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1. Redundancy wastes space because you are storing the same data in more than one place. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

2. A spreadsheets data-sharing features allows multiple employees to update data in one spreadsheet at the same time. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

3. An attribute is a characteristic or property of an entity. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

4. A relationship is an association between attributes. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

5. A database will not only hold information about multiple types of entities, but also information about the relationships among these multiple entities. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

6. In a database, each entity has its own table. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

7. The attributes of an entity become the rows in the table A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

8. In an entity-relationship (E-R) diagram, rectangles represent entities and lines represent relationships between connected entities. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

9. Programs created with Visual Basic, Java, Perl, PHP, or C++ can access the database directly, rather than having to access it through the DBMS. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

10. Sharing data is one advantage of database processing. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

11. Eliminating redundancy is always possible when using a database approach. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

12. A database cannot be password protected to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the data. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

13. There is a greater impact of failure in a nondatabase, file-oriented system.

A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

14. A good DBMS provides integrity constraints, which are features that let you change the structure of the database without changing the programs that access the database. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

15. To support all the complex functions that it provides to users, a DBMS must store data in multiple files. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

16. Storing the same data in more than one place is called ____. A) data independence B) data integrity C) redundancy D) security 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): C

17. A(n) ____ is a person, place, object, event, or idea for which you want to store and process data.

A) attribute B) DBMS C) entity D) DBA 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): C

18. A(n) ____ is a characteristic or property of an entity. A) attribute B) constraint C) datapoint D) record 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

19. A(n) ____ is the computer counterpart to an ordinary paper file you might keep in a file cabinet or an accounting ledger. A) spreadsheet B) database C) data file D) attribute 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): C

20. The ____ of an entity become the columns in the database table. A) E-R diagrams B) tuples

C) data files D) attributes 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): D

21. A relational database handles entities, attributes, and relationships by storing each entity in its own table. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

22. The attributes of an entity become the rows or records in a table. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

23. A relation is essentially just a two-dimensional table. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

24. In a relation, the order of the columns is immaterial. A) True B) False

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

25. In a relation, the order of rows is important. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

26. A relational database is a collection of relations. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

27. An unnormalized relation is a table that has more than one row. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

28. The secondary key provides an important way of distinguishing one row in a table from another. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

29. QBE is a visual approach to writing queries. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

30. Access automatically adds double quotation marks around values in the design grid that are formatted as Text fields when you run the query or move the insertion point to another cell in the design grid. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

31. The comparison operators are +, *, %, and /. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

32. The comparison operators are also known as relational operators. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

33. In an OR criterion, the overall criterion is true if either of the individual criteria is true.

A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

34. When a field name contains spaces or SQL reserved words, you must enclose the field name in curly braces ({}). A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

35. The concept of grouping means that statistics will be calculated for individual records. A) True B) False 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

36. A relation is a(n) ____. A) attribute B) column C) field D) table 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): D

37. Based on the statement below, which of the following is the primary key? Part (PartNum, Description, OnHand, Class, Warehouse, Price)

A) PartNum B) Description C) Class D) Warehouse 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

38. When duplicate column names exist in a database and you need to indicate the column to which you are referring, ____. A) do not use these two tables together B) do not use the column names in the same statement C) write the table name only D) write both the table name and the column name, separated by a period 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): D

39. Rows are also called ____. A) fields B) tuples C) columns D) attributes 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): B

40. The ____ key of a table is the column or collection of columns that uniquely identifies a given row in that table. A) primary B) secondary

C) foreign D) minor 2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): A

41. In Access, you can add all fields from a table to the design grid by double-clicking the ____________________ in the tables field list.
asterisk

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): asterisk; *

42. To find the total of all customers balances, use the ____________________ function.
SUM

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): SUM; sum

43. To list the records in a querys results in a particular order, you need to ____________________ the records.
sort

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): sort

44. ____________________ is a theoretical way of manipulating a relational database.

relational algebra

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): Relational algebra

45. In relational algebra, the ____________________ of two tables is table containing all rows that are common in both table A and table B.
intersection

2.2/2.2 Points Earned: Correct Answer(s): intersection