MIS Chapter 5

The ________ creates links between two tables.

Foreign

________ is a process that spans all organizational business processes and applications.

Master Data Management

Which of the following is an accurate representation of the data hierarchy from smallest to largest?

bit, byte, field, record, file, database

A ________ is a group of eight ______

byte, bits

Database systems maximize ________.

independence

Database systems minimize ________.

redundancy

The ________ key has some identifying information but does not identify the record with complete accuracy.

second

A ________ represents the smallest unit of data a computer can process.

Bit

________ is an approach to managing information across an entire organization.

Data Governance

Microsoft ________ is a popular example of a relational database.

Access

________ are those data that visitors and customers produce when they visit a website and click on hyperlinks.

Clickstream Data

________ are a set of core data that span the enterprise information systems.

Master Data

A ________ generally describes an entity.

Record

Data ________ refers primarily to problems with the media on which the data are stored.

Rot

Each relational database table contains records (listed in _______) and attributes (listed in ______) .

Rows; columns

Which of the following is NOT a reason managing data is difficult.

The amount of data is decreasing exponentially with time.

The relational database model is based on the concept of ________-dimensional tables.

Two

From the mid-1950s until the early 1970s, organizations managed their data in a _________; this created ________.

file management environment; information silos

The ________ key is an identifier field that uniquely identifies a record.

primary