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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Q. Which database software feature has been enhanced to assist in bulk refreshes and incremental loading of the data warehouse?

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Q. What two features are critical in a data warehouse, and the DBMS vendors have provided parallel processing to improve them?

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Q. Which of the following operations can be parallelized by most current database software in a multi-processor environment?

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Q. What is the responsibility of the query dispatcher software in a database system that uses parallel processing?

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