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Quiz: New and Emerging Database Technologies

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Our classroom on database technology trends was designed to provide IT managers, data management professionals and others involved in buying and managing database systems with insight and advice on key new technologies to consider for future deployments. After you've listened to William McKnight's webcast presentation on NoSQL databases and the podcast Q&A with McKnight on in-memory databases, and read the companion article on cloud databases by Rick Sherman, it's test time. Take the short quiz below to see how well you've retained some of their key points.

Good luck!
1. In his webcast presentation, what type of data did William McKnight say NoSQL databases are best suited to handle?
2. McKnight said that in most cases, NoSQL database users need to:
3. What type of databases did McKnight cite as examples of NoSQL technology?
4. In the podcast Q&A, what did McKnight identify as the primary type of applications that are a good fit for in-memory databases?
5. True or false? McKnight said that storing data in memory is still much more expensive than keeping it in disk storage, despite reductions in memory prices.
6. The primary business drivers that article author Rick Sherman identified for adopting cloud-based databases include:
7. True or false? Sherman wrote that security, data privacy and regulatory compliance issues should still be viewed as cloud show-stoppers for many organizations.
8. Sherman concluded by saying that the location of databases should be:
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