Database Design Quiz 25 Questions
Question 1
A highly organized collection of data is a database management system.
True
False
Question 2
Financial data residing in a database is not a corporate resource.
True
False
Question 3
Modality is the maximum number of entity occurrences involved in a relationship.
True
False
Question 4
Unary relationships contain one entity type.
True
False
Question 5
In a database, if there is more than one candidate key one MUST be identified as a primary key.
True
False
Question 6
A concurrency problem is defined as multiple data sets stored in the database.
True
False
Question 7
The most significant problem with data redundancy in a database is data integrity.
True
False
Question 8
Data redundancy can result in requiring unnecessary storage space for the database.
True
False
Question 9
Many-many relationships should be converted to associative entities on an Entity-Relationship diagram.
True
False
Question 10
There are two modes of data access known as sequential and direct access.
True
False
Question 11
Data within a database is typically controlled and manipulated by:
A. MY SQL Workbench
B. Database Management Software
C. MS Word
D. MS Excel
Question 12
A unique identifier of an entity is ____
A. Relationship
B. Cardinality
C. Attribute
D. Binary
Question 13
In an M-M relationship, the combination of or the association between two entities is known as ____
A. Cardinality
B. Modality
C. Associative entity
D. Intersection data
Question 14
A _______ relationship associates occurrences of an entity type with other occurrences of the same entity type.
A. Binary
B. Tertiary
C. Unary
D. Secondary
Question 15
How many entity types are involved in a tertiary relationship?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Question 16
The means by which an analyst records, documents, and diagrams the business environment is known as ________.
A. Relationship Identification
B. Data Association
C. Data Analysis
D. Data modeling
Question 17
In a DBMS, Referential Integrity contains three rules which are:
A. Restrict
B. Cascade
C. Set-to-null
D. Read
E. All of the above
F. A, B, and C
Question 18
The process of arranging attributes of entities in a given business environment into database structures is known as:
A. Physical Database design
B. Database structuring
C. Logical Database design
D. Relationship mapping
Question 19
Each row of a database is known as a ______
A. File
B. Field
C. Entity
D. Record
Question 20
An entity's attribute in a database management system is referred to as a ________.
A. Record
B. Relationship
C. Field
D. Row
Question 21
A foreign key is defined as _________.
A. The key attribute of an entity
B. An identifier of the relationship
C. Primary key of an entity
D. Primary key of a relation that appears in another relation
Question 22
An attribute or field that uniquely appears in every row of the relation is known as ____.
A. Key field
B. Primary Key
C. Foreign Key
D. Intersection ID
Question 23
Each table column in a database entity is commonly known as a ____________.
A. Record
B. Relationship
C. Field
D. Primary Key
Question 24
The purpose of a database is to _____________.
A. Eliminate redundancy
B. Centralize data
C. Integrate data logically
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Question 25
In your own words write the definition of referential integrity.