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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






27. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






28. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






31. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






42. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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