IST 359 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Data - ANSWER raw processed facts or figures
Information - ANSWER data that has processed or interrupted
Metadata - ANSWER data which describes or gives structure to other data
Data management - ANSWER the act of processing data (reading, adding, changing, or
deleting data)
CRUD - ANSWER the data management operations; create, read, update, and delete
Database - ANSWER a collection of data, metadata and data management activities
Query - ANSWER asking questions of data processing information
DBMS - ANSWER software to facilitate the use of computerized databases
Conceptual Model - ANSWER the global view of a database from the user's perspective
, Logical Model - ANSWER a view of a database that is depended on database model, but not
specific implementation
Internal Model - ANSWER a view of a database as implemented
External Model - ANSWER portions of a database implemented to facilitate the conceptual
view
Physical Model - ANSWER how the database is implemented through software, such as a
DBMS
ARTC - ANSWER characteristics of data that make it useful; accurate, relevant, timely, and
contextual
Table - ANSWER a primary unit of storage in the relational model, 2D structure consisting of
rows and columns
Relation - ANSWER A table with a column (or set of columns) for which the data in those
columns can be used to find one unique row
Column - ANSWER Represents a category of data in a relational table. For example in a table
of customers, this would be the customer phone number
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Data - ANSWER raw processed facts or figures
Information - ANSWER data that has processed or interrupted
Metadata - ANSWER data which describes or gives structure to other data
Data management - ANSWER the act of processing data (reading, adding, changing, or
deleting data)
CRUD - ANSWER the data management operations; create, read, update, and delete
Database - ANSWER a collection of data, metadata and data management activities
Query - ANSWER asking questions of data processing information
DBMS - ANSWER software to facilitate the use of computerized databases
Conceptual Model - ANSWER the global view of a database from the user's perspective
, Logical Model - ANSWER a view of a database that is depended on database model, but not
specific implementation
Internal Model - ANSWER a view of a database as implemented
External Model - ANSWER portions of a database implemented to facilitate the conceptual
view
Physical Model - ANSWER how the database is implemented through software, such as a
DBMS
ARTC - ANSWER characteristics of data that make it useful; accurate, relevant, timely, and
contextual
Table - ANSWER a primary unit of storage in the relational model, 2D structure consisting of
rows and columns
Relation - ANSWER A table with a column (or set of columns) for which the data in those
columns can be used to find one unique row
Column - ANSWER Represents a category of data in a relational table. For example in a table
of customers, this would be the customer phone number
