2) Database management involves all of the following EXCEPT:
A) collecting data.
B) organizing data.
C) design web pages.
D) managing data.
C) design web pages.
3) A database is an organized collection of ________ related data.
A) logically
B) physically
C) loosely
D) badly
A) logically
7) Relational databases establish the relationships between entities by means of
common fields included in a file called a(n):
A) entity.
B) relationship.
C) relation.
D) association.
C) relation
8) A(n) ________ is often developed by identifying a form or report that a user needs on
a regular basis.
A) enterprise view
B) reporting document
C) user view
D) user snapshot
C) user view
9) A graphical system used to capture the nature and relationships among data is called
a(n):
A) XML data model.
B) hypertext graphic.
C) relational database.
D) data model.
D) data model.
16) A user view is:
A) what a user sees when he or she looks out the window.
B) a table or set of tables.
, C) a logical description of some portion of the database.
D) a procedure stored on the server.
C) a logical description of some portion of the database.
17) A major difference between data warehouses and transactional systems as
compared to big data is:
A) the data is unstructured in big data systems.
B) the size of the CPU used.
C) the programming required to access data.
D) all of the above.
A) the data is unstructured in big data systems.
18) Which organizational function should set database standards?
A) Management
B) Application development
C) Technical services
D) Database Administration
D) Database Administration
19) ________ is a tool even non-programmers can use to access information from a
database.
A) ODBC
B) Structured query language
C) ASP
D) Data manipulation query language
B) Structured query language
26) The period that can be considered a "proof of concept" time was the:
A) 1950s.
B) 1960s.
C) 1970s.
D) 1990s.
B) 1960s.
27) A departmental multi-tiered client/server database is stored on a central device
called a:
A) client.
B) server.
C) remote PC.
D) network.
B) server.
28) Organizations that utilize the file processing approach spend as much as ________
of their IS development budget on maintenance.
A) 40 percent
B) 25 percent