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Question 1

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1. The entity super type contains the common characteristics and the entity subtypes contain the unique characteristics of each entity subtype.
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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2. Entity super types and subtypes are organized in a specialization hierarchy.
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  • True
  • False

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3. The relationships depicted within the specialization hierarchy are sometimes described in terms of “is-a” relationships.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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4. Within a specialization hierarchy, a super type can exist only within the context of a subtype.
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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5. One important inheritance characteristic is that all entity subtypes inherit their primary key attribute from their super type.
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  • True
  • False

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6. At the implementation level, the super type and its subtype(s) depicted in the specialization hierarchy maintain a 1:1 relationship.
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  • True
  • False

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7. Entity subtypes do not inherit the relationships in which the super type entity participates.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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8. In specialization hierarchies with multiple levels of super type/subtypes, a lower-level super type inherits all of the attributes and relationships from all of its upper-level subtypes.
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  • True
  • False

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9. The property of subtype discriminator enables an entity super type to inherit the attributes and relationships of the subtype.
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  • True
  • False

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10. An entity super type can have disjoint or overlapping entity subtypes
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  • True
  • False

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11. Disjoint subtypes are subtypes that contain non unique subsets of the super type entity set.
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  • True
  • False

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12. Overlapping subtypes are subtypes that contain a unique subset of the super type entity set
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  • True
  • False

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13. Implementing non-overlapping subtypes requires the use of one discriminator attribute for each subtype.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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14. The completeness constraint can be partial or total.
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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15. Specialization is the top-down process of identifying lower-level, more specific entity subtypes from a higher-level entity super type.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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16. Generalization is based on grouping unique characteristics and relationships of the subtypes.
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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17. An entity cluster is a "virtual" entity type used to represent multiple entities and relationships in the ERD.
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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18. To model time-variant data, you must create a new entity in a M:N relationship with the original entity.
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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19. A design trap occurs when a relationship is improperly or incompletely identified and is therefore represented in a way that is not consistent with the real world.
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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20. Some designs use redundant relationships as a way to simplify the design.
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  • True
  • False
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