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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Data redundancies occur from ____ of data on every row entry.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. ____ yields better performance.






10. 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.






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Data redundancy produces ____.






50. 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 ____.