1.

Data Mining Questions

2. What is Data Mining? / What do you understand by Data Mining?
3. What are the key features of Data Mining?
4. What are the different fields where data mining is used?
5. What is the difference between Data Mining and Data Warehousing?
6. What are the different types of Data Mining?
7. What are the different techniques used for Data Mining?
8. What do you understand by Data Purging?
9. What are cubes in Data Mining?
10. What is the difference between OLAP and OLTP?
11. What are the different storage models available in OLAP?
12. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the MOLAP storage model?
13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the ROLAP storage model?
14. What are the different problems that "Data Mining" can solve?
15. What is Discrete and Continuous data in Data Mining?
16. What do you understand by a model in Data Mining?
17. How do Data Mining and Data Warehousing work together?
18. What are the different stages used in "Data Mining"?
19. What is a Model in the field of Data Mining?
20. What is the Naive Bayes Algorithm in Data Mining?
21. What is Clustering Algorithm in Data Mining?
22. Which are the most popular areas of applications of Data Mining?
23. What are the different functions of Data Mining?
24. What do you understand by data aggregation and data generalization?
25. What do you understand by Data Mining Interface?
26. What do you understand by the term Cluster Analysis?
27. What are the most significant advantages of Data Mining?
28. What are the most significant disadvantages of Data Mining?
29. Which are the main prominent fields and areas where Data Mining is used?
30. What are the required technological drivers in Data Mining?
31. Explain the use of data mining queries or why data mining queries are more helpful?
32. Explain clustering in data mining?
33. What is a machine learning-based approach to data mining?
34. Can you name the data mining techniques? Which one is your preferred technique?
35. If we were to hire you for this position, how would you use data mining in marketing
and sales?
36. Are there any challenges you have encountered with data mining?
37. What's your preferred method of clustering?
38. How can you use data mining to resolve challenges?
39. Why do you think it would benefit us to hire you for a data mining position?
40. Why would you use cubes when analyzing data?
41. Why and how would you manipulate data?
42. What experiences have you had that have prepared you for this role?
43. What are the advantages and disadvantages of data mining?
44. What are the essential tools for data mining?
45. What is Data Warehouse?
46. What do you mean by OLAP in the context of data warehousing? What guidelines
should be followed while selecting an OLAP system?
47. What do you understand about a fact table in the context of a data warehouse?
What are the different types of fact tables?
48. What do you mean by dimension table in the context of data warehousing? What
are the advantages of using a dimension table?
49. What are the different types of dimension tables in the context of data
warehousing?
50. Differentiate between fact table and dimension table.
51. What are the advantages of a data warehouse?
52. What are the different types of data marts in the context of data warehousing?
53. Differentiate between data warehouse and database.
54. What do you mean by a factless fact table in the context of data warehousing?
55. What are the characteristics of a data warehouse?
56. What do you understand about metadata and why is it used for?
57. Enlist a few data warehouse solutions that are currently being used in the industry.
58. Enlist some of the renowned ETL tools currently used in the industry.
59. Explain what you mean by a star schema in the context of data warehousing.
60. What do you mean by snowflake schema in the context of data warehousing?
61. What do you understand about a data cube in the context of data warehousing?
62. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the top down approach of data
warehouse architecture?
63. What do you mean by data purging in the context of data warehousing?
64. What do you mean by dimensional modelling in the context of data warehousing?
65. What do you understand by data lake in the context of data warehousing?
Differentiate between data lake and data warehouse.
66. Differentiate between star schema and snowflake schema in the context of data
warehousing.
67. Differentiate between Agglomerative hierarchical clustering and Divisive clustering.
68. What are the advantages of a cloud based data warehouse?
69. What is the difference between ER Modeling and Dimensional Modeling?
70. Can you describe your strongest data mining skills and how they can relate to this
position?
71. Can you define the different stages of data mining and explain the purposes of each
one?
72. What do you think is the most essential stage of data mining?
73. How do we identify potential fraud in data samples?
74. How would you use data to design a recommendation system?
75. How can you use data mining with different data programs?
76. Why do we need a Data Warehouse?
77. What are the key characteristics of a data warehouse?
78. What is a data model?
79. What is metadata and why is it used for?
80. What is the level of granularity of a fact table?
81. How would you generalize low-level data to make it more understandable in the
system?
82. When would you use data purging?

83. When would you use the decision tree algorithm method?

84. When and why would you use spatial data mining in this role?

85. When would you use MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP? What are the similarities and
differences between these storage models of OLAP?

86. Why is metadata important to data mining?

87. Why are there various levels of data mining analysis? What are they?

88. If you had the opportunity, what's one thing you would change about data mining?

89. Are you unfamiliar with any data mining topics or techniques? Would you require
additional training?