Capgemini Oracle RDBMS/SQL Paper

Each question carry 1 Mark

1) What does the term Entity stand for ?

A) A Row
B) A Table
C) A column
D) None of these

2) A DBMS that runs on many different operating systems is said to be

A) Scalable
B) Robust
C) Platform independent
D) Distributed

3) Denormalization is useful when

A) We want to reduce Redundancy
B) We want data rarely
C) We want data retrieval faster
D) None of the above

4)Normalization of database is used to

A) Eliminate Redundancy
B) Improve security
C) Improve efficiency
D) Minimize Errors

5) Manager’s salary details are hidden from the employee. This is Conceptual level data hiding.
A) Physical level data hiding
B) External level data hiding
C) All of these
D) None of these

6) A schema Contains
A) Username
B) All tables
C) All Anonymous data
D) User’s data

7) Define compound key

A) Is made up of a several pieces of information
B) Uniquely identifies an item in a list
C) Is a combination of each unique key
D) Both A and B

8) A relation in 2nd normal form when

A) It is in 1st normal form
B) No partial dependency
 C) It has no transitive dependency
D) Both A and B

9) You will query which view to know that how many database objects you can access?
A. ALL_TABLES
B. ALL_TAB_COLUMNS
C. ALL_OBJECTS
D. USER_OBJECTS

10) You issue a select statement on the BANK_ACCT table containing the order by clause. Which of
the following uses of the order by clause * would produce an error?

A. order by acctno DESC;

B. order by 1;
C. order by length(1);
D. order by acctno ASC;
E. None of the above.

11) When you drop a table with DROP TABLE command, the views based on those tables are also
dropped automatically along with the table.
A. True
B. False.
C. You can’t drop such table
D. View can’t be drop

12) Which statement would you use to remove the EMPLOYEE_ID_PK PRIMARY KEY constraint
and all depending constraints from the EMPLOYEE table?
A. ALTER TABLE employee DROP PRIMARY KEY CASCADE;
B. ALTER TABLE employee DELETE PRIMARY KEY CASCADE;
C. MODIFY TABLE employee DROP CONSTRAINT employee_id_pk CASCADE;
D. ALTER TABLE employee DROP PRIMARY KEY employee_id_pk CASCADE;
E. MODIFY TABLE employee DELETE PRIMARY KEY employee_id_pk CASCADE;

13) When a BETWEEN operator is used in select statement

A. The first value is included and the second value is excluded

B. The first value is excluded and the second value is included
C. Both the values are included in the range
D. None

14) DDL statements in SQL are:

A. SELECT,UPDATE, DELETE,ALTER , CREATE, ALTER , DROP
B. SELECT, DELETE,ALTER , CREATE, ALTER , DROP
C. CREATE, ALTER , DROP
D. None.

15) To impose conditions on the grouped values

 A. Where condition is used
B. HAVING Clause is used
C. Conditions cannot be imposed on grouped values
D. None of these

16) Assuming today is Monday, 16 DEC 2014, what is returned by this statement :

SELECT to_char(NEXT_DAY(sysdate, ‘MONDAY’), ‘DD-MON-RR’)

FROM dual;
A. 21-DEC-14
B. 10-DEC-14
C. 22-DEC-14
D. 16-DEC-14

17) To produce a meaningful result set without any cartesian products, what is the minimum number
of conditions that should appear in the WHERE clause of a four-table join?
A. There is no such criteria
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

18) The commit and rollback commands are not applicable for __________
A. Insert
B. Create
C. Delete
D. Update

19) EMPLOYEE table contains these columns:

FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(25)
LAST_NAME VARCHAR2(25)
JOB VARCHAR2(25)
SALARY NUMBER(7,2)
DEPT_ID NUMBER(3)
You need to display the first name and last name for employees whose:
Last Name is Brown, Chan or Lindsey.
Job is Manager, Technician or Clerk
Salary is greater than 30000.
You issue this SQL statement: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employee
WHERE UPPER(last_name) IN ('BROWN', 'CHAN', 'LINDSEY')
AND UPPER(job) IN ('MANAGER', 'TECHNICIAN', 'CLERK')
AND salary <= 30000;
Which employees are displayed?
A. Those who meet only one requirement
B. Those who meet only two requirements
C. Those who meet all three requirements.
D. Those who meet none of the requirements.

20) You alter the database with this command:

alter table inventory modify (price number(8,2) default 0);
Which task was accomplished? Choose the best answer.
A. A new column was added to the table
B. A column constraint was added to the table
C. A column was altered.
D. A default value was added to a column

21) Which of the following can be a valid column name?

A. Column
B. 1966_Invoices
C. Catch_#22
D. #Invoices
E. None of the above

22) You define a multiple-row subquery in the WHERE clause of an SQL query with a
comparison operator "=".What happens when the main query is executed?

A. The main query executes with the first value returned by the subquery.
B. The main query executes with the last value returned by the subquery.
C. The main query fails because the multiple-row subquery cannot be used with the
comparison operator.
D. You cannot define a multiple-row subquery in the WHERE clause of a SQL query.

23) To write a query that performs an outer join of tables A and B and returns all rows from B, You
need to write
A. any outer join
B. a left outer join
C. a right outer join
D. an inner join

24) Which is not true about single row functions?

A. cannot be nested
B. manipulate data items
C. act on each row returned
D. return one result per row

25) A subquery can be used to _________.

A. Create groups of data
B. Sort data in a specific order
C. Retrieve data based on an unknown condition
D. Convert data to a different format

26) If you drop a parent row for which, a child exists, then what is the default behaviour?
A. It won’t allow. Error will be returned.
B. It will delete all the child rows along with the parent row.
C. Only parent row is deleted.
D. With the parent row, the first child row in the child table will be deleted.

27) You are running a query against a relational database.

What clause or command do you use in the query to help avoid a costly table scan?
 A. GROUP BY clause
B. INDEX command
C. HAVING clause
D. FROM clause
E. WHERE clause

28) Mark item for review Which best describes an inline view?
A. A schema object
B. A subquery that can contain an ORDER BY clause
C. Another name for a view that contains group functions
D. A subquery that is part of the FROM clause of another query

29) With SQL, how do you select all the records from a table named "Persons" where the
value of the column "FirstName" starts with an "a"?
A. SELECT * FROM PERSONS WHERE FIRSTnAME LIKE “%a”;
B. SELECT * FROM PERSONS WHERE UPPER(FIRSTNAME) LIKE ‘%a%’;
C. SELECT * FROM PERSONS WHERE FIRSTNAME =’%a’;
D. SELECT * FROM PERSONS WHERE FIRSTNAME LIKE ‘a%’;

30) A Student table’s name column having values

Ajay
Aman
Brajesh
ManmeetSingh
Navneet
Khusboo
Zawed
What will be the result of this Queiry?
Select max(name) from student;
A. Aman
B. Zawed
C. ManmeetSingh
D. Ajay