Exam 11: Behind the Scenes: Databases and Information Systems

A knowledge-based system is an analysis tool that, using internal and external data, provides a view of a particular business situation for the purposes of decision making.

Categories of data are called ________.

Extracting and reformatting data from each source so all data is consistent and then storing the data is known as ________.

A(n) ________ database stores data in more than two dimensions.

You would use a ________ in an Access database to temporarily display records of residents for the city of Boston.

A(n) ________ tries to replicate the decision-making processes of human experts to solve specific problems.

Audio clips, video clips, pictures, and extremely large documents are known as binary ________ objects.

The information about a single student would be stored in a ________.

In a database, a group of related records is referred to as a(n) ________.

In a relational database, a(n) ________ relationship indicates that a record that appears only one time in a table, may appear multiple times in a related table.

Text is an example of unstructured data.

A field ________ is a property that must be met before an entry can be accepted into the field.

________ software provides flexible viewing and manipulation of data in a data warehouse.

A ________ displays a subset of data from a table (or tables) based on the specified criteria.

Data in a multidimensional database is organized in a ________ format.

Employees' last name would usually make an appropriate primary key field.

Management information systems (MIS) provide ________ reports, which show conditions that are unusual or need attention from users of the system.

Siri, the personal assistant application on Apple's iPhone, is an example of a ________.

Data that describes other data is called ________.

Nontraditional data in object-oriented databases such as audio clips, video clips, pictures, and very large documents are called ________ data.