1.

The approach/document used to make sure all the requirements are covered when writing
test cases
a. Traceablity Matrix
b. Test bed
c. Checklist
d. Test Matrix

2. Executing the same test case by giving the number of inputs on same build called as
a. Ad hoc Testing
b. Sanity Testing
c. ReTesting
d. Regression Testing

3. To check whether we are developing the right product according to the customer
requirements are not. It is a static process
a. Quality Control
b. Verification
c. Validation
d. Quality Assurance

4. Control Charts is a statistical technique to assess, monitor, and maintain the stability of a
process.
a. True
b. False

5. To check whether we have developed the product according to the customer requirements r
not. It is a Dynamic process.
a. Validation
b. Quality Control
c. Quality Assurance
d. Verification

6. Staff development plan describes how the skills and experience of the project team members
will be developed.
a. True
b. False

7. It isa set of levels that defines a testing maturity hieraecy

a. TQM (Total Quality Management)
b. TIM (Testing Improving Model)
c. TMM (Testing Maturity Model)
d. TAM (Testing Analysis Model)

8. A Non-Functional Software testing done to check if the user interface is easy to use and
understand
 a. Block Box Testing
b. Security Testing
c. Unit testing
d. Usability Testing

9. The review and approved document (i.e. Test plan, System Requirement Specification's) is
called as
a. Approval Document
b. Baseline Document
c. Checklist
d. Delivery Document

10. What are the Testing Levels?

a. Unit Testing
b. System Testing
c. Acceptance Testing.
d. Integration Testing

11. Cost of quality = Prevention Cost + Appraisal cost + Failure cost

a. True
b. False

12. A useful tool to visualize, clarify, link, identify, and classify possible cause of a problem. This is
also called as “fishbone diagram” what is this?
a. Ghant Analysis
b. Cause-and-Effect Diagram
c. Pareto Analysis

13. It measures the quality of processes used to create a quality product.It is a system of
management activities,It is a preventive process, It applies for entire life cycle & Deals with
Process.
a. Verification
b. Quality Assurance
c. Quality Control
d. Validation

14. Variance from product specifications is called?

a. Deviation
b. Defect
c. Report
d. Requirement

15. Verification is
 a. Process based
b. Defect based
c. Record based
d. Product based

16. White box testing is not called as___________

a. Open box testing
b. Glass box testing
c. Clear box testing
d. Closed box testing

17. Name the events that will be analyzed, Count the named incidents, Rank the count by
frequency using a bar chart & Validate reasonableness of the analysis is called as
a. Cause and Effect Diagram
b. Pareto Analysis
c. SWOT Analysis
d. Pie Charts

18. Retesting of a single program or component after a change has been made?
a. Regional Regression
b. Retesting
c. Unit Regression
d. Full Regression Testing

19. Requirement and Analysis, Design, Development or Coding, Testing and Maintenance is called
as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC )
a. True
b. False

20. The testing which is done by going through the code is known as
a. Unit Testing
b. Blackbox testing
c. Regression testing
d. White box Testing

21. Configuration Management Plan describes the Configuration Management procedures and
structures to be used.
a. True
b. False

22. This type of testing method attempts to find incorrect or missing functions, errors in data
structures or external database access, interface errors, Performance errors and initialization
and Termination errors. It is called as
 a. Open Box Testing
b. Grey Box Testing
c. Black Box Testing
d. White Box Testing

23. Phase Definition. It will come under

a. CMM LEVEL 2
b. CMM LEVEL 3
c. CMM LEVEL 1
d. None

24. Software testing which is done without planning and Documentation is known as
a. Regression testing
b. AdHoc Testing
c. Functional testing.
d. Unit Testing

25. Acceptance testing is known as

a. Beta Testing
b. White box testing
c. Test Automation
d. Greybox testing

26. Retesting the entire application after a change has been made called as?
a. Full Regression Testing
b. Retesting
c. Unit Regression
d. Regional Regression

27. Boundary value analysis belongs to which testing method?

a. Re Testing
b. None
c. White Box testing
d. Black Box testing

28. It measures the quality of a productIt is a specific part of the QA procedure, It is a corrective
process,It applies for particular product & Deals with the product.
a. Validation
b. Quality Assurance
c. Verification
d. Quality Control

29. What are the Types of Integration Testing?

 a. Top Down Testing
b. Bottom Up Testing
c. None
d. Big Bang Testing

30. Product Risk affects The quality or performance of the software

a. True
b. False

31. A metric used to measure the characteristic of documentation and code called as
a. All of these
b. Test metrics
c. Process metric
d. Product Metric

32. Which is non-functional software testing?

a. Block box testing
b. Unit Testing
c. Performance Testing
d. Regression testing

33. The process that deals with the technical and management issues of software development
called as?
a. Testing Process
b. Delivery Process
c. Software Process
d. All of these

34. Executing the same test case on a modified build called as

a. Ad hoc Testing
b. Regression Testing
c. Retesting
d. Sanity Testing

35. Which is Black-Box Testing method?

a. Equivalence partitioning
b. Error reporting
c. Code coverage
d. Fault injection

36. Business Risk affects The Organization developing or Procuring the software.
a. True
b. False
37. Stratification is a Technique used to analyze/divide a universe of data into homogeneous
groups(strata).Stratification is a Technique used to analyze/divide a universe of data into
homogeneous groups(strata).
a. True
b. False

38. Automation Testing should be done before starting Manual testing.

a. True
b. False

39. Earlier a defect is found the cheaper it is to fix it.

a. True
b. False

40. Informing to the developer which bug to be fix first is called as

a. Priority
b. Severity
c. Fix ability
d. Traceability

41. Software Testing is a process of evaluating a system by manual or automatic means and verify
that it satisfies specified requirements or identity differences between expected and actual
results.
a. True
b. False

42. Retesting modules connected to the program or component after a change has been made?
a. Retesting.
b. Regional Regression
c. Full Regression Testing
d. Unit Regression

43. An Important metric is the number of defects found in internal testing compared to the
defects found in customer tests, Status of test activities against the plan, Test coverage
achieved so far, comes under
a. None
b. Process Metric
c. Product Metric
d. Test Metric

44. Alpha testing will be done at,

a. Dveloper's Site
b. User's Site
45. SPICE Means
a. Software Process Improvement and Control Determination
b. Software Process Invention and Compatibility Determination.
c. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
d. Software Process Improvement and Compatibility Determination.

46. Requirements Specification, Planning, Test case Design, Execution,Bug Reporting &
Maintenance This Life Cycle comes Under
a. STLC
b. SQLC
c. SDLC
d. BLC

47. It provides a set of levels and an assessment model, and presents a set of recommended
practices that allow organizations to improve their testing processes.
a. TQM(Total Quality Management)
b. TIM (Testing Improving Model)
c. None
d. TMM (Testing Maturity Model)

48. Standards and procedures for managing changes in an evolving software product is called?
a. Configuration Management
b. Confirmation Management
c. Compartability Management
d. Confederation Mangement

49. Path Tested = Number of Path Tested / Total Number of Paths

a. True
b. False

50. This Testing Technique examines the basic program structure and it derives the test data from
the program logic; Ensuring that all statements and conditions executed at least once. It is
called as
a. Grey Box Testing
b. White box Testing
c. Block box Testing
d. Closed Box Testing

51. This type of test include, how well the user will be able to understand and interact with the
system?
a. Usability Testing
b. Beta Testing.
 c. Alpha Testing
d. User Acceptance Testing

52. Defects generally fall into the following categories?

a. EXTRA
b. WRONG
c. MISSING
d. All

53. What is correct Software Process Cycle?

a. Plan(P)------>Check(C)------>Act(A)----->Do(D)
b. Plan(P)------>Do(D)------>Act(A)----->Check(C)
c. Plan(P)------>Do(D)------>Check(C)----->Act(A)
d. None of these

54. Conducted to validate that the application, database, and network they may be running on
can handle projected volumes of users and data effectively. The test is conducted jointly by
developers, testers, DBA's and network associates after the system Testing called as
a. Functional Testing
b. Integration Testing
c. Recovery Testing
d. Stress/Load Testing

55. Beta testing will be done by

a. Developer
b. Tester
c. User

56. Maintenance Plan predicts the maintenance requirements of the system, maintenance costs
and effort required
a. True
b. False

57. Validation plan describes the approach ,resources and schedule used for system validation
a. True
b. False

58. Integration, It will come under

a. CMM Level 3
b. None
c. CMM Level 1
d. CMM Level 2
59. Types of quality tools are Problem Identification Tools and Problem Analysis Tools.
a. True
b. False

60. Which Software Development Life cycle model will require to start Testing Activities when
starting development activities itself
a. Water falls model
b. Linear model
c. V-model
d. Spiral Model

61. A metric used to measure the characteristic of the methods, Techniques and tools employed
in developing, implementing and maintaining the software system called as
a. Test metrics
b. Process metric
c. Product Metric
d. None of these

62. How severely the bug is effecting the application is called as

a. Severity
b. Traceability
c. Fix ability
d. Priority

63. Quality plan describes the quality procedures and standards that will be used in a project.
a. True
b. False

64. Application should be stable. Clear Design and Flow of the application is needed for
Automation testing
a. True
b. False

65. Check Sheet(Checklist) is considered a simple , but powerful statistical tool because it
differentiates between two extremes
a. True
b. False

66. Project Risk affects The Schedule or Resources.

a. True
b. False
67. The name of the testing which is done to make sure the existing features are not affected by
new changes
a. Recursive testing
b. Whitebox testing
c. Regression testing
d. Unit testing

68. Management and Measurement, It will come under

a. CMM Level 4
b. CMM Level 1
c. CMM Level 3
d. CMM Level 2

69. AdHoc testing is a part of

a. Exploratory Testing
b. Performance Testing
c. Unit Testing
d. Regression Tesing

70. Cost of Production = Right The First time cost(RTF) + Cost of Quality
a. True
b. False

71. ------------- means under what test environment(Hardware, software set up) the application
will run smoothly
a. Checkpoint
b. Checklist
c. Test Bed
d. Code Walk through

72. TQM represents

a. Tool Quality Management
b. Total Quality Management
c. Total Quality Manager
d. Test Quality Manager

73. Optimization, Defect Prevention, and Quality Control. Its come under the
a. CMM Level 3
b. CMM Level 2
c. CMM Level 4
d. CMM Level5

74. Unit Testing will be done by

a. End Users
 b. Customer
c. Developers
d. Testers

75. A Plan to overcome the risk called as

a. Maintenance plan
b. Migration Plan
c. Master plan
d. Mitigation Plan

76. Splitting project into tasks and estimate time and resources required to complete each task
called as Project Scheduling
a. True
b. False

77. What is the need for data warehouse

a. Capable to inform decisions
b. Capable to integrate data from different sources
c. Non volatile
d. Time variant
e. Subject oriented

78. Dependent data marts

a. Allow you make own organization data to own data warehouse
b. Allows uncontrolled prolifiration of data
c. Allows you to unite your organization's data into 1 data warehouses

79. What is multi dimensional data?

a. It takes more disc space
b. It takes less disc space
c. For some business queries aggregate functions take more time

80. Which of the following statements about prompts is true?

a. All prompts are displayed the same way.
b. None
c. A prompt may have a default answer already selected when you first view it.
d. Documents cannot be prompted

81. What are goals of testing

a. Executing status
b. Data completeness
c. Data quality
d. Data transformation
 e. Cost of testing

82. Control charts is a statistical technique control,monitor the stability

a. True
b. False

83. Inode :
a. File path
b. Date
c. File owner identifier
d. None

84. Features of Shell Scripting

a. Runs programe in background
b. All
c. I/o redirection
d. Script files
e. Interactive

85. $* : means
a. All parameters passed to shell script
b. None
c. Few parameters passed to shell script
d. Returns all the values

86. Approaches to store the data into data warehouse

a. Dimensional approach
b. Entity-relation mode
c. Transformation approach
d. Normalized approach
e. Business process

87. Which of the below is directory?

a. /temp
b. /usr
c. /bst
d. /tdp

88. Which is true about operational data store?

a. Address strategic analysis
b. Integrates data
c. Highly transactional
d. Synchronizes the structural differences in data.
89. Which of the following holds the data which does'nt belongs to either fact table or
dimensional table?
a. Junk dimensions
b. Confirmed dimensions
c. Slowly changing dimensions
d. None of these

90. Unix system calls?

a. Create()
b. EXECUTE()
c. All
d. Open ()
e. Fcntl()
f. CLOSE()

91. Which is dependent data mart?

a. Which is used to unite the organization into one data warehouse
b. Uncontrolled proliferation of data
c. Combining data from sources other than Dataware house
d. Which depends on other sources rather than data warehouse

92. Shell script is a

a. Files containing directory/files location
b. All
c. Directory containing files
d. File which contains command to achieve task

93. How can we change permissions for all files located in unix122/samples giving all permissions
to users, Read&execute permissions to groups,others…
a. Chmod 761 ~/unix122/samples
b. Chmod 711 ~/unix122/samples
c. Chmod 755 ~/unix122/samples
d. Chmod 755 ~/unix122/samples/*

94. What is the PID of Kernel?

a. 0
b. 1
c. -1
d. None

95. The command echo welcome >/dev/tty

a. Echoes welcome only in the terminal in which it is runned
b. Echoes welcome in all the termilas that are logged on.
 c. None
d. Echoes welcomes in all the termilnals that are switched on.

96. Dev/null
a. All
b. Has written permission for all
c. Is the unixbuilt-in dustbin
d. Is a file

97. The default permission bits of file when it is created for the first time ,is controlled by
a. Umask value
b. Chmod value
c. Fmask value
d. None

98. Which of the following is not a cursor moment?

a. N
b. A
c. J
d. $

99. You want to display all the lines in a file, Proj_det, which begin with the word Projfollowed by
any three digits. Which of the following will you use?
a. Grep “^Proj[0-9][0-9][0-9]” Proj_det
b. Grep “Proj[0-9][0-9][0-9]” Proj_det
c. Grep “Proj[^0-9][^0-9][^0-9]” Proj_det
d. Grep –c “^Proj[0-9][0-9][0-9]” Proj_det

100. Which of the following objects enables users to select the information to be
includedin a report or document at run time ?
a. Prompt
b. Fact
c. Attribute
d. Metric

101. In Transformation alternate drill-down paths/alternate hierarchies must have the

aConvergence level that is
a. Unique
b. Open
c. Set
d. Ordered

102. Which of the following views can you use to display reports
a. Graph
b. Grid
c. None
d. Grid and graph
103. After you run a report,what report manipulation enables you to view data at
levelsOther than the original level of the report?
a. Data pivoting
b. Outline mode
c. Advance sorting
d. Drilling

104. Which of the following are advantage of data marts?

a. Typical single subject area and fewer dimensions.
b. Unlimited scope
c. Optium model for dw construction
d. Quick impact on bottom the problems
e. Provide integrated view of business information

105. Which of the following is correct about operational system?

a. Normalized design
b. Constantly updated
c. Minimal redundancy
d. Historical integrity
e. Managed redundancy

106. Which of the following are properties of data mart?

a. Expensive
b. Easy to design
c. It is more detailed
d. Limited for use of department
e. Difficult to manage

107. Technology not suited for data mining?

a. Technology limited to specific data types such as numeric data type.
b. Parallel architecture
c. Expert system technology
d. Data visualization

108. Some of the ideas to be thought of while developing an EDW?

a. Must have an EDMA to integrate increment
b. The level of dependencies
c. Time and cost involved
d. Nature of business
e. Longer start up time

109. The following are not the tasks of data warehousing.

a. Sacking up data
b. Long database transactions
c. Application development
d. Managing schema objects
e. Managing user and security
110. Which of the following objects provides descriptive information from the data
warehousing that can be displayed on a report?
a. Fact
b. Attribute
c. Report
d. Hierarchy

111. A spelling error on the user interface screen what severity does this issue deserve.
a. Medium
b. Low
c. None
d. High

112. Which of the following is not the properties of operational data?

a. Large amount of data used in a process
b. Run repetitively and non-reflectively
c. Nonredundancy
d. Run heuristically
e. Application oriented

113. Types of reporting tools.

a. 1. MS-Excel 2. Business Objects (Crystal Reports) 3. Cognos (Impromptu, Power Play)
4.Microstrategy 5. MS reporting services 6. Informatica Power Analyzer 7. Hadoop 8.
Hyperion (BRIO) 9. Oracle Express OLAP 10.Proclarity
b. 1. MS-Excel 2. Business Objects (Crystal Reports) 3. Cognos (Impromptu, Power Play)
4.Hadoop 5. MS reporting services 6. Informatica Power Analyzer 7. Actuate 8. Hyperion
(BRIO) 9. Oracle Express OLAP 10.Proclarity
c. 1. MS-Excel 2. Business Objects (Crystal Reports) 3. Cognos (Impromptu, Power Play)
4.Microstrategy 5. MS reporting services 6. Informatica Power Analyzer 7. Actuate 8.
Hyperion (BRIO) 9. Oracle Express OLAP 10.Hadoop
d. 1. MS-Excel 2. Business Objects (Crystal Reports) 3. Cognos (Impromptu, Power Play)
4.Microstrategy 5. MS reporting services 6. Informatica Power Analyzer 7. Actuate 8.
Hyperion (BRIO) 9. Oracle Express OLAP 10.Proclarity

114. Which of the following is sequential model?

a. Spiral model
b. Incremental
c. Iterative
d. V model
e. waterfall

115. Which of these are unix shells

a. KShell
b. Mshell
c. Ushell
d. Cshell

116. types of Data mart?

 a. All
b. Dependent
c. Hybrid
d. Independent

117. Which of following is used to change directory?

a. -cd ..
b. -cd ~
c. -ch
d. -cd

118. What are the types of charts ?

a. Line chart
b. Area chart
c. Pie chart
d. Bar chart
e. Gantt chart

119. Types of editors

a. Ec
b. Vi
c. Ex
d. Ed

120. WHY BI TESTING IS NECESSARY?

a. Data quality need to be addressed.
b. The information accuracy
c. STRATEGIC DECISION
d. BUG FREE CODE
e. Consistency
f. Reliability

121. Defect report can be?

a. Non-judgemental
b. Numeric
c. Both
d. None

122. What are shell variable?

a. Shell
b. New
c. Var
d. Home

123. Wc is used for?

a. - to count line
b. -to count character
c. - to count space
 d. - to count word

124. Which of the following has PID?

a. -root
b. -kernel
c. -shell
d. -unix

125. Logical data model consist of

a. -attribute
b. -entity
c. -column
d. -table

126. Graphs are important because--

a. Easy to understand
b. None
c. Line of scientific business
d. Pictorial representation of data

127. Objects and reports can be used for scheduling using Options---
a. Scheduler
b. Processing
c. CRON
d. Report scheduler

128. Why unix access I/O?

a. Create file.
b. Change the file properties.
c. All of these
d. Open file

129. Testing is done to

a. To build confidence about the program
b. To ensure that all requirement are met
c. none of these

130. Command to get short description of chat?

a. Man-f
b. Man-s
c. Man-d
d. Man-k

131. which of the following is used to compare ?

a. Ccp
b. Cmp
c. Du
d. Comp
132. Surrogate key properties
a. Faster
b. Should be integer
c. Can be reuse
d. Can be used in SCD

133. What are the properties of unix?

a. -unix is free
b. -restrict
c. -Software and hardware portable.
d. -multiuser & multitasking

134. Which of the following are true regarding ods?

a. Class 2 ods-store and forward technique(3-4 hours)
b. Class 4 ods - Ad-hoc
c. Class 3 ods – sync over the night
d. Class1 ods - hand in hand sync(quick)

135. In a system,if 5 people are currently using the vieditor,then the no. of corresponding
processes will be
a. 0
b. 2
c. 1
d. 5

136. The advantage of Binary files over text files is that

a. They are more reliable
b. It is compact
c. All of these
d. It can be accessed faster

137. Choose the incorrect statements

a. Shell is a programming language.
b. Shell scripts are interpreted.
c. Shell scripts are compiled.
d. Shell scripts can accept arguments.

138. Which of the following are not filter programs?

a. Cat
b. Grep
c. Date
d. Sort

139. The .(dot) shell command

a. Can take command line argument
b. Can be used to change the environment of the current shell
c. All of these
 d. Will fork a child shell to execute the named shell scripts

140. In unix the status of a process may be

a. Sleeping
b. Zombie
c. Running
d. Waiting
e. Orphan
f. Dead

141. ODS is used for ______ and ______

a. Managerial decision
b. Current data
c. Historical data
d. Tactical decision

142. SCD Type II identifiers/features

a. Versioning
b. Date
c. Numbering
d. Flag

143. The default permission bits of file when it is created for the first time ,is controlled by
a. Chmod value
b. Fmask value
c. Umask value
d. None of these

144. Which of the following is used for large project.

a. Spiral/ iterative
b. V-model
c. Prototype
d. Incremental
e. Waterfall

145. Waterfall model consist of

a. Testing and intregation
b. Compliling.
c. Requirements.
d. Design
e. Incremental coding

146. A file in Command Window looks like

this..DW002TheBestBatchOfTheCognizantTrainingAcademaySaid ByNamrata ;) Command to
display line 3 to 7
a. Both
b. Head -7 abc.txt | tail -5
c. Tail -8 abc.txt |head -5
 d. None

147. Bitwise operator used for

a. Appending
b. Numerical operation
c. File system permission
d. All of these

148. Which has pid 1?

a. Shell
b. Hilt/hault/init
c. root

149. Why inode is used?

a. File path
b. Fileowner identifier
c. Date

150. All reports in MicroStrategy are made up of a filter and the following object:
a. Fact
b. Template
c. Hierarchies

151. This folder contains reports, documents, and other objects that are accessible to you
and other users.
a. My Reports
b. My Subscriptions
c. Shared Reports
d. History List

152. Which of the following statements about prompts is true?

a. prompt may have a default answer already selected when you first view it.
b. Documents cannot be prompted
c. All prompts are displayed the same way.

153. This type of report or document already has all of the content defined at run time.
a. Predefined
b. Static
c. Dynamic
d. Prompted

154. Which type of prompt display option enables users to enter a single value? (For
example, number, text, or date).
 a. Option Button
b. Check Box
c. Pull Down
d. Text Box

155. What is multi demsional data

a. For some business queries aggregate functions take more time
b. It takes less disc space
c. It takes more disc space

156. Data transformation includes which of the following?

a. Joining data from one source into various sources of data
b. A process to change data from a detailed level to a summary level
c. Separating data from one source into various sources of data
d. A process to change data from a summary level to a detailed level

157. Absence of a definite need for testing will lead to which of the following?
a. Loss of valuable life
b. Loss of money
c. All of these
d. Loss of business

158. Which of the following tasks does testing accomplish?

a. Make sure requirements are met
b. Both
c. Improve confidence in software

159. Head +n +5 f2.txt

a. Error
b. Displays 5 lines
c. Displays first 10 lines
d. Displays 10 lines

160. The syntax 'head -c 5 f2.txt' is correct.

a. True
b. False

161. Which command use the value of one variable as a variable name?
a. Eval
b. Val
c. Var
d. Evar
162. Which symbol represents filename followed to point to the locationof the shell where
the script is interpreted?
a. /
b. !
c. *
d. #

163. Business objects does not support multi data sources.

a. True
b. False

164. In which approach of data warehousing, the transaction data is partitioned into facts
a. Dimensional approach
b. Operational approach
c. Normalized approach
d. None of these

165. One of the techniques of implementing the OLAP engine is a 'Specialized SQL server'.
This server exhibits the following properties:
a. It facilitates OLAP operations in SQL
b. It assumes that the data warehouse is in a multidimensional model and is implemented
in a relational DBMS
c. It facilitates SQL queries for the data warehouse that is physically organized as a
multidimensional model
d. It facilitates OLAP operations in SQL, when the data warehouse organized as relational
tables

166. Tree is used as an index to provide access to records

a. By scanning the entire meta data
b. By scanning the entire table
c. Without scanning the entire table
d. None of these

167. An operational system is which of the following?

a. A system that is used to support decision making and is based on historical data.
b. A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on current data
c. A system that is used to run the business in real time and is based on historical data.
d. A system that is used to support decision making and is based on current data.

168. Data warehouse bus matrix is a combination of

a. Dimensions and detailed facts
b. Dimensions and data marts
c. Facts and data marts
d. Dimensions and facts
169. Naturally Evolving architecture occurred when an organization had a _______
approach to handling the whole process of hardware and software architecture.
a. Not Relaxed
b. Relaxed
c. Good
d. None of these

170. The most common source of change data in refreshing a data warehouse is:
a. Logged change dat
b. Queryable change data
c. Cooperative change data
d. Snapshot change data

171. The active data warehouse architecture includes which of the following?
a. Data that can extracted from numerous internal and external sources
b. Near real-time updates
c. All of these
d. At least one data mart

172. A data warehouse is said to contain a 'subject-oriented' collection of data because

a. It is a generalization of ‘object-oriented’ approach
b. It is built for a specific application
c. Its contents have a common theme
d. It cannot support multiple objects

173. Taken jointly, the extract programs or naturally evolving systems formed a spider
web, also known as
a. Legacy Systems Architecture
b. Online Systems Architecture
c. Distributed Systems Architecture
d. Intranet Systems Architecture

174. The following technology is not well-suited for data mining:

a. Parallel architecture
b. Expert system technology
c. Technology limited to specific data types such as numeric data types
d. Data visualization

175. Which of the following statement is true?

a. The operational data are used as a source for the data warehouse
b. All of these
c. The data warehouse is used as a source for the operational data
 d. The data warehouse consists of data marts and operational data

176. Why aggregate is used in dimensional model of data warehouse?

a. All of these
b. To retrieve data from an operational system
c. To take the dimension and change its granularity
d. To store data in one operational system

177. The extract process is which of the following?

a. Capturing a subset of the data contained in various decision support systems
b. Capturing all of the data contained in various operational systems
c. Capturing all of the data contained in various decision support systems
d. Capturing a subset of the data contained in various operational systems

178. The content of a data warehouse is said to be 'non-volatile', because

a. It is a read-only data
b. Its life-span is very long
c. It remains the same even after the system crashes
d. It disappears when the system is switched off

179. Which of the following is the most important when deciding on the data structure of a
data mart?
a. Data access tools to be used
b. Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool to be used
c. XML data exchange standards
d. Metadata naming conventions

180. Which of the following process includes data cleaning, data integration, data
selection, data transformation, data mining, pattern evolution and knowledge presentation?
a. KTL process
b. KDD process
c. MDX process
d. ETL process

181. Which one manages both current and historic transactions?

a. XML
b. Spread sheet
c. OLTP
d. OLAP

182. Transient data is which of the following?

a. Data in which changes to existing records cause the previous version of the records to
be eliminated
 b. Data that are never deleted once they have been added
c. Data that are never altered or deleted once they have been added
d. Data in which changes to existing records do not cause the previous version of the
records to be eliminated

183. A data warehouse is an 'integrated' collection of data because

a. It is a collection of data of different types
b. It is a collection of data of derived from multiple sources
c. It contains summarized data
d. It is a relational database

184. Among the following, which is NOT the objective of clustering?

a. To find consistent and valid organizations of the data
b. To cover natural groupings
c. It facilitates OLAP operations
d. To initiate hypothesis about the data

185. The generic two-level data warehouse architecture includes which of the following?
a. At least one data mart
b. Both at least one data mart and near real-time updates
c. Near real-time updates
d. None of these

186. What is reconciled data?

a. Data stored in the various operational systems throughout the organization.
b. Current data intended to be the single source for all decision support systems
c. Data stored in one operational system in the organization
d. Data that has been selected and formatted for end-user support applications.

187. The need to synchronize data upon update is called

a. Data Imitation
b. Data Coherency
c. Data Manipulation
d. Data Replication

188. Which of the following statements is not true about refreshing a data warehouse:
a. It is a process of managing timing differences between the updating of data sources and
the related data warehouse objects
b. The data warehouse administrator has more control over the load time lag than the
valid time lag
c. Updates to dimension tables may occur at different times than the fact table
d. None of these
189. Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are _______ elements of
decision support system.
a. Essential
b. Optional
c. None of the given
d. Unusual

190. What is 'ROLAP'?

a. ROLAP is a set of relational operations equivalent to OLAP operations
b. ROLAP is an OLAP engine for (i) multidimensional models and (ii) SQL based OLAP
operations
c. ROLAP is an OLAP engine for (i) Multidimensional models and (ii) SQL queries, but does
not support ‘slice’ and ‘dice’ operations
d. ROLAP is an OLAP engine for (i) relational model and (ii) SQL based OLAP operations

191. In a 3-tier architecture of the data warehouse, the OLAP engine is related to:
a. The fourth layer of the architecture
b. The Second layer of the architecture
c. The first layer of the architecture
d. The third layer of the architecture

192. Choose the correct answer:

a. Data mining is the application of data warehousing
b. Data mining and data warehousing are totally unrelated
c. Data warehousing is the application of data mining.
d. Data mining and data warehousing are the same

193. The process of removing the deficiencies and loopholes in the data is called as
a. Extracting of data
b. Compression of data
c. Cleaning up of data
d. Loading of data

194. In order to populate the data warehouse, which of the following set of operations are
appropriate?
a. Refresh and load
b. Query and update
c. Insert and delete
d. Create and edit.

195. The following is true of three-tier data warehouses:

a. The data marts are different groups of tables in the data warehouse
b. Once created, the data marts will keep on being updated from the data warehouse at
periodic times
 c. Once created, the data marts will directly receive their new data from the operational
databases
d. A data mart becomes a data warehouse when it reaches a critical size

196. What is a data mart?

a. It is the collection of data in data warehouse
b. It is the access layer of the data warehouse environment that is used to get data out
to the users
c. It is the process of extracting data
d. It is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets

197. Attempt to find a function which models the data with the least error is known as
a. Clustering
b. Regression
c. Association rule
d. None of these

198. The load and index is which of the following?

a. A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse
b. A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse
c. A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
d. A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

199. A 'virtual house' is essentially:

a. T is the conceptual view of the relational and transactional database
b. It is the materialized view of the operational and transactional database
c. It is the operational database but provides warehouse facilities through a middleware
d. A traditional relational database providing a multidimensional view through a
middleware and it is different from the enterprise’s operational database

200. What is data scrubbing?

a. A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse
b. A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
c. A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse
d. A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

201. A data warehouse is built as a separate repository of data, different from the
operational data of an enterprise because
a. A data warehouse contains summarized data whereas the operational database
contains transactional data
b. It contains data derived from multiple sources
c. It is necessary to keep the operational data free of any warehouse operations
d. A data warehouse cannot afford to allow corrupted data within it
202. Relational databases allow you to navigate the data in ____________ that is
appropriate using the primary, foreign key structure within the data model.
a. Any Direction
b. None of these
c. Two Direction
d. Only One Direction

203. Which One of the following is NOT true?

a. UNIX and LINUX are multi-user Operating systems
b. UNIX and LINUX are both freely distributed
c. LINUX and UNIX support the Bourne shell mpt
d. LINUX uses UNIX as a reference model

204. This functionality enables a report to be divided into separate pages for viewing
purposes based on an object, such as an attribute or metric.
a. Drilling
b. Banding
c. Page-by
d. Outline Mode

205. In MicroStrategy Web, a document can be displayed in which of the following view
modes?
a. Simplified
b. Dynamic
c. Interactive
d. Static

206. Which folder allows you to access reports or documents that ran automatically using
schedules?
a. My Subscriptions
b. Shared Reports
c. History List
d. My Reports

207. To which of the following applications can you export report results?
a. Microsoft Access
b. PDF
c. Microsoft Word
d. All of the abov

208. What report manipulation involves moving individual attributes or metrics from rows
to columns or columns to rows or the page-by field?
a. Sorting
b. Swap rows and columns
 c. Data pivoting
d. Exporting

209. This feature enables you to easily select the data you want to keep for further analysis
and then removes the rest of the data from the report display.
a. Filter on Selections
b. Data pivoting
c. Swap rows and columns
d. Advanced drilling

210. ____ gives total view of an organization.

a. OLTP
b. Database
c. OLAP
d. Data Warehouse

211. Data Warehouse provides the best support for analysis while OLAP carries out the
_________ task.
a. Analysis
b. Whole
c. Prediction
d. Mandatory

212. Properties of OLAP?

a. Low volume transaction
b. Transaction recovery is necessary
c. Batch update/delete/insert
d. Long database transaction
e. Normalization is promoted

213. What are the types of charts ? ,

a. Area chart
b. Gantt chart
c. Pie chart
d. Line chart
e. Bar chart

214. Feature applying to data in data warehouse..

a. Data are rarely deleted
b. Data are often deleted
c. Relatively few records are processed by applications
d. Most application consists of transaction
215. Process involving extracting data from data repositories and making them compatible
a. None
b. OLAP
c. Both
d. OLTP

216. Expansion of CRM

a. None
b. Client Relationship Management
c. Central Relationship Management
d. Customer Relationship Management

217. In which SDLC model testing can be done in parallel?

a. Spiral
b. Waterfall
c. V model
d. Iterative