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Data Warehousing Questions

12. What is the advantage in going for a Bottom Up approach in
1. What is a Data Mart? building a Enterprise Data Warehouse
a) Database's used by a single business analyst a) Data Cleaning is not required
b) Database's used by the whole business organization b) Ensures that all departments get a Data Mart
c) Scaled down version of a Data Warehouse usually c) Return on Investment can be felt at the earliest
developed to solve a particular business problem d) Data Loading is Faster
d) A "view" of the Data Warehouse created within the
database management system 13. Which of the following must be a function of a data Extraction and
transformation tool?
2. What is Data Webhouse? a) Ability to retrieve data from all known database
a) An Active Data Warehouse management systems
b) A Data Warehouse which has the data feed from the b) Ability to store the data mart database designs and make
Internet log and related data, and the information from those designs available to the business analysts
the Data Warehouse web enabled c) Ability to translate data elements in the source systems
c) A collection Data Marts inter-connected as a Web into data warehouse data
d) A Operational Data Store, Data Mart and Data d) Ability to run on all known platforms and operating
Warehouse is called a Data Webhouse systems

3. Data Mart is 14. The process of requesting detailed information

a) Single Subject Oriented Data Warehouse a) Drill up
b) A collection of Data Warehouse b) Drill left
c) An Application on a Data Warehouse c) Drill down
d) None of the Above d) Drill right

4. Which one of the following is NOT an example of Operational 15. What is the difference between a Data Warehouse or Data Mart
Systems? and an Operational Data Store?
a) Order Tracking Applications, such as catalog sales a) An operational data store contains more current data
b) Customer service applications, such as setting up than either a Data Warehouse or a Data Mart
customer accounts b) An operational data store and a data warehouse or data
c) Banking functions, such as deposits and withdrawals mart track different subject areas in the organization
d) Sales forecasting applications c) An operational data store is a copy of the data
warehouse or data mart
5. Which layer of the data warehouse architecture does an end user d) The operational data store tends to be larger than the
directly deals with data warehouse or data mart
a) Staging layer
b) External data layer 16. Data Warehousing Characteristics (i) Subject Oriented (ii) Non
c) Information access layer Volatile (iii) Time Variant (iv) Integrated (v) Time Invariant
d) Data warehouse layer a) (iii) &(i)&(iv)&(v) Only
b) (i)&(ii)&(iv)&(v) Only
6. What should be the primary source of data for a data mart? c) (i)&(ii)&(iii)&(iv) Only
a) A subset of the data warehouse created in the database d) All
management system
b) Data extracted from the target systems 17. Which process loads the data from heterogeneous source systems
c) The operational databases to the data warehouse
d) Data extracted from the data warehouse databases a) Cleaning
b) Mining
7. Where is Meta data usually store? c) ETL Process
a) Word Processing documents d) None of the Above
b) Spread sheets
c) Information Repository 18. What does the term "Ad-hoc Analysis" mean?
d) All the above a) Business analysts access the Data Warehouse data from
different locations.
8. Which of the following are the examples of dimensions? b) Business analysts use sampling techniques
a) Customers c) Business analysts start query and analysis on the fly
b) Time d) Business analysts access the Data Warehouse data
c) Product infrequently
d) All the above
19. Sparse Data in OLAP Cube indicates
9. The process of populating a data warehouse is called a) Missing Data
a) Loading b) Data Repetitions
b) Extracting c) Zeroes
c) Transforming d) Rare Data
d) None of the Above
20. What is an Operational System?
10. Architected Data Warehouse a) An application system that supports the organization's
a) Reduces server and client processing required day to day activities
b) Does not maintain historical integrity b) An application system that tracks and manages the
c) Inefficient data acquisition financial assets of the organization
d) None of the Above c) An application system that supports the creation of
products(s) that the organization markets
11. Which one of the following are called 'Stove Pipe Systems'? d) An application system that supports the planning and
a) DataWarehouse forecasting within the organization
b) Dependent Data Marts
c) Independent Data Marts
d) Operational Data Stores
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21. Which of the following are the advantages of creating individual 31. Data Warehouses and Data Marts assist
marts and then rolling them up into a central warehouse? 1)Quick a) Reports to regulatory agencies
Successes 2)Rapid prototyping of data transformations b) Audit reporting
3)Duplication of data c) Decision Support
a) 1 only d) Accounting Reporting
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 1, 2 and 3 32. Operational Data Store (ODS) Characteristics (a) Subject Oriented
d) None of the Above (b) Volatile (c) Current or Near Current collection of data (d)
integrated
22. Disadvantage of data mart is a) (b)&(a)
a) Does not provide integrated view of information b) (a)&(b)&(c)&(d)
b) Uncontrolled proliferation results in redundancy c) (d)&(c)
c) More number of Data Marts are complex to maintain d) (a)&(b)&(c)
d) All of the above
33. What is a Fact Table in a Data Warehouse terminology?
23. Which of the following statements correctly describe a dimension a) Any Table that has the history of a Business.
table in Dimensional Modeling? b) Table that contains Time related data
a) Dimension tables do not contain numeric fields c) Any Table present in a Data Warehouse Table
b) Dimension tables do not need system-generated keys d) Table that contains measurable data.
c) Dimension tables usually have fewer fields than fact
tables 34. What is the difference between a Data Warehouse or Data Mart
d) Dimension tables contain fields that describe the facts and an Operational Data Store?
a) An operational data store contains more current data
24. What is the most common use of a multi dimensional database than either a Data Warehouse or a Data Mart
(MDDB)? b) An operational data store and a data warehouse or data
a) Access pre determined aggregated data across several mart track different subject areas in the organization
dimensions c) An operational data store is a copy of the data
b) Access huge data warehouses warehouse or data mart
c) Access application packages d) The operational data store tends to be larger than the
d) As the only type of database management system used data warehouse or data mart
for a data warehouse
35. Why data in a Data Warehouse called as Time Variant?
25. Table Denormalization (a)Improves Query performance (b) a) Because data in the data warehouse is accurate as of
Duplicates Information some moment in time
a) Only (a) True b) Because every key structure in the data warehouse
b) Only (b) True contains - implicitly or explicitly -an element of time,
c) Both (a) and (b) True such as day, week, month, etc.
d) None c) (a)&(b)
d) Only (a)
26. Bit Mapped Indexing can be used…
a) When the distinct value of a column is high 36. Data Warehouse is
b) When the distinct value of a column is low a) Collection of History Data
c) When the storage space available is less b) Query Centric
d) When the table is having very few rows c) Decision Support System
d) All the above
27. Which of the following is NOT a type of process typically done by
a OLAP tool? 37. Enterprise Data warehouse contains
a) Creation of large, detailed transaction level reports a) Only detailed data
b) "WHAT IF" analysis b) Only summarized data
c) "Slicing and Dicing" of the data with drill down when c) Detailed and summarized data
something interesting is found. d) None of the Above
d) Time series analysis
38. What is Snow Flake Schema in a Database design?
28. Scheduling of various tasks needed to build and maintain a data a) The Dimension Tables have a Foreign Key Table.
warehouse is taken care of by b) The Dimension Tables do not have a Foreign Key Table.
a) Staging layer c) The Fact Table has one Dimension Table
b) Process management layer d) The Dimension table is Only of Time
c) Information access layer
d) Transformation layer 39. In order to be successful at decision-making, what does an
organization need?
29. What is an Operational Data Store (ODS)? a) Experienced decision makers
a) A set of database that support reporting from an b) Adequate and timely data
application system c) A corporate strategy
b) A set of databases that provide integrated operations d) All the above
data to serve the organization's day to day activities
c) A set of database to provide operational data for a single 40. Non Architectured Data Marts are also known as
department a) Legacy Data Marts
d) A set of databases that support OLAP b) Lega Marts
c) Non-Integrated Data Marts
30. OLAP that accesses the raw data lying in the RDBMS for reporting d) All of the above
is called as
a) Multidimensional OLAP
b) Relational OLAP
c) Hybrid OLAP
d) All the above
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41. In building a data warehouse 60 - 80 % of work is required in 51. The person who defined rules for OLAP(OnLine Analytical
which stage? Processing) is
a) Database Design a) Bill Inmon
b) ETL deployment b) Ralph Kimball
c) OLAP deployment c) C J Date
d) Cleaning d) E F Codd

42. Categories of OLAP Tools: Level 1- Basic query and display of 52. What is a Dimension Table in Data Warehouse terminology?
data; Level 2- Level 1 + advanced selection and arithmetic a) Any Table present in a Data Warehouse Table
operations; Level 3- Level 1 and Level 2 + sophisticated data b) Table of members, positions, or units of the same type
analysis techniques. Which of the following is an example of a which is used as categories by which data is analyzed
process c) Any Table storing measurable unit
a) Display a report based on specific selection criteria d) Table storing Data type that has a value to be analyzed
b) Drill down to another level of detail
c) Calculate a rolling average on a set of data 53. In which schema only primary dimension tables are joined to fact
d) Display the top 10 items that meet a specific selection tables?
criteria a. Star Schema
b. Snow flaked schema
43. The Fact Table is related to a Dimension Table in the Dimensional c. Both star schema and snow flaked schema
Modeling by d. None of the Above
a) One to Many
b) Many to One 54. What is the substantial benefit of implementing a Data Warehouse
c) One to One or Data Mart?
d) Many To Many a) Improves the morale of the organization's knowledge
workers
44. Which of the following are considered to be advantages while b) Provides many new tools to the executives within the
building a data warehouse? organization
a) The ability to access Enterprise-Wide data c) Increases technical knowledge within the executive
b) The ability to have consistent data ranks of the organization because they will have to learn
c) The ability to perform analysis quickly to use a computer
d) All the above d) Improves decision-making within the organization

45. Ad-hoc access path, low transaction volume, low number of users
are the characteristics of which system 55. OLAP that accesses its own proprietary Data Storage for reporting
a) Informational system is called as
b) Decision support system a) Multidimensional OLAP
c) Operational system b) Relational OLAP
d) Transactional system c) Hybrid OLAP
d) All the above
46. The key performance indicators of an enterprise are
a) Dimension attributes 56. Characteristics of dimension tables are
b) Facts, Measures a) Contains a primary key
c) Summary data b) Has one to many relationship to the fact table
d) Detailed data c) Contains other attribute columns that are useful for
levels of aggregation
47. What is an Active Data Warehouse? d) All the above
a) A Production Data Warehouse
b) Close-coupled OLTP and Data Warehouse 57. The type of Modeling used for the Database designing in Star
c) Close-coupled Data Marts Schema is
d) None a) ER Modeling
b) Dimensional Modeling
48. Executing a decision support query against an operational system c) Any Method
usually results in d) All the methods
a) No change in performance
b) Degradation in performance 58. The following statement fits for Data Mining (a) It’s an ad hoc
c) Improvement in performance reporting tool (b) It’s a technology to find Hidden patterns in huge
d) None data
a) Only (a)
b) Only (b)
49. Data can be cleaned (a)at the source(b)during transformation(c)in c) Both (a) and (b)
the Data Warehouse d) None
a) Only (a)
b) Only (b) 59. Degenerate dimensions can be represented as
c) Could be by all methods or any one of the methods a) An entry in the fact table without an associated
based on the Environment of Data Warehouse Setup dimension table
d) Only (c) b) Dimension table that contain all attributes that are
necessary to provide query values
50. What modeling technique would be used to design a specific c) An entry in the fact table with an associated dimension
database that will be implemented with star schema? table
a) Object Modeling d) None of the Above
b) Entity Relationship Modeling
c) Dimensional Modeling
d) None of the Above
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60. REDBRICK and TERADATA databases are mostly used for

a) OLTP applications 71. Metadata is associated with the following
b) OLAP applications a) Extraction Transformation and Loading
c) Both OLTP and OLAP applications b) Front end access
d) OO Database applications c) Data warehouse administration
d) All of the above
61. Which one of the following is NOT an example of measures?
a) Order Quantity
b) Product name 72. Compound Growth Factor (CGF) is associated with
c) Dollar Value a) Data explosion
d) Inventory Count b) Data integration
c) Scalability
62. Which of the following is a problem/analysis/study that could be d) Data warehouse performance
assisted by using Clustering Data Mining Technique
a) Market Basket Analysis 73. The relationship between a fact table and a dimension table is
b) Credit Card Fraud Detection a) One to One
c) Campaign Marketing b) One to Many
d) Time Series Analysis c) Many to One
d) Many to Many
63. Which one of the following is the complete general process in the
order involved in building a Data Warehouse? 74. Which of the following is suited for large, transaction intensive
a) Evaluate Data ->Extract Data ->Store Data applications?
b) Extract Data ->Evaluate Data a) ROLAP
c) Extract Data->Store Data ->Evaluate Data b) MOLAP
d) None of the Above c) HOLAP
d) DOLAP
64. Which one of the following is NOT an advantage of breaking a
Data Warehouse up into smaller Data Marts 75. An Architected Data Warehouse
a) Data Marts are guaranteed to have shared fields a) Does not maintain historical integrity
b) All data transformations from sources are common b) Is inefficient with respect to data acquisition
c) It takes longer to develop the Data Warehouse due to c) Reduces server and client processing required
increased time for advanced planning and design d) Does not store historical data
d) None of the Above
76. A fact table is linked to a dimension table using
65. Which of the following statements are true about OLAP? a) Surrogate keys
a) Ad Hoc Reporting Tool b) Compound keys
b) Has Drill through, Slice & Dice facility c) Complex keys
c) Built on a Data Warehouse/Data Mart d) None of the above
d) All the above
77. The following methods can be used for handling slowly changing
66. Casual dimensions can be used dimensions
a) As a helper table a) Inserting a new field in the table
b) For explaining why a record exists in a fact table b) Inserting a new record in the table
c) For integrating data marts into a data warehouse c) Overwrite the existing data
d) For handling changes to the data. d) All of the above

66. Factless Fact tables are used 78. In a Bottom Up data warehouse architecture
a) For event tracking a) The data warehouse is created first and then the data marts
b) For handling multi valued dimensions b) The data marts are created first and then the data warehouse
c) As a helper table c) A set of independent data marts are created
d) None of the above d) An enterprise data warehouse is created without creating data marts

67. Helper tables are used 79. In a Top Down data warehouse architecture
a) For handling one to many relationships a) The data warehouse is created first and then the data marts
b) For handling many to one relationships b) The data marts are created first and then the data warehouse
c) For handling many to many relationships c) A set of independent data marts are created
d) None of the above d) An enterprise data warehouse is created without creating data marts

68. Which of the following is not true with for an ODS? 80. Which of the statements are not true?
a) It is integrated and subject oriented a) A data mart contains less information than a data warehouse
b) Contains current and detailed data b) A data mart covers a single subject area
c) Contains years of historical data c) Data marts can be used for creating a data warehouse
d) Used for making tactical decisions d) None of the above.

69. Conformed dimensions are used 81. Which of the statements are not true for MOLAP Architecture?
a) For handling multi valued dimensions a) Processing overhead for large input data sets is high
b) For integrating data marts into a data warehouse b) The no of dimensions is usually restricted to 10 or less
c) For event tracking c) Scalability is good
d) For explaining why a record exists in a fact table d) It has a good user interface and functionality

70. Which of the following statements are not true? 82. Which of the following is associated with coverage tables?
a) A collection of data marts does not equal a data warehouse. a) Factless fact tables
b) A data warehouse contains summarized data. b) Conformed dimensions
c) A data warehouse contains subject oriented, volatile, integrated and c) Casual dimensions
cleansed data. d) Helper tables
d) None of the above
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83. Which of the following statements are false for surrogate keys? c) ETL
a) Surrogate keys should not be composed of natural keys glued d) Data warehouse testing
together.
b) Surrogate keys should ideally be numeric integers. 95. What two types of processing are done in an exploration warehouse?
c) Surrogate keys should contain meaningful information. a) Exploration and Data Mining
d) None of the above b) OLAP and Data Mining
c) Exploration and OLAP
84. How are dimensions in a Multi Dimensional database related? d) Data Mining and Multidimensional analysis
a) Hierarchically
b) In a Network 96. Data that is loaded into a data warehouse and never used is referred to as
c) By an inverse list a) Dormant data
d) Non of the above b) Static data
c) Operational data
85. The process of standardizing the data that is extracted from the d) Time dependant data
operational systems is known as
a) Transformation 97. What determines the class of an ODS?
b) Cleansing a) The type of data that is stored in the ODS
c) Population b) The speed of update synchronization from the operational
d) Data Staging environment to the ODS
c) The duration of data that is stored in the ODS.
86. Which of the following is used for calculating the Compound Growth d) The amount of time it takes to update the ODS
Factor for an application?
a) Sparsity of the data 98. What is meant by a “wrinkle of time”?
b) Clustering of the data a) The time it takes to populate a data warehouse
c) Number of dimensions and the number of levels in the dimension b) The amount of time that elapses between the update of a record in
hierarchy the operational environment and the time that the update is
d) All of the above reflected in the data warehouse
c) The granularity of the time dimension that is present in the data
87. Which of the following is an MOLAP tool warehouse
? d) The time it takes to populate the data warehouse from the data
a) Holos (Segate Software) staging area
b) Business Objects
c) Brio Query Enterprise 99. What is the metadata called that is used for the corporate information
d) DSS Server (MicroStrategy) factory?
a) Exploration metadata
88. The term Corporate Information Factory is associated with b) Corporate metadata
a) Bill Inmon c) Distributed metadata
b) Ralph Kimball d) Integrated metadata
c) Sid Adelman
d) Chuck Kelley 100. When comparing ROLAP with MOLAT which of the following
statements are true?
89. Which of the following is suited for Near Line Storage? a) User interface and functionality is good in ROLAP and normal in
a) Photo optical storage MOLAP.
b) Siloed tape storage b) MOLAP and ROLAP stores details and summarized data.
c) A and B c) The common access language for ROLAP and MOLAP is SQL.
d) None of the above d) ROLAP support for a large number of users is good where as there
is limited support in the case of MOLAP.
90. Which of the following statements are false for ROLAP?
a) Query performance is slower compared to MOLAP
b) Suitable for frequent updates
c) Scalability is poor
d) Summary tables are implemented in the relational database

91. Which type of modeling technique is associated with a data warehousing?

a) Dimensional Modeling
b) ER Modeling
c) Object Oriented Modeling
d) All of the above

92. OLAP that access its own proprietary data storage for reporting is called
as
a) Multidimensional OLAP
b) Relational OLAP
c) Hybrid OLAP
d) All of the above

93. Which of the following is not an ETL tool?

a) Power Mart
b) Data Stage
c) Scenario
d) Data Junction

94. Majority of work involved in a data warehousing project is carried out in

this phase
a) Requirements gathering
b) Data warehouse design