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  • In any hierarchy of data organization, the smallest entity to be processed as a single unit is called


  • Options
  • A. data field
  • B. data record
  • C. data file
  • D. database
  • E. None of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • data field 


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    • 1. The on-line, softcopy display a customer's charge account to respond to an inquiry is an examples of a

    • Options
    • A. forecasting report
    • B. exception report
    • C. regularly scheduled report
    • D. on demand report
    • E. None of the above
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    • 2. Which of the following is not characteristic of a relational database model?

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    • A. tables
    • B. treelike structure
    • C. complex logical relationships
    • D. records
    • E. None of the above
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    • 3. In the DBM approach, application programs perform the

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    • A. storage function
    • B. processing functions
    • C. access control
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
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    • 4. A _____ means that one record in a particular record type is related to only one record of another record type.

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    • A. One-to-one relationship
    • B. One-to-many relationship
    • C. Many-to-one relationship
    • D. Many-to-many relationship
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 5. Large collections of files are called

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    • A. fields
    • B. records
    • C. databases
    • D. file system
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. In SQL, which command(s) is(are) used to enable/disable a database trigger?

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    • A. ALTER TRIGGER
    • B. ALTER DATABASE
    • C. ALTER TABLE
    • D. MODIFY TRIGGER
    • E. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 7. Two files may be joined into a third file if

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    • A. they have a row in common
    • B. they have a field in common
    • C. they have no records with the same value in the common field
    • D. both (b) and (c)
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. A database management system might consist of application programs and a software package called

    • Options
    • A. FORTRAN
    • B. AUTOFLOW
    • C. BPL
    • D. TOTAL
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 9. In SQL, which command is used to changes data in a table?

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    • A. UPDATE
    • B. INSERT
    • C. BROWSE
    • D. APPEND
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. A race condition occurs when

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    • A. Two concurrent activities interact to cause a processing error
    • B. two users of the DBMS are interacting with different files at the same time
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss


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