Baddi University

of Emerging Sciences & Technology

Mid-term Examination-II, 2021

Programme : B.Tech Branch : CSE-IBM Session: Jan- June 21

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Semester: 8 Course Code: IBM-406 Course Title: Business Intelligence
Max. Marks: 50 Time duration: 40 mints Total Number of Questions: 25
Note: All Questions are Compulsory.

Sr. Question Marks

No.

Q1. i) Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of application programs which includes
_____________ 2*1
a) Decision support
b) Data mining
c) OLAP
d) All of the mentioned
ii) Which of the following areas are affected by BI?
a) Revenue
b) CRM
c) Sales
d) All of the mentioned

Q2. i)  _________ is a category of applications and technologies for presenting and 2*1
analyzing corporate and external data.
a) Data warehouse
b) MIS
c) EIS
d) All of the mentioned
ii)  __________ is a system where operations like data extraction, transformation and
loading operations are executed.
a) Data staging
b) Data integration
c) ETL
d) None of the mentioned

Q3. Who are the BI users? 2

Q4. What are the differences between Data Mining and Data cubes? 2

Q5. What is Decision Support System (DSS)? 2

Q6. Explain ETL process with diagram? 2

Q7. Differentiate between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning. 2

Q8. What are the stages and benefits of Business Intelligence? 2

Q9. Define or list the differences between OLAP and OLTP? 2

Q10. Explain Fact and Dimension Table with an example. 2

Q11. Define or list the differences between a Snowflake Schema and Star Schema. 2

Q12. What is the multi-dimensional analysis? 2

Q13. Explain Entity ,Attribute and Cardinality Relationship ? 2

Q14. What is ER Modeling ? 2

Q15. Define Multi- Dimensional Modeling? 2

Q16. What is Data Modeling? 2

Q17. Differentiate between Data warehouse and Data Mart 2

Q18. What are the Applications of BI ? 2

Q19. Explain two Approaches of Data Integration. 2

Q20. What are the parameters of Data Quality? 2

Q21. What are the Responsibilities of Data Analyst? 2

Q22. Define Profiling? 2

Q23. Write few lines on SSRS? 2

Q24. Where do the BI applications gather data from ? 2

Q25. Name correct types of data ? 2