UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

(PERAK)

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HONS)

BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HONS)

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HONS)

COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (HONS)

YEAR ONE

UCCD1203 DATABASE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS

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1. ____________ is the intersections of rows and columns.

A. Data
B. Dates
C. Datum
D. Dat

2. What will give the characteristic of the entities?

A. Attributes
B. Relation
C. Relationships
D. Primary Keys

3. Relation is also known as:

A. One-to-many
B. Entities
C. Composite Keys
D. Foreign Keys

4. The database system better compared to flat file system because:

A. Database System can store a lot of data

B. It prevents data redundancies/duplications that lead to bad information
C. Flat file system is not appealing in terms of the interface
D. Database System is managed by DBMS

5. Based from the evolution of Database System, which one is the latest technologies.

A. Flat File
B. Hierarchical
C. Relational
D. Object-oriented
6. Based from the diagram above, it is known as:

A. System Develop Life Cycle

B. Systematic Development Life Cycle
C. System Developer Life Cycle
D. System Development Life Cycle

7. Within the Development Life Cycle (DBLC), from the conceptual/logical design what
we must do to complete the task?

A. Gathering requirement analysis for the functional requirements

B. Drawing the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) by using the data models with
normalization
C. Specifying the size of the database storage to ensure the data fits in
D. Converting SQL statement to map the ERD into the database

8. The conceptual level from any ANSI-SPARC describe ‘what’ data to be stored into the
database, whereas the internal level describe _____ the data is stored in the database.

A. When
B. Where
C. How
D. Why
9. From the diagram above, it is known as what data model?

A. Relation Model
B. Relationship Model
C. Relational Model
D. Object-Relational Model

10. From the diagram above, the diagram can be identified as:

A. Relational Schema
B. Schema
C. One-to-one relationship
D. Entity
11. Select which one is not true about Relational Query Languages:

A. Query language is a programming language

B. Query languages: allow manipulation and retrieval of data from a database
C. Relational model support simple, powerful QLs
D. QLs support easy, efficient access to large data sets

12. From the diagram above, the cardinality:

A. is the same as Degree

B. is the 5 records from Branch table
C. is the Primary Key joined as the relationships
D. is the Foreign Key from the Branch table

13. A Schema is also known as:

A. Table
B. Entity
C. Relation
D. All of above
14. Which one is not correct about the defining the relationships:

A. One-to-one
B. One-to-little
C. One-to-many
D. Many-to-many

15. We select the primary keys from:

A. Enterprise keys
B. Composite keys
C. Super keys
D. Candidate keys

16 The illustration above is:

A. System Poster
B. Metaphor
C. Date Dictionary
D. None of above correctly defines the illustration
17. The relationships depicted from the diagram above is:

A. Many-to-many
B. One-to-many
C. One-to-one
D. All of above is correct

18. The entity for ENROLL is:

A. Composite Entity
B. Composite Key
C. Composite Relationship
D. Composite Attribute
19. How do we control data redundancies within the relational tables?

A. Delete the unnecessary data from the table

B. By using the Foreign Keys referencing from the Primary Keys from another table
C. Creating a Composite Entity from Many-to-many relationships
D. Avoid using any reserved word from the SQL for the naming convention of the tables

20. What is the following method to increase the data retrieval from the database?

A. By using indexes, data retrieval speed can be increased

B. Eliminating data redundancies
C. Increase the sizes of the storage for any database system
D. Increase the number of entities during mapping the ERD into physical design

21. What are the main components for ER model?

A. Entities
B. Relationships
C. Attributes
D. All of above

22. The diagram above is:

A. Recursive/Unary relationship
B. Binary/Double relationship
C. Ternary/Triple relationship
D. Super-type/sub-type relationship
23. The entity modelling style for above is:

A. Cheng Model
B. Chin Model
C. Chen Model
D. Chang Model

24. If the tables are not normalized we could get the data anomaly:

A. Insertion Anomaly
B. Deletion Anomaly
C. Modification Anomaly
D. All of above

25. The diagram above depicts:

A. Partial Dependency and Transvestite Dependency

B. Full Dependency and Transitive Dependency
C. Partial Dependency and Transitive Dependency
D. Quarter Dependency and Travers Dependency