final exam Flashcards

Which of the following is a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data?

Which of the following is a request for specific data from a database?

Which of the following languages consists of simple, English-like statements that allow users to specify the data to display, print, or store?

Which of the following is a window on the screen that provides areas for entering or changing data in a database?

Which of the following is true in a relational database?

Which of the following is a database that stores data in tables that consist of rows and columns?

In a relational database, where does the only data redundancy exist?

Compared with relational databases, which of the following is true of object-oriented databases?

Which of the following is an advantage of a multidimensional database?

Which kind of database stores data in dimensions?

Which of the following is a huge database that stores and manages the data required to analyze historical and current transactions?

In a database, what is the smallest unit of data a user accesses?

In your school's database, in which of the following is all of the information about a particular student is stored?

Define data redundancy.

You are creating a database for your computer club. Most of the students live in your town, Durham. How can you make Durham appear initially in the field to make data entry easier?

While working with a database, you encounter a wizard. What best describes the purpose of a wizard?

o find all customers whose names begin with S, enter ____ in the Criteria row of the Customer Name field.

To find all individuals whose name is Robin or Robyn, enter ____ in the Criteria row of the appropriate column.

To create a parameter query, enter a parameter rather than a specific value as a criterion in the design grid. The parameter must be enclosed in ____.

To find all customers whose current due amount is greater than $1,000.00, enter ____ in the Criteria row of the Current Due column.

Less than (<), greater than (>), and NOT (not equal to) are examples of ____.

To order the records in the answer to a query in a particular way, you ____ the records.

To sort records in a query, specify the sort order in the ____ row of the design grid below the field that is the sort key.

To omit duplicates from a query, use the property sheet and change the Unique Values property to ____.

To use the Report Wizard to create a report for a query, select the query in the Navigation Pane, tap or click ____ on the ribbon, and then tap or click the Report Wizard button.

To include calculated fields in queries, enter a name for the calculated field, a(n) ____, and then the expression in one of the columns in the Field row.

____ help one slide flow gracefully into the next during a slide show.

PowerPoint ____ should reinforce the speaker's message and help the audience retain the information presented.

Alice is both ____ and ____.

When you begin creating a new PowerPoint presentation, you need to select a ____

When you open a new presentation, a slide with the default ____ layout appears.

The box on a slide that has a dotted or hatch-marked border and that contains the insertion point is a text ____.

PowerPoint assumes every new slide, except for a blank slide, has ____.

By default, slides in a new presentation are in ____ orientation.

Text ____ defines the appearance and shape of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols.

When you add a new slide following the title slide, PowerPoint uses the ____ slide layout for the new slide.

In a multilevel bulleted list slide, creating a lower-level paragraph is called ____ the text.

The instructions in the language of Alice are contained on ____ which you can drag and drop into place to ____ new programs.

Alice allows you to focus on ____ instead of worrying about details of a new language.

A(n) ____ is anything that can be represented by data in the memory of a computer.

The data that represents an object is organized into a set of ____.

The programs that manipulate the properties of an object are called the object's ____.

The values stored in the properties of an object at any one time are called the ____ of the object.

A class of objects is a set of objects that each have the same ____.

Users interact with Alice through a(n) __

Which of the following is typically contained in an IDE?

Which of the following is typically contained in an IDE?

A(n) ____ is a step-by-step process that can be clearly defined.

The software development cycle has ____ phases.

In the ____ phase, each method is tested to see if it works by itself and with other methods.

In the ____ phase, the objects, methods, and initial scene are described.

In the ____ phase, the necessary objects are added to the world, and their methods coded.

There are ____ types of software documentation

In the ____ phase of the software development cycle, developers attempt to correct mistakes.

Messages that appear when the program is run are intended to ____.

Project documentation includes ____.

Developers often create a ____ to create the necessary entry conditions and capture the exit conditions.

A collection of ____ together make up the components of a more complex algorithm.

Today, branching routines are referred to as selection sequences and loops are called ____.

Linear sequences must have ____.

There are ____ different kinds of binary branching sequences.

"Would you like vanilla ice cream?" is an example of a(n) ____ question.

Every loop, except for a(n) ____loop that never ends, has a condition to test whether or not the body of the loop should be executed.

A(n) ____ is a marker or a condition that tells the computer when to stop executing a loop.

A(n) ____ loop is a special type of sentinel loop in which the sentinel is a counte

____ is an instruction that sets the first value of the control variable

____ is the instruction that looks at the control variable to see if the loop should be executed.

Before GUIs were developed, the most common interface was a(n) ____ interface.

The method that is run in response to an event trigger is called an ____.

An event occurs when an event listener detects an ____.

An event trigger can be ____.

In a(n) ____ event type, there are three places for event handlers.

The different events in the world appear in the ____.

Altogether, there are ____different types of events in Alice.

Which of the following is true of the complex event types?