Exam 11: Behind the Scenes: Databases and Information Systems

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In an Access database, a filter is limited to extracting data from a single table.

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As a business grows, it needs to ________.

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A(n) ________ system provides intelligence that supplements the user's own intellect.

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Real-time processing means that transactions are updated when they occur.

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When using SQL, a(n) ________ query is used to extract data from two or more tables.

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Data staging consists of all of the following steps, except ________.

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A business intelligence system is form of business information system that is used primarily at the consumer level.

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Business ________ is the ability to improve business decision making with databases and other fact-based support systems.

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In a transaction-processing system (TPS), if the TPS database can be queried and updated while the transaction is taking place, this is called ________ processing.

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NoSQL databases are good for unstructured data.

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In terms of databases, a table is also referred to as a(n) ________.

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A group of related records is called a(n) ________.

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Data that describes other data is known as ________.

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Match each of the following terms to its definition:
table
a category of information in a database
field
a group of related records
primary key
a group of related fields
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table
a category of information in a database
field
a group of related records
primary key
a group of related fields
database
a field that has a value unique to each record
record
a collection of related data that can be stored, sorted, organized, and queried
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A data ________ is a large-scale collection of data that contains and organizes all of an organization's data in one place.

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A(n) ________ is a collection of related data that can be stored, organized, and queried.

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In a table, if you need to store the extended price (number of units sold times the price per unit) of an order, you would store the data in a ________ field.

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A(n) ________ is a type of information system that tracks transactions.

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In a database, the term ________ is synonymous with a category of data.

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________ means that for each value in the foreign key of one table, there is a corresponding value in the primary key of another table.

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