SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Database Management
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Compound Key
Self-Join
Fourth Normal Form
Data Sheet
2. A link between two or more tables.
Join
Index
Primary Key
View
3. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
First Normal Form
Object-Oriented Database
Record
Referential Integrity Constraint
4. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Append Query
Database Diagram
Database Object
Column
5. Guidelines set in place to ensure the trustworthiness of data over its entire life cycle.
E-R diagram
Multi-valued Dependency
Data Integrity Rules
Form
6. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Check Box
SQL
Expression Builder
Record
7. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Table Window
Entities
Data Definiton Language
Record
8. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Secondary Key
Cardinality
SQL View
Currency Data Type
9. 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).
SQL View
Trigger
Data Sheet
Select Query
10. 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.
Data
Group
Multi-valued Dependency
Hierarchical Database
11. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Compound Key
Key
First Normal Form
Data Manipulation Language
12. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Compound Key
Data Manipulation Language
Secondary Key
Recursive Dependency
13. The dominant database model
Metadata
Data Sheet
SQL
Relational Database Model
14. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Object-Oriented Database
SQL
Primary Key
Data Manipulation Language
15. 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.
Database Management System (DBMS)
SQL View
Database
E-R diagram
16. 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.
Relation
Determinant
Default Value
Check Box
17. Knowing the value of one attribute you can determine the value of another attribute.
Fourth Normal Form
Functional Dependency
SQL
One-To-Many Relationship
18. A control - also called an edit field - used on a form - report or data access page to display text or accept data entry.It can have a label attached to it.
Referential Integrity
Select
Text Box
Record
19. An abstract model that documents and organizes the business data for communication between team members and is used as a plan for developing applications - specifically how data is stored and accessed.
Null
Group
Data Model
Normalization
20. 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 Window
Form
Column
Append Query
21. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
Self-Join
Check Box
Tuple
First Normal Form
22. A programming language designed for managing & obtaining data in relational database management systems (RDBMS)
Schema
Check Box
Table Window
SQL
23. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Metadata
Expression Builder
Database
Data
24. 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
E-R diagram
Primary Key
Hierarchical Database
Criteria
25. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Where clause
Self-Join
Flat File
Data Warehouse
26. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Default Value
Access
Sort
Database Management System (DBMS)
27. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Numeric Data Type
E-R diagram
Comparison Operator
Check Box
28. A self-describing collection of integrated tables. The tables are called integrated because they store data about the relationships between the rows of data.
Column
Null
Report
Database
29. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Null
Determinant
Fourth Normal Form
Normalization
30. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Transact
Currency Data Type
Data Definiton Language
Attribute
31. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Fourth Normal Form
Calculated Field
Comparison Operator
Access 2007
32. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Candidate Key
Tuple
Data Type
Query
33. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Select Query
Transact
Cardinality
Criteria
34. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses
Sort
Multi-valued Dependency
Data Mining
Check Box
35. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Action Query
One-To-One Relationship
Key
36. Table has no anomalies.
Fourth Normal Form
Domain/Key Normal Form
Sort
Primary Key
37. An organised pool of related data files which can be easily accessed and managed and that may be used by a number of different application programs
Action Query
Data Definiton Language
Database
One-To-Many Relationship
38. a.k.a record
Aggregate Function
Tuple
Default Value
Third Normal Form
39. Contents of a Database: Tables of user data - Metadata - Indexes - Stored Procedures - _______ - Security Data - Backup/Recovery Data
Entities
Triggers
View
Domain/Key Normal Form
40. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Data Warehouse
Trigger
Second Normal Form
Primary Key
41. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Primary Key
Design Vie
Metadata
Schema
42. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Best Normal Form
Calculated Field
Criteria
Totals Query
43. A field - set up in a query - that displays the result of an evaluated expression rather than displaying stored data.The value of the calculated field is re-calculated each time a value in the expression changes.
Multi-valued Dependency
Attribute
Where clause
Calculated Field
44. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.
Check Box
Normalization
Secondary Key
Best Normal Form
45. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Entities
Database Management System (DBMS)
Referential Integrity
Metadata
46. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Database Object
Best Normal Form
Alternate Key
Multi-valued Dependency
47. All determinants are candidate keys.
Fourth Normal Form
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Foreign Key
Triggers
48. A data model in which the data is organized into a tree-like structure. The structure allows representing information using parent/child relationships: each parent can have many children - but each child has only one parent
Hierarchical Database
Domain/Key Normal Form
Candidate Key
Determinant
49. The set of fields in a table which stores unique values and so any one from the list can be selected to be the primary key.
Database Object
Null
E-R diagram
Candidate Key
50. 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.
Data Sheet
Check Box
Domain/Key Normal Form
SQL