1. is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management decisions.

A. Data Mining. B. Data Warehousing. C.Web Mining. D.Text Mining.

2. The data Warehouse is .

A. Read only. B. Write only. C.Read writeonly. D. None.
3. 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.

4. The time horizon in Data warehouse is usually .
A. 1-2 years. B. 3-4years. C. 5-6 years. D. 5-10 years.
5. The data is stored, retrieved & updated in .
A. OLAP. B..OLTP. C.SMTP. D. .FTP.

6. describes the data contained in the data warehouse.

A. Relational data. B. Operational data. C. Metadata. D. Informational data.

7. predicts future trends & behaviors, allowing business managers to make proactive,
knowledge-driven decisions.
A. Data Warehouse. B. Data Mining. C. Data Marts. D. Metadata.

8. is the heart of the warehouse.

A. Datamining database servers. B. Data warehouse database servers. C. Data mart database servers. D. Relational data base servers.

9. is the specialized data warehouse database.

A. Oracle. B. DBZ. C. Informix. D. Redbrick.

10. is held in the catalog of the warehouse database system.

A. Application level metadata. B. Algorithmic level metadata. C. Departmental level metadata. D. Core warehouse metadata.

11. Record cannot be updated in .

A.OLTP B. Files C. RDBMS D. Data Warehouse

12. The source of all data warehouse data is the .

A. Operational environment. B. Informal environment. C. Formal environment. D. Technologyenvironment.

13. Data warehouse contains data that is never found in the operational environment.
A. Normalized. B. Informational. C.Summary. D. Denormalized.

14. Data redundancy between the environments results in less than percent.
A. one. B. two. C. three. D. four.

15. Bill Inmon has estimated of the time required to build a data warehouse, is consumed in the conversion
process.
A. 10 percent. B. 20 percent. C. 40 percent D. 80 percent.

16. Detail datain singlefact table is otherwiseknown as .

A. Monoatomic data. B. Diatomic data. C.Atomic data. D. Multiatomic data.

17. test is used in an online transactional processing environment.

A. MEGA. B. MICRO. C. MACRO. D. ACID.
18. is a good alternative to the star schema.
A. Star schema. B. Snow flake schema. C. Fact constellation. D. Star-snowflake schema.

19. Thebiggest drawbackof thelevel indicator in theclassic star-schema is that it limits .

A. Quantify. B. Qualify. C. Flexibility. D.Ability.

20. A data warehouse is .

 A. Updated by end users. B. Contain snumero us naming conventions and formats
C. Organized around important subject areas. D. Contains only current data.

21. Query tool is meant for .

A. Data acquisition. B.Information delivery. C. Information exchange. D. Communication.

22. Thefull formof KDD is .

A. Knowledge Database. B. KnowledgeDiscoveryin Database. C. Knowledge Data house. D. Knowledge Data Definition.

23. The first International conference on KDD was held in the year .
A. 1996. B. 1997. C. 1995 . D. 1994.

24. Removingduplicaterecordsis a process called .

A. Recovery. B. Data cleaning. C. Data cleansing. D. Data pruning.

25. 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.

27. Discoveryofcross-salesopportunitiesiscalled .

A. Segmentation. B. Visualization. C. Correction. D. Association.

28. 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.
29. can generate programs itself, enabling it to carry out new tasks.

A. Automated system. B. Decision making system. C. Self learning system. D. Productivity system.

30. Thepower of self-learningsystem lies in .

A. Cost. B. Speed. C. Accuracy. D.Smplicity.

31. Buildingthe informational database is donewiththe help of .

A. Transformation or propagation tools. B. Transformation tools only. C. Propagation toolsonly. D. Extraction tools.

32. How many components are there in a data warehouse?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

33. Which of the following is not a component of a data warehouse?

A. Metadata. B. Current detail data. C. Lightlysummarized data. D. Component Key.

34. is data that is distilled from the low level of detail found at the current detailed leve.

A. Highly summarized data. B. Lightlysummarized data. C. Metadata. D. Older detail data

35. Highlysummarized datais .

A. Compact and easily accessible .B. Compact and expensive. C. Compact and hardly accessible. D. compact.

36. Metadata contains atleast .

A. The structure of the data. B. The algorithms used for summarization.

C. The mapping from the operational environment to the data warehouse. All of the above.

37. can generate programs itself, enabling it to carry out new tasks.
A. Automated system. B. Decision makingsystem. C. Self-learning system. D. Productivity system.

38. Thepower ofself-learningsystem lies in .

A. Cost. B. Speed. C. Accuracy. D.Simplicity.
39. How many components are there in a data warehouse?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

40. employs the supervised mode of learning.

A.RBF. B.MLP. C. MLP & RBF. D. ANN.

41. The actual amount of reduction at each learning step may be guided by .
A. Learning cost. B. Learnin Level. C. Learning Rate . D.LearningTime.

42. The terms equality and roll up are associated with .

A.OLAP. B. Visualization. C. Data mart. D. Decision tree

43. Treatingincorrect or missingdatais called as .

A. Selection. B. Preprocessing. C. Transformation. D. Interpretation.

44. Convertingdata from different sources into a common format for processing is called as .
A. Selection. B. Preprocessing. C. Transformation. D. Interpretation.

45. Variousvisualization techniques areused in step of KDD.

A. Selection. B. Transformation. C. Datamining. D. Interpretation.
46. Exceptional reportingin data warehousingis otherwisecalled as .
A. Exception. B. Alerts. C. Errors. D. Bugs.

47. is used to proceed from veryspecific knowledgeto more general information.

A. Induction. B. Compression. C. Approximation. D. Substitution.

48. Describingsome characteristics of a set of data bya general model is viewed as

A. Induction. B. Compression. C. Approximation. D. Summarization.

49. helps to uncover hidden information about the data.

A. Induction. B. Compression. C. Approximation. D. Summarization.

50. Incorrect or invalid data is known as .

A. Changingdata. B. Noisy data. C. Outliers. D. Missingdata.

Answer Key

1. B 2. A 3. D 4.D 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. B
11. D 12. A 13. C 14. A 15. D 16. C 17. D 18. C 19. C 20. C
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. B 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. C
31. A 32. D 33. D 34. B 35. A 36. D 37. D 38. C 39. D 40. C
41. C 42. C 43. B 44. C 45. D 46. B 47. A 48. B 49. C 0. B