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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 analytical-oriented organizational structure is a data warehouse _____________.






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






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






4. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






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






8. 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) ____________.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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 ________________.






48. 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.






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






50. A synonym for data mining