Fall 2012 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) Semester 6 BC0058 Data Warehousing 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1011)

Assignment Set 1 (60 Marks)

Answer all the questions.

1. What is a Data Warehouse? Mention its advantages. (6 marks)

2. Explain the Top-Down and Bottom-up Data Warehouse development Methodologies.. (4 marks) 3. What are the maintenance issues in Data Warehouse? explain (10 marks) 4. What are Data Warehouse requirements? How do you gather the requirements? (10 marks) 5. What is Data Transformation? Explain the tasks involved in it. (10 marks) 6. Why are the operational system keys not recommended for forming data warehouse primary keys? Give any two examples. (10 marks) 7. What is Data Loading? Explain the Full Refresh Loading? (10 marks)

Fall 2012 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) Semester 6 BC0058 Data Warehousing 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1011)

Assignment Set 2 (60 Marks)

Answer all the questions.

1.

What is Data Management? Explain the different topics in Data Management.. (10 marks)

2. 3.

What are RAID levels? Explain the RAID0 to RAID3. (10 marks) Explain the following performance tuning techniques, (10 marks)

a. Data Partition b. Parallelism 4. What is repository? How is it helpful to the data warehouse maintenance? (10 marks) 5. Explain the following strategies for Data Warehouse testing a. Completeness testing b. Data transformation testing (10 marks)

6. What is Physical Design? What are the issues involved in Physical Design? (10 marks)