Practice Questions

1. Define Data warehouse? Explain the need of data warehouse. 5m

2. What are different categories of data access tools used in data warehouse?5m
3. Differentiate between OLAP and OLTP. 8m
4. Explain ETL process in detail. 8m
5. Explain schemas for Multidimensional Data Models. 8m
6. Explain snowflake schema using diagram.5m
7. Explain star schema using diagram.5m
8. Explain fact constellation schema using diagram. 5m
9. Draw and explain multi-tier architecture of data warehousing. 8m
10. What is OLAP, MOLAP, and HOLAP? Explain in brief 5m
11. What are the typical OLAP operations that can be performed on a data cube? 7m
12. What are the important steps in data warehouse implementation?
13. What are the important steps in designing a data warehouse?
14. What is concept hierarchy? Explain. 7m
15. What are measures? Explain its categorization and computation. 7m
16. Explain Starnet Query Model for querying multidimensional databases. 5m
17. Explain techniques for indexing OLAP Data. 8m
18. Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time, doctor, and
patient, and the two measures count and charge, where charge is the fee that a doctor
charges a patient for a visit.[7/8m]
1. Draw a schema diagram for the above data warehouse using one of the schemas.
[star, snowflake, fact constellation]
2. Starting with the base cuboid [day, doctor, patient], what specific OLAP operations
should be performed in order to list the total fee collected by each doctor in 2004?
19. Suppose that a data warehouse for Big-University consists of the following four
dimensions: student, course, semester, and instructor, and two measures count and
avg_grade. When at the lowest conceptual level (e.g., for a given student, course,
semester, and instructor combination), the avg_grade measure stores the actual course
grade of the student. At higher conceptual levels, avg_grade stores the average grade
for the given combination.[7/8m]
a. Draw a snowflake schema diagram for the data warehouse
b. Starting with the base cuboid [student, course, semester, instructor], what
specific OLAP operations (e.g., roll-up from semester to year) should one
perform in order to list the average grade of CS courses for each Big-University
student