Database Administration Level IV Theory Exam 9

1) A logical description of some portion of database that is required by a user to perform

task is called as

A. Logical View C. User View

B. System View D. Data View.

2) Which is a reserved word in the java programing language?

A. Methods C. Native
B. Reference D. subclasses

3) The operator is that allows you to specify multiple values an a WHERE clause

A. IN C. OR
B. NOT D. AND

4) The issue that applies only to a multi user system is?

A. Concurrency C. Media recovery

B. Durability D. System recovery

5) One of a mechanism file or database from one format (from one physical environment) to
another or data is moved from one system to another.

A. Data control C. Data conversion

B. Data manipulations D. Data exchange

6) Which of the following facilities DBMS should provide to assist data recovery?

A. Design facility C. Checkpoint facility

B. Constraints facility D. Relationship facility

7) One of the following is NOT related to database performance

A. Hardware optimization C. SQL tuning

B. Partitioning of tables D. Taking backup

8) One of the following is a category of SQL environments

A. Index C. Catalog
B. View D. Data dictionary

9) In relation R has 5 tuples and relation S has also 7 tuples, then Cartesian product of R and
S will have

A. 5x7 tuples C. 5/7 tuples

B. 5+7 tuples D. 7-5 tuples

10)You need to produce a report for mailing labels for Customers. The mailing label must
have only the customer name and address. The Customers table has these columns ID,
NAME, ADDRESS; PHONE the SELECT statement to accomplishes this task?
A. SELECT*FROM customers;
 B. SELECT id, name, address, phone FROM customers;
C. SELECT cust_name, cust_address FROM customers;
D. SELECT name, address FROM customers;
11)Which mechanism is used to detect deadlock

A. Waits for graph structure C. Commit

B. Ghant chart D. rollback

12)Data manipulation language (DML) is not to

A. Modification of information in the database
B. Create information table in the database
C. Insertion of new information in to the database
D. Deletion of information in the database

13)What is a subquery?
A. A subquery is a select-from-where expression that is nested within another
query
B. A subquery is any query that is nested within another query
C. A subquery is a relation that is externally specified which can be used to handle
data in queries
D. A subquery is a condition that excludes all the invalid tuples from the database
14)How do you prevent system privileges deletion and updating authority on PRICE and
YEAR column of the CATALOGUE table from user Girma
A. GRANT DELETE, UPDATE (price,year) ON catalogue From girma
B. ALLOW DELETE, UPDATE (price,year) ON catalogue From girma
C. REVOKE DELETE, UPDATE (price,year) ON catalogue From girma
D. DENY DELETE, UPDATE (price,year) ON catalogue From girma
15)Which of the field has width 8 bytes?

A. Date/time C. Hyperlink
B. Number D. memo

16)To expose a data member to the program, you must declare the data member in the _____
section of the class

A. Unrestricted C. Exposed
B. Common D. public

17)a lock that allows concurrent transactions to access different rows of the same table is
known as a

A. Field-level lock C. Table-level lock

B. Database-level lock D. Row-level lock

18)Two tables can be connected with the UNION operator if they are compatible with each
other this means?
A. Have the different number of columns but the same data types
B. Have the different number of columns but different data types
C. Have the same number of columns and data types
 D. Have the different number of columns and data types
19)Which of the following statements allows the user to enter data of the keyboard?

A. Cou t>> current pay C. Cou t << current pay

B. Cin << current pay D. Cin >> current pay

20)Which type of file contains data and database objects such as tables and indexes?

A. Log files C. Binary files

B. Data files D. File groups

21)Which of the following is considered as SQL server level principal?

A. SQL server login C. Application role

B. SQL server D. Windows domin login

22) Which of the following is a unary operation?

A. Projection operation C. generalized operation

B. primitive operation D. selection operation

23) What are ACID properties of Transactions?

A. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Database
B. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
C. Atomicity, Consistency, Inconsistent, Durability
D. Automatically, Concurrency, Isolation, Durability

24)A transaction completes its execution is said to be

A. Saved C. Rolled
B. Loaded D. Committed

25)The variables in the triggers are declared using

A. –
B. @
C. /
D. /@
26) If the attribute phone number is included in the relation all the values need not be entered into
the phone number column. This type of entry is given as
A) 0 B) – C) Null D) Empty space
27) A database problem occurs when one transaction wants to read more than one object at the
same time
A) Recover B) dirty read C) Deadlock D) Transaction Conflict
28) Which of the following assigns the number 5 to the area variable?
A) area=5 B)area==5 C)area 1=5 D)area-->5
29) Step by step sequence of activities or course of action (with definite start and end points) that
must be followed in the same order to correctly perform a task
A) Procedures B) operational C) Practice D) Activates
30) In___________of oracle, the database administrator creates user account in the database for
each user who needs access
A) Operating system authentication B) internal authentication
C) External authentication D) Database authentication
31) Which of the following is a scalability feature in SQL server enterprise edition?
A) Binary and compressed XML transport C) Data mining quires
B) Publishing D) Partitioning

32) A type of joins that can be returns only the rows from each table that has matching values in
the join columns and any rows that do not have match between the tables will not appear in the
result table.
A) Full join B) Cross join C) Outer join D) Inner join
33) Which type of file contains data and database objects such as tables and indexes?
A) Data files B) Binary files C) Log files D) file groups
34) Keeping the rules to maintain the standards and continue to improve every day in kaizen is?
35) A) strengthing B) Sustaining C)Sorting D) Shining
36) Which transaction property ensures changes still present following a crash or system failure?
A) Durability B) Atomicity C) Consistency D) Isolation
37) Microsoft Access is
A) ORDBMS B) Network Database model C) OODBMS D) RDBMS
38) ODBC stands for_________
A) None of the above C) Offline Database connection
B) Open Database Connection D) oriented Database connection

39) Which symbol can be used to represent functional dependency?

A) An arrow B) Diamond C) Rectangle D) Ellipse