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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. 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.






3. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






4. 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 ____.






5. 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.






6. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






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






11. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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 ____.






29. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






47. 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.






48. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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