Question

State true or false: The attributes of the higher level entity sets are inherited by the attributes of the lower level entity sets

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

The origin of the question is Extended E-R Features topic in section Database Design and the ER Model of RDBMS

Answer 1

Right option is (a) True

For explanation: The attributes of the higher level entity sets are inherited by the attributes of the lower level entity sets. But the inverse is not true in this case.