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(21) The load and index is which of the following?
[A] A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
[B] A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
[C] A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse
[D] A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse
Answer: A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
(22) The extract process is which of the following?
[A] Capturing all of the data contained in various operational systems
[B] Capturing a subset of the data contained in various operational systems
[C] Capturing all of the data contained in various decision support systems
[D] Capturing a subset of the data contained in various decision support systems
Answer: Capturing a subset of the data contained in various operational systems

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(23) A star schema has what type of relationship between a dimension and fact table?
[A] Many-to-many
[B] One-to-one
[C] One-to-many
[D] All of the above.
Answer: One-to-many
(24) Transient data is which of the following?
[A] Data in which changes to existing records cause the previous version of the records to be eliminated
[B] Data in which changes to existing records do not cause the previous version of the records to be eliminated
[C] Data that are never altered or deleted once they have been added
[D] Data that are never deleted once they have been added
Answer: Data in which changes to existing records cause the previous version of the records to be eliminated
(25) A multifield transformation does which of the following?
[A] Converts data from one field into multiple fields
[B] Converts data from multiple fields into one field
[C] Converts data from multiple fields into multiple fields
[D] All of the above
Answer: All of the above
(26) Data dictionary is
[A] Large collection of data mostly stored in a computer system
[B] The removal of noise errors and incorrect input from a database
[C] The systematic description of the syntactic structure of a specific database. It describes the structure of the attributes the tables and foreign key relations hips.
[D] oNone of theseut
Answer: The systematic description of the syntactic structure of a specific database. It describes the structure of the attributes the tables and foreign key relations hips.
(27) Data warehouse is
[A] The actual discovery phase of a knowledge discovery process
[B] The stage of selecting the right data for a KDD process
[C] A subject-oriented integrated time variant non-volatile collection of data in support of management
[D] None of these
Answer: A subject-oriented integrated time variant non-volatile collection of data in support of management
(28) Data cleaning is
[A] Large collection of data mostly stored in a computer system
[B] The removal of noise errors and incorrect input from a database
[C] The systematic description of the syntactic structure of a specific database. It describes the structure of the attributes the tables and foreign key relationships.
[D] None of
Answer: The removal of noise errors and incorrect input from a database
(29) Decision support systems (DSS) is
[A] A family of relational database management systems marketed by IBM
[B] Interactive systems that enable decision makers to use databases and models on a computer in order to solve ill-structured problems
[C] It consists of nodes and branches starting from a single root node. Each node represents a test, or decision
[D] None of these
Answer: Interactive systems that enable decision makers to use databases and models on a computer in order to solve ill-structured problems
(30) The data Warehouse is______.
[A] read write only.
[B] write only.
[C] read only.
[D] none.
Answer: read write only.
31 __________ is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management decisions.
[A] Web Mining.
[B] Data Warehousing.
[C] Data Mining.
[D] Text Mining.
Answer: Data Warehousing.
32 . Data warehouse architecture is based on .......................
[A] DBMS
[B] RDBMS
[C] Sybase
[D] SQL Server
Answer: RDBMS
33 . ..........................supports basic OLAP operations, including slice and dice, drill-down, roll-up and pivoting.
[A] Information processing
[B] Analytical processing
[C] Data mining
[D] Transaction processing
Answer: Analytical processing
34 . The core of the multidimensional model is the ....................... , which consists of a large set of facts and a number of dimensions.
[A] Multidimensional cube
[B] Dimensions cube
[C] Data cube
[D] Data model
Answer: Data cube
35 The data from the operational environment enter ........................ of data warehouse.
[A] Current detail data
[B] Older detail data
[C] Lightly Summarized data
[D] Highly summarized data
Answer: Current detail data
36 A data warehouse is ......................
[A] updated by end users.
[B] contains numerous naming conventions and formats
[C] organized around important subject areas
[D] contain only current data
Answer: organized around important subject areas
37 Business Intelligence and data warehousing is used for ..............
[A] Forecasting
[B] Data Mining
[C] Analysis of large volumes of product sales data
[D] All of the above
Answer: All of the above
38 Data warehouse contains ................ data that is never found in the operational environment.
[A] normalized
[B] informational
[C] summary
[D] denormalized
Answer: summary
39 ................... are responsible for running queries and reports against data warehouse tables.
[A] Hardware
[B] Software
[C] End users
[D] Middle ware
Answer: End users
40 The biggest drawback of the level indicator in the classic star schema is that is limits ............
[A] Flexibility
[B] Quantify
[C] Qualify
[D] Ability
Answer: Flexibility

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