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,Chapter 1: The Database Approach



TRUE/FALSE

1. Data and information are essentially the same thing.

ANS: F PTS: 1

2. Data processing can be as simple as organizing data to reveal patterns.

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3. We are now said to be entering the “knowledge age.”

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4. Information implies familiarity, awareness, and understanding knowledge as it applies to an
environment.

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5. Data constitute the building blocks of information.

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6. Metadata present a more complete picture of the data in the database than the data itself.

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7. The only way to access the data in a database is through the DBMS.

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8. Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex
operations required to fulfill those requests.

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9. The DBMS reveals much of the database’s internal complexity to the application programs and users.

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10. One disadvantage of the DBMS is that it increases the risk of data security breaches.


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11. An operational database is sometimes referred to as an enterprise database.

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12. A data warehouse can store data derived from many sources.

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13. The same data might be simultaneously structured and unstructured depending on the intended
processing.

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14. Corporations use only structured data.

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15. Historically, a manual file system was composed of a system of file folders and filing cabinets.

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16. Initially the files within a computer file system were similar to manual files.

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17. Structural dependence exists when it is possible to make changes in the file structure without affecting
the application program’s ability to access the data.

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18. A query language is a procedural language.

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19. One disadvantage of a database system over previous data management approaches is increased costs.

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20. One advantage of a database system over previous data management approaches is that the database
system is considerably less complex.

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, MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ____ is used to reveal the meaning of data.
a. Raw facts c. Formatting
b. Knowledge d. Information

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2. Accurate, relevant, and timely information is the key to ____.
a. data management c. knowledge
b. good decision making d. understanding

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3. ____ is the body of information and facts about a specific subject.
a. Data c. Knowledge
b. Information d. A database

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4. End-user data is ____.
a. raw facts about the end-user
b. raw facts of interest to the end-user
c. data about data
d. accurate, relevant and timely information

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5. ____ provide(s) a description of the data characteristics and the set of relationships that link the data
found within the database.
a. Queries c. Metadata
b. End-user data d. Information

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6. The ____ serve(s) as the intermediary between the user and the database.
a. DBMS c. end-user data
b. metadata d. programming language

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7. The database structure in a DBMS is stored as a ____.
a. file c. set of key/value pairs
b. collection of files d. collection of queries

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