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Chapter 1(Multiple Choice) CIS 3365
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11) _____ is used to reveal the meaning of data.
- AA) Raw facts
- BB) Knowledge
- CC) Formatting
- DD) Information
22) Accurate, relevant, and timely information is the key to _____.
- AA) data management
- BB) good decision making
- CC) knowledge
- DD) understanding
33) _____ is the body of information and facts about a specific subject.
- AA) Data
- BB) Information
- CC) Knowledge
- DD) A database
44) End-user data is ____.
- AA) raw facts about the end-user
- BB) raw facts of interest to the end-user
- CC) data about data
- DD) accurate, relevant and timely information
55) ____ provide(s) a description of the data characteristics and the set of relationships that link the data found within the database.
- AA) Queries
- BB) End-user data
- CC) Metadata
- DD) Information
66) The _____ serve(s) as the intermediary between the user and the database.
- AA) DBMS
- BB) metadata
- CC) end-user data
- DD) programming language
77) The database structure in a DBMS is stored as a _______.
- AA) file
- BB) collection of files
- CC) set of key/value pairs
- DD) collection of queries
88) A(n) _____ might be written by a programmer or it might be created through a DBMS utility program.
- AA) query
- BB) operating system
- CC) database management system
- DD) application program
99) _______ exists when different versions of the same data appear in different places.
- AA) Data inconsistency
- BB) Data consistency
- CC) Better data integration
- DD) Improved decision making
1010) The response of the DBMS to a query is the _____.
- AA) ad hoc query
- BB) ad hoc response
- CC) query result set
- DD) integrated view of the data
1111) A(n) _______ database is designed to support a company's day-today operations.
- AA) desktop
- BB) workgroup
- CC) enterprise
- DD) transactional
1212) A(n) _______ database is used by an organization and supports many users across many departments.
- AA) desktop
- BB) workgroup
- CC) enterprise
- DD) transactional
1313) A(n) ________ database supports a relatively small number of users (usually fewer than 50) or a specific department within an organization.
- AA) desktop
- BB) workgroup
- CC) enterprise
- DD) transactional
1414) A ______ database supports data distributed across several different sites.
- AA) single-user
- BB) multiuser
- CC) centralized
- DD) distributed
1515) A workgroup database is a(n) _____ database.
- AA) single-user
- BB) multiuser
- CC) enterprise
- DD) distributed
1616) A desktop database is a ______ database.
- AA) single-user
- BB) multiuser
- CC) workgroup
- DD) distributed
1717) Most decision-support data are based on historical data obtained from _____.
- AA) operational databases
- BB) data warehouses
- CC) enterprise databases
- DD) workgroup databases
1818) The _____ structure is quite different from that of an operational or transactional database.
- AA) data warehouse
- BB) workgroup database
- CC) enterprise database
- DD) distributed database
1919) _____ data exist in the format in which they were collected.
- AA) Structured
- BB) Semistructured
- CC) Unstructured
- DD) Historical
2020) _________ data exist in a format that does not lend itself to processing that yields information.
- AA) Structured
- BB) Semistructured
- CC) Unstructured
- DD) Historical
2121) _______ data are the result of formatting to facilitate storage, use and generation of information.
- AA) Structured
- BB) Semistructured
- CC) Unstructured
- DD) Historical
2222) Most data you encounter is best classified as _____.
- AA) structured
- BB) semistructured
- CC) unstructured
- DD) historical
2323) Which of the following is an example of structured data?
- AA) A Web page
- BB) An e-mail
- CC) A memo
- DD) A spreadsheet
2424) XML data is ______.
- AA) structured
- BB) multistructured
- CC) unstructured
- DD) semistructured
2525) The organization of the data within the folders in a manual file system was determined by _______.
- AA) the date of creation
- BB) its expected use
- CC) the title of the documents in the folder
- DD) the data processing specialist
2626) A ______ is a logically connected set of one or more fields that describes a person, place, or thing.
- AA) database
- BB) column
- CC) record
- DD) file
2727) A ______ is a collection of related records.
- AA) database
- BB) field
- CC) column
- DD) file
2828) A _____ is a character or group of characters that has a specific meaning.
- AA) database
- BB) field
- CC) record
- DD) file
2929) The phrase ______ refers to an organization of components that define and regulate the collection, storage, management and use of data within a database environment.
- AA) database management system
- BB) database management
- CC) management system
- DD) database system
3030) _______ relates to the activities that make the database perform more efficiently in terms of storage and access speed.
- AA) Performance tuning
- BB) Database design
- CC) Query access
- DD) Database management
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