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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In order to meet performance requirements - you may have to denormalize portions of the ________.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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 ____.






14. 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.






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






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






17. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






42. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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