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1. What does NIAM stand for today?
Question 1A. Natural Language Information Analysis MethodB. Normalised Information Architecture ModelC. Network Information Access MethodD. Nested Information Attribute ModelE. Numerical Information Analysis Method
2. What did NIAM originally stand for?
Question 2A. Nijssen's Information Analysis MethodologyB. Natural Information Attribute MappingC. New Integrated Analysis MethodD. Nominal Information Access ModelE. Normalised Information Analysis Method
3. Why was the NIAM acronym generalised to Natural Language Information Analysis Method?
Question 3A. Because Nijssen left the projectB. Because the method was renamed by a standards bodyC. Because the original name was trademarkedD. Because many people contributed to the method, and to emphasise its basis in natural languageE. Because it was merged with ORM
4. In which decades was NIAM developed?
Question 4A. The 1950s and 1960sB. The 1990s and 2000sC. The 2000s and 2010sD. The 1970s and 1980sE. The 1960s and 1970s
5. What is the key idea behind NIAM?
Question 5A. Business information should be modelled first as tablesB. Diagrams should replace sentencesC. Data types should be decided before factsD. Only technical staff should validate modelsE. Business information should first be expressed in plain natural language before being transformed into formal models
6. In the NIAM fact 'A customer submits a loan application', what are customer and loan application?
Question 6A. RolesB. ConstraintsC. ObjectsD. AttributesE. Tables
7. In the sentence 'Customer John places Order 123', how does NIAM treat the statement?
Question 7A. As a table with two columnsB. As a constraint on ordersC. As an attribute of the customerD. As a process step in a workflowE. As a fact type where a customer plays the role of placing and an order plays the role of being placed
8. What is NIAM's greatest strength?
Question 8A. Its handling of complex constraintsB. Its business friendliness, allowing domain experts to validate models expressed in natural languageC. Its support for large-scale enterprise modelsD. Its visual densityE. Its automatic generation of database schemas
9. Which of the following is a stated limitation of NIAM?
Question 9A. It cannot express any facts about a businessB. It is too technical for business usersC. It becomes less practical for complex constraints, advanced rules or large-scale enterprise modelsD. It requires a specific database engineE. It can only model numeric data
10. Which later techniques build on NIAM's core principles while addressing its limitations?
Question 10A. BPMN and DDDB. ORM and FCO-IMC. UML and ERDD. Star and Snowflake schemasE. Data Vault and Anchor Modelling