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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION 2020/2021

YEAR 4 SEMESTER II EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF


BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SPB 2403 Data Warehousing and Mining Year 4 Semester II


Date: Thursday 9th September, 2021 Time: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question ONE and any other TWO questions
QUESTION ONE
a) Define the following terms
i) Data mining (2 marks)
ii) Data Warehouse (2 marks)
iii) Online Analytical Processing (2 marks)
b) With a help of a diagram discuss the phases of knowledge discovery
in databases (KDD) (10 marks)
c) Elaborate the following schemas as used in data warehousing
i) Simple Star Schemas (2 marks)
ii) Multi-Star Schema (2 marks)
iii) Snowflake Schema (2 marks)
d) Outline the typical OLAP operations (4 marks)
e) Explain any four applications of data mining (4 marks)
QUESTION TWO
a) Outline the main challenges associated with web mining (4 marks)
b) Differentiate between k-medoids and the k-means methods in partitioning
(4 marks)
c) Explain the requirements of clustering in data mining (9 marks)
d)What is the meaning of the term good clustering? (3 marks)

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QUESTION THREE
a) Explain clustering can be used in the following areas
i) Marketing (2marks)
ii) Land use (2 marks)
iii) Insurance (2 marks)
b) Outline the steps of genetic learning algorithm (4 marks)
c) Discuss how a decision tree is used as an algorithm in data mining (6 marks)
d)Using an example explain the term Information gain in the context
of data mining (4 marks)

QUESTION FOUR
a) Explain the basic steps used in neural networks back propagation
learning algorithm (6 marks)
b) Using an example elaborate on the syntax of MDX (6 marks)
c) Define the term neural network (2 marks)
d) Discuss the following as used in knowledge discovery
i) Data Selection (2 marks)
ii) Cleaning (2 marks)
iii) Pattern Evaluation. (2 marks)

QUESTION FIVE
a)
i) What Is Frequent Pattern Mining? (2marks)
ii) Give examples of frequent patterns (2 marks)
b) Briefly explain The Apriori Algorithm as used in pattern mining (6 marks)
c) State and Explain the four basic MDX statements (4 marks)
d) Explain the techniques for Web usage mining (6 marks)

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