Chapter 13: Data Base Concepts

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Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Security, Redundancy, DBMS, Database, Table)
1. Collection of rows and columns is called as___________

2. _______is a collection of interrelated data?

3. Data duplication is called as__________

4. _________. is a software for creating and managing databases?

5. Protection of data is the_________

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Data Abstraction, Internal level, Physical level, Conceptual level, view
level.)

6. The process of hiding irrelevant details from user is called _____

7. _______is the lower level of data abstraction.

8. Internal level is also known as _________.

9. ________ of abstraction deals with logical structure of the entire

10.The highest level of abstraction that deals with the user’s view of the
database is called ________.

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given
in brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Tuple, Rectangle, MySQL, ISAM, Schema)

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 11.The structure of database is called as _________

12.________is the symbol used to represent entity?

13.Row of a table is also called as __________

14._________ Software for creating and managing databases?

15._________ is a combination of serial and random file organization?

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given
in brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(View, Diamond, Oracle, Data mining, DBA)

16._______ level is also called as external level in data abstraction.

17._________ is the symbol used to represent relationship in E-R diagram?

18. Person who have the authorization to access, monitor data base is
__________

19. __________ is a software for creating and managing databases?

20. Extracting and discovery of knowledge from large amount of data is

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(E.F Codd, Hashing, Candidate, Data warehousing, Instances)

21. _________keys are the keys which are not currently selected as primary
key.

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 22._________ is the repository of organizations electronically stored data?

23. Father of relational algebra is __________

24.________ is set of values in each row.

25. Algorithm used in random or direct access file organization is

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Attributes, Data security, Information, Data model, End users)

26.Abstract model that describes how data is represented and used is

27.___________ describes the characteristics of an entity.

28.The processed for of data is ________

29 ________are the people who access the database for querying, updating,
generating repots.

30._________ is an example for advantages of DBMS.

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given
in brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Alternate key, Data Model, Foreign key, staging, domain)

31. Key which is not selected as primary key is_________

32. ___________key combines two database tables.

33. Set of values for an attribute in each column is _______

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 34. ________describes how data is represented and used.

35. Process of cleaning, standardized and loading data in data warehouse is

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(one-tier, Data independence, serial file organization, tuple, Attribute)

36. Each column is identified by distinct header called _________

37. ___________ is the architecture where users directly sit on DBMS

38. Each row in a table is called ___________

39.___________ stores data in serial order in the database.

40.Ability database to modify schema at one level without affecting it

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brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Tree, domain, DBMS, entity, Database)

41. Set of values for an attribute in each column is __________

42. ___________is an application software used for creating, updating,

43. Hierarchical model follows structure _____________

44.______________ is a collection of logically related data?

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 45. ____________is an object like table?

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(one-tier, Data independence, serial file organization, network model,
Attribute,Tuple)

46. Each column is identified by distinct header called _________

47. ____________is a data model that follows graph structure.

48. Each row in a table is called ___________

49.__________stores data in serial order in the database.

50. Ability database to modify schema at one level without affecting it

Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/words from those given in
brackets.
(Repeated answers will not be considered)
(Hierarchical model, Number, random file organization, tuple, G-sat)

51.________ is an example for data mining software?

52.________is a data model that follows tree structure?

53. Each row in a table is called __________.

54.___________ stores data in random order in the database.

55. An example for data types used is DBMS is_____________

II Fill in the blanks

1. _______ is a collection of facts, figures, statistics. (Data)

2. __________ is processed data with some definite meaning. (Information)

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3. A collection of logically related data organised in way that data can be easily

accessed managed and updated is called__________ (Database)

4. A single entry in table is called a __________ (Record or Row)

5. Records are also called the _________ (Tuple).

6. Each column is identified by a distinct header called _________ (Attribute

or field)

7. Set of values for an attribute in that column is called _______ (Domain).

8. A _________ is a software that allow creation, definition and manipulation of

database. (DBMS)

9. _________________ is a process of hiding unwanted or irrelevant details

from the end

user. (Data abstraction)

10. People who require access to the database for querying updating and

generating

reports is ___________ (End Users)

11. __________________ is an ability of a database to modify a schema

definition at one

level without affecting a schema in the next higher level. (Data Independence)

12. Database architecture is logically divided into _________ types. (Three)

13. ____________ architecture is used for user interface program and

application

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programs that runs on client side. (Two-tier client/server)

14. ____________ data model is abstract model that describes how the data is

represented and used. (Data model)

15. The process of applying a data model theory to create a data model instance

known as _____________ (data modelling)

16. ______________ is the process of organizing data in a database.

(Normalization)

17. An _________ can be any object, place, person or class. (Entity)

18. An ___________ describes a property or characteristics of an entity.

(Attribute)

19. A ____________ describes relation between entities. (Relationship)

20. A ____________ is any set of one or more columns whose combined values

are

unique among all Occurrences. (Candidate key)

21. ___________ is a key that uniquely identify each record in a table.

(Primary Key)

22. ____________ is a field in a relational table that matches the primary key

column of

another table. (Foreign key)

23. Key that consists two or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity

occurrence is called ___________ (Composite Key)

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24. The process of sharing data stored in database is _________among multiple

users.

(data sharing)

25. __________is a process of analysing and picking out relevant information

from data.

(Data Mining)

26. Data about data is _________. (Metadata)

27. ___________is a set of values for an attribute in a column. (Domain)

28. An entry in a table is a __________. (Record)

29. Process of extracting knowledge from collected data is called _________

(data

mining)

30. ____________ is a repository of an organization electronically stored data.

(Data

warehouse)

31. ____________ describes how the data is represented and used. (Data

model)

32. __________ combines two lower-level entity of from higher level entity.

(Generalization)

33. Records are stored in chronological order in _____________(serial file

organization.

34. _________ refers to the minimum number of relationships in an entity.

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(Cardinality)

35. The duplication of data is called ______________. (Data redundancy)

36. Ability of a database to modify a schema definition at one level without

affected is

___________. (Data independence)

37. Data sharing database is easy because of ________________ (centralized

data

management).

38. Collection of rows and column is called ______. (table)

39. __________ is a set of values for each column. (Primary Key).

40. __________ is a DBMS software. (Oracle)