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Which fact-finding technique provides the most insight into the live operations of an organization?
Which fact-finding technique provides the most insight into the live operations of an organization?
- Interviews.
- Observing the organization in operation. (correct)
- Research.
- Questionnaires.
Why is understanding an organization's terminology and constraints critical during fact-finding?
Why is understanding an organization's terminology and constraints critical during fact-finding?
- To prevent database normalization.
- To ensure the database system aligns with business processes. (correct)
- To enforce standard SQL commands.
- To eliminate all system constraints.
Which type of modification is typically restricted when working with database views?
Which type of modification is typically restricted when working with database views?
- Deleting records from a multi-table view. (correct)
- Updating attributes in a single base table view.
- Inserting new tuples into a base table using a view with a primary key.
- Selecting data from a view that joins two base tables.
Which fact-finding technique is most effective for verifying data accuracy in a new database system?
Which fact-finding technique is most effective for verifying data accuracy in a new database system?
What is the primary function of a system catalog in database management?
What is the primary function of a system catalog in database management?
During requirements collection and analysis, what type of documentation is typically produced?
During requirements collection and analysis, what type of documentation is typically produced?
Which statement accurately describes Data Manipulation Language (DML)?
Which statement accurately describes Data Manipulation Language (DML)?
In the context of a relational model, what does a 'domain' define?
In the context of a relational model, what does a 'domain' define?
Which level of the three-level database architecture deals with the physical storage of data?
Which level of the three-level database architecture deals with the physical storage of data?
Which of the following is NOT a standard type of integrity constraint in database systems?
Which of the following is NOT a standard type of integrity constraint in database systems?
Which of the following is generally NOT regarded as a typical resource for fact-finding research?
Which of the following is generally NOT regarded as a typical resource for fact-finding research?
Which of the following statements accurately describes a relational database?
Which of the following statements accurately describes a relational database?
What process involves executing application programs specifically to detect errors?
What process involves executing application programs specifically to detect errors?
Which characteristic defines a candidate key?
Which characteristic defines a candidate key?
Which tool is utilized to store details about a database application's information and its support data analysis processes?
Which tool is utilized to store details about a database application's information and its support data analysis processes?
Which DBMS function ensures that only authorized users can access or modify specific data?
Which DBMS function ensures that only authorized users can access or modify specific data?
Why is metadata stored in a system catalog?
Why is metadata stored in a system catalog?
What mathematical foundation underlies the relational model?
What mathematical foundation underlies the relational model?
Which type of database design primarily focuses on entities, attributes, and relationships?
Which type of database design primarily focuses on entities, attributes, and relationships?
What operation does the Cartesian product perform in relational algebra?
What operation does the Cartesian product perform in relational algebra?
What type of insights can be gathered from examining an organization's existing documentation?
What type of insights can be gathered from examining an organization's existing documentation?
What benefit does research offer as a fact-finding technique in database development?
What benefit does research offer as a fact-finding technique in database development?
Which type of constraint is responsible for ensuring values fall within a specific allowable range or set?
Which type of constraint is responsible for ensuring values fall within a specific allowable range or set?
Why is enforcing referential integrity important in a relational database?
Why is enforcing referential integrity important in a relational database?
What is a common drawback of using questionnaires as a fact-finding technique?
What is a common drawback of using questionnaires as a fact-finding technique?
Which activity embodies the actual construction of the database and application designs?
Which activity embodies the actual construction of the database and application designs?
What is the goal of transaction design during application design?
What is the goal of transaction design during application design?
Which phase of database design involves creating an enterprise-wide model of information, independent of any physical implementation?
Which phase of database design involves creating an enterprise-wide model of information, independent of any physical implementation?
Which database architecture is characterized by a single central computer connected to multiple terminals?
Which database architecture is characterized by a single central computer connected to multiple terminals?
In a database environment, which role is primarily responsible for building application programs?
In a database environment, which role is primarily responsible for building application programs?
What is a typical reason why some database views cannot be updated directly?
What is a typical reason why some database views cannot be updated directly?
How does Information Management (IM) fundamentally differ from Knowledge Management (KM)?
How does Information Management (IM) fundamentally differ from Knowledge Management (KM)?
What is an advantage of using fact-finding early in the database application lifecycle?
What is an advantage of using fact-finding early in the database application lifecycle?
What is the key objective of the logical database design phase?
What is the key objective of the logical database design phase?
What does defining a mission objective achieve in database planning?
What does defining a mission objective achieve in database planning?
Which feature helps restore a database system to a consistent state after a system failure?
Which feature helps restore a database system to a consistent state after a system failure?
Which of the following is NOT considered a key area of Information Management (IM)?
Which of the following is NOT considered a key area of Information Management (IM)?
Which database phase involves modeling information with a specific data model, independent of physical factors?
Which database phase involves modeling information with a specific data model, independent of physical factors?
How does using a database system address data redundancy issues compared to file-based systems?
How does using a database system address data redundancy issues compared to file-based systems?
What is a key advantage of conducting interviews during fact-finding?
What is a key advantage of conducting interviews during fact-finding?
Flashcards
Observing an Organization
Observing an Organization
Understanding how an organization functions in real-time.
Understand Terminology
Understand Terminology
Ensuring the database system aligns with the organization's needs.
Modifications NOT allowed
Modifications NOT allowed
Deleting records from a view that joins multiple tables.
Observation validation
Observation validation
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System catalog
System catalog
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Documentation produced
Documentation produced
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DML allows actions
DML allows actions
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Domain
Domain
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How data is stored
How data is stored
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NOT integrity constraint
NOT integrity constraint
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Not a fact-finding source
Not a fact-finding source
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Relational databases
Relational databases
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Testing
Testing
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Characteristic of candidate key
Characteristic of candidate key
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Which tool is used
Which tool is used
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Which function of a DBMS
Which function of a DBMS
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Why is metadata stored
Why is metadata stored
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Mathematical concept
Mathematical concept
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Logical Database Design
Logical Database Design
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Cartesian product
Cartesian product
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Examining Documentation
Examining Documentation
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Why is research used
Why is research used
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Values are valid
Values are valid
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Key reason for integrity
Key reason for integrity
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Questionnare disadvantage
Questionnare disadvantage
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Activity?
Activity?
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Purpose?
Purpose?
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Phase?
Phase?
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Which architecture
Which architecture
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Responsible role
Responsible role
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Why viewed updateable?
Why viewed updateable?
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Benefits early
Benefits early
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Primary focus
Primary focus
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Purpose definie
Purpose definie
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Which database feature?
Which database feature?
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Five key areas?
Five key areas?
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Which phase
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Study Notes
- Observing the organization in operation to understand how it operates in real-time is the most effective fact-finding technique.
- Understanding an organization's terminology and constraints during fact-finding is crucial to ensure the database system aligns with business processes.
- Deleting records from a multi-table view is a type of modification not allowed through views.
- Observation is the most useful fact-finding technique for validating data accuracy in a new database system.
- Storing metadata about database structures is a primary function of a system catalog.
- User and system requirements specifications is documentation produced during the requirements collection and analysis stage.
- Data Manipulation Language (DML) allows users to query and modify data.
- A "domain" in the relational model is best defined as a set of allowable values for an attribute.
- The internal level of the three-level database architecture describes how data is physically stored.
- Functional integrity is not a type of integrity constraint.
- Social media comments is not typically a source for fact-finding research.
- A relational database consists of normalized relations with unique names.
- Testing describes the process of executing application programs to find errors.
- A candidate key is a minimal superkey with no redundant attributes.
- CASE tools are used to store information about the database application's data and support data analysis.
- Authorization Services helps ensure that only authorized users can access or modify certain data.
- Metadata is stored in a system catalog because it provides detailed descriptions of data structures, constraints, and user permissions.
- Set theory and Cartesian products form the foundation of the relational model.
- Logical Database Design focuses on entities, attributes, and relationships.
- A Cartesian product combines all tuples from two relations, forming every possible pair.
- Examining an organization's documentation gives insight into the history of system issues and solutions.
- Research is a useful fact-finding technique in database development because it allows developers to see how others have addressed similar challenges.
- A Domain constraint ensures that an attribute's value is valid within a specific range or set of values.
- Enforcing referential integrity ensures foreign keys always reference valid tuples in the parent table.
- Responses may be biased is a disadvantage of using questionnaires for fact-finding.
- Implementation involves the physical realization of the database and application designs.
- Transaction design defines the high-level characteristics of database transactions in application design.
- Conceptual database design constructs a model of the information used in an enterprise independent of physical considerations.
- Teleprocessing is a database architecture associated with a single mainframe and multiple terminals.
- An Application Developer is primarily responsible for creating application programs in a database environment.
- Some views are considered non-updateable because they contain aggregated data or derived columns.
- Information management focuses on storing data, while knowledge management focuses on creating knowledge.
- Using fact-finding techniques early in the database application lifecycle prevents unnecessary changes later in development.
- Refining and mapping the conceptual data model is the primary focus of the logical database design phase.
- Defining a mission objective in database planning specifies tasks that the database must support.
- Transaction Rollback is a database feature that helps recover a database after a system failure.
- Visualization is not one of the five key areas of information management.
- Logical database design involves creating a model of information used in an enterprise based on a specific data model but independent of physical considerations.
- The database approach addresses redundancy issues by centralizing data storage and management.
- Interviews allow follow-up questions and clarification.
- Physical data independence protects the conceptual schema from changes in the internal schema.
- The conceptual level represents the entire database structure, while the external level focuses on user-specific views.
- Creating application programs is not a step in selecting a DBMS.
- Three-tier architecture uses a middle-tier application server to manage requests between clients and databases.
- Fact-finding techniques might be repeated because they ensure that requirements remain valid as the system evolves.
- The Security system component of the DBMS environment ensures only authorized users can access specific data.
- Developing a database for a complex organization with multiple departments would require using multiple fact-finding techniques.
- Data Definition Language (DDL)'s primary function is to define and modify database structures.
- Information silos and integration with legacy systems is a challenge most likely to affect IM systems.
- CASE tools provide support for the development of corporate data models, conceptual and logical data models.
- Views provide users with personalized subsets of the database.
- Selection is a relational operation to retrieve specific rows from a relation based on a condition.
- Data administration primarily concerns the management of data resources.
- A Database Administrator (DBA)'s primary concern is the physical realization of the database application.
- Only tuples with matching keys are combined when two relations are joined using a foreign key-primary key relationship.
- The destruction phase is critical in the IM lifecycle as it ensures compliance with data protection regulations.
- Questionnaires are best suited for collecting opinions from remote users.
- Relational algebra provides a foundation for query optimization.
- Query execution is not a fact-finding technique.
- The main goal of conceptual modeling in databases is to represent data requirements independently of implementation details.
- In a client-server database architecture, the Client primarily executes user applications.
- Changes to the conceptual schema do not require changes to external schemas or application programs, which defines logical data independence.
- Fact-finding techniques should be used to clarify priorities when database developers encounter conflicting user requirements.
- An Unstructured interview allows interviewees to respond freely to questions.
- The communication skills of the interviewer can significantly affect the success of an interview in fact-finding.
- The number of tuples in a relation represents the cardinality of a relation.
- Database planning includes developing standards that govern data collection, format specification, and necessary documentation.
- Integrity constraints in a database maintain consistency and accuracy of stored data.
- A Transaction Processing Monitor (TPM) controls data transfer between clients and servers for online transaction processing (OLTP).
- Observed individuals may alter their behavior, is a key disadvantage of observation
- Interviews are time-consuming and costly.
- Normalization removes data redundancy and improves data integrity in relational databases.
- Open-ended questions provide detailed and insightful responses.
- Watching employees perform tasks to understand workflow is an advantage of observation.
- Questionnaires is best for collecting information from a large number of people while maintaining some control over responses
- The result of performing a natural join between two relations is a relation where only matching tuples from both tables are included.
- The primary objective of the prototyping phase is to create a model to evaluate the feasibility of the system design.
- External/conceptual and conceptual/internal mappings ensures changes at one level do not affect other levels unnecessarily.
- Observation is most suitable for determining whether an existing manual process can be automated.
- Bottom-up approach in database design begins at the fundamental level of attributes.
- Complexity and high costs are a disadvantage of using a DBMS.
- A superkey is a key that uniquely identifies a tuple but may contain extra attributes.
- To produce a global data model is the main objective of the centralized approach to managing multiple user views.
- A processing engine is not part of a data model.
- The primary characteristic of a relation is that it contains data in rows and columns, representing tuples and attributes
- A three-tier client-server architecture improves scalability and separates business logic from database operations over a two-tier architecture.
- Observation allows direct verification of how a system operates. – The system definition phase in the database application lifecycle is designed describe the scope and boundaries of the database application.
- The final phase of the database application lifecycle is operational maintenance.
- Logical and physical data independence is a key benefit of using three-level architecture in a database system.
- A foreign key creates a relationship between tables.
- Data Definition Language (DDL) is responsible to define data types, structures, and constraints in a DBMS.
- Conceptual database design creates a model of information used in an enterprise, independent of all physical considerations.
- Metadata provides a description of the database's structure and content and is essential in databases.
- A main component of an information system is a database.
- The most important characteristics of database transactions is its functional characteristics
- A data model representing the entire database system is what the term “global data model” relates to in database design
- The value indicates that no relationship exists for that tuple.
- The main purpose of creating a mission statement for a database project helps to define the major aims of the database application
- The usage of CASE tools provides a data dictionary and design tools within database application development.
- In the database environment views contents updates automatically when the base table is modified.
- In a multi-user database environment, concurrency control is essential as transactions execute in isolation, avoiding conflicts.
- Monitoring and tuning database performance can be identified as operational maintenance within the scope of the database application lifecycle.
- Referential integrity indicates the constraint enforces relationships between tables by requiring foreign key values to match a candidate key in another relation.
- To allow multiple users to access the same data while maintaining independence between levels, can primarily be achieved by the three level ANSI-SPARC database architecture.
- Databases are designed beginning by identifying major entities and then expand to include other related entities following a top-down design.
- Budget limitations for database development is an enterprise constraint can be discovered during fact and findings
- Preventing a tuple from being inserted if its foreign key does not exist in the referenced table can lead to referential integrity constraint
- Relations databases where introduced in third generation of databases system.
- When major software projects that lead to “software depression,” this can arise to poor decomposition of design into manageable components
- A candidate key that is not selected as the primary key, defines alternate key.
- To ensure timely access to relevant information for decision-making is the objective of information management
- Issues with concurrency and integrity control is a disadvantage
- What data is needed without specifying retrieval method, relates to declarative DML
- Dynamic query results that presents data is a database view as a whole.
- Irrelevant findings can happen from research because it may not provide relevant information for unique problems .
- Important information can from requirement collection and analysis
- In the database. fact that using can come with data redundancy in base tables
- System definition is responsible for identifying users' requirements for new data systems.
- The constraints are primarily to make sure everything is unique and without any null space
- Its projections is the relation in an operation
- Its primarily capture data that can be related to the specific life cycle of a database application.
- There are always unique database files when you create and design a DB
- A serves standard dictionary system is the role of IRDS
- A redundant and isolated data database can be used in file systems
- Its not a recorded data if its in a object oriented system
- Attributes are the numbers of roles in the relation.
- Concurrency control has many functions that the DMBS ensures can be executed while avoiding conflicts.
- Scenarios adding a new data table requires some data points
- To uniquely identify each tuple is chosen from candidate tuples uniquely
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