How could the database be most efficiently searched to find all of the inventions of Samuel Morse?

A. Inventor = "Morse" C. Invention = "telegraph"

B. Date > "1837" D. Nation ="US"

If you had a database with 500 names and addresses of students enrolled at your school and wanted to know the phone number of one particular student, you would:

a. Perform a search using the student's name as the criteria

c. Sort the database in descending order

b. Sort the database and scroll through the records

d. Perform a search of all boys in the database

Which of the following list of money have be sorted in descending order?

a. $1.48, $2.33, $2.34, $8.34, $9.25

b. $9.25, $8.34, $2.34, $2.33, $1.48

c. $9.25, $8.34, $2.33, $2.34, $1.48

d. $2.34, $8.34, $1.48, $2.33, $9.25

All of the following terms are related to databases EXCEPT for:

a. Search

b. Entry

c. Data

d. Character retrieval

By what field are these entries sorted?

 

a. Date

b. Invention

c. Inventor

d. Nation

Ascending sort order would be the same as:

a. From 0 to 9

b. From 9 to A

c. From Z to A

d. By last name

Ned sorted the database and the information for "Nation" appeared as follows:

US France US Sweden Switzerland

Ned used which field to sort the database  a. Nation c. Date

b. Invention d. Inventor

An advantage of a database program is:

a. You can handle all of your letters and report writing with it

b. You never have to update a database

c. You can add, delete or edit data easily

d. You can see all of the entries on the screen at one time

Ranking a class of students from shortest to tallest would require that the records be

a. Ranked by record in ascending order

b. Sorted by height in ascending order

c. Searched by the height field

d. Sorted by last name

The four parts of a database listed in ascending order are:

 

a. Entry, field, record, file

b. File, record, field, entry

c. Entry, field, file, record

d. File, field, entry, record

To make a database of your friends' addresses that could be sorted by their last names, you would need to make

"Last Name":

a. record

b. field

c. entry

d. order

A collection of related information is known as a:

a. Spreadsheet

b. Document

c. Record

d. Database

One piece or item of information in a database is known as a/an:

a. Record

b. Entry

c. File

d. Field

What term applies to a collection of related records in a database?

a. Field

b. Clipboard

c. File

d. Form

To put data in a particular order, what operation should you perform?

a. Search

b. Retrieve

c. Sort

d. Quest

What item would serve the same purpose as a database?

a. Copier

b. Fax Machine

c. Telephone Book

d. File Cabinet

A set of related records in a database is known as a:

a. File

b. Entry

c. Field

d. Record

Last name, first name and phone number are all examples of:

a. Entries

b. Records

c. Data

d. Fields

Students lined up from the youngest to the oldest would be an

example of what sort order?

a. Criterion order

b. Numerical order

c. Ascending order

d. Descending order

If books are organized from the most expensive to the cheapest, what is the

sort order?

a. Criterion order

b. Numerical order

c. Ascending order

d. Descending order

To find a specific entry in a record, what method would you use?

a. Sorting

b. Searching

c. Questing

d. Finding

The software used to organize large amounts of data is:

a. Programming

b. Spreadsheet

c. Word Processing

d. Database

In a database, an ascending sort means:

a. Putting data in A to Z order

b. Putting data in Z to A order.

c. Putting data in reverse number order

d. Putting data in reverse number order

a. Perform a search by finding all records that has =>93 in the grade field

b. Sort the records in ascending order and check the monitor

c. Search the names and ask the class members

d. Extract the fields to get the information needed

If you had a database of all the students in your math class and their final grade

average, how could you find how many made at least a 93?

A group of related fields is known as:

a. Data

b. Characters

c. A File

d. A Record

If you had a database with 500 names and addresses of students enrolled at your school and wanted to know the phone number of one particular student, you

would:

a. Sort the database and scroll through the records

b. Perform a search of all boys in the database.

c. Perform a search using the student's name as the criteria.

d. Sort the database in descending order.

d. Scroll

a. Sort

b. Search

c. Quest

If a guidance counselor at a middle school needed the records of all the seventh grade girls,

what should he/she do to generate the names from the database?

In a database of elementary school students, what would be the process of

ranking them in order of oldest to youngest?

a. Sort the records by the field "age" in descending order

b. Rank all fields in descending order

c. Sort the records in ascending order

d. Search for the oldest student by viewing

a. Search each county record

b. Search the population field using >100,000

c. Sort the records by population in descending order

d. Rank the counties by name and scroll

In a database containing information about North Carolina and its counties, how would you find

the county with the most people?

a. Sort in descending order

b. Sort in ascending order.

c. Search all connecting prices.

d. Quest for lowest prices.

If you want to organize a database of sale merchandise from Belk’s department store from the most expensive to

the cheapest, using the price field, you should:

To find out which employee is paid the most per hour, the database would be

defined by the "salary field" and:

a. Searched in ascending order.

b. Sorted in ascending order.

c. Searched in descending order.

d. Sorted in descending order.

In a database of elementary students, what operator would you use to find all students under the age of nine: 

a. <

c. =<

b. >

d. =

To arrange a database of movies made in the 1940's from the oldest to the most recent, it

should be sorted by year in:

a. Chronological order.

b. Date order.

c. Descending order.

d. Ascending order.

Putting data such as names in alphabetical order is called:

 

a. Numbering

b. Searching

c. Filing

d. Sorting

A group of fields in a database is known as a:

a. Record

b. Character

c. File

d. Folder

If you wanted to change a record in a database, you would be performing what

operation?

a. Retrieving

c. Editing

d. Querying

b. Searching

Which if the following is NOT an operator to be used in a search?

a. Equal to or greater than

b. Greater than

c. The same as

d. Less than

If you needed a hard copy of the database about North Carolina, you

would first need to:

a. Print the file

d. Save the file to a floppy disk

c. Edit the file

b. Retrieve the file

When you search a database, you are:

a. Looking for records that meet certain conditions

b. Ranking the records in the order you need

c. Opening the database for viewing

d. Editing the data entries

If you find a spelling mistake in a database entry, what key should you use to erase it?

a. Insert

d. Delete

c. Enter

b. Return

Information in a database is divided into:

a. Lists

b. Entries

d. Fields

c. Date Bites

To get to a previously saved database, you must:

a. Print it.

b. Copy it.

c. Retrieve it.

d. Sort it.

A field is the proper term used to describe:

a. A set of characters typed in a record.

b. A category of information

d. All of the entries combined together

c. A method of sorting