Assignment Distributed Database System
Assignment Distributed Database System
Assignment A
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
1. What are the components of a distributed database system? Explain with the help of a
diagram.
2. What is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed database
system?
3. What is location transparency?
4. What is Fragmentation? Discuss various types of Fragmentations with the help of suitable
examples.
5. Write short note on any three of the following
a. Remote and distributed transactions.
b. Replication and consideration while designing the distributed data base system
c. Network Transparency
d. Underlying design principles in COBRA architecture.
e. Deadlock prevention deadlock detection algorithms.
Assignment B
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
1. What are the functions of distributed database management system? What are the advantages
and disadvantages of distributed database systems?
2. Explain concurrency control mechanism in DDBMS.
3. Why is distributed database system said to be scalable?
Case Study
By taking any real time situation, explain how a participating node performs its recovery when it
fails during the processing of a transaction?
Assignment C
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
Tick mark(√) the most appropriate answer
16. Which of the following is a column in a table that uniquely identifies the records from a
different table?
a) Primary key
b) Candidate key
c) Foreign key
d) Intelligent key
20. What is a set of columns that store similar information that repeats in the same table?
a) Tuple group
b) Recurring group
c) Repeating group
d) None of the above
22. Whenever two independent one-to-many relationships are mixed in the same relation is
called--
a) Functional dependency
b) Multi-valued dependency
c) Transitive dependency
d) None of the above
23. Which is the process of building data base structure to store data?
a) Concurrency management
b) Compilation
c) Normalization
d) None of the above
24. What is an attribute composed of multiple components, each with an independent existence is
called?
a) Atomic
b) Composite
c) Derived
d) Single-valued
25. A collection of data designed to be used by different people is called a…………..
a) Database
b) DBMS
c) MIS
d) None of the above
26. Which of the following is a characteristic of the data in database?
a) Shared
b) Secure
c) Independent
d) All of the above
27. The attribute or set of attributes used to look up a record in a file is called a…………
a) Primary key
b) Secondary key
c) Candidate key
d) None of the above
28. Which is not true in DDBMS?
a) Geographically Dispersed
b) Vary in Size
c) Separately Administered
d) Inter-connected by WAN/LAN
e) (e) All of these
f) (f) None of these
31. At which level the multi valued dependency among attributes is checed?
a) 2NF
b) 3NF
c) 4NF
d) 5NF
32. Ability to modify the internal schema without causing any change to the external schema is
known as--