Test Bank For Database Principles Fundamentals of Design Implementation and Management International 10th Edition
ISBN-10 : 1133311970, ISBN-13 : 978-1133311973
Chapter 1: The Database Approach
TRUE/FALSE
- Data and information are essentially the same things.
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- Data processing can be as simple as organizing data to reveal patterns.
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- We are now said to be entering the “knowledge age.”
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- The information implies familiarity, awareness, and understanding of knowledge as it applies to an environment.
ANS: F PTS: 1
- Data constitute the building blocks of information.
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- Metadata presents a more complete picture of the data in the database than the data itself.
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- The only way to access the data in a database is through the DBMS.
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- Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex operations required to fulfill those requests.
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- The DBMS reveals much of the database’s internal complexity to the application programs and users.
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- One disadvantage of the DBMS is that it increases the risk of data security breaches.
ANS: F PTS: 1
