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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to the level of detail represented by the values stored in a table's row






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






24. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






26. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






29. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






30. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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 ____.






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






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