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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A table that is in 2NF and contains no transitive dependencies is said to be in ___.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Data redundancies occur from ____ of data on every row entry.






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Refers to the level of detail represented by the values stored in a table's row






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






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






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






42. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






45. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






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