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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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)






17. ___________________ 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






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






19. A synonym for data mining






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






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






22. A compound semantic object is an object that contains at least one ____.






23. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






27. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






32. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






38. _________ seeks to ensure that each application under development is fully integrated within its own boundaries and to eliminate any inconsistencies in the final software product.






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






40. Which of the following is at the center of a star schema?






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






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






43. 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






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






45. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






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






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






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