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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The existence of a(n) ___ relationship indicated that the minimum cardinality is at least 1 for the mandatory entity.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






25. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






27. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






30. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






33. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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 ____.






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 ____.