Semester 1 Mid Term Exam covers Sections 1-10 of Database Design.

Section 5 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

1. Intersection Entities are at the Master end in the relationships between it and the original entities. So the original entities are details or children of the newly created intersection entity. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Waar

2. Intersection Entities often have the relationships participating in the UID, so the relationships are often barred. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

3. What do you call the entity created when you resolve a M:M relationship? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

4. A non-transferable relationship means the detail can be changed to point to a new master. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

5. How do you include a relationship as part of the UID for an entity? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

6. If two entities have two relationships between them, these relationships can be either _____________ or _____________ ? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

7. What uncommon relationship is described by the statements: "Each DNA SAMPLE may be taken from one and only one PERSON and each PERSON may provide one and only one DNA SAMPLE" Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

8. Which of the following pairs of entities is most likely to be modeled as a M:M relationship? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 4 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

9. A supertype can only have two subtypes and no more. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

10. All ER diagrams must have one of each of the following: (Choose two) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

(Kies alle goede antwoorden.)

Section 4 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

11. The "Other" subtype is mandatory. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Waar

12. All instances of the supertype must be an instance of one of the subtypes. True or False?

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13. A new system would have a mixture of both Procedural and Structural Business Rules as part of the documentation of that new system. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 7

(Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

14. Arcs are used to visually represent _________ between two or more relationships in an ERD. Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

15. An arc can also be modeled as Supertype and Subtypes. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

16. Which of the following is NOT a relationship type? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

17. No parts of an UID are mandatory. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

18. Which of the following would best be represented by an arc? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

19. Which of the following scenarios should be modeled so that historical data is kept? (Choose two) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

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20. Historical data must never be kept. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 7 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

21. A relationship can be both Recursive and Hierachal at the same time. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

22. Which of the following would be good as a Unique Identifier for its Entity? (Choose Three) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

(Kies alle goede antwoorden.)

Section 2 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

23. Which of the following entities most likely contains valid attributes? (Choose two) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

(Kies alle goede antwoorden.)

24. An entity can have many Unique Identifiers. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

25. The entity/relationship model is created before the physical database design model? True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

26. A/an _________ is a picture of all the information that will form the basis for the finished system. Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

27. Which of the following are examples of ENTITY: Instance. (Choose Two) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

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28. Entity Relationship modeling is dependent on the hardware or software used for implementation, so you will need to change your ERD if you decide to change Hardware Vendor. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

29. An ERD is an example of a Physical Model. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 3 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

30. Entity Boxes are drawn with 90 degree angles, also known as Hard Boxes. True or False?

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31. Matrix Diagrams are developed BEFORE the ERD. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

32. When reading a relationship between 2 entities, the relationship is read both from left to right and right to left. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

33. Which of the following are valid relationship degrees? (Choose two) Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

(Kies alle goede antwoorden.)

34. Relationship Degree/Cardinality is important. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 10 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

35. There is no point in trying to group your entities together on your diagram according to volume. Making a diagram pretty is a waste of time. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

36. There are formal rules for how to draw ERD's, even though they are only guidelines, you should always try to follow them. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

37. All datamodels must be transformed from specific to generic. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

38. A datamodel containing generic modeling techniques must not be mixed in with non-generic models. The generic entities MUST be drawn on a diagram of their own. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 9 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

39. You are doing a data model for a computer sales company, where the price of postage is dependent on what day of the week goods are shipped. So shipping is more expensive if the customer wants a delivery to take place on a Saturday or Sunday. What would be the best way to model this? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

40. All systems must include functionality to provide logging or journaling in conceptual data models. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 9 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

41. All systems must have an entity called WEEK with a holiday attribute, so you know when to give your employees a holiday. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

42. If a system includes the concept of time and it stores Start Dates, then End Dates becomes Mandatory. For each Start Date attribute you create, you MUST create an End Date attribute and it must be mandatory. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

43. When you add the concept of time to your data model, your model becomes more complex. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

Section 6 (Beantwoord alle vragen in deze sectie.)

44. No commercial database systems in the world will accept tables that are not on 3rd Normal Form. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

45. Until all attributes are single-valued, the database model is said to be: Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

46. Normalizing an Entity to 1st Normal Form is done by removing repeated or redundant attributes. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

47. Would it be a good idea to model age as an attribute of STUDENT?

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48. Any Non-UID must be dependant on the entire UID. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

49. All entities must be given a new artificial UID. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten

50. A unique identifier must be made up of more than one attribute. True or False? Markeren voor nakijken (1) Punten