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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






5. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






7. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






9. Any attribute whose value determines other values within a row is called ____.






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






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






12. Data redundancy produces ____.






13. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






22. ____ yields better performance.






23. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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 ____.






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