Sample Exam Questions: Computer Databases (Chapter 11)

Choose the answer that best answers each question.

1. Under which of the follow scenarios would you use a database (as opposed to something like a text file or list)?
   1. When the information is complex enough so that it must be organized in some form so that it can be more easily retrieved.
   2. When there’s a great deal of redundancy in the information.
   3. When a numerical ‘what if’ analysis must be performed.
   4. (a) & (b)
   5. All of the above

    

2. ______________ is information that is used to describe another piece of information.
   1. A default value
   2. A computational field
   3. A query
   4. Metadata
   5. None of the above

Answers to the above questions