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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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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. You can save the results of a query as a table by including the _____ clause in the query.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. _________ 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






31. 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) ____________.






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






34. A synonym for data mining






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






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






37. Are a data mining technology.






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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)






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






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






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