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1. What is Information Modelling concerned with?
Question 1A. How information is described, structured and communicated so it is clearly understood and consistently interpretedB. How databases are physically partitionedC. How servers are provisioned for applicationsD. How reports are formatted for printingE. How network traffic is routed
2. What is the primary goal of Information Modelling?
Question 2A. Faster query performanceB. Lower storage costsC. Semantic clarityD. Automated workflowsE. Standardised diagrams
3. Which statement about Information Modelling as a discipline is correct?
Question 3A. It is a single modelling techniqueB. It is a database productC. It is another name for BPMND. It is a family of approaches sharing the goal of representing business facts accurately and consistentlyE. It only applies to unstructured data
4. Which three techniques are named as falling under the Information Modelling discipline?
Question 4A. UML, ERD and BPMNB. Star, Snowflake and Data VaultC. NIAM, ORM and FCO-IMD. DDD, EDM and CDME. SQL, XML and JSON
5. Which question does Information Modelling ask instead of how data will be stored?
Question 5A. Which vendor to chooseB. How many servers are neededC. How fast the queries runD. What facts exist in the business, how they are expressed in language and how they relateE. Who owns the backup tapes
6. What was the limitation of early, natural-language-based fact modelling approaches?
Question 6A. They were too formal to readB. They required expensive toolsC. They could not be read by business usersD. They only worked for numeric dataE. They were intuitive and business-friendly but limited in rigour and precision
7. What was the trade-off introduced by the more formal second stage of Information Modelling approaches?
Question 7A. Improved accuracy through constraints and structure, sometimes at the cost of readabilityB. Improved readability at the cost of accuracyC. Lower cost at the expense of toolingD. Faster modelling but fewer diagramsE. Better storage but weaker meaning
8. What is the focus of the most recent evolution of Information Modelling?
Question 8A. Physical storage optimisationB. How facts are communicated, preserving every nuance of business language for transformation into multiple technical representationsC. Replacing natural language with codeD. Eliminating constraints from modelsE. Modelling only numeric measures
9. Which of the following is NOT listed as an output that modern information models can be transformed into?
Question 9A. Entity-relationship diagramsB. UML modelsC. XML schemasD. Semantic web representationsE. Spreadsheet macros
10. What key insight does the evolution of Information Modelling reflect?
Question 10A. Information is only stored, never communicatedB. Information is not just stored, it is communicated; how a fact is spoken or interpreted matters as much as how it is implementedC. Diagrams are always better than sentencesD. Databases should be designed before facts are understoodE. Business users should not validate models