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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






6. 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)






7. 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 ________________.






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






9. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






31. _________ 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. A synonym for data mining






45. Are a data mining technology.






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






47. 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






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






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






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