Business Analytics

04 Quiz1

True or False (7 items x 2 points}

1. DBMS is a technology tool used by organization to help them effectively manage their data and
derive relevant information out of it.

2. DBMS makes it possible for end-users to have a quick look and respond fast to any changes
made in the environment.

3. DBMS gives an integrated view of how a particular organization is working and also help to keep
track of how one segment of the company affects other segments.

4. One limitation of DBMS is that end-users, when dealing with large amounts of data, will have
slow access to such data.

5. Another limitation of DBMS is that it is complicated so the many operations like insertion,
deletion and creation of files are difficult to implement.

6. Because of the usually large data handled, DBMS cannot maintain segregation between program
and data.

7. DBMS does not guarantee data quality but it provides framework to make it easy to improve
data quality.

Multiple Choice (7 items x 3 points}

8. This refers to the process to ensure that data is updated correctly and appropriately when more
than one person is accessing the data.
a. Recovery services c. Concurrency control
b. Manipulation of data d. Data sharing

9. This means that within the database, privileges are provided to different types of users who can
access the same database but have different privileges.
a. Recovery services c. Concurrency control
b. Manipulation of data d. Data sharing

10. The is responsible for checking the correctness of the syntax that was provided by
the end-user through the interface.
a. Parser c. Query optimizer
b. Data processing d. Data sharing

11. The component of DBMS that allows the end-user to input values that will be understood by the
DBMS.
a. Interface c. Parser
 b. Query Optimizer d. Executive engine

12. The final physical location of the database whether primary or secondary.
a. Execution engine c. Parser
b. Storage d. Query optimizer

13. Which of the following is a user of the database system?

a. End-user c. Data administrator
b. System developer d. All of these

14. The component of database system which is a space in the disk or computer where the data is
stored.
a. User c. DBMS
b. Data application d. Database