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Question ----------------- is an entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone "some employees are married to other employees" is an example of __________ in a database is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database 3 tier DWH consists of A Data warehouse is not An alternate key is also a An entity in ER modeling is analogous to a -------- in the relational model An exact copy of Transactional System is called Data Warehouse Can every E-R model be represented as Dimensional Model? Cardinality can never be Cardinality is applicable to which data modeling constuct?

optA sub entity Binary relation ship

optB weak entity recursive binary relationship

optC minor entity ternary relationship

optD None of the above None of the above Composite key All of the above Time Variant Unique Key None of the above B B

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Primay Key Data Tier for maintaining Volatile Data Primary Key relation TRUE Yes One Entity

Foreign Key Application Tier Subject Oriented Candidate Key attribute FALSE No Zero Attribute Adopt with dynamic Business requirements Profiling Logical Data Model

Surrogate key Presentation Tier Integrated Foreign Key tuple Can't Say Not always Less than 1 Smart Key Evolve with business objectives Cleansing Physical Data Model

C D A B A B

None of above Greater than 1 Relationship

C C D

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Data Architecture determines the DWH ability to Data Warehousing will normally not employ Database schema is implemented from

Be Scalable Data Staging Conceptual Data Model

All of the above Normalization Metadata model

D D C

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DBMS is the acronym for Domain is the set of of possible values of the ------------How are the identifier attribute commanly known as? How do you enforce domain integrity in the RDBMS by restricting the range of possible values the user can input?

Directory Base Management System attribute Primary key

Database Master System entity Foreign key Check Constraints Single shot big bang implementation diamond boxes resolve the relationship first then migrate many side to one side optional side to mandatoy side Logical Data Model FALSE Aggregated Data Metadata model Cardinality

Data Basic Management System relationship Non-key Default Definitions

Database Management System None of the above None of the above Check and Default Defintions Copy of the standard industry template oval boxes

D A A

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Primary Key Constraints

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How does the data model development take place? In ER notation entities as represented by

Incremental refinement circular boxes

Adhoc rectangular boxes

A C

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In Many to Many relationship, migrate the primary key In One to Many relationships, migrate the primary key from In One to One relationship, migrate the primary key from Maximum modeling effort needs to be on Modeling Concept will differ from Data Mart to Data Warehouse Operational Data Store is used to hold _______ RDBMS specific features are implemented in Relationships between entities are classified in terms of

from any side to the other side one side to many side mandatory side to optional side Conceptual Data Model TRUE Detailed Data Physical Data Model Degree

Do not migrate the primary key Do not migrate the primary key Do not migrate the primary key Physical Data Model

None of these None of these None of these Metadata model

B A A B B

Reporting Data Conceptual Data Model Type

Datamart wise data Logical Data Model All of the above

A A D

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SELECT * FROM R1 LEFT [OUTER] JOIN R2 ON R1.field = R2.field - returns additonal rows from? Staging Area is usually a location to hold ______ Surrogate key is not related to The entity integrity rule states that the value of the primary key can never be --------The relationship between dimension tables and fact table in a star-schema is of the type This abbreviation is not applicable to Business Intelligence This is not an appropriate report for BI application This is not an ETL tool Transactional efficiency is achieved with Tuples of a relation are What are the units of storage in relational data modeling?

R1 Permanent data Performance infinity Many-to-Many LDAP Drill through Informatica Powermart Dimensional Modeling The columns in a table Tables

R2 Temporary data Storage space null One-to-Many ROLAP List Ascential DataStage Snow flake Modeling Candidate keys in a table Cubes Targetted at strategic as well as operational users

Both Reporting Data History blank one-to-one MOLAP Scorecard Oracle Express Entity Relational Modeling The rows in a table Data Marts takes care of all the enterprise business processes

Neither All of the above Integer data type None of the above None of the above HOLAP Cubes Ab Initio None of these Composite key in a table All of the above

A B B B B A B C C C A

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What can be the scope of Enterprise data model in a business?

All the departments and Org units

All of these

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What is a business rule?

structure and relationship of the business data concepts

business constraint A collection of concepts that can be used to describe the structure of a database Number of attributes of the relation Define smart code as primary key Business definition Description

business practice and guideline

All of these

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What is a Data Model?

Collection of business data Number of entity types participating

Collection of business processes describing the flow of data Assoication of one or more attributes Define surrogate key (running number) as primay key Sample values Optionality

None of these None of the above

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What is a degree of relation type?

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What is best practice in defining Primary key? What is captured as part of business metadata? What is captured as part of metadata for attribute?

Define composite key as primary key Name Name known fact that has implicit meaning

None of these All of these All of these table structure Usually comes from legacy source system Frequency of change

C D D

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What is data?

Database Made up of multiple participant attributes Data type

table System generated running number Domain

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What is NOT a characteristic of Smart Code? What is NOT captured as Attribute metadata?

Primary Key for an entity Description

C D

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What is NOT captured as part of business metadata? What is NOT captured as part of metadata for entity type?

Name Definition

Business definition Examples

Sample values Sparsity Same value across all applications Take into account the interfacing between the requirements of business process and data ETL Team capabilities Have uniqely idenifiable occurences

Created / last updated details Expected volumes Application specific data values for the same record

D C

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What is System-of-Record?

Different values for the same matrix in different systems

Not related to DW

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What is the approach followed during systm development in Information Engineering? What is the basis for Business Analyst to write the Business Rules ? What is the characteristic of an Entity type?

Take into account information requirements only ETL capabilities and limitations Must be important for the business

Take into account business rules only Database Capabilities and limitations Data can be collected about it Captures the relationship between data concepts Normalize data

Take into business process definiton only

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None

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All of these

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What is the characteristic of the data model? What is the goal of relational data modeling?

Captures the information required by the business De-normalize data

Both of these Segregate data Define how business compliance process works

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What is the objective of Process View?

Define how business interacts with it's customers

Define how the entire business operates

None of these Integrate data Define how different organization units btwn business work

C B

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What is the overlap between Optionality and Cardinality?

both represents maximum number of occurrences

both represents minimum number of occurrences Enterprise organization and it's subsidiaries Detailed information Degree When the primary key itself is repeated A has exactly one occurrence per B A has exactly one occurrence per B Employee Role Customer Number Logical Subject Area Data Model

both represents minimum and maximum number of occurrences Enterprise organization and any external enity Reference information Attribute When there is a multiple field primary key A has 2 or more occurrences per B A has zero or one occurrence per B Employee Number Account Number Physical Logical Data Model

No overlap Enterprise organization and it's customers Master and reference information Tuple

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What is the scope of Process view in enterprise environment? What type of data is captured in Data View of an enterprise? What would one call the number of entities associated with the relationship?

Enterprise organization only Master,reference and detailed information Cardinality

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A B

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When do you use a surrogate key? When the relationship between entities A and B will be mandatory? When the relationship between entities A and B will be optional? Which can be a Primary Key for Employee table? Which can Never be implemented as a Primary Key for Customer table? Which data model depicts a semantic layer representing business view? Which data model depicts the business rules of an organization?

During designing 'slowly changing dimensions' A has one or more occurrences per B A has one or more occurrences per B Employee Name Customer Id Conceptual Conceptual Data Model

All of the above

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All of these None of these Employee SSN ZIP Code None of these Physical Data Model

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C C D A C

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Which data model is not independent of the database technology? Which data model is the most detailed specific one? Which data model is the most generic and abstract? Which data modeling approach is easy to understand and intuitive? Which Data Modeling approach is suitable for Corporate Enterprise Data warehouse? Which Data Modeling approach is suitable for OLTP? Which is a basic constuct in a data model?

Conceptual Data Model Conceptual Conceptual Dimensional Modeling Dimensional Modeling Entity Relational Modeling Metadata

Logical Data Model Logical Logical Snow flake Modeling Snow flake Modeling Dimensional Modeling Entity Interactive Query language Attribute represents data oriented business rule between two entities

Physical Data Model Physical Physical Entity Relational Modeling Entity Relational Modeling Snow flake Modeling Data type

Metadata model None of these None of these None of these None of these None of these Domain Retrieval of data stored in more than on table Index represents the association between logically related attributes Primary key can not be made of multiple columns

C C A A C A B

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Which is a feature of RDBMS? Which is NOT a basic construct in a data model?

Create multiple tables and enter data into them Entity

All of these Relationship can represent the recursive association of an entity with itself

C D

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Which is NOT a characteristic of relationship?

represents association between the two entities

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Which is NOT a rule for Primary Key?

must uniquely identify only one record in an entity

Primary key column can not be null

Entity can hav only one primary key

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Which is NOT an objective of Dimensional Modeling approach? Which is NOT an objective of Entity Relational Modeling approach? Which is the detailed specific data model amongst the mentioned ones? Which is the most abstract data model amongst the mentioned ones? Which is traditional modeling approach? Which model will define how the business operates? Which model will define what information is required for the business to operate?

Query Performance Eliminate Redundancy Conceptual Data Model Conceptual Data Model Entity Relational Modeling Data Model Metadata model

Transaction Efficiency Transaction Efficiency Subject Area Data Model Subject Area Data Model Dimensional Modeling Metadata model Data Model They are either concrete or abstract Customer Allows tracking of dimension history Add key attributes to the diagram Start schema the value is system generated

Ease of understanding Query Performance Metadata model Logical Data Model Snow flake Modeling Process Model Process Model Entities are classified as independent only Employer Standardizes dimension tables Adding business and integrity rules OLTP the value contains no semantic meaning

None of these None of these Physical Data Model Physical Data Model None of these None of these None of these Entities are classified as independent or dependent Emloyee Id All of the above None of the above OLAP

B C D B A C B

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Which of the following are not properties of entities Which of the following can NOT be an Entity type? Which of the following is an advantage of using surrogate keys? Which of the following is not an step in defining a ER model Which of the following is the subset of EDW?

Entities are usually recognizable concepts Employee Consolidates multi-value business keys Defining Entities and Relationships Data Mart

C D

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D A

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Which of the following is true for a surrogate key?

the value is unique systemwide, hence never reused

All of the above

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Which of the following is/are strengths of dimensional modeling? Which one of the following is a special type of entity? Which one of the following terms is related to ER modeling? Which step is done first in a Data Modeling development life cycle? Whis is NOT an attribute in Employee entity?

Predictable, standard framework Associative entities entity Logical Modeling Employee Number

Respond well to changes in user reporting needs Subtypes entities relationship Physical Modeling Full Name

Standard design approaches have been developed intersection entities association Conceptual Modeling Last Name

All of the above All of the above All of the above None of the choices First Name Ensure the organization have the proper data All of the above
Extraction, Transformation & Load balancing All of the above a and b None of the above

D D D C B

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Why Business Intelligence is required

To enable you to take proper actions based on data To track type 2 slowly changing dimensions

Competitors have it To be a primary key for fact table

Extract, Transfer & Loading Dimensional Modeling Batch ETL Operating Systems Scripts FALSE

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Why is surrogate key used?

Technical Team Wants For faster querying performance on datamart

Enterprise Transformation Logic Business Requirements None Manual Sorting Can't Say

ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL

What is ETL? What is the pre-requisites for designing ETL Architecture ? What are the different loading strategies ? What is the best practice for sorting a very big file in an ETL scenario ? An exact copy of Transactional System is called Data Warehouse

Extraction, Transformation & Loading Source Analysis Real-time ETL ETL Transformations TRUE

A D D B B

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When do you suggest Staging Schema for DW? What process is used to scrutinize the quality of the source System? Normalization is extensively used in traditional Data WareHouse Where will you suggest to denormalize the data before loading it in DWH? What is the basis for Business Analyst to write the Business Rules ? What strategy will enable you to understand the problems occurred in the system and its related statistics? Aggregates will have significance effect on the following : ETL Loads are usually segregated into Which is not an ETL tool DW Projects can be implemented only by ETL Tools are Used for Formatting the Report ETL Team will not change the code in the following Environment For quick response time in the datawarehouse environment these are necessary Bulk Processing means processing data row by row Which of the following are the ETL Specific Performance Monitors? Parallel loads will not improve performance What kind of load erases the contents of one or more tables and reloads with fresh data

Several Business Transformations Data Mapping TRUE It should be available in denormalized form in OLTP

ETL Tool can not directly load into Warehouse tables Data Merging FALSE ERP system provides denormalized data Database Capabilities and limitations Notifications Development Incremental Load Hyperion Customs Made tools FALSE QA Foreign Keys TRUE Rows Processed per Second TRUE Incremental Load

Technical Team Wants Data Profiling Can't Say

For Recoverability, Auditability, Backup, Recovery, data quality, Archiving all the above

D C B

ETL

Staging area ETL Team capabilities Logging Business Requirements A and B Terradata warehouse builder 3 GL's programming languages

During ETL routines

ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL

ETL capabilities and limitations Error Handling Performance Full Load Oracle Warehouse builder ETL Tools TRUE Development Indexes FALSE Throughput FALSE Full Load

None All of the above all the above Change data load Microsoft data transformation All of the above

D D A C B D B

UAT Check Constraints Rows Written for Second

b and C all the above

D A A

All of the above None of the above

D A

Both

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What kind of load applies ongoing changes to one or more tables based on a predefined schedule

Initial Load

Incremental Load Presence of Metadata ensures ,changes are easy FALSE Correcting Can circumvent a poorly tuned RDBMS server, or an overloaded RDBMS server Allow the definition of data mappings and transformations at an abstract level using business rules Target data is truncated and reloaded FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE aggregration Processing of data before moved to warehouse

Both

None of the above

ETL ETL ETL

What is the Advantage of using ETL? ETL can be used for rudimentary Data cleansing? Data cleansing includes _______

Extract data from heterogenous sources TRUE Parsing

History data can be handled Maybe Standardizing

All of the above Cannot Say All of the above

D A D

ETL

ETL

Cannot circumvent a poorly tuned RDBMS server, or an overloaded RDBMS server

Not Suitable for RDBMS data sources

None of the above

ETL

Metadata

Allow the definition of data mappings and transformations at an abstract level

Containts raw data Delta data between the source and the target Maybe Maybe None of the above Maybe Maybe integration of data

None of the above None of the above Cannot Say Cannot Say

ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL ETL

What is incremental data? Staging is not required while using ELT to generate Delta records : Performance of RDBMS is directly proportional to the performance of ELT? ELT can support fault tolerance & recovery ELT will require technicians with a high proficiency in SQL tuning, and RDBMS tuning : ETL process is pre-dominantly used for Data integration ___________ Transformation in ETL includes ______

Full data from source TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE Cleansing

C B A B

Cannot Say Cannot Say All of the above

A A D

ETL

What is the use of a Staging area?

copying the data from source before moving to warehouse

None of the above

All of the above

ETL ETL ETL

What is the typical use of a scheduling tool like Autosys? Can we schedule a FTP Job, Informatica Job, SAP Job, Perl Script all in same batch? Which of the following will do the load balancing?

An alternate to Cron Jobs TRUE Scheduling Tool Build the Batch, Test the Batch, Build the ETL

To Schedule Heterogeneous Jobs in a batch environment FALSE ETL Tool Build the Batch, Build the ETL, Test the Batch The table with less number of rows as detail and the other as master

Easy to monitory the batch Maybe Cron Jobs Build the ETL, Build the Batch, Test the Batch

Easy to run the batch Cannot Say (a) & (b)

B A D

ETL

Which is the correct sequence in CUT?

Any of the above Performance does not depend on the number of rows Either of the one can be better than the other depending on its usage

ETL

When joining two tables which should be Master and detail for improving the performance of the join?

The table with less number of rows as master and the other as detail

No decision can be made based on the number of rows

ETL

Left outer join is better than right outer join

Yes

No

ETL ETL

Lookup should be used always instead of a join Which is better in performance for a join in an ETL solution? Indexing the columns used in the join condition will ______ When doing bulk load it is better to __________ to improve the performance The container of one or more job is called? A job on ICE is said to be in ________

Yes Write native DB queries Decrease the performance of the query Drop all the indexes Command Job Non executable state

No Use ETL joins Increase the performance of the query Create More indexes Watcher Job Failure State

Maybe There is no guideline to choose one above the other Use Perl Scripts / Stored Procs not have any impact on the query performance Leave the indexes in the current state Box Job Active State

Maybe All of the above be dependent on the RDBMS tool capability Create More indexes & Partitions Container Job Waiting State

C A

ETL ETL ETL ETL

B A C A

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While doing a history load into a DW, it is better to _______

Create more partitions before the load

Create more partitions after the load Automated Data Migration Tools lot of automated data cleansing can be done Constellar Very good for simple mappings Data Cleansing has to be handled outside the data migration Better customisation since code is built to specifications Maintaining the code is a nightmare FALSE RDBMS FALSE

Do not create partitions before and after the load

Drop the existing partitions and recreate them along with any new partitions needed, after the history load is completed Any of the above depening on the need All of the above Cognos Decision Stream All of the above None of the above

ETL ETL ETL ETL

Data Migration is best done using _____________ Data migration using ETL Tools is an ideal choice if _______________ Which of the following ETL tools are Code Generation based tools ? What are the advantages of using Migration tools over ETL tools for Data Migration work? What are the limitation of using Migration tools over ETL tools for Data Migration work? Where can the custom-built solution be used for Data Migration work? Where can be the downside of using a custom-built solution for Data Migration work? ETL is same as ELT? Which of the following can be source systems for ETL process? A datawarhouse should be real time? Rummages through a file or database for data is ______________ Transfering a data from a DB to a file is called ____________ Selection criteria 4 filtering a subset of records is done during ?

Custom Built Tool the transformations involved are complex Ab Initio Optimised for the target platform Not very flexible for complex transformation

ETL Tools extraction of the data from diverse platforms Oracle Warehouse Builder Cost-effective compared to ETL tools

D D C D

ETL

(a) & (b) Can be easily built in-house

ETL

If migration is a one-time process Time consuming since migration code has to be written TRUE Flat files TRUE

All of the above None of the above

ETL ETL ETL ETL

(a) & (b)

C B

XML Files

All of the above

D B

ETL ETL ETL

Transformation Data Extraction Data Profiling

Extraction Data Profileing Data Cleansing

Loading Data Cleansing DataTransformatio n

None of the above Data Transformation Data Extraction

B A D

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Integrating dissimilar data types is done during? Implementing a business logic is done during? Aggregation of data will be done during Data Transformation? Autosys, cronjobs, Control-M are __________ Data Transformation is best performed before Extraction? Data cleansion is always done after data loading? Full extraction has which of the following characteristics? Incremental extraction has which of the following characteristics? Historical data extraction is done as a part of? Which one is more expensive to implement? Aggregate tables are used for ? ETL tools support code re-usability? Which of the ETL tools supports duplicate record handling? Which of the following is not a data transformation activity? CRON jobs are designed to work only in Windows? Bulk load happens during real-time data loads? Which tools do not support loading data from many to one table? Which tools do not support loading data from one to many table? Which tools are supported in Windows and Unix? Loading dimensions tables happens before the fact table ? The _________ load process could be viewed as an extension of the initial load process Historical data extraction is ___________? Logical data map that describes the ETL process end to end should be provided before an ETL process can begin? Data profiling feature in an ETL tool can be used for _____________ Business rules defined at the data modeling stage

Data Loading Data Transformation TRUE ETL tools TRUE TRUE All the source data is extracted All the source data is extracted Incremental extraction Real-time extraction To improve the performance of reporting TRUE Informatica Calculating business rules TRUE TRUE Informatica Informatica Informatica Yes Batch Complex TRUE Source systems analysis TRUE

Data Cleansing Data Loading FALSE Job Schedulers FALSE FALSE No change data capturing No change data capturing Real-time extraction Batch extraction To save store space FALSE Datastage Identifying data patterns FALSE FALSE Datastage Datastage Datastage No real-time Time consuming FALSE Data discovery FALSE

Data Transformation Data Extraction

Data Extraction Data Cleansing

C A A

Data cleansers

Data profilers

B B B

Change data capturing Change data capturing Initial extraction Incremental extraction Data Consolidation

a and b a and b
None of the above Initial extraction All of the above

D C C A D A

Ab-initio Data aggregation

All of the above Lookups

D B B B

Ab-initio Ab-initio Ab-initio Maybe Historical Static data

None of the above None of the above All of the above Never None of the above All of the above

D D D A C D A

Detection anomalies in data

All of the above

D A

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are different from those required by the ETL team ____________is any process in which information is gathered and expressed in a summary form, for purposes such as statistical analysis Reading database table dump tapes is________ Which of the following are Incremental Extract Techniques? _______ technique captures the change immediately on the occurance of an event in the operational environment Live queries on operational or mirrored data is an example of __________ extraction Running the ETL scripts frequently or at periodic intervals (Say every one hour) is an example of ___________ extraction __________ allows continuous update of the DW as the data in the source system changes Trickle feed techique is called as _________ Supply of missing field values & Data Integrity checks is done during ____________ Change data capture is supported in ________________ Bulk load degrades the performance of an ETL session Bulk load is used for which of the following scenarios _______ Which of the following ETL tools do not have a scheduling feature enabled? A Top level executive is a company needs to understand health of important indicators of the business and needs alerts when thresholds are crossed in one glance. Which of the tool below best meets his need? Which is the most common type of Dimension? Which type of data storage architecture gives fastest performance? OLAP technology is not well suited for?

Data Lookup Historical extraction Time-Stamp based Time-Stamp based Batch Batch Trickle feed Loading Data Extraction Ab Initio TRUE Historical load Ab Initio Operational Reports

Data aggregation Logical extraction File Comparison File Comparison real-time Simulated real time Simulated real time Profiling Data Loading Datastage FALSE Initial load Datastage Dashboard

Data sorting Manual Extraction Triggered Triggered History History History streaming Data Cleansing None of the above

Data Manipulation None of the above All of the above Log None of the above None of the above All of the above Mapping Data archiving a and b

B A D C A B A C C D B

None of the above Informatica Report with drill features

a and b None of the above None of the above

B D B

OLAP OLAP

Customer DOLAP Trends

Product ROLAP Monitor KPI

Location MOLAP Analyzing anomaly

None of the above None of the above Behavior patterns Use Operating system based clustering

D C D C

OLAP OLAP

Which is the cheapest method from below options to achieve High Availability? OLAP

BI system has enough power backup

Use of third party clustering hardware

Use built-in clustering features

Which is the most important factor that determines a MOLAP database size? OLAP OLAP OLAP Which one of the following is a key consideration for a BI architecture? Which one of the following is used as a data access middleware? Which of the following reporting framework consideration will not aid in enforcing enterprise wide reporting standardization A power user wants to see the monthly sales figures of a product. The data structure stores data in 'daily' granular level. The least practical option for building monthly aggregate is A Key performance indicator (KPI) is A report is created with a set of objects and consists of data for different countries where not all objects can be seen by all counties users and can only see data for there own country. What type of security has been implemented in this? Adhoc Report are : Cascading prompt based report is better defined as? OLAP William receives a new requirement from the client for a set of reports. The report fields contain Regions, Product, Sub 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 best performance of a reporting tool? Who uses the Ad-hoc reports feature of a BI product most?

Aggregation levels

Number of dimensions Technical Architecture MDX Inheritance from library components Semantic layer

Number of Facts

Number of rows extracted from source systems All of the above All of the above None of the above Reporting variable A metric with an alert User and Group Level Security

Data Architecture JDBC Run time formatting

Product architecture ODBC Report template

D D A

OLAP

MOLAP server

RDBMS

OLAP OLAP

A metric Row and Group Level Security

A metric with a target Column and User Level Security

A metric with the result realized Row and Column Level Security

B C

OLAP OLAP

Canned Reports A Drill Thru Report

Scheduled Report Report extracted by getting the data by clicking the column data Master Detail Report

Corporate Reports Works based on pre-defined conditions Slice and Dice Report

None Works based on the data item selected as a drill thru options Both A and D

D C

Section Report

OLAP OLAP OLAP

Snowflake schema

Normalized Schema Business Users

Star Schema

All of the above

C A

Power Users

Executives

Administrators

OLAP

When a user is able to login to the system but is unable to create a report. What could be the problem? When a user has data sources like Flat files, RDBMS, and XML, Can I create a report using data from all three?

The user is not there in the system

The user access to all the features You can connect using Web Services

The user is given only read access to the system You can connect using ODBC connections

All of the above

You can do it by integrating the data from all the data sources using an ETL tool

All of the above

OLAP When does a user use drill-down option to view a report OLAP OLAP What type of reports are best suited for displaying data by different dimensions like location, product etc A company has deployed a BI system. It needs to integrate it with their existing system and also have a common user name for logging into both the existing system and the new BI system. What is the best way to achieve this? I need to create 50 reports for a company. The reports should be as per company logo and other UI standards. What is the best way to achieve this? OLAP The IT team has received a request by a department to provide common/ standard access to all its members for their reports. What is the best way to achieve this? OLAP What are Metadata? Data used only by the IS organization. Information that describes and defines the organization's data. Create all the users with the same privileges / roles Create a user group and provide the privileges. Add all the users to that group Simple Tabular reports Provide same user names to both the systems When user wants to see Summary data When user wants to view more details of the given data column Section reports Provide a common group user id to every one so that they all use the same is to login Have only one person do all the reports when user wants to see all related data. All of the above B

Chart based reports Remove authentocation system from th BI application Create a report template that has common layout and give it to all the developers to use for their reports Create a single user and ask all of them to use that user name for accessing the BI system. Definitions of data elements.

Cross-tab reports Use Single Sign ON capapbility of a BI system to implent one time login and authentication All of the above

C D

OLAP Create same user interface for all reports

All of the above

Any business data occurring in large volumes.

OLAP OLAP Metadata is placed in Data Extract Layer Data Storage Layer Data Access Layer None of the above B

Which of the following is NOT found in an Entity Relationship Model? OLAP OLAP Example for the Ad hoc query tool? Need for Data Mining? OLAP What does implementing a Data Warehouse or Data Mart help reduce? OLAP Data Access Layer in DWH architecture contains OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP Ad hoc Query tool? OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP Example for the Managed Query tool? Disadvantages of using OLTP reporting for the decision making users? OLAP provides In OLAP system data is refreshed when OLAP Following statement is true for Procedure and function? OLAP Following statement is true for the Packages? OLAP Which Solution/s is used for the BI? Cube structure exists in What type of users require OLAP system?

A definition for each Entity and Data Element.

Business Rules associated with the entities and entity relationships Business Objects to perform trend analysis an organization. Hardware costs.

Entity and Data Element Names

Fact and Dimension Tables None market analysis

Cognos Impromptu to alert management when certain criteria are met. The data gathering effort for data analysis. Staging area OLTP ROLAP Decision Makers Hides database complexity

MS query discovering patterns and relationships in an organization's data. User requests for custom reports. Data Mining reports OLAP MOLAP Data entry users contains security management MS query Does not have historical data Slice and Dice data is changed through data entry screens Procedure and Function both returns values

C C

All the above

Operational Source Data Mining DOLAP Operating Personnel gives semantic layer in the business terms Cognos Report net Processing speed is slow Ad hoc queries Periodic jobs are run to refresh the data Procedure does not return value and Function returns value. Package can contain only functions

All the above None All the above None None

D C C A D

Microsoft Access Does not contain dimension and measures Analysis with respective to time

None None of the above All the above

A C D C

user changes the data Procedure returns value and Function does not return value.

All the above Procedure and Function does not return values

D Package can contain only procedures. Package does not contain Procedures and Functions Package can contains both Functions and Procedures

Following statement is true for the Procedure? OLAP Implicit Commit applies to the database when OLAP dimensional modeling is

Procedure does not return output parameter DML commands are applied set of tables in which data is stored in normalized forms

Procedure returns output value DDL commands are applied a design stored with Primary and foreign key relationship No. Only measures can have numeric value Data mart contains multiple data warehouses

Procedure can not take input parameter. Only when Commit command is given Used for OLTP Systems

Procedure can take only one input parameter. None set of tables in which data is stored in Denormalized forms None

B D

OLAP Can a dimension table contains numeric values? Yes. But those data type will be character. Yes and can stored as numeric value

OLAP What is the Difference between data warehouse and data mart? There is no difference between data mart and data warehouse. Both contains all the tables used for the BI Data mart contains all the tables used for multiple business areas. Micro strategy DOLAP Multiple OLTP systems Optional Add Microstrategy DOLAP Brio HOLAP None D

OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP Which option is used to filter aggregated value Synonym is an alias for Where Table Sort Materialized View Business analysts access the Data Warehouse data infrequently. Having Package Business analysts access the Data Warehouse data from different locations. Group All the above Business analysts do not know data requirements prior to beginning work. C D B What does the term 'Ad-hoc Analysis' mean? Business analysts use a subset of the data for analysis. Does OLAP needs historical data? The method of joining two tables together in SQL is: Example for a MOLAP tool? Business objects is an example for SQL DELETE command on a table deletes No Join Cognos MOLAP Both table and data in the table Example for a ROLAP tool? Which type of OLAP is effective for the larger data volumes Typical OLAP data come from? Cognos MOLAP Other OLAP systems Business Objects HOLAP Single OLTP system Yes Union Business Objects ROLAP data in the table Brio None All the above C B D B A A C B

OLAP

What is an Operational Data Store?

A set of databases that serve as a 'staging' area to facilitate consolidating data from several, distributed-source systems.

A set of databases that support OLAP.

databases to provide operational data for a single department.

A set of databases that provide integrated operations data to serve the organization's day-to-day activities. An application system that supports the creation of product's) that the organization markets. automated process of discovering patterns and relationships in an organization's data. contains consolidated data and Decision support Any database implemented with a network Database Management System.

OLAP What is an operational system? An application system that tracks and manages the financial assets of the organization. An application system that supports the planning and forecasting within the organization. An application system that supports the organization's dayto-day activities. C

OLAP Data mart is sponsored at the department level and developed with a specific issue or subject in mind. is a data warehouse with a focused objective a set of databases that support OLAP. process of performing trend analysis on the financial data of an organization. A

OLAP Why OLAP systems are used instead of OLTP? To control and run the fundamental business tasks Fast compared to OLTP Gives the snapshot of the data D

OLAP What is a 'snowflake' schema? The dimension tables are 'normalized'. The dimension tables can refer to more than one fact table. All recurring groups of attributes are completely removed from dimension tables.

OLAP

What is staging area?

Staging area is the replica of the data marts

Staging area is replica of single source database.

Staging area is the replica of the data warehouse

Staging layer is used for cleansing and merging the data from multiple source systems. All of the above Integrate data All of the above Master data Foreign Keys to Dims Time Variant HOLAP Cubes information Delete Location, Date

OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP A Data warehouse is not OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP This abbreviation is not applicable to Business Intelligence This is not an appropriate report for BI application Which is not a data type Which one is not an DML statement A Sales manages in a bank is interested in knowing the house loan generated in different zone of a country for last quarter of this year, compare to same quarter of 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 average amount of time he is spending daily to resolve the call against the threshold. What will be the possible measure(s) need to be tracked In a analytical and decision based system, query is mostly based on Operational activities are mostly restricted to LDAP Drill through binary Update Customer, Date ROLAP List large object Alter Customer, Location MOLAP Scorecard number Create Customer, Location, Date A B D C C for maintaining Volatile Data What are the basic units of storage in conventional data modeling? What is the goal of relational data modeling? Which of the following are examples of dimensions? Dimension table will normally not contain Fact table may not contain Tables De-normalize data Location Measures non additive Measures Cubes Normalize data Product Description Semi additive measures Subject Oriented Data Marts Segregate data Time Context information Hierarchy Integrated A B D A C A

OLAP

number of calls attended

resolution time for each call

Service level

all above

OLAP OLAP

A derived data complex derivation, frequently changing data raw data historical data, smaller amout of data external data smaller amout of data, complex derivation none of the above frequently changing data, smaller amount of data D

OLAP

OLAP OLAP OLAP

it is required to add two columns in a table, which SQL statement is required to be used It is required to remove a database table from a database, which comment is required to be used Which query languge is required to be used to add conditional loop A query is required to be written for a retail company to pull age-group wise customer data to see average expenses in a 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 store outlet for a particular month in an ascnding order. What clauses are required to be added in query Following are functional requirements of OLAP system

Create Delete SQL where, Group by

Add Drop DML Where, order by

Alter Remove PL/SQL Where, Order by, group by

Modify Truncate none of the above All above

C B C A

OLAP

Group By

Where

Order by

All above

OLAP

Powerful Analytical capabilities, Faster Access

Powerful Analytical capabilities, Faster Access, Flexibility, Multiuser support Relational Transactional Reporting, Replicated OLTP reporting Build data marts

Flexibility, Multiuser support, Faster Access

Flexibility, Powerful Analytical capabilities, Faster Access Hierarchical Enterprise DW reporting

OLAP OLAP Which is not a database model Historical data will not be available in Exponential Data mart reporting, Replicated OLTP reporting Dimensional Replicated OLTP reporting A B

OLAP If the customer requirement is to integrate entire business process and provide the prohibition of data of same mean to different business community (LOB), which one will be the preferred architectural approach OLAP OLAP OLAP Following are the valid differencial parameter between a OLTP system and a data warehouse Best approach to provide a near current data over a shorter period of time is Following are the valid differencial parameter between data warehouse and data marts OLAP database size Data marts data modeling, implementation time, data perspective Build an enterprise data warehouse

Build an enterprise data warehouse and data marts on top of that level of data accessibility Data warehouse implementation time, Subject areas, data perspective

Build data marts and then integrate in common data warehouse all the above Archival data perspective, data modeling, Subject areas

volatility of data Operational data storage implementation time, data modeling, Subject areas

D B C

Data Stage is a OLAP Actuate is a OLAP Trilium is a OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP A Top level executive is a company needs to understand health of important 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 gives fastest performance? Which one of the following does not directly aid in performance improvement? Which one of the following is not a consideration while deploying reports to a portal for accessing globally To group dimension data logically what attribute we can add in dimensional data model The position of element in hierarchy is called Methodology in identifying the hidden truth from a data pool colleted over period of time Limitations of traditional reporting techniques are

ETL tool ETL tool ETL tool Primary Key Tree Data mining Extensive programming Operational Reports

data modeling tool data modeling tool Cleansing tool Hierarchy Base Data warehousing Redundancy Dashboard

BI tool BI tool BI tool Foreign key Level Data profiling Difficulties in aggregation Report with drill features

none of the above none of the above data modeling tool none of the above attribute Data cleansing all above None of the above

A C B B C A D D

OLAP OLAP OLAP OLAP

DOLAP Index Multi currency

ROLAP aggregate aware Multi language

MOLAP Normalization Multi time zone

None of the above Hint All of the above

C C D