WGU C170 Data Management -

Applications Exam Questions With

Correct Answers

domain c- ccorrect canswers✔✔In cdata cmodeling, cthe cconstruct cused cto corganize cand
cdescribe can cattribute's cset cof cpossible cvalues

superkey c- ccorrect canswers✔✔An cattribute cor cattributes cthat cuniquely cidentify ceach
centity cin ca ctable. cAny ccomposite ckey cwith cthis cis calso cthis.

candidate ckey c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cminimal csuperkey; cthat cis, ca ckey cthat cdoes
cnot ccontain ca csubset cof cattributes cthat cis citself ca csuperkey

entity cintegrity c- ccorrect canswers✔✔The cproperty cof ca crelational ctable cthat

cguarantees ceach centity chas ca cunique cvalue cin ca cprimary ckey cand cthat cthe ckey
chas cno cnull cvalues

referential cintegrity c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ccondition cby cwhich ca cdependent ctable's

cforeign ckey cmust chave ceither ca cnull centry cor ca cmatching centry cin cthe crelated
ctable

data cdictionary c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cDBMS ccomponent cthat cstores cmetadata. cIt
ccontains cthe cdata cdefinition c& ctheir ccharacteristics cand crelationships; cmay calso
cinclude cdata cexternal cto cthe cDBMS

system ccatalog c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cdetailed csystem cdata cdictionary cthat

cdescribes call cobjects cin ca cdatabase

homonym c- ccorrect canswers✔✔The cuse cof cthe csame cname cto clabel cdifferent
cattributes, cmuch clike csimilar-sounding cwords cwith cdifferent cmeanings

synonym c- ccorrect canswers✔✔The cuse cof cdifferent cnames cto cidentify cthe csame
cobject, csuch cas can centity, can cattribute, cor ca crelationship. cThese cshould cgenerally
cbe cavoided.

not cnull cand cunique c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Any ccandidate ckey cmust chave cthese ctwo
cconstraints cenforced

cardinality c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Term cfor chow cmany cinstances cof cone cobject care
crelated cto cinstances cof canother cobject c(maximum)
modality c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Term cfor cwhether can cinstance cof ca cspecific centity cis
coptional cor cmandatory cin ca crelationship c(minimum)

connectivity c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Term cfor cthe cclassification cof cthe crelationship

cbetween centities. cClassifications cinclude c1:1, c1:M, cand cM:N

CREATE cSCHEMA cAUTHORIZATION c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL ccommand cto

ccreate ca cdatabase cschema

DEFAULT c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL coption cto cdefine ca cdefault cvalue cfor ca ccolumn
c(when cno cvalue cis cgiven)

CHECK c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL ccommand cto cvalidate cdata cin can cattribute, cused
cduring ctable ccolumn ccreation

CREATE cTABLE cAS c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL ccommand cto ccreate ca cnew ctable
cbased con ca cquery cin cthe cuser's cdatabase cschema

HAVING c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL coption cthat crestricts ca cselection cof cgrouped

crows cbased con ca ccondition

EXISTS c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL coption cthat cchecks cwhether ca csubquery creturns

cany crows

DECIMAL c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL cdata ctype clike cthe cNUMBER cspecification, cbut
cthe cstorage clength cis ca cminimum cspecification

True c- ccorrect canswers✔✔True cor cfalse: cif can cINSERT cor cSELECT ccommand cis
cembedded cinside ca cprogram cfor clater cuse, cthe cattribute clist cshould calways cbe
cused, cas cthe ctable cmay cchange cover ctime

inner cjoin c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cjoin coperation cin cwhich conly crows cthat cmeet ca
cgiven ccriterion care cselected. cThe cmost ccommon ctype cof cjoin

outer cjoin c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cjoin coperation cthat cproduces ca ctable cin cwhich call
cunmatched cpairs care cretained; cunmatched cvalues cin cthe crelated ctable care cleft cnull

cross cjoin c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cjoin coperation cthat creturns cthe cCartesian cproduct
cof ctwo csets cor ctables

natural cjoin c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Join ctype cthat creturns conly cthe crows cwith
cmatching cvalues cin cthe cmatching ccolumns; cthe cmatching ccolumns cmust chave cthe
csame cnames cand csimilar cdata ctypes

left, cright, cfull c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Name cthe cthree ctypes cof couter cjoins
ALL c- ccorrect canswers✔✔This coperator ccan cbe cused cto ccompare csomething cto
cevery creturned crow cof ca csubquery

ANY c- ccorrect canswers✔✔This coperator ccan cbe cused cto ccompare csomething cto ca
clist cof cvalues cand creturn cany crows cthat csatisfy cthe ccriteria

correlated csubquery c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A csubquery cthat cexecutes conce cfor ceach
crow cin cthe couter cquery

UNION c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL cstatement cthat ccombines crows cfrom ctwo cor cmore
cqueries cwithout cincluding cduplicate crows, cas clong cas cthe cqueries creturn cthe csame
c# cof cattributes cand csimilar cdata ctypes

UNION cALL c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL cstatement csimilar cto cUNION cbut cretaining
cduplicate crows

INTERSECT c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL cstatement cused cto ccombine crows cfrom ctwo
cqueries, creturning conly cthe crows cthat cappear cin cboth csets

EXCEPT c(MINUS) c- ccorrect canswers✔✔SQL cstatement cthat ccombines crows cfrom

ctwo cqueries cand creturns conly cthe crows cthat cappear cin cthe cfirst cset cbut cnot cin cthe
csecond

view c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cvirtual ctable cbased con ca cSELECT cquery cthat cis csaved
cas can cobject cin cthe cdatabase

base ctable c- ccorrect canswers✔✔The ctable con cwhich ca cview cis cbased

batch cupdate croutine c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A croutine cthat cpools ctransactions cinto ca
csingle cgroup cto cupdate ca cmaster ctable cin ca csingle coperation

updatable cview c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cview cthat ccan cupdate cattributes cin cbase
ctables cthat care cused cin cthe cview

True c- ccorrect canswers✔✔One ceasy cway cto cdetermine cwhether ca cview ccan cbe
cused cto cupdate ca cbase ctable cis cif cthe cprimary ckey ccolumns cof cthe cbase ctable
cyou cwant cto cupdate cstill chave cunique cvalues cin cthe cview, cthen cthe cbase ctable cis
cupdatable

SQL cperformance ctuning c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Activities cto chelp cgenerate ca cSQL

cquery cthat creturns cthe ccorrect canswer cin cthe cleast camount cof ctime, cusing cthe
cminimum camount cof cresources cat cthe cserver cend

DBMS cperformance ctuning c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Activities cto censure cthat cclients'

crequests care caddressed cas cquickly cas cpossible cwhile cmaking coptimum cuse cof
cexisting cresources
extents c- ccorrect canswers✔✔In ca cDBMS cenvironment, crefers cto cthe cability cof cdata
cfiles cto cexpand cin csize cautomatically cusing cpredefined cincrements

table cspace c(file cgroup) c- ccorrect canswers✔✔In ca cDBMS, ca clogical cstorage cspace
cused cto cgroup crelated cdata

SQL ccache c(procedure ccache) c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cshared, creserved cmemory

carea cthat cstores cthe cmost crecently cexecuted cSQL cstatements cor cPL/SQL
cprocedures, cincluding ctriggers cand cfunctions

automatic cvs cmanual c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Whether cquery coptimization cis cdone cby
cthe cDBMS cvs cdone cby cthe cprogrammer

static cvs cdynamic c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Whether cquery coptimization cis cdone cat
ccompilation cvs crun-time

statistically cbased calgorithm c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cquery coptimization ctechnique

cthat cuses cstatistical cinformation cabout ca cdatabase. cThe cDBMS cthen cuses cthese
cstatistics cto cdetermine cthe cbest caccess cstrategy

rule cbased calgorithm c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A cquery coptimization ctechnique cthat

cuses cpreset crules cand cpoints cto cdetermine cthe cbest capproach cto cexecuting ca
cquery

access cplan c- ccorrect canswers✔✔The cresult cof cparsing ca cSQL cstatement; cit
ccontains cthe cseries cof csteps ca cDBMS cwill cuse cto cexecute cthe cquery cand creturn
cthe cresult cset cin cthe cmost cefficient cway

query cprocessing cbottleneck c- ccorrect canswers✔✔In cquery coptimization, ca cdelay

cintroduced cin cthe cprocessing cof can cI/O coperation cthat ccauses cthe coverall csystem
cto cslow cdown

data csparsity c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ccolumn cdistribution cof cvalues cor cthe cnumber
cof cdifferent cvalues ca ccolumn ccan chave

hash cindex c- ccorrect canswers✔✔An cindex cbased con can cordered clist cof chash
cvalues

B-tree cindex c- ccorrect canswers✔✔An cordered cdata cstructure corganized cas can
cupside-down ctree

bitmap cindex c- ccorrect canswers✔✔An cindex cthat cuses ca cbit carray c(0s cand c1s) cto
crepresent cthe cexistence cof ca cvalue cor ccondition
prime cattribute c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ckey cattribute; cthat cis, can cattribute cthat cis
cpart cof ca ckey cor cis cthe cwhole ckey

1NF c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Normal cform: cNo crepeating cgroups, cPK cidentified, call
cvalues cdepend con cPK

2NF c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Normal cform: c1NF cand cno cpartial cdependencies

3NF c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Normal cform: c2NF cand cno ctransitive cdependencies

BCNF c(Boyce-Codd cNormal cForm) c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Normal cform: cevery

cdeterminant cis ca ccandidate ckey c(special ccase cof c3NF)

4NF c- ccorrect canswers✔✔Normal cform: c3NF cand cno cindependent cmultivalued

cdependencies

full cfunctional cdependence c- ccorrect canswers✔✔If cattribute cB cis cfunctionally

cdependent con ca ccomposite ckey cA cbut cnot con cany csubset cof cthat ccomposite ckey,
cthe cattribute cB cis csaid cto cbe cthis

partial cdependency c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ccondition cin cwhich can cattribute cis
cdependent con conly ca cportion c(subset) cof cthe cprimary ckey

transitive cdependency c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ccondition cin cwhich can cattribute cis
cdependent con canother cattribute cthat cis cnot cpart cof cthe cprimary ckey

repeating cgroup c- ccorrect canswers✔✔A ccharacteristic cdescribing ca cgroup cof

cmultiple centries cof cthe csame ctype cfor ca csingle ckey cattribute coccurrence. cFor
cexample, ca ccar ccan chave cmultiple ccolors cfor cits ctop, cinterior, cbottom, ctrim, cand cso
con.