Data Warehousing Course Code: CS614

CS614@vu.edu.pk Fall 2008

QUIZ / Assignment No. 02

Deadline date:

Your assignment must be uploaded/submitted before or on November 10, 2008

Assignment Marks: 20

Uploading instructions

Please view the assignment submission process document provided to you by the Virtual
University to upload the assignment.

Rules for Marking

It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:

o The assignment is submitted after due date

o The assignment is copied

Objective
o To learn and understand OLAP concepts.

Problems

1. What are the actual data values that occupy the cells as defined by the dimensions selected?

Nesting
Aggregation
Dimensions
Measures

2. The term that defines filtering data in an OLAP cube is ___________ .

Dicing
Slicing
Rotating
Nesting

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3. What is an item that matches a specific description or classification?

Category
Measure
Dimension
Nest

4. The cube structure in OLAP achieves the __________ functionality.

Shared
Information
Collection
Multidimensional

5. Aggregation provides OLAP with __________

Multidimensional Data
Pre-Calculated Data
Nested Data
Slow Data Retrieval

6. What is the acronym that defines OLAP?

FHTMI
FASMI
ASFMI
MASHF

7. __________ in OLAP allows you to define a sub-cube of the original space.

Dicing
Slicing
Rotating
Nesting

8. What term in OLAP defines changing the dimensional orientation of the report from the cube
data?

Dicing
Slicing
Rotating
Nesting

Virtual University of Pakistan

M.A. Jinnah Campus Defense Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore
Data Warehousing Course Code: CS614
CS614@vu.edu.pk Fall 2008

9. The _________ in OLAP enable you to drill-up or drill-down to view different levels of detail
about your data.

Dimensions
Measures
Nesting
Aggregation

10. When you nest in OLAP, you _________.

Select Multiple Cube Aggregations

Select Multiple Cube Measures
Select Multiple Cube Dimensions
Select Multiple Cube Slices

Virtual University of Pakistan

M.A. Jinnah Campus Defense Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore