PPSC Competitive Exam for the Post of

Programmer

Question Paper Along with Answer Key

Date: 21st June, 2014

Time: 12: 00 PM to 02:00 PM
Total Number of Questions: 100
Q 1.
A recursive relationship is a relationship between an entity and ________

Options:
A) a subtype entity
B) an instance entity
C) itself
D) an archetype entity

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 2.
Multivalued attributes are shown by _______.

Options:
A) { }
B) ( )
C) >
D) <>

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 3.
_______ specifies the maximum number of relationship instances that an entity can participate.

Options:
A) domain
B) cardinality
C) range
D) ceiling

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 4.
Which type of entity has its relationship to another entity determined by an attribute in that
other entity called a discriminator?

Options:
A) Archetype entity
B) Subtype entity
C) Instance entity
D) Supertype entity

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 5.
Which of these is not an unary operation?

Options:
A) Select
B) Project
C) Union
D) Rename

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 6.
Who proposed the relational model?

Options:
A) Bill Gates
B) Charles Babbage
C) Herman Hollerith
D) E.F. Codd

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 7.
Set of permitted values of each attribute is called _________.

Options:
A) Tuple
B) Domain
C) Relation
D) Schema

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 8.
What is the name of the operator in a relation that yields values from all rows in a table?

Options:
A) Difference
B) Join
C) Project
D) Select

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 9.
What is a predicate expressing a condition that always must be satisfied?

Options:
A) Assertion
B) Trigger
C) Procedure
D) Generalization

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 10.
What SQL is a set of statements that allows SQL to be used with traditional programming
languages

Options:
A) Embedded
B) QBE
C) QUEL
D) Common SQL

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 11.
What constraints maintain uniqueness in a record?

Options:
A) Entity integrity
B) Domain Integrity
C) Check Integrity
D) Referential Integrity

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 12.
What is the result of the following query? SELECT FLOOR(3.6) FROM DUAL?

Options:
A) 3.5
B) 3
C) 4
D) 3.7

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 13.
If an entity appears in N relationships then it is

Options:
A) a 1:1 relationship
B) a 1:N relationship
C) a N:1 relationship
D) a N:M relationship

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 14.
A DBMS has the following components
(i) a data definition language;
(ii) a query language;
(iii) a security system;
(iv) audit trail

Options:
A) i, ii
B) i, ii, iii
C) i, ii, iii, iv
D) i, ii, iv

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 15.
The sequence followed in designing a DBMS are
Options:
A) physical model - conceptual model - logical model
B) logical model - physical model - conceptual model
C) conceptual model - logical model - physical model
D) conceptual model - physical model - logical model

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 16.
Which-one of the following statements about normal forms is FALSE?

Options:
A) Loss less, dependency – preserving decomposition into BCNF is always possible
B) BCNF is stricter than 3 NF
C) Any relation with two attributes is BCNF
D) Lossless, dependency -preserving decomposition into 3 NF is always possible

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 17.
Any relation with two attributes is BCNF

Options:
A) 2NF
B) 3NF
C) 4NF
D) 5NF

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 18.
Tables in second normal form (2NF):

Options:
A) Eliminate all hidden dependencies
B) Have all non key fields depend on the whole primary key
C) Eliminate the possibility of a insertion anomalies
D) Have a composite key

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 19.
Dates must be specified in the format

Options:
A) mm/dd/yy
B) yyyy/mm/dd
C) dd/mm/yy
D) yy/dd/mm

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 20.
Which of the following is used to store movie and image files ?

Options:
A) Clob
B) Binary
C) Image
D) Blob

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 21.
Values of one type can be converted to another domain using which of the following?

Options:
A) Cast
B) Drop type
C) Alter type
D) Convert

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 22.
What is a DATABLOCK

Options:
A) Set of Extents
B) Set of Segments
C) Smallest Database storage unit
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 23.
A set of dictionary tables are created

Options:
A) Once for the entire database
B) Every time a user is created
C) Every time a tables space is created
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 24.
What does DLL stands for

Options:
A) Dynamic Language Library
B) Dynamic Link Library
C) Dynamic Load Library
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 25.
The SQL WHERE clause

Options:
A) Limits the column data that are returned.
B) Limits the row data that are returned.
C) Limits both the column data and row data that are returned.
D) Neither Limits the column data NOR the row data that are returned

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 26.
A sub query in an SQL SELECT statement is enclosed in

Options:
A) braces -- {...}.
B) CAPITAL LETTERS
C) parenthesis -- (...) .
D) brackets -- [...].

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 27.
Which of the following is used as the embedded SQL in COBOL?

Options:
A) EXEC SQL ;
B) EXEC SQL END-EXEC
C) EXEC SQL
D) EXEC SQL END EXEC;

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 28.
______Clause specifies the groups into which output rows are to be placed and, if aggregate
functions are included in the SELECT clause.

Options:
A) ORDER BY
B) GROUP
C) GROUP BY
D) GROUP IN

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 29.
The SELECT statement, that retrieves all the columns from empinfo table name starting with d
to p is _______

Options:
A) SELECT ALL FROM empinfo WHERE ename like '[d-p]%';
B) SELECT * FROM empinfo WHERE ename is '[d-p]%';
C) SELECT * FROM empinfo WHERE ename like '[p-d]%';
D) SELECT * FROM empinfo WHERE ename like '[d-p]%';

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 30.
The result of a SQL SELECT statement is a(n) ________.

Options:
A) report
B) form
C) File
D) Table

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 31.
To remove duplicate rows from the results of an SQL SELECT statement, the ________ qualifier
specified must be included.

Options:
A) ONLY
B) UNIQUE
C) DISTINCT
D) SINGLE

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 32.
The default parameter type in stored procedures is

Options:
A) IN
B) OUT
C) INOUT
D) There is no default type

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 33.
To delete a database _____ command is used

Options:
A) delete database database_name
B) Delete database_name
C) drop database database_name
D) drop database_name

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 34.
Some of the utilities of DBMS are ______
i) Loading;
ii) Backup;
iii) File organization;
iv) Process Organization
Options:
A) i, ii, and iv only
B) i, ii and iii only
C) ii, iii and iv only
D) All i, ii, iii, and iv

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 35.
_____ allows individual row operation to be performed on a given result set.
Options:
A) Procedure
B) Trigger
C) Curser
D) View

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 36.
Which feature converts row data to column for better analytical view?

Options:
A) Views
B) Join
C) Pivot
D) Trigger

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 37.
Capabilities of RAISERROR

Options:
A) It can be logged in the error log
B) It can print a message to the application
C) It can assign an error number, state and severity
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 38.
Problems occurs if we don't implement proper locking strategy

Options:
A) Dirty reads
B) Phantom reads
C) Lost updates
D) Unrepeatable reads

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 39.
You have a column that will only contain values from 0 to 256. What is the most economical
data type to use for the column?

Options:
A) TINYINT
B) SMALLINT
C) INT
D) DECIMAL(1)

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 40.
Which of the given is not an integrity constraint?

Options:
A) Not null
B) Positive
C) Unique
D) Check ‘predicate’

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 41.
Domain constraints, functional dependency and referential integrity are special forms of
_________.

Options:
A) Assertion
B) Foreign key
C) Referential constraint
D) Primary key

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 42.
When there is more than one key in a relation, then each such key is called ______.

Options:
A) Primary
B) Foreign
C) Candidate
D) Multiple

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 43.
Which of the following is not a property of transactions?

Options:
A) Atomicity
B) Isolation
C) Durability
D) Concurrency

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 44.
In an E-R diagram double lines indicate

Options:
A) Total participation.
B) Multiple participation.
C) Cardinality N.
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 45.
The metadata is created by the

Options:
A) DML compiler
B) DML pre-processor
C) DDL interpreter
D) Query interpreter

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 46.
The cost of reading and writing temporary files while evaluating a query can be reduced by

Options:
A) building indices
B) pipelining
C) join ordering
D) none of the options

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 47.
In b-tree the number of keys in each node is ____ than the number of its children

Options:
A) one less
B) one more
C) Same
D) Half

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 48.
SMP stands for

Options:
A) System multi-processing
B) Server multi-processing
C) Symmetric multi-processing
D) Securing multi-processing

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 49.
Optimization basically related to the Rewrite module is termed as_______

Options:
A) Semantic query optimization
B) Global query optimization
C) Both Semantic query optimization & Global query optimization
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 50.
In query processor which ordering is related to hash joins by SQL server 7.0

Options:
A) Interesting ordering
B) Index intersection
C) Index joins
D) Parallel queries

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 51.
How many types of indexes are there in sql server?

Options:
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 52.
In _______________ index instead of storing all the columns for a record together, each column
is stored separately with all other rows in an index.

Options:
A) Clustered
B) Column store
C) Non clustered
D) Row store

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 53.
A locked file can be?

Options:
A) Accessed by only one user
B) Modified by users with the correct password
C) Is use to hide sensitive information
D) Both Modified by users with the correct password & Is use to hide sensitive information

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 54.
Periodically adding, changing and deleting file records is called file _____

Options:
A) Updating
B) Upgrading
C) Restricting
D) Renewing

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 55.
Which of the following is a stored procedure that Oracle automatically fires under appropriate
conditions?

Options:
A) Constraint
B) Trigger
C) Curser
D) Recursive function

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 56.
Which of the following are the indices based on the uniform distribution of values across a
range of buckets?

Options:
A) Hash indices
B) Primary indices
C) Sparse indices.
D) Ordered indices

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 57.
A b-tree of order m has maximum ____children

Options:
A) M
B) M+1
C) m-1
D) m/2

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 58.
A clustering index is defined on the fields which are of type

Options:
A) Non-key and ordering
B) Non-key and non-ordering
C) Key and ordering
D) Key and non-ordering

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 59.
A primary key should be defined as

Options:
A) NULL
B) NOT NULL
C) Both NULL and NOT NULL
D) Neither NULL nor NOT NULL

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 60.
Student and courses enrolled, is an example of

Options:
A) One-to-one relationship
B) One-to-many relationship
C) many-to-one relationship
D) many-to-many relationship

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 61.
Manager’s salary details are hidden from the employee. This is_____

Options:
A) Conceptual level data hiding
B) Physical level data hiding
C) External level data hiding
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 62.
Assume transaction A holds a shared lock R. If transaction B also requests for a shared lock on
R______

Options:
A) It will result in a deadlock situation
B) It will immediately be granted
C) It will immediately be rejected
D) It will be granted as soon as it is released by A

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 63.
The concept of locking can be used to solve the problem of_____

Options:
A) Lost update
B) Uncommitted dependency
C) Inconsistent data
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 64.
The entity-relationship model comes under________

Options:
A) Object based logical modal
B) Relational model
C) Physical data model
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 65.
If every non-key attribute is functionally dependent on the primary key, then the relation will
be in_____

Options:
A) First normal form
B) Second normal form
C) Third normal form
D) Fourth normal form

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 66.
Which of the following is record based logical model?

Options:
A) Object oriented model
B) E-R model
C) Network model
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 67.
A data dictionary contains______

Options:
A) The data type of all fields in all files
B) The name of all fields in all files
C) The width of all fields in all files
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 68.
E-R modeling technique is a_______

Options:
A) Top-down approach
B) Bottom-up approach
C) Left-right approach
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 69.
A data dictionary doesn’t provide information about_____

Options:
A) Where data is located
B) The size of the disk storage device
C) Who owns or is responsible for the data
D) How the data is used

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 70.
Architecture of the database can be viewed as _______ level/levels.

Options:
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 71.
_____________ is a class whose instances themselves are classes.

Options:
A) subclass
B) abstarct class
C) metaclass
D) object class

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 72.
_______________ enables you to hide, inside the object, both the data fields and the methods
that act on that data.

Options:
A) Encapsulation
B) Polymorphism
C) Inheritance
D) Overloading

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 73.
To be called object-oriented, a programming language must allow_________

Options:
A) functions that return values
B) Library of predefined functions
C) Inheritance
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 74.
Which statement is true regarding an object?

Options:
A) An object is what classes instantiated are from
B) An object is an instance of a class
C) An object is a variable
D) An object is not an instance of a class.

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 75.
A process that involves recognizing and focusing on the important characteristics of a situation
or object is known as __________

Options:
A) Encapsulation
B) Polymorphism
C) Abstraction
D) Inheritance

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 76.
In object oriented programming, composition relates to

Options:
A) The use of consistent coding conventions
B) The organization of components interacting to achieve a coherent, common behavior
C) The use of inheritance to achieve polymorphic behavior
D) The use of data hiding to achieve polymorphic behavior.

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 77.
For a 16 bit word length Integer data type values lie between ________________

Options:
A) -32768 to 32767
B) 0 to 32767
C) -128 to 128
D) 0 to 128

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 78.
Which of the following is NOT a Relational Operator

Options:
A) ==
B) >
C) %
D) !=

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 79.
Which of the following does not belong: If a class inherits from some other class, it should

Options:
A) Make use of the parent class's capabilities
B) Over-ride or add the minimum to accomplish the derived class' purpose
C) Over-ride all the methods of its parent class
D) Make sure the result “contains” its base class.

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 80.
Object oriented inheritance models the_________

Options:
A) "is a kind of" relationship
B) "has a" relationship
C) "want to be" relationship
D) “contains” of relationship.

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 81.
Given a class named student, which of the following is a valid constructor declaration for the
class?

Options:
A) Student (student s) { }
B) Student student ( ) { }
C) Private final student ( ) { }
D) Void student ( ) { }

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 82.
__________ is an abstract idea that can be represented with data structures and functions.

Options:
A) Class
B) object
C) loop
D) data type

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 83.
___________ class can share selected properties of its base classes

Options:
A) abstract
B) derived
C) subclass
D) both derived & subclass

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 84.
this pointer

Options:
A) Implicitly points to an object.
B) Can be explicitly used in a class.
C) Can be used to return an object.
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 85.
Data members which are static

Options:
A) cannot be assigned a value
B) can only be used in static functions
C) cannot be defined in a Union
D) can be accessed outside the class

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 86.
What is printed by the following statement? System.out.print("Hello,\nworld!");

Options:
A) Hello, \nworld!
B) Hello,
World!
C) "Hello, \nworld!"
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 87.
____________ tool helps us to find errors in our programs.

Options:
A) Jhelp
B) javah
C) javap
D) jdb

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 88.
____________ is reserved keyword in java

Options:
A) Abstract
B) Extends
C) Package
D) All of the options

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 89.
Which of the following is the correct declaration statement in java program?

Options:
A) int num=new int[5]
B) int num=new num[5]
C) int[] num=new int[5]
D) None of the options

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 90.
_______________ is default access specifier in JAVA.

Options:
A) friendly
B) private
C) protected
D) public

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 91.
We cannot create a subclass of _________ class

Options:
A) Abstract
B) public
C) static
D) final

Correct Option: Option “D”

Q 92.
Which of the following statement is true?

Options:
A) A subclass is a sub set of a superclass.
B) Class ClassTwo extends ClassOne means ClassOne is subclass.
C) Class ClassTwo extends ClassOne means ClassTwo is super class.
D) The class Class is the super class of all other classes in Java.

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 93.
1. public class Person {
2. private String name;
3. public Person(String name) { this.name = name; }
4. public boolean equals(Person p) {
5. return p.name.equals(this.name);
6. }
7. }
Which statement is true?

Options:
A) The equals method does NOT properly override the Object.equals method
B) Compilation fails because the private attribute p.name cannot be accessed in line 5
C) To work correctly with hash-based data structures, this class must also implement the
hashCode method
D) When adding Person objects to a java.util.Set collection, the equals method in line 4 will
prevent duplicates

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 94.
Which of the following assignments is illegal in Java?

Options:
A) subclass_reference = subclass_object
B) subclass_reference = superclass_object
C) superclass_reference = subclass_object
D) superclass_reference = superclass_object

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 95.
“Converting invalid string to a number” is the _________________ type of error.

Options:
A) Run-time
B) Exception
C) Logical
D) Compile-time

Correct Option: Option “A”

Q 96.
Which of these method of Object class can clone an object?
class access{
public int x;
private int y;
void cal(int a, int b){
x = a + 1;
y = b;
}
}
class access_specifier {
pu

Options:
A) Objectcopy()
B) copy()
C) Object clone()
D) clone()

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 97.
What is the output of this program?
class access{
public int x;
private int y;
void cal(int a, int b){
x = a + 1;
y = b;
}
}
class access_specifier {
public static void

Options:
A) 3 3
B) 2 3
C) Runtime Error
D) Compilation Error

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 98.
What is the output of this program?
class access{
public int x;
private int y;
void cal(int a, int b){
x = a + 1;
y = b;
}
void print() {
system.out.println(" " + y);

Options:
A) 2 3
B) 3 3
C) Runtime Error
D) Compilation Error

Correct Option: Option “B”

Q 99.
Which statement(s) are true?

Options:
A) Cohesion is the OO principle most closely associated with hiding implementation details
B) Cohesion is the OO principle most closely associated with making sure that classes know about
other classes only through their APIs
C) Cohesion is the OO principle most closely associated with making sure that a class is designed
with a single, well-focused purpose
D) Cohesion is the OO principle most closely associated with allowing a single object to be seen as
having many types

Correct Option: Option “C”

Q 100.
What is the output of this program?
class evaluate {
public static void main(String args[])
{
int a[] = {1,2,3,4,5};
int d[] = a;
int sum = 0;
for (int j = 0; j < 3; ++j)
sum +=

Options:
A) 38
B) 39
C) 40
D) 41

Correct Option: Option “C”