Exam 11: Information and Data Management

Which of the following kinds of programs interacts with a DBMS, which in turn interacts with the database?

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

____________________ unneeded records reduces the size of files, thereby freeing up storage space.

Discuss the seven qualities of valuable information.

With a distributed database, the data is accessible through a variety of servers.

You cannot maintain data in a database by importing data.

All DBMSs have built-in backup utilities.

Data redundancy decreases the chance of errors.

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?

The data in a database environment belongs to and is shared, usually over a network, by an entire organization.

Which of the following stores data in objects?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What does the S in SQL stand for?

Many database programs today have a webpage as their back end.

One application that uses multidimensional databases is a data warehouse.

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?

In a database such as that pictured in the accompanying figure, which of the following is a connection within the data?

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

Accurate information is error free.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT A data dictionary contains details about data. What term is used to describe this characteristic?

An object-oriented database stores unstructured data less efficiently than a relational database.