Reg. No.

M.C.A MODEL EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021

Third Semester
Master of Computer Applications
MC5032 – Data Mining & Data Warehousing Techniques
(Regulations 2021)
Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions
PART – A (10×2=20 Marks)
1. Give the need for Data Pre-processing.
2. Differentiate DBMS Vs Data Mining .
3. What is Apriori Algorithm.
4. What is Frequent item set. Give an example.
5. Mention the use of decision Tree. Give an example.
6. Define Back-Propagation ?
7. Define Cluster with an example
8. How do you scale up the K-means algorithm?
9. State any four comparisons between OLTP and OLAP?
10. Write down the applications of Data Warehousing.

PART – B (5×13=65 Marks)

11. a) (i) Explain in detail about Data Integration and transformation (8)

(ii) Write short notes on Types of data used in Data mining (5)
(OR)
b) (i) Explain the need and steps involved in Data Cleaning (6)

(ii) Describe how Concept hierarchies are useful in data mining (7)

12. a) (i) Explain in detail about Data Preparation for classification & Prediction (8)

(ii) How to improve the efficiency of an Apriori algorithm. Justify (5)

(OR)
b) (i) Write short notes on Classification & Prediction with an example. (5)

(ii) Write short notes on Mining Frequent item sets without candidate
generation (8)
13. a) (i) With an appropriate example explain in detail about various kinds of
Association rules used for Mining. (13)
(OR)
b) (i)Explain in detail about Support Vector Machines(SVM) (8)
(ii) Write short note on K-nearest Neighbor algorithms (5)

14. a) (i)Briefly outline the major ideas of Bayesian Classification. (13)

(OR)
b) (i) Explain classification by Back propagation and Rule based
Classification (13)

15. a) (i)Explain in detail about Schemas available in multidimensional

Data Model (8)

(ii)Write short notes on ETL. (5)

(OR)
b) (i) Explain in detail about Data Warehouse architecture with neat sketch (8)
(ii) Distinguish between OLAP Versus OLTP (5)

PART – C (1×15=15 Marks)

16. a) Explain in detail about OLAP operations with its all types of servers (15)
(OR)
b) Explain the Steps to find the below from the following Transactional Databases
using with candidate generation. (15)
X: TID ITEMS
T100 {M,O,N,K,E,Y}
T200 {D,O,N,K,E,Y}
T300 {M,A,K,E}
T400 {M,U,C,K,Y}
T500 {C,O,O,K,I,E}
Using the threshold values support=3 and confidence=80%.
Find (a) All Large Item-sets in Database X
(b)Strong Association rules for database X
(c)Analyze misleading Associations for the rule set obtained in b

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