1) OLTP stands fora) Online transaction processing* b) Online transfer processing c) Online traversal processing d) None of the above

2) OLAP stands fora) Online analysis process b) Online analytical processing* c) Online autonomous processing d) None of the above 3) EIS stand for a) Executive information system* b) External information system c) External internal system d) Executive internal system 4) DSS stand fora) Data warehouse support system b) Data base support system c) Decision support system* d) Data warehouse security system 5) SAS stands fora) Statistical analysis system* b) Software analysis system c) Statistical analysis software d) Software analysis stage 6) Which system handle day-to-day business transaction? a) OLAP b) ATM c) OLAP* d) DWH 7) Which system is designed to contain only read only data? a) OLAP* b) OLTP c) ATM d) DWH 8) CMM stands fora) Capability maturity model* b) Capability maturity mechanism c) Caption mechanism model d) Caption maturity mechanism 9) A _____ is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. a) Data ware house* b) OLAP c) ATM d) None

10) At which level companies have established measurable process goals for each defined data warehousing process. a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4* 11) ____ system usually store data from only a few weeks or months. a) OLAP b) OLTP* c) Data warehouse d) DAMA 12) In Data Warehouse, a single record link to all the duplicate record in the source systems is called __________________. a) Decoding of fields b) De-duplication* c) Merging of Information d) Summarization 13) The main purpose of E-R modeling isa) To remove redundancy* b) To improve analysis for decision making c) To record historical data d) None 14) Which of the following are open source ETL tools? a) Microsoft DTS b) Cognos decision stream c) Clover* d) SAS data integrator 15) _____ means that, once entered into the warehouse, data should not change. a) Integrated b) Subject-oriented c) Non-volatile* d) Time-variant 16) Updates on the data ware house are allowed. a) True b) False* 17) _____ is the process of combining data residing at different sources and providing the user with a unified view of these data. a) Data capture b) Data integration* c) Data profiling d) Data cleansing 18) Sorting the data in the given source file is a transformation. a) True* b) False

19) Data warehouse does not require real-time validation. a) True* b) False 20) Data warehouse is a store house of ____ data. a) Historical* b) Internal c) External d) Archieved 21) _____ systems focus on automating the process, making it faster and efficient. a) Analytical processing b) Transaction processing* c) Extraction processing d) Load processing 22) Which process is based on defining the requirements by using the source data in production transactional systems. a) Source driven requirement gathering* b) User driven requirement gathering c) Both a and b d) None of the above 23) In data ware house the requirements are gathered subject area wise. a) True* b) False 24) Data warehouse architecture support _____ a) Business intelligence* b) Data modeling c) Data extraction d) Data transformation 25) Adding value to the data to give more meaning is called _______ a) Data cleansing b) Data enrichment* c) Data modeling d) Data integration 26) A _____ is a repository of data gathered from operational data and other sources that is designed to serve a particular community of knowledge workers. a) Metadata b) Data mart* c) Data storage d) Data loading 27) ______ in a data warehouse is similar to the ______ or the data catalog in a database management system. a) Meta data, Data loading

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b) Data storage, Data loading c) Meta data, Data dictionary* d) Data dictionary, Data storage The ____ and ____ component coordinates the services and activities within a data warehouse. a) Management, Control* b) Control, Transformation c) Transformation, Management d) Data mart, Database Data mart area) Department level b) Limited in size c) Read-only d) All of the above* The ____ model describes data from a high level. a) Physical data b) Logical data c) Conceptual data* d) All of the above ____ is a very popular method for designing database. a) E-R model* b) DFD c) Sequential model d) UML The main purpose of E-R modeling is a) To remove redundancy* b) To improve analysis for decision making c) To record historical data d) None A dimensional table does not contain hierarchies. a) True b) False* Fact table usually consist of _____ relationships. a) One to one b) One to many c) Many to one d) Many to many* Which is the simplest data warehouse schema? a) Star schema* b) Snowflake schema c) Fact constellation d) All of the above Each dimension table has a _____ relationship to the fact table. a) One to one b) One to many* c) Many to one d) Many to many

37) Which one of them is the chief component of OLAP? a) Client b) Server* c) Database management system d) None 38) _____ represents the level of detail in the fact table. a) Granularity* b) Dimension modeling c) Drilling down d) Rolling up 39) A _____ allows data to be modeled and viewed in multiple dimensions. a) Database b) Data warehouse c) Data cube* d) None 40) ____ comprise files in a proprietary format which log a history of all changes made to the database. a) Redo entry b) Redo logs* c) Archive logs d) SCN 41) Which process takes place at the beginning of the whole process of data transformation? a) Splitting b) Joining c) Selection* d) Conversion 42) _____ is a cube which has more than three dimensions. a) Data cube b) Multi cube c) Hyper cube* d) Multidimensional 43) How many levels does CMM have? a) Two b) Three c) Four d) Five* 44) The advantage of using a data cube is that it allows fast indexing to precomputed summarized data. a) True* b) False 45) Populating all the data warehouse tables for the very first time is called _____ a) Initial load* b) Data loading

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c) Data storage d) Database _____ is the operation of extracting data from a source system for further use in a data warehouse environment. a) Extraction* b) Transformation c) Loading d) DWH Which of the following are the intermediate servers that stand in between a relational backend server and client front-end tools? a) ROLAP b) MOLAP c) HOLAP d) All of the above* Which model is de-normalized one? a) Snowflake schema b) Fact-constellation c) Star schema* d) None of the above An OLAP system manages typically adopts either a ____ or ____ model and a subject oriented database design. a) Star , snowflake b) Snowflake , Fact constellation c) Fact constellation, star d) None Which are the characteristics of data warehouse? 1) Subject oriented 2) Integrated 3) Non-volatile 4) Time-variant a) All of the above* b) 1,2,3 c) 2,3,4 d) Only 1,2 Which are the data staging component? 1) Data extraction 2) Data transformation 3) Data loading 4) Data storage component a) All of the above b) Only 1,2 c) Only 1,2,3* d) 1,2,3,4 I) Each row in a dimension table is identified by a unique value of an attribute designated as the ____ of the dimension.

ii) ____ is a method of normalizing the dimension tables in a star schema. iii) For each star schema or snowflake schema it is possible to construct a _____ schema. a) Primary key, Snowflake, Fact constellation* b) Foreign key, Snowflake, Fact constellation c) Surrogate key, Snowflake, Fact constellation d) Primary key, Fact constellation, Surrogate key 53) Arrange the properties of fact table. 1) Fully additive measure 2) Large number of records 3) Concatenated fact table key 4) Sparsity of data 5) Multiple hierarchies a) 2,3,4 only b) 1, 2,5 only c) 2,3,4,5 only d) 1,2,3,4 only* 54) Which of the following is true for Administrative Metadata? a) Access rights, protocols, physical location, retention criteria* b) Protocols, audit controls, source tables, usage statistics c) Access rights, audit control, process automation, usage statistics d) Audit control, schema definition, physical location, retention criteria 55) True or false 1) Data warehousing is not about technology, it is about solving users need for strategic information 2) Do not plan to build the data warehouse before understanding the requirements. 3) Every one build a data warehouse totally from scratch by in house programming. a) True, False, False b) False, True, True c) True, True, False* d) False, False, True 56) True or False 1) The dimensional model is a predictable, standard framework. 2) Star schema can withstand changes in user behavior. 3) Event handling database, where the fact table turns out to be fatless. a) True, True, True* b) False, False, True c) True, False, False

d) False, False, False 57) I) _____ and ______ attributes in a dimension table provide the ability to get to the details from higher level of aggregating to lower levels of details. ii) A dimension table typically has _____ or rows than the fact table. a) Drilling down, rolling up, fewer number of records* b) a) Drilling down, rolling up, dimension table key c) Drilling down, data grain, Granularity d) Data grain, Granularity, fewer number of records 58) True or False 1) Share non-key dimension data 2) Query across fact tables with consistency 3) Primary key of the dimension table does not uniquely identifies each row in the table. a) False, True, True b) True, True, False* c) False, False, False d) True, True, True 59) What are the source data component? 1) Production data 2) Internal data 3) Archived data 4) External data a) 1,2,3,4* b) 2,3 only c) 1,3 only d) None of these 60) I) At the ____ recent data is archived to separate archival database that may still be online. ii) At the ____ the older data is archived to flat files on disk storage. iii) At the ____ the oldest data is archived to tape cartridges or microfilm and even kept off-site. a) First stage, Middle stage, Third stage b) First stage, Second stage, Next stage* c) Arrival stage, Second stage, Next stage d) External data, archived data, internal data 61) I) A dimensional model can be implemented in a ____ , a ______ , or even an ______. ii) Data model exist at multiple levels that include_____ , ______ and _____. a) Relational database, multi-dimensional database, object oriented database.

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b) Conceptual data model, logical data model, physical data model c) Both a and b* d) None of these ____ and _____ of the extraction processes is often one of the most time consuming tasks in ETL and indeed, in the entire data warehousing process. a) Design and creation* b) Analysis and planning c) Planning and designing d) Designing and coding What are the dimensional attributes? 1) Textual attributes 2) Multiple hierarchies 3) Less number of records 4) Dimension table key 5) Table is wide a) 1,3,5 only b) 2,4 only c) 1,2,4,5 only d) 1,2,3,4 only* I) ____ is closely related to subject orientation. ii) A data warehouse focus on change over time is ______ iii) ____ data warehouse are those in which components are distributed across a number of physical address. a) Integrated, non-volatile, federated b) Integrated, time variant, distributed* c) Operational, time variant, distributed d) Data model, time variant, distributed True or False 1) Planners generally associate project risks with the cost of the project. 2) OLTP support predefined reports; where as data warehouse supports ad-hoc reports. 3) Requirement gathering is not a different strategy for data warehouse development. a) False, False, True b) True, True, False* c) False, True, False d) True, False, True What follows the business requirement definition? 1) Technology 2) Data 3) Business intelligence applications 4) Issue tracking 5) Scheduling

a) 1,2,3 only* b) 2,3,4 only c) 3,4,5 only d) All of the above 67) True or False 1) ER modeling and dimensional modeling are same. 2) A dimension is an entity or subject area, which can groups the data. 3) One or more dimension tables associated with two or more fact table are called confirmed dimesions. a) False, True, True* b) True, True, True c) False, False, False d) False, True, False 68) Federated data warehouse architecture are1) This will share information among a number of different systems. 2) This has a data sharing system, which is not as clean as the bottom-up approach a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Both 1 and 2* d) None of these 69) Match the following entities of logical design to that of physical design (A) Entities (a) Columns (B) Relationships (b) Tables (C) Attributes (c) Foreign key constraints

(D) Unique identifiers (d) Unique key constraints a) A-a, B-b, C-c, D-d b) A-b, B-a, C-d, D-c c) A-b, B-c, C-a, D-d* d) A-c, B-d, C-a, D-b 70) What are the components of data warehouse architecture? 1) Metadata component 2) Management and control component 3) Extraction 4) Loading 5) Information deliver component a) 1,2,3 only b) 4,5 only c) 2,4,5 only d) 1,2,5 only*

71) I) _____ data is summarized with increased generalization. ii) ____ cross tabulation that is, rotation is performed. iii) ____ increasing levels of detail are revealed. a) Roll-up, Pivot, Drill-down* b) Pivot, Drill-down, Sorting c) Sorting, Selection, Roll-up d) Drill-down, Roll-up, Slice and dice 72) Match the following (1) Flat files (a) An oracle specific format. (2) Dump files (b) It comprises of files in proprietary format. (3) Redo and Archive logs format. (c) Data is in a defined, generic

a) I-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d b) I-b, II-a, III-c, IV-d* c) I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c d) I-c, II-a, III-b, IV-d 76) What are RAID levels? Explain RAID0 to RAID3. 77) Explain the data warehouse Kimball life cycle? 78) Write short note ona) Data capture b) OLTP c) Data integration d) Data cleansing e) Data loading 79) What are the component of data warehouse? Explain it

a) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c b) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a c) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b* d) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b 73) True/False 1. A slowing changing dimension is one where its attributes values change slowly. 2. All dimension tables can be thought of as symmetrically equal entry point in to the fact table. 3. Historical data is massively supported in dimension modeling but not in E-R modeling. a) 1-T, 2-T, 3-T b) 1-F, 2-F, 3-F c) 1-T, 2-T, 3-T* d) 1-F, 2-T, 3-T 74) Match the following (1) Conceptual Data Model (a) It describes the implementation of data. (2) Logical Data Model (b) It describes a logical solution of a data project. (3) Physical Data Model (c) It defines problem rather than solution a) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a* b) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a c) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b d) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b 75) Match the following (I) Initial load (a) applying ongoing changes (II) Incremental load first time (b) Populating data warehouse table

(III) Full refresh (c) Completing erasing the contents of one or more tables and reloading with new data (IV) Constructive merge (d) Incoming records supersedes the old record