Wachemo University,Ethiopia, Hossana

Faculty of engineering and technology, School of Computing and Informatics.

Department of Information Technology

Course Name:-Advanced Database Management System Code:-ITec. 3071

Target Group: - Graduate Class of 2022/3

Program:Degree (Regular)

Time allowed: 2:00:00 minutes Model Examination

Total marks: 100%

Instructor:-Mr. Abebe W. (M.Sc.) E-mail:[email protected]

Read Me: →This is a closed book exam. No books or other material may be used.

Part I: choose the most appropriate answer to the following question.(2 pts each)

1. Assume you're a database administrator of X organization, and you're working on a website that
connects to a sales database. The SQL queries are included in some of the pages.Which security
danger, if any, do you think you'll be most vulnerable to?

A. No problem, as long as the SQL is password-protected, it is safe.

B.Loss of Integrity.

C. Hackers do not have a means of accessing the underlying SQL.

D. There is a risk a hacker would use SQL injection.

2. Which of the following statement is used to remove the privilege from the user Abebe?
A. Remove update on department from Abebe B.
Revoke update on employee from Abebe
C.Delete select on department from Abebe D. Grant update on employee from Abebe.

3. is eliminating duplication of tuples.

A.Selection
B. Projection C.Rename D. Set difference

4. The basic goal of query optimization is to find the most efficient way of implementing relational
algebra operations at the lowest possible cost, so what factors are evaluated to compute the cost of
evaluation plan by the optimizer in query processing?
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 A.Disk access time B.number of operations.

C. Number of tuples to be scanned

D.CPU time E.all

5. Assume that if a transaction Tj wants to read a value that has been changed or written by another
transaction Ti, Tj's commit must do so after Ti's commit. So, what kinds of recoverable schedules are
associated with this scenario?
A.Cascading Schedule C. Strict Schedule
B. Cascade less Schedule D.Serializability
6. Consider the following action
Transaction
SQL>commit;
SQL>Rollback;
What does rollback can do in the above statement?
A.Undo the transaction before commit.
B. Clear the transaction.
C. Turn back or goes back the transaction.
D.All of the mention
E. Nothing.

7. Which one of the following is distributed database design strategies?

A.Fragmentation. C.Allocations
B.Replication D. All
8. How can be managed concurrency control in distributed system?
A.By applying locking method and C. By dead lock
lock managers deal with. D.A and B
B.Time stamping.

9. Which privileges should a user be given to log on to the Oracle server?

A.Grant option C. To
B.Create Role Option D.None
10.Which one of the following is cause of transaction Failures?

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 A. Disk malfunction C.Transaction error
B. Concurrency control enforcement D.All of the mentioned
11.Which one of the following is the disadvantage of distributed database?
A.Modularity C. Complexity
B.Security D.B and C. E.None
12.Which of the following depicts the transaction's boundary?
A.Begin & Active state C.Begin & Rollback
B.Begin & End D.Begin &Abort
13.After a transaction begins to execute, it enters one of several states, the first of which is the
state,in which read or write activities occur.
A.Committed state C.Aborted State
B.Active State D.Log state
14.T1 and T2 cannot access the same database at the same time in a level lock
transaction, even if they utilize distinct tables.
A.Table. C. Database.
B.Disk. D.Page.
15. is a transaction property that determines how transaction integrity is apparent to other
users and systems.
A.Atomicity C.Isolation
B.Consistency D.Durability

16.Two-phase locking defines how transactions acquire and relinquish locks. A.

A.True B.False
17.Concurrency Control Techniques are which of the following?
A. Time stamping C.Locking
B.Recovery D.A&C
18.Which of the following determines Serializability conflicting action?
A. If the action belongs to different transaction
B. If the action accesses the X item with different read and write operation.
C. If the action access X item with the action of write operations.
D.All
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19.Inscheme, the older transaction rolls back the younger transaction and reschedules it.
A.wait/die C. Cascading Scheduling
B.wound/wait
20.Consider this schedule:-
S: R1 (A),W2 (A), Commit2, W1 (A),W3(A),Commit3, Commit 1.

Which of the following statements about the scheduling strategy is correct?

A. The schedule is view serializable schedule and strict recoverable schedule

B. The schedule is non-serializable schedule and strict recoverable schedule
C. The schedule is non-serializable schedule and is not strict recoverable schedule.
D. The Schedule is serializable schedule and is not strict recoverable schedule
21.The termrefers to the process of handling several operations in a database without them interfering
with one other.
A.Transaction C. Database recovery
B. Concurrency control D. Database security

22.Which one of the following is the basis of ARIES recovery algorithm?

A.Undo phase C.Analysis phase
B.Redo phase D.All
23.Concurrency can lead to a slew of issues. If one transaction calculates an aggregate summary
function on a number of records while another transaction updates some of those data, the aggregate
function may calculate certain values before and after the records are modified.This is referred to as
Problems Caused by Concurrency
A.Lost Update problem
B. Uncommitted dependency problem
C. Inconsistency analysis problem.

24.Which of the following is likely to result in a deadlock.

A.Mutual exclusion B. Circular Wait
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D. All

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25. is the process of restoring the database to a correct (consistent) state in the event of a
failure.
A.Database Concurrency B.Database recovery
26.Which one of the following is distributed database design strategies?
A. Fragmentation. B. Replication C. Allocations D. All E. None
27.How can be managed concurrency control in distributed system?
A. By applying locking method and lock managers deal with.
B.Time stamping.
C.By dead lock
D.A and B E.A and C.
28.Which one of the following is failed under multimedia data?
A. Image B. Video C. Audio D. All E.None
29.Which privileges should a user be given to log on to the Oracle server?
A.Grant option
B.Create Role Option
C.To
D.None
30.Which one of the following is cause of transaction Failures?
A.Disk malfunction.
B. Concurrency control enforcement.
C.Transaction error.
D.None E.All of the mentioned
31.The DB operation in a transaction to update the DB. i.e.,insert, update, delete and so on SQL
statements is a good example of
A. Write Transaction B. Begin Transaction C.Read
only Transaction D.none
32.If a schedule is not conflict serializable, it is not possible for there to be an equivalent serial
schedule.
A.TRUE B.FALSE
33.Which one of the following is the disadvantage of distributed database?
A.Modularity B.Security C.Complexity D.All E. None
34. The process of determining the best approach for processing a query is known as
A. Query processing B. Query Optimization C.Query Cost D.Query
Management
35.Which of the following is not a relational algebraic operation that does not form the set theory?
A.UNION
B. INTERSECTION
C. CARTESIAN PRODUCT
D.SELECT
36.Which is the symbol used to denote the SELECT operation?
A.Sigma
B.Rho
C.Pi
37.What will be the number of columns of CARTESIAN PRODUCT if the participting relations have
5 and 7 columns respectively?
A.5
B.12
C.35
D.None of the above.
38.Theoperations are used to add new documents into the collection.
A.Read B.Update C.Create D. None of the above.
39.A on a data item can either have locked or unlocked states.
A. Binary lock
B. Shared Lock
C. None of the above.
40.If all transactions are read-only transactions, then every schedule will be serializable schedules.
A.TRUE
B. FALSE

41.The process of converting data into an unreadable format for those who do not have access to
the key is known as
 A.Data security
B. Database security management
C.Data authentication
D. No answer
42.A distributed database has which of the following advantages over a centralized database?
A.Software cost
B.Software complexity
C.Slow Response
D.Modular growth
43. A distributed database is which of the following?
A. A single logical database that is spread to multiple locations and is interconnected by a
network
B. A loose collection of files that is spread to multiple locations and is interconnected by a
network.
C.A single logical database that is limited to one location.
D. A loose collection of files that is limited to one location.
44.Which of the following is the oldest database model?
A.Hierarchical.
B.Network.
C.Relational.
D.Object Oriented.
45.Procedural language among the following is
A.Domain relational calculus
B. Tuple relational calculus
C.Relational algebra
D.Query language
46.Which type of data can be stored in the database?
A.Image oriented data
B. Text,files containing data
C. Data in the form of audio or video

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47.A transaction goes into an state immediately after it starts execution where it
can issue read or write operations.
A.Active
B.Commit
C.Partially commit.
D.Begin.
48.is Potential Problems Caused By Concurrency which is occurs when a transaction read several
values from the database but a second transaction updates some of the them during the execution
of the first.
A. Lost update problem.
B. Temporary update problem.
C. Inconsistent analysis problem.
D.Dirty read problem
49.Which one of the following is true about handling of deadlock.
A. If the probability of deadlocks is low> deadlock detection,
B. If the probability of deadlocks is high> deadlock prevention.
C. If response time is not high on the system's priority list> deadlock avoidance.
D.All
50.In ARIES recovery Algorithm which phase is determine Undo transaction.
A.Redo Pass.
B.Undo pass.
C. Analysis pass.

Good Luck!!