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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A synonym for data mining






2. The _____ operation of two tables results in a single table with the same columns as the first table - and containing all rows that are in the first table merged with all the rows in the second table - minus any duplicate rows.






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






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






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






6. Are a data mining technology.






7. A common example of the use of association methods where a retailer can mine the data generated by a point-of-sale system - such as the price scanner you are familiar with at the grocery store is referred to as:






8. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






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






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






13. Which statement will take away user privileges to the database?






14. The _______________________ represents the source data for the DW. This layer is comprised - primarily - of operational transaction processing systems and external secondary databases.






15. Which rule would you be violating - if you tried to delete a sales rep record - who currently has customers on file?






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Information about tables in the database is kept in the _____.






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






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






26. Twice as likely to identify the important class (compared to avg. prevalence)






27. Gives us an idea of the magnitude of errors. Actual value - estimated value.






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






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






30. 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)






31. Which data mining technique utilizes linkage analysis to search operational transactions for patterns with a high probability of repetition?






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






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






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






35. ____________ would not normally be associated with ROUTINE data warehouse maintenance.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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 ________________.






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






45. An economic feasibility measure. So is Internal rate of return.






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






47. 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) ____________.






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






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






50. ___________________ 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