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Data Mining

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The deletion of a record that also deletes related records is referred to as a(n) _____.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. ___________________ 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 process that records how data from operational data stores and external sources are transformed on the way into the warehouse is referred to as ________________.






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






19. 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.






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. 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) ____________.






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






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






24. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. _________ 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.






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






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






34. An ___________ relates two other objects.






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






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






37. Are a data mining technology.






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






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






40. A synonym for data mining






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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