Business Rules and Constraints
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What is the primary purpose of constraints in a data model?

  • To create a correct data model
  • To develop business rules
  • To understand business processes
  • To ensure data integrity (correct)
  • What is the main goal of business rules in data modeling?

  • To develop relationship participation rules and constraints (correct)
  • To standardize the company's view of data
  • To create a correct data model
  • To understand business processes
  • What is the source of business rules in an organization?

  • A combination of company managers, policy makers, department managers, and written documentation (correct)
  • Only department managers
  • Only company managers
  • Only policy makers
  • What do nouns translate into in a data model?

    <p>Entities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of translating business rules into data model components?

    <p>To enable communication between users and designers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the direction of relationships in a data model?

    <p>Bidirectional</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary objective of naming conventions in data modeling?

    <p>To make the object unique and distinguishable from other objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of statements are business rules typically written as?

    <p>Precisely written and unambiguous statements</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do cardinalities determine in an entity?

    <p>The minimum and maximum number of entity occurrences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between business rules and data modeling?

    <p>Business rules form the basis of the data modeling process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of a precisely written business rule?

    <p>To define one or more modeling components</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of inadequate business rules in data modeling?

    <p>A failure in the database design</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a critical factor in the success of a design?

    <p>Accuracy of operations description</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a business rule?

    <p>An invoice contains one or more invoice lines</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many stores can an employee be employed by?

    <p>One</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of the relationship between a college and its departments?

    <p>A college has many departments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many clients can sign a contract?

    <p>Only one</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of the relationship between a driver and vehicles?

    <p>A driver can drive multiple vehicles and a vehicle can be driven by multiple drivers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the external model in data abstraction?

    <p>To provide a view of the data environment for end users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a typical business unit in a company?

    <p>Human Resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of an application in a business unit?

    <p>To have a specific business unit focus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do end users view their data subsets as separate from other units in the organization?

    <p>Because they operate in an environment with specific constraints and requirements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the architecture that defines the three levels of data abstraction?

    <p>ANSI/SPARC architecture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of diagrams are used to represent the external views in data modeling?

    <p>ER diagrams</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main purpose of the conceptual model in database design?

    <p>To provide a global view of the entire database</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ER model used for?

    <p>To integrate all external views into a single view</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the internal model in database design?

    <p>A representation of the database as seen by the DBMS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the entity-relationship diagram (ERD)?

    <p>To graphically represent the conceptual schema</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the conceptual schema also known as?

    <p>The conceptual schema</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of the conceptual model?

    <p>To provide a global view of the entire database</p> Signup and view all the answers

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