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At the implementation level, the supertype and its subtype(s) depicted in the specialization hierarchy maintain a 1:1 relationship.

A) True
B) False

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What do specialization hierarchies do?

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Entity supertypes and subtypes are organ...

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

A) True
B) False

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_____ is the bottom-up process of identifying a higher-level, more generic entity supertype from lower-level entity subtypes.


A) Specialization
B) Generalization
C) Normalization
D) Total completeness

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

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The extended entity relationship model (EERM) is sometimes referred to as the _____.


A) enclosed entity relationship model
B) enhanced entity relationship model
C) entity clustering relationship model
D) extended entity relationship diagram

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

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Subtypes that contain nonunique subsets of the supertype entity set are known as _____ subtypes.

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In the context of total completeness, in a(n) _____, every supertype occurrence is a member of only one subtype.


A) foreign key constraint
B) nonunique constraint
C) overlapping constraint
D) disjoint constraint

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

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The _____ specifies whether each entity supertype occurrence must also be a member of at least one subtype.

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A subtype contains attributes that are common to all of its supertypes.

A) True
B) False

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Disjoint subtypes are also known as _____ subtypes.

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The _____ depicts the arrangement of higher-level entity supertypes (parent entities) and lower-level entity subtypes (child entities) .


A) subtype discriminator
B) inheritance
C) specialization hierarchy
D) entity supertype

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

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The _____ is the result of adding more semantic constructs to the original entity relationship (ER) model.

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_____ completeness means that every supertype occurrence must be a member of at least one subtype.

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Composite primary keys are particularly useful as identifiers of composite entities, where each primary key combination is allowed only once in the _____ relationship.


A) 0:1
B) 1:1
C) 1:M
D) M:N

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

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A specialization hierarchy can have _____ level(s) of supertype/subtype relationships.


A) zero
B) only one
C) one or many
D) many

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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