Section 8 Quiz

(Answer all questions in this section)

1. You are doing a data model for a computer sales company where the price fluctu

A. Create a product entity and a related price entity

B. Create a new item and a new price every day.
C. Use a price entity with a start and end date

D. Allow them to delete the item and enter a new o

E. Both A and C (*)
Correct
2. What is the function of logging or journaling in conceptual data models?

Allows you to track the history of attribute values,

Gives a timestamp to all entities.
Creates a fixed time for all events in a data model.
Represents entities as time in the data model.
Correct

3. You are doing a data model for a computer sales company where the price of pos

Allow them to enter whatever delivery charge they

Update the prices in the system, print out the curren

Email current prices to all employees whenever a p

Use a Delivery Day entity, which holds prices agai

Correct
4. Historical data must never be kept. True or False?

True

False (*)
Correct

5. Which of the following scenarios should be modeled so that historical data is ke

(Choose all correct answers)

STUDENT and AGE
LIBRARY and NUMBER OF BOOKS
LIBRARY and BOOK (*)
STUDENT and GRADE (*)
Correct
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Section 8 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
6. Historical data should always be kept. True or False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
7. Which of the following would be a logical constraint when modeling
time for a City entity?

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People are born in the city and people die in the city.
Cites may change their names and/or country association if the
borders of a country change. (*)
Daily traffic patterns must be monitored to determine how many
law enforcement officers are needed.

If you are doing a system for any French City, you would need
security clearance.
Correct
8. When a relationship may or may not be transferable, depending on
time, this is know as a/an:

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Transferable Relationship
Conditional Non-transferable Relationship. (*)
Non-transferable Relationship.
Arc.
Correct
9. In a payroll system, it is desirable to have an entity called DAY with
a holiday attribute when you want to track special holiday dates.
True or False?

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True (*)
False
Correct
10.There are no circumstances where you would create a DAY entity.
True or False?

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True
False (*)
Incorrect. Refer to Section 8 Lesson 2.
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Section 8 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)

11.Which of the following would be a logical constraint when modeling

time for a country entity?

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If you are doing a system for France or Germany, you would

need security clearance.
Countries may change their names and/or borders over a period
of time. (*)
Daily traffic patterns must be monitored to determine which
countries are overcrowded.
People have births and deaths in their countries that must be
tracked by the system.
Correct
12.There is no point in trying to group your entities together on your
diagram according to volume, and making a diagram look nice is a
waste of time. True or False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
13.Formal rules exist for drawing ERD's. You must always follow them,
even if it results in an ERD that is difficult to read. True or False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
14.Which of the following statements are true to enhance the readability
of ERDs? (Choose Two)

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(Choose all correct answers)

Crows feet (the many-ends of relationships) should consistently
point the same direction where possible, either South & East or
North & West (*)
Crossing relationship lines help the readability of the diagram.
It does not matter which way the crows feet (many ends of a
relationship) point.

Relationship lines should not cross. (*)

Correct
15.In an ERD, High Volume Entities usually have very few
relationships to other entities. True or False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
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Section 9 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
1.Why would this table name NOT work in an Oracle database?
this_year_end+next_year

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Table names must begin with an alphabetic character.

It is too long.
The Plus sign + is not allowed in object names. (*)
None of the above.
Correct
2.Attributes become columns in a database table. True or False?

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True (*)
False
Correct
3.In an Oracle database, why would 1_TABLE not work as a table
name?

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(1) Points
The database does not understand all capital letters.
There is no problem here. You can create a table called 1_TABLE.
TABLE is a reserved word.
Object names must not start with a number. They must begin with
a letter. (*)
Correct
4.In an Oracle database, why would the following table name not be
allowed 'EMPLOYEE JOBS'?

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EMPLOYEE is a reserved word

JOBS is a reserved word
You cannot have spaces between words in a table name (*)
The database does not understand all capital letters
Correct
5.When translating an arc relationship to a physical design, you must
turn the arc relationships into foreign keys. What additional step must
you take with the created foreign keys to ensure the exclusivity
principle of arc relationships? (Assume that you are implementing an
Exclusive Design) (Choose Two)
(Choose all correct answers)
Make all relationships mandatory
Make all relationships optional (*)
Create an additional check constraint to verify that one foreign
key is populated and the others are not (*)
All the above
Correct
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Section 9 Quiz

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(Answer all questions in this section)

6. Which of the following is a valid reason for considering a Subtype
Implementation?

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The resulting table will reside in a single database and be used

by just ONE user.
The common access paths for the supertypes are different.
Business functionality, business rules, access paths, and
frequency of access are all very different between the subtypes.
(*)
Most of the relationships are at the supertype level.
Correct
7. An "Arc Implementation" can be done just like any other
Relationship - you simply add the required Foreign Keys. True or
False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
8. Foreign keys cannot be null when

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It is part of a primary key (*)

It contains three or more columns
It refers to another table
It refers to the same table
Correct
9. Column integrity refers to

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Columns always containing values consistent with the defined

data format (*)
Columns always containing text data less than 255 characters
Columns always having values

Columns always containing positive numbers

Correct
10.The explanation below is an example of which constraint type?
If the value in the balance column of the ACCOUNTS table is below
100, we must send a letter to the account owner which will require
extra programming to enforce.

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User-defined integrity (*)

Referential integrity
Column integrity
Entity integrity
Correct
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Section 9 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
11.A foreign key cannot refer to a primary key in the same table. True or
False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
12.An Arc is transformed to the physical model by adding a foeign Key
for every relationship in the Arc. True or False?

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True (*)
False
Incorrect. Refer to Section 9 Lesson 3.

13.In a physical model, many to many relationships are resolved via a

structure called a(n): ________________

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Subtype
Intersection Entity (*)
Supertype
Intersection Table
Correct
14.To resolve a many to many relationship in a physical model you
create a(n) ___________________?

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Intersection table (*)

Intersection entity
Unique key constraints
Two tables with Foreign key constraints between them
Correct
15.Relationships on an ERD can only be transformed into UIDs in the
physical model? True or False?

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True
False (*)
Correct
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