COMP 5970 Session 3 Quiz - January 20, 1999
(one correct answer)
1. Which is NOT a factor that increases difficulty of design for a larger project?
2. Many-to-many associations:
3. A composition association is one that:
4. Missing data in a database property is referred to as a:
5. Class inheritance is a property of class relationships that mean:
6. A reflexive association is one in which:
7. When interviewing a user to gather information for a database design which is the least
important information to gather?
8. A _________ is a function performed by a class:
9. A __________ is a characteristic or descriptor of a class or entity.
10. Basic type of events that can occur in a database environment include:
11. One instance of a class with specific data is referred to as:
12. The description of the type of data, its composition, and size is referred to as the property's:
a. Staff turnover and retraining
b. Need to divide work projects into pieces for team
c. Lack of ability for CASE tools to handle large projects
d. Communication with multiple users
e. Finding the data / components
a. Can be represented directly in class diagram details
b. Simplify relational database design
c. Are converted into set of one-to-may associations
d. Do not represent any recognizable business rules
e. Are not considered in creating a database design
a. Is the same as a aggregation association
b. Can exist in a many-to-many relationship
c. Has individual items that are distinguishable from the resulting object.
d. Exists only when the individual items become the new class.
e. all of the above
a. indeterminant value
b. null
c. zero
d. blank
e. default value
a. That other classes are derived from base classes
b. That derived classes share properties unique to each derived class (intersect)
c. That derived classes contain the properties and methods of the base class and add
new features.
d. A and b above
e. A and c above
a. Data in one class reflects that of another
b. One class forms a relationship back to itself
c. One class is a parent of another
d. One class is only in a 1:1 relationship with another
e. Should not be included in the database design
a. The physical location of existing data
b. Identification of the data that needs to be collected
c. The data type (domain)
d. The amount of data involved
e. All of the above are important
a. Method
b. Operation
c. Application
d. Property
e. Business Rule
a. Method
b. Operation
c. Application
d. Property
e. Business Rule
a. Business events that trigger some function
b. Data changes that signal some alert
c. User interface events that trigger some action
d. A and c above
e. All of the above
a. An object
b. A property
c. A method
d. A value
e. A key
a. Data structure
b. Descriptor
c. Multiplicity
d. Domain
e. Class
