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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Numeric Data Type
Composite Key
Append Query
Action Query
2. No Transitive Dependencies.
Third Normal Form
Data Warehouse
Group
Object-Oriented Database
3. Candidate key selected for use.
Primary Key
Delete Query
Hierarchical Database
Make Table Query
4. A window that displays the SQL statement for the current query or is used to create a SQL specific query. When you create a query in design view - Access constructs the SQL equivalent in the SQL view.
SQL View
Action Query
Field
First Normal Form
5. All determinants are candidate keys.
Hierarchical Database
Record
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Calculated Field
6. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Metadata
Trigger
Data Model
Check Box
7. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
First Normal Form
Database Object
Database Management System (DBMS)
Null
8. The dominant database model
Relational Database Model
One-To-Many Relationship
Field
Table Window
9. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Autonumber
Where clause
Key
Domain/Key Normal Form
10. A graphical representation of all entity relationships (Data Model)
Candidate Key
Entity Relationship Diagram
Referential Integrity Constraint
Data Manipulation Language
11. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Cardinality
Check Box
Fourth Normal Form
Currency Data Type
12. A location within a database table that stores one particular type of data i.e. a field
Query
Field
Cardinality
Column
13. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Transaction
Database Management System (DBMS)
Data Integrity Rules
Determinant
14. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Secondary Key
Compound Key
Form
15. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Autonumber
Query
Schema
Cardinality
16. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Data Type
Primary Key
Database
Where clause
17. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Schema
Transaction
Report
Alternate Key
18. The window that appears when you open an Access database or an Access project. It displays the commands for creating new database objects and opening and manipulating existing objects.
Database
SQL
Database Window
Column
19. A graphical representation of entities and their relationship to each other - typically used in computing in regard to the organization of data within databases or information systems
Form
E-R diagram
Autonumber
One-To-One Relationship
20. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.
Form
Data Sheet
Secondary Key
First Normal Form
21. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Best Normal Form
Data Type
Data Warehouse
E-R diagram
22. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Expression Builder
Database Management System (DBMS)
Database Object
SQL View
23. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Comparison Operator
Entity Relationship Diagram
Metadata
Transaction
24. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Fourth Normal Form
Candidate Key
Access 2007
Metadata
25. A query that displays a summary calculation - such as an average or a sum - for values in a table or tables. A totals query is not a seperate kind of query; rather it extends the flexibility of select queries.
Totals Query
Report
Design Vie
Best Normal Form
26. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Fourth Normal Form
Second Normal Form
Transact
Cardinality
27. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Foreign Key
Access 2007
Compound Key
Data Mining
28. A link between two or more tables.
SQL
Functional Dependency
Join
Group
29. A feature that speeds up searching and sorting in a table based on key values and can enforce uniqueness on the rows of a table.
Expression Builder
Many-to-many Relationship
Index
Where clause
30. A database object that stores data in records and fields. The data is usually about a particular category of things.
Table
Super key
Compound Key
Comparison Operator
31. An association/link established between common fields in two different tables. A relationship can be one-to-one - many-to-many or more usually one-to-many.
Data
SQL
Data Definiton Language
Relation
32. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Self-Join
SQL
Delete Query
Record
33. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Cardinality
Table
Data Definiton Language
Third Normal Form
34. A query that asks a question about the data stored in your tables and returns a results set in the form of a data sheet without changing the actual data in the table(s).
Alternate Key
Database
Select Query
Compound Key
35. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
Secondary Key
View
Relation
One-To-Many Relationship
36. A candidate key that coud have been the primary key but was not selected as such ; OR a field that is not the primary key but has been used for indexing nevertheless.
Second Normal Form
Self-Join
Report
Secondary Key
37. A normalization which falls between 3NF and 4NF and involves the elimination of non-trivial dependencies
Data Model
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Candidate Key
Primary Key
38. A database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems (RDBMS) - database schema creation and modification - and database object access control management.
Aggregate Function
Functional Dependency
Access
SQL
39. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.
Normalization
Database Management System (DBMS)
Trigger
SQL
40. The horizontal bar at the top of a column. You can click a column selector to select the entire column in the query design grid or the filter design grid
Column Selector
Row
Query
Self-Join
41. One (or more fields) in a table that refer to the primary key in another table.
First Normal Form
Candidate Key
Check Box
Foreign Key
42. Two or more controls that can be treated as one unit while designing a form or report. You can select the group instead of selecting each individual control as you are arranging controls or assigning properties.
First Normal Form
Relational Database Model
Expression Builder
Group
43. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Normalization
Append Query
Secondary Key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
44. An association between two tables in which the primary key value of each record in the primary table corresponds to the value in the matching field or fields of0 - 1 - or many records in the related table.
One-To-Many Relationship
Index
Data Warehouse
Alternate Key
45. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Database Window
Data Type
Record
Normalization
46. A question about the data stored in your tables - or a request to perform an action on the data. A query can bring together data from multiple tables to serve as the source of data for a form. report or data access page.
Query
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Row
Recursive Dependency
47. An association between two tables in which the primary key value of each record in the primary table corresponds to the value in the matching field or fields of one and only one record in the related table.
Primary Key
One-To-One Relationship
Referential Integrity Constraint
Record
48. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Default Value
Entities
Database Window
Transact
49. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Where clause
Functional Dependency
Form
Autonumber
50. A DBMS created by Microsoft - it is a collection of data and objects - such as tables - queries - or forms - related to a particular topic or purpose.
Access
Referential Integrity Constraint
Fourth Normal Form
Access 2007