Experiencing MIS, Canadian Edition, 5e (Kroenke)

Chapter 5 Database and Content Management

1) A database is a self-describing collection of integrated records.

Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

2) Special data called structured data describes the structure of the database.
Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

3) Metadata is data about data.

Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

4) The name of the field, its data type, and description are examples of metadata.
Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

5) A DBMS is software that helps manage the operating system.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

6) A database application system consists of forms, reports, and database programs.

Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

7) Most large companies develop their own DBMSs.

Answer: FALSE
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8) IBM makes a DBMS called SQL Server.
Answer: FALSE
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Skill: RECALL

9) MySQL is an open-source DBMS product.

Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q4
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10) Oracle makes a DBMS packaged called DB2.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

11) SQL Server is an open-source DBMS package that is free for most database applications.
Answer: FALSE
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12) A DBMS and a database are two different things.

Answer: TRUE
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13) A DBMS is a collection of tables, relationships, and metadata.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

14) SQL is an international standard language for processing a database.

Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

15) SQL stands for "Standard Query Language."

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL
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16) SQL can be used to add a new column to a table.
Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: APPLIED

17) A database can have one and only one application.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

18) A database application can have one or more users.

Answer: TRUE
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Skill: RECALL

19) A database form translates inputted changes into a SQL query in order for the database to
process them.
Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: APPLIED

20) Many people find it easier to store data using a spreadsheet than a database.
Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: RECALL

21) The only remaining personal DBMS today is Paradox.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

22) A spreadsheet is just another type of relational database.

Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: APPLIED

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23) Personal DBMS can handle over 100 users.
Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

24) Spreadsheets usually track only one "theme," but databases usually involve more than one
"theme."
Answer: TRUE
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: RECALL

25) Employees usually insert content directly into a company's website without a controlling
editor.
Answer: FALSE
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: APPLIED

26) ________ is a form of creative endeavor that can be protected through a trademark, patent,
copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography.
A) Innovative design
B) Intellectual property
C) Creative writing
D) Programming
E) Digital design
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

27) What does CMS stand for?

A) Content Management System
B) Copy Management System
C) Customer Management System
D) Customer Manipulation System
E) Content Manipulation System
Answer: A
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28) A ________ is a self-describing collection of integrated records.
A) column
B) table
C) row
D) field
E) database
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

29) A group of similar rows or records is called a(n)

A) database.
B) table.
C) instance.
D) attribute.
E) column.
Answer: B
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Skill: RECALL

30) ________ describe(s) the structure of the database.

A) Metadata
B) Tables
C) Columns
D) A relationship diagram
E) Fields
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

31) A database consists of

A) rows, tables, instructions.
B) metadata, keyboard, relationships.
C) tables, instructions, relationships.
D) relationships, rows tables.
E) CPU, tables, rows.
Answer: D
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32) A ________ is a column or group of columns that identifies a unique row in a table.
A) record
B) relationship
C) row
D) key
E) field
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

33) ________ are keys in a different table from the one in which they reside.
A) Secondary keys
B) Simple keys
C) Special keys
D) Primary keys
E) Foreign keys
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

34) ________ is a formal name for a table.

A) File
B) Database
C) Collection
D) Metadata
E) Relation
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

35) A relational database refers to

A) databases that have related objects related by similar attributes.
B) a set of tables that contains similar content.
C) a set of files that have similar names.
D) databases that carry data in the form of tables with individual primary keys.
E) databases that carry data in the form of tables and that represent relationships using foreign
keys.
Answer: E
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36) Which of the following are NOT considered to be metadata?
A) Field properties
B) Description
C) File name
D) Data type
E) Field name
Answer: C
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: APPLIED

37) ________ consists of forms, formatted reports, queries, and application programs.
A) A database application
B) A DBMS program
C) A Visual Basic application
D) A database
E) A Windows application
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

38) Which of the following is a personal DBMS product?

A) Microsoft Access
B) Oracle
C) SQL
D) Microsoft SQL Server
E) IBM DB2
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

39) Which of the following is an international standard language for processing a database?
A) VBA
B) C++
C) Visual Basic
D) Standard Query Language
E) Structured Query Language
Answer: E
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40) A database application is a collection of programs, forms, reports, and
A) queries.
B) tables.
C) metadata.
D) keys.
E) printers.
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

41) ________ are used to display formatted data and to generate paper copies of the data.
A) Tables
B) Forms
C) Views
D) Reports
E) Queries
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

42) Which of the following techniques is used to resolve the lost-update problem?
A) Preemptive updating
B) Sharing
C) Task switching
D) Locking
E) Multitasking
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

43) Which of the following is a file extension name of a graphics file?

A) .wav
B) .mov
C) .mpg
D) .pdf
E) .bmp
Answer: E
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44) Which of the following is a file extension name of an audio file?
A) .pdf
B) .wav
C) .mov
D) .bmp
E) .mpg
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

45) Which of the following is a file extension name of a video file?

A) .wav
B) .mpg
C) .doc
D) .pdf
E) .bmp
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

46) Which of the following is a file extension name of a word-processing document?

A) .mpg
B) .docx
C) .bmp
D) .xlsx
E) .wav
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

47) Which of the following are NOT users of a content management system?
A) Customers
B) Web masters
C) Copy editors
D) Managers
E) Employees
Answer: A
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48) The company that digitized the Oxford English Dictionary is called
A) IBM.
B) Nortel.
C) Microsoft.
D) Open Text.
E) Research in Motion.
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

49) Columns are also called

A) rows.
B) databases.
C) fields.
D) relations.
E) tables.
Answer: C
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

50) In a relational database, a collection of related records is a(n)

A) row.
B) attribute.
C) table.
D) column.
E) field.
Answer: C
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

51) A collection of records in a relational database can be called a

A) matrix.
B) column.
C) field.
D) row.
E) relation.
Answer: E
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52) The company OpenText provides companies with "cloud based"
A) sales management software.
B) document management software.
C) Microsoft Office.
D) data storage.
E) accounting software.
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

53) Many users prefer to avoid database applications altogether and simply store their data in
a(n)
A) mattress.
B) file.
C) old can.
D) spreadsheet.
E) encrypted table.
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: RECALL

54) ________ software assists in creating, maintaining, and manipulating databases.

A) DMS
B) KMS
C) DBMS
D) MIS
E) DBM
Answer: C
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

55) Content management is indexing the right information, processing, sorting it, and then
A) getting it printed when needed.
B) hiring good programmers.
C) editing right employee input.
D) making it available in the right format at the right time.
E) giving it to employees with "strong" passwords.
Answer: D
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56) ________ is a record in a relational database.
A) A field
B) A table
C) A column
D) A row
E) A key
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

57) ________ is an example of a personal DBMS.

A) Access
B) SQL Server
C) DB2
D) SQL
E) Oracle
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

58) ________ is an example of an enterprise DBMS.

A) Access
B) DB2
C) FoxPro
D) Quattro Pro
E) Paradox
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

59) MySQL is popular because it is a(n) ________ DBMS.

A) open-source
B) work-group
C) personal
D) enterprise
E) powerful
Answer: A
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60) One example of a DBMS is
A) SQL Server.
B) .NET.
C) Java.
D) OEM.
E) Excel.
Answer: A
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Skill: RECALL

61) SQL is a
A) query language.
B) database system.
C) 3GL.
D) 2GL.
E) programming language.
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

62) A(n) ________ DBMS is designed to process large organizational and workgroup databases.
A) object-oriented
B) network
C) relational
D) personal
E) enterprise
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

63) SQL stands for

A) Structured Query Language.
B) Standard Query Language.
C) Structured Question Language.
D) Simple Query Language.
E) Standard Question Language.
Answer: A
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64) ________ is an international standard language for processing a database.
A) VBA
B) SQL
C) Java
D) .NET
E) MySQL
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

65) The ________ problem is unique to a multi-user database environment.

A) redundancy
B) lost-update
C) locked file
D) security
E) data integrity
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

66) Users process data in the database using

A) files.
B) logic.
C) programs.
D) reports.
E) queries.
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: APPLIED

67) The name of the field, the data type, and the number of characters allowed are examples of
A) attributes.
B) characters.
C) content.
D) overhead.
E) metadata.
Answer: E
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68) ________ describe(s) the structure of a database.
A) Logic
B) Metadata
C) Models
D) Protocols
E) Content
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

69) In today's business world content is just not about collection and distribution. It is also about
A) the accuracy of the content.
B) the organization of the content.
C) the content management system.
D) the relevance of the content.
E) presenting the content appropriately for the audience.
Answer: E
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

70) In the early days of corporate websites, employees were allowed to add content directly to
the sites. Today this practice is not acceptable because
A) of the lack of consistency in both look and accuracy of the web site.
B) employees lack the skills to add content to web sites due to the greater sophistication of the
software used today for corporate web sites.
C) companies with web sites now have copy editors to prepare web site content.
D) most companies use content management systems today.
E) most web sites are driven by database management systems.
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

71) Modern content management systems

A) seek out documents located across an organization and actively manage access to the content.
B) manage only media files.
C) archive documents.
D) organize content for corporate web sites.
E) manage all aspects of corporate data.
Answer: A
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72) Content is closely related to
A) intellectual property.
B) words.
C) software.
D) property in the broadest sense.
E) organized materials.
Answer: A
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

73) One of the DMBS administrative functions includes

A) building the database.
B) backing up the database.
C) collecting user requirements for the database.
D) planning the database.
E) entering new data into the database.
Answer: B
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

74) A database differs from a spreadsheet by

A) involving lists of a single theme.
B) having only columns.
C) having lists of multiple rows and columns.
D) involving lists of multiple themes.
E) having only rows.
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: APPLIED

75) In databases, names of clients can be troublesome since they may not be
A) relevant.
B) simple.
C) reconciled.
D) unique.
E) normalized.
Answer: D
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76) In a relational database application, a(n) ________ key is used to link one table with another.
A) primary
B) index
C) secondary
D) foreign
E) composite
Answer: D
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

77) Some employees are frustrated with database applications or are unwilling to share their
data, so they prefer to store their data in a(n) ________ instead of a database application.
Answer: spreadsheet
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: RECALL

78) If a user stores their data in a spreadsheet, it is unavailable to other users unless it is stored in
the company's ________.
Answer: CMS
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

79) ________ describes the data in a database.

Answer: Metadata
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

80) ________ DBMS like DB2 are designed for large, corporate database applications.
Answer: Enterprise
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

81) For applications that need to process databases over the Internet, the application serves as an
intermediary between the ________ and the database.
Answer: web server
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82) A(n) ________ is software that is used to create, process, and administer a database.
Answer: DBMS
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

83) A(n) ________ is another name for a table in relational database terms.
Answer: relation
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

84) ________ is a query language that is portable between all relational DBMSs.
Answer: SQL
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

85) ________ database products like MS Access are designed for individual users or small
workgroups of no more than 15 users.
Answer: Personal
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: RECALL

86) If your database produces inaccurate results that don't seem to have a cause, your database
may be having ________ problems.
Answer: lost-update
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

87) A web ________ helps to enable a company to standardize the look and feel of a web site.
Answer: CMS
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

88) A collection of columns or fields is called rows or ________.

Answer: records
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89) A group of similar rows or records is called a file or a(n) ________.
Answer: table
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

90) Bytes are grouped into columns or ________.

Answer: fields
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

91) A ________ is a self-describing collection of integrated records.

Answer: database
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

92) A database is a collection of tables, ________, and metadata.

Answer: relationships
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

93) Data type and description are examples of ________.

Answer: metadata
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

94) The purpose of a database is to keep track of things that involve more than one ________.
Answer: theme
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: RECALL

95) A(n) ________ is a special name for a question that is asked in a database application.
Answer: query
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

96) A database is a collection of tables, metadata, and ________.

Answer: relationships
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL
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97) Setting up the database security is a part of database ________.
Answer: administration
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

98) When a database form is processed to add a new record to a table, the DBMS converts the
contents of the form into a(n) ________ statement.
Answer: SQL
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

99) To prevent the lost-update problem, the DBMS should have some type of ________
mechanism.
Answer: locking
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

100) Forms and reports are usually part of a database ________.

Answer: application
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: RECALL

101) What are the differences between a database and a spreadsheet?

Answer: A spreadsheet table is organized into rows and columns and is typically used to track
related data across two dimensions (e.g., student grades on course assignments), whereas a
database is a three-dimensional storage structure—think of a series of two-dimensional tables
linked together (e.g., course scheduling for faculty and students). A database has metadata to
structure the data of the database. Spreadsheets are simple to set up and understand. However, a
database is preferable in cases where the user needs to keep track of three or more things—
customers, sales, suppliers, and other transactions—and databases are better when data involves
more than one topic or theme. Spreadsheets work best when the data involves just one topic or
theme.
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Study Question: Q1
Skill: APPLIED

102) Explain the difference between a primary key and a foreign key.
Answer: A primary key is a column or group of columns that has a unique value for each row in
a table. Foreign keys are primary keys from a different table than the one in which they reside.
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103) What is a database application?
Answer: A database application consists of forms, formatted reports, queries, and application
programs. Each of these in turn calls on the database management system to process the database
tables.
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: RECALL

104) Discuss the challenges for a multiuser database application.

Answer: Multiple users may try to update the same record at the same time, which can make for
a lost-update problem. To prevent this problem, some type of locking must be used to coordinate
the activities of users.
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: APPLIED

105) Describe the use of a content management system.

Answer: When an employee wants to place some content on the organizations web site he or she
will access the content management system. The web CMS is usually located on the company's
web site server. The employee typically loads the raw content into the CMS. Copy editors then
review the document and make necessary changes. They then pass the content on to layout
editors, who prepare how the content will be presented. The content and presentation are stored
with the help of a DBMS. The manager in charge of the web site will then review the content and
presentation and publish the work to the public web site.
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Study Question: Q2
Skill: RECALL

106) Name three different DBMS packages available today.

Answer: IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL.
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Skill: RECALL

107) What is the difference between a DBMS and a database?

Answer: A DBMS is a software program that helps to build, control and maintain a database; a
database is a collection of tables, relationships, and metadata.
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108) What is metadata? Give an example. Why is it important?
Answer: Metadata is data "about" data. Metadata describes the structure of the database and its
contents. Examples include the names and descriptions of the fields, the various aliases for them
throughout the database, the dates that they were created and modified, the data types, the field
widths, and whether it's a key or indexed. Metadata is important because it helps the DBMS to
automate some data management tasks. However, as the amount of metadata grows, it takes up
more memory and must be managed itself.
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: APPLIED

109) What is a DBMS? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a DBMS?
Answer: DBMS stands for Database Management System. There are many different kinds but
the relational DBMS (RDBMS) is by far the most popular today. A DBMS is useful because it
helps database developers create tables and relationships, manage the metadata, process the
database with queries, and administer the user access and security. It standardizes data access in
the organization and simplifies data maintenance. Data can be quite complex and quite expensive
to manage. If the centralized data store is not archived and backed up properly, the impact of lost
corporate data will be more severe than in an older situation where there were a lot of redundant
databases.
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: APPLIED

110) It is often said that much of corporate data resides in various unrelated spreadsheet files or,
"spreadsheet silos." What are these concepts and why are they a problem?
Answer: Millions of business users rely daily on spreadsheets for business intelligence (BI)
functions such as data manipulation, data visualization, presentation graphics, forecasting, and so
on. For many users, spreadsheets are a form of reporting, and pivot tables are a type of data
analysis. When users modify the data in spreadsheets and add new data, soon the data in the
spreadsheet looks nothing like the source data. This creates problems for sharing the data with
others and it generates inconsistent versions of the data in the organization.
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111) What is meant by a relational database? What are the advantages of relational database
technology?
Answer: Relational databases store data in tables and use shared fields (primary and foreign
keys) in order to show the relationships between tables. Relational databases are based on strong
fundamental theory and limit the amount of data redundancy and data errors. A relational
database can enforce data and referential integrity constraints. They are the most popular type of
DBMS available because they capture all the possible types of relationships and they are fairly
easy to learn and implement. There are many skilled IT specialists in this field so it is fairly easy
to find support for this technology.
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Study Question: Q6
Skill: APPLIED

112) What is SQL? Why is it so important for DBMS? Give an example.

Answer: SQL stands for "Structured Query Language," and this is the standard query language
for all DBMSs. It is a 4GL so it is fairly English-like and easy to learn. A knowledge of generic
SQL can be transferred to any of the popular DBMSs easily. There are SQL commands for
creating tables, manipulating data, and for maintaining the data. A standard format for a data
manipulation type of query is:
SELECT field 1, field 2, ….field n
FROM table 1, table 2, ….table m
WHERE condition 1, condition 2, ….condition p is true
So a typical query might be:
SELECT CustomerNumber, CustomerName
FROM Customer
WHERE Province = 'AB'
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Study Question: Q4
Skill: APPLIED

113) What is the difference between a personal DBMS and an enterprise DBMS? Give an
example of each.
Answer: A personal DBMS is designed for smaller, simpler database applications. It can be used
for personal or small workgroup applications with fewer than 100 users, usually less than 15.
Most of the time a personal DBMS is used by a single user for a stand-alone application. The
most popular example is MS Access. Enterprise DBMSs like DB2 from IBM process large
organizational or workgroup database applications. They may have thousands of users with
multiple applications distributed across various networks. They have more sophisticated network
and security capabilities than a personal DBMS.
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114) Discuss the creation of a database. Explain its working.
Answer: Database developers use the database management system (DBMS) to create tables,
relationships, and other structures in the database. A form is used to define a new table or to
modify an existing one. To create a new table, the developer just fills the new table's metadata
into the form. To modify an existing table, a developer opens the metadata form for that table
and adds a new row of metadata.
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Study Question: Q5
Skill: APPLIED

115) Describe the elements in a database.

Answer: A database is a self-describing collection of integrated records that is organized based
on a hierarchy of data elements. A byte is a character of data. Bytes are grouped into columns.
Columns are also called fields. A key is a column or group of columns that identifies a unique
row in a table. Columns that are keys of a different table than the one in which they reside are
called foreign keys. Columns or fields, in turn, are grouped into rows, which are also called
records. Finally, a group of similar rows or records is called a table or a file. A database contains,
within itself, a description of its contents called metadata. Metadata are data that describe data.
Thus, a database is a collection of tables plus relationships among the rows in those tables, plus
special data, called metadata, that describes the structure of the database.
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Study Question: Q3
Skill: RECALL

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