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True statement about surrogate keys and natural keys: How many star schemas a data

warehouse of an
Select one: organization can have:
Select one:
a. Only surrogate keys exist in Data Warehouse a. odd number of star
schemas
b. Both exist in the fact tables b. any number
c. Surrogagte keys are generated in OLTP systems c. in multiples of 5
d. Both exist in the dimension tables d. even number of star
schemas

Pick the wrong statement about Inmon's & Kimball's In a university data
warehouse, which process has the
approaches: Select one: finest granularity: Select
one:
a. Dependent data marts vs. independent data marts a. Registration
b. ER Modeling vs. Dimensional Modeling b. Attendance
c. Both approaches recommend normalisation c. Attendance,
Performance, & Registration have
d. Top-down vs. bottom-up appraoch the same
granularity

d. Performance
The number of fact tables in the data warehouse of Which system is at the same
granularity as the Data Warehouse:
an organization is typically equal to: Select one: Select one:
a. Depth of the organization hierarchy a. Super Mart
b. Number of departments b. Data Mart
c. Number of office locations c. Operational Data Store
d. Number of business processes d. Data Warehouse

Given a star schema, how many dimensions tables Which approach to Data
Warehousing is more popular:
can be normalised: Select one: Select one:
a. 0 a. Purely Top-down approach by
Inmon
b. All b. Bottom-up approach
c. 3 c. Neither Inmon's approach nor
Kimball's
d. 1 d. Hybrid approach by Kimball

Granularity of the operational systems is Which class ODS allows least


transformations to be
definitely captured in: Select one: carried out on data: Select one:
a. Operational data store a. Class III ODS
b. Data mart b. Class II ODS
c. Data warehouse c. Class IV ODS
d. Super mart d. Class I ODS

ODS is NOT: In dimensional modeling:


Select one: Select one:
a. Subject oriented a. Dimension tables are symmetric
b. Non-volatile b. No dimension table can be normalized
c. Integrated c. Fact tables contains information about hierarchies
d. Current valued d. Dimension tables have foreign keys

Which architectural component of a Data The load on ETL system is highest when
the DW is at:
Warehouse is its true subset: Select one: Select one:
a. Neither data mart nor super mart a. Coarser granularity than that of
OLTP system
b. Both data mart and super mart b. The same granularity level as the
OLTP system
c. Data mart c. Finer granularity than that of OLTP
system
d. Super mart d. Choice of granularity has no impact
on ETL

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