Question: Why was dBASE unique?
Answer: data manipulation is done by dBASE

Question: Why was dBASE successful?
Answer: lightweight and easy for any computer user to understand out of the box

Question: What is a benefit of using dBASE?
Answer: managing space allocation

Question: In the 1990s, what type of programming changed the handling of databases?
Answer: object-oriented

Question: What term is used for the difficulty in database table and programmed object translation?
Answer: object-relational impedance mismatch

Question: How is the problem of object-relational impedance mismatch corrected?
Answer: object-oriented language

Question: What is the library programmers use to solve object-relational impedance mismatch?
Answer: object-relational mappings (ORMs)

Question: What kind of database is XML?
Answer: structured document-oriented database

Question: Where are XML databases frequently used?
Answer: enterprise database management

Question: What type of processing is used in enterprise database software?
Answer: ACID-compliant transaction processing

Question: How is XML used in enterprise database management?
Answer: machine-to-machine data

Question: What is used to offer a balance in guarantees?
Answer: eventual consistency

Question: What explains the difficulty in a system containing availability, consistency, and partition tolerance guarantees?
Answer: the CAP theorem

Question: How many guarantees will most databases tolerate?
Answer: two

Question: What should a conceptual data model do?
Answer: reflects the structure of the information to be held

Question: What makes a successful data model?
Answer: accurately reflect the possible state of the external world being modeled

Question: Asking questions about an organization's needs will help to create what?
Answer: definitions of the terminology used for entities

Question: What must one understand in order to create a successful data model?
Answer: the application domain

Question: A conceptual data model in separate from the choice of what?
Answer: database technology

Question: In what form is the output of a logical database design?
Answer: schema

Question: Which data model is displayed as a specific model that uses DBMS?
Answer: logical

Question: What decisions must be made in the last stage of database design?
Answer: performance, scalability, recovery, security

Question: What is an important goal in in this final stage?
Answer: data independence

Question: What factor is reflected in performance requirements?
Answer: Physical design

Question: How many conceptual or physical views of data are there?
Answer: one

Question: How many different external views of data are there?
Answer: any number

Question: What is the benefit of external views of data?
Answer: see database information in a more business-related way

Question: What does the conceptual view offer?
Answer: a level of indirection between internal and external

Question: How does the conceptual view handle how data is managed?
Answer: abstracts away details

Question: What type of view does the conceptual view offer?
Answer: common

Question: What is responsible for putting information into permanent storage?
Answer: database engine

Question: What do database administrators closely monitor?
Answer: storage properties and configuration setting

Question: What is database storage?
Answer: physical materialization of a database

Question: While working, does DBMS store information in one place?
Answer: several types of storage

Question: What are huge quantities of information stored as?
Answer: bits

Question: What does database access limit?
Answer: who (a person or a certain computer program) is allowed to access what information

Question: What are examples of database objects?
Answer: record types, specific records, data structures

Question: Who sets database access?
Answer: special authorized (by the database owner) personnel

Question: What does data security avoid?
Answer: unauthorized users from viewing or updating the database

Question: What is a subset of a database called that can be accessed by using a password?
Answer: subschemas

Question: What is possible when a DBMS interrogate and update a database?
Answer: managing personal databases

Question: What is a unit of work called in a database?
Answer: transaction

Question: Are transactions limited?
Answer: Each transaction has well defined boundaries

Question: How can database transactions ensure accuracy after a crash?
Answer: fault tolerance

Question: Why would someone attempt to unite two different databases?
Answer: primarily economical

Question: In order to merge, what must the database maintain?
Answer: database related application

Question: What are the important parts of the database related application that should be moved?
Answer: conceptual and external architectural levels

Question: How can a DBMS database migration be made easier?
Answer: vendor provides tools

Question: Can a DBMS be transfered to a different DBMS?
Answer: ano

Question: Name a reason to take a database backward in time?
Answer: database is found corrupted

Question: Is each database backup kept in the same file?
Answer: dedicated backup files

Question: Who can restore a database that has been corrupted?
Answer: database administrator

Question: What parameter is requiret to restore a database?
Answer: desired point in time

Question: How can static analysis be useful with query languages?
Answer: software verification

Question: What do query languages support in abstract interpretation frameworks?
Answer: sound approximation techniques

Question: What is a security measure that uses a relational database system?
Answer: watermarking

Question: Can query languages be adjusted?
Answer: according to suitable abstractions of the concrete domain of data

Question: What is the largest populated city in Arizona?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: How many miles is Tuscon from the U.S.- Mexico border?
Answer: 60

Question: What nickname does Tuscon have because of their many companies involved in optics?
Answer: Optics Valley

Question: What was the population of Tuscon according to the 2010 U.S. Census? 
Answer: 520,116

Question: What was the estimated population of the entire Tuscan area in 2013? 
Answer: 996,544

Question: Which county is Tucson in?
Answer: Pima County

Question: Which university is in Tucson?
Answer: University of Arizona

Question: How far is Tucson from Phoenix?
Answer: 108 miles (174 km)

Question: How far is Tucson from Mexico?
Answer: 60 mi (97 km)

Question: What industry-based nickname does Tucson have?
Answer: Optics Valley

Question: What was Tuscon known as 12,000 years ago?
Answer: southern Arizona

Question: What group lived in the area that were known for their red-on-brown pottery?
Answer: Hohokam

Question: Near what river was a village site dating from 2100 BC found? 
Answer: Santa Cruz River

Question: Who were probably the first group of people in Tuscan?
Answer: Paleo-Indians

Question: How long ago did Tuscan have their first visitors?
Answer: 12,000 years ago

Question: How long ago were Paleo-Indians known to be in the Tucson area?
Answer: about 12,000 years ago

Question: How old was the village site found near the Santa Cruz River?
Answer: 2100 BC

Question: When was the Early Agricultural period?
Answer: 1200 BC to AD 150

Question: What happened in the Early Ceramic period?
Answer: the first extensive use of pottery vessels for cooking and storage

Question: When did the Hohokam live in the Tucson area?
Answer: from AD 600 to 1450

Question: What year did Mexico gain independence from Spain?
Answer: 1821

Question: Who is considered the founding father of Tuscan?
Answer: Hugo O'Conor

Question: Who founded the Mission San Xavier del Bac?
Answer: Eusebio Francisco Kino

Question: How many miles was Mission San Xavier del Bac from Tuscon?
Answer: 7