Question 1

Describe the relational database model.

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Question 2

Identify and explain the advantages of the six characteristics of data warehouses.

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Data warehouses have six key characteris...

Question 3

_______________ uses drag-and-drop features to search a database.

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A)  DBMS
B)  QBE
C)  SQL
D)  DDFE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

Discuss why decisions concerning data structure have a broader impact than decisions concerning hardware and software.

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Decisions concerning data structure have...

Question 5

Why is data governance so important for organizations?

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Data governance is critically important ...

Question 6

Which of the following is not a reason why managing data is difficult over time?

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A)  New systems are developed.
B)  The media the data are stored on becomes problematic.
C)  New sources of data are created.
D)  The amount of data increases exponentially.
E)  All of these are reasons why managing data is difficult over time.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

Tacit knowledge is the more objective, rational, and technical types of knowledge.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Online analytical processing (OLAP)involves the analysis of accumulated data by end users.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

_____________ knowledge can be easily documented.

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A)  Complete
B)  Explicit
C)  Tacit
D)  IntellectualE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

Organizations are turning to data governance for which of the following reasons?

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A)  They have too little data.
B)  They are responding to federal regulations.
C)  Their data are typically structured.
D)  Their data are usually located in the organization's databases.
E)  Data across their organizations are generally consistent.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 11

A data warehouse is a repository of __________ data.

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A)  Current
B)  Historical
C)  Queried
D)  NumberedE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Tacit knowledge has which of the following characteristics?

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A)  Codified
B)  Objective
C)  Unstructured
D)  Rational
E)  TechnicalF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

Historically, management information systems have focused on capturing, storing, managing, and reporting _____ knowledge.

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A)  Tacit
B)  Explicit
C)  Managerial
D)  Geographical
E)  CulturalF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

Explain the six problems that can be minimized using the database approach.

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The database approach can minimize six k...

Question 15

Which of the following is a challenge for developing a knowledge management system?

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A)  Employees must be willing to share their explicit knowledge.
B)  It must be continually maintained and updated.
C)  It makes human capital widely accessible.
D)  All of the above are challenges.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

In a university's relational database, the student record contains information regarding the student's last name. The last name is a(n) :

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A)  Attribute.
B)  Entity.
C)  Primary key.
D)  Object.
E)  File.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

For the following entity-relationship diagram, the Student entity would have the foreign key.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

_____ provide(s) companies with a single version of the truth for their data.

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A)  Data warehouses
B)  Data marts
C)  Databases
D)  Master data management
E)  Enterprise information managementF) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

_____ occurs when various copies of the data agree.

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A)  Data isolation
B)  Data integrity
C)  Data consistency
D)  Data redundancy
E)  Application/Data dependenceF) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

A(n) _____ is a logical grouping of characters into a word, a small group of words, or a complete number.

Accepted Answer

A)  Byte
B)  Field
C)  Record
D)  File
E)  DatabaseF) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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_______________ uses drag-and-drop features to search a database.

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Describe the relational database model.

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For the following entity-relationship diagram, the Student entity would have the foreign key.

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_____________ knowledge can be easily documented.

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