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What is a database? correct answers A collection of files storing related data.
Give an Example of databases: correct answers 1: Accounts database
2: Payroll database
3: Amazon's product database
5: Airline reservation database
What are the four components of a database system? correct answers 1: Users
2: Database Application
3: Database Management System(DBMS)
4:Database
What does a user of a database system do correct answers 1: Use a database application to track
things.
2: Use forms to enter, read, delete and query data.
3: Produce repots.
What defines a database? correct answers 1: a database is a self-describing collection of related
records.
2: Self-describing: A database itself contains the definition of its structure.
3:Metadata: is data describing the structure of the database data.
4: Tables within a relational database are related to each other.
Define the characteristics of a Database Management System(DBMS) correct answers 1: Serves
an an intermediary between database applications and the database.
2: The DBMS manages and controls database activities.
3: The DBMS creates, processes and administers the databases it controls.
Define a database Applications correct answers 1: A database application is a set of one or more
computer programs that serves as an intermediary between the user and the DBMS.
What does a Database Application do? correct answers 1: create and process forms.
2: Process user queries
3: Create and Process reports
4: Execute application logic
5: Control database applications
Define a desktop database systems correct answers 1: Have one application.
2: Have only a few tables.
3: Are simple in design
4: Involve only one computer.
5: Support one user at a time.