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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to the level of detail represented by the values stored in a table's row






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






21. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






25. 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 ____.






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






37. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. Data redundancy produces ____.






48. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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