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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. For most business transactional databases - we should normalize relations into ____.






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






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






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






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






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






8. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






28. 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 ____.






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






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






31. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






35. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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 ____.






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






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






46. ____ yields better performance.






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






48. 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.






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






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