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01. _________ is one class of decision support environment.

OLAP 30page
OLTP
Data Cleansing
ETL
2. The confusion created by data redundancy makes it difficult for companies to

Create online processing capabilities.

Work in batch processing load.
Use a distributed database.
Integrate data from different sources.
3. Effects of de-normalization on database performance are

Unpredictable pg 62
Predictable
Conventional
Unsurprising
04. OLAP is a (n) ___________ of application.

Classification pg74
Amalgamation
Unification
Blending
5. DOLAP model facilitates ___________ computing paradigm.
Mobile pg 78
Permanent
Rigid
Strict
6. ______ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the warehouse.

Cube
Grain pg 111
Virtual Cube

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Aggregate
7. Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process consist of steps which are ______________.
Independent and Interrelated 131

Independent or Interrelated
Dependent and Interrelated
Dependent or Interrelated
8. In _________ system, the contents change with time.

OLTP pg 20
DSS
ATM
OLAP
9. ________ is an application of intelligence and experience.

Skill
Power
Wisdom pg 11
Knowledge
10. 3NF removes even more data redundancy than 2NF but it is at the cost of

Simplicity and Performance pg 48

Complexity
Number of tables
Relations
11. Collapsing tables can be done on the ___________ relationship(s)

Only One-to-One
Only Many-to-Many
Only One-to-Many
Both One-to-One and Many-to-Many pg 52
12. Transactional fact tables do not have records for events that do not occur. These are
called

Not Recording Facts pg 120

Fact-less Facts
Null Facts
Empty Facts
13. Semantically "Dirty Data" class of anomalies includes which of the following:
I) Lexical Errors
II) Integrity Constraints Violation
III) Business Rule Contradiction
IV) Irregularities
V) Duplication
(I) and (II) only
(I), (II), and (III)
(II), (III), and (V) only pg 160
(I), (IV), and (V) only
14. Relational databases allow you to navigate the data in ____________ that is appropriate
using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.

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Only One Direction

Any Direction pg 19
Two Directions
Partitions
15. One major goal of horizontal splitting is

Splitting rows for exploiting parallelism pg 54

Splitting columns for exploiting parallelism
Splitting schema for exploiting parallelism
Splitting relationships for exploiting parallelism
16. MOLAP usually builds “cubes” in proprietary file format of a multi-dimensional
database (MDD) or a user defined data structure, therefore _______ is not supported.
ANSI pg 78
Microsoft
Oracle
SAP
17. A company has implemented data warehouse for analytical purpose. Quantity sold is
stored as a fact. This quantity sold is

Additive Fact 115

Non-Additive Fact
Associative Fact
Non-Associative Fact
18. Typically a data mart is much smaller to data warehouse and it is pretty easy to take its
______ as compare to data warehouse.

Backup pg 131
Cube
Load
Schema
19. "Change Data Capture" is one of the challenging technical issues in _____________

Data Extraction pg 149

Data Loading
Data Transformation
Data Cleansing
20. Within the data warehousing domain, data ________ is applied especially when several
databases are merged.

Extraction
Loading
Cleansing pg 168
Join
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1. Taken jointly, the extract programs or naturally evolving systems formed a spider web,
also known as

Distributed Systems Architecture

Legacy Systems Architecture pg 14

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Online Systems Architecture

Intranet Systems Architecture
2. Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every year. This
increase is
Linear
Quadratic
Logarithmic
Exponential pg 15
3. The most common use of range partitioning in data warehouse is on

Date pg 66
Most redundant column
Fact
Dimensions
4. OLAP is a (n) ___________ of application.
Classification pg 74
Amalgamation
Unification
Blending
5. ER is a _______ design technique that seeks to remove the redundancy in data.

Logical pg 98
Physical
Data Dependent
Transaction Dependent
6. ______ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the warehouse.
Cube
Grain pg 111
Virtual Cube
Aggregate
7. It is called a ______ violation, if we have null values for attributes where NOT NULL
constraint exists.
Load
Transform
Constraint pg 161
Extraction
8. In the Information Age, the _________ learning organization is at a distinct disadvantage.
This term means "impaired functioning."

Functional
Dysfunctional pg 181
Purposeful
Serviceable
9. In _________ system, the contents change with time.
OLTP pg 20
DSS
ATM
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OLAP
10. It is observed that every year the amount of data recorded in an organization

Doubles pg 15
Triples
Quartiles
Remains same as previous year
11. Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database by ________ a
relational table into smaller tables by projection.

Composing
Joining / Merging
Combining
Decomposing pg 41
12. 3NF removes even more data redundancy than 2NF but it is at the cost of

Simplicity and Performance 48

Complexity
Number of tables
Relations
13. Which statement is true for De-Normalization?
Redundant data is a performance liability at query time, but is a performance benefit at
update time.
Redundant data is a performance benefit at both query time and update time.
Redundant data is a performance liability at both query time and update time.

Redundant data is a performance benefit at query time, but is a performance liability

at update time. 51
14. The goal of star schema design is to simplify ________
Logical data model
Physical data model pg 107
Conceptual data model
Semantic data model
15. Source systems for extraction are typically OLTP systems. Extraction is a very complex
task due to reasons:

1. Very complex and poorly documented source system.

2. Data has to be extracted not once but many times.
3. People extracting data have limited expertise.
Which of the following option represents correct reason?
1 & 2 only pg 132
1 & 3 only
2 & 3 only
All 1, 2 and 3
16. When tables are populated for the first time, it is a full data refresh. This may be called
as:

1. Block Insert pg
2. Block Slamming

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3. Bulk Insert
4. Bulk Slamming
Which of the following option is true?
Option 1 & 3

Option 1 & 2 139

Option 1 & 4
Option 1, 2 & 3
17. The TQM philosophy of management is __________. All members of a total quality
management organization strive to systematically manage the improvement of the
organization through the ongoing participation of all employees in problem solving efforts
across functional and hierarchical boundaries.
Customer-Oriented pg 182
Employee-Oriented
Employer-Oriented
Organization-Oriented
18. Identify the correct option. One Petabyte (PB) equals to ____
252 or 1013 bytes
250 or 1015 bytes pg 15
250 or 1010 bytes
248 or 1012 bytes
19. Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems

Aggregates pg 111
Facts
Dimensions
Primary Keys
20. Single value attributes during recording of a transaction are __________
Dimensions pg 115
Facts
Aggregates
Constraints

CS614 Data Warehousing

1. Development of data warehouse is hard because data sources are

Unstructured & Heterogeneous 31

Structured & Heterogeneous
Unstructured & Homogeneous
Structured and Homogeneous
2. The confusion created by data redundancy makes it difficult for companies to

Create online processing capabilities.

Work in batch processing load.
Use a distributed database.
Integrate data from different sources.
3. Select the statement which is true for Insurance Data Warehouse

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It has Long Operational Business Cycle 36

It has Long Development & Implementation Cycle
It has Short Operational Business Cycle
It has Short Development & Implementation Cycle
4. Redundancy causes anomalies which are called

Selection Anomalies

Update Anomalies 43
SQL Anomalies
Data Warehouse Anomalies
5. 3NF removes even more data redundancy than 2NF but it is at the cost of

Simplicity and Performance pg 48

Complexity
Number of tables
Relations
6. Which statement is true for De-Normalization?

Redundant data is a performance liability at query time, but is a performance benefit at

update time.
Redundant data is a performance benefit at both query time and update time.
Redundant data is a performance liability at both query time and update time.

Redundant data is a performance benefit at query time, but is a performance liability

at update time.51
7. Pre-join technique is used to avoid

Run time join pg 58

Compile time join
Load time join
8. OLAP is used for analytical process. For analytical processing we need

Multi-level aggregates 74
Record level access
Data level access
Row level access
9. The cube clause which is a part of SQL: 1999 is

GROUP BY CUBE (V1, V2 …. V n) pg 90

SELECT BY CUBE (V1, V2 …. V n)
JOIN BY CUBE (V1, V2 …. V n)
None of these
10. ER is a logical design technique that seeks to remove the ________ in data.

Redundancy pg 98
Normalization
Anomalies
11. Non recording facts have a disadvantage that it has

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Lack of Information 120

Redundant Information
Repeated Information
Normalized Information
12. Once the data has been transformed and ready to be loaded in to data warehouse, we
adopt one of two prevalent ________ strategies.

Loading 139
Transformation
Quality
Indexing
13. Syntactically Dirty Data class of anomalies includes which of the following:

1. Lexical Errors
2. Integrity Constraints Violation
3. Business Rule Contradiction
4. Irregularities
5. Duplication

Option 1 and 4 pg 160

Option 2 and 3
Option 2, 3, and 5
Option 1, 4, and 5
14. Records referring to the same entity are represented in different formats in the
different data sets or are represented erroneously. Thus, duplicate records will appear in
the merged database. The issue is to identify and eliminate these duplicates. The problem
is known as the ______________ .
Merge/Purge Problem pg 168
Cleansing Problem
Transformation Problem
Data Quality Problem
15. since this form is useful for longitudinal comparisons illustrating trends of continuous
improvement. Many traditional data quality metrics, such as free-of-error, completeness,
and consistency take this form. This statement is about which of the following:

Simple Ratio pg 187

Min Operation
Max Operation
Weighted Average
16. To handle dimensions that require the aggregation of multiple data quality indicators,
which of the following operation can be applied
Minimum or Maximum pg 188
Complex Ratio
Aggregate Average
17. Companies collect and record their own operational data, but at the same time they
also use reference data obtained from _______ sources such as codes, prices etc.

None of these
Operational
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Internal
External pg 21
18. Source systems for extraction are typically OLTP systems. Extraction is a very complex
task due to reasons:
1. Very complex and poorly documented source system.
2. Data has to extracted not once but many times
3. People extracting data have limited expertise
Which of the following option represents correct reason?
1 & 2 only pg 132
1 & 3 only
2 & 3 only
All 1, 2 and 3
19. ______________ is about taking/collecting data from different heterogeneous sources.

Data Warehouse pg 21
Data Mart
Data Mining
20. In ROLAP access to information is provided via relational database using _________
standard SQL.
ANSI pg 78
Microsoft
Oracle
SAP
CS614 Data Warehousing

1. A typical example of the crisis in credibility in the naturally evolving architecture is the
decision of CEO based on politics and personalities on receiving two different reports for
the same query. We say CEO is
Very Subjective and Non-Scientific pg 14
Very Objective and Non-Scientific
Very Subjective and Scientific
Very Objective and Scientific
2. Development of data warehouse is hard because data sources are

Unstructured & Heterogeneous 31

Structured & Heterogeneous
Unstructured & Homogeneous
Structured and Homogeneous
3. Financial data warehouses have some severe drawbacks that are not found elsewhere.
For example it is almost impossible to reconcile down to the rupee. This is because of
many reasons. Select the statement which shows the possible reason(s).

The accounting periods may be different in different operational systems or the

classifications of regions may change pg 35
The accounting periods may be different in Data Warehouse application
Data warehouse uses dynamic classifications of regions
During aggregation data warehouse neglect amount in rupees
4. Redundancy causes anomalies which are called

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Selection Anomalies
Update Anomalies pg 43
SQL Anomalies
Data Warehouse Anomalies
5. Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database by decomposing
/ splitting a relational table into ______ tables by projection.

Smaller pg 41
Larger
Combined
Joined
6. One major goal of horizontal splitting is
Splitting rows for exploiting parallelism pg 54
Splitting columns for exploiting parallelism
Splitting schema for exploiting parallelism
7. The most common use of range partitioning in data warehouse is on

Date pg 66
Most redundant column
Fact
Dimensions
8. ER Model can be simplified in -------- ways

One
Two pg 103
Three
Four
9. ______ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the warehouse.
Cube
Grain pg 111
Virtual Cube
Aggregate
10. A company has implemented data warehouse for analytical purpose. Quantity sold is
stored as a fact. This quantity sold is

Additive Fact 119

Non-Additive Fact
11. Fact-less fact table is a fact table without numeric fact columns. It is used to capture
relationship between __________
Dimensions pg 121
Attributes
Tables
Facts
12. Full and Incremental extraction techniques are types of ____________
Logical Extraction pg 133
Physical Extraction
Both Logical and Physical Extraction

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None of these
13. Rearranging the grouping of source data, delivering it to the destination database, and
ensuring the quality of data are crucial to the process of loading the data warehouse. Data
____________ is vitally important to the overall health of a warehouse project.
1. Cleansing
2. Cleaning
3. Scrubbing
Which of the following options is true?
Option 1 only pg 158
Option 2 only
Option 1 & 2 only
Option 1, 2 & 3
14. Syntactically Dirty Data class of anomalies includes which of the following:

6. Lexical Errors
7. Integrity Constraints Violation
8. Business Rule Contradiction
9. Irregularities
10. Duplication
Option 1 and 4 pg 160
Option 2 and 3
Option 2, 3, and 5
Option 1, 4, and 5
15. It is called a ______ violation, if we have null values for attributes where NOT NULL
constraint exists.
Load
Transform
Constraint
Extraction
16. As consumers, human beings judge the quality of things during their life-time.
I Consciously
II Subconsciously
III Unconsciously

Which of the following statement is true?

I Only
II Only
III Only
I & II Only pg 179
17. All data is ______________ of something real.

I An Abstraction
II A Representation

Which of the following option is true?

I Only pg 180
II Only
Both I & II

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None of I & II
18. __________queries deal with number of variables spanning across number of tables (i.e.
join operations) and looking at lots of historical data.

OLTP
DBMS
DSS pg 21
None of these
19. Collapsing tables can be done on the ___________ relationships
Many-to-Many
Both One-to-One and Many-to-Many pg 52
None of these
One-to-One
20. In data warehouse, a query results in retrieval of hundreds of records from very large
table. The ratio of number of records retrieved to total number of record present is high
and selectivity is
Low
High pg 22
Average
Can not be calculated
CS614 Data Warehousing

1. _________ is one class of decision support environment.

OLAP pg 30

OLTP

Data Cleansing

ETL

2. The confusion created by data redundancy makes it difficult for companies to

Create online processing capabilities.

Work in batch processing load.

Use a distributed database.

Integrate data from different sources.

3. Effects of de-normalization on database performance are

Unpredictable 62
Predictable

Conventional

Unsurprising

4. OLAP is a (n) ___________ of application.

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Classification pg 74

Amalgamation

Unification

Blending

5. DOLAP model facilitates ___________ computing paradigm.

Mobile pg 97
Permanent

Rigid

Strict
6. ______ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the warehouse.

Cube
Grain pg 111

Virtual Cube
Aggregate

7. Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process consist of steps which are ______________.

Independent and Interrelated 131

Independent or Interrelated

Dependent and Interrelated

Dependent or Interrelated

8. In _________ system, the contents change with time.

OLTP pg 20
DSS

ATM
OLAP

9. ________ is an application of intelligence and experience.

Skill
Power

Wisdom
Knowledge pg 11

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10. 3NF removes even more data redundancy than 2NF but it is at the cost of

Simplicity and Performance pg 48

Complexity

Number of tables

Relations

11. Collapsing tables can be done on the ___________ relationship(s)

Only One-to-One

Only Many-to-Many

Only One-to-Many
Both One-to-One and Many-to-Many pg 52

12. Transactional fact tables do not have records for events that do not occur. These are
called

Not Recording Facts pg 120

Fact-less Facts

Null Facts
Empty Facts

13. Semantically "Dirty Data" class of anomalies includes which of the following:

I) Lexical Errors
II) Integrity Constraints Violation

III) Business Rule Contradiction

IV) Irregularities
V) Duplication

(I) and (II) only

(I), (II), and (III)

(II), (III), and (V) only 160

(I), (IV), and (V) only
14. Relational databases allow you to navigate the data in ____________ that is appropriate
using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.
Only One Direction

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Any Direction pg 19

Two Direction

Partitions

15. One major goal of horizontal splitting is

Splitting rows for exploiting parallelism 54

Splitting columns for exploiting parallelism

Splitting schema for exploiting parallelism

Splitting relationships for exploiting parallelism

16. MOLAP usually builds “cubes” in proprietary file format of a multi-dimensional

database (MDD) or a user defined data structure, therefore _______ is not supported.
ANSI pg 78

Microsoft

Oracle
SAP

17. A company has implemented data warehouse for analytical purpose. Quantity sold is
stored as a fact. This quantity sold is

Additive Fact 113

Non-Additive Fact

Associative Fact

Non-Associative Fact
18. Typically a data mart is much smaller to data warehouse and it is pretty easy to take its
______ as compare to data warehouse.
Backup

Cube pg 131
Load
Schema
19. "Change Data Capture" is one of the challenging technical issues in _____________

Data Extraction pg 149

Data Loading
Data Transformation

Data Cleansing

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20. Within the data warehousing domain, data ________ is applied especially when several
databases are merged.

Extraction
Loading

Cleansing pg 168

Join
CS614 Data Warehousing

1. Taken jointly, the extract programs or naturally evolving systems formed a spider web,
also known as
Distributed Systems Architecture

Legacy Systems Architecture pg 14

Online Systems Architecture

Intranet Systems Architecture

2. Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every year. This
increase is

Linear
Quadratic

Logarithmic

Exponential 15
3. The most common use of range partitioning in data warehouse is on

Date pg 66

Most redundant column

Fact
Dimensions

4. OLAP is a (n) ___________ of application.

Classification pg 74
Amalgamation

Unification

Blending

5. ER is a _______ design technique that seeks to remove the redundancy in data.

Logical pg 98
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Physical

Data Dependent

Transaction Dependent

6. ______ is the lowest level of detail or the atomic level of data stored in the warehouse.

Cube

Grain pg 111
Virtual Cube

Aggregate

7. It is called a ______ violation, if we have null values for attributes where NOT NULL
constraint exists.

Load

Transform

Constraint pg 161

Extraction

8. In the Information Age, the _________ learning organization is at a distinct disadvantage.

This term means "impaired functioning."

Functional

Dysfunctional pg 181

Purposeful
Serviceable

9. In _________ system, the contents change with time.

OLTP pg 20

DSS

ATM

OLAP
10. It is observed that every year the amount of data recorded in an organization
Doubles pg 15

Triples
Quartiles

Remains same as previous year

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11. Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database by ________ a

relational table into smaller tables by projection.

Composing
Joining / Merging

Combining

Decomposing pg 41
12. 3NF removes even more data redundancy than 2NF but it is at the cost of

Simplicity and Performance pg 48

Complexity

Number of tables
Relations

13. Which statement is true for De-Normalization?

Redundant data is a performance liability at query time, but is a performance benefit at

update time.
Redundant data is a performance benefit at both query time and update time.

Redundant data is a performance liability at both query time and update time.

Redundant data is a performance benefit at query time, but is a performance liability

at update time. 51
14. The goal of star schema design is to simplify ________
Logical data model

Physical data model pg 107

Conceptual data model

Semantic data model

15. Source systems for extraction are typically OLTP systems. Extraction is a very complex
task due to reasons:

1. Very complex and poorly documented source system.

2. Data has to be extracted not once but many times.

3. People extracting data have limited expertise.

Which of the following option represents correct reason?

1 & 2 only pg 132

1 & 3 only

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2 & 3 only

All 1, 2 and 3

16. When tables are populated for the first time, it is a full data refresh. This may be called
as:

1. Block Insert
2. Block Slamming
3. Bulk Insert
4. Bulk Slamming
Which of the following option is true?
Option 1 & 3

Option 1 & 2

Option 1 & 4 pg 139

Option 1, 2 & 3

17. The TQM philosophy of management is __________. All members of a total quality
management organization strive to systematically manage the improvement of the
organization through the ongoing participation of all employees in problem solving efforts
across functional and hierarchical boundaries.

Customer-Oriented pg 182

Employee-Oriented
Employer-Oriented

Organization-Oriented
18. Identify the correct option. One Petabyte (PB) equals to ____

252 or 1013 bytes

250 or 1015 bytes pg 15

250 or 1010 bytes

248 or 1012 bytes
19. Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems

Aggregates pg 111
Facts

Dimensions

Primary Keys

20. Single value attributes during recording of a transaction are __________

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Dimensions pg 115

Facts

Aggregates

Constraints

CS614 Data Warehousing

1. Suppose the amount of data recorded in an organization is doubled every year. This
increase is

Linear
Quadratic
Logarithmic
Exponential pg 15
2. _________ is one class of decision support environment.
OLAP pg 30
OLTP
Data Cleansing
ETL
3. De-Normalization normally speeds up

Data Retrieval pg 51
Data Modification
Development Cycle
Data Replication
4. In horizontal splitting, we split a relation into multiple tables on the basis of
Common Column Values
Common Row Values
Different Index Values
Value resulted by ad-hoc query
5. The most common use of range partitioning in data warehouse is on
Date pg 66
Most redundant column
Fact
Dimensions
6. OLAP is a (n) ___________ of application.

Blending
Characterization pg 74
Amalgamation
Unification
7. One of the OLAP characteristics is Multi-dimensional, which is ________ for OLAP.

Essential 76
Optional
Discretionary
Not Obligatory

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8. Non recording facts have a disadvantage that it has

Lack of Information pg 120

Redundant Information
Repeated Information
Normalized Information
9. During ETL process of an organization, suppose you have data which can be
transformed using any of the transformation method. Which of the following strategy will
be your choice for least complexity?

One-to-One Scalar Transformation 144

One-to-Many Element Transformation
Many-to-Many Element Transformation
Many-to-One Element Transformation
10. All data is ______________ of something real.

I An Abstraction pg 180
II A Representation
Which of the following option is true?

I Only
II Only
Both I & II
None of I & II
11. _______ is an application of information and data.
Skill
Knowledge pg 11
Intelligence
Power
12. In data warehouse, a query results in retrieval of hundreds of records from very large
table. The ratio of number of records retrieved to total number of records present is high
and selectivity is:
Low

High 22
Average
Non computable
13. "The environment is smart enough to develop or compute higher level aggregates
using lower level or more detailed aggregates". Which of the following approach is
described by the above statement?
Aggregate awareness pg 87
Cube partitioning
Indexing
MOLAP cube aggregation
14. The goal of star schema design is to simplify ________

Logical data model

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Physical data model pg 107

Conceptual data model
Semantic data model
15. Syntactically "Dirty Data" class of anomalies includes ______
I) Lexical Errors
II) Integrity Constraints Violation
III) Business Rule Contradiction
IV) Irregularities
V) Duplication

(I) and (IV) only 160

(II) and (III) only
(II), (III), and (IV) only
(I), (IV), and (V) only
16. Experience showed that for a single pass of magnetic tape that scanned 100% of the
records, only _________ of the records, sometimes were actually required.
5% pg 12
30%
50%
80%
17. Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems

Aggregates pg 111
Facts
Dimensions
Primary Keys
18. Single value attributes during recording of a transaction are __________

Dimensions pg 115
Facts
Aggregates
Constraints
19. In full extraction, data is extracted completely from the source system. Therefore there
is no need to keep track of changes to the ________

Data Source pg 133

DWH
Data Mart
Data Destination
20. Within the data warehousing domain, data ________ is applied especially when several
databases are merged.

Extraction
Loading
Cleansing pg 168
Join

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