Relay Game

Direction: Fill in the blank with the letter of the correct answer.
1. ________ represents a real-world object or concepts.
a. Data
b. Entity

c. Attribute
d. Relationship

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2. ________ represents some property of interest that further describes #1.
a. Data
b. Entity

c. Attribute
d. Relationship

e.
3. ________ is a sequence of statements that either all succeed, or all fail.
a. Query
b. Transaction

c. Data Manipulation Language

d. Data Definition Language

e.
4. ________ describes the structure of the database. Also called the data about data.
a. Data dictionary
b. Database schema

c. Integrity constraints
d. metadata

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5. SQL means _________.
a. Structured Query Language
b. Standard Query Language

c. Standardized Query
Language
d. Strong Query Language

6. ________ property ensures that either all the database operations in a transaction are
executed or none are.
a. Atomicity
b. Consistency

c. Isolation
d. Durability

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7. ________ means that once a transaction has been committed, it will remain so, even
in the event of power loss, crashes, or errors.
a. Atomicity
b. Consistency

c. Isolation
d. Durability

e.
8. ________ property ensures that any transaction will bring the database from one valid
state to another.
a. Atomicity
b. Consistency

c. Isolation
d. Durability

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f.
g.
h.
i.
j. Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct answer.
1. Data abstraction refers to the suppression of details of data organization and storage.
2. Physical level of abstraction/Physical level/Physical abstraction describes how the
data are stored in the database.
3. Conceptual level of abstraction/Conceptual level/Conceptual abstraction describes
what data are stored in the database.
4. External level of abstraction/External level/External abstraction describes part of
the database for a particular group of users.
5. Data Independence is the ability to modify a scheme definition in one level without
affecting a scheme definition in a higher level.
6. Data Model is a set of concepts that can be used to describe the structure of a
database.
7. Physical data independence is the ability to modify the internal scheme without
having to change the conceptual or external schemas.
8. Logical data independence is the ability to modify the conceptual scheme without
causing application programs to be rewritten.