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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The following step occurs first in the process of building an ERD: create a __________ of the organization's description of operations.






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






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






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






5. ____ yields better performance.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






19. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






23. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






32. 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.






33. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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 ____.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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.