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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 a real-world environment - changing granularity requirements might dictate changes in primary key selection - and those changes might ultimately require the use of ____ keys.






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






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






4. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






5. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






8. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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 ____.






22. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






25. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






28. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






31. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






35. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Data redundancies occur from ____ of data on every row entry.






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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 ____.






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