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Question 32
Scenario: Café Rivoli is a restaurant in Manhattan that has a very exclusive clientele. Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner are the creators of this iconic restaurant and continue to strive to improve the business. Part of the improvements has been to implement Microsoft Dataverse into their business and have hired you to lead several projects in the company.
At this time, the project at hand is dealing with Dataverse database metadata. Several people have a very vague understanding of what the term “metadata” means within the Dataverse ecosystem.
Which of the following are true statements about metadata within Dataverse?
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A
Metadata is a collection of tables.
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B
When you use customization tools to create or edit tables, columns, and table relationships, you are editing this metadata.
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C
The apps that your customers use to interact with the data in your environment depend on the table metadata.
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D
Metadata is also known as an attribute.
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E
Metadata means data about data.
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Correct answers: A, B, C, E
Explanation
Microsoft Dataverse is designed to let you quickly and easily create a data model for your application, based on the tables and the table metadata that you include in your app.
Tables describe the kinds of data that are stored in the Dataverse database. Each table corresponds to a database table and each column (also known as an attribute) within a table represents a column in that table.
In Dataverse, metadata (data about data), is a collection of tables. the table metadata is what controls the kinds of records you can create and what kind of actions can be performed on them. When you use customization tools to create or edit tables, columns, and table relationships, you are editing this metadata.
The apps that your customers use to interact with the data in your environment depend on the table metadata, and they adapt as you customize the metadata.
A. Metadata in Dataverse is not a collection of tables, but rather information about the tables, columns, relationships, and other components within the database.
B. Editing metadata in Dataverse involves using customization tools to create, modify, or delete tables, columns, and relationships. This process helps define the structure and behavior of the data stored in the database.
C. The apps that users interact with in Dataverse rely on the metadata of the tables to understand how to display and manipulate the data. Changes to the table metadata can impact the functionality and user experience of the apps.
D. While metadata in Dataverse is not typically referred to as an attribute, it does encompass attributes such as table names, column names, data types, relationships, and other properties that define the structure and behavior of the data in the database.
E. Metadata in Dataverse refers to data about the data stored in the database. It provides information about the structure, definition, and attributes of the actual data records.
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