CS/MCA(A)/ODD/SEM-3/3889/2023-2024
MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, WEST BENGAL
Paper Code : MCAN-E305B Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Time Allotted : 3 Hours Full Marks :70
The Figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidate are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable
Group-A (Very Short Answer Type Question)
1. Answer any ten of the following : [ 1 x 10 = 10 ]
(I) What is preprocessing technique?
(II) Why we need data transformation?
(III) Define Data reduction.
(IV) What is analytical approach in DW capacity planning?
(V) _________ is the science of analysis applied with information technology.
(VI) What is knowledge representation?
(VII) __________________ is a mathematical model which optimizes the solution of resource allocation problems under
which all the relationships are linear.
(VIII) What are the classification of data mining system?
(IX) What is OLTP?
(X) Define Data reduction.
(XI) __________ is the delivery of the data via charts, graphs, and images so that the reader may find important information
without getting lost in the details that traditional reports focus upon.
(XII) _____________ is a multidimensional data structure that allows users to quickly retrieve the sought after results in a ‘BI’
environment.
Group-B (Short Answer Type Question)
Answer any three of the following [ 5 x 3 = 15 ]
2. What do you understand by Spatial database mining? [5]
3. Write the differences between OLTP and data-warehouse. [5]
4. Write the algorithm for K-nearest neighbour classification [5]
5. Define data warehouse. Define data Cube [5]
6. What is a classification tree? Explain with Example [5]
Group-C (Long Answer Type Question)
Answer any three of the following [ 15 x 3 = 45 ]
7. (a) What is the curse of dimensionality? How to reduce it? [5]
(b) What are the typical method of discretization? [5]
(c) What is data cleaning? [2]
(d) How binning can handle noisy data? [3]
8. (a) Explain importance of evaluation criteria for classification methods. [5]
(b) What is web content mining? [8]
(c) Why we need data transformation? Explain. [2]
9. Briefly explain Data Mining Application for Intrusion Detection. [ 15 ]
10. Explain Data Mining Application for Financial Data Analysis. [ 15 ]
11. Explain with diagram data mining as a step in process of knowledge discovery (KDD). [ 15 ]
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