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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: Operational systems are used to run the daily business of the company. They are the bread and butter of the company. These systems are responsible to put the data in the database. They
collect various types of data such as customer name, sales amount, date, product number, etc., to capture business transactions. This data is then converted to meaningful information to produce reports for

decision making. Strategic information is important information used for decision making later used for analysis and monitoring performance.

Chpater 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:

+Rooms

+Customers

+Booking

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: PTP, 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
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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

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

Your answer 9:

+Ex1: Dates: Year -> Month -> Day

+Ex2: Geography: Country -> region -> city

+Ex3: Time: Hour -> Minute -> Second

Chapter 7

10/ Question 10: List five major functions and services in the data storage area.

Your answer 10: …