IT401 DATA WAREHOUSING AND SECURITY

Final Examination Review Questions

Data Bank

Aggregation Dimensional Table Metadata

Attribute Drill Across MOLAP
Conformed Dimension Drill Down ROLAP
Cubes Drill Through Online Analytical
Data Mart Drill Up Processing(OLAP)
Data Warehouse ETL Online Transaction
Data Warehousing Fact Table Processing - OLTP
Dimension Hierarchy Snowflake Schema
Dimensional Model Measure/ Metric Star Schema

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 UIC Graduate Studies, Davao City
April 2010
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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 UIC Graduate Studies, Davao City
April 2010