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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In order to meet ___ requirements - you may have to denormalize some portion of the database.






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






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






4. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. Data redundancy produces ____.






10. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






13. The existence of a(n) ___ relationship indicated that the minimum cardinality is at least 1 for the mandatory 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. The set of possible values for an attribute is a ____.






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






17. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






29. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






30. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






35. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. ____ yields better performance.






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






48. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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