Data Mining

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining
LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Select The Blank

Question
Semantic integration of ________ genome database is the important task of DNA analysis.
Correct Answer Heterogeneous and distributed
Your Answer
Heterogeneous and distributed
Multiple Choice Single Answer

Question
Main advantage of following which method is it's fast processing?
Correct Answer Grid based
Your Answer
Partioning based
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Question
With the widespread option of ________ real-time connection is viable for data
warehouse.
Correct Answer TCP/IP
Your Answer
HTTP
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Question
________ are responsible for running queries and reports against data warehouse tables.
Correct Answer End users
Your Answer
End users
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Question
Advantages of Wavelet transformation for clustering are :Correct Answer Unsupervised clustering , Detection of cluster for accuracy , Clustering is fast
Your Answer
Unsupervised clustering , Clustering is fast , Decomposition of cluster for accuracy

Question
Query tool is meant for :Correct Answer Data acquisition
Your Answer
Information delivery

Question
Which of the following function involves data cleaning, data standardizing and
summarizing?
Correct Answer Transforming data
Your Answer
Storing data
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Question
Creating ________is violation of Normalization principles.
Correct Answer Array
Your Answer
Array
True/False
Question
Data Mining refers to extracting knowledge from larger amount of data.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True

Question
Which of the following of Grid based clustering method explorates statistical information?
Correct Answer STING
Your Answer
CLIQUE
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Question
In ________ type smoothing, minimum and maximum values in given bin are identified as
bin boundaries.
Correct Answer Smoothing by bin boundaries
Your Answer
Smoothing by medians
Select The Blank

Question
________ can store aggregate and detail data at varying levels of resolution or
abstraction.
Correct Answer Index tree
Your Answer
R-Tree
Select The Blank

Question
________ is the platform for complex data transformation for the purpose of cleanse it
Correct Answer Separate optimal Platform
Your Answer
Legacy platform

Question
SMP provides the features like :Correct Answer Each node has access to common set of disks , Controllers which are accessible to all
processors , Each processor has full access to the shared memory though common bus
Your Answer
Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full access to the
shared memory though common bus , It is cluster of nodes
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Question
Metadata is essential for IT for :Correct Answer Source data structures , Data summarization
Your Answer
Web enabling , Source data structures , Data summarization

Question
Financial data called for banking and financial industry are often relatively :Correct Answer Complete , Reliable , High Quality
Your Answer
Complete , Reliable , Correct
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Question
________ option of warehouse architecture provides incremental growth.
Correct Answer Cluster
Your Answer
Cluster
Match The Following

Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Operating systems compatibility
Security, reliability, availability
Security, reliability, availability
Data Acquisition
Data Extraction, Transformation,

clensing, integration
Data loading , Archiving

clensing, integration
Data loading , Archiving
Report generation, query

processing and complex analysis
Report generation, query processing

and complex analysis
Data Storage
Information Delivery
True/False
Question
A cluster is a collection of similar data objects in same cluster and disimilar to objects in
another cluster.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer
True

Question
Which of the following method creates copies of data in distributed environment?
Correct Answer Replication
Your Answer
Replication

Question
Capture at data source and that's why this method is quite reliable :-
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Question
Deviation based outlier detection identifes outliers by :Correct Answer
Examining character of objects in groups
Your Answer
Examining character of objects in groups
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Question
________ component of warehouse is responsible for coordinating services and
activities within the data warehouse.
Correct Answer Management and Control
Your Answer
True/False
Question
Management and Control
Correct Answer
Sequential pattern analysis and similarity search techniques have been developed in
data mining.
True
Your Answer
True
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Question
For operational system, the stored data contains ________values.
Correct Answer
Current data
Your Answer
Current data
True/False
Question
Intelligent miner is an IBM data mining product.
Correct Answer
True
Your Answer
True
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Question
The technique of ________ enables concurrent input/output operations and improves
file's access performance substantially.
Correct Answer File striping
Your Answer
File striping

Question
SMP provides the features like :Correct Answer
Your Answer
Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full access to
the shared memory though common bus , Each node has access to common set of
disks
Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full access to
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Question
Which type of Grid clustering depends on the granularity of lowest level of grid structure?
Correct Answer STING
Your Answer
OPTICS

Question
Which of the following option of data extraction is known as application assisted data
capture?
Correct Answer Capture in source application
Your Answer
Capture by comparing files
True/False
Question
Moving data into staging area and performing data transformation function is a part of data
acquisition.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer
True

Question
The objective for physical design of data warehouse are :Correct Answer Improve performance , Ensure scalability , Manage store
Your Answer
Improve performance , Ensure scalability , Manage database

Question
User must have proper access to metadata for performing responsibilities of :Correct Answer Design , Administration
Your Answer
Design , Administration , Management

Question
In Intelligent miner the data mining product provides data mining algorithm including
Correct Answer Association , Classification , Regression
Your Answer
Association , Regression , Aggregation

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The big difference between data warehouse and any operational system is its :Correct Answer Usage
Your Answer
Organization
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________ method of regression is useful when errors fails to satisfy normal conditions.
Correct Answer Robust
Your Answer
Robust
True/False
Question
Data classification is two step process in which first step includes classfication of model
and in second step model describes set of data.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer
True
True/False
Question
Data cleansing means removing noisy and inconsistent data.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True

Question
Following factors play important role in financial analysis :Correct Answer Data warehouse , Data cubes , Outliner analysis
Your Answer
Data warehouse , Data cubes , Data accuracy

Question
The dimensions of spatial data cube are :Correct Answer Non- spatial dimension , Spatial to non spatial , Spatial to spatial
Your Answer
Non- spatial dimension , Spatial to non spatial , Spatial to spatial

Question
OLAP is used for :Correct Answer Online Analytical Processing
Your Answer
Online Analytical Processing
True/False
Question
Metadata acts like a nerve center.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True
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Question
The technique of data clustering facilitates :Correct Answer Serial access
Your Answer
Indexed access
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Question
In ________ type smoothing, minimum and maximum values in given bin are identified as
bin boundaries.
Correct Answer Smoothing by bin boundaries
Your Answer
Smoothing by bin boundaries

Question
The ways of Intra query parallelization are :Correct Answer Horizontal parallelization , Vertical Parallelization , Hybrid parallelization
Your Answer
Vertical Parallelization , Homogenous parallelization
True/False
Question
One of the most important search problem in genetic analysis is similarity search and
comparison among DNA sequence.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer
True

Question
User must have proper access to metadata for performing responsibilities of :Correct Answer Design , Administration
Your Answer
Administration , Management , Accessing
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Question
________ is the platform for complex data transformation for the purpose of cleanse it
Correct Answer Separate optimal Platform
Your Answer
Legacy platform

Question
Classification and Prediction have following applications :Correct Answer Credit approval , Medical Diagnosis , Performance Prediction
Your Answer
Credit approval , Selective Marketing
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Question
DNA sequences are comprised of :Correct Answer Gaunine , Thymine , Adenine
Your Answer
Gaunine , Thymine , Adenine , Cytocine
True/False
Question
Loan payment prediction and customer credit analysis are critical to business of bank.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True

Question
Preprocessing steps of data in order to help improve accuracy, efficiency and scalability of
classification & prediction are :Correct Answer Data Cleaning , Relevance Analysis , Data Transformation
Your Answer
Data Cleaning , Relevance Analysis , Data Transformation

Question
The big difference between data warehouse and any operational system is its :Correct Answer Usage
Your Answer
Usage
True/False
Question
Data cleansing means removing noisy and inconsistent data.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True
True/False
Question
Moving data into staging area and performing data transformation function is a part of data
acquisition.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer
True
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Question
________ option of warehouse architecture provides incremental growth.
Correct Answer Cluster
Your Answer
Cluster
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Question
________ is a summarization of general characteristics or features of a target class of data.
Correct Answer Data Characterization
Your Answer
Data Generalization

Question
The pilot which is useful for user and project team both as it touches all important functions
is :Correct Answer Expanded seed pilot
Your Answer
User tool appreciation pilot

Question
Which of the following technique involves placing and managing related units of data in
same physical block of storage
Correct Answer Clustering
Your Answer
Clustering

Question
History of metadata includes :Correct Answer Changes to source system , Data extraction methods , Data transformation algorithm
Your Answer
Changes to source system , Data extraction methods

Question
Which of the following approach requires more computation?
Correct Answer Filter approach
Your Answer
Filter approach
True/False
Question
The substantial part of historical data comes form antiquated legacy system.
Correct Answer True

Your Answer
True

Question
Data reduction includes :Correct Answer Single value decomposition , Wavelets , Regression
Your Answer
Single value decomposition , Wavelets , Regression
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True/False
Question
Correct Answer
Matching the choice of DBMS with selected server hardware is not important for
warehouse.
False
Your Answer
False
Match The Following

Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Metadata
Roadmap for user
Roadmap for user
Data storage
Data management
Data management
Data staging
Workbench for data
Workbench for data
Data Mining
Knowledge discovery
Knowledge discovery
True/False
Question
Correct Answer
Database systems, data warehouse system and world wide web have become
mainstream information system.
True
Your Answer
True

Question
Bitmapped indexes are more suitable for data warehouse environment than for an OLTP
system
Correct Answer Bitmapped index
Your Answer
Bitmapped index

Question
The big difference between data warehouse and any operational system is its :Correct Answer
Usage
Your Answer
Usage

Question
One major effort within data transformation is :Correct Answer
Improvement of data quality
Your Answer
Analysis of data quality

Question
Which of the following technique is used to display group summary statistics?
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Question: ________ function of data staging component involves many forms of combining
pieces of data from different sources.
Correct Answer: Data Transformation
Your Answer: Data Transformation
Question: The Main areas of Data Warehouse are :Correct Answer: Data acquisition , Data Storage , Information Delivery
Your Answer: Data acquisition , Data Storage , Information Delivery
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Question: Data cleansing and ________ methods of data mining helps in integration of genetic
data and construction of warehouse for genetic data analysis.
Correct Answer: Integration
Your Answer: Integration
Question: The dimensions of spatial data cube are :Correct Answer: Non- spatial dimension , Spatial to non spatial , Spatial to spatial
Your Answer: Non- spatial dimension , Spatial to non spatial , Spatial to spatial
Question: In data reduction, the cluster representations of data are used to :Correct Answer: Replace data
Your Answer: Represent actual data
Question: Distinguishing characteristics of data warehouse architecture are :Correct Answer: Different Objective Scope , Data Content , Flexible and Dynamic
Your Answer: Different Objective Scope , Complete Analysis and Quick Response , Flexible and
Dynamic
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Question: In data warehouse architecture, the ________ component interleaves with and
connects other components.
Correct Answer: Metadata
Your Answer: Metadata
Question: Methods for outlier detection are categorised into following approaches :Correct Answer: Statistical , Distance based , Deviation based
Your Answer: Statistical , Distance based , Deviation based
True/False
Question: Metadata describes all the pertinent aspects of the data in data warehouse.
Correct Answer: True
Your Answer: True
Question: Financial data called for banking and financial industry are often relatively :-
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Correct Answer: Complete , Reliable , High Quality
Your Answer: Complete , Reliable , High Quality
Question: Classification and Prediction have following applications :Correct Answer: Credit approval , Medical Diagnosis , Performance Prediction
Your Answer: Credit approval , Medical Diagnosis , Performance Prediction
True/False
Question: Data Integration means multiple resourses may be combined.
Your Answer: True
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Question: ________ can store aggregate and detail data at varying levels of resolution or
abstraction.
Correct Answer: Index tree
Your Answer: Multidimensional index tree
True/False
Question: Moving data into staging area and performing data transformation function is a part of
data acquisition.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Lower the level of detail, finer the data granularity.
Your Answer: True
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Question: ________ is an alternative aggolomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm.
Correct Answer: ROCK
Your Answer: ROCK
Question: Real world databases are highly susceptible to noisy, missing and inconsistent data
due to :Correct Answer: Huge size of data
Your Answer: Huge size of data
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Question: ________ does not handle categorical attributes.
Correct Answer: CURE
Your Answer: ROCK
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Question: The ________ record is one-to-many relationship with corresponding fact table record.
Correct Answer: Dimension tables
Your Answer: Dimension tables
True/False
Question: In Database system multidimensional index trees are primarily used for providing fast
data access.
Your Answer: True
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Match The Following

Question
Data Mining
Metadata
Data storage
Data staging
Correct Answer
Knowledge discovery
Roadmap for user
Data management
Workbench for data
Your Answer
Knowledge discovery
Roadmap for user
Data management
Workbench for data

Question: The different analysis tools which are useful to detect unusual patterns such as large
amount of cash flow at certain period by certain group of people are :Correct Answer: Linkage analysis tool , Outlier analysis tool , Sequential pattern analysis tool
Your Answer: Linkage analysis tool , Outlier analysis tool , Sequential pattern analysis tool
Match The Following
Question
Disparate data
Non volatile data
Data granularity
Data from external
source
Correct Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Your Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data

Question: Data can be smoothed by filling the data to function such as :Correct Answer: Regression
Your Answer: Regression
True/False
Question: MDDBMS stands for - Multilevel Database Management System.
Correct Answer: False
Your Answer: False
Question: When you use tool for design and development, following things take place with
metadata :Correct Answer: Metadata is no longer passive document , Metadata takes part in process ,
Metadata aids in automation of data warehouse process
Your Answer: Metadata is no longer passive document , Metadata takes part in process ,
Question: Data partitioning, data clustering are the techniques for :Correct Answer: Performance enhancement
Your Answer: Performance enhancement
Question: The functions of data acquisition are :Correct Answer: Data Extraction , Data Transformation
Your Answer: Data Extraction , Data Transformation
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Question: Human being have around ________ gene.
Correct Answer: 100000
Your Answer: 100000
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Question: Which of the following type executes query operations in pipeline manner?
Correct Answer: Vertical parallelism
Your Answer: Vertical parallelism
True/False
Question: Data cleansing means removing noisy and inconsistent data.
Your Answer: True
Question: When DDL statements are created using database software, so to create an index
system creates :Correct Answer: B-Tree index
Your Answer: B-Tree index
True/False
Question: Architecture comes first, tools follows it.
Your Answer: True
Question: Following are the theories for the basis of data mining :Correct Answer: Pattern discovery , Probability theory , Microeconomic view
Your Answer: Pattern discovery , Probability theory , Microeconomic view
True/False
Question: Data preprocessing is an important step in knowledge discovery process.
Your Answer: True
Question: The Architecture defines :Correct Answer: Measurements , Standard , General Design
Your Answer: Measurements , Standard , Standard Techniques
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Question: ________ technique contribute to machine learning, neural network, association
mining, sequential pattern mining.
Correct Answer: Pattern discovery
Your Answer: Pattern discovery
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Classification tool
To filter unrelated attributes
Your Answer
To characterize unusual access
sequence
Clustering tool To group different cases
Transaction activity using graph
Data visualization
Transaction activity using
To group different cases
Tool
graph
Linkage analysis tool
To identify links
To identify links
Question: Data processing techniques are :Correct Answer: Cleansing , Integration , Transformation
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Your Answer: Cleansing , Integration , Transformation
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Question: Creating ________is violation of Normalization principles.
Correct Answer: Array
Your Answer: Cluster
Question: Building blocks of Data Warehouse are :Correct Answer: Source Data , Data Staging , Management and Control
Your Answer: Source Data , Data Staging , Data Manager
Question: OPTICS regarding clustering stands for :Correct Answer: Ordering Points to identify the clustering Structure
Your Answer: Ordering Points to identify the clustering Structure
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Question: ________ that unable massive quantities of data to be transported from one
platform to another.
Correct Answer: Data ports
Your Answer: Data ports
True/False
Question: Sequential pattern analysis and similarity search techniques have been developed in
data mining.
Your Answer: True
Question: The stored values of an attribute represents the value of attribute at this moment of
time is :Correct Answer: Current value
Your Answer: Value of attribute
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Data loading tool
Primary key generation Bulk extraction for full refresh
Data modeling tool
Data Extraction tool
Data transformation
tool
Reverse Engineering
Capabilities
Bulk extraction for full
refresh
Default values
Reverse Engineering capabilities

Default values
Primary key generation
True/False
Question: Audio data mining can be an interesting alternative to visual mining.
Your Answer: True
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Question: Most of the warehouses employ ________ database Management System.
Correct Answer: Relational
Your Answer: Hierarchical
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Question: For processing metadata in informal delivery area, data can be referred back for :Correct Answer: Data structure , Data transformation , Source data configuration
Your Answer: Source data configuration , Data structure , Data transformation
Question: Following are the types of normalization :Correct Answer: Min-Max Normalization , Z-score normalization , Normalization by scaling
Your Answer: Min-Max Normalization , Z-score normalization , Normalization by scaling
Question: Following clustering method is classified as being agglomerative or divisive :Correct Answer: Grid based
Your Answer: Partioning based
Question: The big difference between data warehouse and any operational system is its :Correct Answer: Usage
Your Answer: Structure
Question: Following are the data movement options in data warehouse :Correct Answer: Shared disk , Mass data transmission , Real time connection
Your Answer: Shared disk , Mass data transmission , Real time connection
True/False
Question: Data Mining refers to extracting knowledge from larger amount of data.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: Indexed ________ engines search index,web pages and build huge keyword based
indices which help to search sets of web pages containing certain keywords
Correct Answer: Web Search
Your Answer: Web Search
Question: Data base miner provides multiple data mining algorithms including :Correct Answer: Discovery driven OLAP analysis , Association , Classification
Your Answer: Discovery driven OLAP analysis , Association , Regression
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Question: ________ method of regression is useful when errors fails to satisfy normal
conditions.
Correct Answer: Robust
Your Answer: Non parametric
True/False
Question: All data extraction, transformation, integration and staging jobs run on selected
hardware under chosen operating system.
Your Answer: True
Question: Deviation based outlier detection identifes outliers by :Correct Answer: Examining character of objects in groups
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Your Answer: Examining character of objects in groups
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Question: It is good practice to drop ________ before initial load.
Correct Answer: Index
Your Answer: Index
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Question: Most of DBMS have ________ index techniques as default index techniques.
Correct Answer: B-Tree
Your Answer: B-Tree
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Question: In ________ duplicate sub trees exist within the tree.
Correct Answer: Repetition
Your Answer: Fragmentation
Question: Which is the typical example of Grid based clustering method
Correct Answer: STING
Your Answer: DBSCAN
True/False
Question: In the data acquisition area, the data flow begins at the data sources and pauses at
staging area.
Your Answer: True
Question: In data storage area , DBA uses metadata for processes of :Correct Answer: Backup , Recovery , Tuning Database
Your Answer: Backup , Recovery
True/False
Question: Descriptive mining takes perform ingerence on current data which predictive mining
characterize the general properties of data in database
Your Answer: True
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Question: When data block contains excessive amount of free space, performance ________
Correct Answer: Degenerates
Your Answer: Degenerates
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Question: ________ platform is the platform on which the data warehouse DBMS runs and
database exist.
Correct Answer: Data storage
Your Answer: Legacy
Question: Data integration means :Correct Answer: Integrating database , Integrating cubes , Integrating files
Your Answer: Integrating database , Integrating cubes , Integrating files
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Question: Which technique analyze experimental data?
Correct Answer: Analysis of variance
Your Answer: Analysis of variance
True/False
Question: Smoothing by bin means each value in bin is replaced by the mean value of the
bucket.
Your Answer: True
Question: Maintenance of cache consistency is the limitation of :Correct Answer: MPP
Your Answer: SMP
Question: Substantial portion of Business metadata originates from :Correct Answer: Textual documents , Spreadsheets , Business rules
Your Answer: Textual documents , Spreadsheets , Business rules
Question: Redundancies can be deleted by :Correct Answer: Co-relational analysis
Your Answer: Relational analysis
Question: Data reduction obtains a reduced representation of data set that is :Correct Answer: Much smaller
Your Answer: Much smaller
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conditions.
Your Answer: Robust
Question: Bitmap index takes significantly less space than which type of index?
Correct Answer: B-Tree index
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Question: ________components consists all the different ways of making the information from
the data warehouse available to the user.
Correct Answer: Information Delivery
Your Answer: Information Delivery
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True/False
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Data acquisition , Data Storage , Information Delivery
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Question: ________ is density based clustering method which computes on augumented
clustering ordering for automic ordering for automatic and interactive cluster analysis
Correct Answer: DBSCAN
Your Answer: DBSCAN
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Load Utility
High performance data High performance data loading,
loading, recovery
recovery
Query Governer
Abort runaway query
Active data catalog/directory
Query Optimizer
Parsing, optimizing query
Query Management
Balancing extraction of query
Execution and rescheduling queries
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the type of pilot for early delivery with broader scope and may be
integrated.
Correct Answer: Broad business pilot
Your Answer: Broad business pilot
Question: The smoothing techniques are :Correct Answer: Binning , Clustering , Regression
Your Answer: Clustering , Regression
Question: Which of the following data warehouse component includes dependent data marts,
special multidimensional database and full range of query and reporting facilities?
Correct Answer: Information Delivery component
Your Answer: Metadata Component
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Question: The technique of ________ enables concurrent input/output operations and improves
Correct Answer: File striping
Your Answer: File striping
True/False
Question: Management architectural component manages and controls data acquisition
functions.
Your Answer: True
Question: If many indexes are needed, then on which table which option is more preferable?
Correct Answer: Splitting of tables
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Your Answer: Rearranging of tables
Question: Which of the following of Grid based clustering method explorates statistical
information?
Your Answer: STING
Question: Attribute construction is the part of :Correct Answer: Transformation
Your Answer: Aggregation
Question: DNA sequences are comprised of :Correct Answer: Adenine , Gaunine , Thymine
Your Answer: Gaunine , Thymine , Adenine
Select The Blank
Your Answer: B-Tree
Match The Following
Question
Disparate data
Non volatile data
Data granularity
Data from external
source
Correct Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Your Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data

Question: Data reduction reduces data size by :Correct Answer: Aggregation , Eliminating redundant features
Your Answer: Aggregation , Eliminating redundant features , Restructuring
True/False
Question: Data integration merges data from multiple sources into coherent sources.
Your Answer: True
Question: The option "capture in source application technique of data extraction degrades
performance of source application because :Correct Answer: Additional processing needs
Your Answer: Additional processing needed to capture changes on separate files
Question: Data partitioning, data clustering are the techniques for :Correct Answer: Performance enhancement
Your Answer: Performance enhancement
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True/False
Question: COBWEB is an extension of CLASSIT for incremental clustering of contineous data.
Your Answer: True
Question: Following are the issues to consider during data integration :Correct Answer: Detection and resolution of data values , Schema integration , Redundancy
Your Answer: Schema integration , Redundancy , Detection and resolution of data values
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
Your Answer: Metadata is no longer passive document , Metadata takes part in process ,
True/False
Question: Data mining is not that much powerful tool for vast data such as gene sequences in
DNA analysis.
Your Answer: False
True/False
Question: Easily accessible metadata is crucial for end users.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: False
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Question: ________ is the platform for complex data transformation for the purpose of cleanse it
Correct Answer: Separate optimal Platform
Your Answer: Separate optimal Platform
Select The Blank
Question: Following are the data movement options in data warehouse :Correct Answer: Shared disk , Mass data transmission , Real time connection
Your Answer: Shared disk , Mass data transmission , Real time connection
Your Answer: Replace data
True/False
Your Answer: False
Question: For Incremental data loads the sequence is :Correct Answer: Triggering ->Filtering ->data extraction -> Transformation ->Integration
->cleansing
Your Answer: Triggering ->Filtering ->data extraction -> Transformation ->Integration ->cleansing
True/False
Question: COBWEB incrementally incarporates objects into classification tree.
Your Answer: True
True/False
data acquisition.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: Which of the following method is built on Influece function?
Correct Answer: DENCLUE
Your Answer: STING
Question: Which of the following methods for regression is used on sparse data :-
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Correct Answer: Regression and log-linear model
Your Answer: Regression and log-linear model
Your Answer: Source Data , Data Staging , Management and Control
Question: SMP stands for :Correct Answer: Symmetric Multiprocessing
Your Answer: Symmetric Multiprocessing
Question: Partitioning in physical design of data warehouse consists of :Correct Answer: Fact tables and dimension tables , Number of partitions for each table , Criteria
for dividing table
Your Answer: Fact tables and dimension tables , Number of partitions for each table , Criteria for
dividing table
True/False
Question: A cluster is a collection of similar data objects in same cluster and disimilar to objects
in another cluster.
Your Answer: True
Question: The functional areas of metadata are :Correct Answer: Data Acquisition , Data storage , Information delivery
Your Answer: Data transformation , Data Acquisition , Information delivery
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Question: ________ regression involves finding the best time to fit two variables.
Correct Answer: Linear
Your Answer: Linear
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Administration Providing support for all Support for System administration
DBA functions
Extensibility
Hybrid Extension to OLAP
Hybrid Extension to OLTP database
database
Portability
Across platform
Across platform
Query tool
APIs For tools from loading
Providing support for all DBA vendors
functions
Question: Which of the following type of processing provides high concurrency?
Correct Answer: SMP
Your Answer: ccNUMA
Match The Following
Question
Data Mining
Metadata
Data storage
Correct Answer
Knowledge discovery
Roadmap for user
Data management
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Your Answer
Knowledge discovery
Roadmap for user
Data management

Data staging
Workbench for data
Workbench for data

Your Answer: Statistical , Distance based , Deviation based
Your Answer: Grid based
Select The Blank
Question: The ways of Intra query parallelization are :Correct Answer: Horizontal parallelization , Vertical Parallelization , Hybrid parallelization
Your Answer: Horizontal parallelization , Vertical Parallelization , Hybrid parallelization
Question: The objective for physical design of data warehouse are :Correct Answer: Improve performance , Ensure scalability , Manage store
Your Answer: Improve performance , Ensure scalability , Manage database
True/False
Question: Metadata is building block of data warehouse.
Your Answer: True
Question: What improves accuracy and speed of subsequent mining process?
Select The Blank
Question: For operational system, the stored data contains ________values.
Correct Answer: Current data
Your Answer: Current data
Question: Enterprise miner technique provides data mining algorithms including distinguishing
feature as :Correct Answer: Advanced Statistical and advanced visualization tool
Your Answer: Robust Graphics tools
Question: Splitting of query by DBMS in intra query parallelization is for :Correct Answer: Index read , Data read , Data joint
Your Answer: Index read , Data read , Data joint
Question: Which of the following approach requires more computation?
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Correct Answer: Filter approach
Your Answer: Filter approach
True/False
Question: Data in warehouse is primarily for query.
Your Answer: False
Question: Simple matching approach is used for computing disimilarity between two objects for :Correct Answer: Nominal variable
Your Answer: Invariant variable
Select The Blank
Question: ________ are the inter platform devices that unable massive quantities of data to be
transported from one platform to another.
Your Answer: Min-Max Normalization , Z-score normalization , Normalization by scaling
Select The Blank
Question: ________ technique can be used to reduce the number of values for a given
continuous attribute by dividing range of attributes into interval.
Correct Answer: Descretization
Your Answer: Descretization
True/False
Your Answer: False
Select The Blank
abstraction.
Your Answer: Index tree
Select The Blank
Question: ________ architecture is more concerned with data access than memory access.
Correct Answer: MPP
Your Answer: SMP
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: The Main areas of Data Warehouse are :-
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Correct Answer: Data acquisition , Data Storage , Information Delivery
Your Answer: Data Storage , Information Delivery , Data acquisition
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the navigational map of data warehouse.
Correct Answer: End user Metadata
Your Answer: End user Metadata
Question: Which of the following option is to share data by placing data at common place :Correct Answer: Shared disk
Your Answer: Shared disk
Question: Data mining is applicable to :Correct Answer: Relational Database , Data Warehouse , Transaction Database
Your Answer: Relational Database , Data Warehouse , Transaction Database
Your Answer: Filter approach
Match The Following
Question
Clustering
Dimension reduction
Data compression
Wrapper approach
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Data tuples as objects
Removal of irrelevant data
More computations
More computations
Great accuracy
Great accuracy
Select The Blank

Question: According to ________ theory database schema consist of data and patterns that are
stored in database.
Correct Answer: Inductive databases
Your Answer: Inductive databases
True/False
Question: Data cubes created for varying levels of abstraction are referred as cuboids.
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Measurements , Standard , General Design
Your Answer: Metadata aids in automation of data warehouse process , Metadata is no longer
passive document , Metadata takes part in process
True/False
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Your Answer: True
Question: Before moving data to data warehouse is has to go through :Correct Answer: Transformation , Integration , Consolidation
Your Answer: Transformation , Integration , Consolidation
Match The Following
Question
Disparate data
Non volatile data
Data granularity
Data from external
source
Correct Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Your Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Select The Blank

Question: ________ is the time consuming and less feasible approach for filling missing values.
Correct Answer: Filling missing values manually
Your Answer: Use of row mean
Select The Blank
Your Answer: ROCK
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ component of warehouse is responsible for coordinating services and
Correct Answer: Management and Control
Your Answer: Management and Control
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Descretization
Select The Blank
True/False
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Question: In Linear regression data are modeled to fit a straight line.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
database exist.
Your Answer: Data storage
Your Answer: Replace data
Question: The DWT ( Discret Wavlet Transform) is a :Correct Answer: Linear single processing technique
Your Answer: Linear single processing technique
Question: Financial data called for banking and financial industry are often relatively :Correct Answer: Complete , Reliable , High Quality
True/False
bucket.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: In ________ type smoothing, minimum and maximum values in given bin are
identified as bin boundaries.
Correct Answer: Smoothing by bin boundaries
Your Answer: Smoothing by bin boundaries
Your Answer: Aggregation , Eliminating redundant features
True/False
data mining.
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Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the user who has all access privileges like system, database
administrator, for table and views.
Correct Answer: Security administrator
Your Answer: Power user
Question: Generalized linear model includes :Correct Answer: Logistic regression , Poisson regression
Your Answer: Logistic regression , Poisson regression
Question: The main categories of Metadata in warehouse are :Correct Answer: Operational , Extraction and transformation Metadata , End user Metadata
Your Answer: Operational , Extraction and transformation Metadata , End user Metadata
Question: Data migration affects performance requiring multiple blocks to be read which can be
adjusted by :Correct Answer: Block percent free
Your Answer: Block percent free
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: Data reduction by volume can be used for data representation using which type of
reduction?
Correct Answer: Numerosity reduction
Your Answer: Numerosity reduction
Question: Which of the following technique involves placing and managing related units of data
in same physical block of storage
Correct Answer: Clustering
Your Answer: Clustering

Question: Data mining is applicable to :Correct Answer: Transaction Database , Relational Database , Data Warehouse
Your Answer: Transaction Database , Relational Database , Data Warehouse
Select The Blank
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Your Answer: Chameleon
Select The Blank
Select The Blank
Question: The need for metadata is for :Correct Answer: Using data warehouse , Building data warehouse , Administration of warehouse
Your Answer: Building data warehouse , Administration of warehouse , Accessing data in
warehouse
Your Answer: Data Content , Complete Analysis and Quick Response , Flexible and Dynamic
Your Answer: Relational analysis
True/False
data acquisition.
Your Answer: True
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Load Image
To correspond to target files
Constructive merge
New record supercedes
Initial Load
Incremental Load
Populating data warehouse

table first time
Applying ongoing changes
Your Answer
Offline data warehouse
Populating data warehouse table first
time
Applying data
True/False
Question: COBWEB incrementally incarporates objects into classification tree.
Your Answer: True
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True/False
Question: A process of grouping a set of physical or abstract objects into classes of similar
objects is called clusiering
Your Answer: True
Question: Application server serves following purposes :Correct Answer: To run middleware and establish connectivity , To execute management and
control software , To manage metadata
Your Answer: To run middleware and establish connectivity , To execute management and
control software , To run OLTP application
True/False
Question: Data mining often requires data integration.
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Additional processing needs
Your Answer: Operational , Execution and Transformation Metadata , End user Metadata
Question: Which of the following method creates copies of data in distributed environment?
Correct Answer: Replication
Your Answer: Replication
Question: Common areas of application for mixed effect model includes :Correct Answer: Multiple data , Repeated measures data , Block designs
Your Answer: Multiple data , Repeated measures data , Block designs
Question: Following are the issues to consider during data integration :Correct Answer: Detection and resolution of data values , Schema integration , Redundancy
Your Answer: Schema integration , Redundancy , Inconsistency
True/False
bucket.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
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Question: The different analysis tools which are useful to detect unusual patterns such as large
amount of cash flow at certain period by certain group of people are :Correct Answer: Linkage analysis tool , Outlier analysis tool , Sequential pattern analysis tool
Your Answer: Linkage analysis tool , Complexity definition tool , Sequential pattern analysis tool
Select The Blank
stored in database.
Your Answer: Data compression
Question: Which of the following methods for regression is used on sparse data :Correct Answer: Regression and log-linear model
Question: The big difference between data warehouse and any operational system is its :Correct Answer: Usage
Question: In intermediate data extraction data capture through transaction log uses transaction
from :Correct Answer: Recovery from failure
Your Answer: Logs of successful transaction
Question: SMP provides the features like :Correct Answer: Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full
access to the shared memory though common bus , Each node has access to common set of
disks
Your Answer: Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each node has access to
common set of disks , It is cluster of nodes
Match The Following
Question
Data producer
Domain values
Update security
Referential integrity
Correct Answer
Responsible for data quality
Prevalent problem
Prevention of unauthorized
updates
Foreign key preserved
Your Answer
Foreign key preserved
Primary key introduced
Prevention of unauthorized
updates
Responsible for data quality
True/False
Question: Management architectural component manages and controls data acquisition
functions.
Your Answer: False
Question: EIS stands for :-
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Correct Answer: Executive Information System
Your Answer: Extracted Integrated System
True/False
Question: NUMA provides better scalability than SMP.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Correct Answer: MPP
Your Answer: MPP
Select The Blank
Your Answer: 1000000
True/False
Question: In Linear regression data are modeled to fit a straight line.
Your Answer: True
Question: Development and deployment of your data warehouse is joint effort between :Correct Answer: IT staff and user representatives
Your Answer: IT staff and developer
True/False
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Indexing
True/False
Question: Loan payment prediction and customer credit analysis are critical to business of bank.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Legacy platform
Select The Blank
Question: ________ clustering method follows statistical and neural network approach.
Correct Answer: Model based
Your Answer: Hierarchical Method
Question: DNA sequences are comprised of :-
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Correct Answer: Adenine , Gaunine , Thymine
Your Answer: Cytocine , Gaunine , Thymine
Question: Business metadata is useful for :Correct Answer: Providing support to end users , For external view of data , Provides technical
support to search data
Your Answer: Providing support to end users , For external view of data , Provides technical
support to search data , Helps in searching data
Your Answer: Grid based
Your Answer: Credit approval , Performance Prediction , Selective Marketing
Match The Following
Question
Disparate data
Non volatile data
Data granularity
Data from external source
Correct Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Your Answer
Internal data
Production data
Archive data
Query and analysis

Question: Bitmapped indexes are more suitable for data warehouse environment than for an
OLTP system
Correct Answer: Bitmapped index
Question: Queries run faster to find exact match using which type of indexing?
Correct Answer: Clustered index
Your Answer: Clustered index
True/False
Question: In Purning method, postpruning requires more computation than prepruning yet
generally leads to more reliable.
Your Answer: True
Question: Which of the following option is to share data by placing data at common place :Correct Answer: Shared disk
Your Answer: Mass data transmission
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Question: The category in which the value of each attribute is preserved as status every time a
change occurs is :Correct Answer: Periodic status
Your Answer: Periodic status
True/False
Question: Intelligent miner is an IBM data mining product.
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Transformation
True/False
Question: Metadata acts like a nerve center.
Your Answer: True
Question: Data reduction includes :Correct Answer: Single value decomposition , Wavelets , Regression
Your Answer: Wavelets , Regression
True/False
Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: Preprocessing steps of data in order to help improve accuracy, efficiency and
scalability of classification & prediction are :Correct Answer: Data Cleaning , Relevance Analysis , Data Transformation
Your Answer: Data Cleaning , Data Transformation
Your Answer: Complete , Reliable , Correct
Question: Which of the option is not considered as the major function needed to get data ready?
Correct Answer: Storing data
Your Answer: Extracting data
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Reduction
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Your Answer: Invariant variable
Your Answer: Horizontal parallelization , Hybrid parallelization , Homogenous parallelization
True/False
Question: Legacy data resides on Hierarchical or Network database.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Select The Blank
abstraction.
Question: Following factors play important role in financial analysis :Correct Answer: Data warehouse , Data cubes , Outliner analysis
Your Answer: Data warehouse , Data cubes , Outliner analysis
Your Answer: Min-Max Normalization , Normalization by scaling
Your Answer: Wrapper approach
Select The Blank
Correct Answer: SMP
Your Answer: MPP
Select The Blank
Question: ________ option of warehouse architecture provides incremental growth.
Correct Answer: Cluster
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Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Constructive merge
Initial Load
table first time
Incremental Load
Load Image
Your Answer
table first time

Question: Data cleansing routines work to clean the data by :Correct Answer: Filling missing values , Smoothing noisy data
Your Answer: Filling missing values , Smoothing noisy data , Resolving inconsistency
Select The Blank
database exist.
Your Answer: Data storage
Your Answer: Clustering , Regression , Insertion
True/False
Question: The elements of warehouse infrastructure are classified into operational and physical
infrastructure.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: It is good practice to drop ________ before initial load.
Correct Answer: Index
Your Answer: Splitting
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
Select The Blank
Your Answer: B-Tree
Question: The information delivery methods from data warehouse are :Correct Answer: Complex queries , MD Analysis , Statistical Analysis

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Question: Capture at data source and that's why this method is quite reliable :Correct Answer: Capture by database Triggers
Your Answer: Capture in source application
Select The Blank
True/False
data acquisition.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
True/False
Question: Tools perform major functions in data warehouse environment.
Your Answer: True
Question: Common areas of application for mixed effect model includes :Correct Answer: Multiple data , Repeated measures data , Block designs
Your Answer: Multiple data , Dimensional data , Block designs
Question: Bitmap index takes significantly less space than which type of index?
Correct Answer: B-Tree index
Question: Data processing is done for :Correct Answer: Improving the efficiency , Ease of mining
Your Answer: Improving the efficiency , Removing redundancy , Removing complexity
Select The Blank
Question: Mining values can be removed by :Correct Answer: Filling values manually , Use of global constant , Use of attribute mean
Your Answer: Filling values manually , Use of global constant , Use of row mean
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Select The Blank

Select The Blank
Your Answer: Data cubes
Match The Following
Question
Data loading tool
Data modeling tool
Correct Answer
Bulk extraction for full refresh
Data transformation tool Default values
Your Answer
Formulating and running queries
refresh
Formulating and running queries
Select The Blank

Your Answer: Relational
Question: Metadata types can be classified as :Correct Answer: Business metadata , Technical metadata
Your Answer: Business metadata , Technical metadata , Logical metadata
True/False
Question: COBWEB is an extension of CLASSIT for incremental clustering of contineous data.
Your Answer: True
Question: Which type of analysis of DNA facilitates discovery of group of genes and study of
interaction and relationship between them?
Correct Answer: Association analysis
Your Answer: Generic data analysis
Question: Following are the issues to consider during data integration :Correct Answer: Schema integration , Redundancy , Detection and resolution of data values
Question: Data migration affects performance requiring multiple blocks to be read which can be
adjusted by :Correct Answer: Block percent free
Your Answer: Block percent vacant
Question: Normalization improves :Correct Answer: Efficiency , Accuracy
Your Answer: Efficiency , Accuracy
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True/False
bucket.
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: All Transaction
Select The Blank
Question: The first step of attibute oriented induction is :Correct Answer: Data focusing
Your Answer: Data Collection
Question: Enterprise miner technique provides data mining algorithms including distinguishing
feature as :Correct Answer: Advanced Statistical and advanced visualization tool
Your Answer: Robust Graphics tools
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is density based clustering method which computes on augumented
clustering ordering for automic ordering for automatic and interactive cluster analysis
Correct Answer: DBSCAN
Your Answer: Hierachical
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: Grouped data can be analyzed with the technique :Correct Answer: Mixed effect model
Question: Which type of indexing do not work with data whose selectivity is low :Correct Answer: B-Tree index
True/False
Question: Easily accessible metadata is crucial for end users.
Your Answer: False
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Match The Following

Question
Clementine
Intelligent miner
Enterprise miner
Mineset
Correct Answer
Integral solutions
IBM
SAS
Silicon Graphics
Your Answer
SAS
IBM
DB miner technology
Integral solutions

Question: Data can be smoothed by filling the data to function such as :Correct Answer: Regression
True/False
DNA analysis.
Your Answer: True
Question: The need for metadata is for :Correct Answer: Using data warehouse , Building data warehouse , Administration of warehouse
Your Answer: Using data warehouse , Building data warehouse , Administration of warehouse
Your Answer: Measurements , General Design , Standard Techniques
Your Answer: Pattern discovery , Probability theory , Macroeconomic view
Select The Blank
Question: In ________ type smoothing, minimum and maximum values in given bin are
identified as bin boundaries.
Correct Answer: Smoothing by bin boundaries
Your Answer: Smoothing by bin boundaries
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: For operational system, the stored data contains ________values.
Correct Answer: Current data
Your Answer: Current data
Question: Selection of which part of data warehouse hardware is ' Bit your bottom dollar'?
Correct Answer: Server hardware
Your Answer: Workstation hardware
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Question: The Clustering method DBSCAN stands for :Correct Answer: Desity Based Spatial clustering of Application with Noise
Your Answer: Desity Based Spatial clustering of Application with Noise
Question: Which of the option is not considered as the major function needed to get data ready?
Correct Answer: Storing data
Your Answer: Storing data
Question: User must have proper access to metadata for performing responsibilities of :Correct Answer: Design , Administration
Your Answer: Administration , Management
True/False
Your Answer: True
True/False
staging area.
Your Answer: False
Question: OPTICS regarding clustering stands for :Correct Answer: Ordering Points to identify the clustering Structure
Your Answer: Ordering Points to identify the clustering Structure
Question: In data storage area metadata recorded by processes is used for :Correct Answer: Users , Development , Administration
Your Answer: Development , Administration
Your Answer: Aggregation , Eliminating redundant features
True/False
Your Answer: True
Match The Following
Question
Extraction is manual/Tool based
Identify source application
Denote time window
Handling unextractable input records
Correct Answer
Method of extraction
Source identification
Time window
Exception handling
Your Answer
Method of extraction
Source identification
Time window
Exception handling

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Your Answer: Current attribute
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the navigational map of data warehouse.
Correct Answer: End user Metadata
Your Answer: End user Metadata
Your Answer: Nominal variable
Question: Preprocessing steps of data in order to help improve accuracy, efficiency and
scalability of classification & prediction are :Correct Answer: Data Cleaning , Relevance Analysis , Data Transformation
Your Answer: Data Cleaning , Relevance Analysis
Question: Which of the following clustering algorithm integrates density based and grid based
clustering?
Correct Answer: CLQUE
Your Answer: STING
True/False
DNA analysis.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Filling missing values manually
Match The Following
Question
Disparate data
Non volatile data
Data granularity
Data from external source
Correct Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
Your Answer
Production data
Query and analysis
Level of detail
External data
True/False
data mining.
Your Answer: True
Question: Data processing is done for :Correct Answer: Improving the efficiency , Ease of mining
Your Answer: Improving the efficiency , Ease of mining
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Your Answer: Binning , Clustering , Regression
Your Answer: Represent actual data
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ component of warehouse is responsible for coordinating services and
Correct Answer: Management and Control
Your Answer: Management and Control
Select The Blank
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: The areas of classification for metadata are :Correct Answer: Development/usage , Technical/business , BackRoom/Front Room
Your Answer: Development/usage , BackRoom/Front Room , Administration
Your Answer: Horizontal parallelization , Vertical Parallelization , Hybrid parallelization
True/False
Question: Data Mining refers to extracting knowledge from larger amount of data.
Your Answer: True
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Question: Data base miner provides multiple data mining algorithms including :Correct Answer: Discovery driven OLAP analysis , Association , Classification
Your Answer: Association , Classification , Regression
Question: Data transformation includes :Correct Answer: Smoothing , Aggregation , Generalization
Your Answer: Smoothing , Aggregation , Generalization
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Linear

True/False
Question: Data cubes created for varying levels of abstraction are referred as cuboids.
Your Answer: True
True/False
DNA analysis.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ pilot proves validity of data warehousing concept to users and top
management.
Correct Answer: Proof of concept
Your Answer: User tool appreciation
Question: Mining values can be removed by :Correct Answer: Filling values manually , Use of global constant , Use of attribute mean
Your Answer: Filling values manually , Use of global constant , Use of attribute mean
Correct Answer: SMP
Your Answer: SMP
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
stored in database.
Your Answer: Inductive databases
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True/False
Question: A cluster is a collection of similar data objects in same cluster and disimilar to objects
in another cluster.
Your Answer: True
Question: Warehouse Operational infrastructure is to support each architecture component
consists of :Correct Answer: People , Procedures , Management software
Your Answer: People , Procedures , Management software
Your Answer: Distance based , Deviation based , Diversion based
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Linear
True/False
bucket.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: True
Your Answer: Microeconomic view , Pattern discovery , Probability theory
Question: Which technique is used to predict categorical response variable?
Correct Answer: Discriminant analysis
Question: EIS stands for :Correct Answer: Executive Information System
Your Answer: Executive Information System
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Integration
Data merging from multiple sources
Data merging from multiple sources
Binning
Sorted, neighbourhood data
Sorted, neighbourhood data
Clustering
Similar values
Similar values
Regression
Filtering of data
Filtering of data
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Question: The DWT ( Discret Wavlet Transform) is a :Correct Answer: Linear single processing technique
Your Answer: Linear single processing technique
True/False
Question: Data mining often requires data integration.
Your Answer: True
Question: Which is the typical example of Grid based clustering method
Your Answer: DBSCAN
Question: For processing metadata in informal delivery area, data can be referred back for :Correct Answer: Source data configuration , Data structure , Data transformation
Your Answer: Source data configuration , Data structure , Data transformation
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Constructive merge
New record supercedes New record supercedes
Initial Load
Populating data warehouse table first
table first time
time
Incremental Load
Load Image
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the clustering method which encounters difficultes regarding the selection
of merge/split points
Correct Answer: Hierachical
Your Answer: Hierachical
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: 100000
Select The Blank
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Your Answer: Repetition
Your Answer: Complexity in data
Question: The technique of data clustering facilitates :Correct Answer: Serial access
Your Answer: Random access
Question: Before moving data to data warehouse is has to go through :Correct Answer: Transformation , Integration , Consolidation
Your Answer: Integration , Summarization , Consolidation
True/False
Your Answer: False
Your Answer: Adenine , Cytocine , Gaunine , Thymine
Question: Deviation based outlier detection identifes outliers by :Correct Answer: Examining character of objects in groups
Your Answer: Examining distance between objects
Question: The functions of data acquisition are :Correct Answer: Data Extraction , Data Transformation
Your Answer: Data Extraction , Data Transformation , Data cleansing , Data storing
Question: A Wavelet transformation is :Correct Answer: Single processing Technique that decomposes signals into different frequency
subbands
Your Answer: Single processing Technique that composes signals into different frequency
subbands
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Array
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Select The Blank
conditions.
Your Answer: Robust
True/False
data mining.
Your Answer: True
LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS sheetu 2
Question: Data Mining means :Correct Answer: Knowledge mining from database , Data /Pattern analysis , Data Archelogy
Your Answer: Data Archelogy , Knowledge mining from database , Data /Pattern analysis
Select The Blank
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Operating systems
Security, reliability, availability Security, reliability, availability
Compatibility
Data Acquisition
Data Extraction,
Transformation, cleansing,
cleansing, integration
integration
Data Storage
Data loading , Archiving Data loading , Archiving
Information Delivery
Report generation, query
Report generation, query processing
processing and complex
and complex analysis
analysis
Your Answer: Data Stage , Data Storage , Information Delivery
True/False
Question: In Database system multidimensional index trees are primarily used for providing fast
data access.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
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Your Answer: Separate optimal Platform
Question: Bitmapped indexes are more suitable for data warehouse environment than for an
OLTP system
Correct Answer: Bitmapped index
Your Answer: Bitmapped index
Question: The Clustering method DBSCAN stands for :Correct Answer: Desity Based Spatial clustering of Application with Noise
Your Answer: Desity Based Spatial clustering of Application with Noise
Select The Blank
Your Answer: ROCK
Select The Blank
Correct Answer: MPP
Your Answer: MPP
Select The Blank
True/False
Question: Data classification is two step process in which first step includes classfication of
model and in second step model describes set of data.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ clustering method follows statistical and neural network approach.
Correct Answer: Model based
Your Answer: Model based
Question: Which of the following methods for regression is used on sparse data :Correct Answer: Regression and log-linear model
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True/False
Question: Audio data mining can be an interesting alternative to visual mining.
Your Answer: True
Question: If many indexes are needed, then on which table which option is more preferable?
Correct Answer: Splitting of tables
Your Answer: Collecting of tables
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Different Objective Scope , Data Content , Flexible and Dynamic
Question: Which type of analysis of DNA facilitates discovery of group of genes and study of
interaction and relationship between them?
Correct Answer: Association analysis
Your Answer: Association analysis
True/False
Question: Noise in data means error or variance in measured variable.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the user who has all access privileges like system, database
administrator, for table and views.
Correct Answer: Security administrator
Your Answer: Security administrator
Your Answer: Operational , Extraction and transformation Metadata , End user Metadata
True/False
Question: One of the most important search problem in genetic analysis is similarity search and
comparison among DNA sequence.
Your Answer: True
Question: Large number of indexes affects the loading process because :-
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Correct Answer: Indexes are created for new records
Your Answer: Searching record becomes difficult
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Recovery from failure
Your Answer: Co-relational analysis
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: Binning , Clustering , Regression
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: For Banking and financial data which type of analysis is used?
Correct Answer: Multidimensional
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Match The Following
Question
Clustering
Dimension reduction
Data compression
Wrapper approach
Correct Answer
More computations
Great accuracy
Your Answer
Great accuracy
Encoding mechanism
Data reduction
Select The Blank

abstraction.
Question: Following are the issues to consider during data integration :Correct Answer: Schema integration , Redundancy , Detection and resolution of data values
Question: Histograms, the methods to store reduced representation of data uses :Correct Answer: Binning
Your Answer: Aggregation
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
True/False
Question: Data staging and data storage may start out on same computing platform.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Data in data warehouse cuts across application.
Your Answer: False
True/False
Question: Loan payment prediction and customer credit analysis are critical to business of bank.
Your Answer: True
Question: Data integration means :Correct Answer: Integrating database , Integrating cubes , Integrating files
Your Answer: Integrating cubes , Integrating files , Integrating attributes
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Question: Data mining is applicable to :Correct Answer: Relational Database , Data Warehouse , Transaction Database
Your Answer: Relational Database , Data Warehouse , Transaction Database
Question: The information delivery methods from data warehouse are :Correct Answer: Complex queries , MD Analysis , Statistical Analysis
Your Answer: Complex queries , MD Analysis , Statistical Analysis
Question: SMP provides the features like :Correct Answer: Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full
access to the shared memory though common bus , Each node has access to common set of
disks
Your Answer: Controllers which are accessible to all processors , Each processor has full access
to the shared memory though common bus , Each node has access to common set of disks
Question: Splitting of query by DBMS in intra query parallelization is for :Correct Answer: Index read , Data read , Data joint
Your Answer: Index read , Data read , Data joint
Question: For Incremental data loads the sequence is :Correct Answer: Triggering ->Filtering ->data extraction -> Transformation ->Integration
->cleansing
Your Answer: Triggering ->data extraction ->Filtering -> Transformation ->Integration ->cleansing
Question: The platform of Data warehouse consists of :Correct Answer: Basic hardware components , Operating System , Network and Network
software
Your Answer: Operating System , Network and Network software , Utility software
Question: Following factors play important role in financial analysis :Correct Answer: Data warehouse , Data cubes , Outliner analysis
Your Answer: Data warehouse , Data cubes , Outliner analysis
Question: Which of the following data capture method of data abstraction is time consuming?
Correct Answer: Capture by comparing files
Your Answer: Capture by comparing files
Question: Capture at data source and that's why this method is quite reliable :Correct Answer: Capture by database Triggers
Your Answer: Capture by database Triggers
True/False
Question: NUMA provides better scalability than SMP.
Your Answer: True
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Your Answer: Measurements , Standard , General Design
Question: Data reduction includes :Correct Answer: Single value decomposition , Wavelets , Regression
Your Answer: Single value decomposition , Wavelets , Regression
Question: Which of the following component includes database Management System?
Correct Answer: Data Storage
Your Answer: Management and control
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Data loading tool
Data modeling tool
Reverse Engineering
capabilities
refresh
Data transformation
Default values
tool
Your Answer
Bulk extraction for full refresh
Default values

Your Answer: Transformation
Your Answer: Current value
Your Answer: Additional processing needs
Select The Blank
True/False
Question: To detect money laundering and other financial crimes, it is important to integrate
information for multiple databases.
Your Answer: True
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Question: Which of the following option of data extraction is known as application assisted data
capture?
Correct Answer: Capture in source application
Your Answer: Capture in source application
Question: Maintenance of cache consistency is the limitation of :Correct Answer: MPP
Your Answer: NUMA
True/False
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the type of pilot for early delivery with broader scope and may be
integrated.
Correct Answer: Broad business pilot
Your Answer: Broad business pilot
Select The Blank
Question: In data ________, data encoding or transformations are applied to obtain reduced or
compressed representation.
Correct Answer: Compression
Your Answer: Compression
True/False
Question: Data integration merges data from multiple sources into coherent sources.
Your Answer: True
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Administration Providing support for all DBA functions Support for System administration
Extensibility
Hybrid Extension to OLAP
Providing support for all DBA database
functions
Portability
Across platform
APIs For tools from loading vendors
Query tool
APIs For tools from loading
Hybrid Extension to OLTP database
vendors
Question: Data transformation includes :Correct Answer: Smoothing , Aggregation , Generalization
Your Answer: Smoothing , Aggregation , Generalization
Question: Queries run faster to find exact match using which type of indexing?
Correct Answer: Clustered index
True/False
Question: Intelligent miner is an IBM data mining product.
Your Answer: True
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Question: Building blocks of Data Warehouse are :Correct Answer: Management and Control , Source Data , Data Staging
Your Answer: Management and Control , Source Data , Data Staging
Question: Substantial portion of available information is stored in :Correct Answer: Text data
Your Answer: Object oriented database
True/False
Question: The data Warehouse is query-centric.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Data mining is a piece of integrated solutions.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
True/False
staging area.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: In physical design of warehouse, developing standard ensures consistency across
the various areas.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
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Question: Clustering Techniques organised into following categories :Correct Answer: Partitioning , Density Based , Grid Based
Your Answer: Partitioning , Density Based , Grid Based
Select The Blank
Question: Data cleansing effort can begin with :Correct Answer: High priority data
Your Answer: High priority data
True/False
data mining.
Your Answer: True
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Your Answer
Load Utility
High performance data High performance data loading,
loading, recovery
recovery
Query Governer
Abort runaway query
Abort runaway query
Query Optimizer
Query Management
Question: Distinguishing characteristics of data warehouse architecture are :Correct Answer: Different Objective Scope , Data Content, Flexible and Dynamic
Your Answer: Different Objective Scope , Data Content , Flexible and Dynamic
Question: Which type of integrity constraint forces the establishment of parent -child
relationship?
Correct Answer: Referential integrity
Your Answer: Referential integrity
Select The Blank
Question: An information measures called ________ can be used to recursively partition the
values of numeric attribute.
Correct Answer: Entropy
Your Answer: Entropy
True/False
Your Answer: True
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Question: In which of the following type of mining frequently
occuring patterns related to time and sequence are mined?
Correct Answer: Sequential pattern mining
Your Answer: Time series data mining
Select The Blank
Question: Classification and Prediction have following applications :Correct Answer: Credit approval , Medical Diagnosis, Performance Prediction
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: Data reduction obtains a reduced representation of
data set that is :Correct Answer: Much smaller
Question: Which of the following type executes query
operations in pipeline manner?
Question: User gets an enterprise wide view of information
from the data warehouse due to :Correct Answer: Improved productivity
Your Answer: Newer opportunity
Select The Blank
Question: ________ databases are one of the most poplularly
available and rich information repositories.
Question: Which database type stores a large amount of space-related data?
Correct Answer: Spatial
Your Answer: Spatial
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Your Answer: Adenine , Gaunine , Thymine
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is an effective way to discover knowledge from huge amount of data.
Correct Answer: Visual data mining
Your Answer: Web mining
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is the process of grouping data into classes.
Your Answer: Classification
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is a summarization of general characteristics or features of a target class of
data.
Correct Answer: Data Characterization
Your Answer: Data Characterization
Question: Which of the follwing inheritance is supported by Object oriented databases?
Correct Answer: Multiple Inheritance
Your Answer: Single Inheritance
Select The Blank
Question: For decision making process ________ process which considers finding only
interesting patterns is used.
Correct Answer: Microeconomic view
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Initial load of data
as-is' data capture
warehouse
Static data
Capture of data in given
time
time
Data revision
Incremental data capture
Incremental data
Differed data capture
Your Answer
as-is' data capture
Capture of data in given point of point of
True/False
Question: Business metadata is like a roadmap or easy to use information directory showing
contents and how to get there.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Remote deployment of desktop tools is usually faster.
Your Answer: False
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Question: Building blocks of Data Warehouse are :Correct Answer: Management and Control , Source Data , Data Staging
Your Answer: Management and Control , Source Data , Data Staging
Question: Substantial portion of available information is stored in :Correct Answer: Text data
Your Answer: Object oriented database
True/False
Question: The data Warehouse is query-centric.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Data mining is a piece of integrated solutions.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Your Answer: CURE
True/False
staging area.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: In physical design of warehouse, developing standard ensures consistency across the
various areas.
Your Answer: True
Select The Blank
Question: Simple matching approach is used for computing disimilarity between two objects for :-
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Correct Answer: Nominal variable
Question: Clustering Techniques organised into following categories :Correct Answer: Partitioning , Density Based , Grid Based
Your Answer: Partitioning , Density Based , Grid Based
Select The Blank
Question: Data cleansing effort can begin with :Correct Answer: High priority data
Your Answer: High priority data
True/False
Question: Sequential pattern analysis and similarity search
techniques have been developed in data mining.
Your Answer: True
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Load Utility
High performance data
loading, recovery
Query Governer
Abort runaway query
Query Optimizer
Query Management Balancing extraction of query
Your Answer
High performance
data loading, recovery
Abort runaway query

Question: Distinguishing characteristics of data warehouse architecture are :Correct Answer: Different Objective Scope, Data Content, Flexible and Dynamic
Your Answer: Different Objective Scope, Data Content, Flexible and Dynamic
Question: Which type of integrity constraint forces the establishment of parent -child
relationship?
Correct Answer: Referential integrity
Your Answer: Referential integrity
Select The Blank
Question: An information measures called ________ can be used to recursively partition the
values of numeric attribute.
Correct Answer: Entropy
Your Answer: Entropy
True/False
Your Answer: True
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Question: In which of the following type of mining frequently occuring patterns related to time
and sequence are mined?
Correct Answer: Sequential pattern mining
Your Answer: Time series data mining
Select The Blank
Question: Classification and Prediction have following applications :Correct Answer: Credit approval , Medical Diagnosis, Performance Prediction
True/False
Your Answer: True
Question: Data reduction obtains a reduced representation of data set that is :Correct Answer: Much smaller
Question: User gets an enterprise wide view of information from the data warehouse due to :Correct Answer: Improved productivity
Your Answer: Newer opportunity
Question: Which database type stores a large amount of space-related data?
Correct Answer: Spatial
Your Answer: Spatial
Your Answer: Adenine , Gaunine , Thymine
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is an effective way to discover knowledge from huge amount of data.
Correct Answer: Visual data mining
Your Answer: Web mining
Select The Blank
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Question: ________ is the process of grouping data into classes.
Your Answer: Classification
Select The Blank
Question: ________ is a summarization of general characteristics or features of a target class of
data.
Correct Answer: Data Characterization
Your Answer: Data Characterization
Question: Which of the follwing inheritance is supported by Object oriented databases?
Correct Answer: Multiple Inheritance
Your Answer: Single Inheritance
Select The Blank
Question: For decision making process ________ process which considers finding only
interesting patterns is used.
Correct Answer: Microeconomic view
Match The Following
Question
Correct Answer
Initial load of data warehouse as-is' data capture
Static data
Capture of data in given
point of time
Data revision
Your Answer
as-is' data capture
Capture of data in given point
time
True/False
Question: Business metadata is like a roadmap or easy to use information directory showing
contents and how to get there.
Your Answer: True
True/False
Your Answer: True
True/False
Question: Remote deployment of desktop tools is usually faster.
Your Answer: False
Match the Following
. Data Quality tool
2. OLAP tools
3. Alert system tool
4. Middleware & connectivity tool
2
6
5
3
1. Assist data ware house administration

2. Locating data errors
3. Transparent access to source system
4. Track on number of queries
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5. Users attention on exceptions
6. Channel queries
Select The Blank
clustering method follows statistical and neural network
approach.
True/False
Data cleansing means removing noisy and inconsistent data. TRUE
Match The Following
1. Non volatile data
1. External data
2. Data granularity
2. Query and analysis
3. Data from external source
3. Production data
4. Disparate data
4. Level of detail
5. Archive data
6. Internal data
Match The Following

1. Data storage
1. Data management
2. Data staging
2. Workbench for data
3. Data Mining
3. Details of summary
4. Metadata
4. Private spreadsheet data

5. Knowledge discovery
6. Roadmap for user
Match The Following

1. Data modeling tool
1. Reverse Engineering capabilities
2. Data Extraction tool
2. Default values
3. Data transformation tool
3. Formulating and running queries
4. Data loading tool
4. Bulk extraction for full refresh

5. Primary key generation
6. Replication
Match The Following

1. Static data
1. Immediate data capture
2. Data revision
2. Capture of data in given point of time
3. Incremental data capture
3. Incremental data capture
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4. Initial load of data warehouse
4. Value of attribute at specific time

5. "as-is" data capture
6. Differed data capture
Match The Following

1. Initial Load
2. Incremental Load
3. Load Image
4. Constructive merge
4
6
5
1
1. New record supercedes

2. Offline data warehouse
3. Applying data
4. Populating data warehouse table first time
5. To correspond to target files
6. Applying ongoing changes
Match The Following

1. Identify source application
1. Method of extraction
2. Denote time window
2. Source identification
3. Handling unextractable input records
3. Extraction
4. Extraction is manual/Tool based
4. Job sequencing
5. Time window
6. Exception handling

7.
The main categories of Metadata in warehouse are :a)
Operational
b)
Execution and Transformation Metadata
c)
Extraction and transformation Metadata
d)
End user Metadata
20.The ways of Intra query parallelization are :a)
b)
c)
d)
Horizontal parallelization
Vertical Parallelization
Hybrid parallelization
Homogenous parallelization
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30.Sequence of physical design of data warehouse is :a)
Develop standards--Create aggregate plans--determine data partitioning schemem--extablish

b) clustering option--prepare indexing strategy--complete physical model
c)
d)
Develop standards--determine data partitioning scheme--Create aggregate plans--establish

clustering option--prepare indexing strategy--complete physical model
Develop standards--prepare indexing strategy--Create aggregate plans--determine data
partitioning scheme--establish clustering option---complete physical model
Develop standards--Create aggregate plans--establish clustering option--determine data
partitioning scheme--prepare indexing strategy--complete physical model

44.Data migration affects performance requiring multiple blocks to be read which can be
adjusted by :a)
Block percent free
b)
Block percent used
c)
Block percent occupied
d)
Block percent vacant
True/False
48. In Linear regression data are modeled to fit a straight line.
True
False
Select The Blank
16. The technique of_____________enables concurrent input/output operations and improves
a) Data migration
b) File striping
c) Block utilization
d) Dynamic extension
Match the Following
1. Data visualization
1. Visual display
2. Data mining result visualization
2. Presentation of knowledge
3. Data mining process visualization
3. Data mining in visual format
4. Interactive visual data mining
4. Visualization tool
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5. Graphical display
6. Audio signal
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SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

Select The Blank

Heterogeneous and distributed

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Select The Blank

Select The Blank

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Unsupervised clustering , Clustering is fast , Decomposition of cluster for accuracy

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Multiple Choice Single Answer

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

Data Mining refers to extracting knowledge from larger amount of data.

Correct Answer True

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Select The Blank

Select The Blank

Select The Blank

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Web enabling , Source data structures , Data summarization

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Complete , Reliable , Correct

Select The Blank

Match The Following

Operating systems compatibility

Security, reliability, availability

Security, reliability, availability

Data Extraction, Transformation,

Data Extraction, Transformation,

Report generation, query

Report generation, query processing

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Multiple Choice Single Answer

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Examining character of objects in groups

Examining character of objects in groups

Select The Blank

Management and Control

Select The Blank

Intelligent miner is an IBM data mining product.

Select The Blank

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SCDL 4th Semester Data Mining

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Capture by comparing files

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Improve performance , Ensure scalability , Manage database

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Design , Administration , Management

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer

Association , Regression , Aggregation