Week 4

Question 1

the grouping of identifiable information about an entity, that is part of a sub-grouping is called what?

Answer 1

Subclass (subtype)

Question 2

The main entity of a subclass is called what?

Answer 2

Superclass (supertype)

Question 3

The _____ is a process of identifying a set of subclasses of an entity type.

Answer 3

specialization

Question 4

If two entities can be combined into a superclass and made a subclass of it, they are considered what?

Answer 4

generalized

Question 5

When an entity may be a member of more than one subclass of a specializaation it is considered what?

Answer 5

overlapping

Question 6

A ______ specialization is where every entity in the superclass must be a member of at least 1 subclass

Answer 6

total

Question 7

A ______ specialization is where an entity does not have to belong to a subclass.

Answer 7

partial

Question 8

When a subclass can be a subclass in more than 1 class/subclass relationship it creates a ______.

Answer 8

specialization lattice

Question 9

A subclass with more than one superclass is called what?

Answer 9

shared subclass