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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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) ____________.






19. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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 ________________.






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






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






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






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






41. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






47. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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