Exam 1: The Database Approach

We are now said to be entering the "knowledge age."

Data constitute the building blocks of information.

____________________ exists when it is possible to make changes in the data storage characteristics without affecting the application program's ability to access the data.

End-user data is ____.

A ____ is a logically connected set of one or more fields that describes a person, place, or thing.

Initially the files within a computer file system were similar to manual files.

Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex operations required to fulfill those requests.

Describe what metadata are and what value they provide to the database system.

Accurate, relevant, and timely information is the key to ____.

Data ____________________ is a discipline that focuses on proper generation, storage and retrieval of data.

One disadvantage of the DBMS is that it increases the risk of data security breaches.

____________________ databases focus primarily on storing data used to generate information required to make tactical or strategic decisions.

An operational database is sometimes referred to as an enterprise database.

The only way to access the data in a database is through the DBMS.

Data and information are essentially the same thing.

____ data are the result of formatting to facilitate storage, use and generation of information.

____ data exist in the format in which they were collected.

____ is a set of tools that work together to provide an advanced data analysis environment for retrieving, processing, and modeling data from the data warehouse.

Information implies familiarity, awareness, and understanding knowledge as it applies to an environment.

____________________ is data about data through which the end-user data are integrated and managed.