Exam 11: Building Solutions

With a distributed database, the data is accessible through a variety of servers.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Your database was damaged due to hardware failure. What can you use to restore it?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following statements is NOT true about multidimensional databases?

All DBMSs have built-in backup utilities.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT In your school's database, in which of the following is all of the information about a particular student stored?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which term does a user of a relational database use to refer to a file?

A common reason to change a record is to update old data with new data.

A(n)____________________  is an interpreted language that typically is easy to learn and use.

In the ASCII coding scheme, each byte represents a single ____________________, which can be a number, letter, blank space, punctuation mark, or other symbol.

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

A relational database typically processes and summarizes large numbers of records efficiently.

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

With the database approach, most data items are stored in multiple files, which greatly reduces duplicate data.

Whereas a relational database can store more than two dimensions, a multidimensional database is a two-dimensional table.

In a database which of the following is a connection within the data?

Two applications of ____________________ are the RSS 2.0 and ATOM specifications.

Data in a database is less vulnerable than data in file processing systems.

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