the advantages and disadvantages of fact constellation schema?
24) What are the types of process architecture?
25) Define centralized process architecture?
26) What are the benefits of centralized process architecture?
27) What is distributed architecture?
28) What are the benefits of distributed process architecture?
29) What are the type of data base parallelism?
30) What is datawarehouse tools?
31) Write the example of fact constellation schema?
32) What are the two main types of tables in dimensional modeling?
33) Define surrogate keys.
34) Write the example of multi dimensional data modeling.
35) Define data granularity.
36) Define dimensional modeling ?

1) Explain the key principles of dimensional modeling.

PART-B

2) Explain in detail about star schema and snowflake schema.

3) Suppose that a data warehouse consists of four dimensions customer,product, salesperson
and sales time, and the three measure sales Amount (in rupees), VAT (in rupees) and
payment type(in rupees). Draw the different classes of schemas that are popularly used for

4) Discuss the objectives of dimensional modeling.

modeling data warehouses and explain it.

5) Design a star-schema , snow-flake schema and fact- constellation schema for the data
warehouse that consists of the following four dimensions (Time, Item, Branch And

6) Explain elements of dimensional data model.

Location). Include the appropriate measures required for the schema.(15)
7) Explain details steps of dimensional modeling.
8) PART- A PART-B
Mark Range
Question No.
50- 59 1-20 1-12
60-79 1-25 1-16
Above 80 All the above All the above

9) Explain key components of multi-dimensional data modeling.

Explain multi-dimensional data modeling.

10) Explain data cube.

11) Explain the types of process architecture.
12) Discuss fact constellation schema.
13) Comparison of star schema and snowflake schema.
14) Explain dimensional modeling.
15) Explain detailed about schema.
16) Define datawarehouse tools.
17) (i) Generalize the potential performance problems with star schema. (6)

18) Explain mapping data warehouse with multiprocessor architecture with the concept of
(ii) Design and discuss about the star and snowflake schema models of a Data warehouse

19) Explain Star Schema model for e-wallet and Explain the same with diagram.(15)
parallelism and data partitioning. (15)

20) 1. Design a multidimensional cube with your own example. (5)

2. Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the four dimensions date,spectator, location,
and game, and the two measures count and charge, where charge is the fare that a
spectator pays when watching a game on a given date spectators may be students, adults,
or seniors, with each category having its own charge rate.
i. Draw a star schema diagram for the data warehouse. (5)
ii. Starting with a base cuboid [date, spectator, location, game], what specific OLAP
operations should one perform in order to list the total charge paid by student spectators at

21) Illustrate and criticize the various multidimensional data modeling to design a data
GM_Place in 2000? (5)

warehouse .

UNIT-5
SYSTEM AND PROCESS MANAGERS

1
PART-A

2
Explain in short system configuration manager.

3
Explain in short system scheduling manager.

4
Explain in short system event manager.

5
Explain in short system database manager.
Explain in short system backup recovery manager.
6 Explain in short load manager.
7 Explain in short warehouse manager.
8 Explain in short query manager.
9 What is testing?
10 What is tuning?
11 Define warehouse manager architecture.
12 What are the key responsibilities of data warehousing system managers.
13 Write the key responsibilities of system configuration manager
14 Explain load manger architecture
15 Write any four functions of warehouse manager
16 Define data governance and compliance
17 Explain event monitoring and logging
18 Define job scheduling
19 Define disaster recovery planning
20 What is the role of data quality manager
21 Draw the architecture of load manager
22 write the funtions of warehouse manager
23 what are the key funtions of query manager
24 what are the types of testing
25 Define integration testing
26 Define performance testing
27 Define regression testing
28 Define security testing
29 write the key aspects of tuning
30 write the responsible and task of a load manager
31 what is data warehousing process manager
32 What are the key responsibilities of data warehousing system backup recovery managers .

1 Explain key responsibilities of data warehousing managers.

PART-B

2 Explain system configuration manager

3 Explain system event manager
4 Explain system database manager
5 Explain system scheduling manager
6 Explain system backup recovery manager
7 Explain data warehousing process manager
8 Explain load manager
9 Explain query manager
10 Explain tuning
11 Explain about testing
12 Explain about warehouse manager with architecture
13 Explain key responsibilities of system configuration manager
14 Explain key responsibilities of system scheduling manager
15 Explain key responsibilities of system database manager
16 Explain key responsibilities of system event manager
17 Explain key responsibilities of system backup recovery manager
18 what are the types of testing
19 Explain about load manager architecture
20 Explain about query manager architecture
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Mark Range
Question No.
50- 59 1-20 1-10
60-79 1-25 1-13
Above 80 All the above All the above

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