Questions and Answers (Latest 2026).
Data Set - CORRECT ANSWERS A collection of data. Marketing survey responses, a table of
historical stock prices, and a collection of measurements of dimensions of a manufactured item are
examples of data sets.
Database - CORRECT ANSWERS A collection of related files containing records on people,
places, or things.
Entities - CORRECT ANSWERS The people, places, or things for which we store and maintain
information.
Fields or Attributes - CORRECT ANSWERS A database file that is usually organized in a two-
dimensional table, where columns correspond to each individual element of data.
Measurement - CORRECT ANSWERS the act of obtaining data associated with a metric.
Measures - CORRECT ANSWERS numerical values associated with a metric.
Discrete metric - CORRECT ANSWERS one that is derived from counting something.
Continuous metrics - CORRECT ANSWERS based on a continuous scale of measurement. Any
metrics involving dollars, length, time, volume, or weight, for example, are continuous.
Categorical (nominal) data - CORRECT ANSWERS sorted into categories according to specified
characteristics.