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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. From a structural point of view - ______ is better than 1NF






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






3. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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 ____.






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






18. 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 ____.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






43. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






45. ____ yields better performance.






46. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






47. 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.






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






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






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