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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Q. What is one limitation of the clusters architecture?

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Q. Which architecture is recommended for a data warehouse expected to grow in well-defined increments?

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Q. Which of the following architecture can be described as a shared-nothing architecture that is more concerned with disk access than memory access?

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Q. Which benefit is associated with the MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) architecture?

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Q. Which architecture is the newest and developed in the 1990s, breaking a big SMP into smaller SMPs that are easier to build?

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Q. What does NUMA stand for in NUMA architecture?

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Q. What benefit is associated with NUMA architecture?

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Q. Which option can be described as a more aggressive approach, involving a NUMA machine consisting of one or two SMP nodes?

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Q. Which type of indexing can be very effective in a data warehouse environment when indexing on fields with a smaller number of distinct values?

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