ACCESS QUESTIONS I MADE UP:

1. Do database administrators have involvement with the design (typically)?

2. Do you save the database in multiple parts, or as a single file?
3. What the file extension for an access database?
4. What does SQL stand for? DBA? QBE?
5. What do queries do vs. a form vs. a report?
6. Can you change the font colour/logo/design in a form and a report?
7. Can you compact certain aspects of a data base? (Just a query, for example) or do you have to
compact the entire database?
8. What is a delimiter vs. text qualified?
9. What one characters you should never use a delimiter?
10. Why do you never allow a wizard to choose your data type? It only scans 6-10 rows, they may be
null when they are really numeric.
11. In the Askii chart, do lowercase or upper case letters come first?
12. What is a caption **?
13. What does referential integrity mean?
14. What is the difference between cascade update and delete?
15. What is the aggitate function? What does it do?
16. Do databases follow all of Codds rules? Do they try to? What are the basics of Codds rules? How
many are there?
17. What are the two wildcards we learned and what is the difference between them? Do spaces
need to be accounted for in the wildcard?
18. Difference between a comma and a tuple?
19. What is normalization? How many levels are there approx.? What is the difference between 1NF
and 3NF?














INFORMATION PRESENTATION QUESTIONS I MADE UP:

1. What is white space called?
2. Basis of preprocessing information (fovia, macula, angles,)
3. What is the three tell rule? When do you utilize it?
4. What is non-ballistic mode? When in it, what factors are you more influenced by?
5. Do you use a lighter or darker shade of ink for subheadings?
6. Is it better to have thick bottom margins or top margins?
7. What is the rule of thumb for font size for presentations?
8. What is a scan column?
9. What type of font is "courier"? Why?
10. What is kerning vs. leading? Should you kern when you right justify font
11. Different gird formats, when do you use each one? Give an example.
12. What is a run-around?
13. Why is it not okay to hyphenate words in a paragraph?
14. What is a call out?
15. T/ F - the larger and longer the line is, the faster a reader can read
16. What is an ascender? A descender? A counter?
17. What does the word "Font" mean?
18. (T/F) Does the word font in IP and font in CSS mean the same thing?
19. What is the difference between serif and sans-serif? Is Arial an example of serif or sans-
serif?
20. Should you indent a paragraph with tab or by 5 spaces? Does it matter?
21. What is the difference between a soft and hard page break? Is there one?
22. What is the difference between a carriage return and a page break (in general)? Is there a
difference?
23. (T/F) Calibri uses less ink than Arial font does.
24. (T/F) It is OK to use a table of contents on long and short documents
25. How many times does a word need to be listed to be a part of a concordance?
26. What is the purpose of an index?
27. (T/F) There is nothing wrong with underlining words in a document that will appear
online and are not links.
28. (T/F) Using all caps in an email is perfectly okay, because it is hip to shout.
29. What is a palate?
30. (T/F) Using pale colors gives more of a "pop" or impression to a file than stronger, bolder
colours.
31. What is the difference between an input and output process?
32. (T/F) You can also use colours to define the purpose of a cell (excel, for example)
33. Differentiate between a background wash, a watermark and embossed?
34. When making the point size smaller in a document, should you make sure the ascender,
descender or counter is showing?
35. What is bleed through? Do textbooks have bleed through? What about newspapers?
36. Differentiate between an anchoring and floating image.
37. (T/F) Justified edges make documents harder to read.
38. Differentiate between semi-blocked and unblocked page styles.
39. What is the purpose of a transmittal? What about a letter of intent? What is the difference
between a financial statement and a consolidation statement?
40. (T/F) A consolidation statement does not include a financial statement.
41. (T/F) It is best for budget subtotals to be tabbed out.
42. What does "CC:" mean (in regards to sending an email, for example)? What is the purpose
to CC: a letter/email?
43. What is the difference of a BCC: and a CC:
44. What is the difference between a hold back and a contingency amount?
45. What does AMS mean?
46. What does a graphic include? What is the purpose of a graphic?
47. (T/F) A graphic incudes maps and symbols.
48. (T/F) A graphic includes text.
49. (T/F) It doesnt matter how much detail a graphic has in relation to its size
50. What is the difference between a graphic and a logo?
51. What is the rule of thirds? When is it OK to center a graphic? Is it always OK?
52. (T/F) Using a photograph, it makes a proposal look more believable.
53. Which one is NOT a file type for an IMAGE:
- Bmp
- Jpeg
- Gif
- Png
- Csv
54. What is the difference between hue and Chroma?
55. What is the difference between value and monochrome and saturation?
56. What is block-level element?