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Access to these databases is offered to the public or selected outside individuals, for a fee.


A) Data warehouses
B) Commercial databases
C) Company databases
D) Distributed databases

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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If all the data in a database is not physically located in one place, it would be a(n) _______ database.


A) individual
B) Web
C) commercial
D) distributed

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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In _______, data from transactions are collected over time and then processed all at once.


A) batch processing
B) group processing
C) real-time processing
D) consignment processing

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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In the object-oriented database model, this term is the equivalent to a field in a relational model.


A) Entity
B) Class
C) Method
D) Attribute

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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The company database may be stored on a central database server and managed by a database administrator.

A) True
B) False

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List and describe the five basic DBMS subsystems.

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DBMS software is made up of five parts o...

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Describe the structure and functionality of a hierarchical database.

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In a hierarchical database, fields or re...

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These types of databases are also called information utilities or data banks.


A) Distributed
B) Individual
C) Shared
D) Commercial

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Compare and contrast the physical and logical views of data.

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The physical view of data focuses on the...

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A hierarchical database uses many-to-many relationships.

A) True
B) False

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A field that uniquely identifies each record.


A) ID
B) Primary key
C) Common
D) Numeric

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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A ______ is a group of related characters.

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A monthly bank credit card bill is the result of _______ processing.

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batch, bat...

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The logical arrangement of data in a database is called the database model.

A) True
B) False

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If Mr. Smith's bike has been sent to his new address, but the bill to his old one, it can most likely be attributed to a lack of data _______.


A) integrity
B) maintenance
C) redundancy
D) administration

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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LexisNexis is an example of a _______ database.

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Database tables can be related or connected to other tables by common key fields.

A) True
B) False

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The most basic logical element of data is a _______.

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character,...

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Having several instances of the same data is called data _______.


A) repetition
B) duplication
C) doubling
D) redundancy

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Analysis tools that support viewing all or selected parts of data, querying the database, and generating reports include query-by-example as well as a specialized programming language called _______.


A) SQL
B) HTML
C) XML
D) VBA

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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