Q. What advantage can be gained by keeping the data staging area on the Data Storage Platform in a data warehouse?

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Q. Why might a separate platform for data staging be advantageous in a data warehouse?

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Q. What is the shared disk method used for in data movement between computing platforms?

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Q. Which option for data movement involves establishing a real-time connection between two platforms for program interactions?

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Q. What is the purpose of mass data transmission in data movement across computing platforms?

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Q. What is the significance of real-time connection in data movement between computing platforms?

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Q. When might manual methods be used for data movement in a data warehouse?

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Q. In contemporary data warehouse implementations, which architecture is predominantly used?

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Q. In a typical client/server architecture for a data warehouse, where does the data warehouse DBMS execute?

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Q. What is the role of application servers in the middle tier of a client/server architecture for data warehouses?

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Q. What are some of the key considerations when configuring client workstations for data warehouse access?

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Q. How can the configuration of workstations for data warehouse users be made more practical?

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Q. What tends to happen to the platform choices for data staging and data storage as a data warehouse matures?

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Q. Which factors drive the need for server hardware scalability in a data warehouse?

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Q. What is the primary purpose of a data warehouse's existence?

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Q. Which of the following is NOT a key phrase when selecting server hardware for a data warehouse?

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Q. What is one of the main benefits of using parallel architecture for server hardware in a data warehouse?

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Q. Which architecture is described as a shared-everything architecture with each processor having full access to shared memory through a common bus?

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Q. What is one benefit of SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) architecture?

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Q. In which architecture is memory not shared among nodes, and communication occurs over a high-speed bus?

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