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Data Mining and warehousing(ECS-075)

QUESTION BANK -(UNIT-1) CS-4th year(B)

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what do you mean by data mining?

Differentiate between data warehouse and data mining?
What are relationship needed between database to explore on data mining.
Knowledge covers the process of data mining,comment on this?
What are different sources of data mining?
What do you mean by data processing?
What is data cleaning?
How do we fill the missing values?
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Binning,regression,clusturing.
10. Explain various types of normalization technoques.
11.Write short notes smoothing,generalizion,aggregation
12.What do you mean by data reduction and wht are different process of this?
13.Explain data cube aggregation in brief?
14.Explain dimensionality reduction and numerosity reduction tech.?
15.Explain wavelet transform and P.C.A.?
16.Explain data discretization and concept hierarchy generation?
17.Explain 3-4-5 rule?

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Data Mining and warehousing(ECS-075)
QUESTION BANK -(UNIT-2) CS-4th year(B)

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For what pupose statistics is used in data mining?

Write short notes: linear regression,histogram?
What is nonlinear regression and summary statistics?
Write short notes :quartile,range,outliers,boxplots?
What is relation between mean,median ,mode?
What is property of standard deviation anfd gives its formula?
How the difference kinds of knowledge from databaseare mined?
What do you mean by assosiation rules,for what purpose it is being
used explain with example?
9. Define support and cofidence?
10. Explain apriori algorithms?also define difference between
generalized assosiation rules and multilavel assosiation rules?
11. How do we find interestingness of assosiation rules?
12. How the database scan reduction works?
13. Explain parallel data mining?
14.Explain characterization and also explain in brief data cube
approach and attribute oriented approach?

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Data Mining and warehousing(ECS-075)
QUESTION BANK -(UNIT-3) CS-4th year(B)
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Whart are the different categories of classification rules?

What are different classification techniques?
Explain classification models and classification schemes?
What are advantage and disadvantage of decision tree approach
over other approaches of data mining?
Describe ID3 algorithm of the decision tree,why it is unsuitable for
data mining applications?
How pruning and overfitting is done?
Explain Bays update for pruning?
What do you mean by infirmation gain nad how it is calculated?
What are basic probability rules?

10.write short notes: Bayesian classifiers,bayesian net,nave bayesian

classifiers?
11.how a bayesian net is construced?
12. explain bayesian classifier model?
13.what di you mean by neural networks?
14.differentiate between feed forward and feedback system?
15. explain mean field theory approach for artificial neurones?

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simulated Annealing scheme,MFT Tunneling, underfitting of ANN
overfitting of Ann,Noisy data
17.What is importance of Training ANN?
18.compare Genetic algorithm with other on techniques and explain its
use I other methods?
19.give the concept of basic GA?
20. explain crossover,mutation in GA?
21.give the proposed GA and encoding?
22.explain fitness function,GA taking example of chromosome?
23.explain GA taking example of breast corner data set?
24.a major problem with the single linkalgo. Is that clusters consisting
of long chains may be created.Describe and illustrate this concept?
25.give the concept of k-means algo?

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Data Mining and warehousing(ECS-075)
QUESTION BANK -(UNIT-4) CS-4th year(B)
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What is data warehouse?give its architecture?

What are components of data warehouse?
How data is acquird or collected in a data warehouse?
Explain METADATA?differentiate OLAP and OLTP?
Explain the architecture of Dataware housing
Whay we need a separate data warehouse?
Diifferentiate between oltp and data warehouse?
Differentiate between DSS and OLAP?
What are the different data processing models?what are steps involved in
planning a data warehouse?
10.Explain physical structure of data warehouse?
11.Write short notes : star schema,snow flake schema ,fact constellations?
12.Explain multidimentioanal model of a data warehouse?
13.Explain MAINFRAME and SHARING architecture?
14.Why do you mean by Client-server model?
15.Explain 2-tier and 3-tier architecture in detail?
16.Write short note:message server,application server,ORB architecture,client
server architecture?
17.What are costs and limitation of 2 tier architecture?
18.Explain concept of data marting?

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Data Mining and warehousing(ECS-075)
QUESTION BANK -(UNIT-5) CS-4th year(B)
1.what do you mean by aggregation?
2.What are aggregate tables?define aggregate functions?
3.how the OLAP handles aggregation?
4.explain summary table and how the queries are rewritten?
5.define OLAP and explain its advantage and disadvantage over
previous technologies?
6.diffrentiate between OLTP and OLAP?
7.write short note:Drill down and approach,slice and dice
operations,ROLAP,OLAP,MOLAP,HOLAP?
Explain hierarical aggregation?
8.explain temporal calculations?
9.explain in brief security of data warehouse?
10.write short notes: backup and recovery?
11.what is ETL?
12.what is tuning data warehouse/
13.what is testing data warehouse?