1.The generic two-level data warehouse architecture includes which of the following?

1. Data that can extracted from numerous internal and external

sources
2. Near real-time updates
3. At least one data mart
4. All of the above
Answer: Data that can extracted from numerous internal and external sources

2. A star schema has what type of relationship between a dimension and fact table?
1. One-to-one
2. Many-to-many
3. One-to-many
4. All of the above
Answer: One-to-many

3. A snowflake schema is which of the following types of tables?

1. Helper
2. Dimension
3. Fact
4. All of the above
Answer: All of the above
4. The term Data Warehouse was first coined by?
1. Arthur Samuel
2. Roger Mougalas
3. Bill Inmon
4. Herbert Simon
Answer: Bill Inmon
5. A multifield transformation does which of the following?
1. Converts data from multiple fields into multiple field
2. Converts data from one field into multiple fields
3. Converts data from multiple fields into one field
4. All of the above
Answer: All of the above

6. Which of the following is Transient data?

1. Data in which changes to existing records do not cause the
previous version of the records to be eliminated
2. Data in which changes to existing records cause the previous
version of the records to be eliminated
3. Data that are never deleted once they have been added
 4. Data that are never altered or deleted once they have been added
Answer: Data in which changes to existing records cause the previous version of
the records to be eliminated

7. Data warehouse is a_______________

1. time-variant
2. integrated
3. subject oriented
4. All of the above
Answer: All of the above

8. In Which year, Data Warehouse was first coined?

1. 1988
2. 1987
3. 1989
4. 1990
Answer: 1990
9. Which of the following is Data scrubbing?
1. A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create
the necessary indexes
2. A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create
the necessary indexes
3. A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a
data warehouse
4. A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a
data warehouse
Answer: A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data
warehouse

10. How many types of data warehouse there?

1. 3
2. 4
3. 6
4. 4
Answer: 3

11. Which of the following is extract process ?

1. Capturing a subset of the data contained in various operational
systems
2. Capturing all of the data contained in various operational systems
 3. Capturing all of the data contained in various decision support
systems
4. Capturing a subset of the data contained in various decision
support systems
Answer: Capturing a subset of the data contained in various operational systems
12. Which of the following includes Data Transmission?

1. Joining data from one source into various sources of data

2. A process to change data from a detailed level to a summary level
3. Separating data from one source into various sources of data
4. A process to change data from a summary level to a detailed level
Answer: A process to change data from a detailed level to a summary level

13. Which of the following is Fact Table?

1. Partially demoralized
2. Completely demoralized
3. Completely normalized
4. Partially normalized
Answer: Completely normalized
14. Which of the following is an operational system?
1. A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based
on current data
2. A system that is used to support decision making and is based on
current data
3. A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based
on historical data
4. A system that is used to support decision making and is based on
historical data
Answer: A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on
current data
15. A goal of data mining includes which of the following?
1. To analyze data for expected relationships
2. To confirm that data exists
3. To explain some observed event or condition
4. To create a new data warehouse
Answer: To explain some observed event or condition
16. Which of the following includes @active data warehouse architecture ?
1. Data that can extracted from numerous internal and external
sources
2. Near real-time updates
3. At least one data mart
 4. All of these
Answer: All of these
17. Which of the following is data warehouse?
1. Contains numerous naming conventions and formats
2. Organized around important subject areas
3. Can be updated by end users
4. Contains only current data
Answer: Organized around important subject areas
18. A data warehouse does not require transaction processing, recovery, and concurrency
controls?
1. True
2. False
Answer: True
19. To integrate heterogeneous databases, we have ___________ approaches
1. 4
2. 3
3. 2
4. 1
Answer: 2
20. OLAP contains historical data?
1. True
2. False
Answer: True
21. ________________ supports knowledge discovery by finding hidden patterns and
associations, constructing analytical models, performing classification and prediction.
1. Analytical Processing
2. Information Processing
3. Data mining
4. All of the above
Answer: Data mining
22. Data cleaning and data transformation are important steps in improving the quality of
data and data mining results.
1. True
2. False
Answer: True
23. The following technology is not well- suited for data mining?
1.
Data Visualization
2.
Parallel architecture
3.
Expert System Technology
4.
Technology limited to specify data types such as numeric data
types
Answer: Technology limited to specify data types such as numeric data types
24. Identify which operation can be performed in the data warehouse.
1. Scan
2. Modify
3. Alter
4. Read/write
Answer: Scan
25. Choose the incorrect property of the data warehouse.
1. Volatile
2. Time variant
3. Subject oriented
4. Collection from heterogeneous sources
Answer: Volatile
26. DSS is stands for______________

1. Decision Support System

2. Decision Single System
3. Data support system
4. None
Answer: Decision Support System
27. Identify the term used to define the multidimensional model of the data warehouse.
1. Table
2. Tree
3. Data structure
4. Data Cube
Answer: Data Cube
28. A null value indicates_____________
1. The absence of a value
2. a numerical value with o
3. an erroneous value
4. a very small value
Answer: A very small value
29. The most common source of change data in refreshing a warehouse is______________
1. Cooperative change date
2. Queryable change data
3. Logged change data
4. Snapshot Changed data
Answer: Snapshot Changed data
30. Which of the following involves finding and correcting the errors in data?
1. Data Cleaning
2. Data Extraction
3. Data Loading
 4. Data Transformation
Answer: Data Cleaning

31. Data Warehouse is defined as subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and ___.

a. Volatile
b. Distributed
c. Non-Volatile
d. None of the above
32. Which one of the following is not a tool for Data warehouse development?
a. COGNOS
b. SCCS
c. Informatica
d. Business Objects
Ans: b
33. Data Warehouse contains data for ___ purpose.
a. Real-Time Operation
b. Analysis
c. Validation
d. All of the above
Ans: b
34.Which of the following is a Source Data Component in Data Warehouse?
a. Production Data
b. Sales Data
c. Marketing Data
d. Purchase Data
Ans: a
35. Data Marts are.
a. Department level
b. Limited in size
c. Read-only
d. All the above
Ans: d

36. The three major Data Staging Components are Data Extraction, Data
Transformation and ___.
a. Data Retrieval
b. Data Loading
c. Data Refresh
d. Data Access
Ans -d

37. Dimensional model can be implemented with the following databases.

a. Relation database
b. MDDB
c. Flat files
d. Excel data files
Ans: a

38. Fact-Tables usually consists of ___ relationships.

a. Many to many
b. One too many
c. One to one
d. Many to one
Ans: a

39. Dimensional table and a fact table can be connected with the following
database keys:
a. Foreign key
b. Surrogate key
c. Candidate key
d. All of the above
Ans: a

40. Dimensional table and a fact table can be connected with the following
database keys:
a. Foreign key
b. Surrogate key
c. Candidate key
d. All of the above
Ans: a

41. In Data Warehouse, a single record link to all the duplicate record in the
source systems is called ___.
a. Decoding of fields
b. De-duplication
c. Merging of Information
d. Summarization
Ans: b

42. Which of the following is not a type of data loading?

a. Initial load
b. Incremental load
c. Iterative load
d. Full refresh
Ans: c

43. Adding value to the data to give it more meaning is called ___.
a. Data cleansing
b. Data profiling
c. Data integration
d. Data Enrichment
Ans: d

44. How many levels does CMM have?

a. One
b. Four
c. Five
d. Two
Ans: c

45. The full form of CMM is:

a. Capability Maturity Model
b. Capability Model Maturity
c. Comprehensive Material Management
d. Computer Material Management
Ans: a

46. OLAP stands for.

a. On-Line Application Processing
b. On-Line Analytical Processing
c. On-Line Ability Processing
d. None of the above
Ans: b

47. 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 of the above
Ans: d
48. Parallelism improve processing for.
a. Large table scans and joins
b. Creation of large indexes
c. Bulk inserts, update and deletes
d. All of the above
Ans: d

49. Which of the following is the white box testing?

a. Unit testing
b. Regression
c. User accepting testing
d. Integration testing
Ans: a

50. Which of the following analytic tools should be used for extracting the data from the
Data Warehouse?
a. OLAP tools
b. Data mining tools
c. SQL
d. All the above
Ans: d

51. The system delivers the result of requests for information through remote
browsers is called.
a. Web browser
b. Information delivery
c. Data presentation
d. Data dissemination
Ans: b

52. Who is called the Father of Data Warehouse?

a. Charles Babbage
b. Ralph Kimball
c. Bill Inmon
d. Fritz Bauer
Ans: c

53. Data Cubes contains ___ and ___.

a. Facts, Information
b. Dimensions, Weight
c. Dimensions, Facts
d. Data, Information
Ans: c

54. The hypercube is the cube with ____dimensions.

a. Three
b. Two
c. Four
d. One
Ans: c

55. Data Warehouse is ___ triggered whereas OLTP is ___ triggered.

a. Event, User
b. System, User
c. System, Event
d. Insert, Update
Ans: b

56. UAT means.

a. User Acquisition Test
b. User Acceptance Test
c. Usage Acceptance Test
d. Usage Ambiguity Test
Ans: b

57. Meta Data means.

a. Data about Data
b. Catalogue of data
c. Data Warehouse Roadmap
d. All of the above
Ans: d

58. Data Mining is also referred to as ___.

a. Knowledge discovery in databases
b. Data Cleaning
c. Data extraction
d. Data management
Ans: A
59. Oracle 10 g provides software called ___, which is a data mining tool.
a. Data miner 10g
b. Dolphin
c. Data miner
d. Darwin
Ans: D
60. Data about data is called ___.
a. Table
b. Database
c. Metadata
d. Integration
Ans: C
61. To represent any n–Dimension data we need a series of ___ Dimension
cubes.
a. (n–1)
b. n
c. n+1
d. n+2
Ans: A
62. Which of the following schema contains multiple fact tables?
a. Star schema
b. Snowflake schema
c. Fact constellation
d. None of the above
Ans: C
63. The ___ operation performs a selection on one dimension of the given
cube, resulting in a subcube.
a. Pivot
b. Slice
c. Roll-up
d. Drill – down
Ans: B
64. ___ servers support multidimensional views of data through array-based
multidimensional storage engines.
a. ROLAP
b. MOLAP
c. Data warehouse
d. Database
Ans: B
65. ___ is used to refer to systems and technologies that provide the business
with the means for decision-makers to extract personalized meaningful
information about their business and industry.
a. Business intelligence
b. Data warehouse
c. Database
d. All the above
Ans: A
66. The ___ software gives the user the opportunity to look at the data from a
variety of different dimensions.
a. Query Tools
b. Multidimensional Analysis Software
c. Data Mining Tools
d. None of the above
Ans: B
10. Which of the following layer is concerned with producing metadata about
the ETL process?
a. Data integration layer
b. Applications layer
c. Access layer
d. None of the above
Ans: A
67. ___ methods smooth a sorted data value by consulting its “neighborhood”,
that is, the values around it.
a. Binning
b. Clustering
c. Combined computer and human inspection
d. Regression
Ans: A

68. Which of the following statements are correct?

A. In Numerosity reduction, the data are replaced or estimated by alternative,
smaller data representations.
B. A cube for the highest level of abstraction is the apex cuboid.
a. Only A is True
b. Only B is True
c. Both A and B are
d. both are wrong
Ans: C
69. Two fundamental goals of Data Mining are ___ and ___.
a. Analysis and Description
b. Prediction and Description
c. Data cleaning and organizing the data
d. Data cleaning and summarization
Ans: B

70. Which of the following is an essential process in which the intelligent methods are applied
to extract data patterns?

a.Warehousing
b.Data Mining
c.Text Mining
d.Data Selection