©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
CIS 430 Databases and Database Users
Chapter 1 Questions and Answers
traditional database applications - Ans:✔✔-mos of the information that is stored and accessed is either
textual or numeric
big data or NOSQL systems - Ans:✔✔-manage data for social media applications
cloud storage - Ans:✔✔-users are provided with storage capabilities on the Web for managing all types
of data including documents, programs, images, videos, and emails
multimedia databases - Ans:✔✔-the storage of images, audio clips and video streams digitally
Geographic information systems (GISs) - Ans:✔✔-store and analyze maps, weather data, and satellite
images
Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) - Ans:✔✔-are used in many companies to
extract and analyze useful business information from very large databases to support decision making
Real-time and active database technology - Ans:✔✔-is used to control industrial and manufacturing
processes
Page 1/10
, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
database search techniques - Ans:✔✔-are being applied to the world wide web to improve the search
for information that is needed by users browsing the Internet
database - Ans:✔✔-is a collection of related data
data - Ans:✔✔-known facts that can be recorded and that have implicit meaning
database implicit properties - Ans:✔✔-a database represents some aspect of the real world, sometimes
called the miniworld or the universe of dicourse. Changes to the miniworld are reflected in the database.
A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning. A random assortment
of data cannot correctly be referred to as a database. A database is designed, built, and populated with
data for a specific purpose. It has an intended group of users and some preconceived applications in
which these users are interested.
database management system - Ans:✔✔-a computerized system that enables users to create and
maintain a database.
defining a database - Ans:✔✔-involves specifying the data types, structures, and constraints of the data
to be stored in the database
meta-data - Ans:✔✔-the database definition or descriptive information is also stored by the DBMS in the
form of a database catalog or dictionary
Page 2/10
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
CIS 430 Databases and Database Users
Chapter 1 Questions and Answers
traditional database applications - Ans:✔✔-mos of the information that is stored and accessed is either
textual or numeric
big data or NOSQL systems - Ans:✔✔-manage data for social media applications
cloud storage - Ans:✔✔-users are provided with storage capabilities on the Web for managing all types
of data including documents, programs, images, videos, and emails
multimedia databases - Ans:✔✔-the storage of images, audio clips and video streams digitally
Geographic information systems (GISs) - Ans:✔✔-store and analyze maps, weather data, and satellite
images
Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) - Ans:✔✔-are used in many companies to
extract and analyze useful business information from very large databases to support decision making
Real-time and active database technology - Ans:✔✔-is used to control industrial and manufacturing
processes
Page 1/10
, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
database search techniques - Ans:✔✔-are being applied to the world wide web to improve the search
for information that is needed by users browsing the Internet
database - Ans:✔✔-is a collection of related data
data - Ans:✔✔-known facts that can be recorded and that have implicit meaning
database implicit properties - Ans:✔✔-a database represents some aspect of the real world, sometimes
called the miniworld or the universe of dicourse. Changes to the miniworld are reflected in the database.
A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning. A random assortment
of data cannot correctly be referred to as a database. A database is designed, built, and populated with
data for a specific purpose. It has an intended group of users and some preconceived applications in
which these users are interested.
database management system - Ans:✔✔-a computerized system that enables users to create and
maintain a database.
defining a database - Ans:✔✔-involves specifying the data types, structures, and constraints of the data
to be stored in the database
meta-data - Ans:✔✔-the database definition or descriptive information is also stored by the DBMS in the
form of a database catalog or dictionary
Page 2/10
