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Data Mining

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






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






3. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






6. ___________________ 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






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






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






9. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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 ________________.






24. 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) ____________.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. A synonym for data mining






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






33. 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






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






35. 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:






36. 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)






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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