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MGT501 –Human Resource Management
Quiz No.3 June, 18, 2012
Which department can conduct the orientation in order to socialize the newly appointed staff with the working environment of the organization.
Human resource department (right Answer)
Management department
Marketing department
Finance department
Which one is the correct statement?
A group is not always a team. (right Answer)
A group is always a team
The terms Group and teams are interchangeable
None of given option
Which of the following skills are required most by the Top-level managers?
Technical skills
Interpersonal skills
Conceptual skills (right Answer)
All of the given options
MR Ali works in an organization where he gets remuneration on the basis of no of units produced rather than the hours he works or the performance. It is actually an example of:
Wage (right Answer)
Salary
Piece meal
Commission
Organizations should set the ___ goals:
Attainable (right Answer)
Ambiguous
Uncertain
Random
Which of the following best defines recruitment in an organization?
Forecast the supply of outside candidates
Develop an appropriate applicant pool (right Answer)
Determine the importance of job applicants
All of the given options
Which of the following is a term that concerns with the development of the employees so that they may take immediate decision without resorting or waiting for the orders of the superiors?
Empowerment (right Answer)
Centralization
Fringe Benefits
None of the above
Total Quality Management (TQM) is an attempt to
Improve the Quality of all processes in product making (right Answer)
Control the growing costs
Restructuring the firm
None of the above
Performance appraisal report is also called the
Annual report (right Answer)
Confidential report
Employee report
ACR
Opportunities & Threats are ________________ to an organization.
Select correct option:
Important
Internal (right Answer)
Central
External
Question # 2 of 20 (Start time: 09:01:00 PM) Total Marks: 1
The study of the firms past employment needs over periods of years to predict future
needs is known as:
Select correct option:
Trend analysis (right Answer)
Regression analysis
Ratio analysis
None of the given options
Question # 6 of 20 ( Start time: 09:05:48 PM ) Total Marks: 1
As an HR manager you have collected and reviewed the information\data related to a
particular job, while conducting the job analysis. What will be your next step in this
situation?
Select correct option:
Maintaining and updating the jobs
Identify objectives of job analysis
Identify the job to be analyzed
Draft job description & job specification (right Answer)
Question # 8 of 20 ( Start time: 09:08:21 PM ) Total Marks: 1
The method which uses the organization's current level of employment as the starting
point for determining future staffing needs is called _______
Select correct option:
Zero Based Forecasting (right Answer)
Bottom up Approach
Simulation
None of the above
Human resource management won final acceptance in:
Select correct option:
1980
1985
1989 (right Answer)
1979
Question # 10 of 20 ( Start time: 09:10:07 PM ) Total Marks: 1
For calculating the human resource requirements following areas need forecast except :
Select correct option:
Personnel needs
Supply of inside candidates
Personal needs
Supply of outside candidates (right Answer)
Rajesh, who is a Hindu, applies for a job at ABC Company. The interviewer says that
WE hire Muslims only and we do not hire Hindu. Making this distinction:
Select correct option:
Is not allowable discrimination on the basis of religion
It's not the act of discrimination
It's more likely favoritism
Discrimination is allowed at the interview stage of recruitment (right Answer)
Question # 12 of 20 ( Start time: 09:12:39 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Before; leaving the org XYZ Mr. Ahmed operation manager was asked to update his
______ which includes his responsibilities and duties.
Select correct option:
Job identification
Job specification (right Answer)
Job description
None of the them
Question # 13 of 20 ( Start time: 09:13:40 PM ) Total Marks: 1
The Government for the first time has reserved a specific number of seats in the National
Assembly for females. This practice of the Government is an example of:
Select correct option:
Affirmative Action
Equal Employment Opportunity (right Answer)
Social Responsibility
None of the above
Which job analysis method is suitable when job consist on discernible physical activity?
Select correct option:
Questionnaire
Interview (right Answer)
Observation
Combinations of method
According to which act, pay discrimination on the basis of gender for same position &
performance is prohibited?
Select correct option:
Civil rights
Equal pay (right Answer)
Worker compensation
Age discrimination
______ refers to a set of expected behavior patterns attributed to someone who occupies a
given position in a social unit.
Select correct option:
Norm
Perception
Role (right Answer)
Stereotyping
Which of the following HR activity is the basic element of recruitment?
Select correct option:
Attract the job applicants for the particular post
Select the best one among all applicants (right Answer)
Train the people as per organizational requirements
Fire the non-performing employees
'Human Relation Approach' was emerged during:
Select correct option:
1930-40 (right Answer)
1940-50
1950-60
1960-70
Which of them is the area covered under the study of job analysis?
Select correct option:
Employee behavior
Work activities
Performance standard
All of the given options (right Answer)
Methods of Collecting Job Analysis Information include
Select correct option:
Interview
Questionnaire
Logs
All of given option (right Answer)
Question # 8 of 20 ( Start time: 09:33:42 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Which of the following is NOT one of the methods of recruiting outside candidates?
Select correct option:
Job advertisements
Job postings
Employment agencies
Executive recruiters (right Answer)
Question # 9 of 20 ( Start time: 09:35:13 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Which of the given term is used to represent the segments of jobs held by an individual
throughout his/her life time?
Select correct option:
Responsibility
Career (right Answer)
Occupation
Position
Question # 11 of 20 ( Start time: 09:36:55 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Which one method of job analysis is universally superior?
Select correct option:
Individual interview method
Group interview method (right Answer)
Observation method
None of given options
Question # 12 of 20 ( Start time: 09:37:56 PM ) Total Marks: 1
'The process of determining the human resource needs of an organization and ensuring
that the right number of qualified people are positioned in the right jobs at the right time'
is described by which of the following term?
Select correct option:
Job planning
Resource planning
Human resource planning (right Answer)
Succession planning
Question # 13 of 20 ( Start time: 09:38:36 PM ) Total Marks: 1
The employees belonging to same gender or color or any other common attribute are
usually found to communicate with other employees from the same gender or color. This
refers to:
Select correct option:
Segmented Communication Networks (right Answer)
Lower Cohesiveness
Work Force Diversity
None of the above
Ahmed has already negative perception about two candidates who are in the list of
Candidate's pool .what will be the best way to avoid biasness in the interview?
Select correct option:
Ahmed should change his negative feelings into positive ones. . (right Answer)
Org should change the interviewer.
It's better to conduct board interview.
It's better to conduct written test instead of interview
Background investigations and reference checks are considered to verify candidate's
___________.
Select correct option:
Age
Marital status
Credentials (right Answer)
Gender
The ability to think about abstract & complex situations is refered as:
Select correct option:
Technical skill
Interpersonal skill
Conceptual skill (right Answer)
Mechanical skill
The term "People" is one of the components of an organization which refers to:
Select correct option:
Society (right Answer)
Customers
Human resource
General public
For the job of material manager _____might state that the "material manager purchases
economically, regulate deliveries of store, and distribute all necessary material on
production line."
Select correct option:
Job identification
Job specification (right Answer)
Job summary
None of the given options
How many levels of management are in a traditional organization?
Select correct option:
5
3 (right Answer)
8
4
The cognitive component consists of a person's:
Select correct option:
Emotions
Knowledge (right Answer)
Attitude
Feelings
Job specification concentrates on which of the given aspects?
Select correct option:
KSA of an individual
Job with in an organization
Job duties & responsibilities (right Answer)
None of the given options
The physical examination is also one of the most important step of the selection process
because:
Select correct option:
Detect communicable disease
Reduce Insurance claim
Ensure less absenteeism
All of them (right Answer)
Redesigning of an organization's processes, from materials Acquisition, to production, to
marketing and distribution is called:
Select correct option:
Innovation
Restructuring
Reengineering
Supply chain management (right Answer)
Question # 8 of 20 ( Start time: 09:56:36 PM ) Total Marks: 1
The right to get equal pays while being in the same pay scale is supported by a:
Select correct option:
Law
Rule (right Answer)
Principle
None of the above
Thank you!
Regards
Anjum Rana
CS614 - Data Warehousing
Quiz No.4 June 18,2012
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a vault to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's _______.
Validity (Right Answer)
Security
Integrity
None of above
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by _____________ tools typical of decision support systems.
Introspective
Intuitive
Reminiscent
Retrospective (Right Answer)
The technique that is used to perform these feats in data mining is called modeling, and this act of model building is something that people have been doing for a long time, certainly before the _________ of computers or data mining technology.
Access
Advent (Right Answer)
Ascent
Avowal
Classification consists of examining the properties of a newly presented observation and assigning it to a predefined ____________.
Object
Container
Subject
Class (Right Answer)
During business hours, most ______ systems should probably not use parallel execution.
OLAP
DSS
Data Mining
OLTP (Right Answer)
In contrast to statistics, data mining is ______ driven.
Assumption
Knowledge (Right Answer)
Human
Database
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein (Right Answer)
As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with __________ valued outcome.
Discrete (Right Answer)
Isolated
Continuous
Distinct
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
In Parallel
Distributed
Sequentially (Right Answer)
None of above
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The ______ the portion of the program that must be executed sequentially, the greater the scalability of the computation.
Larger
Smaller (Right Answer)
Unambiguous
Superior
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching records(s).
Indexing (Right Answer)
Partitioning
Joining
None of above
In nested-loop join case, if there are 'M' rows in outer table and 'N' rows in inner table, time complexity is
O (M log N)
O (log MN)
O (MN) (Right Answer)
O (M + N)
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein (Right Answer)
The technique that is used to perform these feats in data mining is called modeling, and this act of model building is something that people have been doing for a long time, certainly before the _________ of computers or data mining technology.
Access
Advent (Right Answer)
Ascent
Avowal
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If there is an index and that index is exploited, then it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
Temporary index nested-loop join
None of these
Data mining is a/an __________ approach, where browsing through data using data mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information that was unknown previously
Non-Exploratory
Exploratory (Right Answer)
Computer Science
None of these
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a ________ to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's validity.
Cell
Disk
Folder
Vault (Right Answer)
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by _____________ tools typical of decision support systems.
Introspective
Intuitive
Reminiscent
Retrospective (Right Answer)
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. When the entire table is scanned it is called
Index nested-loop join
Naive nested-loop join (Right Answer)
Temporary index nested-loop join
None of these
As opposed to the outcome of classification, estimation deal with __________ valued outcome.
Discrete (Right Answer)
Isolated
Continuous
Distinct
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a vault to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's _______.
Validity (Right Answer)
Security
Integrity
None of these
In contrast to statistics, data mining is ______ driven.
Assumption
Knowledge (Right Answer)
Human
Database
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching records(s).
Indexing (Right Answer)
Partitioning
Joining
None
If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Dense Index (Right Answer)
Sparse Index
Inverted Index
None
An optimized structure which is built primarily for retrieval, with update being only a secondary consideration is
OLTP
OLAP
DSS
inverted Index (Right Answer)
Which of the following is not an "Orr's Law of Data Quality"?
Data that is not used cannot be correct!"
Data quality is a function of its use, not its co
Data will be no better than its most stringent use!"
Data duplication can be harmful for the organization!" (Right Answer)
During business hours, most ______ systems should probably not use parallel execution.
OLAP
DSS
Data Mining
OLTP (Right Answer)
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
_______________, if too big and does not fit into memory, will be expensive when used to find a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
In Parallel
Distributed
Sequentially (Right Answer)
None of these
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
One (Right Answer)
Two
Linear
Quadratic
Which of the following is not an activity of Data Quality Analysis Project?
"Define"
Measure"
Analyze"
"Compression" (Right Answer)
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The ______ the portion of the program that must be executed in parallel, the greater the scalability of the computation.
Smaller (Right Answer)
Larger
Shorter
None
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by retrospective tools typical of ______________ .
OLTP
OLAP
Decision Support Systems (Right Answer)
None of these
Data mining, the ________ of hidden predictive information from large databases, is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the most important information in their data warehouses.
Extraction (Right Answer)
Insertion
Inclusion
Enclosure
An optimized structure which is built primarily for retrieval, with update being only a secondary consideration is
Select correct option:
OLTP
OLAP
DSS
Inverted Index (Right Answer)
Question # 4 of 10 ( Start time: 10:33:23 PM ) Total Marks: 1
If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Select correct option:
Dense Index (Right Answer)
Sparse Index
Inverted Index
None of these
Question # 5 of 10 ( Start time: 10:34:47 PM ) Total Marks: 1
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Select correct option:
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
None of these
Question # 6 of 10 ( Start time: 10:36:08 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
Select correct option:
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
Question # 7 of 10 ( Start time: 10:37:30 PM ) Total Marks: 1
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
Select correct option:
One (Right Answer)
Two
Linear
Quadratic
Question # 8 of 10 ( Start time: 10:38:29 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Select correct option:
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein (Right Answer)
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The ______ the portion of the program that must be executed sequentially, the greater the scalability of the computation
Larger
Smaller (Right Answer)
Unambiguous
Superior
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
If someone told you that he had a good model to predict customer usage, the first thing you might try would be to ask him to apply his model to your customer _______, where you already knew the answer.
Base
Drive
File (Right Answer)
Log
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by _____________ tools typical of decision support systems.
Introspective
Intuitive
Reminiscent
Retrospective (Right Answer)
If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Dense Index (Right Answer)
Sparse Index
Inverted Index
None of these
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
One (Right Answer)
Two
Linear
Quadratic
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a vault to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's _______.
Validity (Right Answer)
Security
Integrity
None of these
Data mining uses _________ algorithms to discover patterns and regularities in data.
Mathematical
Computational
Statistical (Right Answer)
None of these
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching records(s).
Indexing (Right Answer)
Partitioning
Joining
None of these
_______________, if too big and does not fit into memory, will be expensive when used to find a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
In Parallel
Distributed
Sequentially (Right Answer)
None of these
Data mining is a/an __________ approach, where browsing through data using data mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information that was unknown previously.
Non-Exploratory
Exploratory (Right Answer)
Compute Science
none of these
Data mining evolve as mechanism to cater the limitations of _____ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality , new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc..
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
None of these
Sequentially (Right Answer)
In Parallel
Distributed
Data mining is a/an __________ approach, where browsing through data using data mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information that was unknown previously.
Exploratory (Right Answer)
Non-Exploratory
Computer Science
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to dealmassive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
None of these
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein (Right Answer)
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a ________ to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's validity.
Cell
Disk
Folder
Vault (Right Answer)
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analysis of past
events provided by respective tools typical of ___________.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
Decision Support systems
None of these
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join, if there is an index is exploited, then it is called……
Naïve nested loop join index
Nested loop join temporary index (Right Answer)
Index nested-loop joins
Data mining uses _________ algorithms to discover patterns and regularities in data.
Select correct option:
Mathematical
Computational
Statistical (Right Answer)
None of these
Question # 2 of 10 ( Start time: 10:31:13 PM ) Total Marks: 1
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching records(s).
Select correct option:
Indexing (Right Answer)
Partitioning
Joining
None of these
Question # 3 of 10 ( Start time: 10:32:34 PM ) Total Marks: 1
An optimized structure which is built primarily for retrieval, with update being only a secondary consideration is
Select correct option:
OLTP
OLAP
DSS
Inverted Index (Right Answer)
Question # 4 of 10 ( Start time: 10:33:23 PM ) Total Marks: 1
If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Select correct option:
Dense Index (Right Answer)
Sparse Index
Inverted Index
None of these
Question # 5 of 10 ( Start time: 10:34:47 PM ) Total Marks: 1
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Select correct option:
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
None of these
Question # 6 of 10 ( Start time: 10:36:08 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
Select correct option:
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
Question # 7 of 10 ( Start time: 10:37:30 PM ) Total Marks: 1
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
Select correct option:
One (Right Answer)
Two
Linear
Quadratic
Question # 8 of 10 ( Start time: 10:38:29 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Select correct option:
Furrow
Streak (Right Answer)
Trough
Vein
Question # 9 of 10 ( Start time: 10:39:49 PM ) Total Marks: 1
If 'M' rows from table-A match the conditions in the query then table-B is accessed 'M' times. Suppose table-B has an index on the join column. If 'a' I/Os are required to read the data block for each scan plus 'b' I/Os for each data block then the total cost of accessing table-B is _____________ logical I/Os approximately.
Select correct option:
(a + b)M (Right Answer)
(a - b)M
(a + b + M)
(a * b * M)
Question # 10 of 10 ( Start time: 10:41:16 PM ) Total Marks: 1
________ is the technique in which existing heterogeneous segments are reshuffled, relocated into homogeneous segments.
Select correct option:
Clustering (Right Answer)
Aggregation
Segmentation
Partitioning
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The ______ the portion of the program that must be executed sequentially, the greater the scalability of the computation
Larger
Smaller (Right Answer)
Unambiguous
Superior
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
If someone told you that he had a good model to predict customer usage, the first thing you might try would be to ask him to apply his model to your customer _______, where you already knew the answer.
Base
Drive
File (Right Answer)
Log
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by _____________ tools typical of decision support systems.
Introspective
Intuitive
Reminiscent
Retrospective (Right Answer)
If every key in the data file is represented in the index file then index is
Dense Index (Right Answer)
Sparse Index
Inverted Index
None of these
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
One (Right Answer)
Two
Linear
Quadratic
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of your data in a vault to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the model's _______.
Validity (Right Answer)
Security
Integrity
None of these
Data mining uses _________ algorithms to discover patterns and regularities in data.
Mathematical
Computational
Statistical (Right Answer)
None of these
The goal of ___________ is to look at as few blocks as possible to find the matching records(s).
Indexing (Right Answer)
Partitioning
Joining
None of these
_______________, if too big and does not fit into memory, will be expensive when used to find a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
None of these
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
An Inverted Index
A Sparse Index
A Dense Index (Right Answer)
None of these
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
In Parallel
Distributed
Sequentially (Right Answer)
None of these
Data mining is a/an __________ approach, where browsing through data using data mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information that was unknown previously.
Non-Exploratory
Exploratory (Right Answer)
Compute Science
none of these
Data mining evolve as mechanism to cater the limitations of _____ systems to deal massive data sets with high dimensionality , new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc..
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
To identify the __________________ required we need to perform data profiling
Degree of Transformation (Right Answer)
Complexity
Cost
Time
Execution can be completed successfully or it may be stopped due to some error. If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all transactions will be ___________
Committed to the database (Right Answer)
Rolled back
Companies collect and record their own operational data, but at the same time they also use reference data obtained from _______ sources such as codes, prices etc.
Operational
None of these
Internal
External (Right Answer)
Ad-hoc access means to run such queries which are known already.
True
False (Right Answer)
____________ in agriculture extension is that pest population beyond which the benefit of spraying outweighs its cost.
Profit Threshold Level
Economic Threshold Level (Right Answer)
Medicine Threshold Level
None of these
People that design and build the data warehouse must be capable of working across the organization at all levels
True (Right Answer)
False
The _________ is only a small part in realizing the true business value buried within the mountain of data collected and stored within organizations business systems and operational databases.
Independence on technology
Dependence on technology (Right Answer)
None of these
Many data warehouse project teams waste enormous amounts of time searching in vain for a ___________________.
Silver Bullet (Right Answer)
Golden Bullet
Suitable Hardware
Compatible Product
Multidimensional databases typically use proprietary __________ format to store pre-summarized cube structures.
File (Right Answer)
Application
Aggregate
Database
A dense index, if fits into memory, costs only ______ disk I/O access to locate a record by given key.
One (Right Answer)
Two
lg (n)
n
All data is ______________ of something real.
I An Abstraction
II A Representation
Which of the following option is true?
I Only (Right Answer)
II Only
Both I & II
None of I & II
The key idea behind ___________ is to take a big task and break it into subtasks that can be processed concurrently on a stream of data inputs in multiple, overlapping stages of execution.
Pipeline Parallelism (Right Answer)
Overlapped Parallelism
Massive Parallelism
Distributed Parallelism
Non uniform distribution, when the data is distributed across the processors, is called ______.
Skew in Partition (Right Answer)
Pipeline Distribution
Distributed Distribution
Uncontrolled Distribution
The goal of ideal parallel execution is to completely parallelize those parts of a computation that are not constrained by data dependencies. The smaller the portion of the program that must be executed __________, the greater the scalability of the computation.
None of these
Sequentially (Right Answer)
In Parallel
Distributed
Data mining is a/an __________ approach, where browsing through data using data mining techniques may reveal something that might be of interest to the user as information that was unknown previously.
Exploratory (Right Answer)
Non-Exploratory
Computer Science
Data mining evolve as a mechanism to cater the limitations of ________ systems to dealmassive data sets with high dimensionality, new data types, multiple heterogeneous data resources etc.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
DSS
DWH
________ is the technique in which existing heterogeneous segments are reshuffled, relocated into homogeneous segments.
Clustering (Right Answer)
Aggregation
Segmentation
Partitioning
To measure or quantify the similarity or dissimilarity, different techniques are available. Which of the following option represent the name of available techniques?
Pearson correlation is the only technique
Euclidean distance is the only technique
Both Pearson correlation and Euclidean distance (Right Answer)
None of these
For a DWH project, the key requirement are ________ and product experience.
Tools
Industry (Right Answer)
Software
None of these
Pipeline parallelism focuses on increasing throughput of task execution, NOT on __________ sub-task execution time.
Increasing
Decreasing (Right Answer)
Maintaining
None of these
Focusing on data warehouse delivery only often end up _________.
Rebuilding (Right Answer)
Success
Good Stable Product
None of these
Pakistan is one of the five major ________ countries in the world.
Cotton-growing (Right Answer)
Rice-growing
Weapon Producing
_____________ is a process which involves gathering of information about column through execution of certain queries with intention to identify erroneous records.
Data profiling (Right Answer)
Data Anomaly Detection
Record Duplicate Detection
None of these
Relational databases allow you to navigate the data in ____________ that is appropriate using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.
Only One Direction
Any Direction (Right Answer)
Two Direction
None of these
DSS queries do not involve a primary key
True (Right Answer)
False
__________________ contributes to an under-utilization of valuable and expensive historical data, and inevitably results in a limited capability to provide decision support and analysis.
The lack of data integration and standardization (Right Answer)
Missing Data
Data Stored in Heterogeneous Sources
DTS allows us to connect through any data source or destination that is supported by ____________
OLE DB (Right Answer)
OLAP
OLTP
Data Warehouse
Data Transformation Services (DTS) provide a set of _____ that lets you extract, transform, and consolidate data from disparate sources into single or multipledestinations supported by DTS connectivity.
Tools (Right Answer)
Documentations
Guidelines
If some error occurs, execution will be terminated abnormally and all transactions will be rolled back. In this case when we will access the database we will find it in the state that was before the ____________.
Execution of package (Right Answer)
Creation of package
Connection of package
To judge effectiveness we perform data profiling twice.
One before Extraction and the other after Extraction
One before Transformation and the other after Transformation (Right Answer)
One before Loading and the other after Loading
The need to synchronize data upon update is called
Data Manipulation
Data Replication
Data Coherency (Right Answer)
Data Imitation
Taken jointly, the extract programs or naturally evolving systems formed a spider web, also known as
Distributed Systems Architecture
Legacy Systems Architecture (Right Answer)
Online Systems Architecture
Intranet Systems Architecture
Node of a B-Tree is stored in memory block and traversing a B-Tree involves ______ page faults.
O (n)
O (n2)
O (n lg n)
O (lg n) (Right Answer)
Which statement is true for De-Normalization?
Redundant data is a performance liability at query time, but is a performance benefit at update time.
Redundant data is a performance benefit at both query time and update time.
Redundant data is a performance liability at both query time and update time.
Redundant data is a performance benefit at query time, but is a performance liability at update time. (Right Answer)
It is observed that every year the amount of data recorded in an organization is
Doubles (Right Answer)
Triples
Quartiles
Remains same as previous year
Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems
Aggregates (Right Answer)
Facts
Dimensions
The degree of similarity between two records, often measured by a numerical value between _______, usually depends on application characteristics.
0 and 1 (Right Answer)
0 and 10
0 and 100
0 and 99
The purpose of the House of Quality technique is to reduce ______ types of risk.
Two (Right Answer)
Three
Four
All
NUMA stands for __________
Non-uniform Memory Access (Right Answer)
Non-updateable Memory Architecture
New Universal Memory Architecture
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join (Right Answer)
None of these
The Kimball s iterative data warehouse development approach drew on decades of experience to develop the _____________.
Business Dimensional Lifecycle (Right Answer)
Data Warehouse Dimension
Business Definition Lifecycle
OLAP Dimension
For a smooth DWH implementation we must be a technologist.
True
False (Right Answer)
During the application specification activity, we also must give consideration to the organization of the applications.
True (Right Answer)
False
The most recent attack is the ________ attack on the cotton crop during 2003- 04, resulting in a loss of nearly 0.5 million bales.
Boll Worm (Right Answer)
Purple Worm
Blue Worm
Cotton Worm
The users of data warehouse are knowledge workers in other words they are_________ in the organization.
Decision maker (Right Answer)
Manager
Database Administrator
DWH Analyst
_________ breaks a table into multiple tables based upon common column values.
Horizontal splitting (Right Answer)
Vertical splitting
As apposed to the out come of classification , estimation deal with ____________ valued
outcome.
Discrete
Isolated
Continuous (Right Answer)
Distinct
The goal of ______is to look at as few block as possible to find the matching records. Indexing
Partitioning
Joining
none of these
nested loop join (Right Answer)
none of these
The technique that is used to perform these feats in data mining modeling, and this act of model building is something that people have been doing for long time, certainly before the _______ of computers or data mining technology.
Access Advent (Right Answer)
Ascent Avowal
A data warehouse may include
Legacy systems (Right Answer)
Only internal data sources
Privacy restrictions
Small data mart
De-Normalization normally speeds up
Data Retrieval (Right Answer)
Data Modification
Development Cycle
Data Replication
In horizontal splitting, we split a relation into multiple tables on the basis of
Common Column Values (Right Answer)
Common Row Values
Different Index Values
Value resulted by ad-hoc query
For a given data set, to get a global view in un-supervised learning we use
One-way Clustering (Right Answer)
Bi-clustering
Pearson correlation
Euclidean distance
In DWH project, it is assured that ___________ environment is similar to the production environment.
Designing
Development (Right Answer)
Analysis
Implementation
For good decision making, data should be integrated across the organization to cross the LoB (Line of Business). This is to give the total view of organization from:
Owner's Perspective
Customer's Perspective (Right Answer)
Decision Maker's Perspective
Employee's Perspective
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of valuable ore.
Furrow
Streak
Trough
Vein (Right Answer)
We must try to find the one access tool that will handle all the needs of their users.
True
False (Right Answer)
Investing years in architecture and forgetting the primary purpose of solving business problems, results in inefficient application. This is the example of _________ mistake.
Extreme Technology Design
Extreme Architecture Design (Right Answer)
The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analysis of past
events provided by respective tools typical of ___________.
OLTP (Right Answer)
OLAP
Decision Support systems
None of these
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join, if there is an index is exploited, then it is called……
Naïve nested loop join index
Nested loop join temporary index (Right Answer)
Index nested-loop joins
A data warehouse implementation without an OLAP tool is always possible.
True
False (Right Answer)
_____modeling technique is more appropriate for data warehouses.
entity-relationship (Right Answer)
dimensional
physical
None of the given
The performance in a MOLAP cube comes from the O(1) look-up time for the array data structure.
True (Right Answer)
False
Multi-dimensional databases (MDDs) typically use ___________ formats to store pre-summarized cube structures.
SQL
proprietary file (Right Answer)
Object oriented
Non- proprietary file
Slice and Dice is changing the view of the data.
True (Right Answer)
False
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are _______ elements of decision support system.
Unusual
Essential (Right Answer)
Optional
None of the given
Virtual cube is used to query two similar cubes by creating a third "virtual" cube by a join between two cubes.
True (Right Answer)
False
Analytical processing uses ____________ , instead of record level access.
multi-level aggregates (Right Answer)
Single-level aggregates
Single-level hierarchy
None of the Given
The divide&conquer cube partitioning approach helps alleviate the ____________ limitations of MOLAP implementation.
Flexibility
Maintainability
Security
Scalability (Right Answer)
In a traditional MIS system, there is an almost linear sequence of queries.
True (Right Answer)
False
Data Warehouse provides the best support for analysis while OLAP carries out the _________ task.
Mandatory
Whole
Analysis (Right Answer)
Prediction
DOLAP allows download of "cube" structures to a desktop platform with the need for shared relational or cube server.
True (Right Answer)
False
The STAR schema used for data design is a __________ consisting of fact and dimension tables.
Select correct option:
Network model
Relational model (Right Answer)
Hierarchical data model
None of the given
Data Warehouse provides the best support for analysis while OLAP carries out the _________ task.
Select correct option:
Mandatory
Whole
Analysis (Right Answer)
Prediction
Virtual cube is used to query two similar cubes by creating a third "virtual" cube by a join between two cubes.
Select correct option:
True (Right Answer)
False
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are _______ elements of decision support system.
Select correct option:
Unusual
Essential (Right Answer)
Optional
None of the given
