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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The conflicts between design efficiency - ____________ - and processing speed are often resolved through compromised that include denormalization.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. 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 ____.






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






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






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






9. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






17. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






29. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






35. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.