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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Crow's foot symbol with two parallel lines indicates ___ cardinality.






2. 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.






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






4. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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 ____.






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






17. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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 ____.






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






40. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






41. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






45. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






49. 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.






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