On the Server Side, the Database Environment Must Be Properly

question 23

Multiple Choice

On the server side, the database environment must be properly configured to respond to clients' requests in the fastest way possible, while making optimum use of existing resources. The activities required to achieve this goal are commonly referred to as _____ tuning.

• A) client and server
• B) database SQL
• C) SQL performance
• D) DBMS performance

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Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

A strategy for attributing overhead and indirect expenditures to associated services and products, determined by the activities demanded by each.

Estimated Overhead Cost

An approximation of the indirect costs associated with production, used for budgeting and pricing purposes.

Activity Cost Pools

Activity Cost Pools are aggregations of all the costs associated with particular activities used in activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs more accurately.

Predetermined Overhead Rates

Rates used to apply manufacturing overhead to products or job orders, calculated in advance based on estimated overhead costs and activity levels.