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Multiple Choice: Bit, Byte, Field, Record, File, Database

This multiple choice quiz contains questions about data organization, databases, database management systems, data warehousing, information technology infrastructure, emerging technologies, operating systems, legacy systems, distributed computing, programming languages, and enterprise software packages. It tests knowledge of key concepts such as data hierarchy, data redundancy, DBMS functions, relational database design, primary keys, data definition and manipulation languages, online analytical processing, Moore's law, mainframe uses, and characteristics of technologies like Java, netbooks, and software packages.

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Multiple Choice: Bit, Byte, Field, Record, File, Database

This multiple choice quiz contains questions about data organization, databases, database management systems, data warehousing, information technology infrastructure, emerging technologies, operating systems, legacy systems, distributed computing, programming languages, and enterprise software packages. It tests knowledge of key concepts such as data hierarchy, data redundancy, DBMS functions, relational database design, primary keys, data definition and manipulation languages, online analytical processing, Moore's law, mainframe uses, and characteristics of technologies like Java, netbooks, and software packages.

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Multiple Choice

This activity contains 10 questions.

A computer system organizes data in a hierarchy as follows:

  Bit, byte, database, record, file, field.


  
   Bit, byte, field, record, file, database.
Byte, bit, file, field, record, database.
  
Bit, database, byte, record, file, field.
  

The storing of identical data in more than one place is called:

  Data redundancy.
  
Data inflexibility.
  
Program-data dependence.
  
Data inconsistency.
  

Software that permits an organization to centralize data, manage the


data efficiently, and provide access to the stored data by application
programs is a(n):
  ERP (enterprise resource planning).
  
DBMS (data base management system).
  
DSS (decision support system).
  
DTP (desktop publishing).
  

Which of the following statements about relational databases


is not true?
  The tables may be referred to as files.
  
Data are represented as three-dimensional tables.
  
Data are represented as two-dimensional tables.
  
Each table contains data on an entity and its attributes.
  

The key field that cannot be duplicated because it is the unique


identifier for all the information in any row of the table is the:
  Secondary key.
  
Primary key.
  
Foreign key.
  
None of the above.
  

DBMS have a data definition language to do all of the following except :

  Define the characteristics of the fields in each table.


  
Specify the creation of the database tables.
  
Add, change, delete, and retrieve data in the database.
  
Specify the structure of the content of the database.
  

A data manipulation language is used to:

  Add, change, delete, and retrieve data in the database.


  
Specify the creation of the database tables.
  
Specify the structure of the content of the database.
  
Define the characteristics of the fields in each table.
  

Which of the following questions requires the support of OLAP?


  How many washers were sold in each of our sales regions last week, and how do
   actual results compare with projected sales?
How many one-inch finishing nails were sold last quarter?
  
Who had the highest total sales last year?
  
How many cases of oven cleaner did Jim Brown sell last week?
  

"What is the probability that a customer will respond to an offer or


purchase a specific product?" is a question that can be answered using:
  A data mart.
  
Data mining techniques.
  
Predictive analysis.
  
Associations.
  

Data quality audits can be performed by surveying:

  Entire data files.


  
End users for their perceptions of data quality.
  
Samples from data files.
  
All of the above.
  
Which of the following
is not included in a firm's IT
infrastructure investment?

  Telecommunications networking equipment and services.


  
Hardware, software, and services.
  
Consulting, education, and training.
  
None of the above.
  
Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create
computer chips and other devices that are:
  Smaller than a breadbox.
  
The size of a human hair.
  
The size of a pencil.
  
10,000 times thinner than a human hair.
  

Which of the following is an interpretation of Moore's law?

  The price of computing falls by half every 18 months.


  
The power of microprocessors doubles every 18 months.
  
Computing power doubles every 18 months.
  
All of the above.
  

Which of the following statements is false?

  IBM is now the only provider of mainframes.


  
IBM has repurposed its mainframes so that they can be used as giant servers.
  
The mainframe market has grown steadily over the past decade.
  
Mainframes have virtually disappeared.
  
The operating system that dominates the client marketplace is:

  IBM.
  
Linux.
  
Windows.
  
Unix.
  

Older transaction processing systems created for mainframe computers


that continue to be used to avoid the high cost of replacement are
known as:
  Sun systems.
  
Real-time
   systems.

IBM systems.
  
Legacy
   systems.

Grid computing is best described as:

  The connecting of geographically remote computers into a single


   network to create a virtual supercomputer.
The purchasing of computing power from central computing utilities.
  
The selling of excess computing power.
  
None of the above.
  

Which of the following statements about netbooks is not true?

  Netbooks are small, low-cost lightweight subnotebooks.


  
Netbooks are optimized for wireless communications and Internet access.
  
Netbooks do not typically come with such applications as word processing.
  
All of the above.
  

Which of the following statements about Java is not true?

  Java is a robust language that can handle text, data, sound, graphics, and video.
  
Java was created by a community of several hundred thousand programmers
   around the world.

Java is an operating-system-independent programming language.


  
Java is everywhere.
  
Which of the following statements about software packages is false?

  A software package is a set of programs written for a specific application to


  perform functions specified by end users.

A software package is a prewritten commercially available set of software


  programs.

Enterprise application software vendors have not yet developed the software
  packages that support core functions, such as payroll or order handling.

None of the above.


 

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