3/12/2019 Midterms

Question 1 Which of the following is BEST for checking for completeness?

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a. Any of the choices

b. Decision Trees

c. Decision Table

d. Structured English

Question 2 Provides overview of the system to be designed.

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b. None of the choice

c. Context Diagram
d. Procedural Diagram

Question 3 Which of the following is an entity

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a. Employee

b. Sell

c. Programmer & Employee

d. All of the choices

e. Programmer

f. Visit
g. Sell & Visit

h. None of the choices

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Question 4 The following are requirements of a good code EXCEPT
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b. All of the choices
c. Expandable

d. Precise

e. None of the choices

f. Lengthy

Question 5 In the ER Diagram, relationships are

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a. Verbs
b. Nouns

c. Adjective

d. None of the choices

Question 6 Which of the following classification of codes is NOT comprehensive?

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a. Significant Code

b. Group Classification code

c. Serial number

d. None of the choices

e. Serial number and block codes

f. Block codes
g. Group classification code and significant code

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Question 7 Which of the following classification of codes is NOT expandable?
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a. None of the choices

b. Group Classification code

c. All of the choices

d. Serial number

e. Significant Code

f. Block codes

Question 8 Logical operators are used in constructing a Structured English, which of the following
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b. AND

c. OR
d. NOT
e. IF

Question 9 For interactive data input, customized screens are designed for easy data entry. Errors
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be immediately corrected.
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a. high speed internet connection
b. database operator

c. validation program

d. desktop computer with high specifications

Question 10 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT with respect to a Data Dictionary?
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a. Data dictionary and data source both are the same
b. Is important documentation which would be useful to maintain a system

c. It is a repository of the elements in a system

d. None of the choices

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Question 11 Which of the following classification of codes is NOT precise?
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b. Significant Code

c. Group Classification code

d. None of the choices

e. Serial number

Question 12 TRUE OR FALSE: External entities can process data.

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Answer: TRUE
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Question 13 To reduce errors in input, it is essential to ______________.

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b. migrate the system to online mode.
c. hire a new employee.

d. carefully design the forms used for entering data.

Question 14 Every member of an entity set is described by its _______________.

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a. Size

b. Methods

c. Attributes
d. Classes

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Question 15 Which of the following classification of codes is NOT comprehensive?
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b. Group Classification code and Significant Code

c. All of the choices

d. Serial number

e. Block codes

f. Serial number and Block codes

g. None of the choices

h. Significant Code

Question 16 Which of the following does NOT describe Structured English?

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a. Structured English shows decision structure

b. Structured English is similar to Pascal programming

c. Structured English should be written or follow the programming syntax

rules and convention

d. Structured English should be understandable to the user

Question 17 If the process p is expanded, the process at the next level will be labeled as
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b. None of the choices
c. p.a, p.b, p.c

d. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Question 18 In the ER Diagram, normally entities are

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a. Adjective

b. Verbs

c. Nouns
d. None of the choices

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Question 19 TRUE OR FALSE: This method of top down analysis and breaking down DFDs to give
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Answer: FALSE

Question 20 Which of the following is a valid ER Diagram?

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a.

b.

c.

d.

Question 21 TRUE OR FALSE: As a guideline in DFD, nouns are used to name an external entity.
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Question 22 Given employee (employee number, salary, department code, supervisor code). What
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a. Employee number

b. Department code
c. Supervisor code
d. All of the choices

Question 23 The _____________________ is a catalogue of all data used in an application, their

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a. Data Flow Diagram

b. Documentation

c. None of the choices

d. System Requirement Specification

e. Data dictionary

Question 24 Given the DFD below:

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a. The DFD is incorrect, the symbol of customer and billing system was
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b. The DFD is incorrect, there should be a data store in the diagram

c. The DFD is incorrect, data flow violated the rule of 1 input 1 output

d. The DFD is incorrect, the arrow lines are not in order

e. The DFD is correct.

f. None of the choices are correct.

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Question 25 Which one of the following statements is FALSE about data dictionary?
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b. Data dictionary contains the name and description of each data element

c. The data analyst normally maintains the data dictionary.

d. None of the choices

Question 26 In Entity Relationship, the Student number, Course, Date Enrolled, Gender are
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a. Entity

b. Cardinality

c. Tuples
d. Attributes

e. Relationship

Question 27 Relationship are normalized to ensure that

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no inconsistency is there

b. All of the choices

c. None of the choices
d. Collection of relations do not unnecessarily hold duplicate data

e. When data is deleted accidentally, required data is not deleted

f. Simplifies retrieval of required data

Question 28 A relationship is in 2NF if,

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a. If key attributes is independent on composite attribute
b. If there are only 2 attributes

c. If duplicate tuples exists

d. It is in 1NF

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Question 29 TRUE OR FALSE: If a DFD is too detailed it will have too many data flows and will be
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Answer: FALSE

Question 30 Each column in the relation corresponds to _____________

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a. Entity set

b. Data of the entity

c. Records
d. An attribute of the entity

Question 31 A data dictionary is usually developed

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b. after designing the database

c. during feasibility analysis

d. when data flow diagram is developed

Question 32 TRUE or FALSE. Conditions need always to be BINARY.

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Question 33 Which of the following why there is a need for codes?
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b. For unique identifier and for cross referencing between applications
c. All of the choices
d. For cross referencing between applications

e. For efficient storage and retrieval

f. None of the choices

Question 34 The following are entities EXCEPT

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b. Conduct

c. Collect
d. Officer

e. All of the choices

f. Collect & Conduct

g. Monthly
h. Volunteer

i. Volunteer & Officer

Question 35 TRUE OR FALSE: In designing a DFD, start from the broad overview of the system.
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Question 36 TRUE OR FALSE: Data cannot flow from store to external entity.
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Question 37 In Entity Relationship, a tuple is
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b. a collection of information
c. another term for database
d. a row of relation

e. a column of relation
f. a table

Question 38 TRUE or FALSE. For every condition, there should only be 2 actions.
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True
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Question 39 What is the correct Structured English of the following problem?
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The University is giving discount to all students. A 50% discount on tuition fee will only
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be given to BSIT freshmen students. The rest of non IT students will only get 10%
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a. if student year = 1 AND course = BSIT
then discount = 50%
else
discount = 10%
endif

b. if student year = 1
if course = BSIT
else discount = 50%
endif
else
discount = 10%
endif

c. if student year = 1
Then discount = 50%
else
Discount = 10%
endif

d. if student year = 1 AND course = BSIT

then discount = 50%
endif
else
discount = 10%
endif

Question 40 This gives a single point reference of data repository of an organization.

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b. Data Flow Diagram

c. Data dictionary
d. Documentation

e. System Requirement Specification

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Question 41 The objective of using structured English is to
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b. describe computational procedures reasonably precisely which can be
understood by any user
c. expand a DFD so that a user can understand it

d. ease writing programs for DFDs

Question 42 TRUE or FALSE. A decision table is said to be complete if it has at least 2 possible
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True

False

Question 43 A _________________ DFD is similar to a document flow diagram.

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b. Relational
c. Logical

d. Physical

Question 44 The _____________________ is where user presented several alternatives and asked
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a. keyboard
b. textbox

c. menu

d. screen

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Question 45 TRUE or FALSE. Use Structured English when there are large number of conditions to
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True

False

Question 46 TRUE or FALSE. Use Decision trees when there are many conditions to be tested.
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Question 47 Data dictionary may be used to eliminate redundancy.

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b. FALSE

Question 48 In ____________ data entry, batches of data are formed and entered. They are
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a. Off-line

b. Mobile

c. On-line

d. Real-time

Question 49 The ______________ data entry is suitable if the number of records is very large.
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b. Mobile

c. On-line
d. Real-time

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Question 50 The Student Grading Information System needs to compute for the average grade on
Not yet 10 quizzes of a student. What is the correct Structured English?
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a. for quiz = 1 to quiz = 10 do
{
Total Score = + Score
}
end for
Average = Total Score / 10

b. for quiz = 1 to quiz = 10 do

{
Total Score = Total Score + Score
}
end for
Average = Total Score / 10
c. for quiz >= 1 to quiz <= 10 do
{
Total Score = Total Score + Score
Average = Total Score / 10

}
end for

d. for quiz = 1 to quiz = 10 do

{
Total Score = Total Score + Score
Average = Total Score / 10
}
end for

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