DBMS

1.Following are the advantages of DBMS? a.Redundancy is controlled b.unauthorized access is restricted c.Doesnt enforce integrity constraints d.both a & b 2.levels of data abstraction available? a) 1 b)2 c) 3 d)4 3.The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database. a.Physical level b)logical level c)view level d)both b and c 4.A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and constraints. a)data model b)E-R model c)object oriented model d)none

5.This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called entities and of relationship among these objects a)data model b)E-R model c)object oriented model d)none 6.A'thing' in the real world with an independent existence a)entity b)model c)both a and b d)none of these 7.A data base schema that is specified by a set of definitions expressed by a special language is called a)DDL b)VDL c)DML d)SDL 8.The language that is used to specify the internal schema is a)DDL b)VDL c)DML d)SDL 9.The process of analysing the given relation schemas based on their Functional Dependencies is known as a)Dependency b)normalization c)both a and b d)none

10.A relation schema R is in ____ if it is in 1NF and every non-prime attribute A in R is fully functionally dependent on primary key. a)1 NF b)2 NF c)3 NF d)BCNF 11.A relation schema R is in ____ if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional constraint that for every FD X A, X must be a candidate key a)1 NF b)2 NF c)3 NF d)BCNF 12.The set of attributes that can uniquely identify weak entities and that are related to same owner entity is a)Partial key b)alternate key c)artificial key d)compound key 13.All Candidate Keys excluding the Primary Key are known as ___ a)Partial keys b)alternate keys c)artificial keys d)compound keys

14.When one of the data elements stored within a construct is utilized as the primary key, then it is called the.... a)alternate key b)natural key c)compound key d)partial key 15.The technique for determining how quickly specific data can be found is known as__ a)normalization b)data manipulating c)indexing d)none of these 16.Number of types of indexing ... a)1 b)4 c)5 d)2 17.The phase that identifies an efficient execution plan for evaluating a query that has the least estimated cost is referred to as a)query generation b)query optimization c)dependency d)redundancy 18.The concept which is used to model a relationship between a collection of entities and

relationships... a)atomicity b)aggregation c)deadlock d)both a and b 19.By taking ______, the DBMS can reduce the amount of work to be done during restart in the event of subsequent crashes a)dead lock b)atomicity c)aggregations d)checkpoints 20.Number of transaction phases available a)1 b)2 c)3 d)4 21.Concatenation of every row in one relation with every row in another a)product b)join c)insertion d)none of these 22.Concatenation of rows from one relation and related rows from another a)product b)join c)insertion d)none of these 23.Major sets of files on disk that compose a database a)database files b)control files c)redo logs d)all the above

24._____is a PL/SQL block that can defined to automatically execute for insert, update, and delete statements against a table a)database b)database trigger c)both a and b d)none of these 25.Stored procedures are used to ____ a)increase the network traffic b)Remove the network traffic c)reduce the network traffic d)block the network traffic 26.Tables derived from the ERD a) Are totally unnormalised b) Are always in 1NF c) Can be further denormalised d) May have multi-valued attributes

27.Spurious tuples may occur due to

i. Bad normalization ii. Theta joins iii. Updating tables from join a) i & ii b) ii & iii c) i & iii d) ii & iii

28.A B C is a set of attributes. The functional dependency is as follows AB -> B AC -> C C -> B a) is in 1NF b) is in 2NF c) is in 3NF d) is in BCNF 29.In mapping of ERD to DFD

a) entities in ERD should correspond to an existing entity/store in DFD b) entity in DFD is converted to attributes of an entity in ERD c) relations in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to processes in DFD d) relationships in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to flows in DFD 30.A dominant entity is the entity a) on the N side in a 1 : N relationship b) on the 1 side in a 1 : N relationship c) on either side in a 1 : 1 relationship d) nothing to do with 1 : 1 or 1 : N relationship 31.Select 'NORTH', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'N' Order By CUSTOMER Union Select 'EAST', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'E' Order By CUSTOMER The above is

a) Not an error b) Error - the string in single quotes 'NORTH' and 'SOUTH' c) Error - the string should be in double quotes d) Error - ORDER BY clause 32._____is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data stored in database, application programs and queries submitted to the system a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager 33.____is a program module, which is responsible for fetching data from disk storage into main memory and deciding what data to be cache in memory a)storage manager b)buffer manager

c)transaction manager d)file manager 34.____is a program module, which ensures that database, remains in a consistent state despite system failures and concurrent transaction execution proceeds without conflicting a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager 35._______is a program module, which manages the allocation of space on disk storage and data structure used to represent information stored on a disk a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager

36.copying the three sets of files (database files, redo logs, and control file) when the instanceis shut down is known as ____ a)cold backup b)hot backup 37.Which is the subset of SQL commands used to manipulate Oracle Database structures, including tables? a)DDL b)DML c)VDL d)DSL 38.What operator performs pattern matching? a)LIKE b)NULL c)NOT NULL d)IS NULL 39.What will be the output of the following query? SELECT DECODE(TRANSLATE('A','1234567890','1111111111'), '1','YES', 'NO' ); a)1 b)YES c)NO d)YESNO 40.What will be the output of the following query? SELECT REPLACE(TRANSLATE(LTRIM(RTRIM('!! ATHEN !!','!'), '!'), 'AN', '**'),'*','TROUBLE') FROM DUAL;

a)TROUBLE b)ATHENTROUBLE c)THETROUBLE d)TROUBLETHETROUBLE