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Data Mining

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1. The SQL built-in functions - which may appear on the same line as the SELECT statement (before the FROM clause) are called _____ functions.






2. A synonym for data mining






3. An analytical-oriented organizational structure is a data warehouse _____________.






4. The term "ETL" in data warehousing stands for: Extraction - ________________________ - & Loading.






5. Which function calculates the number of entries in a table?






6. Useful for assessing performance in terms of identifying the most important class. Helps such choices as: How many tax records to examine; How many loans to grant; How many customers to mail an offer






7. The product of two tables is also called the ________ product.






8. The ACCESS feature that tests to see if your tables are normalized properly is the ____.






9. The set of activities used to find new - hidden - or unexpected patterns in data is referred to as _____.






10. A single column that you create for an entity to serve as the primary key - because you otherwise would need many concatenated columns to do so - is called a(n) ____________.






11. The deletion of a record that also deletes related records is referred to as a(n) _____.






12. Which function should be used to calculate the total of all entries in a given column?






13. ___________ determines exactly what level of detail constitutes a fact record.






14. 'Signatures' are used for intrusion detection by _______?






15. Semantic object link (SOL) attributes establish a relationship between one _______ and another.






16. To create the primary key clause for the Customer table on the CustomerNum field - which of the following is the correct statement?






17. You can save the results of a query as a table by including the _____ clause in the query.






18. In general - ______________ are transformed to relations/tables by defining one relation for the object itself and another relation for each multivalued attribute.






19. An ___________ relates two other objects.






20. The process that records how data from operational data stores and external sources are transformed on the way into the warehouse is referred to as ________________.






21. When an entity has a minimum cardinality of one it means the entity is required in _______.






22. R- squared(and adjusted r-squared) - A measure of how much of the variability around the target mean is explained by your predictive variables. Doesn't mean you have a good predictive model—only validation will tell you that






23. ___________________ is used to relate one set of outcomes (dependent variable) to a set of predictor (independent) variables (e.g. - in time series analysis). Through this analysis we attempt to predictive future events - as the dependent variables b






24. Increased affordability of ____________ is a reason for the growth in popularity of data mining.






25. On an ER Diagram the number (mark) on relationship line that is farthest away from each entity (rectangle) represents the _______ cardinality.






26. This is not considered one of the four major categories of processing algorithms and rule approaches.






27. A powerful trend in IT is known as - which maintains that Computer transmission speed doubles every 18 months.






28. Which clause would be used to create groups of records?






29. A Star diagram has two types of tables (objects). They are called the___________________ tables and ; fact tables.






30. Gives an idea of systematic over- or under-prediction. Magnitude of average absolute error.






31. Within most organizations - the person known as the _____ determines the type of access various users can have to the corporate or enterprise database.






32. Models that do ___________: MLR; KNN; Regression and Classification Trees; ANN; SVM






33. Organizes and analyzes data as an n-dimensional cube. The cube can be thought of as a common spreadsheet with two extensions: (1) support for multiple dimensions and (2) support for multiple concurrent users.






34. __________ occurs when the initial scope of a project continues to expand as new features are incorporated into the project.






35. A ___________ combines result sets from more than one fact table.






36. Which of the following database design and data warehouse design approaches is viewed to take a more strategic rather than operational perspective?






37. The SQL command for deleting the Warehouse field from the Part table is _____.






38. The process by which numerical data is converted into graphical images is referred to as:






39. Are a data mining technology.






40. The minimum cardinality and m is the maximum cardinality Cardinalities in Semantic Objects are shown as subscripts in the format n-m where _____






41. A _____________ is a system-generated primary key.






42. Which statement removes the table Salesrep from a DBMS?






43. To add a new row to a table - use the _____ command.






44. These are considered an alternate storage techniques for data warehousing include.






45. The term _____ has been generally agreed to represent the broadest category of software technology that enables decision makers to conduct many dimensional analysis of consolidated enterprise data.






46. ___________ is not a characteristic of a data warehouse.






47. Generally Semantic Object Modeling (SOM) is consideredmore bottom-up oriented than _____________.






48. Not the same as goodness-of-fit; We want to know how well the model predicts new data - not how well it fits the data it was trained with; Key component of most measures is difference between actual y and predicted y (error)






49. Why are Star Schemas so useful in Financial Planning and Accounting Information Systems?






50. An alternative to the data warehouse concept is a lower-cost - scaled-down version referred to as the _____________.







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