16 Questions
What is the weight of the final exam in the grades distribution?
50
Which course content covers the mapping of an ER schema into a relational schema?
Entity-Relationship (ER) Model
Which area does not involve interactions with databases according to the text?
Astronomy
What is the total weight of year work (project) and quiz in the grades distribution?
30
In the grades distribution, what is the weight of practical?
10
What is a database?
A collection of related data
What are traditional database applications used to store?
Textual or numeric information
What is the main characteristic of the database approach?
Accuracy and reliability
What is a transaction in the context of databases?
An executing program or process involving one or more database accesses
What is an example of a large commercial database mentioned in the text?
Amazon.com
What do data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) systems do?
Extract and analyze useful business information from very large databases to support decision making
What does a multimedia database store?
Images, audio clips, and video streams digitally
What does a mini-world represent in the context of databases?
Some aspects of the real world
What does a real-time database control?
Industrial and manufacturing processes
What is a known fact that can be recorded and has an implicit meaning in the context of databases?
Data
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