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NC COMPUTER SKILLS TEST

DATABASES PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which occupation would most likely 7. Searching a database of North


use a database on the job? Carolina counties by using the
A. An athlete statement, “all counties with a
B. The janitor at Hudson Belk population of greater that two million”
C. Telephone information operators will include:
D. Heavy equipment operator A. Counties with exactly two million
people
B. Counties with two million or more
2. Which of the following is not a good C. Counties with more than two million
use for a database program? D. Counties with less than two million
A. Keeping school records
B. Completing a paper for English class
C. Maintaining hospital admission records 8. If a student sorted the following in
D. Organizing recipes at home descending order, which international
capital would be first?
A. Moscow
3. An advantage of a database program is: B. Beirut
A. Office correspondence can be handled C. Paris
B. All fields can be printed in a one page D. Bogota
report
C. Data can be added or deleted easily
D. All records can be displayed at one 9. All of the following are examples of
time electronic databases except which
one?
A. collection of country music CDs
4. A database program replaces what B. a CD-Rom encyclopedia
piece of office equipment? C. computerized student information
A. typewriter D. Electronic Card Catalog
B. photocopier
C. FAX machine
D. filing cabinet 10. Which search of an electronic phone
directory would find only the Doe
families living on Main Street in area
5. In a database program, a set of related code 919?
information is called a: A. Name = Doe and Address = Main
A. field Street or Area Code = 919
B. entry B. Name = Doe and Address = Main
C. record Street and Area Code = 919
D. file C. Name = Doe or Address = Main
Street and Area Code
D. Name = Doe or address = Main
6. Which of the following is not true of Street or Area Code = 919
database programs?
A. They can be viewed in different 11. What would you do to generate a hard
formats. copy of a database of North Carolina?
B. They can be used to retrieve A. Edit the file
information quickly. B. Print the file
C. They are limited to the amount of C. Retrieve the file
information they can hold. D. Save the file to a floppy disk
D. They can be used by just about
anybody.
NC COMPUTER SKILLS TEST
DATABASES PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Circle the letter of the correct answer.

Craft Country Year Hours 16. If you wanted to rank the flights in
order of most recent to oldest, you
APOLLO 7 USA 1968 260.2 would:
A. Search “Year” ascending
APOLLO 9 USA 1969 241.0 B. Search “Craft” ascending
C. Search “Year” descending
APOLLO 11 USA 1969 195.3 D. Search “Craft” descending

APOLLO 10 USA 1969 192.1


APOLLO 8 USA 1968 97.8 17. In a database containing information
about North Carolina and its counties,
GEMINI IV USA 1965 94.8 how would you find the county with
the most people?
SOYUZ 3 USSR 1968 94.8 A. Filter the population field using
greater than 10,000.
B. Rank the counties by name and
scroll through the list.
Use the database above to answer C. Search each county record
Questions 12-16 D. Sort the records by population in
descending order
12. In what order has the field “Hours”
been sorted?
A random 18. How would you find the phone
B. alphabetical number of one student from 500
C. ascending names and addresses of students
D. descending enrolled at your school?
A. Perform a search of all boys in the
database
13. If a search was completed to determine B. Perform a search using the student’s
“Year” = 1968, how many records would name as the criteria
match? C. Sort the database and scroll all
A. 5 records
B. 3 D. Sort the database in descending
C. 2 order
D. 6

19. What does searching a database


14. Finding USA flights in the Year 1968 mean?
would require a: A. Editing data entries
A. compound search with AND B. Looking for records that meet certain
B. compound search with OR conditions
C. compound sort with AND C. Opening the file for viewing
D. compound sort with OR D. Ranking the records in the order you
need

15. The following search was performed:


“Country” = USSR or “Country” = USA 20. What would be the most efficient way
How many records matched? to locate the records for all students
A. 9 born before 08/29/90?
B. 6 A. Replace
C. 7 B. Scroll
D. 8 C. search
D. sort

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