CGS-Ch 11

Which of the following is a program with which users interact that generally has a more user-friendly interface than a DBMS?

Which of the following is a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data?

Many database programs perform which of the following in order to analyze entered data to help ensure that it is correct?

A user of a database such as that pictured in the accompanying figure refers to a file as what?

Which of the following, with regard to the entire database, should be made on a regular basis?

In managing a company's database, which of the following roles requires a technical inside view of data?

Which of the following consists of rules and standards that define how a database organizes data?

In a database such as that pictured in the accompanying figure, which of the following is a connection within the data?

What is the process of comparing data with a set of rules or values to find out if the data is correct?

Which of the following is a request for specific data from a database?

Which of the following languages consists of simple, English-like statements that allow users to specify the data to display, print, or store?

Which of the following kinds of backup are used by organizations such as hospitals, communications companies, and financial institutions?

Which of the following privileges for data involve establishing who can enter new data, change existing data, delete unwanted data, and view data?

Which of the following kind of checks is a validity check performed on data, like that in the accompanying figure, which ensures users enter only alphabetic data into a field?

Which of the following kinds of values is the one that a DBMS initially displays in a field?

Which of the following is a huge database that stores and manages the data required to analyze historical and current transactions?

In a database such as that pictured in the accompanying figure, users can set up a relationship between tables at any time, but the tables must have which of the following in common?

A user of a database such as that pictured in the accompanying figure refers to a field as what?

Which of the following stores data in objects?

Which of the following is a number(s) or character(s) that is appended to or inserted into a primary key field?

Most of this kind of database products for servers and mainframes include SQL, an example of which is shown in the accompanying figure. What kind of database product is this?

Which of the following kind of checks is a validity check on data like that in the accompanying figure, which determines whether a number is within a specified group of numbers?

Which of the following is a window on the screen that provides areas for entering or changing data in a database?

Which of the following identifies the quality of data in a database?

In what kind of recovery does the DBMS use the log to undo any changes made to a database during a certain period?

Which of the following is a collection of related records, as shown in the accompanying figure, stored on storage media such as a hard drive or optical disc?

Which of the following kind of checks is a validity check performed on data, like that in the accompanying figure, which ensures users enter only numeric data into a field?

Which of the following kinds of programs interacts with a DBMS, which in turn interacts with the database?

A form that sends entered data across a network or the Internet is called which of the following terms?

An application that supports a front-end program sometimes is called which of the following?

Most DBMSs include a feature, as shown in the middle image within the accompanying figure, which has a graphical user interface to assist users with retrieving data. What is this feature called?

Which of the following refers to the procedures that keep data current?

Which of the following is an item that contains data, as well as the actions that read or process the data?

Which of the following is a database that stores data in tables that consist of rows and columns?

A checkout clerk with this level of privileges to the email addresses in a discount warehouse database could view the addresses but not change them. What is this level of privileges called?

In the database pictured in the accompanying figure, which of the following is a combination of one or more related characters or bytes and is the smallest unit of data a user accesses?

In a relational database, where does the only data redundancy exist?

A DBMS uses which of the following to perform validation checks?

Which of the following is true in a relational database?

The developer of a relational database refers to a record as which of the following?

As shown in the accompanying figure, which of the following is a query language that allows users to manage, update, and retrieve data?