Final Exam Database Design Oracle

Section 6

(Answer all questions in this section)

1. An entity can only have one Primary UID. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

2. If an entity has no attribute suitable to be a Primary UID, we can create an artificial one.
True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

3. There is no limit to how many columns can make up an entity's UID. True or False?
Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

4. A unique identifier can only be made up of one attribute. True or False? Mark
for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

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5. When is an entity in 2nd Normal Form? Mark for Review

(1) Points

When all non-UID attributes are dependent upon the entire UID. (*)

When attributes with repeating or multi-values are present.

When no attritibutes are mutually independent and all are fully dependent on the
primary key.

None of the Above.

6. What is the rule of Second Normal Form? Mark for Review

(1) Points

No non-UID attributes can be dependent on any part of the UID.

Some non-UID attributes can be dependent on the entire UID.

All non-UID attributes must be dependent upon the entire UID. (*)

None of the above

7. Examine the following entity and decide how to make it conform to the rule of 2nd
Normal Form:

ENTITY: RECEIPT

ATTRIBUTES:

#CUSTOMER ID

#STORE ID

STORE LOCATION

DATE

Mark for Review

(1) Points

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 Do nothing, it is already in 2nd Normal Form.

Delete the attribute STORE ID

Move the attribute STORE LOCATION to a new entity, STORE, with a UID of
STORE ID, and create a relationship to the original entity. (*)

Move the attribute STORE LOCATION to a new entity, STORE, with a UID of
STORE LOCATION, and create a relationship to the original entity.

8. When any attribute in an entity is dependent on any other non-UID attribute in that
entity, this is known as: Mark for Review

(1) Points

Dependency

Functional dependency

Non-dependency

Transitive dependency (*)

9. Examine the following Entity and decide which rule of Normal Form is being violated:

ENTITY: CLIENT

ATTRIBUTES:

# CLIENT ID

FIRST NAME

LAST NAME

ORDER ID

STREET

ZIP CODE

Mark for Review

(1) Points

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 1st Normal Form. (*)

2nd Normal Form.

3rd Normal Form.

None of the above, the entity is fully normalised.

10. As a database designer, you do not need to worry about where in the datamodel you store
a particular attribute; as long as you get it onto the ERD, your job is done. True or False? Mark
for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

11. Examine the following Entity and decide which rule of Normal Form is being violated:

ENTITY: CLIENT

ATTRIBUTES:

# CLIENT ID

FIRST NAME

LAST NAME

STREET

CITY

ZIP CODE

Mark for Review

(1) Points

1st Normal Form.

2nd Normal Form.

3rd Normal Form.

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 None of the above, the entity is fully normalised. (*)

12. When data is stored in more than one place in a database, the database violates the rules
of ___________. Mark for Review

(1) Points

Normalcy

Replication

Normalization (*)

Decency

13. If an entity has a multi-valued attribute, to conform to the rule of 1st Normal Form we:
Mark for Review

(1) Points

Make the attribute optional

Do nothing, an entity does not have to be in 1st Normal Form

Create an additional entity and relate it to the original entity with a 1:M relationship. (*)

Create an additional entity and relate it to the original entity with a M:M relationship.

14. An entity ORDER has the attributes Order ID, Order Date, Product id, Customer ID.
This entity is in 1st Normal Form. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

15. An entity can have repeated values and still be in 1st Normal Form. True or False?
Mark for Review

(1) Points

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 True

False (*)

16. Cascading UIDs are a feature often found in what type of Relationship? Mark for Review

(1) Points

Invalid Relationship

General Relationship

Heirarchical Relationship (*)

Recursive Relationship

17. A relationship between an entity and itself is called a/an: Mark for Review

(1) Points

General Relationship

Recursive Relationship (*)

Heirarchical Relationship

Invalid Relationship

18. A single relationship can be both Recursive and Hierarchical at the same time. True or
False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

19. A Hierarchical relationship is a series of relationships that reflect entities organized into
successive levels. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

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 True (*)

False

20. A particular problem may be solved using either a Recursive Relationship or a

Hierarchical Relationship, though not at the same time. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

21. Which of the following would best be represented by an arc? Mark for Review

(1) Points

STUDENT (Grade A student, Average Student)

PARENT (Girl, Bob)

TEACHER (Female, Bob)

DELIVERY ADDRESS (Home, Office) (*)

22. Arcs are used to visually represent _________ between two or more relationships in an
ERD. Mark for Review

(1) Points

Sameness

Differences

Exclusivity (*)

Inheritance

23. An arc can often be modeled as Supertype and Subtypes. True or False? Mark
for Review

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(1) Points

True (*)

False

24. Which of the following would best be represented by an arc? Mark for Review

(1) Points

STUDENT (Grade A student, Average Student)

STUDENT (senior, male)

STUDENT ( University, Technical College) (*)

STUDENT (graduating, female)

Section 8

(Answer all questions in this section)

25. Which of the following would be a logical constraint when modeling time for a country
entity? Mark for Review

(1) Points

Daily traffic patterns must be monitored to determine which countries are overcrowded.

People have births and deaths in their countries that must be tracked by the system.

If you are doing a system for France or Germany, you would need security clearance.

Countries may change their names and/or borders over a period of time. (*)

Section 8

(Answer all questions in this section)

26. Which of the following would be a logical constraint when modeling time for a City

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entity? Mark for Review

(1) Points

Daily traffic patterns must be monitored to determine how many law enforcement
officers are needed.

If you are doing a system for any French City, you would need security clearance.

Cites may change their names and/or country association if the borders of a country
change. (*)

People are born in the city and people die in the city.

27. All systems must include functionality to provide logging or journaling in conceptual data
models. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

28. When a system requires that old values for attributes are kept on record, this is know as
Journaling or Logging. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

29. There is no point in trying to group your entities together on your diagram according to
volume, and making a diagram look nice is a waste of time. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

30. Formal rules exist for drawing ERD's. You must always follow them, even if it results in an

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ERD that is difficult to read. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

31. Which of the following scenarios should be modeled so that historical data is kept?
(Choose two) Mark for Review

(1) Points

(Choose all correct answers)

LIBRARY and NUMBER OF BOOKS

STUDENT and GRADE (*)

STUDENT and AGE

LIBRARY and BOOK (*)

32. Historical data must never be kept. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

Section 9

(Answer all questions in this section)

33. The explanation below is an example of which constraint type?

A primary key must be unique, and no part of the primary key can be null. Mark for Review

(1) Points

Referential integrity

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 Column integrity

Entity integrity (*)

User-defined integrity

34. Foreign keys cannot be null when Mark for Review

(1) Points

It refers to the same table

It is part of a primary key (*)

It refers to another table

It contains three or more columns

35. The explanation below is an example of which constraint type?

If the value in the balance column of the ACCOUNTS table is below 100, we must send a letter to
the account owner which will require extra programming to enforce. Mark for Review

(1) Points

User-defined integrity (*)

Entity integrity

Column integrity

Referential integrity

Section 9

(Answer all questions in this section)

36. A foreign key cannot refer to a primary key in the same table. True or False? Mark for
Review

(1) Points

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 True

False (*)

37. Column integrity refers to Mark for Review

(1) Points

Columns always containing text data less than 255 characters

Columns always containing values consistent with the defined data format (*)

Columns always having values

Columns always containing positive numbers

38. When an Arc is transformed to the physical model every relationship in the Arc becomes
a mandatory Foreign Key. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

39. One-to-Many Optional to Mandatory becomes a _______________ on the Master table.

Mark for Review

(1) Points

Unique Key

Optional Foreign Key (*)

Mandatory Foreign Key

Primary Key

40. A barrred Relationship will result in a Foreign Key column that also is part of: Mark
for Review

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(1) Points

The Column Name

The Check Constraint

The Table Name

The Primary Key (*)

Section 9

(Answer all questions in this section)

41. Relationships on an ERD can only be transformed into UIDs in the physical model?
True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

42. One-to-One relationships are transformed into Check Constraints in the tables created at
either end of that relationship. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True

False (*)

43. The "Arc Implementation" is a synonym for what type of implementation? Mark for
Review

(1) Points

Cascade Implementation

Supertype Implementation

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 Subtype Implementation

Supertype and Subtype Implementation (*)

44. When mapping supertypes, relationships at the supertype level transform as usual.
Relationships at the subtype level are implemented as foreign keys, but the foreign key columns all
become optional. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

45. The transformation from an ER diagram to a physical design involves changing

terminology. Entities in the ER diagram become __________ : Mark for Review

(1) Points

Columns

Tables (*)

Foreign Keys

Unique Keys

Section 9

(Answer all questions in this section)

46. The conceptual model is transformed into a physical model. The physical
implementation will be a relational database. True or False? Mark for Review

(1) Points

True (*)

False

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47. In an Oracle database, why would 1_TABLE not work as a table name? Mark for
Review

(1) Points

There is no problem here. You can create a table called 1_TABLE.

Object names must not start with a number. They must begin with a letter. (*)

TABLE is a reserved word.

The database does not understand all capital letters.

48. In an Oracle database, why would the following table name not be allowed 'EMPLOYEE
JOBS'? Mark for Review

(1) Points

JOBS is a reserved word

The database does not understand all capital letters

You cannot have spaces between words in a table name (*)

EMPLOYEE is a reserved word

Section 10

(Answer all questions in this section)

49. In which phases of the System Development Life Cycle will we need to use SQL as a
language? (Choose Two) Mark for Review

(1) Points

(Choose all correct answers)

Build and Document (*)

Analysis

Transition (*)

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 Strategy

50. During which phases of the System Development Life Cycle would you roll out the
system to the users? Mark for Review

(1) Points

Build and Transition

Design and Production

Strategy and Analysis

Transition and Production (*)

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