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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dependencies can be identified with the help of a dependency _____.






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






3. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






5. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






17. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






37. ____ yields better performance.






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






39. 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 ____.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






49. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






50. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .