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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A synonym for data mining






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






8. 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:






9. 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 ________________.






10. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






23. _________ 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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