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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ___________ is not a characteristic of a data warehouse.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






39. 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 ________________.






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






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






42. A synonym for data mining






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. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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