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Er Model And Business Rules MCQs with Explanations

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Exam-Level PPSC FPSC CSS PMS NTS
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Question 1 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A supertype is an entity type that shares common attributes or relationships distinct from other subgroupings.

Question 2 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An action assertion must include which of the following?

Question 3 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An oval represents which of the following in an EER?

Question 4 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Inheritance is which of the following?

Question 5 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

When an entity instance must be a member of only one subtype, it is which of the following?

Question 6 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A supertype/subtype hierarchy is which of the following?

Question 7 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A rectangle represents which of the following in an EER?

Question 8 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which one of the following symbols is not used in an ERD?

Question 9 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Specialization is which of the following processes?

Question 10 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following statements concerning business rules is true?

Question 11 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A supertype/subtype hierarchy has which of the following features?

Question 12 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A subtype discriminator is which of the following?

Question 13 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

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
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A subtype entity name should be which of the following?

Question 15 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Use of a supertype/subtype relationship is necessary when which of the following exists?

Question 16 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is not one of the three ways to classify an action assertion?

Question 17 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Packaged data models are meant to be exactly right straight out of the box.

Question 18 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An action assertion is a statement that expresses some aspect of the static structure of the organization.

Question 19 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A supertype can only have only one subtype.

Question 20 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

There is cardinality on an EER between the supertype and subtype.

Question 21 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A subtype discriminator of the supertype is an attribute whose values determine the target subtype(s).

Question 22 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Overlapping and disjoint subtypes have different approaches on how the subtype discriminator is applied.

Question 23 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An entity instance of a subtype represents the same entity instance of a supertype.

Question 24 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An ERD that has had the entities clustered will display more entities.

Question 25 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Total specialization is represented by double lines between the supertype and subtype on an EER.

Question 26 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Generalization is the process of defining more general entity types from a set of more specialized entity types.

Question 27 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

It is appropriate to use a supertype/subtype relationship when there are attributes that apply to some of the instances of an entity type.

Question 28 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

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.

Question 29 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Action assertions have traditionally been implemented within an application program.

Question 30 of 30
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An entity cluster is a set of one or more entity types and associated relationships.

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