Chapter 7 (Database Fundamentals)

1.You have an address book for a small business with contact information for about 100 clients.

The address book is used by two people. Which solution should you use to store the data?

2.A database developer is working on generating queries. If the developer needs to ensure that

the output of the query has data persistence, to where should the data be written?

3.Which of the following consists of columns and rows of numerical or text data?

4.Joe creates a database. What does he need to do next to make it usable?

5.A user, Ann, is granted permissions to access a database. What is this an example of?

6.A medical office needs to create a solution to manage patient records. They have about 10,000 patients and eight staff, they want to include notes from medical professionals, emails to and from patients, and images such as X-ray. What should they create?

7.You have created a relational database. Which of the following elements uniquely identifies

a record in the database?

8.Mary, an administrator, creates a field and designates it to hold integer data. Joe, a user, tries to enter his name into the field, but it doesn’t let him save the data. What is this an example of?

9.Rachel, a database administrator, has created a database for her website. It contains pictures of vacations that people have uploaded. In the database, pictures have associated information about who uploaded them and the date. What is this an example of?

10.Peter is accessing a database using a JDBC connection. Which of the following terms best describes the type of access he is using?

11.Oscar’s user account has been granted permissions to view a database. Nathan then uses the deny command in an attempt to deny Oscar the ability to view the database and applies it to a group to which Oscar belongs. Which of the following statements is true?

12.A school has a database with four tables, but it needs a fifth table. Which command is used to accomplish this task?

13.Michael, an administrator, needs to add a column to an existing table. Which command

should he use?

14.Laura, your manager, instructs you to remove a table from a database permanently. Which command should you use?

15.Which of the following statements most accurately describes what a primary key refers to?

16.Kate, a database administrator, needs to add records into a database. Which command should she use?

17.Henry wants to understand which of his customers has purchased part number BB8. Which command should he use?

18.George needs to remove a customer’s information completely from a table. Which command should he use?

19.Which of the following descriptions best describes the type of structure that stores values as blobs?

20.An employee at your office just got married and changed their last name. Which command do you use to change their last name in the employee database?