Quiz #01 – Chapter #00 & #01
A _______ in different tables can be used to integrate the data in a database.
a. key field
b. character
c. record
d. table
a. key field
Collectively, a person's name, address, and age would be called a
a. field.
b. record.
c. file.
d. character.
b. record.
If all the data in a database is not physically located in one place, it would be a(an)
a. Web database.
b. distributed database.
c. individual database.
d. commercial database.
b. distributed database.
Information collected by an organization, from a variety of external and internal databases, is
stored in a/ an
a. company warehouse.
b. commercial database.
c. company database.
d. data warehouse.
d. data warehouse.
In _________, the user must wait for the computer to scan several records one at a time, until the
desired record is located.
a. sequential data access
b. direct access tape
c. coordinated storage
d. sequential access storage
d. sequential access storage
Police officers, having the driver's license plate number of a suspect, can trace his/her home
address by using the
a. network database.
b. hierarchical database.
c. relational database.
d. multidimensional database.
c. relational database.
If Mr. Smith's bike has been sent to his new address, but the bill to his old one, it can most likely
be attributed to a
Select one:
a. lack of data maintenance.
b. lack of data redundancy.
c. lack of data integrity.
d. lack of data administration.
c. lack of data integrity.
The data and the DBMS are stored either on the user's hard-disk drive or on a LAN file server in
these databases.
a. Commercial databases
b. Company databases
c. Individual databases
d. Web databases
c. Individual databases
Which of the following is not an advantage of using a database?
a. Integrity
b. Security
c. Sharing
d. Reliability
d. Reliability
Which view of data deals with how the data is actually formatted and located?
a. Logical view
b. Technical view
c. Physical view
d. Information view
c. Physical view
Information resellers typically use a
a. Web database
b. common database
c. individual database
d. commercial database
a. Web database
Web databases covering a wide range of topics, such as business directories, demographic
data, business statistical information, and text databases. As mentioned earlier, web search
sites like Google maintain extensive databases of available Internet content.
A credit card bill that is processed at one shot - say the end of the month - is an example of:
a. real-time processing.
b. batch processing.
c. group processing.
d. consignment processing.
b. batch processing.
Regarding the three levels of data, list them from the least to the most level of abstraction
a. View level, Logical Level, Physical Level
b. Logical Level, Physical Level, View level
c. Physical Level, Logical level, View Level
c. Physical Level, Logical level, View Level
The DBA can create user forms and menus using the
a. DBMS engine.
b. application generation subsystem.
c. data definition subsystem.
d. data administration subsystem.
b. application generation subsystem.
The application generation subsystem provides tools to enable this task.
The feature of describing the entry field in a data dictionary form as ‘text' is characteristic of
a. data manipulation subsystem.
b. data administration subsystem.
c. data definition subsystem.
d. application generation subsystem.
c. data definition subsystem.
The data manipulation subsystem can use query-by-example as well as
a. HTML.
b. VBA.
c. XML.
d. SQL.
d. SQL.
________ databases store not only data but also instructions to manipulate the data.
a. Object-oriented
b. Hierarchical
c. Multidimensional
d. Network
a. Object-oriented
A data field represents a(an)
a. attribute.
b. record.
c. character.
d. entity.
a. attribute.
Having several instances of the same data is called
a. data duplication.
b. data repetition.
c. data doubling.
d. data redundancy.
d. data redundancy.
Physical Data Independence is
a. related with the different physical location of a distributed database systems.
b. the ability to modify the logical schema without changing the physical schema.
c. the ability to modify the view schema without changing the logical schema.
d. the ability to modify the physical schema without changing the logical schema.
d. the ability to modify the physical schema without changing the logical schema.