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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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 ________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






10. ___________________ 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






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






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






13. An ___________ relates two other objects.






14. A synonym for data mining






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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) ____________.






33. _________ 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






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






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






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