GITA AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE

QUESTION BANK
Subject: DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSING

Part – I
Short Answer Type Questions
1 What is data-mart?
2 Differentiate between classification and prediction.
3 What is ETL process?
4 What is reporting tool?
5 What is Data Characterization?
6 What do mean by Meta Data?
7 What is decision tree induction?
8 What is outlier analysis?
9 Define data cube.
10 State the need for data cleaning.
11 What is pattern evaluation?
12 Classify hierarchical clustering methods.
13 State the need for pruning phase in decision tree induction.
14 What is data transformation? Give example.
15 What do data mining functionalities include?

16 List any two applications of data mining.

17 What is a multidimensional database?
18 What are the steps involved in data mining process?
19 What is the use of knowledge base?
20 What is the difference between OLTP and data warehouse?
21 Why pre-process the data?
22 Compare clustering and classification.
23 What factors lead to the mining of data?
24 What are dependent and independent data mart?
25 How can the data warehouse data can be accessed efficiently?
26 Name the association rule that can be mined from multimedia data.
27 What is text mining?
28 Define support and confidence in association rule mining?
29 Distinguish the features between OLAP and OLTP.
30 Distinguish between agglomerative and divisive algorithms?
31 Give three advantages of web mining.
32 Define privacy preserving data mining.
33 Draw the data warehousing architecture.
34 Provide examples for incomplete and inconsistent data.
35 Can a data mining system generate only interesting patterns? justify
36 Data mining is applicable for any kind of information repository. Justify
37 Mention the methods to handle the missing values.
38 Differentiate between labeled and unlabeled data.
39 What is supervised learning.
40 Define density based clustering method.
41 Explain the different techniques of data mining?
42 Explain the decision tree classifier?
43 What are the different issues in data mining?
44 Explain association algorithm in data mining.
45 Explain cluster analysis briely.
46 What is the Ensemble methods?
47 What are the difference between OLAP & OLTP?
48 What do you understand by data aggregation and data generalization?
49 What is multimedia mining?
50 What are different the types clustering methods explain it briefly.
Part – II
Focussed – Short answer type Questions
1 What are various components of data warehouse?
2 Explain the cleaning process in data pre-processing phase.
3 State and explain the ETL process with suitable diagram.
4 What is data mining functionality? Explain different types of data mining functionality with example.
5 Describe different methods for data cleaning.
6 Explain the data warehouse architecture with neat diagram.
7 What are the major issues in data mining? Explain.
8 Detail on data warehouse meta data.
9 Differentiate OLAP and OLTP.
10 Explain different type’s data in cluster analysis.
11 Explain Bayesian classification with suitable example.
12 What is a Data Cube?
13 Define multi-dimensional data model.
14 Explain the needs of data warehouse in organizations.
15 What is decision tree classification? Give a suitable example.
16 Give some examples of data pre-processing technique.
17 Explain data transformation in detail
18 Define a concept hierarchy.
19 Explain in detail about data reduction.
20 What are the data mining task primitives?
21 Define association rule mining.
22 Discuss data discretization and concept hierarchy generation.
23 Discuss Spatial Data Mining briefly.
24 Explain Data Classification life cycle briefly.
25 Discuss about the grid based methods.
27 Explain density based clustering methods in detail.
28 Explain the process of mining the World Wide Web.
29 What is a multimedia data mining ,explain it?
30 What is spatial mining, explain it?
Part – III
Long answer type Questions
1 Explain the various data mining repositories on which mining can be performed.
2 What is data mining? Explain the steps in data mining process.
3 List out the OLAP operations and explain the same with an example.
4 Explain multidimensional data model with a neat diagram.
5 Explain the data pre-processing techniques in detail.
6 Explain mining multidimensional data from transactional databases and relational databases.
7 Explain Naïve Bayesian classification in detail with example.
8 Elaborate the various partitioning methods in detail.
9 Discuss the classification by decision tree induction.
10 Discuss about model based clustering methods.
11 Explain the various types of web mining.
12 What is hierarchical clustering? Describe different hierarchical cluster analysis for data objects.
13 Define data warehouse. Draw the architecture of data warehouse and explain the three tiers in detail.
14 How data-mining systems are classified? Discuss each classification with an example.
15 With relevant example discuss constraint based cluster analysis.
16 Explain Back propagation in Data Mining. What is SVM? Explain it with its working briefly.

17 Discuss the various steps involved in text mining.

18 Explain the steps in Knowledge discovery in data base.
19 Discuss the detail about the Bayesian and decision tree classifier.
20 Summarise the role of data mining in web and text mining.