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Justin works at a top accounting firm in Los Angeles and his responsibilities include developing reports for each salesperson, product, and part as well as department wide sales reports by salesperson, product, and part. Justin's duties provide value to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different ________.


A) Information levels
B) Information formats
C) Information granularities
D) Information focus

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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One of the primary goals of a database is to eliminate information redundancy by recording each piece of data in only one place in the database. What does the elimination of information redundancy do for a database?


A) Reduces disk space requirements
B) Makes updating information easier
C) Improves information quality
D) All of these

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Which of the below is not an example of an advantage of using a relational database?


A) Increased information quality
B) Increased flexibility
C) Decreased information redundancy
D) Decreased information security

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Data models can include a customer's name, address, email, discount rate, preferred shipping method, product name, quantity ordered, and so on.

A) True
B) False

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Accurate information asks if the aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information.

A) True
B) False

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What is eintegration?


A) The use of the Internet to provide customers with the ability to gain personalized information by querying corporate databases and their information sources.
B) The integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a unified view of all data.
C) Translates information between disparate systems.
D) Packages commonly used applications together, reducing the time needed to integrate applications from multiple vendors.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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What is the primary problem with redundant information?


A) It is difficult to determine which values are the most current
B) It causes confusion
C) It is difficult to determine which values are the most accurate
D) All of these

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Employees need to compare different types of information for what they commonly reveal to make strategic decisions. Which of the following represents the three common types of information found throughout an organization?


A) Levels, forms, granularities
B) Levels, forms, data
C) Levels, formats, granularities
D) Data, formats, granularities

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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A foreign key is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table.

A) True
B) False

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What are several different types of software that sit between and provide connectivity for two or more software applications?


A) Enterprise systems
B) Enterprise application integration
C) Middleware
D) Enterprise application integration middleware

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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What is data stewardship?


A) The time it takes for data to be stored or retrieved
B) The management and oversight of an organization's data assets
C) The person responsible for ensuring policies and procedures are implemented across the organization
D) When a company examines its data to determine if it can meet business expectations, while identifying possible data gaps

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Hierarchal database model stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables.

A) True
B) False

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There are three primary data models for organizing information including the hierarchical, network, and relational database models.

A) True
B) False

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Data validation includes the tests and evaluations used to determine compliance with data governance policies to ensure correctness of data.

A) True
B) False

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What is data validation?


A) The time it takes for data to be stored or retrieved
B) The management and oversight of an organization's data assets
C) The tests and evaluations used to determine compliance with data governance policies to ensure correctness of data
D) When a company examines its data to determine if it can meet business expectations, while identifying possible data gaps

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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There are only two main primary traits that help you determine the value of information: timeliness and quality.

A) True
B) False

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What is static information?


A) The person responsible for creating the original website content
B) The person responsible for updating and maintaining website content
C) Includes fixed data incapable of change in the event of a user action
D) Includes data that change based on user action

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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What is the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems?


A) Information inconsistency
B) Information integrity issues
C) Data governance
D) Master data management

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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Transactional information is used when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions such as analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules to determine how much inventory to carry.

A) True
B) False

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Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of information granularities.

A) True
B) False

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