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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






3. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






5. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






6. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






12. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






14. 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 ____.






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






47. Data redundancy produces ____.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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