THE DATABASE ENVIRONMENT QUIZ

An enterprise database is which of the following?

A database designed to support a single PC

A database designed to support only users external to an organization

A database designed to support an entire organization

A database designed to support a relatively small group

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Legacy data is which of the following?

Data contained in a file system

Data contained by a system used prior to the installation of a new system

Data rejected during the installation of a new system

Data contained in a newly-installed system

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Another name for multimedia data is unstructured data.

False

True

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Which of the following types of databases are the most common?

Personal

Department

Workgroup

Enterprise

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A database application can perform which of the following activities?

Update records

All of these

Add records

Read records

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A data warehouse uses:

future operational data.

historical operational data.

health care data.

partial operational data.

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Databases that contain historical and summarized information are usually called data warehouses.

False

True

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Which of the following is true for a relational database?

It is difficult to access data.

Data is represented by tables.

All of these

Complex programs have to be written for simple queries.

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A workgroup typically comprises between 25 and 100 persons.

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False

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The primary mechanism for providing context for data is metadata.

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False

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