MATCH THE FOLLOWING 1.

DBA- Relational DBMS UML Data base management system DBMS- Data base administrator RDBMS - Unified modeling language Answer: DBA -Data base administrator UML -Unified modeling language DBMS -Data base management system RDBMS -Relational DBMS 2. E-R diagram -Flow of tasks between components Use case Interaction between- class diagrams Activity diagrams System components and their connection System Implementation diagram - users and system Answer: E-R diagram - class diagram Use case Interaction between- users and system Activity diagrams -Flow of tasks between components Implementation diagram -System components and their connection System CHOOSE THE ANSWER: 3. The DBMS acts as an interface between what two components of an enterprise-class database system? A. Database application and the database B. Data and the database

C. The user and the database application D. Database application and SQL Answer: A 4. The primary key is selected from the: A. Composite keys. B. Determinants. C. Candidate keys. D. Foreign keys. Answer: C 5. Which of the following is a group of one or more attributes that uniquely identifies a row? A. Key

B. Determinant C. Tuple D. Relation Answer: A 6. When the values in one or more attributes being used as a foreign key must exist in another set of one or more attributes in another table, we have created a(n): A. Transitive dependency. B. Insertion anomaly. C. Referential integrity constraint. D. Normal form. Answer: C 7. A relation is considered a: A. Column. B. One-dimensional table. C. Two-dimensional table. D. Three-dimensional table. Answer: C

8. A functional dependency is a relationship between or among: A. Tables. B. Rows. C. Relations. D. Attributes.

Answer: D 9. Table is synonymous with the term: A. Record. B. Relation. C. Column. D. Field Answer: B 10. Which of the following is not a restriction for a table to be a relation? A. The cells of the table must contain a single value. B. All of the entries in any column must be of the same kind. C. The columns must be ordered. D. No two rows in a table may be identical. Answer: C 11. For some relations, changing the data can have undesirable consequences called: A. Referential integrity constraints. B. Modification anomalies. C. Normal forms. D. Transitive dependencies. Answer: B 12. A key: A. Must always be composed of two or more columns.

B. Can only be one column. C. Identifies a row. D. Identifies a column. Answer: C 13. An attribute is a(n): A. Column of a table. B. Two dimensional table. C. Row of a table. D. Key of a table. Answer: A 14. A relation in this form is free of all modification anomalies. A. First normal form B. Second normal form C. Third normal form D. Domain/key normal form

Answer: D 15. Which of the following indicates the maximum number of entities that can be involved in a relationship? A. Minimum cardinality B. Cardinality C. ERD D. Greater Entity Count (GEC) Answer: B 16. Which type of cannot exist in the database unless another type of entity also exists in the database, but does not require that the identifier of that other entity be included as part of its own identier? A. Weak entity

B. Strong entity C. ID-dependent entity D. ID- independent entity Answer: A 17. In a one-to-many relationship, the entity that is on the one side of the relationship is called a (n) ________ entity. A. parent B. child C. instance D. subtype Answer: A 18. Which type of entity represents an actual occurrence of an associated generalized entity? A. Super type entity B. Subtype entity C. Archetype entity D. Instance entity Answer: D 19. A recursive relationship is a relationship between an entity and ________ . A. itself B. a subtype entity C. an archetype entity D. an instance entity Answer: A 20. Which of the following refers to something that can be identified in the users' work environment, something that the users want to track? A. Entity

B. Attribute C. Identifier D. Relationship Answer: A 21. In which of the following is a single-entity instance of one type related to many entity instances of another type? A. One-to-One Relationship B. One-to-Many Relationship C. Many-to-Many Relationships D. Composite Relationship Answer: B 22. If a renormalization situation exists with a one-to-one binary relationship, which of the following is true? A. All fields are stored in one relation. B. All fields are stored in two relations. C. All fields are stored in three relations. D. All fields are stored in four relations. Answer: A 23. Selecting a data type involves which of the following? A. Maximize storage space B. Represent most values C. Improve data integrity D. All of the above. Answer: C 24. What is the best data type definition for Oracle when a field is alphanumeric and has a length that can vary? A. VARCHAR2 B. CHAR C. LONG D. NUMBER

Answer: A 25. If a denormalization situation exists with a many-to-many or associative binary relationship, which of the following is true? A. All fields are stored in one relation. B. All fields are stored in two relations. C. All fields are stored in three relations. D. All fields are stored in four relations. Answer: B 26. Which of the following is an advantage of partitioning? A. B. C. D. Complexity Inconsistent access speed Extra space Security

Answer: D 27. Three-tier architecture includes which of the following? A. B. C. D. Three server layers A client layer and two server layers Two client layers and one server layer Three client layers

Answer: B 28. Which of the following is true concerning the mainframe? A. It is the same thing as client/server. B. Requires someone to decide which code should be on the workstation or the server. C. Mission-critical systems have tended to remain there. D. All of the above. Answer: C 29. A server cannot serve on which of the following levels? A. Client Layer

B. Business Layer C. Database Layer D. All of the above. Answer: A 30. The three different application logic components are which of the following? A. B. C. D. Presentation, Client, and Storage Presentation, Client, and Processing Presentation, Processing, and Storage Presentation, Processing, and Network

Answer: C 31. A database server is responsible for which of the following? A. B. C. D. Database storage Data processing logic Data presentation logic All of the above.

Answer: A 32. Stored procedures have which of the following advantages? A. B. C. D. It takes a longer time to write them as compared to writing Visual Basic. Network traffic increases Data integrity improves as multiple applications access the same stored procedure. Result in thicker client and thinner database server.

Answer: C 33. Which of the following statements is a true statement concerning the open database connectivity standard (ODBC)? A. Each vendor desiring to be ODBC-compliant provides an ODBC driver. B. Requires certain criteria to be met in order to establish an ODBC connection. C. Provides a programming interface that provides a common language for application programs to access and process SQL databases independent of the RDBMS accessed. D. All of the above.

Answer: D 34. Which of the following is true concerning QBE? A. B. C. D. An official standard has been defined for QBE. QBE cannot be used for client/server systems. QBE does not give the programmer a visual programming environment. Complete applications can be written using QBE.

Answer: D 35. Client/server security includes which of the following? A. B. C. D. Physical security Change control security Measures taken to secure all systems All of the above.

Answer: D 36. An application program interface (API) is which of the following? A. B. C. D. The same thing as ODBC. Middleware that does not provide access to a database. Middleware that provides access to a database. The same thing as JDBC.

Answer: C 37. A secondary key is which of the following? A. No unique key B. Primary key C. Useful for denormalization decisions D. Determines the table space required Answer: A 38. The fastest read/write time and most efficient data storage of any disk array type is: A. RAID-0. B. RAID-1.

C. RAID-2. D. RAID-3. Answer: A

39. A rule of thumb for choosing indexes for a relational database includes which of the following? A. Indexes are more useful on smaller tables. B. Indexes are more useful for columns that do not appear frequently in the WHERE clause in queries. C. Do not specify a unique index for the primary key of each table. D. Be careful indexing attributes that have null values. Answer: D 40. A multidimensional database model is used most often in which of the following models? A. B. C. D. Data warehouse Relational Hierarchical Network

Answer: A FILL IN THE BLANKS 41.________means data is protected from deletion and corruption, both while it reside within database Answer: Data integrity 42. Entities are represented in ________in E-R diagram Answer: Rectangular box 43. A ________ is a situation, event or personnel that will adversely affect the database security and the smooth functioning of organization. Answer: Threat 44. Each attribute is associated with set of values called as________ Answer: Domain 45.________are two critical phases in database development lifecycle. Answer: Data modeling and database design

46. Write output of following example SELECT initcap ('JOHN MARTIN') FROM DUAL; Answer: John Martin 47. Which type of attribute represents a value that is derivable from the value of related attribute? Answer: Derived attribute 48. An entity that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key is termed ________. Answer: Weak entity set

TRUE/FALSE 49. To update city name to Bombay following command is used. UPDATE EMP_TABLE SET CITY='BOMBAY'; Answer: True 50. Internal schema means how and where data are organized in physical data storage. Answer: True