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  1. A workgroup typically comprises between 25 and 100 persons.

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  3. The source of the data is sometimes called the system of record.

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  5. Data quality problems currently cost U.S. businesses some $60 million each year (Hudica, 2003).

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  7. Stand-alone databases exhibit many of the same advantages common to file processing systems.

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  9. The database approach requires additional costs and risks.

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  11. Data descriptions are stored in a central location called the depository.

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  13. Stored representations of objects and events that have meaning and importance in the user's environment are known as a database.

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  15. Another name for multimedia data is unstructured data.

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  17. The most common source of database failures in an organization is the failure to implement a strong database administration function.

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  19. The primary mechanism for providing context for data is metadata.

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     False

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