TEST BANK MODERN DATABASE MANAGEMENT, 13TH EDITION Jeff Hoffer, Ramesh Venkataraman, Heikki Topi

TEST BANK
MODERN DATABASE MANAGEMENT, 13TH EDITION
Jeff Hoffer, Ramesh Venkataraman, Heikki Topi

,Modern Database Management, 13e (Hoffer)
Chapter 1 The Database Environment and Development Process

1) According to a McKinsey Global Institute Report, in 2010 alone, global enterprises stored
more than:
A) 1 terabyte of data.
B) 3 gigabytes of data.
C) at least 100 petabytes of data.
D) more than 7 billion exabytes of data.
Answer: D
LO: 1.1: Define key terms.
Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

2) Database management involves all of the following EXCEPT:
A) collecting data.
B) organizing data.
C) design web pages.
D) managing data.
Answer: C
LO: 1.1: Define key terms.
Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

3) A database is an organized collection of related data.
A) logically
B) physically
C) loosely
D) badly
Answer: A
LO: 1.1: Define key terms.
Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

4) Legacy systems often contain data of quality and are generally hosted on .
A) poor; personal computers
B) excellent; mainframes
C) poor; mainframes
D) excellent; workgroup computers
Answer: C
LO: 3.1: Define key terms.
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology
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,5) Program-data dependence is caused by:
A) file descriptions being stored in each database application.
B) data descriptions being stored on a server.
C) data descriptions being written into programming code.
D) data cohabiting with programs.
Answer: A
LO: 1.2: Name several limitations of conventional file processing systems.
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

6) Because applications are often developed independently in file processing systems:
A) the data is always non-redundant.
B) unplanned duplicate data files are the rule rather than the exception.
C) data can always be shared with others.
D) there is a large volume of file I/O.
Answer: B
LO: 1.2: Name several limitations of conventional file processing systems.
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

7) Relational databases establish the relationships between entities by means of common fields
included in a file called a(n):
A) entity.
B) relationship.
C) relation.
D) association.
Answer: C
LO: 1.3: Explain at least 10 advantages of the database approach, compared to traditional file
processing.
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology

8) A(n) is often developed by identifying a form or report that a user needs on a
regular basis.
A) enterprise view
B) reporting document
C) user view
D) user snapshot
Answer: C
LO: 1.3: Explain at least 10 advantages of the database approach, compared to traditional file
processing.
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Concept
AACSB: Information Technology
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, 9) A graphical dsystem dused dto dcapture dthe dnature dand drelationships damong ddata dis dcalled
da(n):
A) XML ddata dmodel.
B) hypertext dgraphic.
C) relational ddatabase.
D) data
dmodel.
dAnswer: d D
LO: d 1.3: dExplain dat dleast d10 dadvantages dof dthe ddatabase dapproach, dcompared dto dtraditional
dfile dprocessing.
Difficulty: d Moderate
dClassification: d Concept
AACSB: d Information dTechnology

10) Data dthat ddescribe dthe dproperties dof dother ddata dare:
A) relationships.
B) logical.
C) physical.
D) metadata.
dAnswer:
dD
LO: d 1.3: dExplain dat dleast d10 dadvantages dof dthe ddatabase dapproach, dcompared dto dtraditional
dfile dprocessing.
Difficulty: d Moderate
dClassification: d Concept
AACSB: d Information dTechnology

11) Metatdata dtypically ddescribes dall dof dthe dfollowing dEXCEPT:
A) data ddefinitions.
B) length.
C) allowable dvalues.
D) location don
ddisk.
Answer: d D
LO: d 1.3: dExplain dat dleast d10 dadvantages dof dthe ddatabase dapproach, dcompared dto dtraditional
dfile dprocessing.
Difficulty: d Moderate
dClassification: d Concept
AACSB: d Information dTechnology




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