DataWarehouse Questions.

1 -A data warehouse is which of the following?

Can be updated by end users.

Contains numerous naming conventions and formats.

Organized around important subject areas.

Contains only current data.

2-
An operational system is which of the following?

A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on historical data.

A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on current data.

A system that is used to support decision making and is based on current data.

A system that is used to support decision making and is based on historical data.

3-
The generic two-level data warehouse architecture includes which of the
following?

Data scrubbing is which of the following?

A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse

A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse

A star schema has what type of relationship between a dimension and fact table?
Many-to-many

One-to-one

One-to-many

All of the above.

Fact tables are which of the following?

Completely demoralized

Partially demoralized

Completely normalized

Partially normalized

A snowflake schema is which of the following types of tables?

Star schema is suited to online transaction processing, and therefore is generally used in
operational systems, operational data stores, or an EDW.

Question 3: Which of the following is not an OLAP operation:

a) drill along
b) drill across
c) drill down
d) drill through

Question 4: Which of the following methods is not suited for storing historical data in a data
warehouse?
a) adding one timestamp to data records in the data warehouse
b) adding two timestamps to data records in the data warehouse
c) defining attributes for old and new values
d) adding time attributes to important tables in source systems