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Question Bank
Year & Semester: III & V
Subject Code & Subject Name: U15CSE05 & Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Unit – I
PART – A
1. Which of the following forms the logical subset of the complete data warehouse?
a) Dimensional model
b) Fact table
c) Data Mart
d) Dimensional table
2. Operational database is,
a) A measure of the desired maximal complexity of data mining algorithms
b) A database containing volatile data used for the daily operation of an organization
c) Relational database management system
d) None of these
3. Which of the following is true on building a Matrix for Data warehouse bus architecture?
a) Data marts as columns and dimensions as rows
b) Dimensions as rows and facts as columns
c) Data marts as rows and dimensions as columns
d) Data marts as rows and facts as columns
4. Data modeling technique used for data marts is
a) Dimensional modeling
b) ER – model
c) Extended ER – model
d) Physical model
5. Which of the following statements is true?
a) A fact table describes the transactions stored in a DWH
b) A fact table describes the granularity of data held in a DWH
c) The fact table of a data warehouse is the main store of descriptions of the transactions
stored in a DWH
d) The fact table of a data warehouse is the main store of all of the recorded transactions
over time
6. Of the following team members, who do not form audience for Data warehousing?
a) Data architects
b) Customers/users.
c) Business Intelligence experts
d) Managers
7. At which level we can create dimensional models?
a) Business requirements level
b) Architecture models level
c) Detailed models level
d) Implementation level
8. The generalization of multidimensional attributes of a complex object class can be
performed by examining each attribute, generalizing each attribute to simple-value data and
constructing a multidimensional data cube is called as
a) Object cube
 b) Relational cube
c) Transactional cube
d) Tuple
9. ____________ is a repository of information gathered from multiple sources stored under a
unified schema at a single site.
a) Data mining
b) Data warehouse
c) Web server
d) None of the above
10. The full form of OLAP is
a) Online analytical processing
b) Online advanced processing
c) Online advanced preparation
d) Online analytical performance
11. ……………………. is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection or
data in support of management decisions.
a) Data Mining
b) Data Warehousing
c) Document Mining
d) Text Mining
12. The data is stored, retrieved and updated in ………………..
a) OLAP
b) OLTP
c) SMTP
d) FTP
13. . …………………… is a good alternative to the star schema.
a) Star Schema
b) Snowflake Schema
c) Fact Constellation
d) Star-Snowflake Schema
14. The ………………………. exposes the information being captured, stored, and managed by
operational systems.
a) Top-Down View
b) Data Warehouse View
c) Data Source View
d) Business Query View
15. The type of relationship in star schema is ……………
a) Many To Many
b) One To One
c) One To Many
d) Many To One
16. Which of the following is not a component of a data warehouse?
a) Metadata
b) Current Detail Data
c) Lightly Summarized Data
d) Component Key
17. Which of the following is not a kind of data warehouse application?
a) Information Processing
b) Analytical Processing
c) Data Mining
d) Transaction Processing
18. The important aspect of the data warehouse environment is that data found within the data
warehouse is___________.
 a) Subject-oriented.
b) Time-variant.
c) Integrated.
d) All of the above.
19. __________describes the data contained in the data warehouse.
a) Relational data.
b) Operational data.
c) Metadata.
d) Informational data.
20. ________________ is the specialized data warehouse database.
a) Oracle.
b) Dbz.
c) Informix.
d) Redbrick.
21. _______________defines the structure of the data held in operational databases and used by
operational applications.
a) user-level metadata.
b) data warehouse metadata.
c) operational metadata.
d) data mining metadata
22. Issues to be considered while data sourcing, cleanup, extract and transformation:
a) Database heterogeneity
b) Data heterogeneity
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
23. Data mart presents problem of
a) Scalability
b) Data integration
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
24. Horizontal parallelism belongs to
a) Intra query parallelism
b) Inter query Parallelism
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
25. The star schema is composed of __________ fact table.
a) One.
b) Two
c) Three.
d) Four.
26. The process of removing the deficiencies and loopholes in the data is called as
a) Aggregation of data
b) Extracting of data
c) Cleaning up of data.
d) Loading of data
27. Metadata is classified into
a) Technical Meta data
b) Business Meta data
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
28. Which one manages both current and historic transactions?
a) OLTP
b) OLAP
 c) Spread sheet
d) XML
29. ____________ contains information that gives users an easy-to-understand perspective of
the
information stored in the data warehouse.
a) Business metadata.
b) Technical metadata.
c) Operational metadata.
d) Financial metadata.
30. The ASCII file format used to represent the metadata that is being exchanged is used in
_______.
a) The Standard Metadata Model
b) The Standard Access Framework
c) Tool Profile
d) The User Configuration
31. Data marts that incorporate data mining tools to extract sets of data are called ______.
a) Independent data mart.
b) Dependent data marts.
c) Intra-entry data mart.
d) Inter-entry data mart.
32. What are the different types of Data Warehousing?
a) Enterprise DataWarehousing
b) Operational Store
c) Data Mart
d) All of the above.
33. The database is partitioned across multiple disks and parallel processing occurs within a
specific task that is performed concurrently on different sets of data called?
a) Vertical parallelism
b) Horizontal parallelism
c) Interquery parallelism
d) Intraquery parallelism
34. Which software is used for maintaining the knowledge about the environment, data
partitions and parallel query execution?
a) SYBASE MPP
b) DYBASE MPP
c) Split server
d) SQL servers
35. The ............................ exposes the information being captured, stored, and managed by
operationalsystem.
a) Top-down view
b) Data warehouse view
c) Data source view
d) Business query view
36. An Operational System is which of the following?
a) A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on historical data.
b) A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on current data.
c) A system that is used to support decision making and is based on current data.
d) A system that is used to support decision making and is based on historical data.
37. _______________are either identical or strict mathematical subsets of the most granular,
detailed dimension.
a) Degenerate Dimensions
b) Factles fact Tables
c) Conformed dimensions
 d) Conformed Facts
38. Which of the following statement is true?
a) The data warehouse consists of data marts and operational data
b) The data warehouse is used as a source for the operational data
c) The operational data are used as a source for the data warehouse
d) All of the above
39. How a database design is represented in OLAP systems?
a) Star schema
b) Snowflake schema
c) Fact constellation schema
d) All of the above
40. Which data Focuses on transactional function such as bank card withdrawals and deposits ?
a) Operational Data
b) Informational Data
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
41. Which factors that drive you to build and use data warehouse?
a) Business factors
b) Technological factors
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
42. What are the three classes of users in user levels?
a) Casual users
b) Power Users
c) Expert users
d) All of the above
43. Rows are placed and located in the partitions according to the value of the partitioning key
is used in
a) Hash partitioning
b) Key range partitioning
c) Schema portioning
d) All of the above
44. In Which model the set of objects that the metadata interchange standard can be used to
describe?
a) The application meta model
b) The metadata meta model
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
45. Which contains information about data warehouse data used by warehouse designer,
administrator to carry out development and management tasks.?
a) Technical Meta data
b) Business Meta data
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
46. Which contains information that gives information stored in data warehouse to users?
a) Technical Meta data
b) Business Meta data
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
47. Tools used to analyze the data in multi dimensional and complex views
a) Data mining tools
b) OLAP Tools
c) Application development tools
 d) Managed Query tools
48. In which different server threads or processes handle multiple requests at the same time?
a) Intra query parallelism
b) Inter query Parallelism
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
49. The parallelism decomposes the serial SQL query into lower level operations such as scan,
join, sort etc
a) Intra query parallelism
b) Inter query Parallelism
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
50. The disadvantage of shared memory systems for parallel processing is
a) Scalability
b) Multiple PUs share memory
c) Communication between nodes
d) Performance