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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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 ________________.






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






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






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






17. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






21. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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) ____________.






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






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






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






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






49. A synonym for data mining






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