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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






4. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






7. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






10. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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 ____.






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






34. Data redundancy produces ____.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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. 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.






43. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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