If a Company Stores Data in Separate Files in Its

question 62

Multiple Choice

If a company stores data in separate files in its different departmental locations and is able to update all files simultaneously, it would not have problems with

• A)Attributes.
• B)Data redundancy.
• C)Industrial espionage.
• D)Concurrency.

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Definitions:

Ratio Scale

The scale of measurement for a variable if the data demonstrate all the properties of interval data and the ratio of two values is meaningful. Ratio data are always numeric.

Nominal Scale

The scale of measurement for a variable when the data are labels or names used to identify an attribute of an element. Nominal data may be nonnumeric or numeric.

Ordinal Scale

A ranking scale used to measure variable where the order of values is significant, but the difference between values is not uniform.

Rank Order

A method of arranging data points based on their value, from highest to lowest or vice versa.