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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ___ identifier is composed of more than one attribute.






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






3. 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.






4. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. ____ yields better performance.






33. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






40. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






41. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






42. 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 ____.






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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