Set No.

Code No.420503
IV-B.Tech. II Semester Examinations April, 2003 1
DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSING
(Computer Science and Engineering)

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks:80

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) What is a Data Warehouse? Discuss in detail.

b) What is Data Mining? Explain in detail.

2. What is Query Management process? Explain briefly.

3. Explain difference between designing for a Data Warehouse and designing an OLTP
system.

4. Explain role of schedule manager.

5.a) Discuss the issues involved in the design of server environments in a data
ware house system.
b) Describe the design issues involved in the selection of user-front end hardware of
a data warehouse system.

6.a) Explain the need and role of security on the performance of data warehouse.
b) Describe the impact of security on the design of the data warehouse .

7. What is Capacity Planning process? Elaborate.

8. Describe the testing of database performance.

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Code No.420503
IV-B.Tech. II Semester Examinations April, 2003 2
DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSING
(Computer Science and Engineering)

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks:80

Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. Give an introduction of Delivery process in Data Warehouse.

2. What is Query Manager? How is it different from load manager?
3. Explain technique of storing an offset from inherent start of table.

4. Discuss role of event manager.

5.a) Describe the role and importance of business requirements in the selection process
of hardware for a data ware house system.
b) Describe the functional capabilities of server hardware of a data warehouse
system.

6.a) What are the different parts of the data warehouse which are affected by the security
restrictions?
b) Describe the security requirements and access restrictions on the subsets of the
data.

7. How much CPU bandwidth is required and explain why?

8. What is passive monitoring? Explain how it is different from active monitoring.

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 Set No.
Code No.420503
IV-B.Tech. II Semester Examinations April, 2003 3
DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSING
(Computer Science and Engineering)

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks:80

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
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1. Give an introduction of System Process of Data Warehouse Architecture.

2.. Discuss query manager architecture.
3. Prove that a candidate fact is not actually a dimension table with denormalized facts.

4. Discuss role of database manager.

5.a) Describe the symmetric multiprocessing architecture and its capabilities.

b) Describe the advantages and disadvantages of symmetric multiprocessing
architecture .

6.a) Give a data classification scheme of a data ware house system.

b) Describe user access hierarchy to access different types of data of a data
ware house.

7. How much disk space is required and what is RAID 5?

8. How is system testing different from user acceptance testing?

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Set No.
Code No.420503
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 IV-B.Tech. II Semester Examinations April, 2003

DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSING

(Computer Science and Engineering)

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks:80

Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. Explain the ADHOC query and Automation in Data Warehouse delivery process.
2. What is a Load Manager? Briefly discuss about Load Manager architecture with
a neat sketch.

3. Develop a scheme model of time dimension with arbitrary groupings.

4. Explain role of configuration manager.

5.a) Describe the typical characteristics of cluster technology in the design of

architecture of a server hardware for a data warehouse system.
b) Describe the advantages and disadvantages of cluster technology in SMP
machines.

6.a) Describe the role access hierarchy of a data warehouse.

b) The tighter the security the more person oriented. Do you accept the statement?
Offer your remarks with justification.

7. What are the system administration requirements of database sizing? Elaborate.

8. Give a brief introduction of testing the data warehouse.

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