IS CHAPTER 5 ANSWERS

1.) SQL databases conform to ACID properties, which stands for _______.
atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability
2.) A primary key is a field or set of fields in a record that _______.
uniquely identifies the record
3.) Adherence to the standards defined in the data dictionary makes it easy to share data
among various organizations.
TRUE
4.) With Database as a Service, the database is stored on a service provider's server and
accessed by the client over _______.
THE INTERNET
5.) If you have weekly sales data and you wish to get monthly sales data, then use the
______ feature.
ROLL UP
6.) While building a database, an organization must carefully consider content, access,
logical structure, and physical organization.
TRUE
7.) A database, a database management system, and the application programs that use the
data make up the communication environment in an organization.
FALSE
8.) A ______ is the highest level of data hierarchy.
DATABASE
9.) MS Access is an open-source software framework that includes several software modules
that provide a means for storing and processing extremely large data sets.
FALSE
10.) Large database systems typically use schemas to define the tables and other
database features associated with a person or user.
TRUE
11.) A database administrator (DBA) is trained to apply database programming
languages to craft a set of databases to meet an organization's needs.
TRUE
12.) The _______________ allows users to relate data in new ways without having to
redefine complex relationships.
ABILITY TO LINK RELATIONAL TABLES
13.) One of the primary disadvantages of a relational database is that it allows large
amounts of redundancy among data.
FALSE
14.) The relational model can place data in one-dimensional, two-dimensional, or
three-dimensional tables.
FALSE
15.) _____ is a special-purpose programming language for accessing and manipulating
data stored in a relational database.
SQL
16.) In the context of the relational database model, selecting involves eliminating
columns in a table.
FALSE
17.) If you wish to use a visual approach to query building, you would use ________.
QUERY BY EXAMPLE
18.) A collection of data fields that are all related to one object, activity, or individual
is called a record.
TRUE
19.) In a relational database model, the cost of performing data cleansing or data
scrubbing can be quite high.
TRUE
20.) The process of detecting and then correcting or deleting incomplete, incorrect,
inaccurate, irrelevant records that reside in a database is called ________.
DATA CLEANSING
21.) A data definition language is a collection of instructions and commands used to
__________.
DEFINE AND DESCRIBE DATA AND RELATIONSHIPS IN A SPECIFIC
DATABASE
22.) In the relational database model, each row of a table represents a record.
FALSE
23.) A(n) __________ uses basic graphical symbols to show the organization of and
relationships between data.
ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM
24.) A data mart is a ______.
SUBSET OF A FATA WAREHOUSE
25.) In a data warehouse, during which stage of the ETL process is the data subjected
to a series of rules or algorithms that will derive the data that's meant to be stored from
the rest?
TRANSFORM
26.) If you had a job where you were responsible for setting policies and managing the
flow of the company's data, from initial acquisition of new data to deletion of old,
outdated data, you would be a ________.
DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGER
27.) A major advantage of NoSQL databases is the lateral dissemination capability,
which enables hundreds or even thousands of servers to operate on the data, providing
faster response times for queries and updates.
FALSE
28.) _____ is a popular open-source DBMS.
mySQL
29.) An enterprise data model involves modeling the information needs of an entire
organization.
TRUE
30.) In the context of the relational database model, joining involves combining two or
more tables.
TRUE
31.) A database should be designed to store all data relevant to the business and
provide quick access and easy modification.
TRUE
32.) How many bits make up a byte?
8
33.) If "temperature" is an attribute, then "80 degrees" is a data item.
TRUE
34.) Suppose we have a table that stores Instructors data. Within it, there is a field
called "instructorID" that uniquely identifies each instructor record. This field is known
as the ID key.
FALSE
35.) William works at a paper goods distributor. He is responsible for defining and
implementing consistent principles for a variety of data issues, including setting data
standards and data definitions that apply across all the databases in the organization.
William is a ________.
DATA ADMINISTRATOR
36.) With an in-memory database, the entire database is stored in cache memory,
providing access to data at much faster rates than if data is stored on some form of
secondary storage.
FALSE
37.) Unstructured data comes from sources such as social media, email, and
surveillance video.
TRUE
38.) If an organization uses the traditional approach to data management, it would
have multiple information systems sharing a pool of related data.
FALSE
39.) A DBMS is a group of programs used as an interface between a database and
application programs or a database and the user.
TRUE
40.) Each attribute in a ________ model can be constrained to a range of allowable
values called a domain.
RELATIONAL DATABASE
41.) Sometimes incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, or irrelevant data has to cleaned.
This can be corrected or deleted through data scrubbing.
TRUE
42.) Which of the following is NOT one of the popular categories of NoSQL
databases?
dimensional NoSQL
43.) An entity is a general class of people, places, or things for which data is collected,
stored, and maintained.
TRUE
44.) If an organization is taking a "store everything" approach to data, it will save all
the data in its raw and unaltered form in a data lake.
TRUE
45.) In a database, bits can be organized into bytes, and each byte represents is a(n)
______.
CHARACTER
46.) Database management systems are often used with other software, but only when
they act as a front-end application.
FALSE
47.) Suppose you wish to find what tables are in a database, what fields they have, and
how they are related. You would review the _____.
DATA DICTIONARY
48.) A record is typically a name, number, or combination of characters that describes
an aspect of a business object, such as a location
FALSE
49.) A data dictionary describes the meanings of data elements that are in a different
language.
FALSE
50.) Leila's employer, a major auto manufacturer, has asked her to capture and review
the tsunami of social media posts and customer service emails about their company's
latest recall. In terms of the characteristics of big data, Leila is dealing with ________.
VARIETY
51.) The primary key is used to distinguish records so that they can be accessed,
organized, and manipulated.
TRUE
52.) A _____ is a database system whose files have relationships to one another.
RELATIONAL SYSTEM
53.) Data governance is defined as the set of policies and procedures that control how
data is collected, stored, and maintained by an organization.
FALSE
54.) Among the many challenges related to big data is the difficulty in distinguishing
relevant data from irrelevant data and then deriving value from that relevant data.
TRUE
55.) The database approach to managing data is not as good as the traditional file-
based approach, where each operational system uses its own data files.
FALSE
56.) Which of the following statements is true of a database?
IT CAN SONTRIBUTE TO ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS BY PROVIDING
TIMELY, ACCURATE, AND RELEVANT INFORMATION BUILT ON DATA
57.) Some people have privacy concerns about the fact that corporations are harvesting
huge amounts of personal data that can be shared with other organizations.
TRUE
58.) Records form the smallest piece of information in the data hierarchy.
FALSE
59.) Ron is working with an existing database, but he wants to eliminate some of the columns
in the table to create a new, more streamlined database. He will use "joining" to create his
new database.
FALSE