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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If database tables are treated as though they were files in a file system - the ___ never has a chance to demonstrate its superior data-handling capabilities.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






15. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






26. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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