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Matric Number: NOU147214829
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CIT843 - Introduction to Database Management Systems
TMA Calendar Dr Oyebanji Omotayo (ooyebanji@noun.edu.ng )
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Message Board 1 A --- is an integrated, self-describing collection of related data

Quick Info databank

Instructor Message data warehousing

Quiz Note data mining

database
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Quix Tip - 2 2 What is a Database Design?

The activity of specifying the design of a database in a given data model

The activity of specifying the schema of a database in a given data model
The activity of noting the schema of a database in a given data model
The activity of a database in a given data model

3 DBMS is

a collection of data that are used to define, construct, maintain and manipulate data in a database
a collection of application programs that are used to define, construct, maintain and manipulate data in a database
a collection of software programs that are used to identify, construct, maintain and manipulate data in a database
a collection of software programs that are used to define, construct, maintain and manipulate data in a database

4 MRP stands for

Management Resource Planning

Manager Resource Planning
Management Resource Plan
Middle Resource Planning

5 Data about data is referred to as

metadata
data warehousing
data mining
datapool

6 The following three terms are used in database design: Table, Relationship and ---

Entity
Attribute
Domain
Row

7 The actual data contained in a database at a given time is ---

database instance
database occurence
database entity
database object

8 Why is data Modeling Important?

Because the data model can be reviewed and verified as correct by the end-users
Because the data model uses easily understood notations and natural language that can be reviewed and verified as
correct by the end-users
Because the data model uses easily understood notations
Because the data model uses easily understood notations and natural language

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9 Which one of these is a characteristic of a good Data Model?

Timeliness
Stability and Flexibility
Promptness
Abundancy

10 An entity is a "thing", "concept" or, "---"

object
reality
idea
position

11 What are the E-R Modeling Constructs?

Entity, Relationship and Attributes

Entity, Relationship, Attributes and Identifiers
Entity, Relationship and Identifiers
Entity, Relationship, Attributes and Qualifiers

12 Relationships are --- between entities

connections
contacts
incidences

associations

13 What is a value?

A particular instance of an attribute

A particular instance
A particular property
A particular instance of a database

14 A --- key is an attribute that completes a relationship by identifying the parent entity

foreign
strange
allien
different

15 What is the degree of a relationship?

the number of entities associated with the relationship

the number of entities associated
the entities associated with the relationship
the number of entities associated with the identifier

16 To construct a generalization hierarchy, what are assigned to the supertype?

all different attributes

all common attributes
all attributes
all entities

17 The referential integrity rule states that every --- key value must match a primary key value in an associated table

foreign
strange
allien
primary

18 What is an associative entity?

attributes between two or more objects

relationships between two or more occasions

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relationships between two or more objects
relationships between two objects only

19 What are derived attributes?

those created by a formula only

those created by a formula or by a summary operation on other attributes

those created by a formula and by a summary operation on other attributes

those created by a formula or by other attributes

20 What must preceed data modeling?

Planning and analysis

Planning
Analysis
Evaluation

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