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This document contains a student's answers to questions about data warehousing concepts. The student provides definitions for key terms like operational systems, data granularity, and top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to data warehouse design. Examples are given for business dimensions, dimension hierarchies, and functions in the data storage area. The questions and answers cover topics ranging from matching definitions to explaining ERP integration methods.

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HIEUBMSE130616 DBW301 Test1

This document contains a student's answers to questions about data warehousing concepts. The student provides definitions for key terms like operational systems, data granularity, and top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to data warehouse design. Examples are given for business dimensions, dimension hierarchies, and functions in the data storage area. The questions and answers cover topics ranging from matching definitions to explaining ERP integration methods.

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Student Code: SE130616

Student Name: BÙI MINH HIẾU


Class Name: SE1319

Chapter 1
1/ Question 1: Match the columns

1. Strategic information A. OLTP applications


2. Information crisis B. produce ad hoc reports
3. Information technology C. explosive growth
4. Extract programs D. despite lots of data
5. Data staging area E. data cleaned and transformed
6. Executive information F. users go to get information
7. Order processing G. used for decision making
8. Data warehouse H. environment, not product
9. Operational systems I. for day-to-day operations
10. Information center J. simple, easy to use

Your answer 1:
(A ... J)
1 G
2 D
3 C
4 B
5 E
6 J
7 A
8 H
9 I
10 F

2/ Question 2: Why are operational systems not suitable for providing strategic information? Give three specific
reasons and explain.

Your answer 2: …
+ They are responsible to put the data in the database and to collect various types of data.
+ It is designed for transactions that put data IN to the database while we need a system to GET strategic
information out of the database.
+ In order to produce reports for decision making, this data is converted to meaningful information.

Chapter 2
3/ Question 3: Explain data granularity and how it is applicable to the data warehouse.
Your answer 3: …
+ The granularity of the data is the quality of including a lot of small details of the data. It means the data is kept
in the lowest level of detail. Analysis begins at a high level and moves down to a lower level of detail.
+ In data warehouse, the effect is to keep data that is summarized at different levels. Depending on the query,
we can go to the specific level of detail and response to the query. The level of granularity in the data warehouse
refers to the level of granularity. We have to decide granularity levels based on the data types and expected
performance for the queries.

4/ Question 4: A data warehouse is subject-oriented. What would be the major critical business subjects for a
domestic hotel chain ?

Your answer 4: …
+ Booking
+ Sales
+ Branches
+ Rooms
+ Customer

Chapter 3
5/ Question 5: Describe any one of the options available to integrate ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) with
data warehousing.

Your answer 5: …
ERP integration is an enterprise method of connecting ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software with other
applications, ERP in most companies can be integrated through, there are 3 popular integration methods: Point-
toPoint, Enterprise Service Bus, Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS),

For example, iPaaS provides a cloud-based approach to integration and designed to connect ERP systems with
SaaS products.

6/ Question 6: Indicate if true or false


A. Data warehousing helps in customized marketing.
B. It is as important to include unstructured data as structured data in a data warehouse.
C. ERP systems may be substituted for data warehouses.
D. Most of a corporation’s knowledge base contains unstructured data.

Your answer 6:

(T/F)
A T
B F
C F
D T
Chapter 4
7/ Question 7: Explain the difference between the top-down and bottom-up approaches for building data
warehouses. Do you have a preference? If so, why?

Your answer 7: …
- Top Down design acts as a data warehouse for all corporate data, data warehouse is designed first and then
data mart is built on a data warehouse platform, data from different sources are standardized. becomes 3NF
- The Bottom Up design has the first data mart created to provide information for analysis, then the data mart
and data warehouse are created.

I like bottom-up because the Top-down design is inflexible, and with Bottom-up the data warehouse can be
expanded for new business units

Chapter 5
8/ Question 8: Explain business dimensions. Why and how can business dimensions be useful for defining
requirements for the data warehouse?

Your answer 8: …
+ The business dimension describes the specific objects of the business in the model, such as products,
customers, regions, employees, etc. These dimensions and members are created in the Performance
Management Architect

9/ Question 9: What are dimension hierarchies (for any subject that you know)? Give three examples.

Your answer 9: …
Example 1: Year -> Month -> Week -> Day

Example 2: Time: Hour -> Minute -> Second -> Millisecond

Example 3: Customer -> Customer address -> address details

Chapter 7
10/ Question 10: List five major functions and services in the data storage area.
Your answer 10: …
Optimize the download process
Provide automatic job control service to load data warehouse
Provides backup and recovery for data warehouse databases
Provide security
Perform incremental loads at regular prescribed intervals

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