Posted: January 2nd, 2017

The _______ approach to setting up a distributed DBMS combines fragmentation and replication

Question 7 In a(n) _______ file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number. Answer EBCDIC Unicode ASCII extended ASCII Question 8 Computers and communication systems use ________ to represent and transfer information between computers and network systems. Answer Optical character reader (OCR) light pens data codes Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) Question 9 ________ is a function performed by control programs that controls the transfer of data among parts of a computer system, such as exchange of information between the CPU and I/O devices. Answer Job management Resource allocation Data management Communication Question 10 A _______ is the size of a character. Answer nibble bit byte word Question 11 A(n) _______ is a type of memory that stores data sequentially. Answer RAM magnetic tape optical disk RAID Question 12 Data in a data warehouse can be differentiated from data in a database in that the former _______. Answer captures raw transaction data is used for capturing and managing transactions comes from a variety of sources only keeps recent activity in memory Question 13 The _______ approach to setting up a distributed DBMS combines fragmentation and replication. Answer optimization allocation encapsulation normalization