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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. THE MOST LIKELY DATA TYPE FOR A SURROGATE KEY IS ____.






2. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






5. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






23. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






26. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






33. 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 ____.






34. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






35. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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