WGU C175 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICE TEST ANSWERS| IT CIS111 TEST BANK 1

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Multiple Choice 1. The Entity-Relationship (E-R) model is _____. a. a diagramming technique that describes record structures (i.e. the fields that make up the records of a file) b. an alternative ... to indexing and hashing as a means for providing direct access in files c. a diagramming technique that describes entities, their attributes, and the relationships between them d. an alternative to file design in which attributes are used instead of fields e. a diagramming technique that relates entities to each other, attributes to each other, and relationships to each other 2. An association between entities is a(n) _____. a. entity type b. entity occurence c. record d. attribute e. relationship 3. A binary relationship is a relationship between two _____. a. entity types b. attribute types c. associations d. files e. cardinalities 4. The term “binary” in binary relationship indicates that the relationship is between a. two halves of an entity type b. two entity types c. two divisions of an entity’s attributes d. two attributes e. two relationships 5. The cardinality of a relationship is _____. a. The minimum number of entities that can be involved in the relationship. b. The maximum number of entities that can be involved in the relationship. c. The minimum number of attributes that can be in the entity types in a relationship. d. The maximum number of attributes that can be in the entity types in a relationship. e. The minimum number of associations that can be involved in the relationship. 6. The modality of a relationship is _____. a. The minimum number of entities that can be involved in the relationship. b. The maximum number of entities that can be involved in the relationship. c. The minimum number of attributes that can be in the entity types in a relationship. d. The maximum number of attributes that can be in the entity types in a relationship. e. The minimum number of associations that can be involved in the relationship. 7. A one-to-one binary relationship _____. a. involves a single entity type b. involves two entity types c. allows an occurrence of one entity type to be associated with several occurrences of another entity type d. allows an occurrence of one entity type to be associated with several occurrences of another entity type and vice versa e. restricts the number of attributes that an entity has 8. A one-to-many binary relationship allows an occurrence of the entity type on the “one side” of the relationship to be associated with _____. a. a single occurrence of the same entity type b. multiple occurrences of the same entity type c. a single occurrence of the entity type on the “many side” of the relationship d. multiple occurrences of the entity type on the “many side” of the relationship e. multiple occurrences of the entity type on the “one side” of the relationship 9. A many-to-many binary relationship allows an occurrence of one entity type to be associated with _____. a. a single occurrence of the same entity type b. multiple occurrences of the same entity type c. a single occurrence of another entity type d. multiple occurrences of another entity type e. multiple occurrences of three entity types 10. A business school’s faculty parking lot has assigned parking spaces. Each professor is entitled to one parking space. This is an example of a _____ relationship. a. one-to-one binary b. one-to-many binary c. many-to-many binary d. one-to-one unary e. one-to-many unary 11. Each building on a university campus has several faculty offices. Each professor has one office. The relationship between campus buildings and professors is a _____ relationship. a. one-to-one binary b. one-to-many binary c. many-to-many binary d. one-to-one unary e. one-to-many unary 12. In a university, the relationship between courses and their sections can best be described as a _____ relationship. a. one-to-one binary b. one-to-many binary (Because a section can NOT have many courses. Think .xls) c. many-to-many binary d. one-to-one unary e. one-to-many unary 13. In a university setting, the relationship between students and the professors who have been their instructors is a _____ relationship. a. one-to-one binary b. one-to-many binary (NOTE: “who have been their instructors”) c. many-to-many binary d. one-to-one unary e. one-to-many unary 14. Intersection data _____. a. is an attribute of the entity on the “one side” of a one-to-many relationship b. is an attribute of the entity on the “many side” of a one-to-many relationship c. describes [Show More]

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