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The document discusses database concepts including entities, attributes, relationships, and keys. It also covers relational database concepts such as tables, rows, columns and SQL. Distributed databases and NoSQL databases are also discussed.

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Management Information Systems, 17e (Laudon/Laudon)

Chapter 6 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information

Management

1) Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between entities and attributes?
A) The entity CUSTOMER with the attribute PRODUCT
B) The entity CUSTOMER with the attribute PURCHASE
C) The entity PRODUCT with the attribute PURCHASE
D) The entity PRODUCT with the attribute CUSTOMER
E) The entity PURCHASE with the attribute CUSTOMER
Answer: B

2) All of the following are issues with the traditional file environment except:
A) data inconsistency.
B) inability to develop specialized applications for functional areas.
C) lack of flexibility in creating ad-hoc reports.
D) poor security.
E) data sharing.
Answer: B

3) A characteristic or quality that describes a particular database entity is called a(n):

A) field.
B) tuple.
C) key field.
D) attribute.
E) relationship.
Answer: D

4) A database ________ describes a database entity.

A) byte
B) field
C) record
D) value
E) file
Answer: C

5) ________ creates confusion that hampers the creation of information systems that integrate
data from different sources.
A) Batch processing
B) Data redundancy
C) Data independence
D) Online processing
E) Data distribution
Answer: B

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6) Data ________ occurs when the same data is duplicated in multiple files of a database.
A) redundancy
B) repetition
C) independence
D) partitions
E) discrepancy
Answer: A

7) Which of the following occurs when the same attribute in related data files has different
values?
A) Data redundancy
B) Data duplication
C) Data dependence
D) Data discrepancy
E) Data inconsistency
Answer: E

8) Which of the following is a grouping of characters into a word, a group of words, or a

complete number?
A) File
B) Table
C) Entity
D) Field
E) Tuple
Answer: D

9) In a database, a bit represents a single character, which can be a letter, a number, or another
symbol.
Answer: FALSE

10) Which of the following is a DBMS for desktop computers?

A) DB2
B) Oracle Database
C) Microsoft SQL Server
D) Microsoft Access
E) Microsoft Exchange
Answer: D

11) A(n) ________ represent data as two-dimensional tables.

A) non-relational DBMS
B) mobile DBMS
C) relational DBMS
D) hierarchical DBMS
E) object-oriented DBMS
Answer: C
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12) Microsoft SQL Server is a(n):
A) DBMS for both desktops and mobile devices.
B) Internet DBMS.
C) desktop relational DBMS.
D) DBMS for midrange computers.
E) DBMS for mobile devices.
Answer: D

13) In a relational database table for customers, the information about a single customer resides
in a single:
A) field.
B) row.
C) column.
D) table.
E) entity.
Answer: B

14) In a relational database, a record is referred to in technical terms as a(n):

A) tuple.
B) table.
C) entity.
D) field.
E) key.
Answer: A

15) A common field that links two different tables and serves as a primary key to one of these
tables is called the:
A) foreign key.
B) secondary key
C) primary field.
D) unique ID.
E) primary entity.
Answer: A

16) A field identified in a record as holding the unique identifier for a record is called the:
A) identifier key.
B) key field.
C) primary field.
D) unique ID.
E) key attribute.
Answer: B

17) In a relational database, the three basic operations used to develop useful sets of data are:
A) select, project, and where.

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B) select, join, and where.
C) select, project, and join.
D) where, from, and join.
E) where, find, and select.
Answer: C

18) The project operation:

A) combines relational tables to provide the user with more information than is otherwise
available.
B) creates a subset consisting of columns in a table.
C) organizes elements into segments.
D) identifies the table from which the columns will be selected.
E) creates a subset consisting of rows in a table.
Answer: B

19) Which of the following is a specialized language that programmers use to add and change
data in the database?
A) Data access language
B) Data manipulation language
C) Database language
D) Data definition language
E) DBMS
Answer: B

20) Which of the following is the most prominent data manipulation language today?
A) Access
B) DB2
C) SQL
D) Crystal Reports
E) NoSQL
Answer: C

21) A one-to-many relationship between two entities is symbolized in a diagram by a line that
ends with:
A) one short mark.
B) two short marks.
C) three short marks.
D) a crow's foot.
E) a crow's foot topped by a short mark.
Answer: E

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22) A distributed database:
A) uses predictive analysis.
B) uses SQL.
C) is a database that is stored in multiple physical locations.
D) is a database that is distributed across many business firms.
E) uses Hadoop to process information.
Answer: C

23) Which of the following is an example of a NoSQL database?

A) Crystal Reports
B) Microsoft Access
C) SimpleDB
D) DB2
E) Oracle.
Answer: C

24) A physical view shows data as it is actually organized and structured on the data storage
media.
Answer: TRUE

25) Which of the following technologies would you use to analyze the social media data
collected by a major online retailer?
A) OLAP
B) Data warehouse
C) Data mart
D) Hadoop
E) DBMS
Answer: D

26) Which of the following is not one of the techniques used in web mining?
A) Content mining
B) Structure mining
C) Server mining
D) Usage mining
E) Data mining
Answer: C

27) In data mining, which of the following involves using a series of existing values to determine
what other future values will be?
A) Associations
B) Sequences
C) Classifications
D) Clustering
E) Forecasting
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Answer: E

28) Which of the following would you use to find patterns in user interaction data recorded by a
web server?
A) Web usage mining
B) Web server mining
C) Web structure mining
D) Web content mining
E) Web protocol mining
Answer: A

29) Many back-end databases cannot interpret commands written in HTML.

Answer: TRUE

30) ________ establishes an organization's rules for sharing, disseminating, acquiring,

standardizing, classifying, and inventorying information.
A) Data scrubbing
B) Data definition
C) Data quality assurance
D) Data governance
E) Data policy
Answer: D

31) According to Gartner, more than ________ percent of the critical data in large Fortune 1000
companies' databases are inaccurate or incomplete.
A) 25
B) 35
C) 50
D) 55
E) 75
Answer: A

32) Data scrubbing is a more intensive corrective process than data cleansing.
Answer: FALS