Data Warehouse-II

Data warehousing concepts, architecture, ETL processes, OLAP systems, and management

16 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following are data warehouses updated every time an operational system performs a transaction?

  1. Real time data warehouse
  2. Federated data warehouse
  3. Distributed data warehouse
  4. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

________________is a system to handle day-to-day business transactions. These systems handle tremendous amount of data daily.

  1. Infrastructure specialists
  2. OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing)
  3. Data warehouse architect
  4. OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing)
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____________ is a relational database, which is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing.

  1. OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing)
  2. OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing)
  3. Data warehouse
  4. Real time data warehouse
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following servers supports multidimensional views of data through array-based multidimensional storage engines?

  1. ROLAP (Relational OLAP)
  2. MOLAP (Multidimensional OLAP)
  3. HOLAP (Hybrid OLAP)
  4. None of these
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following data warehouses is the integration of heterogeneous business intelligence systems set to provide analytical capabilities across different functions of an organisation?

  1. Real time data warehouse
  2. Federated data warehouse
  3. Distributed data warehouse
  4. None of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_______________ is known as the father of data warehouse.

  1. Charles Babbage
  2. Bill Inmon
  3. Dennis Ritchie
  4. Bjarme Strostrup
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In data warehousing team, ______________should be aware and have a good working knowledge of the core third-party tools in the market place.

  1. data warehouse project manager
  2. tools specialist
  3. help disk functionality
  4. none of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The technique of gathering data from various operational systems and from external sources is known as ___________.

  1. data extraction
  2. data staging component
  3. help disk functionality
  4. external data
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

____________ is the process of examining the data available in an existing data source, and collecting statistics and information about that data.

  1. Data profiling
  2. Data capture
  3. Data integration
  4. Data quality
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following characteristics of data warehouse described by Bill Inmon means that once entered into the data warehouse, data should not change?

  1. Non-volatile
  2. Subject-oriented
  3. Integrated
  4. None of these
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____________ is the act of detecting and correcting corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table or database.

  1. Data scrubbing
  2. Data management
  3. Data enrichment
  4. None of these
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following data in data warehouse architecture comes from the various operational systems of the enterprise based on the information requirements in the data warehouse?

  1. Internal data
  2. Power user
  3. Production data
  4. External data
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which component of data warehouse architecture sits on top of all the other components, and co-ordinates the services and activities within the data warehouse?

  1. Technical architecture
  2. Management and control component
  3. Production data
  4. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

___________ in a data warehouse is similar to the data dictionary or data catalog in a data management system.

  1. Data mart
  2. Meta data
  3. Management and control components
  4. None of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

___________ data mining capabilities help to detect fraud, to segment the customers and to simplify market basket analysis.

  1. Intelligent Miner
  2. MineSet
  3. Enterprise Miner
  4. None of these
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The perspective of ________________ in data warehouse building team is that of a bird flying over maze.

  1. public relations person
  2. database administrator
  3. data warehouse project director
  4. none of these