Quiz 1 (DW)

1. How many star schemas a data warehouse of an organization can have:

Select one:
a. 1
b. not fixed
c. 3
d. 5

2. In a grocery store sales data mart, the promotion dimension has:

Select one:
a. One record for each combination of promotions
b. As many records as there are individual promotions
c. Significantly large number of records than the product dimension
d. As many records for individual promotions as many times they were
in effect

3. In dimensional modeling:

Select one:
a. No dimension table is normalized
b. All dimension tables must be normalized
c. Some dimension tables can be normalized
d. Fact tables can be normalized

4. Largest dimension in a grocery store sales data mart (assume daily

granularity):

Select one:
a. Store Dimension
b. Promotion dimension
c. Product Dimension
d. Time Dimension

5. In a university data warehouse, which processes have the same

granularity:

Select one:
a. Performance & Registration
b. Attendance, Performance, & Registration have the same
granularity
c. Attendance & Registration
d. Attendance & Performance

6. Example of a semi-additive and a fully-additive fact:

Select one:
a. Account_balance, Sales_units
b. Transaction_count, Account_balance
c. Sales_revenue, Sales_units
 d. Amount_withdrawn, Amount_deposited

7. Which system is synchronous with the OLTP system:

Select one:
a. Data Mart
b. Data Warehouse
c. Operational Data Store
d. Super Mart

8. Commonality between Inmon's & Kimball's approach:

Select one:
a. Data warehouse is modelled using Dimensional Modeling
b. Data Marts are modelled using Dimensional Modeling
c. Data Warehouse is modelled using ER modeling
d. Dimension Tables are normalized to 3NF

9. The load on ETL system is lowest when the DW is at:

Select one:
a. The same granularity level as the OLTP system
b. Choice of granularity has no impact on ETL
c. Finer granularity than that of OLTP system
d. Coarser granularity than that of OLTP system

10. False statement about surrogate keys:

Select one:
a. In fact table, surrogate keys help in saving space
b. In look-up tables tables, there is always a 1:1 mapping between
surrogate keys and natural keys
c. In dimension tables, there is a M:1 mapping between surrogate keys
and natural keys
d. Surrogagte keys are generated in OLTP systems

11. Which class ODS contains enriched data:

Select one:
a. Class III ODS
b. Class II ODS
c. Class IV ODS
d. Class I ODS

12. Which approach to Data Warehousing is more popular:

Select one:
a. Neither Inmon's approach nor Kimball's
b. Hybrid approach by Kimball
c. Purely Top-down approach by Inmon
d. Bottom-up approach
13. Most common type of queries in a Data Warehouse:

Select one:
a. Queries on fact tables only
b. Outside-in queries
c. Queries on dimension tables only
d. Inside-out queries

14. Granularity of the operational systems is definitely captured in:

Select one:
a. Data mart
b. Operational data store
c. Super mart
d. Data warehouse

15. ODS is NOT:

Select one:
a. Current valued
b. Subject oriented
c. Non-volatile
d. Integrated