MCQ Bank
The ____________ dimension represents data correctness.
- A) Correctness
- B) Consistency
- C) Completeness
- D) Free-of-error
Which is not a/an Data Quality Validation Technique?
- A) Referential Integrity
- B) Attribute domain
- C) Consistency Integrity
- D) Using Data Quality Rules
A ______ index, if fits in the memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a record given a key.
- A) B-Tree
- B) Sparse
- C) Dense
- D) Hash
“More resources means proportionally less time for given amount of data”. The statement refers to:
- A) Speed-Up
- B) Scale-Up
- C) Over-utilized system
- D) Size-up
The _________ operator is conservative in that it assigns to the dimension an aggregate value no higher than the value of its weakest data quality indicator.
- A) Min and Max
- B) Min
- C) Max
- D) None of given
In context of joining tables, the join condition is specified in ____ clause
- A) SELECT
- B) GROUP BY
- C) FROM
- D) WHERE
In context of nested-loop join, actual number of matching rows returned as a result of the join would be ______ of the order of tables
- A) Superset
- B) Independent
- C) Dependent
- D) Subset
In ______ index, the ith bit is set to "1" if the ith row of the base table has the value for the indexed column.
- A) Cluster index
- B) Join index
- C) Bitmap index
- D) Inverted index
______ index stores first value in each block in the sequential file and a pointer to the block.
- A) B-Tree
- B) Hash
- C) Dense
- D) Sparse
The optimizer uses a hash join to join two tables if they are joined using an equijoin and
- A) Inner table has less number of rows
- B) Large amount of data needs to be joined
- C) Cardinality of tables is equal
- D) Outer table has less number of rows
The degree to which values are present in the attributes that require them is known as ____________.
- A) Uniqueness
- B) Consistency
- C) Accessibility
- D) Completeness
Which of the following tasks can NOT be parallelized?
- A) Partitioned index scans
- B) None of the given options
- C) Creation of large indexes
- D) Large table scans and joins
The extent to which data is in appropriate languages, symbols, and units, and the definitions are clear is known as _______________.
- A) Accessibility
- B) Consistency
- C) Interpretability
- D) Uniqueness
Which of the following is not a Data Quality Validation Technique?
- A) Using Data Quality Rules
- B) Indexes
- C) Referential Integrity
- D) Data Histograming
__________ is a system of activities that assures conformance of product to pre-established requirements.
- A) Quality improvement
- B) Quality Establishment
- C) Quality Maintenance
- D) Quality assurance
Improper documentation results the problem(s) like:
- A) All of the given options
- B) New developers unable to configure already existing code
- C) Maintenance issue
- D) Lot of time required for enhancing the code
In contrast to data mining, statistics is ______ driven.
- A) Assumption
- B) Discovery
- C) Knowledge
- D) Database
In lifecycle data track, we begin with translating the requirements into dimensional model, which then transforms into ______
- A) Conceptual structure
- B) System structure
- C) Physical structure
- D) Logical structure
The phase-3 i.e. “Rollout and Maintenance” phase in “12-steps data warehouse implementation approach” of Shaku Atre comprises of _______ activity.
- A) None of the given options
- B) Deployment & System Management
- C) On Line Analytical Processing
- D) Construct Metadata Repository
In context of analytical applications track, the application development activity can begin after:
- A) A subset of historical data has been loaded
- B) Database design is complete
- C) All of the given options
- D) The data access tools and metadata are installed