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The key takeaways are that the document discusses different concepts related to relational database management systems including keys, relationships, integrity rules and more.

The different types of keys used in relational database design are primary keys, candidate keys and foreign keys.

The different types of database relationships are one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.

DBMS 1. a. b. c. d. 2. a. b. c. d. 3. a. b. c. d. 4.

FD stands for: Functional dependency Facilitate dependency Functional data Facilitate data In which model of database data is stored in tables: Network model Relational model Hierarchical model None of these The relational database model and after that by a researcher at _______: IBM Apple Intel All of these The database containing tables related to each other that help in the smooth processing of data is called ______: Service database Relation database Related database None of these A table can be defined as a set of______: Rows Columns Both None Which is very essential as no single set has a specific sot order for its elements:

a. b. c. d. 5. a. b. c. d. 6.

a. b. c. d. 7. a. b. c. d. 8. a. b. c. d. 9. a. b. c. d.

Rows Columns Tables All of these How many types of keys in relation database design: Primary key Candidate key Foreign key All of these Which keys are used that are a column in the table: Primary key Candidate key Foreign key All of these Which key is referencing a primary key in a table: Primary key Candidate key Foreign key All of these

10. Which key is used to fined the customer from the table: a. b. c. d. Primary key Candidate key Foreign key All of these

11. Which key have a common meaning: a. b. c. d. Foreign key Primary key Both None

12. A domain is a collection of values from where the columns are_____: a. b. c. d. Deleted Created Main tend All of these

13. Which access provides a partial support to domains: a. b. c. d. Microsoft Microprocessor Microcomputer Memory

14. Which database relationship is considered only between pairs of tables: a. b. c. d. Service database Relational database Related database None of these

15. In relationships how many different ways in which two tables may be related: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

16. In which ways two tables may be related: a. b. c. d. One-one One-many Many-many All of these

17. Which rules are defined in relational models they from as an essential part of any relation database: a. b. Integrity rules Database

c. d.

Record Memory

18. How many types of integrity rules: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

19. Which are the types of integrity rule: a. b. c. d. General Database specific Both None

20. How many general rules in a relational model and being general rules these are applicable to all database: a. b. c. d. 2 3 4 5

21. Which rules are know as entity integrity and referential integrity: a. b. c. d. General Database specific Both None

22. ______states that primary keys should not be null: a. b. c. d. Entity integrity Referential integrity Both None

23. Integrity constraints that do not fall under the preceding two integrity rules are referred to as______: a. Entity integrity rule b. Referential integrity rule c. General integrity rule d. Database specific integrity rule 24. Which has support for specification of global rule applicable to the whole table: a. Microsoft access1.0 b. Microsoft access1.5 c. Microsoft access2.0 d. Microsoft access2.5 25. In creating a table a row contains: a. b. c. d. Memory Record Field None

26. In creating a table a column contains: a. b. c. d. Memory Record Field None

27. Which have not have client/server architecture: a. b. c. d. DBS DBMS RDBMS All of these

28. Which command creates database objects like tables views and indexes: a. b. c. d. Create command Update command Both None

29. Which command enables alteration the data stored in existing records:

a. b. c. d.

Create command Update command Deletion command All of these

30. Which query joins many dimension of tables to a fact table which contains large amount of rows and uses aggregate: a. b. c. d. IBM SQL ANSI ORACLE

31. Which valued facts formalize the concept of functional dependency: a. b. c. d. Single-valued Double-valued Both None

32. Which relationship model provides a starting point for identifying schemas and integrity constraints: a. b. c. d. Entity Referential Both None

33. FD stands for: a. b. c. d. Formal dependency Functional dependency Fact dependency Superset dependency

34. Which is derived from mathematical theory: a. b. IBM SQL

c. d.

ANSI FD

35. Which are dependent on the information of what can be stored in the relation and serve as integrity constraints: a. b. c. d. IBM SQL ANSI FD

36. A relation state r of R that satisfies the functional dependency constraints is called_____ of R: a. Legal relation state b. Unlegal relation state c. FD d. All of these 37. How many various types of dependencies: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

38. Which are the dependencies types: a. Full functional dependency b. Partial dependency c. Trivial functional dependency d. All of these 39. FDs are the types of constraints that are based on______: a. b. c. d. Key Key revisited Superset key None of these

40. What is a super key: a. b. Key Key revisited

c. d.

Superset key None of these

41. Which s essential a business problem not a data problem: a. b. c. d. Data Database Database design All of these

42. Which is primarily the result of a thorough understanding of information about an enterprise: a. b. c. d. Data Database Database design Data modeling

43. McFadden has defined normalization in his which book___________: a. Database modern management b. Management database of modern c. Modern database management d. Database management 44. The database design prevents some data from being represented due to _______: a. b. c. d. Deletion anomalies Insertion anomalies Update anomaly None of these

45. How many types of insertion anomalies: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

46. Who developed the normalization process: a. E.F. codd

b. c. d.

F.F. codd E.E. codd None of these

47. E.F.Codd developed the normalization process in the which early: a. b. c. d. 1969 1970 1971 1972

48. Which is a bottom-up approach to database design that design by examining the relationship between attributes: a. b. c. d. Functional dependency Database modeling Normalization Decomposition

49. Which is the process of breaking a relation into multiple relations: a. b. c. d. Functional dependency Database modeling Normalization Decomposition

50. Which formal method that locates and analyses relation schemas on the basis of their primary, candidate keys, and the FDs that are present among the attributes of these schemas: a. b. c. d. Functional dependency Database modeling Normalization Decomposition

51. In decomposition technique of splitting a relation into_____ relation: a. b. c. ONE or MORE TWO or MORE THREE or MORE

d.

FOUR or MORE

52. Codd suggested how many forms in normalization process: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

53. Consequently R.Boyce-Codd jointly launched powerful definition for the thired normal form called______: a. Boyce-Codd normal form b. First normal form c. Second normal form d. All of these 54. BCNF stands for: a. Basic -Codd normal form b. Build -Codd normal form c. Boyce-Codd normal form d. None of these 55. Which forms simplifies and ensures that there is minimal data aggregates and repetitive groups: a. b. c. d. 1NF 2NF 3NF All of these

56. Which forms every non-prime attribute is fully dependent functionally on the candidate key of a relational schema: a. b. c. d. 1NF 2NF 3NF 5NF

57. Which forms is required when although NF is present more normalization is required: a. 1NF

b. c. d.

2NF 3NF 4NF

58. Which forms has a relation that possesses data about an individual entity: a. b. c. d. 2NF 3NF 4NF 5NF

59. PJNF stands form: a. Practically join normal form b. Project join normal form c. Pages join normal form d. programming join normal form 60. Which forms are based on the concept of functional dependency: a. b. c. d. 1NF 2NF 3NF 4NF

61. Which one is based on multi-valued dependency:

a. b. c. d.

First Second Third Fourth

DBMS MCQ 07 1. Which is basically an RDBMS in which object oriented features are implemented: Java C++ Oracle DBMS Which was the first commercial RDBMS: MS SQL DB2 MY SQL ORACLE In which year RSI introduced oracle V2: 1978 1979 1980 1981 Which version of oracle, released in 1983: V1 V2 V3 V4 Which version of oracle supported multi-version read consistency:

a. b. c. d. 2. a. b. c. d. 3. a. b. c. d. 4. a. b. c. d. 5.

a. b. c. d. 6. a. b. c. d. 7. a. b. c. d. 8.

V1 V2 V3 V4 In which year oracle v5 was released: 1977 1979 1983 1985 Which version of oracle entered the market with more features: V2 V3 V5 V6 Which has enhancements in the input/output operation of disk, scalability, locking of row, backup and recovery: Oracle V6 Oracle V5 Oracle V3 Oracle V4 Oracle 8 is an object relational database that was released in: 1977 1979 1983 1985

a. b. c. d. 9. a. b. c. d.

10. V6 of oracle also included the first version for_____: a. b. c. PL SQL Both

d.

None

11. Which was introduced stored procedures and triggers in PL/SQL: a. b. c. d. Oracle V6 Oracle V5 Oracle V3 Oracle V7

12. Version 8i entered the market in______: a. b. c. d. 1979 1989 1999 None of these

13. RAC stands for: a. Real application cluster 14. Which version included RAC that enable multiple instances for accessing a database simultaneously: a. b. c. d. V2i V4i V6i V9i

15. Oracle 9i was introduced in: a. b. c. d. 1999 2000 2001 2002

16. ASM stands for: a. Automatic storage management 17. Oracle database 11g was released in_________: a. b. c. 2001 2002 2006

d.

2007

18. The server process contains memory for a private session which is its own and is called_________: a. b. c. d. SGA PGA Both None

19. Tables and indexes that are data of logical database structure that are stored physically in the form of______: a. b. c. d. Data files Control files Online redo log files All of these

20. Which files has metadata that specifies database structure that includes database name along with database files names and locations: a. b. c. d. Data files Control files Online redo log files All of these

21. Which is also known as redo records, recording whatever changes are made to data: a. b. c. d. Data files Control files Online redo log files All of these

22. The data in oracle database is stored in blocks known as ________: a. b. c. d. Data blocks Extents Segments Tablespaces

23. Which contains many extents: a. b. c. d. Data blocks Extents Segments Tablespaces

24. _____ shows a specified number of data blocks that are logically contiguous and keeps a particular type of information in its storage: a. b. c. d. Data blocks Extents Segments Tablespaces

25. Which are logical storage units contained in a database and a logical container for some segment: a. b. c. d. 26. a. 27. a. 28. a. 29. a. 30. a. 31. a. 32. Data blocks Extents Segments Tablespaces SOA stands for: Service- oriented architecture SOAP stands for: Simple object access protocol WSDL stands for: Web services description language ONS stands for: Oracle net services OLTP stands for: Online transaction processing OLAP stands for: Online analytical processing Which refers to a software that can be executed on two or more kinds of computer containing two or more kinds of operating system: Data blocks

a.

b. c. d.

Extents Segments Portable

33. Which refers to independent events of the main program flow of the systems that lacks concurrency: a. b. c. d. RDBMS Portable Asynchronously None of these

34. Which is a method provided by an operating system, running in a sequence of steps: a. b. c. d. Storage Process Computing None of these

35. How many interfaces provided by oracle: a. b. c. d. 1 2 3 4

36. Which interface provided by oracle: a. SQL*PLUS b. SQL*PLUS command line interface c. SQLPlus Worksheet d. iSQL*PLUS e. All of these ramneek

DBMS MCQ 03 1. a. b. c. d. 2. a. b. c. d. 3. a. b. c. d. 4. a. b. c. d. 5. a. b. Which algebra is widely used in computer science: Arithmetic algebra Relational algebra Both None _____algebra has similar power of expression as relational calculus and first order logic: Arithmetic algebra Relational algebra Both None In relation algebra a new term was defined by codd as __________: Relation Relation completeness Relation operation Relation selection How many primitive operators of relation algebra as proposed by codd: 2 3 4 6 Which are the primitive operators of relation algebra as proposed by codd: Selection Projection

c. Cartesian product d. Set union e. Set difference f. Rename g. All of these h. None of these 6. Which is a unary operation: a. Selection operation b. Primitive operation c. Projection operation d. Generalized selection 7. Relational calculus can be divided into how many calculi: a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 8. Which is relation calculus: a. Tuple relation calculus b. Domain relational calculus c. Both d. None 9. Which calculus is based on specifying a number of tuple variables: a. Tuple relation calculus b. Domain relational calculus c. Both d. None 10. SQL is used for interacting with___: a. DBMS b. RDBMS c. DDL d. SDL 11. SQL is a ______languages: a. Database languages b. Declarative languages c. Both d. None 12. ISO stands for: a. Input standards organization b. Interrupt standard organization c. International standards organization

d. None of these 13. Which is a collection of a defined group of database object like tables, indexes, tablespace: a. Database b. Record c. Memory d. All of these 14. A_____ is a single non-decomposable data element in a table: a. View b. Column c. Tablespace d. None of these 15. SQL outputs a single table known as the ______: a. View b. Column c. Tablespace d. Result set 16. How many forms of SQL: a. 2 b. 4 c. 6 d. None of these 17. Which are form of SQL: a. Interactive b. Embedded c. Both d. None 18. In SQL which operators on a data base to produce output for user demand: a. Interactive b. Embedded c. Both d. None 19. In SQL which command can be put inside a program written in some other languages like C,C++: a. Interactive b. Embedded c. Both d. None 20. Data is passed to a program environment through______: a. DBMS

b. SQL c. DDL d. SDL 21. DQL stands for: a. Data query line b. Data query languages c. Data query land d. Direct query languages 22. TCL stands for: a. Transaction control languages b. Transaction command languages c. Transaction connect languages d. None of these 23. Which is that part of SQL that allows a database user to create and restructure data base objects: a. DBMS b. SQL c. DDL d. SDL 24. ______commands in SQL allow controlling access to data within database: a. Database b. Data c. Data control d. All of these 25. How many interfaces provided by oracle: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 26. In which are interface provided by oracle: a. SQL *PLUS b. SQL*PLUS command line interface c. SQL Plus Worksheet(introduced in ORACLE8i) d. SQL *PLUS(introduced in ORACLE9i) e. All of these f. None of these 27. SQL has how many main commands for DDL: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3

d. 28. a. b. c. d. 29. a. b. c. d. 30. a. b. c. d. 31. a. b. c. d. 32. a. b. c. d. 33. a. b. c. d. 34. a. b. c. d. 35. a. b. c.

4 Which are main commands for DDL in SQL: CREATE ALTER DROP All of these How many data types in oracle: 2 3 4 5 In which are the data types in oracle: ANSI standard data types Oracle defined data types Both None A_____ is a query that retrieves rows from more than one table or view: Start End Join All of these A condition is referred to as _____: Join in SQL Join condition Both None Which oracle is the join condition is specified using the WHERE clause: Oracle 9i Oracle 8i Pre-oracle 9i Pre-oracle 8i Oracle-9i is supported by the__________ syntax: ANSI SQL-96 ANSI SQL-97 ANSI SQL-98 ANSI SQL-99 How many join types in join condition: 2 3 4

d. 36. a. b. c. d. e. f. 37. a. b. c. d. 38. a. b. c. d. 39. a. b. c. d. 40. a. b. c. d. 41.

5 Which are the join types in join condition: Cross join Natural join Join with USING clause Outer join Join with ON clause All of these How many tables in a join query have no join condition: 2 3 4 None of these Which product is returned in a join query have no join condition: Equijoins Cartesian Both None Which is a join condition contains an equality operator: Equijoins Cartesian Both None Which command defines its columns, integrity constraint in create table: Create command Drop table command Alter table command All of these It refers to set of one or more columns that designates the ______ key in a referential integrity constraint: a. Select key b. Foreign key c. Write key d. None of these 42. Which constraint that requires that the column contain a value when it is initially inserted into the table: a. IS NULL b. NOT NULL c. UNIQUE d. None

43. Which constraint that identifies a column or combination of columns as a unique key: a. IS NULL b. NOT NULL c. UNIQUE d. None 44. Which command is use for removing a table and all its data from the database: a. Create command b. Drop table command c. Alter table command d. All of these 45. Which command that allows the removal of all rows from a table but flushes a table more efficiently since no rollback information is retained: a. TRUNCATE command b. Create command c. Drop table command d. Alter table command 46. Which join refers to join records from the write table that have no matching key in the left table are include in the result set: a. Left outer join b. Right outer join c. Full outer join d. Half outer join 47. How many set operations supports the oracle SQL: a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 48. Which are the set operations supports the oracle SQL: a. UNION b. UNION ALL c. INTERSECT d. MINUS e. All of these 49. ______ operator merges the result sets of two component queries: a. UNION b. UNION ALL c. INTERSECT d. MINUS 50. How many component queries are combined using the set operators:

a. b. c. d. 51. a. b. c. d. 52. a. b. c. d. 53. a. b. c. d. e. 54. a. b. c. d. 55. a. b. c. d. 56. a. b. c. d. 57. a. b. c. d.

1 2 3 4 In precedence of set operators the expression is evaluated from______: Left to Left Right to Right Left to Right Right to Left View in SQL a view may be defined as a : Stored query Virtual table Both None Which views is using in several advantages: Simplicity Security User reports Data integrity All of these How many types of views in SQL: 1 2 3 4 Which are the types of views in SQL: Inline view Database view Materialized view All of these Which operation are allowed in a join view: UPDATE INSERT DELETE All of these The materialized view was introduced by: Oracle 6 Oracle 7 Oracle 8 Oracle 9

58. We can delete from join view provided there is__________ key preserved table in the join: a. One and Only One b. One and Two c. Two and One d. None of these 59. Which view that contains more than one table in the top-level FROM clause of the SELECT statement: a. Join view b. Datable join view c. Updatable join view d. All of these 60. Which option is used to create a view as a constrained view and prohibit specific insert and update operations with the view: a. DATABASE b. WITH CHECK OPTION c. WITH WRITE OPTION d. WITH OPTION 61. Which command is used to add the views to the database: a. DATABASE VIEW b. CREATE VIEW c. CREATE OPTION d. None of these 62. Which option is used with the WHERE clause: a. DATABASE b. WITH CHECK OPTION c. WITH WRITE OPTION d. WITH OPTION 63. Which option may be used to create the inline view as a constrained view: a. DATABASE b. WITH CHECK OPTION c. WITH WRITE OPTION d. WITH OPTION 64. In which year ORACLE, an SQL product was released: a. 1976 b. 1977 c. 1978 d. 1979 65. The prototype for SQL was originally developed by: a. INTEL

b. APPLE c. IBM d. All of these 66. In which year relational algebra became prominent after the relational model of database was published: a. 1969 b. 1970 c. 1971 d. 1972 67. Relational algebra became prominent after the relational model of database was published by: a. Codds b. F.F. codd c. E.E. codd d. None of these 68. Which is an ANSI standard and has many different versions: a. IBM b. SQL c. RDBMS d. ORACLE 69. Which is used for interfacing with RDBMS: a. IBM b. SQL c. ANSI d. ORACLE 70. Which is the basis for SQL and also for all other contemporary database system like MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, My SQL and MICROSOFT Access:

a. b. c. d.

DDL SDL RDBMS None of these

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