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Dbms MCQ'S Knowledge & Expertise of A Discipline

The document contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of database management systems (DBMS). The questions cover topics such as keys, normalization, relationships between tables, and SQL. They assess understanding of concepts like data redundancy, referential integrity constraints, and database operations like projection and selection. The answer key is provided at the end.

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Dbms MCQ'S Knowledge & Expertise of A Discipline

The document contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of database management systems (DBMS). The questions cover topics such as keys, normalization, relationships between tables, and SQL. They assess understanding of concepts like data redundancy, referential integrity constraints, and database operations like projection and selection. The answer key is provided at the end.

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DBMS MCQ’s

Knowledge & Expertise of a discipline

1 Which of the following fields in a student file can be used as a primary key?
a. class
b. Social Security Number
c. GPA
d. Major
2 Which of the following contains a complete record of all activity that affected the contents
of a database during a certain period of time?
a. report writer
b. query language
c. data manipulation language
d. transaction log
3 A record management system
a. can handle many files of information at a time
b. can be used to extract information stored in a computer file
c. always uses a list as its model
d. both a and b 
4 A relation is in this form if it is in BCNF and has no multivalued dependencies:
a. second normal form.
b. third normal form.
c. fourth normal form.
d. domain/key normal form.
5 The primary key is selected from the:
a. composite keys.
b. determinants.
c. candidate keys.
d. foreign keys

Research Enquiry

6. The Collection of data, that contains information about one particular enterprise is known as?

A. DBMS

B. Database

C. Data Dictionary

D. Data file
7. Duplication of Data is known as ?

A. Data Redundancy

B. Data Integrity

C. Data Inconsistancy

D. Corrupt Data

8. A primary key, if combined with a foreign key, creates

(A) Parent-Child relationship between the tables that connect them.

(B) Many to many relationships between the tables that connect them.

(C) Network model between the tables that connect them.

(D) None of the above.

Information & Digital Literacy

9. Which is the make given to the database management system which is able to handle full text
data, image data, audio and video?
a. full media
b. graphics media
c. multimedia
d. hypertext 

10. Which of the following is not valid relational database?

a. Sybase
b. IMS
c. Oracle
d. Unify

11._______ produces the relation that has attributes of R1 and R2


a. Cartesian product
b. Difference
c. Intersection
d. Product

Problem Solving
12. Every time attribute A appears, it is matched with the same value of attribute B, but not
the same value of attribute C. Therefore, it is true that:
a. A → B.
b. A → C.
c. A → (B,C).
d. (B,C) → A.

13. 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.

14. When a transaction aborts


a. all changes it has made are immediately available to other transactions
b. the modifications of all transactions currently running are also aborted
c. it can abort transactions which have already committed
d. it releases all of its locks

15. Which of the following operation is used if we are interested in only certain columns of
a table?
a. PROJECTION
b. SELECTION
c. UNION
d. JOIN

Employability, Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

16. What is the language used by most of the DBMSs for helping their users to access data?

a. High level language


b. SQL
c. Query Language
d. 4GL

17. The view of total database content is

(A) Conceptual view.

(B) Internal view.

(C) External view.


(D) Physical View.

18. An entity set that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key is a

(A) strong entity set.

(B) weak entity set.

(C) simple entity set.

(D) primary entity set.

Life Long Learning

19. A transparent DBMS


a. can not hide sensitive information from users
b. keeps its logical structure hidden from users
c. keeps its physical structure hidden from users
d. both b and c 

20. It is better to use files than a DBMS when there are


a. Stringent real-time requirements.
b. Multiple users wish to access the data.
c. Complex relationships among data.
d. All of the above.

Answer Key

1. B
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. A
9. C
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. D
14. D
15. A
16. C
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. B

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