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    This document contains 10 questions from chapters 8 through 15 of a textbook about data warehousing. The questions cover topics such as data warehouse architectures, metadata, dimensional modeling, ETL processes like full refreshes versus incremental loads, data quality issues, OLAP operations, and best practices for loading data into the OLAP system. The student is prompted to provide answers for each question in the allotted spaces.

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    Chapter 8
    1/ Question 1: Match the columns

    1. operational infrastructure A. shared-nothing architecture


    2. preemptive multitasking B. provides high concurrency
    3. shared disk C. single memory address space
    4. MPP D. operating system feature
    5. SMP E. vertical parallelism
    6. interquery parallelization F. people, procedures, training
    7. intraquery parallelization G. easy administration
    8. NUMA H. choice data warehouse platform
    9. UNIX-based system I. optimize for data transformation
    10. data staging area J. data movement option

    Your answer 1:
    (A ... J)
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    2/ Question 2: What are the platform options for the staging area? Compare the options and mention the
    advantages and disadvantages.

    Your answer 2: …

    Chpater 9
    3/ Question 3: Why do you think metadata is important in a data warehouse environment? Give a
    general explanation in one or two paragraphs.

    Your answer 3: …
    6/ Question 4: Indicate if true or false
    A. The importance of metadata is the same in a data warehouse as it is in an operational system.
    B. Metadata is needed by IT for data warehouse administration.
    C. Technical metadata is usually less structured than business metadata.
    D. Maintaining metadata in a modern data warehouse is just for documentation.
    Your answer 4:

    (T/F)
    A
    B
    C
    D

    Chapter 10
    5/ Question 5: Why is the entity-relationship modeling technique not suitable for the data warehouse? How is
    dimensional modeling different?

    Your answer 5: …

    Chapter 11
    6/ Question 6: How does a snowflake schema differ from a STAR schema? Name two advantages and
    two disadvantages of the snowflake schema.

    Your answer 6:

    Chapter 12
    7/ Question 7: When is a full data refresh preferable to an incremental load? Can you think of an example?

    Your answer 7: …

    Chapter 13
    8/ Question 8: Give examples of four types of data quality problems.

    Your answer 8: …
    Chapter 15
    9/ Question 9: What is meant by slice-and-dice? Give an example.

    Your answer 9: …

    10/ Question 10: Discuss two reasons why feeding data into the OLAP system directly from the source
    operational systems is not recommended.
    Your answer 10: …

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