Database Design & Implementation Final Exam

Question 1

A data model is a plan for a database design.

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true

Question 2

The method of constructing data models used in the text is the extended entity-relationship (E-R) model.

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true

Question 3

An entity instance is an occurrence of a particular entity.

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true

Question 4

An identifier of an entity instance is one or more attributes that name or identify entity instances.

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true

Question 5

In E-R modeling, an attribute describes the characteristics of an entity.

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true

Question 6

In E-R modeling, entities within an entity class may have different attributes.

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true

Question 7

Entities can be associated with one another in relationships.

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true

Question 8

The Information Engineering (IE) model created by James Martin is often referred to as the IE Crowe’s Foot model.

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true

Question 9

A principal difference between an entity and a table is that you can express a relationship between entities without using foreign keys.

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true

Question 10

The notation 1:N shows a relationship's maximum cardinalities.

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true

Question 11

Relationships are classified by their cardinality.

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true

Question 12

In an E-R model, the three types of maximum cardinality are 1:1, 1:N, and N:M.

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true

Question 13

In a 1:N relationship, the term parent refers to the N side of the relationship.

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true

Question 14

An entity's minimum cardinality in a relationship indicates whether or not an entity must participate in the relationship.

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true

Question 15

ID-dependent entities are associated by a nonidentifying relationship.

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true

Question 16

ID-dependent entities are a common type of weak entity.

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true

Question 17

An exclusive subtype pattern has one supertype entity that relates to one or more subtype entities.

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true

Question 18

Entities with an IS-A relationship should have the same identifier.

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true

Question 19

Relationships between supertypes and subtypes are called IS-A relationships.

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true

Question 20

Which of the following is not a key element of an E-R model?

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Objects

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Relationships

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Entities

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Attributes

Question 21

An occurrence of a particular entity is called an ________.

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entity instance

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entity class

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entity relationship

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entity attribute

Question 22

The characteristics of a thing are described by its ________.

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attributes

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identifiers

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entities

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objects

Question 23

Which of the following is not a common variant of the E-R model?

Accepted Answer

Object-oriented

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IE Crow's Foot

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IDEF1X

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UML

Question 24

Minimum cardinality refers to ________.

Accepted Answer

the number of entity instances that must participate in a relationship

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the most instances of one entity class that can be involved in a relationship with one instance of another entity class

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the number of entity classes involved in a relationship

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whether or not an entity is a weak entity

Question 25

In a minimum cardinality, minimums are generally stated as ________.

Accepted Answer

0 or 1

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1 or N

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M or N

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one or many

Question 26

A circle across the relationship line near an entity indicates ________.

Accepted Answer

a minimum cardinality of "optional"

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a maximum cardinality of "zero"

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a maximum cardinality of "one"

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a minimum cardinality of "required"

Question 27

Supertype/subtype entities are said to have a(n) ________ relationship.

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IS-A

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HAS-A

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recursive

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redundant

Question 28

When creating a relational database design from E-R diagrams, first create a relation for each relationship.

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true

Question 29

When creating a table in the relational database design from an entity in the extended E-R model, the attributes of the entity become the rows of the table.

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true

Question 30

The ideal primary key is short, numeric, and fixed.

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true

Question 31

The values of a surrogate key have no meaning to the users.

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true

Question 32

A null value is an attribute value that has been set to zero.

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true

Question 33

A data constraint is a limitation on data values.

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true

Question 34

A foreign key is a key that does not belong in any table.

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true

Question 35

To represent an N:M relationship in a relational database design, an intersection table is created.

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true

Question 36

To represent an N:M relationship in a relational database design, in essence it is reduced to two 1:N relationships.

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true

Question 37

An intersection table is always ID-dependent on both of its parent tables.

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true

Question 38

Association tables sometimes connect more than two entities.

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true

Question 39

Referential integrity constraints should disallow adding a new row to a child table when the foreign key does not match a primary key value in the parent table.

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true

Question 40

A referential integrity constraint policy that insures that all rows containing a foreign key value in a table are eliminated from the table when the row containing the corresponding primary key value in a parent table is eliminated from the database is called cascading deletes.

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true

Question 41

The first step in transforming an extended E-R model into a relational database design is to ________.

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create a table for each entity

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create a table for each relationship

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evaluate the entities against the normalization criteria

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remove any recursive relationships

Question 42

Each attribute of an entity becomes a(n) ________ of a table.

Accepted Answer

column

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primary key

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foreign key

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alternate key

Question 43

In a relational database design, all relationships are expressed by ________.

Accepted Answer

creating a foreign key

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creating a primary key

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creating a supertype

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creating a subtype

Question 44

To represent a one-to-many relationship in a relational database design, ________.

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the key of the parent is placed as a foreign key into the child

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the key of the child is placed as a foreign key into the parent

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an intersection table must be created

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the key of the table on the "many" side is placed in the table on the "one" side

Question 45

Many-to-many relationships are represented by ________.

Accepted Answer

an intersection table which has 1:N relationships with the two tables

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two tables with an M:N relationship

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two tables with a 1:N relationship

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an intersection table which has M:N relationships with the two tables

Question 46

A referential integrity constraint policy that guarantees that a row in a parent table always has a required entry in a child table ________.

Accepted Answer

Both A and B are correct

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is known as a minimum cardinality enforcement action

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needs to be documented by the database development team

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is enforced in most DBMS products

Question 47

A referential integrity constraint policy that insures that foreign key values in a table are correctly maintained when there is a change to the primary key value in the parent table is called ________.

Accepted Answer

cascading updates

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incremental updates

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incremental deletes

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cascading deletes

Question 48

The CONSTRAINT keyword is used to define one of several types of constraints.

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true

Question 49

The CONSTRAINT keyword can be used in conjunction with the SQL keywords PRIMARY KEY and FOREIGN KEY.

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true

Question 50

The UNIQUE keyword is used to define alternate keys.

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true

Question 51

The MODIFY keyword is used to change the structure, properties or constraints of a table.

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true

Question 52

The ALTER keyword is used to change the structure, properties or constraints of a table.

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true

Question 53

Data values to be added to a table are specified by using the VALUES clause.

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true

Question 54

One or more rows can be added to a table by using the INSERT statement.

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true

Question 55

Rows in a table can be changed by using the UPDATE statement.

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true

Question 56

An SQL virtual table is called a view.

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true

Question 57

SQL views can be used to hide columns.

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true

Question 58

SQL views are updatable when the view is based on a single table with no computed columns, and all non-null columns are present in the view.

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true

Question 59

Which SQL keyword is used to name a new table and describe the table's columns?

Accepted Answer

CREATE

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SET

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SELECT

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ALTER

Question 60

Which SQL keyword is used to impose restrictions on a table, data or relationship?

Accepted Answer

CONSTRAINT

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SET

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CREATE

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SELECT

Question 61

Given the SQL statement:
	CREATE TABLE SALESREP (
	SalesRepNo	int	NOT NULL,
	RepName	char(35)	NOT NULL,
	HireDate	date	NOT NULL,

CONSTRAINT	SalesRepPK	PRIMARY KEY (SalesRepNo),
	CONSTRAINT	SalesRepAK1	UNIQUE (RepName)
	);

We know that ________.

Accepted Answer

RepName is a candidate key

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RepName is the primary key

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RepName is a foreign key

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RepName is a surrogate key

Question 62

Which SQL keyword is used to change the structure, properties or constraints of a table?

Accepted Answer

ALTER

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SET

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CREATE

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SELECT

Question 63

Which SQL keyword is used to delete a table's structure?

Accepted Answer

DROP

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DELETE

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DISPOSE

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ALTER

Question 64

Which SQL keyword is used to change the values of an entire column?

Accepted Answer

SET

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CHANGE

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INSERT

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SELECT

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