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Goals of Your Conceptual Model

Your conceptual data model should be built so that it can be effectively used to produce a CA 2E data model. This model will then be generated as a database for your application.

Your conceptual data model should be:

• Comprehensive

Every item of information that is relevant to the organization should be recorded. Every item of information should appear once and only once.

• Consistent

There should be no mutually incompatible representations of information, inconsistencies, or conflicting rules about what can be done with the data.