Question Bank

Year & Semester: III & V

Subject Code & Subject Name: U15CSE05 & Data Warehousing and Data Mining
UNIT 2
Part-A
1. OLAP stands for
a. Online Analytical Processing
b. Online Attribute Processing
c. Online Assertion Processing
d. Online Association Processing
2. Which one manages both current and historic transactions?
a. OLTP c. Spread sheet
b. OLAP d. XML
3. To minimize storage requirements dimension attributes are usually short identifiers that are
foreign keys into other tables called ____________.
a. fact table
b. dimensional table
c. lookup table
d. info table

4. Fact tables are ___________.

a. Completely demoralized
b. Partially demoralized.
c. Completely normalized.
d. Partially normalized
5. 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
6. The data administration subsystem helps you to perform all of the following, except__________.
a. backups and recovery.
b. query optimization.
c. security management.
d. create, change, and delete information
7. ________ are responsible for running queries and reports against data warehouse tables.
a. Hardware. c. End users
b. Software. d. Middle ware.
8. Query tool is meant for _________.
a. data acquisition.
b. information delivery.
c. information exchange.
d. communication
9. Multidimensional database is otherwise known as,
a. RDBMS
b. DBMS
c. Extended RDBMS
d. Extended DBMS
10. The terms equality and roll up are associated with?
a. OLAP
b. visualization.
c. data mart.
d. decision tree
11. SQL stand for,
a. Standard Query Language.
b. Structured Query Language.
c. Standard Quick List.
d. Structured Query list

12. Impromptu is an
a. Interactive database reporting tool.
b. Executive interface system.
c. Operational database
d. Relational database

13. Impromptu allows __________ to query data without programming knowledge.

a. Casual users
b. Power Users
c. Expert users
d. Both a & b
14. Uses of Prompts are
a. filter reports
b. calculate data items
c. format data
d. All of the above
15. Features of Impromptu are
a. Unified query and reporting interface
b. Object oriented architecture
c. Complete integration with PowerPlay
d. All of the above
16. Types of frames are
a. Form frame
b. List frame
c. OLE Object
d. All of the above
17. Multidimensional data model is to view it as a
a. Cable
b. Cube
c. Triangle
d. All of the above
18. Operations in Multidimensional Data Model are
a. Aggregation
b. Selection
c. Visualization
d. All of the above
19. Categories of OLAP Tools
a. MOLAP
b. HOLAP
c. ROLAP
d. All of the above
20. HOLAP technologies attempt to combine the advantages of
a. MOLAP and ROLAP
 b. MOLAP and HOLAP
c. ROLAP and HOLAP
d. All of the above
21. The roll-up operation is also called as _______
a. drill-up operation
b. drill-down operation
c. slice operation
d. All of the above
22. Drill-down is the reverse of
a. drill-up operation
b. roll-up operation
c. slice operation
d. All of the above
23. Which operation performs a selection on one dimension of the cube resulting in a sub
cube?
a. drill-up operation
b. roll-up operation
c. slice operation
d. All of the above
24. Which operation defines a sub cube by performing a selection on two (or) more
Dimensions?
a. drill-up operation
b. roll-up operation
c. dice operation
d. All of the above
25. Which operation rotates the data axes in an alternative presentation of the data?
a. Pivot operation
b. roll-up operation
c. dice operation
d. All of the above
26. Which model is an extended relational DBMS that maps operations on
multidimensional data to standard relational operations?
a. MOLAP
b. HOLAP
c. ROLAP
d. All of the above.
27. Which is a special purpose server that directly implements multidimensional data and
operations?
a. MOLAP
b. HOLAP
c. ROLAP
d. All of the above
28. Reporting tools can be divided into
a. production reporting tools
b. desktop report writers
c. Data mining
d. Both a & b
29. OLAP system should also support __________.
a. Comprehensive database management tools
b. Incremental database refresh
 c. Structured Query Language
d. All of the above
30. OLAP Tools are based on the concepts of _______________.
a. Data mart
b. Enterprise Warehouse.
c. Relational database
d. Multidimensional database
31. The distinct types of reporting are ____________.
a. Creation and viewing of standard reports.
b. Definition and creation of Adhoc reports.
c. Data Exploration.
d. All of the above
32. Types of Exception reporting is __________
a. Conditional Filters
b. Conditional Highlighting
c. Conditional Display
d. All of the above
33. PowerBuilder supports Windows facilities of
a. DDE
b. OLE
c. MDI
d. All of the above
34. The products from Information builder are
a. Catcus
b. FOCUS
c. OLE controls
d. Both a & b
35. OLAP is a
a. Contiuous process.
b. Iterative process.
c. Interactive process.
d. All of the above
36. Pivot is also called as
a. drill-up operation
b. rotate operation
c. dice operation
d. All of the above
37. The client can access the decision support report through static HTML pages via web
browsers is done in
a. First-generation Web sites
b. Second-generation Web sites
c. Third-generation Web sites
d. All of the above
38. Which support Interactive database query into a CGI?
a. First-generation Web sites
b. Second-generation Web sites
c. Third-generation Web sites
d. All of the above
39. Which websites replace HTML gateways with web based servers?
a. First-generation Web sites
 b. Second-generation Web sites
c. Third-generation Web sites
d. All of the above
40. Vendors approaches for deploying tools on the Web include
a. HTML publishing
b. Helper applications
c. Plug-ins
d. All of the above

41. ___________ consists of formal definitions, such as a COBOL layout or a database schema.
a. Classical metadata
b.Transformation metadata
c. Historical metadata
d.Structural metadata

42. The data administration subsystem helps you perform all of the following, except,
a. query optimization
b.backups and recovery
c. security management
d.create, change, and delete information
43. _________ are designed to overcome any limitations placed on the warehouse by the nature
of the relational data model.
a. Operational database
b. Relational database
c. Multidimensional database
d. Data repository
44. Record cannot be updated in,
a. OLTP
b.files
c. RDBMS
d.data warehouse
45. How a database design is represented in OLAP systems?
a.Star schema
b. Snowflake schema
c.Fact constellation schema
d. All of the above
46. A ……………… system is market-oriented and is used for data analysis by knowledge
workers, including managers, executives, and analysts.
a. OLAP
b. OLTP
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
47. Fact tables are
a. Completely demoralized
b. Partially demoralized
c. Completely normalized
d. Partially normalized
48. The data is stored, retrieved and updated in ………………..
a. OLAP
b. OLTP
c. SMTP
d. FTP
49. Tools used to analyze the data in multi dimensional and complex views
 a. Data mining tools
b. OLAP Tools
c. Application development tools
d. Managed Query tools
50. A catalog contains:
a. Folders
b. Columns
c. Calculations
d. All of the above