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Test: Mid Term Exam Semester 1 - Part II

1. What kinds of loops can be nested? (1) Points BASIC loops WHILE loops FOR loops All of the above (*) 2. When coding two nested loops, both loops must be of the same type. For example, you cannot code a FOR loop inside a WHILE loop. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True False (*) 3. You want to display multiplication tables for numbers up to 12. The display should look like this: 1 x 1 = 1 1 x 2 = 2 ..... 1 x 12 = 12 2 x 1 = 2 2 x 2 = 4 ..... 2 x 12 = 24 3 x 1 = 3 ..... ..... 12 x 12 = 144 Which of the following is an efficient way to do this in PL/SQL? Mark for Review (1) Points Use two nested FOR loops. (*) Store all the numbers from 1 to 144 in a table, then fetch and display them using a cursor. Create a function which accepts two numbers as IN parameters and returns their product. Invoke the function 144 times. Write an anonymous block which contains 144 calls to DBMS_OUTPUT, each looking like: DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('7 x 9 = 63'); 4. Examine the following code: DECLARE v_outer_count NUMBER := 1; v_inner_count NUMBER := 1; BEGIN LOOP LOOP v_inner_count := v_inner_count + 1; EXIT WHEN v_inner_count > 5; -- Line A END LOOP; v_outer_count := v_outer_count + 1; EXIT WHEN v_outer_count > 3; END LOOP; END; Mark for Review

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What happens at Line A when the value of V_INNER_COUNT equals 6? Mark for Review (1) Points Both loops are exited and the block's execution is terminated. The inner loop is exited but the outer loop continues execution. (*) The outer loop is exited but the inner loop continues execution. An error condition is returned. 5. What is the correct name for CASE, LOOP, WHILE, and IF-THENELSE structures ? Mark for Review (1) Points Control structures (*) Array structures Memory structures Cursor structures 6. How many ELSIF statements are you allowed to have in a compound IF statement? Mark for Review (1) Points Only one As many as you want (*) They must match the same number as the number of ELSE statements. None; the command is ELSE IF; 7. You need to execute a set of statements 10 times, increasing a counter by 1 each time. Which of the following PL/SQL constructs can do this? (Choose three) Mark for Review (1) Points (Choose all correct answers) IF ... THEN ... ELSE A WHILE loop (*) CASE ... WHEN ... THEN A FOR loop (*) A basic loop (*) 8. What is the correct form of a simple IF statement? Review (1) Points IF condition THEN statement; IF condition THEN statement; END IF; (*) Mark for

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IF condition; THEN statement; END IF; IF condition THEN statement ENDIF; 9. Examine the following code: DECLARE a BOOLEAN := TRUE; b BOOLEAN := FALSE; c BOOLEAN := TRUE; d BOOLEAN := FALSE; game char(4) := 'lost'; BEGIN IF ((a AND b) AND (c OR d)) THEN game := 'won'; END IF; What is the value of GAME at the end of this block? Mark for Review (1) Points NULL won' lost' (*) False 10. What kind of statement is best suited for displaying the multiplication table for "sixes": 6x1=6, 6x2=12 ... 6x12=72? Mark for Review (1) Points CASE expression IF statement CASE statement LOOP statement (*) 11. The EXIT statement can be located anywhere inside a basic loop. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True (*) False 12. Examine the following block: DECLARE v_counter PLS_INTEGER := 1; BEGIN LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_counter); v_counter := v_counter + 1; EXIT WHEN v_counter = 5; END LOOP; END; What is the last value of V_COUNTER that is displayed? Mark for Review

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(1) Points 5 6 4 (*) This is an infinite loop; the loop will never finish. 13. A PL/SQL block contains the following code: v_counter := 1; LOOP EXIT WHEN v_counter=5; END LOOP; v_counter := v_counter + 1; What is the value of V_COUNTER after the loop is finished? Mark for Review (1) Points 5 6 1 This is an infinite loop; the loop will never finish. (*) 14. Which kind of loop is this? v_count := 1; LOOP v_count := v_count + 1; EXIT WHEN i > 20; END LOOP; Mark for Review (1) Points FOR loop IF-THEN loop Basic loop (*) WHILE loop CASE loop 15. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a CASE statement? Mark for Review (1) Points It ends with END CASE; It can be a complete PL/SQL block It returns a value (*) It evaluates a condition and performs an action 16. What will be the value of v_sal_desc after the following code is executed? DECLARE v_salary NUMBER(6,2) := NULL; v_sal_desc VARCHAR2(10); BEGIN CASE WHEN v_salary < 10000 THEN v_sal_desc := 'Low Paid'; WHEN v_salary >= 10000 THEN v_sal_desc := 'High Paid';

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END; END CASE;

Mark for Review (1) Points High Paid Low Paid Null The code will fail and return an exception (*) 17. What will be the value of variable c after the following code is executed? DECLARE a BOOLEAN := TRUE; b BOOLEAN := FALSE; c NUMBER; BEGIN c := CASE WHEN a AND b THEN 10 WHEN NOT a THEN 20 WHEN a OR b THEN 30 ELSE 40 END; END; Mark for Review (1) Points 30 (*) 20 40 10 18. What will be the value of v_result after the following code is executed? DECLARE v_grade CHAR(1) := NULL; v_result VARCHAR2(10); BEGIN CASE v_grade WHEN 'A' THEN v_result := 'Very Good'; WHEN 'F' THEN v_result := 'Poor'; ELSE v_result := 'In Between'; END; END; Mark for Review (1) Points Poor In Between (*) Null Very Good

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19. You want to assign a value to v_result which depends on the value of v_grade: if v_grade = 'A' set v_result to 'Very Good' and so on. DECLARE v_grade CHAR(1); v_result VARCHAR2(10); BEGIN v_result := CASE v_grade The next line should be Mark for Review (1) Points WHEN v_grade = 'A' THEN 'Very Good' WHEN 'A' THEN 'Very Good'; WHEN 'A' THEN v_result := 'Very Good'; WHEN 'A' THEN 'Very Good' (*) 20. Which of the following blocks produces the same output as this block? BEGIN FOR i in 1 .. 3 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i); END LOOP; END; Mark for Review (1) Points DECLARE i PLS_INTEGER := 0; BEGIN WHILE i<3 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i); i := i + 1; END LOOP; END; DECLARE i PLS_INTEGER := 0; BEGIN WHILE i<3 LOOP i := i + 1; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i); END LOOP; END; (*) DECLARE i PLS_INTEGER := 0; BEGIN WHILE i<3 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i); END LOOP; i := i+ 1; END;

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21. Which statement best describes when a WHILE loop shouild be used? Mark for Review (1) Points When the number of iterations is known When repeating a sequence of statements until the controlling condition is no longer true (*) When assigning a value to a Boolean variable When testing whether a variable is null 22. In a FOR loop, an implicitly declared counter automatically increases or decreases with each iteration. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True (*) False

23. What will happen when the following code is executed? BEGIN FOR i in 1 ..3 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (i); i := i + 1; END LOOP; END; Mark for Review (1) Points It will display 1, 2, 3. It will display 2, 3, 4. It will result in an error because you cannot modify the counter in a FOR loop. (*) It will result in an error because the counter was not explicitly declared. 24. Examine the following code: DECLARE v_bool BOOLEAN := FALSE; v_counter NUMBER(4) := 0; BEGIN ... Line A ? END; Which of the following is NOT valid at line A? Mark for Review (1) Points WHILE NOT v_boolean LOOP WHILE v_boolean AND v_counter < 6 LOOP WHILE v_counter > 8 LOOP WHILE v_counter IN 1..5 LOOP (*)

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25. In a WHILE loop, the statements inside the loop must execute at least once. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True False (*) 26. Which of the following cursor attributes is set to the total number of rows returned so far? Mark for Review (1) Points %ISOPEN %NOTFOUND %FOUND %ROWCOUNT (*) 27. Which of the following statements about the %ISOPEN cursor attribute is true? Mark for Review (1) Points You can issue the %ISOPEN cursor attribute only when a cursor is open. You can issue the %ISOPEN cursor attribute only when more than one record is returned. You can issue the %ISOPEN cursor attribute when a cursor is open or closed. (*) If a cursor is open, then the value of %ISOPEN is false. 28. The employees table contains 11 columns. The following block declares a cursor and a record based on the cursor: DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT * FROM employees; v_emp_rec emp_curs%ROWTYPE; A twelfth column is now added to the employees table. Which of the following statements is true? Mark for Review (1) Points The declaration of emp_rec must be changed to add an extra field. The block will still work correctly without any changes to the PL/SQL code. (*) The block will fail and an INVALID_CURSOR exception will be raised. An extra scalar variable must be declared to correspond to the twelfth table column. 29. The following cursor has been declared: CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT first_name, last_name, job_id, salary FROM employees; Which of the following correctly declares a composite record with the same structure as the cursor? Mark for Review

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(1) Points emp_rec emp_rec%ROWTYPE; emp_rec emp_curs%TYPE; emp_rec emp_curs%ROWTYPE; (*) emp_rec cursor%ROWTYPE; 30. Which of the following cursor attributes evaluates to TRUE if the cursor is open? Mark for Review (1) Points %ISOPEN (*) %NOTFOUND %FOUND %ROWCOUNT 31. The DEPARTMENTS table contains four columns. Examine the following code: DECLARE CURSOR dept_curs IS SELECT * FROM departments; v_dept_rec dept_curs%ROWTYPE; BEGIN OPEN dept_curs; FETCH dept_curs INTO v_dept_rec; ... Which one of the following statements is true? Mark for Review (1) Points v_dept_rec contains the first four rows of the departments table. The FETCH will fail because the structure of v_dept_rec does not match the structure of the cursor. v_dept_rec contains the first row of the departments table. (*) The block will fail because the declaration of v_dept_rec is invalid. 32. You want to declare a cursor which locks each row fetched by the cursor. Examine the following code: DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT * FROM employees FOR -- Point A Which of the following can NOT be coded at Point A? Mark for Review (1) Points UPDATE; UPDATE OF salary; UPDATE OF employees; (*) UPDATE NOWAIT;

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33. User TOM has locked a row in the WORKERS table. Now, user DICK wants to open the following cursor: CURSOR c IS SELECT * FROM workers FOR UPDATE NOWAIT; What will happen when DICK opens the cursor and tries to fetch rows? Mark for Review (1) Points TOM's session is rolled back. DICK's session successfully fetches rows from the cursor. DICK's session waits indefinitely. Both sessions wait for a few seconds; then the system breaks all locks and both sessions raise an exception. DICK's session immediately raises an exception. (*) The c%NOWAIT attribute is set to TRUE. 34. Examine the following code: DECLARE CURSOR c IS SELECT * FROM employees FOR UPDATE; c_rec c%ROWTYPE; BEGIN OPEN c; FOR i IN 1..20 LOOP FETCH c INTO c_rec; IF i = 6 THEN UPDATE employees SET first_name = 'Joe' WHERE CURRENT OF c; END IF; END LOOP; CLOSE c; END; Which employee row or rows will be updated when this block is executed? Mark for Review (1) Points The first 6 fetched rows will be updated. No rows will be updated because you locked the rows when the cursor was opened. The 6th fetched row will be updated. (*) The block will not compile because the cursor should have been declared .... FOR UPDATE WAIT 5; None of the above. 35. What is wrong with the following code? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs(p_dept_id NUMBER) IS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE department_id = p_dept_id; BEGIN FOR dept_rec IN (SELECT * FROM departments) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(dept_rec.department_name); FOR emp_rec IN emp_curs(dept_rec.department_id) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(emp_rec.last_name); END LOOP; END LOOP; END; Mark for Review (1) Points The DEPARTMENTS cursor must be declared with a parameter.

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You cannot use a cursor with a subquery in nested loops. You cannot use two different kinds of loop in a single PL/SQL block. EMP_CURS should not be DECLAREd explicitly; it should be coded as a subquery in a cursor FOR loop. Nothing is wrong. The block will execute successfully and display all departments and the employees in those departments. (*) 36. When using multiple nested cursors, what kinds of loops can you use? Mark for Review (1) Points Cursor FOR loops only. Basic loops only. WHILE loops only. None of the above. All of the above. (*) 37. Which of the following is a good reason to declare and use multiple cursors in a single PL/SQL block? Mark for Review (1) Points Multiple cursors improve performance. They are faster than using a single cursor. Multiple cursors use less memory than a single cursor. Multiple cursors allow us to fetch rows from two or more related tables without using a JOIN. (*) Multiple cursors are the only way to use cursors with parameters. Multiple cursors can be opened many times, while a single cursor can be opened only once. 38. For which type of SQL statement must you use an explicit cursor? Mark for Review (1) Points DML statements that process more than one row. Queries that return more than one row. (*) Data Definition Language (DDL) statements. Queries that return a single row. 39. Place the following statements in the correct sequence:

OPEN my_curs; CLOSE my_curs; CURSOR my_curs IS SELECT my_column FROM my_table; FETCH my_curs INTO my_variable; Mark for Review (1) Points C,D,A,B

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C,A,D,B (*) A,C,D,B C,A,B,D 40. Which of these constructs can be used to fetch multiple rows from a cursor's active set? Mark for Review (1) Points A CASE statement An IF .... ELSE statement A basic loop which includes FETCH and EXIT WHEN statements (*) A basic loop which includes OPEN, FETCH and CLOSE statements 41. The employees table contains 20 rows. What will happen when the following code is executed? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT job_id FROM employees; v_job_id employees.job_id%TYPE; BEGIN OPEN emp_curs; LOOP FETCH emp_curs INTO v_job_id; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_job_id); EXIT WHEN emp_curs%NOTFOUND; END LOOP; CLOSE emp_curs; END; Mark for Review (1) Points 10. Examine the following code: BEGIN FOR i IN 1..5 LOOP FOR j IN 1..8 LOOP EXIT WHEN j = 7; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i || j); END LOOP; END LOOP; END; How many lines of output will be displayed when this code is executed? Mark for Review (1) Points 35 6 30 (*) 40 20 job_ids will be displayed. The block will fail and an error message will be displayed. 21 rows of output will be displayed; the first job_id will be displayed twice.

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21 rows of output will be displayed; the last job_id will be displayed twice. (*) 42. An explicit cursor must be declared, opened and closed by the PL/SQL programmer. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True (*) False 43. What will happen when the following code is executed? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT salary FROM employees; v_salary employees.salary%TYPE; BEGIN OPEN emp_curs; FETCH emp_curs INTO v_salary; CLOSE emp_curs; FETCH emp_curs INTO v_salary; END; Mark for Review (1) Points The block will fail and an INVALID_CURSOR exception will be raised. (*) The first employee row will be fetched twice. The first two employee rows will be fetched. The block will fail and a TOO_MANY_ROWS exception will be raised. 44. Which of these statements about implicit cursors is NOT true? Mark for Review (1) Points They are declared automatically by Oracle for single-row SELECT statements. They are declared automatically by Oracle for all DML statements. They are declared by the PL/SQL programmer. (*) They are opened and closed automatically by Oracle. 45. An implicit cursor can be used for a multiple-row SELECT statement. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True False (*) 46. The following code fragment shows a cursor FOR loop: FOR emp_record IN emp_cursor LOOP ...... Which of the following do NOT need to be coded explicitly? (Choose three.) Mark for Review (1) Points (Choose all correct answers)

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OPEN emp_cursor; (*) DECLARE CURSOR emp_cursor IS ... emp_record emp_cursor%ROWTYPE; (*) FETCH emp_cursor INTO emp_record; (*) END LOOP; 47. What is wrong with the following code? DECLARE CURSOR dept_curs IS SELECT * FROM departments; BEGIN FOR dept_rec IN dept_curs LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(dept_curs%ROWCOUNT || dept_rec.department_name); END LOOP; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(dept_rec.department_id); END; Mark for Review (1) Points The cursor DEPT_CURS has not been opened. The implicitly declared record DEPT_REC cannot be referenced outside the cursor FOR loop. (*) You cannot use %ROWCOUNT with a cursor FOR loop. The cursor DEPT_CURS has not been closed. Nothing is wrong, this code will execute successfully. 48. When using a cursor FOR loop, OPEN, CLOSE and FETCH statements should not be explicitly coded. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True (*) False 49. Examine the following declaration of a cursor with a parameter. What should be coded at Point A? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs(-- Point A --) IS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE job_id = p_job_id; Mark for Review (1) Points p_job_id ST_CLERK' p_job_id VARCHAR2(25) p_job_id VARCHAR2 (*) job_id VARCHAR2 50. A cursor has been declared as: CURSOR c_curs (p_param VARCHAR2) IS SELECT * FROM mytable

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WHERE mycolumn = p_param. Which of the following will open the cursor successfully? Review (1) Points OPEN c_curs(p_param = 'ABC'); OPEN c_curs('ABC'); (*) OPEN c_curs USING ('ABC'); p_param := 'ABC'; OPEN c_curs(p_param); 3. Which statement best describes when a FOR loop should be used? Mark for Review (1) Points When the number of iterations is known (*) When testing the value in a Boolean variable When the controlling condition must be evaluated at the start of each iteration 5. When using a counter to control a FOR loop, which of the following is true ? Mark for Review (1) Points You must have exactly one counter but it is implicitly declared. (*) You must have exactly one counter and you must explicitly declare it. You can have multiple counters, but you need at least one. You don't need a counter; you can test for anything (for example, whether a BOOLEAN is TRUE or FALSE). 8. A PL/SQL block contains the following code: v_counter := 1; LOOP EXIT WHEN v_counter = 5; v_counter := v_counter + 1; END LOOP; What is the value of V_COUNTER after the loop is finished? Mark for Review (1) Points 5 (*) 6 1 This is an infinite loop; the loop will never finish. 10. Which one of these is NOT a kind of loop? (1) Points ASCENDING loop (*) FOR loop Mark for Review Mark for

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Basic loop WHILE loop 13. In the following code fragment, you want to exit from the outer loop at Line A if v_number = 6. Which statement would you write on Line A? <<big_loop>> WHILE condition_1 LOOP <<small_loop>> FOR i IN 1..10 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i); -- Line A END LOOP; END LOOP; Mark for Review (1) Points IF v_number = 6 THEN EXIT; EXIT outer_loop WHEN v_number = 6; EXIT big_loop WHEN v_number = 6; (*) EXIT small_loop WHEN v_number = 6; 19. You want to display a message which depends on the value of v_grade: if v_grade = 'A' display 'Very Good', if v_grade = 'B' then display 'Good', and so on. DECLARE v_grade CHAR(1); BEGIN CASE v_grade The next line should be Mark for Review (1) Points WHEN 'A' THEN (*) WHEN v_grade = 'A' THEN WHEN 'A' THEN; IF 'A' THEN 22. Examine the following code: DECLARE v_salary NUMBER(6); v_constant NUMBER(6) := 15000; v_result VARCHAR(6); := 'MIDDLE'; BEGIN IF v_salary != v_constant THEN v_result := 'HIGH'; ELSE v_result := 'LOW'; END IF; END; What is the final value of v_result? Mark for Review (1) Points

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HIGH LOW (*) MIDDLE Null 24. Examine the following code: DECLARE a VARCHAR2(6) := NULL; b VARCHAR2(6) := NULL; BEGIN IF a = b THEN DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('EQUAL'); ELSIF a != b THEN DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('UNEQUAL'); ELSE DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('OTHER'); END IF; END; Which word will be displayed? Mark for Review (1) Points UNEQUAL EQUAL Nothing will be displayed OTHER (*) 26. How many explicit cursors can be declared and used in a single PL/SQL block? Mark for Review (1) Points One or two. Only one. As many as needed. (*) Up to eight cursors. None of the above. 28. You want to display all locations, and the departments in each location. Examine the following code: DECLARE CURSOR loc_curs IS SELECT * FROM locations; CURSOR dept_curs(p_loc_id NUMBER) IS SELECT * FROM departments WHERE location_id = p_loc_id; BEGIN FOR loc_rec IN loc_curs LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(loc_rec.city); FOR dept_rec IN dept_curs(-- Point A --) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(dept_rec.department_name); END LOOP; END LOOP; END; What should you code at Point A? Mark for Review

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(1) Points p_loc_id location_id null LOOP ... END LOOP; loc_rec.location_id (*) 29. Assume that you have declared a cursor called C_EMP. Which of the following statements about C_EMP is correct? (Choose two.) Mark for Review (1) Points (Choose all correct answers) You can use c_emp%NOTFOUND to exit a loop. (*) You can fetch rows when c_emp%ISOPEN evaluates to FALSE. You can use c_emp%ROWCOUNT to return the number of rows returned by the cursor so far. (*) You can use c_emp%FOUND after the cursor is closed. 34. Examine the following code fragment: DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employees; v_emp_rec emp_curs%ROWTYPE; BEGIN ... FETCH emp_curs INTO v_emp_rec; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(... Point A ...); ... To display the fetched last name, what should you code at Point A? Mark for Review (1) Points v_emp_rec.last_name (*) v_emp_rec(last_name) v_emp_rec last_name None of the above 39. Examine the following code: DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees ORDER BY salary; v_last_name employees.last_name%TYPE; v_salary employees.salary%TYPE; BEGIN ...

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Which of the following statements successfully opens the cursor and fetches the first row of the active set? Mark for Review (1) Points OPEN emp_curs; FETCH emp_curs INTO v_last_name, v_salary; (*) OPEN emp_curs; FETCH emp_curs INTO v_salary, v_last_name; OPEN emp_curs; FETCH FIRST emp_curs INTO v_last_name, v_salary; OPEN emp_curs; FETCH emp_curs; 40. What will happen when the following code is executed? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT salary FROM employees; v_salary employees.salary%TYPE; BEGIN FETCH emp_curs INTO v_salary; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_salary); CLOSE emp_curs; END; Mark for Review (1) Points The first employee's salary will be fetched and displayed. All employees' salaries will be fetched and displayed. The execution will fail and an error message will be displayed. (*) The lowest salary value will be fetched and displayed. 41. After a cursor has been closed, it can be opened again in the same PL/SQL block. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True (*) False 43. There are no employees in department_id 75. Which of the following is NOT a valid cursor FOR loop with a subquery? Mark for Review (1) Points FOR emp_rec IN (SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees) LOOP ... FOR emp_rec IN (SELECT * FROM employees) LOOP ... FOR emp_rec IN

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... (SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees ORDER BY last_name) LOOP

FOR emp_rec IN (SELECT * FROM employees WHERE department_id = 75) LOOP ... None of the above. They are all valid. (*) 45. Examine the following code. To display the salary of an employee, what must be coded at Point A? DECLARE CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT * FROM employees; BEGIN FOR emp_rec IN emp_curs LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( -- what goes here ? ); END LOOP; END; Mark for Review (1) Points salary emp_curs.salary emp_rec.salary (*) employees.salary emp_rec.salary IN emp_curs 46. A cursor is declared as: CURSOR c IS SELECT * FROM departments FOR UPDATE; After opening the cursor and fetching some rows, you want to delete the most recently fetched row. Which of the following will do this successfully? Mark for Review (1) Points DELETE FROM c WHERE CURRENT OF c; DELETE FROM departments WHERE CURRENT OF c; (*) DELETE FROM c WHERE CURRENT OF departments; DELETE FROM departments WHERE c%ROWCOUNT = 1; None of the above. Incorrect. Refer to Section 5. 48. User MARY has locked a row of the EMPLOYEES table. Now, user SAEED tries to open the following cursor: CURSOR c IS SELECT * FROM employees FOR UPDATE WAIT 5; What will happen when SAEED's session tries to fetch the row that MARY has locked? Mark for Review (1) Points SAEED's session successfully fetches the first 5 rows and then waits indefinitely to fetch the 6th row.

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SAEED's session waits for 5 seconds, and then raises an exception if MARY has not unlocked the row. (*) SAEED's session waits for 5 seconds, then SAEED is disconnected from the database. SAEED's session waits for 5 seconds, then MARY's session is rolled back. SAEED's session waits for 5 minutes, and then raises an exception if MARY has not unlocked the row. 1. Which of these is NOT a valid cursor declaration? (1) Points CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT salary FROM employees ORDER BY salary DESC; CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT salary FROM employees WHERE last_name LIKE 'S%'; CURSOR emp_dept_curs IS SELECT e.salary, d.department_name FROM employees e, departments d WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id; CURSOR emp_curs IS SELECT salary INTO v_salary FROM employees; Mark for Review

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13. Which one of these tasks is best done using a LOOP statement? Mark for Review (1) Points Assigning a letter grade to a numerical score Calculating and displaying the sum of all integers from 1 to 100 (*) Testing if a condition is true, false or null Fetching and displaying an employee's last name from the database 14. There are 12 distinct JOB_IDs in the EMPLOYEES table. You need to write some PL.SQL code to fetch and display all the employees with a specific JOB_ID. The chosen JOB_ID can be different each time the code is executed. What is the best way to do this? Mark for Review (1) Points Write 12 separate PL/SQL blocks, each declaring a cursor with a different JOB_ID in the WHERE clause. Write a single PL/SQL block which declares 12 cursors, one for each distinct value of JOB_ID.

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Write a single PL/SQL block which declares one cursor using a parameter for the JOB_ID. (*) Write a single PL/SQL block which uses a cursor to fetch all the employee rows, with an IF statement to decide which of the fetched rows to display.

26. Consider the following cursor: CURSOR c IS SELECT e.last_name, e.salary, d.department_name FROM employees e JOIN departments d USING(department_id) WHERE e.last_name='Smith' FOR UPDATE; When the cursor is opened and rows are fetched, what is locked? Mark for Review (1) Points The whole EMPLOYEES table is locked. In the EMPLOYEES table, only the 'Smith' rows are locked. Nothing in the DEPARTMENTS table is locked. Each 'Smith' row is locked and Smith's matching rows in DEPARTMENTS are locked. No other rows are locked in either table. (*) The whole EMPLOYEES and DEPARTMENTS tables are locked. Nothing is locked because the cursor was not declared with NOWAIT. 29. What value will v_answer contain after the following code is executed? DECLARE v_age NUMBER:= 18; v_answer VARCHAR2(10); BEGIN v_answer := CASE WHEN v_age < 25 THEN 'Young' WHEN v_age = 18 THEN 'Exactly 18' ELSE 'Older' END CASE; END; Mark for Review (1) Points Exactly 18 Young (*) Null Older 40. You want to display each row from the DEPARTMENTS table, and immediately underneath it, a list of all EMPLOYEES in that department. Which of the following is a good way to do this? Mark for Review (1) Points

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Use a single cursor, declared as SELECT * FROM employees GROUP BY department_id; Use two cursors, one for each of the two tables. Declare the EMPLOYEES cursor with a parameter for the DEPARTMENT_ID. (*) Write a SELECT statement which JOINs the two tables, and use CONNECT BY PRIOR and LEVEL to display the rows in the correct order. Use a single cursor with a cursor FOR loop. Change the physical model so that all employee and department data is in a single table. 46. What is wrong with the following code? BEGIN FOR emp_rec IN (SELECT * FROM employees WHERE ROWNUM < 10 FOR UPDATE NOWAIT) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(emp_rec%ROWCOUNT || emp_rec.last_name): END LOOP; END; Mark for Review (1) Points You cannot use FOR UPDATE NOWAIT with a cursor FOR loop using a subquery. You cannot reference %ROWCOUNT with a cursor FOR loop using a subquery. (*) The field EMP_REC.LAST_NAME does not exist. You cannot use ROWNUM with a cursor FOR loop. The cursor has not been opened. 4. What is the correct form of a compound IF statement? Review (1) Points IF condition THEN statement1 ELSE statement 2; IF condition THEN statement1 ELSE statement 2; END IF; IF condition; THEN statement1; ELSE statement2; END IF; IF condition THEN statement1; ELSE statement2; END IF; (*) Mark for

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21. What will be the value of variable c after the following code is executed? DECLARE a BOOLEAN := TRUE; b BOOLEAN := NULL; c NUMBER; BEGIN IF a AND b THEN c := 2; ELSIF a OR b THEN c := 0; ELSE c := 1; END IF; END; Mark for Review (1) Points 1 Null 0 (*) 2 23. Examine the following code: DECLARE v_outer_count NUMBER := 1; v_inner_count NUMBER := 1; BEGIN LOOP LOOP v_inner_count := v_inner_count + 1; EXIT WHEN v_inner_count > 5; -- Line A END LOOP; v_outer_count := v_outer_count + 1; EXIT WHEN v_outer_count > 3; END LOOP; END; What happens at Line A when the value of V_INNER_COUNT equals 6? Mark for Review (1) Points Both loops are exited and the block's execution is terminated. The inner loop is exited but the outer loop continues execution. (*) The outer loop is exited but the inner loop continues execution. An error condition is returned. 49. What is one of the advantages of using parameters with a cursor? Mark for Review (1) Points You can use a cursor FOR loop. You can declare the cursor FOR UPDATE. You do not need to DECLARE the cursor at all. You can use a single cursor to fetch a different set of rows each time the cursor is opened. (*)

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It will execute much faster than a cursor without parameters. 40. An explicit cursor must always be declared, opened and closed by the PL/SQL programmer. True or False? Mark for Review (1) Points True False (*)

You can use a control structure to change the logical flow of the execution of SQL Mark for Review statements. True or False? Points (1) True (*) False 26- What clause will leave the outer loop at Point A? DECLARE ;i INTEGER := 0 BEGIN << i_loop >> WHILE i <= 10 LOOP ;i := i+1 << j_loop >> FOR j IN 1..5 LOOP WHEN i = j*2; -- Point A _______ ;(DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i || j ;END LOOP ;END LOOP Mark for Review END; Points (1) <<EXIT <<outerloop EXIT outerloop (*) EXIT i_loop EXIT j_loop .21 What type of control structures are repetition statements that enable you to execute Mark for Review statements in a PLSQL block repeatedly? Points (1) IF statements (*) Loops CASE expressions CASE statements

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