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Data Modeling

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Data redundancy produces ____.






6. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






24. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






50. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .