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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ___ attribute is one that cannot be subdivided.






2. View the data as part of a table or collection of tables in which all key values must be identified.






3. A table where every determinant is a candidate key is said to be in ____.






4. A ____ relationship exists when three entities are associated.






5. From a system functionality point of view - ___ attribute values can be calculated when they are needed to write reports or invoices.






6. A ___ relationship exists when two entities are associated.






7. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






8. _______ databases reflect the ever-growing demand for greater scope and depth in the data on which decision support systems increasingly rely.






9. An example of denormalization is using a ___ denormalized table to hold report data. This is required when creating a tabular report in which the columns represent data that is stored in the table as rows.






10. An attribute that is part of a key is known as a ____ attribute.






11. The price paid for increased performance through denormalization is a larger amount of ____.






12. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






13. In a ___ diagram - the arrows above the attribute indicate all desirable dependencies.






14. If a table has multiple candidate keys and one of those candidate keys is a composite key - the table can have ___ based on this composite candidate key - even when the primary key chosen is a single attribute.






15. BCNF can be violated only if the table contains more than one ___ key.






16. The word "entity" in the ER model corresponds to a _______.






17. A _____ entity is composed of the primary keys of each of the entities to be connected.






18. Dependencies based on only a part of a composite primary key are called ___ dependencies.






19. In order to meet performance requirements - you may have to denormalize portions of the ________.






20. A ___ entity has a primary key that is partially or totally derived from the parent entity in the relationship.






21. Complex ____ requirements may dictate data transformations - and they may expand the number of entities and attributes withing the design.






22. Normalization represents a micro view of the ___ within the ERD.






23. ____ yields better performance.






24. A table that has all key attributes defined - has no repeating groups - and all its attributes are dependent on the primary key - is said to be in ____.






25. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






26. Most designers consider the BCNF as a special case of the ____.






27. Depicts all dependencies found within a given table structure is known as a ______.






28. When a nonkey attribute is the determinate of a key attribute the table is in 3NF but not ____.






29. If you have three different transitive dependencies - ___ different determinants exist.






30. In the ERD - Cardinality is indicated using the ___ notation.






31. The ___ refers to a specific table row as an entity instance.






32. In a real-world environment - changing granularity requirements might dictate changes in primary key selection - and those changes might ultimately require the use of ____ keys.






33. If an employee within an EMPLOYEE entity has a relationship with itself - that relationship is known as a ____ relationship.






34. The following step occurs first in the process of building an ERD: create a __________ of the organization's description of operations.






35. The associative entity is also known as a ___ entity.






36. A table where all attributes are dependent on the primary key are independent of each other - and no row contains two or more multivalued facts about an entity - is said to be in ____.






37. For most business transactional databases - we should normalize relations into ____.






38. ______________database tables often lead to various data redundancy disasters in production databases.






39. A talbe is in 4NF if it is 3NF and has no ________.






40. Data redundancy produces ____.






41. A ___ relationship exists when an association is maintained within a single entity.






42. Need not be stored physically in the data base.






43. __________ is a process to help reduce the likelihood of data anomalies.






44. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






45. The existence of a(n) ___ relationship indicated that the minimum cardinality is at least 1 for the mandatory entity.






46. A ___ derives its name from the fact that a group of multiple entries of the same type can exist for any single key attribute occurrence.






47. A ____ exists when there are functional dependencies such that Y is functionally dependent on X and Z is functionally dependent on Y - and X is the primary key.






48. The conflicts between design efficiency - ____________ - and processing speed are often resolved through compromised that include denormalization.






49. If database tables are treated as though they were files in a file system - the ___ never has a chance to demonstrate its superior data-handling capabilities.






50. ________ cannot be further subdivided.