Chapter 6 Smartbook

__________ critical integrity constraints enforce business rules vital to an organization's success and often require more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints.

Business

What enforces business rules vital to an organization's success and often require more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints?

Business-critical integrity constraints

Who is the person responsible for creating the original website content?

Content creator

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

Content editor

What is the smallest or basic unit of information?

Data element

Select a term that is a synonym for data element, the smallest or basic unit of information in a database.

Data field

What is an interactive website that uses a database to constantly update in order to remain relevant to the needs of its customers?

Data-driven website

What creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a database while controlling access and security?

Database management system

Information granularities

Detail, summary, aggregate

Information formats

Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, database

What is an area of a website that stores information about products in a database?

Dynamic catalog

Select the statement that accurately defines the relationship between entities and attributes in a relational database.

Each attribute of an entity occupies a separate column of a table.

Select the three advantages of a data-driven website.

Easy to eliminate human errors Easy to manage content Easy to store large amounts of data

Transactional information

Encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support daily operational tasks.

Analytical information

Encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks.

Select the three terms for the data elements associated with an entity

Fields Columns Attributes

automatically to all downstream systems and processes?

Forward integration

Select the three accurate statements reflecting the business advantages of a relational database.

Increased information integrity Increased information security Reduced information redundancy

Information levels

Individual, department, enterprise

Select the four primary traits of the value of information.

Information governance Information quality Information timeliness Information type

What refers to the extent of detail within the information?

Information granularity

What occurs when the same data element has different values?

Information inconsistency

What is a measure of the quality of information?

Information integrity

What occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data?

Information integrity issues

What allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other, eliminating the need for manual entry into multiple systems?

Integrations

What are rules that help ensure the quality of information?

Integrity constraints

Complete

Is a value missing from the information?

Consistent

Is aggregate or summary information in agreement with detailed information?

Unique

Is each transaction and event represented only once in the information?

Timely

Is the information current with respect to business needs?

Accurate

Is there an incorrect value in the information?

What focuses on how individual users logically access information to meet their own particular business needs?

Logical view of information

__________ data management is the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational system.

Master

What deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device?

Physical view of information

Which tool helps users graphically design the answer to a question against a database?

Query-by-example

Which system provides real-time information in response to requests?

Real-time

What means immediate, up-to-date information?

Real-time information

What stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables?

Relational database model

What are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints?

Relational integrity constraints

__________ information includes fixed data incapable of change in the event of a user action.

Static

What is the tool that consists of lines of code (in contrast to a graphical design) for answering questions against a database?

Structured query language

Real-time __________ provide real-time information in response to requests.

Systems

Business-critical integrity constraints tend to mirror the very rules by which an organization achieves success.

True

Why does a database offer increased information security?

Various security features of databases ensure that individuals have only certain types of access to certain types of information.

Select the statement below that accurately reflects a database.

While a database has only one physical view, it can easily support multiple logical views that provides for flexibility.

What are the data elements associated with an entity?

attributes

A(n) __________ integration takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes.

backword

A(n) _________ rule defines how a company performs certain aspects of its business and typically results in either a yes/no or true/false answer.

business

Select the four functions that a database management system can perform on data in a database?

create, read, update, delete

A(n) ___________ -driven website is an interactive website kept constantly updated and relevant to the needs of its customers using a database.

data

What occurs when a company examines its data to determine if it can meet business expectations, while identifying possible data gaps or where missing data might exist?

data gap analysis

What is the time it takes for data to be stored or retrieved?

data latency

What are logical data structures that detail the relationships among data elements using graphics or pictures?

data models

Who is responsible for ensuring the policies and procedures are implemented across the organization and acts as a liaison between the MIS department and the business?

data steward

What is the management and oversight of an organization's data assets to help provide business users with high-quality data that is easily accessible in a consistent manner?

data stewardship

What includes the tests and evaluations used to determine compliance with data governance polices to ensure correctness of data?

data validation

What maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses)?

database

A data ____________ compiles all of the metadata about the data elements in the data model.

dictionary

Select the term that refer to storing information about a person, place, thing, transaction, or event

entity

What is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables?

foreign key

Data ___________ refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data.

governance

Information ___________ refers to the extent of detail within the information (fine and detailed or coarse and abstract).

granularity

What is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise) and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity?

identity management

Information ___________ occurs when the same data element has different values.

inconsistency

Select the four primary reasons low-quality information occurs in a system.

line customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy. Data-entry personnel enter abbreviated information to save time. Third-party and external information contains inconsistencies and errors. Different systems have different information entry standards and formats.

The __________ view of information focuses on how individual users logically access information to meet their own particular business needs.

logical

What provides details about data?

metadata

Data ___________ are logical data structures that detail the relationships among data elements using graphics or pictures.

models

A(n) ___________ -by-example tool helps users graphically design the answer to a question against a database.

query

A(n) _________ is a collection of related data elements.

record

What is a collection of related data elements?

records

Information __________ is the duplication of data, or the storage of the same data in multiple places.

redundancy

__________ integrity constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.

relational

Data _______ is responsible for ensuring the policies and procedures are implemented across the organization and acts as a liaison between the MIS department and the business.

steward

Data __________ is the management and oversight of an organization's data assets to help provide business users with high-quality data that is easily accessible in a consistent manner.

stewardship

A(n) __________ query language asks users to write lines of code to answer questions against a database.

structured

Data _______ includes the tests and evaluations used to determine compliance with data governance polices to ensure correctness of data.

validation