__________ contains information that gives users an easy-to-understand perspective

of the information stored in the data warehouse?

A) Financial metadata
B) Operational metadata
C) Technical metadata
D) Business metadata
ANSWER: D
___________ is a good alternative to the star schema?
A) Star schema
B) Snowflake schema
C) Fact constellation
D) Star-snowflake schema
ANSWER: C

Dimensionality refers to which one of the folLowing?

A) Cardinality of key values in a star schema
B) The data that describes the transactions in the fact table
C) The level of detail of data that is held in the fact table
D) The level of detail of data that is held in the dimension table
ANSWER: B

A star schema has what type of relationship from a dimension to the fact table?
A) Many-to-many
B) Many-to-one
C) One-to-one
D) One-to-many
ANSWER: D

__________ predicts future trends & behaviors, allowing business managers to make
knowledge-driven decisions A) Meta data
B) Data mart
C) Data warehouse
D) Data Mining
ANSWER: D

Expansion for DSS in DW is?

A) Decisive Strategic System
B) Data Support System
C) Data Store System
D) Decision Support system

ANSWER: D

A data warehouse is described by which of the following?

A) Can be updated by end users
B) Contains only current data
C) Contains numerous naming conventions and formats
D) Organized around important subject areas
ANSWER: D

Data in a data warehouse?

A) in a flat file format
B) can be normalised but often is not
C) must be in normalised form to at least 3NF
D) must be in normalised form to at least 2NF
ANSWER: B

The main organisational justification for implementing a data warehouse is to

provide?
A) ETL from operation systems to strategic systems
B) Large scale transaction processing
C) Storing large volumes of data
D) Decision support
ANSWER: D

A data warehouse?
A) must import data from transactional systems whenever significant changes occur
in the transactional data
B) works on live transactional data to provide up to date and valid results
C) takes regular copies of transaction data
D) takes preprocessed transaction data and stores in a way that is optimised for
analysis
ANSWER: D

Which of the following statements about DW is true?

A) A data warehouse is necessary to all those organisations that are using
relational OLTP
B) A data warehouse is useful to all organisations that currently use OLTP
C) A data warehouse is valuable to the organisations that need to keep an audit
trail of their activities
D) A data warehouse is valuable only if the organisation has an interest in
analysing historical data
ANSWER: D

The extract process is _______?

A) capturing a subset of the data contained in operational systems
B) capturing a subset of the data contained in various decision support systems
C) capturing all of the data contained in various decision support systems
D) capturing of the data contained in all operational systems
ANSWER: A

Which statement best describes fact table?

A) The fact table describes the transactions stored in a DW
B) The fact table of a DW is the main store of descriptions of the transactions
C) The fact table describes the granularity of data in a DW
D) The fact table of a data warehouse is the main store of all of the recorded
transactions over time
ANSWER: D

Fact tables are described by which of the following?

A) Partially normalized
B) Completely denormalized
C) Partially denormalized
D) Completely normalized
ANSWER: D