IT401 DATA WAREHOUSING AND SECURITY Final Examination Review Questions Data Bank Aggregation Attribute Conformed Dimension

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1. It stands for Extraction, Transformation, and Loading. The movement of data from one area to another. 2. It is numeric data based on columns in a fact table. They are the primary data which end users are interested in. E.g. a sales fact table may contain a profit column which represents profit on each sale. 3. These are data processing units composed of fact tables and dimensions from the data warehouse. They provide multidimensional views of data, querying and analytical capabilities to clients 4. One way of speeding up query performance. Facts are summed up for selected dimensions from the original fact table. The resulting aggregate table will have fewer rows, thus making queries that can use them go faster. 5. It represents a single type of information in a dimension. For example, year in the Time dimension. 6. A dimension that has exactly the same meaning and content when being referred from different fact tables. 7. It is a segment of a data warehouse that can provide data for reporting and analysis on a section, unit, department or operation in the company, e.g. sales, payroll, production 8. It has the same definition as the data warehouse, but has a more limited audience and/or data content. 9. It is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process (as defined by Bill Inmon). 10. It can be viewed as a database for historical data from different functions within a company. 11. The process of designing, building, and maintaining a data warehouse system. 12. It refers to the same category of information. For example, year, month, day, and week are all part of the so called Time Dimension. 13. A type of data modeling suited for data warehousing. In this model, there are two types of tables: dimensional tables and fact tables. Dimensional table records information on each dimension, and fact table records all the "fact", or measures. 14. Tables that store records related to particular dimension. No facts are stored in this table. 15. It refers to Data analysis across dimensions. 16. It refers to Data analysis that goes from an OLAP cube into the relational database. Engr. Antonio T. Trasporto Jr. MCP, MIT April 2010 UIC Graduate Studies, Davao City

IT401 DATA WAREHOUSING AND SECURITY 17. A type of table in the dimensional model. It typically includes two types of columns: fact columns and foreign keys to the dimensions. 18. Defines the navigating path for drilling up and drilling down. All attributes within it belong to the same dimension. 19. Data about data. For example, the number of tables in the database. 20. OLAP systems that store data in the multidimensional cubes. 21. It uses database tables (fact and dimension tables) to enable multidimensional viewing, analysis and querying of large amounts of data. It should be designed to provide end users a quick way of slicing and dicing the data. 22. Type of OLAP systems that store data in the relational database. 23. It uses normalized tables to quickly record large amounts of transactions while making sure that these updates of data occur in as few places as possible. 24. A common form of dimensional model where different hierarchies in a dimension can be extended into their own dimensional tables. Therefore, a dimension can have more than a single dimension table. 25. A common form of dimensional model where each dimension is represented by a single dimension table.

Engr. Antonio T. Trasporto Jr. MCP, MIT April 2010

UIC Graduate Studies, Davao City