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Raw facts such as a social security number or catalog item number for a shirt are known as _____.

a.
data

b.
knowledge

c.
information

d.
entities

data

When rules and relationships are set up to organize raw facts, creating value beyond that of those individual facts, this produces _____.

a.
data

b.
knowledge

c.
information

d.
entities

information

A collection of characteristics that belong to a single person, place, or thing for which data is maintained is a(n) _____.

a.
record
b.
file

c.
attribute
d.
character

record

A(n) _____ is a characteristic or set of characteristics in a record that uniquely identifies the record.

a.
attribute
b.
entity

c.
primary key
d.
data item

primary key

A group of programs used to access and manage a database as well as provide an interface between the database and its users and other application programs is called a _____.

a.
database

b.
database management system

c.
data model

d.
data definition system

database management system

Mollie's company is having problems with their data integrity because multiple database users sometimes access and alter a record at the same time. A database management system could eliminate these problems by implementing _____.

a.
a logical access path

b.
data definition languages

c.
concurrency control

d.
a schema

concurrency control

Mark creates a new relational database table that includes only five of the seven columns in the existing products table. This action is known as ____.

a.
selecting
b.
joining

c.
projecting
d.
linking

projecting

For the ____ operation, it is required that the the two tables have a common data attribute.

a.
delete
b.
select

c.
project
d.
join

join

Jesse's team is organizing the data in their company's relational database so that all data is stored in only one place and only related data is stored in any given table. What is this process called?

a.
conforming to ACID properties

b.
data normalization

c.
projecting

d.
selecting and joining

data normalizing

_____ is a special-purpose programming language for accessing and manipulating data stored in a relational database.

a.
Query by Example (QBE)
b.
Access

c.
Structured Query Language (SQL)
d.
Java

structured query language (SQL)

To ensure reliability and integrity, SQL databases conform to four specific properties. Which of the following is NOT one of those four properties?

a.
atomicity
b.
durability

c.
isolation
d.
currency

Currency

Julie is a non-IS employee who is responsible for, among other tasks, creating and maintaining consistent reference data and master data definitions and for analyzing data for quality. Coworkers consult with Julie to find out what data to use to answer a business question. Julie is a _____.

a.
data analyst
b.
data steward

c.
database administrator
d.
data owner

data steward

What process detects and then corrects or deletes "bad data"?

a.
data recovery

b.
data enhancement

c.
data cleansing

d.
data validation

data cleansing

With _____, the database is stored on a service provider's servers and accessed by the client over a network, typically the Internet.

a.
Internet access
b.
database as a service

c.
software as a service
d.
Oracle

data base as a service

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