MODELPAPERII(2011) BCAPartII DBMS

Time: 3 hrs.

M.M. : 50

I)TheQuestionpapercontains20multiplechoicequestionswithfourchoicesand studentwillhavetopickthecorrectone(eachcarrying1mark). 1. Schemais a)Storeddataindatabase b)Overalldesignofdatabase c)Inputandoutputofanyprogram c)Noneofthese 2. Whichoneisnotrelatedtodatabasearchitecture a)Externallevel b)Conceptuallevel c)Physicallevel d)Noneofthese 3. Physicalleveldescribes a)Interfaceofusers b)Outputofanyparticularquery c)Howdataarestoredondisc d)Noneofthese 4. Viewleveldescribes a)Differentviewsofentiredatabase b)Storingofdataondisc c)Bothofthem d)Noneofthese 5. DCLstandsfor a)Datacontrollanguage b)datacreatelanguage c)Datacompositelanguage d)Noneofthese 6.DMLstandsfor a)Datametalanguage d)Datamultiplicationlanguage c)Datamanipulationlanguage d)Noneofthese 7. DDLstandsfor a)Dragdatalanguage d)Datadefinitionlanguage c)Bothofthem D)Noneofthese 8. Databaseadministratorcando a)Schemadesign b)Authorization c)Security d)Allofthese 9. Recoveryfromfailureisworkof a)Applicationprogrammer b)Specializeduser c)DBA d)Naiveusers 10. Conceptualviewisalsoknownas a)Internalview b)Communityview c)Externalview d)Noneofthese 11.Abstractviewofthedatameans a)Hidescertaindetailfromtheuser b)Itisdatabaseview c)Itisphysicalview d)Alloftheabove 12. Thelowestlevelofabstractionis a)Logicallevel b)Physicallevel c)Viewlevel d)None 13. Theoveralldesignofdatabaseiscalled a)Instance b)Schema c)Subschema d)Dataindependence 14. ADMLthatspecifywhatdataareneededwithoutspecifyinghowtogetthosedata,called a)Proceduraluser b)Query b)DDL d)NonproceduralDML 15. Auserinteractwiththesystemwithoutwritingprogramiscalled

 a)Naveuser b)Applicationprogrammer c)Sophisticateduser d)Specializeduser 16. Thelevelsofdatabasearchitectureinclude a)External b)Internal c)Conceptual d)Alloftheabove 17. Centralizeddatabasesystemarethosethat a)Runonsinglesystem b)Runonamultiplesystem c)Bothaandb d)Noneoftheabove 18. Inheterogeneousdistributeddatabase a)DifferentsiteusedifferentschemesanddifferentDBMSs/w b)DifferentsiteusedifferentschemesandsameDBMSs/w d)DifferentsiteusedifferentandsamedifferentDBMSs/w d)Noneoftheabove 19Advantageofdistributeddatabaseincludes a)Sharingdata b)Autonomy c)Availability d)Alloftheabove 20. Datainadistributeddatabasemaybestoredthrough a)Replication b)Fragmentation c)Bothaandb d)Noneoftheabove Subjectivetypequestions. Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 DifferentiatebetweentheDBMS&RDBMS.Explaindifferentdatamodels. Whatisnormalization?Whydowesay3NFismorestrongerthenBCNF?Explainwith suitableexample. Definethefollowingconcept: (i)PrimaryKey&ForeignKey. (iii)Attribute&tuple. (ii)Backupandrecovery.

(iv)Functionaldependencyandmultivalvedependency. Whatisschemaandsubschema?WriteshortnoteonDDL,DCL&DML. Explainentityrelationshipmodel. How will you explain centralized database management system? Write the advantages ofcentralizedDBMSoverDistributedDBMS.

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