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Multiple-Choice & True/False
Below are 15 Multiple-Choice and True/False questions. Choose the best answer. Each question
is worth 4 points for a total of 60 points:
1. Data is a stream of raw facts that is not organized or arranged into a form that people
can understand or use. True or false?
2. A small business typically only has one or two primary processes needed to accomplish
its core business goals. True or false?
3. Data accuracy begins with verifying the source of the data. True or false?
4. Modern databases are often referred to as SQL databases. True or false?
5. The smaller the consumer audience, the more difficult it is to reduce the surface area
that if vulnerable to attack. True or false?
6. Which of the following is an example of data that provides a competitive advantage?
a. Tracking cost of goods sold and selling costs to calculate profits
b. Sales records over time that let you identify potential related sales to the same
customers
c. Publicly available demographic data organized by geographic region
d. Information about employee work and vacation records
,7. You want to find out the information required in a telephone sales organization to
generate a customer order. Who is your best source of this information within the
organization?
a. Executive staff
b. Warehouse and shipping personnel
c. Telephone sales personnel
d. Upper level managers or supervisors
8. What is the purpose of using data mining software with customer data?
a. To identify who your customers are and generate mailing lists sorted by geographic
region
b. To find areas where you are missing demographic data to design better customer
surveys
c. To find associations and relationships that allow predictions of future actions
d. To validate inventory levels and find evidence of employee theft
9. You are new to an organization and have no experience in its market segment. Where
can you find a starting point for data collection activities?
a. Identify the organization’s core business.
b. Inventory the organization’s business assets.
c. Ask employees to provide all documents they consider to be important.
d. Generate a list of all primary processes within the organization.
10. Which of the following is an example of a hard asset?:
a. Financial records
b. Buildings and land
c. Invoice copies
d. Employee time sheets
,11. Front-line managers are typically the best source for what type of information?
a. Organizational long-term goals
b. Overall organizational structure
c. Specific tasks required to complete primary processes
d. Day-to-day business activities
12. Which of the following best describes an organization’s primary processes?
a. The processes performed to support and fulfill the core business
b. Data gathering activities used to collect information about the organization
c. Activities that are common to all business, not matter that its products or core goals
d. All of the above
13. Remote users need access to data from your database. They will access the data through
the Internet. How can you minimize the database server’s exposure?
a. Use authentication methods supported by your local network to authenticate all
users for direct access.
b. Force the users to log in through a remote access program as part of your local
network before directly accessing the database server.
c. Provide indirect access to an application that communicates with the database
server.
d. Provide indirect access to an application to the database server through a Web
service.
14. What are the two primary categories of data security?
a. Access security and physical security
b. Physical security and organizational security
, c. Access security and access permissions
d. Referential security and relational security
15. You are looking for a cost effective way to ensure that the loss of a single hard disk in a
database server will not result in data loss. The protection should be automatic and not
require any ongoing activity by users or administrators. What can you do?
a. Run daily backups to removable media and store them in an offsite location.
b. Implement a RAID fault-tolerance disk subsystem.
c. Mirror all data to a separate database server.
d. Post all information to a second, duplicate database.
Fill-in
5 Fill-in questions. Each question is worth 4 points for a total of 20 points:
1. ________ is data that has been organized in such a way as to meaningful and useful to
people.
2. ________ are the best source for big-picture data about a company.
3. Most database systems control access security through support of one or more
__________________.
4. A fault-tolerant disk system is usually based on ____________ technologies.
5. Protecting data against physical corruption or loss is the role of ________________.
Essays/Problems
Date:
Multiple-Choice & True/False
Below are 15 Multiple-Choice and True/False questions. Choose the best answer. Each question
is worth 4 points for a total of 60 points:
1. Data is a stream of raw facts that is not organized or arranged into a form that people
can understand or use. True or false?
2. A small business typically only has one or two primary processes needed to accomplish
its core business goals. True or false?
3. Data accuracy begins with verifying the source of the data. True or false?
4. Modern databases are often referred to as SQL databases. True or false?
5. The smaller the consumer audience, the more difficult it is to reduce the surface area
that if vulnerable to attack. True or false?
6. Which of the following is an example of data that provides a competitive advantage?
a. Tracking cost of goods sold and selling costs to calculate profits
b. Sales records over time that let you identify potential related sales to the same
customers
c. Publicly available demographic data organized by geographic region
d. Information about employee work and vacation records
,7. You want to find out the information required in a telephone sales organization to
generate a customer order. Who is your best source of this information within the
organization?
a. Executive staff
b. Warehouse and shipping personnel
c. Telephone sales personnel
d. Upper level managers or supervisors
8. What is the purpose of using data mining software with customer data?
a. To identify who your customers are and generate mailing lists sorted by geographic
region
b. To find areas where you are missing demographic data to design better customer
surveys
c. To find associations and relationships that allow predictions of future actions
d. To validate inventory levels and find evidence of employee theft
9. You are new to an organization and have no experience in its market segment. Where
can you find a starting point for data collection activities?
a. Identify the organization’s core business.
b. Inventory the organization’s business assets.
c. Ask employees to provide all documents they consider to be important.
d. Generate a list of all primary processes within the organization.
10. Which of the following is an example of a hard asset?:
a. Financial records
b. Buildings and land
c. Invoice copies
d. Employee time sheets
,11. Front-line managers are typically the best source for what type of information?
a. Organizational long-term goals
b. Overall organizational structure
c. Specific tasks required to complete primary processes
d. Day-to-day business activities
12. Which of the following best describes an organization’s primary processes?
a. The processes performed to support and fulfill the core business
b. Data gathering activities used to collect information about the organization
c. Activities that are common to all business, not matter that its products or core goals
d. All of the above
13. Remote users need access to data from your database. They will access the data through
the Internet. How can you minimize the database server’s exposure?
a. Use authentication methods supported by your local network to authenticate all
users for direct access.
b. Force the users to log in through a remote access program as part of your local
network before directly accessing the database server.
c. Provide indirect access to an application that communicates with the database
server.
d. Provide indirect access to an application to the database server through a Web
service.
14. What are the two primary categories of data security?
a. Access security and physical security
b. Physical security and organizational security
, c. Access security and access permissions
d. Referential security and relational security
15. You are looking for a cost effective way to ensure that the loss of a single hard disk in a
database server will not result in data loss. The protection should be automatic and not
require any ongoing activity by users or administrators. What can you do?
a. Run daily backups to removable media and store them in an offsite location.
b. Implement a RAID fault-tolerance disk subsystem.
c. Mirror all data to a separate database server.
d. Post all information to a second, duplicate database.
Fill-in
5 Fill-in questions. Each question is worth 4 points for a total of 20 points:
1. ________ is data that has been organized in such a way as to meaningful and useful to
people.
2. ________ are the best source for big-picture data about a company.
3. Most database systems control access security through support of one or more
__________________.
4. A fault-tolerant disk system is usually based on ____________ technologies.
5. Protecting data against physical corruption or loss is the role of ________________.
Essays/Problems
