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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Complex ____ requirements may dictate data transformations - and they may expand the number of entities and attributes withing the design.






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






3. 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 ____.






4. The Crow's foot symbol with two parallel lines indicates ___ cardinality.






5. 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.






6. Dependencies can be identified with the help of a dependency _____.






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






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






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






10. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






11. Relationship strength depends on how the primary key of the related entity is formulated - while the relationship ____ depends on how the business rule is written.






12. A table that is in 2NF and contains no transitive dependencies is said to be in ___.






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






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






15. The set of possible values for an attribute is a ____.






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






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






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






19. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






24. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






25. THE MOST LIKELY DATA TYPE FOR A SURROGATE KEY IS ____.






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






27. A table is in BCNF if every determinant in the table is a ____________.






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






29. According to naming conventions described in Chapter 2 - ___ would be the best name for a column representing the charges per hour in a table named JOB.






30. A ___ attribute is one that cannot be subdivided.






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






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






33. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






36. From a structural point of view - ______ is better than 1NF






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






38. In order to meet ___ requirements - you may have to denormalize some portion of the database.






39. 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 ____.






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






41. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. A ___ identifier is composed of more than one attribute.






47. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






50. 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.