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CS1004: DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING TWO MARKS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
16 MARKS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS(With Headings) UNIT-I 1. Explain the evolution of Database technology? _ Data collection and Database creation _ Database management systems _ Advanced database systems _ Data warehousing and Data Mining _ Web-based Database systems _ New generation of Integrated information systems 2.Explain the steps of knowledge discovery in databases? _ Data cleaning _ Data integration _ Data selection _ Data transformation _ Data mining _ Pattern evaluation _ Knowledge presentation 3. Explain the architecture of data mining system? _ Database, datawarehouse, or other information repository _ Database or data warehouse server _ Knowledge base _ Data mining engine _ Pattern evaluation module _ Graphical user interface 4.Explain various tasks in data mining? (Or) Explain the taxonomy of data mining tasks? _ Predictive modeling Classification Regression Time series analysis _ Descriptive modeling Clustering Summarization Association rules Sequence discovery 5.Explain various techniques in data mining? www.Vidyarthiplus.com Page 1

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_ Statistics (or) Statistical perspectives _ Point estimation Data summarization Bayesian techniques Hypothesis testing Correlation _ Regression _ Machine learning _ Decision trees _ Hidden markov models _ Artificial neural networks _ Genetic algorithms _ Meta learning

UNIT-II 6.Explain the issues regarding classification and prediction? _ Preparing the data for classification and prediction o Data cleaning o Relevance analysis o Data transformation _ Comparing classification methods o Predictive accuracy o Speed o Robustness o Scalability o Interpretability 7.Explain classification by Decision tree induction? _ Decision tree induction _ Attribute selection measure. _ Tree pruning _ Extracting classification rules from decision trees 8.Write short notes on patterns? _ Pattern definition _ Objective measures _ Subjective measures _ Can a data mining system generate all of the interesting patterns? _ Can a data mining system generate only interesting patterns? 9.Explain mining single dimensional Boolean associated rules from transactional databases? www.Vidyarthiplus.com Page 2

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_ The apriori algorithm: Finding frequent itemsets using candidate generation _ Mining frequent item sets without candidate generation 10.Explain apriori algorithm? _ Apriori property _ Join steps _ Prune step _ Example _ Algorithm 11.Explain how the efficiency of apriori is improved? _ Hash-based technique (hashing item set counts) _ Transaction reduction (reducing the number of transactions scanned in future iteration) _ Partitioning (Partitioning the data to find candidate item sets) _ Sampling (mining on a subset of the given data) _ Dynamic item set counting (adding candidate item sets at different points during a scan) 12.Explain frequent item set without candidate without candidate generation? _ Frequent patterns growth (or) FP-growth _ Frequent pattern tree (or) FP-tree _ Algorithm 13. Explain mining Multi-dimensional Boolean association rules from transaction databases? _ Multi-dimensional (or) Multilevel association rules _ Approaches to mining Multilevel association rules Using uniform minimum support for all levels Using reduced minimum support at lower levels o Level-by-level independent o Level-cross filtering by single o Level- cross filtering by k-item set _ Checking for redundant Multilevel association rules 14.Explain constraint-based association mining? _ Knowledge type constraints _ Data constraints _ Dimension/level constraints _ Interestingness constraints _ Rule constraints _ Metarule-Guided mining of association of association rules _ Mining guided by additional rule constraints

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Unit III 15.Explain regression in predictive modeling? _ Regression definition _ Linear regression _ Multiple regression _ Non-linear regression _ Other regression models 16.Explain statistical perspective in data mining? _ Point estimation _ Data summarization _ Bayesian techniques _ Hypothesis testing _ Regression _ Correlation 17. Explain Bayesian classification. _ Bayesian theorem _ Nave Bayesian classification _ Bayesian belief networks _ Bayesian learning 18. Discuss the requirements of clustering in data mining. _ Scalability _ Ability to deal with different types of attributes _ Discovery of clusters with arbitrary shape _ Minimal requirements for domain knowledge to determine input parameters _ Ability to deal with noisy data _ Insensitivity to the order of input records _ High dimensionality _ Interpretability and usability _ Interval scaled variables _ Binary variables o Symmetric binary variables o Asymmetric binary variables _ Nominal variables _ Ordinal variables _ Ratio-scaled variables 20. Explain the partitioning method of clustering. K-means clustering K-medoids clustering 21. Explain Visualization in data mining. Various forms of visualizing the discovered patterns www.Vidyarthiplus.com Page 4

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_ Rules _ Table _ Crosstab _ Pie chart _ Bar chart _ Decision tree _ Data cube _ Histogram _ Quantile plots _ q-q plots _ Scatter plots _ Loess curves UNIT IV 22. Discuss the components of data warehouse. _ Subject-oriented _ Integrated _ Time-Variant _ Non-volatile 23. List out the differences between OLTP and OLAP. _ Users and system orientation _ Data contents _ Database design _ View _ Access patterns 24.Discuss the various schematic representations in multidimensional model. _ Star schema _ Snow flake schema _ Fact constellation schema 25. Explain the OLAP operations I multidimensional model. _ Roll-up _ Drill-down _ Slice and dice _ Pivot or rotate 26. Explain the design and construction of a data warehouse. _ Design of a data warehouse Top-down view Data source view Data warehouse view Business query view _ Process of data warehouse design

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27.Expalin the three-tier data warehouse architecture. _ Warehouse database server(Bottom tier) _ OLAP server(middle tier) _ Client(top tier) 28. Explain indexing. _ Definition _ B-Tree indexing _ Bit-map indexing _ Join indexing 29.Write notes on metadata repository. _ Definition _ Structure of the data warehouse _ Operational metadata _ Algorithms used for summarization _ Mapping from operational environment to data warehouse _ Data related to system performance _ Business metadata 30. Write short notes on VLDB. _ Definition _ Challenge related to database technologies _ Issues in VLDB UNIT V 31.Explain data mining applications for Biomedical and DNA data analysis. _ Semantic integration of heterogeneous, distributed genome databases _ Similarity search and comparison among DNA sequences _ Association analysis. _ Path analysis _ Visualization tools and genetic data analysis. 32. Explain data mining applications fro financial data analysis. _ Loan payment prediction and customer credit policy analysis. _ Classification and clustering of customers fro targeted marketing. _ Detection of money laundering and other financial crimes. 33. Explain data mining applications for retail industry. _ Multidimensional analysis of sales, customers, products, time and region. _ Analysis of the effectiveness of sales campaigns. _ Customer retention-analysis of customer loyalty. _ Purchase recommendation and cross-reference of items. 34. Explain data mining applications for Telecommunication industry. www.Vidyarthiplus.com Page 6

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_ Multidimensional analysis of telecommunication data. _ Fraudulent pattern analysis and the identification of unusual patterns. _ Multidimensional association and sequential pattern analysis _ Use of visualization tools in telecommunication data analysis. 35. Explain DBMiner tool in data mining. _ System architecture _ Input and Output _ Data mining tasks supported by the system _ Support of task and method selection _ Support of the KDD process _ Main applications _ Current status 36. Explain how data mining is used in health care analysis. _ Health care data mining and its aims _ Health care data mining technique _ Segmenting patients into groups _ Identifying patients into groups _ Identifying patients with recurring health problems _ Relation between disease and symptoms _ Curbing the treatment costs _ Predicting medical diagnosis _ Medical research _ Hospital administration _ Applications of data mining in health care _ Conclusion 37. Explain how data mining is used in banking industry. _ Data collected by data mining in banking _ Banking data mining tools _ Mining customer data of bank _ Mining for prediction and forecasting _ Mining for fraud detection _ Mining for cross selling bank services _ Mining for identifying customer preferences _ Applications of data mining in banking _ Conclusion 38. Explain the types of data mining. _ Audio data mining _ Video data mining _ Image data mining _ Scientific and statistical data mining

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