POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA EXAMINATIONS, FEBRUARY 2009.

DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING

COURSE CODE: 131905
TIME: 3 HOURS

MAXIMUM MARKS: 100

PART A
ANSWER ANY FIVE QUESTIONS

(5 x 4 =20)

1 Define Data warehouse. Explain the characteristics of Data warehouse.

2 Describe about the server function in detail.
3 Explain advanced DBMS features in detail.
4 What is data mining? Explain the motivation behind Data mining.
5 Explain in detail about the selection criteria while implementing the data warehouse.
6 Describe the tangible and intangible benefits of data warehousing.
7 Write short note on
a. Technical Meta data.
b. Business Meta data
8 Where to use clustering and nearest neighbor prediction?

PART B
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
9

(4x16=64)

(a) Explain the overall architecture of Data warehouse in detail with neat diagram
OR
(b) Explain various Client / Server architecture.

10 (a) Describe the five main access tools of Data Warehouse.

OR
(b) What are the types of Database architecture available for parallel processing? Explain
each in detail with neat diagram.
11 (a) Explain the factors to be considered while designing the data warehouse in detail.
OR
(b) i. What is OLAP? What is the need for OLAP?
ii. Explain in detail about the categorization of OLAP tools
12 (a) Explain the working of Neural Network with an example.
OR
(b) Explain the working of Genetic Algorithm in detail with an example.

(4)
(12)

PART C
CASE STUDY-COMPULSORY

(1 x 16 = 16)

13. The input to the system is a 96 X 72 pixels 8-bit gray-scale image containing a human face.
The outputs are 4 numbers. Each number represents a facial expression (neutral, smile, angry,
scream). The number is 1 if that facial expression is present and 0 otherwise. There are many
different facial expressions, but I only choose four of them. The facial expressions chosen are
representative because they can tell the emotions without much ambiguity.

Besides, the

expressions are quite different from each other. Name and explain with its algorithm the type of
neural network that is best suited for the above said problem.
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