Quiz Jan 21 Flashcards

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In a database, each table stores data about a different type of thing

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True

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The purpose of a data base is to help people keep track of things

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True

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In a database, each row in a spreadsheet has data about a particular instance

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False

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In every database, not just the database discussed in this book, tables names are capitalized

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False

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A database shows data in tables and the relationships among the rows in those tables

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True

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Data is recorded facts figures; information is knowledge derived from data

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True

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Databases record data in such a way that they can produce information

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True

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an example of no data mining application

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False

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Databases are a key component of e-commerce order entry, billing, shipping and customer support

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True

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The largest database in e-commerce are the order entry databases

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False

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The e-commerce companies use Web activity database to determine which items on a Web page are popular and successful

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True

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Small databases typical have simple structures

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False

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A database system is typical defined as the four components users, database applications, the DBMS and databases

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True

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A database system as typically defined can be modified to include CODASYL

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False

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Applications are computer programs used directly by users

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True

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In a database system, applications write data to the database

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False

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Secondary Query Language (SQL) is an international recognized standard language that is understood by all commercial database management system products

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False

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In database systems, indexes are held by the database

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True

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A database management system (DBMS) creates, processes and administers databases

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True

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The database management system (DBMS) is responsible for inserting, modifying, reading, and deleting data

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True

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The database application is responsible for concurrency control

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False

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The database management system (DBMS) is responsible for enforcing referential integrity constraints

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True

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Referential integrity constraints are rules about what data values are allowed in certain columns

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True

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A database is a self-describing collection of non-integrated tables

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False

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Integrated tables store both data and the relationship among the data

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True

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25
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Microsoft Access is just a DBMS

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False

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26
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Microsoft Access is a low-end product intended for individuals and small workgroups

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True

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The current DBMS engine in Microsoft Access is called ADE

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True

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In Microsoft Access, you can use the Oracle DBMS in place of the ADE DBMS

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False

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29
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All database applications get and put database data by sending SQL statements to the DBMS

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True

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30
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A database is called “self-describing” because it reduces data duplication

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False

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31
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The description of the database’s structure that stores within the database itself is called the “metadata”

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True

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In a database processing system, indexes are held by the database management system (DBMS)

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True

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The purpose of a database is to:

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Help people keep track of things

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34
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A database stores

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Data, relationship and metadata

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35
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A database records:

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Facts and figures

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36
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A sales contact manager used by a salesperson is an example of a

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Single -user database application

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A Customer Resource Management (CRM) system is an example of a

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Multiuser database application

38
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An online drugstore such as Drugstore.com is an example of a

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E-commerce database application

39
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The industry standard supported by all major DBMSs that allows tables to be joined together is called

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Structured Query Language (SQL)

40
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A program whose job it is to create, process and administer databases is called the

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Database Management System

41
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Microsoft Access includes

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A DBMS and an application generator

42
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Microsoft Access may use which of the following DBMS engines?

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ADE and SQL Server

43
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In database systems, the DBMS

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Inserts data, modifies data, deletes data

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In database systems, the DBMS enforces rules about which data can be written in certain columns. The rules are known as

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Referential integrity constraints

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In database systems, the DBMS enforces rules which users can perform which action when. The rules are known as

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Referential integrity constraints

46
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A database is considered “self-describing” because

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In contains a description of its own structure

47
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A database consists of integrated tables, which store

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Data and relationships among the data

48
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In database systems, the database

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Holds user data, holds metadata, holds indexes, holds stored procedures

49
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A database may contain

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Tables, megadata, triggers, stored procedures

50
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In an Enterprise-class database system, a database application interacts with the DBMS

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True

51
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In an Enterprise-class database system, a database application accesses the database data

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False

52
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In an Enterprise-class database system, business users interact directly with the DBMS, which directly accesses the database data

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False

53
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The DBMS ranked as having the “most power and features” in the text us IBM’s DB2

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False

54
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The DBMS ranked as being the “easiest to use” in the text is Microsoft’s SQL Server

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False

55
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The DBMS ranked as being the “most difficult to use” in the text in Oracle Corporation’s Oracle Database

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True

56
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The DBMS ranked as having the “least power and features” in the text is Microsoft Access

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True

57
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Database design is important, but fortunately it is simple to do

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False

58
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A database deaf in may be a new systems development project

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True

59
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A database design is rarely a redesign of an existing database

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False

60
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Information systems that stored groups if records in separate files were called the file processing systems

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True

61
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Data Language/I (DL/I) structured data relationships as a tree structure

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True

62
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The CODASYL DBTG mode structured data relationships as a tree structure

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False

63
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The relational model was first proposed in 1970 by E. F. Codd at IBM

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True

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The 1977 edition of this text contained a chapter on the relational model, and the chapter was reviewed by E.F. Codd

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True

65
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dBase was the first PC-based DBMS to implement true relational algebra on a PC

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False

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Paradox is the only major survivor of the “bloodbath of PC DBMS products”

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False

67
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Business organizations have resisted adopting object-oriented database systems because the cost of purchasing OODBMS packages is prohibitively high

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False

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Bill Gates has said that “XML is the lingua-Franca of the Internet Age”

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True

69
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XML Web services allow database processing to be shared across the Internet

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True

70
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The NoSQL movement should really be called a NoRelational Movement

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True

71
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Twitter and Facebook use NoSQL databases

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True

72
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Which of the following are basic components of an enterprise-class database system

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The user, the database application, the database management system (DBMS), the database

73
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In an enterprise-class database system

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The database application(s) interact(s) with the DBMS, and the DBMS accesses the database data

74
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In an enterprise-class database system, the database application

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Creates forums, creates reports

75
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In dan enterprise-class database system, reports are created by

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The database application

76
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A database may be designed

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From existing data, as a new systems development project, as a redesign of an existing database

77
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A database designed using spreadsheets from the Sales department is a database being designed

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From existing data

78
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A database designed to implement requirements for a reporting application needed by the Sales department is a database being designed

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As a new systems development project

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A database designed to combine two databases used by the Sales department is a database being deigned

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As a redesign of an existing database

80
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Database professionals use _____ as specific data sources for studies and analyses

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Data marts

81
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Database professionals use a set of principles called ____ to guide and assess database design

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Normalization

82
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A very popular development technique used by database professionals for database design is known as

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Entity-relationship data modeling

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A very popular development technique is used. Y database professionals to adopt a database design to a new or changing requirement is know as

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Data migration

84
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The predecessor(s) of database processing was (were)

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File managers

85
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The relational model

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Was first proposed in 1970, was developed by E.F. Codd, was developed at IBM, ears ultra in the DBMS product DB2

86
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Modern microcomputer personal DBMS products

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We’re essentially killed off by Microsoft Access

87
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Business organizations have resisted adopting object-oriented database management systems because

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The cost of converting data from relational databases to OODBMSs is too high, most large organizations have older applications that are not based on object orientated programming

88
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For database development, the most important Web-related technology to emerge in recent years is

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XML

89
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For database development, a challenge to the relational model and the use of SQL has recently developed. This challenge is known as

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The SOAP movement