Unit 1 Part 1 Practice Quiz

An operational database is sometimes referred to as an enterprise database.

False

Data and information are essentially the same thing.

False

Data is the result of processing raw facts to reveal its meaning.

False

Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex operations required to fulfill those requests.

False

One disadvantage of the DBMS is that it increases the risk of data security breaches.

False

The DBMS reveals much of the database's internal complexity to the application programs and users.

False

When data are entered into a form and saved, they are placed in the underlying database as knowledge.

False

Corporations use only structured data.

False Unstructured data is used to produce structured data. Both types are used.

A data warehouse can store data derived from many sources.

True

Data constitute the building blocks of information.

True

Data processing can be as simple as organizing data to reveal patterns.

True

Metadata describe the data characteristics and the set of relationships that links the data found within the database.

True

The only way to access the data in a database is through the DBMS.

True

The same data might be simultaneously structured and unstructured depending on the intended processing.

True