Exam 11: Information and Data Management: Organizing, Verifying, Maintaining, and Accessing

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following integrates MRP II with the information flow across an organization to manage and coordinate the ongoing activities of the enterprise, including product planning, manufacturing and distribution, accounting and finance, sales, human resources, and customer support?

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Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition.
Information that can be proven as correct or incorrect.
accurate
Eight bits grouped together in a unit comprise this.
relationships
The more errors the data contains, the lower this is.
useful
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Verified
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Information that can be proven as correct or incorrect.
accurate
Eight bits grouped together in a unit comprise this.
relationships
The more errors the data contains, the lower this is.
useful
Kind of rules that decrease data entry errors, and thus enhance the data's integrity.
functions
What each byte represents in ASCII.
flagged
Information that has an age suited to its use.
DBMS
Phrase that points out the accuracy of a computer's output depends on the accuracy of the input.
verifiable
This type of information can lead to incorrect decisions.
cost-effective
Information that has meaning to the person who receives it.
inaccurate
Has special keywords and rules that users include in SQL statements.
timely
Information that is arranged to suit the needs and requirements of the decision maker.
character
What is done to a record so the DBMS will not process it again.
byte
Information that should give more value than it costs to produce.
record
A group of related fields.
organized
Information that is error free.
integrity
In addition to storing data, a relational database also stores these.
GIGO
While a user is working with the database, this resides in the memory of the computer.
primary key
This database capability is one of the more powerful database features.
SQL
Whether designed for a small or large computer, most DBMSs perform common ones.
validation
A field that uniquely identifies each record in a file.
querying
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Which of the following is a request for specific data from a database?

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You store all of your photographs on a website that uses a database to store the photos users post. What is this type of database called?

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A larger version of a data warehouse is the data mart.

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In a forward recovery, the DBMS uses the log to undo any changes made to a database during a certain period, such as an hour.

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A web database usually resides on a(n) ____________________.

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The data modeler creates and maintains the data dictionary, manages security of the database, monitors the performance of the database, and checks backup and recovery procedures.

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A relational database developer refers to a record as a relation.

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A form that sends entered data across a network or the Internet is called which of the following terms?

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Each higher level of data consists of one or more items from the lower level.

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A user cannot override the default value.

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-2 In your database course, your instructor has given you a small database that has a lot of invalid data, issuing the challenge to you that you work to apply validation rules to the data and determine what checks need to be applied in order to restore integrity to the data. The instructor tells you that this is a mailing database, and yet you can see at a glance that there are some records with no data in the city field. What kind of check should you run on this field?

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The data in a database is independent of programs that access that data.

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Accurate information is error free.

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What does the S in SQL stand for?

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are creating a database for your computer club. Most of the students live in your town, Durham. How can you make Durham appear initially in the field to make data entry easier?

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Which kind of database stores data in dimensions?

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It often is easier and faster to develop programs that use the database approach.

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following does not improve with the database approach?

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