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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A table where every determinant is a candidate key is said to be in ____.






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






16. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






19. 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 ____.






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






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






22. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






26. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






27. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






31. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






50. 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.