Chapter 1

Question 1

Organizations embed ___ in databases to warn of unusual conditions, such as impending stock shortages or opportunities to sell additional products, and to trigger appropriate actions

Answer 1

alerts

Question 2

T or F: Most databases were stuck in legacy systems

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T or F: Database management courses have been added to elective courses in universities

Answer 3

True

Question 4

It is an organized collection of logically related data

Answer 4

Database

Question 5

Historically, the definition of data only includes what type of data?

Answer 5

Structured

Question 6

What are 3 most important structured data types?

Answer 6

Numeric, Character, and Dates

Question 7

What are the two types of data that composes the new definition of Data

Answer 7

Structured and Unstructured Data

Question 8

What is difference between data and information?

Answer 8

Data are raw facts
Information is processed data that increases the knowledge of its user

Question 9

Data that describe the properties or characteristics of end user data and the context of those data

Answer 9

Metadata

Question 10

It is sometimes called the source of the data

Answer 10

System of record

Question 11

T or F: Social Security Numbers are good identifiers for a database

Answer 11

F. This is because it might pose a risk on their privacy

Question 12

T or F: Meta Data is not stored inside the database with the actual data and stored in a separate database.

Answer 12

False. It is also stored inside the same database as the actual data. It can also be retrieved the same way.

Question 13

Are excel files also considered traditional file processing systems?

Answer 13

Yes and also suffers from the same limitations

Question 14

A collection of related records

Answer 14

file