Topic Question optA optB optC optD

----------------- is an entity that cannot be

None of the
DM uniquely identified by its own attributes sub entity weak entity minor entity B
above
alone
"some employees are married to other recursive binary ternary None of the
DM Binary relation ship B
employees" is an example of relationship relationship above
__________ in a database is a unique identifier
DM for either an entity in the modeled world or Primary Key Foreign Key Surrogate key Composite key C
an object in the database

DM 3 tier DWH consists of Data Tier Application Tier Presentation Tier All of the above D
Subject
DM A Data warehouse is not for maintaining Volatile Data Integrated Time Variant A
Oriented
DM An alternate key is also a Primary Key Candidate Key Foreign Key Unique Key B
An entity in ER modeling is analogous to a None of the
DM relation attribute tuple A
-------- in the relational model above
An exact copy of Transactional System is
DM TRUE FALSE Can't Say   B
called Data Warehouse
Can every E-R model be represented as
DM Yes No Not always None of above C
Dimensional Model?
DM Cardinality can never be One Zero Less than 1 Greater than 1 C
Cardinality is applicable to which data
DM Entity Attribute Smart Key Relationship D
modeling constuct?
Adopt with
Data Architecture determines the DWH dynamic Evolve with
DM Be Scalable All of the above D
ability to Business business objectives
requirements
Data Warehousing will normally not
DM Data Staging Profiling Cleansing Normalization D
employ
Logical Data Metadata
DM Database schema is implemented from Conceptual Data Model Physical Data Model C
Model model
Data Basic Database
Directory Base Management Database
DM DBMS is the acronym for Management Management D
System Master System
System System
 Domain is the set of possible values of the None of the
DM attribute entity relationship A
------------- above
How are the identifier attribute commonly None of the
DM Primary key Foreign key Non-key A
known as? above
How do you enforce domain integrity in the Check and
Check
DM RDBMS by restricting the range of possible Primary Key Constraints Default Definitions Default D
Constraints
values the user can input? Defintions
Copy of the
Single shot big
How does the data model development standard
DM Incremental refinement bang Adhoc A
take place? industry
implementation
template
DM In ER notation entities as represented by circular boxes diamond boxes rectangular boxes oval boxes C
resolve the
In Many to Many relationship, migrate the relationship Do not migrate the
DM from any side to the other side None of these B
primary key first then primary key
migrate
In One to Many relationships, migrate the many side to Do not migrate the
DM one side to many side None of these A
primary key from one side primary key
In One to One relationship, migrate the mandatory side to optional optional side to Do not migrate the
DM None of these A
primary key from side mandatoy side primary key
Logical Data Metadata
DM Maximum modeling effort needs to be on Conceptual Data Model Physical Data Model B
Model model
Modeling Concept will differ from Data
DM TRUE FALSE B
Mart to Data Warehouse
Operational Data Store is used to hold Aggregated Datamart wise
DM Detailed Data Reporting Data A
_______ Data data
RDBMS specific features are implemented Conceptual Data Logical Data
DM Physical Data Model Metadata model A
in Model Model
Relationships between entities are All of the
DM Degree Cardinality Type D
classified in terms of above
SELECT * FROM R1 LEFT [OUTER] JOIN R2
DM ON R1.field = R2.field R1 R2 Both Neither A
- returns additonal rows from?
 Staging Area is usually a location to hold
DM Permanent data Temporary data Reporting Data All of the above B
______
Integer data
DM Surrogate key is not related to Performance Storage space History B
type
The entity integrity rule states that the
None of the
DM value of the primary key can never be infinity null blank B
above
---------
The relationship between dimension tables
None of the
DM and fact table in a star-schema is of the Many-to-Many One-to-Many one-to-one B
above
type
This abbreviation is not applicable to
DM LDAP ROLAP MOLAP HOLAP A
Business Intelligence
This is not an appropriate report for BI
DM Drill through List Scorecard Cubes B
application
Ascential
DM This is not an ETL tool Informatica Powermart Oracle Express Ab Initio C
DataStage
Snow flake Entity Relational
DM Transactional efficiency is achieved with Dimensional Modeling None of these C
Modeling Modeling
Candidate keys Composite key
DM Tuples of a relation are The columns in a table The rows in a table C
in a table in a table
What are the units of storage in relational
DM Tables Cubes Data Marts All of the above A
data modeling?

Targetted at
takes care of all the
What can be the scope of Enterprise data All the departments and Org strategic as well
DM enterprise business All of these D
model in a business? units as operational
processes
users

structure and relationship of business business practice

DM What is a business rule? All of these D
the business data concepts constraint and guideline
 A collection of
concepts that Collection of
can be used to business processes
DM What is a Data Model? Collection of business data None of these B
describe the describing the flow
structure of a of data
database

Number of
Number of entity types Assoication of one None of the
DM What is a degree of relation type? attributes of the A
participating or more attributes above
relation
Define surrogate
Define smart
What is best practice in defining Primary Define composite key as key (running
DM code as primary None of these C
key? primary key number) as primay
key
key
What is captured as part of business Business
DM Name Sample values All of these D
metadata? definition
What is captured as part of metadata for
DM Name Description Optionality All of these D
attribute?
known fact that has implicit
DM What is data? Database table table structure A
meaning

Made up of
Usually comes
What is NOT a characteristic of Smart multiple System generated
DM Primary Key for an entity from legacy C
Code? participant running number
source system
attributes
What is NOT captured as Attribute Frequency of
DM Description Data type Domain D
metadata? change

What is NOT captured as part of business Business Created / last

DM Name Sample values D
metadata? definition updated details

What is NOT captured as part of metadata Expected

DM Definition Examples Sparsity C
for entity type? volumes
 Application
Different values for the same Not related to Same value across specific data
DM What is System-of-Record? C
matrix in different systems DW all applications values for the
same record
Take into account
Take into the interfacing Take into
What is the approach followed during
Take into account information account between the business
DM systm development in Information C
requirements only business rules requirements of process
Engineering?
only business process definiton only
and data
Database
What is the basis for Business Analyst to ETL capabilities and ETL Team
DM Capabilities and None D
write the Business Rules ? limitations capabilities
limitations
Data can be Have uniqely
Must be important for the
DM What is the characteristic of an Entity type? collected about idenifiable All of these D
business
it occurences
Captures the
What is the characteristic of the data Captures the information relationship
DM Both of these None of these C
model? required by the business between data
concepts
What is the goal of relational data
DM De-normalize data Normalize data Segregate data Integrate data B
modeling?
Define how
Define how
Define how the different
Define how business interacts business
DM What is the objective of Process View ? entire business organization B
with it's customers compliance process
operates units btwn
works
business work
both represents both represents
What is the overlap between Optionality both represents maximum minimum minimum and
DM No overlap B
and Cardinality? number of occurrences number of maximum number
occurrences of occurrences
 Enterprise Enterprise
Enterprise
What is the scope of Process view in organization organization
DM Enterprise organization only organization and C
enterprise environment? and it's and it's
any external enity
subsidiaries customers
Master and
What type of data is captured in Data View Master,reference and detailed Detailed Reference
DM reference A
of an enterprise? information information information
information
What would one call the number of entities
DM Cardinality Degree Attribute Tuple B
associated with the relationship?
When the
When there is a
During designing 'slowly primary key
DM When do you use a surrogate key? multiple field All of the above D
changing dimensions' itself is
primary key
repeated
A has exactly
When the relationship between entities A A has one or more occurrences A has 2 or more
DM one occurrence All of these D
and B will be mandatory? per B occurrences per B
per B
A has exactly
When the relationship between entities A A has one or more occurrences A has zero or one
DM one occurrence None of these C
and B will be optional? per B occurrence per B
per B
Which can be a Primary Key for Employee
DM Employee Name Employee Role Employee Number Employee SSN C
table?
Which can Never be implemented as a Customer
DM Customer Id Account Number ZIP Code D
Primary Key for Customer table? Number
Which data model depicts a semantic layer
DM Conceptual Logical Physical None of these A
representing business view?
Which data model depicts the business Subject Area Physical Data
DM Conceptual Data Model Logical Data Model C
rules of an organization? Data Model Model
Which data model is not independent of the Logical Data Metadata
DM Conceptual Data Model Physical Data Model C
database technology? Model model
Which data model is the most detailed
DM Conceptual Logical Physical None of these C
specific one?
Which data model is the most generic and
DM Conceptual Logical Physical None of these A
abstract?
 Which data modeling approach is easy to Snow flake Entity Relational
DM Dimensional Modeling None of these A
understand and intuitive? Modeling Modeling
Which Data Modeling approach is suitable Snow flake Entity Relational
DM Dimensional Modeling None of these C
for Corporate Enterprise Data warehouse? Modeling Modeling
Which Data Modeling approach is suitable Dimensional Snow flake
DM Entity Relational Modeling None of these A
for OLTP? Modeling Modeling
DM Which is a basic constuct in a data model? Metadata Entity Data type Domain B
Retrieval of
Create multiple tables and Interactive data stored in
DM Which is a feature of RDBMS? All of these C
enter data into them Query language more than on
table
Which is NOT a basic construct in a data
DM Entity Attribute Relationship Index D
model?
represents the
represents data
can represent the association
oriented
Which is NOT a characteristic of represents association recursive between
DM business rule D
relationship? between the two entities association of an logically
between two
entity with itself related
entities
attributes
Primary key
Primary key can not be
must uniquely identify only Entity can hav only
DM Which is NOT a rule for Primary Key? column can not made of D
one record in an entity one primary key
be null multiple
columns
Which is NOT an objective of Dimensional Transaction Ease of
DM Query Performance None of these B
Modeling approach? Efficiency understanding
Which is NOT an objective of Entity Transaction
DM Eliminate Redundancy Query Performance None of these C
Relational Modeling approach? Efficiency
Which is the detailed specific data model Subject Area Physical Data
DM Conceptual Data Model Metadata model D
amongst the mentioned ones? Data Model Model
Which is the most abstract data model Subject Area Physical Data
DM Conceptual Data Model Logical Data Model B
amongst the mentioned ones? Data Model Model
 Dimensional Snow flake
DM Which is traditional modeling approach? Entity Relational Modeling None of these A
Modeling Modeling
Which model will define how the business
DM Data Model Metadata model Process Model None of these C
operates?
Which model will define what information
DM Metadata model Data Model Process Model None of these B
is required for the business to operate?
Entities are
They are either Entities are
Which of the following are not properties Entities are usually classified as
DM concrete or classified as C
of entities recognizable concepts independent or
abstract independent only
dependent
Which of the following can NOT be an
DM Employee Customer Employer Emloyee Id D
Entity type?
Allows tracking
Which of the following is an advantage of Consolidates multi-value Standardizes
DM of dimension All of the above D
using surrogate keys? business keys dimension tables
history
Add key
Which of the following is not an step in Defining Entities and Adding business None of the
DM attributes to the D
defining a ER model Relationships and integrity rules above
diagram
Which of the following is the subset of
DM Data Mart Start schema OLTP OLAP A
EDW?
the value is the value contains
Which of the following is true for a the value is unique system-
DM system no semantic All of the above D
surrogate key? wide, hence never reused
generated meaning

Respond well to Standard design

Which of the following is/are strengths of Predictable, standard
DM changes in user approaches have All of the above D
dimensional modeling? framework
reporting needs been developed

Which one of the following is a special type Subtypes

DM Associative entities intersection entities All of the above D
of entity? entities
Which one of the following terms is related
DM entity relationship association All of the above D
to ER modeling?
 Which step is done first in a Data Modeling Physical Conceptual None of the
DM Logical Modeling C
development life cycle? Modeling Modeling choices
Whis is NOT an attribute in Employee
DM Employee Number Full Name Last Name First Name B
entity?
Ensure the
To enable you to take proper Competitors Technical Team organization
DM Why Business Intelligence is required A
actions based on data have it Wants have the
proper data
To be a primary For faster querying
To track type 2 slowly
DM Why is surrogate key used? key for fact performance on All of the above D
changing dimensions
table datamart
Extraction,
Extract, Enterprise
Extraction, Transformation & Transformation
ETL What is ETL? Transfer & Transformation A
Loading & Load
Loading Logic
balancing
What is the pre-requisites for designing Dimensional Business
ETL Source Analysis All of the above D
ETL Architecture ? Modeling Requirements
ETL What are the different loading strategies ? Real-time ETL Batch ETL None a and b D
What is the best practice for sorting a very Operating None of the
ETL ETL Transformations Manual Sorting B
big file in an ETL scenario ? Systems Scripts above
An exact copy of Transactional System is
ETL TRUE FALSE Can't Say   B
called Data Warehouse
For
Recoverability,
ETL Tool can
Auditability,
When do you suggest Staging Schema for Several Business not directly load Technical Team
ETL Backup, D
DW? Transformations into Warehouse Wants
Recovery, data
tables
quality,
Archiving
What process is used to scrutinize the
ETL Data Mapping Data Merging Data Profiling all the above C
quality of the source System?
Normalization is extensively used in
ETL TRUE FALSE Can't Say   B
traditional Data WareHouse
Where will you suggest to denormalize the It should be available in ERP system During ETL
ETL Staging area D
data before loading it in DWH? denormalized form in OLTP provides de- routines
 normalized data
Database
What is the basis for Business Analyst to ETL capabilities and ETL Team
ETL Capabilities and None D
write the Business Rules ? limitations capabilities
limitations
What strategy will enable you to
ETL understand the problems occurred in the Error Handling Notifications Logging All of the above D
system and its related statistics?
Aggregates will have significance effect on Business
ETL Performance Development all the above A
the following : Requirements
ETL Loads are usually segregated(isolated) Incremental Change data
ETL Full Load A and B C
into Load load
Terradata Microsoft data
ETL Which is not an ETL tool Oracle Warehouse builder Hyperion B
warehouse builder transformation
Customs Made 3 GL's programming
ETL DW Projects can be implemented only by ETL Tools All of the above D
tools languages
ETL Tools are Used for Formatting the
ETL TRUE FALSE B
Report
ETL Team will not change the code in the
ETL Development QA UAT b and C D
following Environment
For quick response time in the
ETL datawarehouse environment these are Indexes Foreign Keys Check Constraints all the above A
necessary
Bulk Processing means processing data
ETL FALSE TRUE     A
row by row
Which of the following are the ETL Specific Rows Processed Rows Written for
ETL Throughput All of the above D
Performance Monitors? per Second Second
Parallel loads will not improve
ETL FALSE TRUE A
performance
What kind of load erases the contents of
Incremental None of the
ETL one or more tables and reloads with fresh Full Load Both A
Load above
data
What kind of load applies ongoing changes
Incremental None of the
ETL to one or more tables based on a Initial Load Both B
Load above
predefined schedule
Extract data from Presence of History data can be
ETL What is the Advantage of using ETL? All of the above D
heterogenous sources Metadata handled
 ensures
,changes are
easy
ETL can be used for rudimentary
ETL TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say A
(elementary)Data cleansing?
ETL Data cleansing includes _______ Parsing Correcting Standardizing All of the above D
Can circumvent
a poorly tuned
Cannot circumvent a poorly Not Suitable for
RDBMS server, None of the
ETL ETL tuned RDBMS server, or an RDBMS data B
or an above
overloaded RDBMS server sources
overloaded
RDBMS server
Allow the
definition of
data mappings
Allow the definition of data
and None of the
ETL Metadata mappings and transformations Containts raw data B
transformations above
at an abstract level
at an abstract
level—using
business rules
Target data is Delta data between
None of the
ETL What is incremental data? Full data from source truncated and the source and the C
above
reloaded target
Staging is not required while using ELT to
ETL TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say B
generate Delta records :
Performance of RDBMS is directly
ETL TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say A
proportional to the performance of ELT?
ETL ELT can support fault tolerance & recovery TRUE FALSE None of the above   B
ELT will require technicians with a high
ETL proficiency in SQL tuning, and RDBMS TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say A
tuning :
ETL process is pre-dominantly used for
ETL TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say A
Data integration ___________
ETL Transformation in ETL includes ______ Cleansing aggregration integration of data All of the above D
copying the data from source Processing of
ETL What is the use of a Staging area? None of the above All of the above B
before moving to warehouse data before
 moved to
warehouse
To Schedule
What is the typical use of a scheduling tool Heterogeneous Easy to monitory Easy to run the
ETL An alternate to Cron Jobs B
like Autosys? Jobs in a batch the batch batch
environment
Can we schedule a FTP Job, Informatica Job,
ETL TRUE FALSE Maybe Cannot Say A
SAP Job, Perl Script all in same batch?
Which of the following will do the load
ETL Scheduling Tool ETL Tool Cron Jobs (a) & (b) D
balancing?
Build the Batch, Build the Batch, Build the ETL,
Any of the
ETL Which is the correct sequence in CUT? Test the Batch, Build the ETL, Build the Batch, C
above
Build the ETL Test the Batch Test the Batch
The table with Performance
When joining two tables which should be The table with less number of less number of No decision can be does not
ETL Master and detail for improving the rows as master and the other rows as detail made based on the depend on the A
performance of the join? as detail and the other as number of rows number of
master rows
Either of the
one can be
Left outer join is better than right outer better than the
ETL Yes No Maybe D
join other
depending on
its usage
There is no
Lookup should be used always instead of a
ETL Yes No guideline to choose Maybe C
join
one above the other
Which is better in performance for a join in Use Perl Scripts /
ETL Write native DB queries Use ETL joins All of the above A
an ETL solution? Stored Procs
Increase the not have any impact be dependent
Indexing the columns used in the join Decrease the performance of
ETL performance of on the query on the RDBMS B
condition will ______ the query
the query performance tool capability
Create More
When doing bulk load it is better to Create More Leave the indexes in
ETL Drop all the indexes indexes & A
__________ to improve the performance indexes the current state
Partitions
ETL The container of one or more job is called? Command Job Watcher Job Box Job Container Job C
ETL A job on ICE is said to be in ________ Non executable state Failure State Active State Waiting State A
Drop the
existing
partitions and
Create more Do not create recreate them
While doing a history load into a DW, it is Create more partitions before
ETL partitions after partitions before along with any D
better to _______ the load
the load and after the load new partitions
needed, after
the history load
is completed
Any of the
Data Migration is best done using Automated Data
ETL Custom Built Tool ETL Tools above depening D
_____________ Migration Tools
on the need
lot of
extraction of the
Data migration using ETL Tools is an ideal the transformations involved automated data
ETL data from diverse All of the above D
choice if _______________ are complex cleansing can be
platforms
done
Cognos
Which of the following ETL tools are Code Oracle Warehouse
ETL Ab Initio Constellar Decision C
Generation based tools ? Builder
Stream
What are the advantages of using Migration Very good for Cost-effective
Optimised for the target
ETL tools over ETL tools for Data Migration simple compared to ETL All of the above D
platform
work? mappings tools
Data Cleansing
What are the limitation of using Migration has to be
Not very flexible for complex None of the
ETL tools over ETL tools for Data Migration handled outside (a) & (b) C
transformation above
work? the data
migration
Better
customisation
Where can the custom-built solution be If migration is a one-time Can be easily built
ETL since code is All of the above D
used for Data Migration work? process in-house
built to
specifications
Where can be the downside of using a Time consuming since Maintaining the
None of the
ETL custom-built solution for Data Migration migration code has to be code is a (a) & (b) C
above
work? written nightmare
ETL ETL is same as ELT? TRUE FALSE     B
Which of the following can be source
ETL Flat files RDBMS XML Files All of the above D
systems for ETL process?
ETL A datawarhouse should be real time? TRUE FALSE     B
Rummages (A thorough search among a number of
None of the
ETL things.)through a file or database for data is Transformation Extraction Loading B
above
______________
Transfering a data from a DB to a file is Data
ETL Data Extraction Data Profileing Data Cleansing A
called ____________ Transformation
Selection criteria 4 filtering a subset of
ETL Data Profiling Data Cleansing DataTransformation Data Extraction D
records is done during ?
Integrating dissimilar data types is done Data Data
ETL Data Loading Data Cleansing C
during? Transformation Extraction
Implementing a business logic is done
ETL Data Transformation Data Loading Data Extraction Data Cleansing A
during?
Aggregation of data will be done during
ETL TRUE FALSE     A
Data Transformation?
ETL Autosys, cronjobs, Control-M are __________ ETL tools Job Schedulers Data cleansers Data profilers B
Data Transformation is best performed
ETL TRUE FALSE     B
before Extraction?
Data cleansion is always done after data
ETL TRUE FALSE     B
loading?
Full extraction has which of the following No change data Change data
ETL All the source data is extracted a and b D
characteristics? capturing capturing
Incremental extraction has which of the No change data Change data
ETL All the source data is extracted a and b C
following characteristics? capturing capturing
Historical data extraction is done as a part Real-time None of the
ETL Incremental extraction Initial extraction C
of? extraction above
Which one is more expensive to Incremental Initial
ETL Real-time extraction Batch extraction A
implement? extraction extraction
To improve the performance To save store
ETL Aggregate tables are used for ? Data Consolidation All of the above D
of reporting space
ETL ETL tools support code re-usability? TRUE FALSE     A
Which of the ETL tools supports duplicate
ETL Informatica Datastage Ab-initio All of the above D
record handling?
 Which of the following is not a data Identifying data
ETL Calculating business rules Data aggregation Lookups B
transformation activity? patterns
CRON jobs are designed to work only in
ETL TRUE FALSE     B
Windows?
Bulk load happens during real-time data
ETL TRUE FALSE     B
loads?
Which tools do not support loading data None of the
ETL Informatica Datastage Ab-initio D
from many to one table? above
Which tools do not support loading data None of the
ETL Informatica Datastage Ab-initio D
from one to many table? above
Which tools are supported in Windows and
ETL Informatica Datastage Ab-initio All of the above D
Unix?
Loading dimensions tables happens before
ETL Yes No Maybe Never A
the fact table ?
The _________ load process could be viewed None of the
ETL Batch real-time Historical C
as an extension of the initial load process above
Time
ETL Historical data extraction is ___________? Complex Static data All of the above D
consuming
Logical data map that describes the ETL
ETL process end to end should be provided TRUE FALSE     A
before an ETL process can begin?
Data profiling feature in an ETL tool can be Detection anomalies
ETL Source systems analysis Data discovery All of the above D
used for _____________ in data
Business rules defined at the data modeling
ETL stage are different from those required by TRUE FALSE     A
the ETL team
____________is any process in which
information is gathered and expressed in a Data Data
ETL Data Lookup Data sorting B
summary form, for purposes such as aggregation Manipulation
statistical analysis
Reading database table dump tapes Logical None of the
ETL Historical extraction Manual Extraction A
is________ extraction above
Which of the following are Incremental
ETL Time-Stamp based File Comparison Triggered All of the above D
Extract Techniques?
ETL _______ technique captures the change Time-Stamp based File Comparison Triggered Log C
immediately on the occurance of an event
 in the operational environment
Live queries on operational or mirrored None of the
ETL Batch real-time History A
data is an example of __________ extraction above
Running the ETL scripts frequently or at
Simulated real None of the
ETL periodic intervals (Say every one hour) is Batch History B
time above
an example of ___________ extraction
__________ allows continuous update of the
Simulated real
ETL DW as the data in the source system Trickle feed History All of the above A
time
changes
ETL Trickle feed techique is called as _________ Loading Profiling streaming Mapping C
Supply of missing field values & Data
ETL Data Extraction Data Loading Data Cleansing Data archiving C
Integrity checks is done during ____________
Change data capture is supported in
ETL Ab Initio Datastage None of the above a and b D
________________
Bulk load degrades the performance of an
ETL TRUE FALSE     B
ETL session
Bulk load is used for which of the following
ETL Historical load Initial load None of the above a and b B
scenarios _______
Which of the following ETL tools do not None of the
ETL Ab Initio Datastage Informatica D
have a scheduling feature enabled? above
A Top level executive is a company needs
to understand health of important
indicators of the business and needs alerts Report with drill None of the
OLAP Operational Reports Dashboard B
when thresholds are crossed in one glance. features above
Which of the tool below best meets his
need?
Which is the most common type of None of the
OLAP Customer Product Location D
Dimension? above
Which type of data storage architecture None of the
OLAP DOLAP ROLAP MOLAP C
gives fastest performance? above
Behavior
OLAP OLAP technology is not well suited for? Trends Monitor KPI Analyzing anomaly D
patterns

Use of third Use Operating

OLAP Which is the cheapest method from below BI system has enough power Use built-in C
party clustering system based
options to achieve “High Availability”? backup clustering features
hardware clustering
 Number of
Which is the most important factor that Number of rows extracted
OLAP Aggregation levels Number of Facts A
determines a MOLAP database size? dimensions from source
systems
Which one of the following is a key Technical Product
OLAP Data Architecture All of the above D
consideration for a BI architecture? Architecture architecture
Which one of the following is used as a data
OLAP JDBC MDX ODBC All of the above D
access middleware?
Which of the following reporting
Inheritance
framework consideration will not aid in None of the
OLAP Run time formatting from library Report template A
enforcing enterprise wide reporting above
components
standardization
A power user wants to see the monthly
sales figures of a product. The data
Reporting
OLAP structure stores data in 'daily' granular MOLAP server Semantic layer RDBMS D
variable
level. The least practical option for
building monthly aggregate is
A metric with a A metric with the A metric with
OLAP A Key performance indicator (KPI) is A metric B
target result realized an alert
A report is created with a set of objects and
consists of data for different countries
Column and
where not all objects can be seen by all Row and Column User and Group
OLAP Row and Group Level Security User Level C
counties users and can only see data for Level Security Level Security
Security
there own country. What type of security
has been implemented in this?
Scheduled
OLAP Adhoc Report are : Canned Reports Corporate Reports None D
Report
Report Works based
extracted by Works based on on the data
Cascading prompt based report is better
OLAP A Drill Thru Report getting the data pre-defined item selected C
defined as?
by clicking the conditions as a drill thru
column data options
William receives a new requirement from
the client for a set of reports. The report Master Detail Slice and Dice
OLAP Section Report Both A and D C
fields contain Regions, Product, Sub Report Report
Products, Months, Target and Actuals. Each
 row should display target and Actual data
for each region for each month by each
Product and sub product where Product
and sub Product are the 1st and Second
values of each row. What type report will
satisfy this requirement ?
What is the most preferred schema type for Normalized
OLAP Snowflake schema Star Schema All of the above C
best performance of a reporting tool? Schema

OLAP Who uses the Ad-hoc reports feature of a BI A

Power Users Business Users Executives Administrators
product most?
When a user is able to login to the system The user access The user is given
The user is not there in the
OLAP but is unable to create a report. What could to all the only read access to All of the above C
system
be the problem? features the system

When a user has data sources like Flat files, You can do it by integrating You can connect You can connect
OLAP RDBMS, and XML, Can I create a report the data from all the data using Web using ODBC All of the above A
using data from all three? sources using an ETL tool Services connections

When user
wants to view
When does a user use drill-down option to When user wants to see when user wants to
OLAP more details of All of the above
view a report Summary data see all related data. B
the given data
column
What type of reports are best suited for
Cross-tab
displaying data by different dimensions Simple Tabular reports Section reports Chart based reports C
reports
OLAP like location, product etc
A company has deployed a BI system. It Provide a Use Single Sign
needs to integrate it with their existing common group Remove ON capapbility
system and also have a common user name Provide same user names to user id to every authentocation of a BI system
OLAP D
for logging into both the existing system both the systems one so that they system from th BI to implent one
and the new BI system. What is the best all use the same application time login and
way to achieve this? is to login authentication
I need to create 50 reports for a company. Create same user interface for Have only one Create a report
OLAP All of the above C
The reports should be as per company logo all reports person do all template that has
 common layout and
and other UI standards. What is the best give it to all the
the reports
way to achieve this? developers to use
for their reports
Create a user
Create a single user
The IT team has received a request by a group and
and ask all of them
department to provide common/ standard Create all the users with the provide the
OLAP to use that user All of the above B
access to all its members for their reports. same privileges / roles privileges. Add
name for accessing
What is the best way to achieve this? all the users to
the BI system.
that group
Information
Any business
that describes
Data used only by the IS Definitions of data data occurring
OLAP What are Metadata? and defines the B
organization. elements. in large
organization's
volumes.
data.
None of the
OLAP Data Storage B
Metadata is placed in Data Extract Layer Data Access Layer above
Layer
Business Rules
associated with Fact and
Which of the following is NOT found in an A definition for each Entity and Entity and Data
OLAP the entities and Dimension D
Entity Relationship Model? Data Element. Element Names
entity Tables
relationships
Business
OLAP Example for the Ad hoc query tool? Cognos Impromptu MS query None C
Objects
discovering
to perform
to alert management when patterns and
OLAP Need for Data Mining? trend analysis market analysis C
certain criteria are met. relationships in an
an organization.
organization's data.
What does implementing a Data The data gathering effort for User requests for
OLAP Hardware costs. All the above A
Warehouse or Data Mart help reduce? data analysis. custom reports.
Data Access Layer in DWH architecture Operational
OLAP Staging area Data Mining reports All the above D
contains Source
OLAP Which Solution/s is used for the BI? OLTP Data Mining OLAP None C
OLAP Cube structure exists in ROLAP DOLAP MOLAP All the above C
 Operating
OLAP What type of users require OLAP system? Decision Makers Data entry users None A
Personnel
gives semantic
contains security
OLAP Ad hoc Query tool? Hides database complexity layer in the None D
management
business terms
Cognos Report
OLAP Example for the Managed Query tool? Microsoft Access MS query None A
net
Disadvantages of using OLTP reporting for Does not contain dimension Processing Does not have None of the
OLAP C
the decision making users? and measures speed is slow historical data above
Analysis with respective to
OLAP OLAP provides Ad hoc queries Slice and Dice All the above D
time
Periodic jobs data is changed
OLAP In OLAP system data is refreshed when user changes the data are run to through data entry All the above C
refresh the data screens
Procedure does Procedure and
Procedure returns value and Procedure and
Following statement is true for Procedure not return value Function does
OLAP Function does not return Function both B
and function? and Function not return
value. returns values
returns value. values

Package can
Package can Package does not
OLAP contains both D
Following statement is true for the Package can contain only contain only contain Procedures
Functions and
Packages? procedures. functions and Functions
Procedures
Procedure can
Procedure Procedure can not
Following statement is true for the Procedure does not return take only one
OLAP returns output take input A
Procedure? output parameter input
value parameter.
parameter.
Implicit Commit applies to the database DDL commands Only when Commit
OLAP DML commands are applied None B
when are applied command is given
set of tables in
a design stored
which data is
set of tables in which data is with Primary Used for OLTP
OLAP dimensional modeling is stored in De- D
stored in normalized forms and foreign key Systems
normalized
relationship
forms
Can a dimension table contains numeric Yes. But those data type will be No. Only Yes and can stored
OLAP None A
values? character. measures can as numeric value
 have numeric
value
There is no difference between Data mart Data mart contains
What is the Difference between data data mart and data warehouse. contains all the tables used
OLAP None D
warehouse and data mart? Both contains all the tables multiple data for multiple
used for the BI warehouses business areas.
Business
OLAP Example for a ROLAP tool? Cognos Micro strategy Brio C
Objects
Which type of OLAP is effective for the
OLAP MOLAP HOLAP DOLAP None B
larger data volumes.
Single OLTP Multiple OLTP
OLAP Typical OLAP data come from? Other OLAP systems All the above D
system systems
OLAP Does OLAP needs historical data? No Yes Optional   B
The method of joining two tables together
OLAP Join Union Add   A
in SQL is:
Business
OLAP Example for a MOLAP tool? Cognos Microstrategy Brio A
Objects
OLAP Business objects is an example for MOLAP ROLAP DOLAP HOLAP C
OLAP SQL DELETE command on a table deletes Both table and data in the table data in the table     B
Which option is used to filter aggregated
OLAP Where Sort Having Group C
value
Materialized
OLAP Synonym is an alias for Table Package All the above D
View

Business
Business Business analysts analysts do not
analysts access access the Data know data
OLAP B
What does the term 'Ad-hoc Analysis' Business analysts use a subset the Data Warehouse data requirements
mean? of the data for analysis. Warehouse data from different prior to
infrequently. locations. beginning
work.
A set of databases that serve as A set of databases to A set of
OLAP What is an Operational Data Store? a 'staging' area to facilitate databases that provide operational databases that D
consolidating data from support OLAP. data for a single provide
 integrated
operations data
several, distributed-source to serve the
department.
systems. organization's
day-to-day
activities.
An application
An application
system that
system that An application
An application system that supports the
supports the system that
tracks and manages the creation of
OLAP What is an operational system? planning and supports the C
financial assets of the product's) that
forecasting organization's day-
organization. the
within the to-day activities.
organization
organization.
markets.
automated
process of
sponsored at the department process of
discovering
level and developed with a a set of performing trend
patterns and
OLAP Data mart is specific issue or subject in databases that analysis on the A
relationships in
mind. is a data warehouse with support OLAP. financial data of an
an
a focused objective organization.
organization's
data.
contains
consolidated
Why OLAP systems are used instead of To control and run the Fast compared Gives the snapshot
OLAP data and D
OLTP? fundamental business tasks to OLTP of the data
Decision
support .

Any database
All recurring groups
The dimension implemented
of attributes are
OLAP The dimension tables are tables can refer with a network C
What is a 'snowflake' schema? completely
'normalized'. to more than Database
removed from
one fact table. Management
dimension tables.
System.
Staging area is the replica of Staging area is Staging area is the Staging layer is
OLAP What is staging area? D
the data marts replica of single replica of the data used for
 cleansing and
merging the
source
warehouse data from
database.
multiple source
systems.
What are the basic units of storage in
OLAP Tables Cubes Data Marts All of the above A
conventional data modeling?
What is the goal of relational data
OLAP De-normalize data Normalize data Segregate data Integrate data B
modeling?
Which of the following are examples of
OLAP Location Product Time All of the above D
dimensions?
OLAP Dimension table will normally not contain Measures Description Context information Master data A
Semi additive Foreign Keys to
OLAP Fact table may not contain non additive Measures Hierarchy C
measures Dims
Subject
OLAP A Data warehouse is not for maintaining Volatile Data Integrated Time Variant A
Oriented
This abbreviation is not applicable to
OLAP LDAP ROLAP MOLAP HOLAP A
Business Intelligence
This is not an appropriate report for BI
OLAP Drill through List Scorecard Cubes B
application
OLAP Which is not a data type binary large object number information D
OLAP Which one is not an DML statement Update Alter Create Delete C
A Sales manages in a bank is interested in
knowing the house loan generated in
different zone of a country for last quarter
Customer, Customer, Location,
OLAP of this year, compare to same quarter of Customer, Date Location, Date C
Location Date
last year. What are the possible
dimension(s) can be identified to cater his
requirement
In a call center, manager needs to track the
performance of a customer service agent.
To do that manager need to compare
resolution time
OLAP average amount of time he is spending number of calls attended Service level all above D
for each call
daily to resolve the call against the
threshold. What will be the possible
measure(s) need to be tracked
OLAP In a analytical and decision based system, none of the A
derived data raw data external data
query is mostly based on above
frequently
historical data, smaller amout of
Operational activities are mostly restricted complex derivation, frequently changing data,
OLAP smaller amout data, complex D
to changing data smaller amount
of data derivation
of data
it is required to add two columns in a table,
OLAP Create Add Alter Modify C
which SQL statement is required to be used
It is required to remove a database table
OLAP from a database, which comment is Delete Drop Remove Truncate B
required to be used
Which query languge is required to be used none of the
OLAP SQL DML PL/SQL C
to add conditional loop above
A query is required to be written for a
retail company to pull age-group wise
Where, Order by,
OLAP customer data to see average expenses in a where, Group by Where, order by All above A
group by
store outlet for a particular month. What
clauses are required to be added in query
A query is required to be written for a
retail company to pull age-group wise
customer data to see average expenses in a
OLAP Group By Where Order by All above D
store outlet for a particular month in an
ascending order. What clauses are required
to be added in query
Powerful
Analytical Flexibility,
capabilities, Flexibility, Powerful
Following are functional requirements of Powerful Analytical
OLAP Faster Access, Multiuser support, Analytical B
OLAP system capabilities, Faster Access
Flexibility, Faster Access capabilities,
Multiuser Faster Access
support
OLAP Which is not a database model Exponential Relational Dimensional Hierarchical A
Transactional
Data mart reporting, Replicated OLTP Enterprise DW
OLAP Historical data will not be available in Reporting, B
Replicated OLTP reporting reporting reporting
Replicated
 OLTP reporting
If the customer requirement is to integrate
Build data
entire business process and provide the Build an enterprise
marts and then
prohibition of data of same mean to Build an enterprise data Build data data warehouse and
OLAP integrate in C
different business community (LOB), which warehouse marts data marts on top of
common data
one will be the preferred architectural that
warehouse
approach
Following are the valid differential
level of data
OLAP parameter between a OLTP system and a database size volatility of data all the above D
accessibility
data warehouse
Best approach to provide a near current Operational
OLAP Data marts Data warehouse Archival B
data over a shorter period of time is data storage
implementation data
Following are the valid differential data modeling, implementation
time, data perspective,
OLAP parameter between data warehouse and implementation time, data time, Subject areas, C
modeling, data modeling,
data marts perspective data perspective
Subject areas Subject areas
data modeling none of the
OLAP Data Stage is a ETL tool BI tool A
tool above
data modeling noneof the
OLAP Actuate is a ETL tool BI tool C
tool above
data modeling
OLAP Trillium is a ETL tool Cleansing tool BI tool B
tool
To group dimension data logically what
none of the
OLAP attribute we can add in dimensional data Primary Key Hierarchy Foreign key B
above
model
The position of element in hierarchy is
OLAP Tree Base Level attribute C
called
Methodology in identifying the hidden
Data
OLAP truth from a data pool collected over Data mining Data profiling Data cleansing A
warehousing
period of time
Limitations of traditional reporting Difficulties in
OLAP Extensive programming Redundancy all above D
techniques are aggregation
OLAP A Top level executive in a company needs Operational Reports Dashboard Report with drill None of the D
to understand health of important features above
indicators of the business and needs alerts
when thresholds are crossed in one glance.
 Which of the tool below best meets his
need?
Which type of data storage architecture None of the
OLAP DOLAP ROLAP MOLAP C
gives fastest performance? above
Which one of the following does not aggregate
OLAP Index Normalization Hint C
directly aid in performance improvement? aware
Which one of the following is not a
OLAP consideration while deploying reports to a Multi currency Multi language Multi time zone All of the above D
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