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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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1. The SQL command for deleting the Warehouse field from the Part table is _____.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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 ________________.






11. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. _________ 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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)






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






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






40. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






42. A synonym for data mining






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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