Data Warehousing and Data Mining (ECS-075)

1.What is data mining? Why is it needed even though there is an efficient data management system?
2.Write short notes on the following?
(a) Association analysis (b) Classification and Prediction
(c ) Cluster Analysis
(d) Outlier analysis
3.a) Explain in details about the need for processing the data.
b) Explain the different Data Preprocessing Techniques
4. a) What is Data Warehouse? Explain brefly.
b) Explain in detail about the architecture of Data ware house in details?
5.Explain about OLAP operations in the multidimensional data model.
6. Describe the following:
a.Discovery driven exploration of data cubes.
b.Fact constellations.
c.Data Warehouse Implementation.
7. (a) How are ROLAP servers different from MOLAP and HOLAP servers?
(b)Describe indexing OLAP data.
8.Explain about in detail:
a)Star & Snow flake schema.
b) OLAP, ROLAP.
9. Explain about Attribute Oriented Induction with example.
10. .(a) Explain FP-Growth algorithm with example.
(b ) What are the approaches to mining multi-level association rules? Explain?
11. What is meant Classification? Explain.
(b ) Explain about decision tree induction?
12(a) What is tree-pruning? Explain about Bayesian classification?
(b ) Write short notes on BIRCH?
13a) Discuss the Back propagation method?
(b ) Why is Nave Bayesian classification called Naive ?
14.(a) Explain about the issues regarding classification and prediction?
(b ) Explain about classifier accuracy in detail?
15.Explain the following classification methods:
(i ) k-nearest neighbor classifiers.
(ii) case-based reasoning.
(iii) Rough-set approach.
(iv) Fuzzy set approach.
16.(a) What is cluster analysis? Describe the DB-SCAN algorithm?
(b ) Explain the following terms:
(i ) Statistical approach
(ii) Binary variables
17. Explain in detail about Model based clustering methods?
18. Explain about outlier analysis in detail?
19. Explain about the types of data in cluster analysis?
20. Write a short note on Markov Chain Model?
21. Write short notes on spatial data cube construction and spatial OLAP.
22. Write short notes on:
a)Mining the World Wide Web.
b)Data mining functionalities.
23. Write short notes on:
a)Data objects.
b)Classifier Accuracy.
24.Explain OLAP cube?
25.Describe applications of data warehousing?
26. (a) How to mine Multimedia databases? Explain.
(b) Define web mining. What are the observations made in mining the web for effective resource and
knowledge discovery?

(c ) What is web usage mining?

27. (a) Explain the following:
i) Generalization of structured data.
ii) Generalization of object identifiers and class / subclass hierarchies
iii) Generalization of class composition hierarchies.
(b) Describe web usage mining.
28. Explain in detail about multi dimensional analysis and descriptive mining of complex data objects.
29. Differentaite between classification and prediction?
30. How are ROLAP servers different from MOLAP and HOLAP servers?