Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-1 in Your New Role as a DBA

question 34

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-1 In your new role as a DBA, you have inherited a database that has a lot of problems. Your first task, you decide, is to identify whether or not the information in your database contains the qualities of valuable information, and which quality may be missing. The manager for the eastern division sales force is upset because she wants to determine which members of her sales force need awards for high monthly sales, and which employees need remediation because they have not sold enough product during the past month. However, all of the sales information has not yet been entered into the database. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?

• A) useful information
• B) timely information
• C) accessible information
• D) verifiable information

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Definitions:

Flashbulb Memories

Vivid, detailed memories of significant or emotional events, which seem to be recorded in one's memory just like a photograph.

Confidence

The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust.

Distortion

A modification of the original shape or other characteristic of an object, image, sound, or waveform.

Eyewitness Memory

The recollection by individuals of events they have witnessed, especially significant to criminal investigations.