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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025 (EVEN SEMESTER) – APR/MAY 2025

Third Year / Sixth Semester
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
CCS341- DATA WAREHOUSING (Regulation 2021)
Time:1 h our Maximum Marks: 100

CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 CO5 TOTAL (100)

Answer ALL Questions

(50 × 2 = 100 Marks)
1.What does a null value indicate?
a) A very small value
b) Absence of value
c) Numeric value with 0
d) Error
2. What does OLTP stand for?
a) online transaction processing
b) offline transaction processing
c) outline traffic processing
d) none
3. What is a multidimensional database also known as?
a) DBMS
b) Extended DBMS
c) RDBMS
d) Extended RDBMS
4. What is a query tool made for?
a) Information delivery
b) Information Exchange
c) Communication
d) Data acquisition
5. What is known as the heart of the warehouse?
a) Data mart database server
b) Data mining database server
c) Data warehouse database server
d) Relational database server
6. What is the percent of data redundancy between environments?
a) <1%
b) <5%
c) <10%
d) <8%
7. What is the source of all data warehouse data known as?
a) Formal Environment
b) Database Environment
c) Operational Environment
d) Technology Environment
8. What is the technology area associated with CRM known as?
a) Personalization
b) Generalization
c) Specialization
d) Aggregation
9. The data is stored, retrieved and updated in ____________.
a) Database
b) Datawarehouse
c) OLAP
d) OLTP
10. What is the use of data cleaning?
a) To remove noisy data
b) Transformation to correct wrong data
c) To correct the inconsistencies in data
d) All of above
11. Where can the data be updated?
a) Formal Environment
b) Database Environment
c) Operational Environment
d) Technology Environment
12. Where is data warehousing used?
a) Decision support systems
b) Transaction system
c) Logical system
d) None
13. Choose the incorrect property of the data warehouse.
a) Time variant
b) subject oriented
c) Heterogeneous
d) volatile
14. Choose the option on which database architecture is based.
a) SQL server
b) RDBMS
c) DBMS
d) Sybase
15. DSS in data warehouse stands for _____________.
a) Decision Single System
b) Data Support System
c) Decision Support System
d) Data Storable System
16.What is the difference between OLTP and OLAP?
A. OLTP is optimized for transaction processing, while OLAP is optimized for analytical processing.
B. OLTP is optimized for analytical processing, while OLAP is optimized for transaction processing.
C. OLTP and OLAP are the same thing.
D. OLTP and OLAP are both optimized for transaction processing.
17. What is a fact table?
A. A table that stores details about customers.
B. A table that stores details about products.
C. A table that stores transactional data.
D. A table that stores metadata.

18. What is a dimension table?

A. A table that stores transactional data.
B. A table that stores metadata.
C. A table that stores details about customers.
D. A table that stores details about products.
19. What is a star schema?
A. A schema where all tables are connected to each other.
B. A schema where there is no connection between tables.
C. A schema where one fact table is connected to multiple dimension tables.
D. A schema where multiple fact tables are connected to one dimension table.
20. What is a slowly changing dimension?
A. A dimension that changes frequently.
B. A dimension that changes slowly over time.
C. A dimension that never changes.
D. A dimension that changes randomly.
21. What is a data mart?
A. A subset of a data warehouse that is designed for a specific business function or department.
B. A database designed to handle transactions.
C. A database designed to support analytical reporting.
D. A database designed to support operational reporting.
22. What is a surrogate key?
A. A unique identifier that is generated by the data warehouse to replace a natural key.
B. A key that is used to encrypt data in the data warehouse.
C. A key that is used to decrypt data in the data warehouse.
D. A key that is used to index data in the data warehouse.
23. What is a star join?
A. A join between a fact table and a dimension table in a star schema.
B. A join between two fact tables in a star schema.
C. A join between a dimension table and a snowflake schema.
D. A join between a fact table and a slowly changing dimension.
24. What is an OLAP cube?
A. A database that is optimized for handling transactions.
B. A database that is optimized for analytical reporting.
C. A database that is optimized for operational reporting.
D. A database that is optimized for both analytical and operational reporting.
25. What is a snowflake schema?
A. A database schema where all tables are connected to a single central table.
B. A database schema where all tables are connected to a single fact table.
C. A database schema where the dimension tables are normalized into multiple related tables.
D. A database schema where multiple fact tables are connected to one dimension table.
26. What is a drill down?
A. A process for querying and analysing data in a data warehouse.
B. A process for navigating from a summary level of data to a more detailed level of data.
C. A process for combining data from multiple sources.
D. A process for transforming data into a usable format.

27. What is a drill through?

A. A process for navigating from a summary level of data to a more detailed level of data.
B. A process for combining data from multiple sources.
C. A process for transforming data into a usable format.
D. A process for querying and analyzing data in a data warehouse.
28. What is data scrubbing?
A. A process for removing duplicates from a database.
B. A process for removing sensitive information from a database.
C. A process for cleaning and standardizing data in a database.
D. A process for optimizing the performance of a database.
29. What is a factless fact table?
A. A fact table that contains no measures.
B. A fact table that contains no dimensions.
C. A fact table that contains only descriptive attributes.
D. A fact table that contains only derived measures.
30. What is data profiling?
A. The process of cleaning and transforming data in preparation for loading into a data warehouse.
B. The process of analyzing and summarizing data to gain insight and understanding.
C. The process of identifying the structure and content of data sources.
D. The process of creating reports and visualizations from data in a data warehouse.
31. What is data cleansing?
A. The process of analyzing and summarizing data to gain insight and understanding.
B. The process of identifying the structure and content of data sources.
C. The process of creating reports and visualizations from data in a data warehouse.
D. The process of cleaning and transforming data in preparation for loading into a data warehouse.
32. What is data governance?
A. The process of ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data in a data warehouse.
B. The process of managing the policies and procedures related to data management in an organization.
C. The process of discovering patterns and relationships in data.
D. The process of extracting, transforming, and loading data from multiple sources into a data warehouse.
33. What is a data cube?
A. A database design that uses a central fact table and related dimension tables to represent data.
B. A type of database that is optimized for data mining and predictive analytics.
C. A type of database that is designed for online analytical processing.
D. A multi-dimensional representation of data used in OLAP applications.
34. Small logical units where data warehouses hold large amounts of data is known as _____
a) Access Layers
b) Data marts
c) Data storage
d) Data miners
35. Total fact table the star schema is composed of?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 1
36. How many types of transformations are in ETL
a) 1
b) 4
c) 2
d) 3
37. What does an RDBMS consist of?
a) Collection of Records
b) Collection of Keys
c) Collection of Tables
d) Collection of Fields
38. _____________ is a hardware component that is most important for the operation of a database
management system.
a) Microphone
b) High speed, large capacity disk to store data
c) High-resolution video display
d) Printer
39. The DBMS acts as an interface between ________________ and ________________ of an enterprise-
class system.
a) Data and the DBMS
b) Application and SQL
c) Database application and the database
d) The user and the software
40. ______________ is a set of one or more attributes taken collectively to uniquely identify a record.
a) Primary Key
b) Foreign key
c) Super key
d) Candidate key
41. Updates on the Data Warehouse is allowed.
a) True
b) False
42. Dimensional table and a fact table can be connected with the following database keys:
a. foreign key
b. Surrogate key
c. Candidate key
d) Super key
43. Data marts are,
a) Department level
b) Limited in size
c) Read-only
d) All the above
44. Which of the following are open source ETL tools?
a) SAS Data Integrator
b) Ascetical Data Stage
c) Cognos Decision Stream
d) Clover
45. Which of the following are the intermediate servers that stand in between a relational back-end
server and client front-end tools?
a. ROLAP
b. MOLAP
c. HOLAP
d. All the above
46. Storing, data mapping and transformation from source systems to the data warehouse fall into:
a. Technical metadata
b. Operational metadata
c. Business metadata
47. According to Ralph Kimball, Back-room metadata guides:
a. Extraction
b. Cleaning
c. Loading processes
d. All the above
48. ______________databases are owned by particular departments or business groups.
A. Informational.
B. Operational.
C. Both informational and operational.
D. Flat.
49. Data warehouse contains ------------- data that is never found in the operational environment.
A. Normalized.
B. Informational.
C. Summary.
D. Denormalized.
 50. Query tool is meant for __________.
A. Data acquisition.
B. Information delivery.
C. Information exchange.
D. Communication.

CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 CO5

1 11 21 31 41
2 12 22 32 42
3 13 23 33 43
4 14 24 34 44
5 15 25 35 45
6 16 26 36 46
7 17 27 37 47
8 18 28 38 48
9 19 29 39 49
10 20 30 40 50
Total (CO1) Total (CO2) Total (CO3) Total (CO4) Total (CO5)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

CO1 : Design data warehouse architecture for various Problems
CO2 : Apply the OLAP Technology
CO3 : Analyse the partitioning strategy
CO4 : Critically analyse the differentiation of various schema for given problem
CO5 : Frame roles of process manager & system manager

FACULTY INCHARGE