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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. View the data as part of a table or collection of tables in which all key values must be identified.






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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 ____.






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






29. 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.






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






31. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






32. 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 ____.






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






34. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






35. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. Another word for existence-independent is ____.