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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dependencies based on only a part of a composite primary key are called ___ dependencies.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






18. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






28. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






49. 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.






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






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