Test your basic knowledge |

Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Data redundancy produces ____.






2. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. ____ yields better performance.






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. 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.






26. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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. 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 ____.






31. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






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






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






48. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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