Deck 6: Database Management System DBMS

Question 1

A top to bottom relationship among the items in a database is established by a

A)Hierarchical schema
B)Network Schema
C)Relational schema
D)All of the above

Answer 1

Hierarchical schema

Question 2

A command that lets you cange one or more fields in a record is

A)Insert
B)Modify
C)Look up
D)All of the above

Answer 2

Modify

Question 3

A logical schema

A)Is the entire database
B)Is a standard way of organizing information into accessible parts
C)Describes how data is actually stored on disk
D)All of the above

Answer 3

Is a standard way of organizing information into accessible parts

Question 4

What is the purpose of the page field on a pivot table report?

A)It creates a new page for each type of data
B)It allows the data within the the Pivot Table report to be filtered
C)It displays a title for the Pivot Table report
D)None of the above

Question 5

What does the Special Effect button on the formatting toolbar do?

A)It lets you add animation to your forms and reports to make them more entertaining and amusing
B)It lets you select a transitional effect for how a form opens and closes.
C)It applies a 30d effect to a selected control
D)None of these

Question 6

Pivot Table report data must meet which of the following criteria?

A)It must be in tabular form, have unique column labels, and each row must represent a unique piece of data
B)Any dates should be formatted with the data format and blank rows or columns should be removed
C)It must be in tabular form, have unique column lagels, and all rows must be sorted
D)Both (A) and (B)

Question 7

Customers, Orders. What's their best relationship?

A)Many-to-many
B)One-to-one
C)One-to-many
D)All of the above

Question 8

Which control does access use to link data access page components to access data?

A)Microsoft Dynamic Data Control
B)Microsoft Data Connection Control
C)Microsoft Office Data Source Control
D)None of the above

Question 9

Which program do you use to edit code for data access pages?

A)Microsoft script editor
B)Microsoft code editor
C)Microsoft data access pages editor
D)None of above

Question 10

Which of the following is a database management system?

A)Ms-Word
B)Lotus 1-2-3
C)Oracle
D)None of above

Question 11

What is the corresponding text for the <#1/1/ 95# validation rule setting?

A)Neter a value less or more than 1,195
B)Value must be less than 95 characters
C)Enter a date before 1995
D)All of above

Question 12

What is the name of the Visual Basic Editor utility that allows you to view the Microsoft Access type library's available objects and members?

A)Object Viewer
B)Object Browser
C)Type Library Spy
D)None of above

Question 13

A computer language for informing the DBMS regarding the data structure used is

A)PASCAL
B)DDL
C)PROLOG
D)FORTRAN

Question 14

Which of the following is not a data type ?

A)Picture/graphic
B)Data/time
C)Texst
D)Number

Question 15

The executive responsible for the data processing function in an organization is

A)PM
B)DBMS
C)DP
D)DPM

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a type of Microsoft Access database object?

A)Queries
B)Workbooks
C)Forms
D)Tables

Question 17

A file containing relatively permanent data is

A)Random file
B)Transaction file
C)Master file
D)Sequential file

Question 18

The complete picture of data stored in database is known as

A)Record
B)Scheme
C)System flowchart
D)DBMS

Question 19

A subset of characters within a data field is known as

A)Record
B)File
C)Data string
D)Byte

Question 20

Data items groped together for storage purposes are called a

A)Record
B)Title
C)List
D)string

Question 21

Which of the following terms does not describe a database structure used by a DBMS to link data from several files?

A)Relational
B)Structural
C)Network
D)All of the above

Question 22

In a relational schema, each tuple is divided into fields called

A)Relations
B)Domains
C)Queries
D)All of the above

Question 23

How do you filter by selection?

A)Right click the field value and select filter by selection from the shortcut menu
B)Find and double click the value on which you want to base the filter
C)Find and select the value on which you want to base the filter and select tools>filter by selection from the menu
D)None of the above

Question 24

What is a fast way to adjust the width of a column?

A)Right click the left side of the column heading
B)Double click the left side of the column heading
C)Double click the right side of the column heading
D)Select tools>adjust column width from the menu