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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ___ attribute is one that cannot be subdivided.






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






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






4. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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 ____.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






19. 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.






20. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






21. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






22. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






23. 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.






24. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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 ____.






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






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






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






50. 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.