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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






12. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






13. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






15. 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.






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






17. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






27. 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 ____.






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






40. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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