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Teradata Basics Exam - Sample Question Set 1 (Answers in Italic Font)

This document provides a sample set of questions and answers for the Teradata Basics exam. It includes 30 multiple choice questions that test knowledge of fundamental Teradata concepts like authentication, authorization, database objects, roles, views, stored procedures, indexes, and more. The correct answers are provided in italic font.

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Teradata Basics Exam - Sample Question Set 1 (Answers in Italic Font)

This document provides a sample set of questions and answers for the Teradata Basics exam. It includes 30 multiple choice questions that test knowledge of fundamental Teradata concepts like authentication, authorization, database objects, roles, views, stored procedures, indexes, and more. The correct answers are provided in italic font.

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Teradata Basics exam - Sample Question Set 1 (Answers in Italic Font)

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Users logged on the Teradata Database and have authenticated, they are authorized to access
All the Object in the database.
Objects allowed by their database privileges.
Operational System
Teradata Server

2. The database Objects that allows more secure database environment (Chose )
1. Views
2. Macros
3. Primary Index .
4. Stored Procedure
5. UDFs
6. Roles
7. Locks
8. Row Level Security
9. Password
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Which statement is true ?


A database will always have tables.
A user will always have a password.
A user creating a subordinate user who needs tables must give up some of its Perm Space.
The sum of all user and database Perm Space will equal the total space on the system.
Deleting a view from a database reclaims Perm Space for the database.

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Which three mechanisms authenticate access to the Teradata Database? (Chose Three)
LDAP
User Defined Functions
Password
Single Sign On

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Which are the statements true about role?


Collection of access rights
Granted to the group of users
Granted to the single user
Security of data objects

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LDAP (Which Statement is Ture)


implemented centralized user and identity-management systems.

The LDAP integration enables the authentication of a Teradata Database users identity and
password by an external directory service
3. database access authorized based on a directory security group membership.
4. By providing an enterprise user name and password, the user initiates a login, which is
authenticated through a secure bind to the external directory.
5. This authentication allows the same user name and password to be applied to a Teradata Database
logon and other enterprise applications and systems.
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Which three describe the benefit of Teradata's scalability? (Choose four.)


It allows users to submit ad hoc queries.
It provides a single view of the business.
It provides a fault tolerant processing platform.
It has the ability to support multiple concurrent users.
Processing power can be added without needing to change the data model.
Disk space can be added without having to manually offload/reload the data.
Linear scalability provides the ability to scale to support more users/data/queries/complexity
Without performance degradation.

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Teradata advantages..
It allow user to submit ad hoc query.
It provide the single views to the business
Unconditional parallelism.
High availability.
Concurrent users

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Teradata advantages..
Scalability.
Parallelism.
Open Architecture
TCO (Automatic data Distribution).

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TeraData DBA not required to Do..


Reorganize data or Index space.
Ensure that queries run in parallel.
Pre-alloacted table/index space and format partitioning.
Checking database space available.
Create users.
Create database.

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Teradata feature
Parallel Processing
Open Architecture
Linear scalability.
Provide an excellent platform for OLTP workloads.

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Which feature allows the Teradata Database to process large amounts of data quickly(chose one)
High availability software and hardware components
Parallelism.
Proven Scalability
High performance servers from intel

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Teradata Database is primarily a


Server.
Client.
Standard Operating System.
Data Warehouse application.

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Which two tasks do Teradata Database Administration never have to do(choose two)
Reorganize the data
Select primary Index
Restart the system
Pre-Prepare data for loading

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A Database contains
Logically related data.
Shared access.
Protected
Spool Space
Access rights

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What are the characteristic of relational database?


They reflect the way users think.
They are founded in set theory.
Are based on the Relational Model.
They are application driven.

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What is an advantage of relational database?


They are relationship independent.
They are solidly built on mathematical analysis.
They respond quickly to changing business conditions.
They are designed to support applicationdriven processes.

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Which is definition of a Primary Key?


A set of rows that uniquely identify data
A relationship between tables
A set of column that uniquely identify a row

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A set of logically related columns

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What is a characteristic of a Primary key?


No Duplicates are allowed
Identify the data outside the database
Primary key can not be changed
Can not be null

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Which statements is TRUE about PERM space?


Tables, index subtables, and stored procedures use PERM space.
Maximum PERM space can be defined at the database or table level.
PERM space cannot be dynamically modified.
The per/AMP limit of PERM space can be exceeded.

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Which statement is TRUE about SPOOL space?


The SPOOL limit is dependent on the table is located.
Maximum SPOOL space can be defined at the database or user level.
SPOOL space cannot be dynamically modified.
Maximum SPOOL space can be defined at a value greater than the immediate parents value

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A Column always contains


Like Data
Entity
Unlike data
One instance of row

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All database object definition stored in


Data Dictionary/Directory(DD/D)
System Database
Data Demographic
Table

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Views
Pre defined subset of tables
Pre defined subset of other views
It has physical rows
Definition stored in the DD/D
It is standardize access techniques.

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Stored Procedures
It is a program that is Stored in Teradata
Its need Perm Disk Space
Its not needed Perm Disk Space
Its invoked through a single SQL CALL statement
It contain both Teradata SQL statements and procedural statements.

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The data Dictionary Directory Contains.


Database object
DD/D update automatically during the processing of Teradata SQL data definition Statements.
It contain the information about ownership, space allocation, accounting and access rights.
It has the information regarding the users, database, resource usage, data demographic and
security rules.

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Views.
It is an alternate way of organizing and presenting information
Its need perm space.
It limit the access to data and to allow different user to looks at same data from different
perspectives.
4. Views can show part of one table(single-table view)
5. View can show part of more than one table.
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Feature of MACRO.
Macros are source code stored on the DBC.
They are re-optimize at execution time.
They can be executed by interactive or batch applications.
They can accept user-provided parameter values

29. When comparing a Primary Key and a Primary Index, which statement is true only for the Primary
Index?
1. It can improve join performance.
2. It uniquely identifies each row in the table.
3. It ensures referential integrity of the data.
4. It supports table access using alternate, less frequently used paths.
30. When comparing a Primary Key and a Primary Index, which statement is unique for the Primary
Key?
1. It implies an access path to the data.
2. It identifies relationships between views.
3. It can be made up of a maximum of 64 columns.
4. It is a logical database representational concept.

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