Er Model And Business Rules MCQs with Explanations
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An action assertion must include which of the following?
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An oval represents which of the following in an EER?
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Inheritance is which of the following?
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When an entity instance must be a member of only one subtype, it is which of the following?
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A supertype/subtype hierarchy is which of the following?
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A rectangle represents which of the following in an EER?
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Which one of the following symbols is not used in an ERD?
Question 9 of 30
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Specialization is which of the following processes?
Question 10 of 30
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Which of the following statements concerning business rules is true?
Question 11 of 30
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A supertype/subtype hierarchy has which of the following features?
Question 12 of 30
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A subtype discriminator is which of the following?
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When an entity instance may be a member of multiple subtypes or it does not have to be a member of a subtype, it is which of the following?
Question 14 of 30
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A subtype entity name should be which of the following?
Question 15 of 30
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Use of a supertype/subtype relationship is necessary when which of the following exists?
Question 16 of 30
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Which of the following is not one of the three ways to classify an action assertion?
Question 17 of 30
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Packaged data models are meant to be exactly right straight out of the box.
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An action assertion is a statement that expresses some aspect of the static structure of the organization.
Question 19 of 30
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A supertype can only have only one subtype.
Question 20 of 30
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There is cardinality on an EER between the supertype and subtype.
Question 21 of 30
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A subtype discriminator of the supertype is an attribute whose values determine the target subtype(s).
Question 22 of 30
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Overlapping and disjoint subtypes have different approaches on how the subtype discriminator is applied.
Question 23 of 30
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An entity instance of a subtype represents the same entity instance of a supertype.
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An ERD that has had the entities clustered will display more entities.
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Total specialization is represented by double lines between the supertype and subtype on an EER.
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Generalization is the process of defining more general entity types from a set of more specialized entity types.
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It is appropriate to use a supertype/subtype relationship when there are attributes that apply to some of the instances of an entity type.
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If an entity adheres to the disjoint rule, then an entity instance can be a member of more than one entity for a given supertype.
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Action assertions have traditionally been implemented within an application program.
Question 30 of 30
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An entity cluster is a set of one or more entity types and associated relationships.
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