QUIZ #10: THE REA APPROACH TO DATABASE MODELING

1. The following are the anomalies that might exists in tables that are not normalized except
one:
a. Deletion
b. Update
c. Insertion
d. Storage
2. Which of the following represents the order of the steps in the preparation of a REA
model?
a. Identify the resource entities, identify the agent entities, identify the event entities,
determine associations and cardinalities between entities
b. Identify the event entities, identify the agent entities, determine associations and
cardinalities between entities, identify the resource entities
c. Identify the event entities, identify the resource entities, identify the agent entities,
determine associations and cardinalities between entities
d. Identify the agent entities, identify the event entities, identify the resource entities,
determine associations and cardinalities between entities
3. Designing a relational database involves what activities?
I. Determining primary keys III. Assigning foreign keys
II. Defining attributes IV. Linking one table to another
a. I, II, III and IV
b. I,III and IV
c. I, II and III
d. II, III and IV
e. None of these
4. Each occurrence of the Verify Availability entity is the result of
a. Customer Order
b. Customer Feedback
c. Customer Inquiry
d. Customer Service
5. It is either an economic or support event which involves commitment on the part of the
seller to sell goods to the customer. It may even involve adjusting (decreasing) the
inventory available for sale to prevent it from being sold or promised to other customers.
a. Verify Availability
b. Take Order
c. Ship Product
d. Receive Cash
6. Which of the following is not an example of Support Event?
a. Checking customer credit
b. Determining inventory availability
c. Verifying supporting information
d. Purchasing of raw materials from vendors
7. This act does constitute a support event and a commitment to buy.
a. Order Product
b. Receive Product
c. Disburse Cash
d. Take Order Entity
8. Many researchers believe that the accounting profession should shift away from debits
and credits toward providing information that assists decision-making.
a. True
b. False
9. Under the REA approach to database design, an entity relationship diagram is used to
model the relationships between an organization’s critical resources, events, and agents.
a. False
b. True
10. Statement 1: Tables in every association can accept an embedded foreign key from its
related table.
Statement 2: All non-key attributes are independent from each other and but is dependent
from the primary key.
a. True, True
b. False, False
c. False, True
d. True, False
11. Statement 1: Get Time event includes a worker (external agent) giving up his or her time,
which is characterized by the Employee Services resource and the supervisor (internal
agent) shoulders control of the resource.
Statement 2: The Disburse Cash event is the give half of the economic exchange. This
comprises distributing cash to an employee (now the external agent) for services rendered
and the payroll clerk (internal agent) joins in this event, which reduces the cash resource.
a. True, False
b. False, True
c. False, False
d. True, True
12. What are the four basic forms of cardinality?
a. one and many (1,M), zero or many (0,M), one and only one (1,1), and zero and one (0,1)
b. zero and many (0,M), zero and one (0,1), one or many (1,M), and one or only one (1,1)
c. zero or one (0,1), one and only one (1,1), zero or many (0,M), and one or many (1,M)
d. one or only one (1,1), one and many (1,M), zero or one (0,1), and zero and many (0,M)
13. Statement 1: Customer is the only external agent associated with all four economic event
entities.
Statement 2: The sales representative is an internal agent who partakes in the first
economic event entity while shipping clerk is an external agent who takes part in the third
economic event entity.
a. True, False
b. False, False
c. True, True
d. False, True
14. Statement 1: Resource and agent tables start out empty and will be populated through
actual transaction processing activities.
Statement 2: Event tables must be initialized with data values such as inventory quantities
on hand, customer names and addresses, and employee data.
a. True, True
b. False, False
c. False, True
d. True, False
15. Statement 1: Traditional accounting mechanisms such as journals are entities of the REA
model.
Statement 2: In a 1:1 association, when the foreign key that is embedded in the 1,1
cardinality is the primary key of the side of the association with 0,1 cardinality, the link will
not work.
a. True, True
b. False, False
c. False, True
d. True, False