EASY Questions:

1. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy Which one is a false statement with respect to a Data Warehouse? a. It is a decision support database for analysis c. It will have historical data d. Its not

b. It doesnt support analytical processing

the same as an Organizations Operational database.

2. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy Which one is not a characteristics feature of a Data Warehouse? a. Subject-Oriented
b. Volatile

c. Time-Variant d. Integrated

3. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy The data warehousing architecture that supports a Data warehouse where the clients directly access it for getting information?
A. Centralized

C. Federated D. All of the above

B. Tiered

4. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy

The data warehousing architecture that supports Logical data warehouse and a set of physical data marts accessing data from it?
A. Centralized

C. Federated D. All of the above

B. Tiered

5. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy The data warehousing architecture that supports Physical data warehouse and a set of physical data marts accessing data from it? A. Centralized
B. Tiered 6.

C. Federated D. All of the above

Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts Level: Easy A subset of the data warehouse which is having its scope confined to a selected, specific group of users a. Enterprise Data warehouse c. Data Mart b. Operational Data Store d. Data Center

7. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy The dimensional data model is commonly used for OLTP systems. True or False? a. True b. False
8. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy Table is a table that has the measures of interest in a Dimensional Data Model? a. Fact c. Dimension b. Derived d. Global Temporary

9. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy The date dimension table connected to the sales facts is identical to the date dimension connected to the inventory facts. Here the date dimension can be classified as ________ Dimension type a. Confirmed b. Junk c. Degenerated d. Role Playing Dimension

10. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy Which one is not a valid Cube operation? a. Roll up b. Drill down/Up c. Slice and Dice d. Pivot
e. Roll down

11. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy Which OLAP system is capable to leverage functionalities inherent in the relational database? a. ROLAP b. MOLAP c. HOLAP d. All of these

12. Sub Topic: BI Concepts

Level: Easy The OLAP cube operation by which we can summarize the data along a dimension hierarchy is termed as ____________ a. Roll up b. Drill down/Up c. Slice and Dice d. Pivot e. Roll down

13. Sub Topic: BI Concepts

Level: Easy Online Analytic processing is the process in which: a. Raw Data gets converted in to useful information b. Raw Data gets transformed and loaded in to Data warehouse c. Both a and b d. None of these

14. Sub Topic: Data Normalization and De-Normalization

Level: Easy Data Normalization is: ___________? a. A logical design method which minimizes data redundancy and reduces design flaws. b. Consists of applying various normal forms to the database design. c. The normal forms break down large tables into smaller subsets. d. All of these

15. Sub Topic: Data Normalization and De-Normalization

Level: Easy _____________ Strengthens 3NF by requiring the keys in the functional dependencies to be super keys (a column or columns that uniquely identify a row) a. 1 NF b. 2 NF c. Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) d. None of these

16. Sub Topic: Data Normalization and De-Normalization

Level: Easy Consider the below scenario and select the option that most suits the scenario: Dept_no and dept_name are functionally dependent on emp_no however, department can be considered a separate entity. a. Transitive Dependence b. Data Integrity c. First Normal form d. None of these

17. Sub Topic: Data Normalization and De-Normalization

Level: Easy Which Normal form helps in eliminating the dependencies not determined by the key columns? a. 1 NF b. 2 NF c. 3 NF d. 4 NF

e. 5 NF
18. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

An attribute is ____________________________ ? a. A unique level with in a dimension

b. It categorizes each item in a data set into non-overlapping

regions
c. It contains the measures of interest.

d. None of these

19. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy Which among the following is not a valid dimension type? a. Confirmed b. Junk c. Degenerated d. Role Anticipating Dimension

20. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Easy The type of fact table that describes what has happened over a period of time is called ___________ Fact table a. Cumulative b. Snapshot c. Sequence d. Ordered

21. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy

OLTP is ______________? a. On-line Transaction processing

b. On-line Translation processing

c. On-line Transaction programming

d. On-line Translation programming

22. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy OLAP is ______________? a. Online algorithmic process

b. Online analysis programming

c. Online analytic processing

d. Online analytic programming

23. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy Select the proper order of various stages from the below options in which raw data gets converted in to useful information so that it is finally used by business users to help in their decision making?
a. Data Sources, Data Mining, Data Warehouse, Data Exploration, Data

Presentation, Making Decisions

b. Data Sources, Data Exploration, Data Mining, Data Warehouse, Data

Presentation, Making Decisions

c. Data Sources, Data Warehouse, Data Exploration, Data

Mining, Data Presentation, Making Decisions

d. Data Sources, Data Exploration, Data Presentation, Data

Warehouse, Data Mining, Making Decisions

24. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy

Ralph Kimballs approach for Data warehouse is

a. Top down b. Drill down

c. Break through d. Drill up e. Bottom Up

25. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Easy

Data in Data warehouse is usually stored in ________________ fashion. a. Denormalized b. Statistical c. Relational d. Normalized

Medium Questions:
26. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium Which layer is spread across all the other layers in a Data warehousing system?
a. Metadata layer

c. Data Logic layer d. Data storage Layer

b. Data Presentation Layer

27. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium Which is the layer used for creating analytic reports for the user? c. Data Extraction Layer c. Data Logic layer
d. Data Presentation Layer 28. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

d. Data storage Layer

Level: Medium

Which one of the following is the correct order of Data warehouse development process? a. 1.Business Discovery 2.BI Discovery 3.Design & Develop 4.Test 5. Implement b. 1.BI Discovery 2.Design & Develop 3.Test 4. Implement 5.Business Discovery c. 1.BI Discovery 2.Business Discovery 3.Design & Develop 4.Test 5. Implement d. 1.Business Discovery 2.Design & Develop 3.Test 4.BI Discovery 5. Implement
29. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium
a.

Table provides means for slice and dice data in a Data c. Dimension d. Global Temporary

warehouse? b. Fact c. Derived

30. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium Which one is the specification of levels that represents relationship between different attributes within a dimension?
a.

hierarchy b. dimension

c. level d. group

31. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium A __________ dimension is a collection of random transactional codes, flags and/or text attributes that are unrelated to any particular dimension. e. Confirmed f. Junk g. Degenerated h. Role Playing Dimension

32. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium

True or False: A Role-Playing dimension is data that is dimensional in nature but stored in a fact table. True or False
a. True

b. False

33. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium DB design is application oriented in which system? a. OLTP System c. OLAP System b. Both OLTP and OLAP Systems
34. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

d. None of these

The major performance metrics for an OLAP system is ________? a. b. c. d. e. Transaction throughput Query throughput Response Query throughput and Response Both Transaction throughput and Response

35. Sub Topic: BI Concepts

Level: Medium The OLAP Query operation that helps in reducing the number of dimensions a. Roll up b. Drill down/Up c. Slice and Dice d. Pivot

36. Sub Topic: BI Concepts

Level: Medium The OLAP query operation used to go from higher level summary to lower level summary or detailed data and vice versa e. Roll up f. Drill down/Up

g. Slice and Dice h. Pivot

37. Sub Topic: ETL Concepts

Level: Medium The ETL process by which Data errors like inconsistent field lengths, inconsistent descriptions etc are eliminated to make the Data errorfree is termed as ? a. Data Cleaning b. Data Refining c. Data Quality Assurance d. Data Profiling

38. Sub Topic: ETL Concepts

Level: Medium The ETL process used for quantifying the number of defects and assessing the nature and cause for them is termed as ___________? a. Data Cleaning b. Data Refining c. Data Profiling d. Data Loading

39. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium The type of fact table that describes the state of things in a particular instance of time is called ______________ fact table a. Cumulative b. Snapshot

c. Sequence d. Ordered

40. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium The conceptual model in which all the dimension tables are directly related to the fact table is called as _______________ ?. a. Star schema b. Snowflake schema
c. Fact constellations

d. None of these

41. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Medium The conceptual model in which the dimension tables are in-directly related to the fact table through another dimension table is called as _______________ ?. a. Star schema b. Snowflake schema
c. Fact constellations

d. None of these

42. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium The data model level where you will define the data model with the help of entity names alone? a. Conceptual data model.

b. logical data model. c. physical data model. d. Analytic data model

43. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Medium The data model level where we can define all the column names and the data types associated with it is ___________? a. Conceptual data model. b. logical data model. c. physical data model. d. Analytic data model

Difficult Questions:
44. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Difficult "Date" dimension can be used for "Date of Sale", as well as "Date of Delivery", or "Date of Hire". The Date dimension here can be classified as _________ Dimension type? a. Confirmed b. Junk c. Degenerated d. Role Playing Dimension

45. Sub Topic: ETL Concepts

Level: Difficult True or False: Index structures can be built on a materialized view a. True b. False

c. Cant predict with the above description alone

46. Sub Topic: ETL Concepts

Level: Difficult Which one is not a valid Data Cleansing operation? a. Parse b. Standardize c. Enhance d. Correct
47. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Difficult

What is the conceptual model shown in the above figure? e. Star schema f. Snowflake schema
g. Fact constellations

h. None of these

48. Sub Topic: Dimensional Modeling

Level: Difficult Pick the odd one from the below options? e. conceptual data model. f. logical data model.

g. physical data model. h. Analytic data model

49. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Difficult Pick the wrong statement from the below set of options with respect to an OLAP system? a. Decision makers forms the majority of the User community for an OLAP system b. DB design is subject oriented in an OLAP system c. OLAP systems will usually have millions of records getting accessed d. Transaction throughput is the main performance metric for an OLAP system

50. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Difficult Pick the wrong statement from the below set of options with respect to an OLTP system? a. Decision makers forms the majority of the User community for an OLTP system
b. DB design is application oriented in an OLTP system c. OLTP systems functions for day to day operations of an

organization d. Transaction throughput is the main performance metric for an OLTP system

Extra Question incase Question number 47 is not acceptable (as it has a diagram in it)

51. Sub Topic: Data warehousing Concepts

Level: Difficult

Select the measures from the below list a. Sales Date b. Product length c. Unit price d. Quantity sold