INSY 3304 Exam 1 Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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INSY 3304 Exam 1 Study Guide with
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A _______ is anything about which data are to be collected and stored. - Answer-entity
A ________ is bidirectional. - Answer-relationship
Database designers determine the data and information that yield the required understanding of the
enti...
M:N relationships are not appropriate in a relational model. - Answer✔✔-True
___________ relates to the activities that make the database execute transactions more efficiently in
terms of storage and access speed. - Answer✔✔-Performance tuning
Data processing can be as simple as organization data to reveal patterns. - Answer✔✔-True
An _________ is the equivalent of a field in a file system. - Answer✔✔-attribute
Within the database environment, a data model represents data structures with the purpose of
supporting a specific problem domain. - Answer✔✔-True
Data is the results of processing raw facts to reveal its meaning. - Answer✔✔-False
A desktop database is a ________ database. - Answer✔✔-single-user
A workgroup database is a ________ database. - Answer✔✔-multiuser
_________ provide a description of the data characteristics and the set of relationships that link the data
found within the database. - Answer✔✔-Metadata
Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex
operations required to a fulfill those requests. - Answer✔✔-False
Each row in the relational table is known as an entity instance or entity occurrence in the ER model. -
Answer✔✔-True
The external model is the representation of the database as "seen" by the DBMS - Answer✔✔-False
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