Test Bank For Database Principles Fundamentals of Design Implementation and Management International 10th Edition

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

1. Data and information are essentially the same things.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1

2. Data processing can be as simple as organizing data to reveal patterns.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

3. We are now said to be entering the “knowledge age.”

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

4. The information implies familiarity, awareness, and understanding of knowledge as it applies to an environment.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1

5. Data constitute the building blocks of information.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

6. Metadata presents a more complete picture of the data in the database than the data itself.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

7. The only way to access the data in a database is through the DBMS.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1

8. Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex operations required to fulfill those requests.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1

9. The DBMS reveals much of the database’s internal complexity to the application programs and users.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1

10. One disadvantage of the DBMS is that it increases the risk of data security breaches.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1