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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Semantic object link (SOL) attributes establish a relationship between one _______ and another.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. An ___________ relates two other objects.






16. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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 ________________.






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






43. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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