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Which view of information deals with how the information is physically arranged,
stored, and accessed?
Select one:

a. Physical View
b. Logical View
c. Information View
d. None of the Above

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This graphic indicates:
Select one:
a. A student can own many cars and a car can be owned by many students
b. A student cannot own a car
c. A car can be owned by many students

d. That a student can own 0, 1 or many cars

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This symbol represents:

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a. An entity
b. An attribute
c. A relation
d. A record

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An entity is
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a. a real physical "thing" or a conceptual "thing" that is specific to a particular database

management system
b. a "thing" which has either a real physical existence (e.g. a car or a student) or a
conceptual existence (e.g. a course)
c. a real physical "thing" that is specific to a particular database management system
d. any physical "thing" that exists in the real world

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The Entity Relation Model models
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a. Relationships
b. Entities, Relationships and Processes
c. Entities

d. Entities and Relationships

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An entity type is
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a. a specific type such as an integer, text, date, logical etc.
b. defined when the database is actually constructed
c. defined by the database designer
d. a coherent set of similar objects that we want to store data on (e.g. STUDENT,

COURSE, CAR)

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An instance is
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a. any particular entity
b. a particular occurance of an entity (e.g. Tom Osman is an instance of the entity

STUDENT)
c. an attribute of an entity
d. a special type of relation

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Which of the following statements best decribes the function of an entity relation
model?
Select one:
a. An ER model is concerned primarily with a physical implementation of the data and
secondly with the logical view
b. An ER model is concerned primarily with a logical view of the data and secondly with

the physical implementation

c. An ER model provides a view of the logic of the data and not the physical
implementation
d. An ER model is entirely concerned with modelling the physical implemetation

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This symbol represents a

Select one:

a. one to many relation

b. a many to many relation
c. a one to one relation
d. a many to one relation

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A publishing company produces academic books on various subjects. Books are written
by authors who specialise in one or more particular subject. The company employs a
number of editors who do not have particular specialisations but who take sole
responsibilty for for editing one or more publications. A publication covers a single
subject area but may be written by one or more author - the contribution of each
author is recorded as a percentage for the purposes of calculating royalties.
The following ER diagram is intended to represent the above specification:

The specification is to be changed so that an author can develop a publication covering

more than one subject area and that the schema must be able to store the percentage
of the compents concerned with each of the subjects. Select an appropriate change to
the ER diagram:
Select one:

a. publication-subject becomes many to many

b. author-subject becomes many to many
c. author-publication becomes many to many
d. more than one of the above
e. none of the above

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A publishing company produces academic books on various subjects. Books are written
by authors who specialise in one or more particular subject. The company employs a
number of editors who do not have particular specialisations but who take sole
responsibilty for for editing one or more publications. A publication covers a single
subject area but may be written by one or more author - the contribution of each
author is recorded as a percentage for the purposes of calculating royalties.
The following ER diagram is intended to represent the above specification:

Indicate the relation which has an incorrect cardinality shown:

Select one:
a. specialises in
b. makes
c. is about
d. to

e. None of the Above

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In relational algebra the UNION of two sets (set A and Set B). This corresponds to
Select one:
a. A - B
b. A AND B

c. A OR B
d. A + B

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A database may have numerous physical views.
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True
False

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It is impossible to represent a one-to-one relationship in a relational schema.
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 True

False

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Under a relational database system, if table
table
R has a foreign key constraint referencingS, then each tuple in R is necessarily related to some
tuple in S via the foreign key.
Select one:

True
False