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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process by which numerical data is converted into graphical images is referred to as:






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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)






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






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






11. A synonym for data mining






12. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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:






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






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






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






22. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






30. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. ___________________ 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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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 ________________.






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






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






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