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Sample viva Questions

Module 1:Data Warehousing and Data Mining


1.​ What is DWH? Explain DWH characteristics.
2.​ What are the advantages and applications of DWH?
3.​ Why is the ER model not suitable for DWH?What are the steps in dimensional
modeling?
4.​ Define dimension, fact , fact table and dimension table with example.
5.​ Difference between star and snowflake schema.
6.​ Design star and snowflake schema for given system.
7.​ Difference between OLTP and OLAP.
8.​ What are different OLAP operations?Explain with example.
9.​ Problems on writing a sequence of OLAP operations for the given query.
10.​Explain steps of KDD
11.​State any 2 decision making activities for which organizations are using data in DWH.
12.​What is concept hierarchy, partial and total order concept hierarchy? Ex[plain with an
example.
13.​What is data mining? State applications of data mining.
14.​What are the different types of patterns that can be mined?

Module 2: Preprocessing
1.​ What are the different types of attributes? Explain with examples
2.​ Problems on basic statistical descriptions of data like finding mean, median, midrange
standard deviation, variance,modes for given data.
3.​ What is the q-q plot and boxplot for given data.
4.​ What is a five number summary of data?
5.​ How can we compute dissimilarity between two binary attributes?
6.​ What is Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, Minkowski distance?
7.​ What is cosine similarity?Explain in brief the major tasks in data preprocessing.
8.​ What are the different ways to handle missing data?
9.​ What are the different ways to handle noisy data?
10.​Problems on correlation analysis for categorical(Chi square test) and numerical data.
11.​What are the different data transformation strategies?
12.​State different data reduction strategies.

Module III:Classification
1.​ Write Decision Tree algorithm :ID3,C4.5 and CART algorithms
2.​ Explain Attribute selection measures (Information Gain, Gain Ratio, Gini Index )
3.​ What is Overfitting and Tree Pruning
4.​ State Baye’s Theorem
5.​ Explain Naïve Bayesian Classification Algorithm with example. Why it is called Naive
6.​ State advantages and disadvantages of Naive Baye’s Algorithm
7.​ What are the different Metrics for Evaluating Classifier Performance(Accuracy, Precision,
Recall, F1 score,Specificity, Sensitivity)
8.​ What is Class Imbalance problem? Explain with Example.
9.​ What are the different Methods for evaluating accuracy of the classifier(Holdout method
,Random Subsampling,Cross Validation, Bootstrap method)
10.​Explain the Ensemble Methods for Improving the Accuracy of classifier(Bagging,
boosting, and random forest )
11.​What is Simple Linear Regression and multiple linear regression? Examples .

Module IV:Clustering
1.​ What is clustering? State the Applications of clustering algorithms.
2.​ What are the requirements of any clustering algorithms
3.​ What are the different approaches to clustering?
4.​ Explain the Partitioning approach to clustering ( K means and K medoid method)
5.​ Explain the Hierarchical Approach to clustering ( Agglomerative and Divisive clustering)
6.​ What is single linkage and complete linkage agglomerative clustering?
7.​ What is a dendrogram?
8.​ What is DBSCAN? Two parameters used in DBSCAN algo.

Module V: Frequent Pattern Mining


1.​ What do you mean by frequent itemset, frequent subsequence and frequent
substructure? State one example for each.
2.​ What is Market Basket Analysis ? What are the applications of market basket analysis?
3.​ Define the terms support,support count,confidence, Frequent itemset, closed frequent
itemset,maximal frequent itemset with an example
4.​ Explain an Apriori Algorithm for frequent itemset mining.
5.​ Explain the Join and Prune step of Apriori algorithm with an example.
6.​ Advantages and disadvantages of Apriori Algorithm
7.​ What are the different methods to improve efficiency of Apriori Algorithm?
8.​ State applications of Apriori Algorithm
9.​ Explain Frequent pattern algorithm. State advantages of it over Apriori algorithm
10.​What is the single dimensional and multidimensional association rule?

Module VI: Business Intelligence


1.​ What is BI? Examples? steps?
2.​ What are the advantages and disadvantages of BI system?
3.​ What are the components of BI architecture
4.​ What is a decision support system (DSS)?types withExamples
5.​ What are the characteristics of DSS?
6.​ What are the advantages and disadvantages of DSS.

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