FINALTERM EXAMINATION
CS409P
Mubeen Mustafa
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Fall 2022
CS409P – Introduction to Database Administration (Practical)
Marks: 40
Question No: 1 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
________ are PL/SQL programs that are set up to execute in response to a particular
event on a table in the database.
a. Package
b. Functions
c. Triggers
d. Procedure
Question No: 2 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
A program that resides inside an oracle database that manipulates data in the database
before the data is used outside the database is known as __________.
a. Triggers
b. Function
c. Stored procedure
d. Package
Question No: 3 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which command is used to fetch records from database?
a. Fetch
b. Select
c. Use
d. Get
Question No: 4 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
A ________ is a group of PL/SQL statements that can be called by name.
a. View
b. Trigger
c. Procedure
d. Function
Question No: 5 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
How many CREATE TRIGGER statements are there? ANSWER is 2
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 7
Question No: 6 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
TRUNCATE TABLE statement is used to remove the table.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. Can be true or false
d. Can not say
Question No: 7 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which is the smallest unit of storage in an Oracle database?
a. Segment
b. Data Block
c. Extent
d. Data File
Question No: 8 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
How many types of procedure are there?
a. 1
b. 2(Stored and Anonymous Procedures)
c. 3
d. 4
Question No: 9 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
What is the syntax to Drop Procedure?
a. DELETE PROCEDURE procedure_name;
b. DROP PROCEDURE procedure_name;
c. RETRIEVE PROCEDURE procedure_name;
d. END PROCEDURE procedure_name;
Question No: 10 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
How many types of exceptions are there?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
Question No: 11 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Errors that are encountered during the execution of the program are referred to as ____
in PL/SQL.
a. FUNCTION
b. CURSOR
c. EXCEPTION
d. PROCEDURE
Question No: 12 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which command is used in order to raise an exception explicitly?
a. RISE
b. ROSE
c. RAISE
d. RINSE
Question No: 13 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Oracle creates ____ when SQL statements are processed.
a. Content Areas
b. Context Areas
c. Context Ids
d. Content Ids
Question No: 14 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
An SQL ____ refers to a program that retrieves and processes one row at a time, based
on the results of the SQL statement.
a. Cursor
b. Function
c. Procedure
d. View
Question No: 15 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which of the following would cause an infinite loop to occur in a simple loop
a. LOOP
b. END LOOP
c. IF – THEN
d. EXIT
Question No: 16 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which identifier is valid?
a. Customer_12
b. Loop
c. customer@orgA
d. 12customer
Question No: 17 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Select the best answer below. What are the components of a package?
a. Box, wrapping and binding
b. Specification and content
c. Header and body
d. None of the given
Question No: 18 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
If you cannot specify a mode for a parameter, what is the default mode?
a. OUT
b. IN
c. COPY
d. DEFAULT
Question No: 19 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
____________ is online backup.
a. Hot
b. Physical
c. Cold
d. Logical
Question No: 20 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which of the given files are not copied in cold/offline backup.
a. Data Files
b. Control Files
c. Init.ora and config.ora files
d. Log files
Question No: 21 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which of the following date function can be used to get the timestamp from database?
a. SYSTEMTIMESTAMP
b. SYSTIMESTAMP
c. SYSTEMDATE
d. SYSDATE
Question No: 22 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Which SQL statement from the following is used to create a new tablespace?
a. CREATE TABLESPACE
b. CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE
c. CREATE UNDO TABLESPACE
d. Both A & B
Question No: 23 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
Views are ____ tables that don't exist physically in Oracle.
e. Real
f. Virtual
g. Both A and B
h. None of the above
Question No: 24 (Marks: 01) - Please choose the correct option
What is the syntax to create view?
a. CREATE VIEW view_name AS
b. CREATE NEW view_name AS
c. CREATE AS view_name VIEW
d. CREATE AS view_name NEW
Question No: 25 (Marks: 05)
Given are the entitles of School management system, you have to create ERD for this.
Mention the primary key and cardinality relationship among all entities.
1. Teacher
2. Class
3. Student
Answer
Question No: 26 (Marks: 05)
Write sample query for creating schema named “Product” for sample user “AE” using
following attributes?
1. Table name is “new_product”
2. View is “new_product_view”
3. Grants is “SELECT” object privilege on view to the sample user “HR”
Answer
Question No: 27 (Marks: 05)
Write the basic syntax for creating and dropping sequence.
Answer
CREATE SEQUENCE:
CREATE SEQUENCE sequence_name
START WITH start_value
INCREMENT BY increment_value;
DROP SEQUENCE:
DROP SEQUENCE sequence_name;
Question No: 28 (Marks: 05)
Write the PL/SQL statement to create a new group of redo log files. The redo log files
name should be log1a.rdo. log2b.rdo, their size should be 100 MS, block size 512 and
group number should be 15.
Answer
Question No: 29 (Marks: 05)
Write SQL command to create the “Student” table having the following columns and
their constraints. You are required to choose the appropriate data type for each column by
your own.
Column Name Data Type Constraint
Std_ID - NOT NULL
Std_Name - NOT NULL
Std_Age - DEFAULT 0
Std_Course - NOT NULL
Answer
CREATE TABLE Student
(
Std_ID INT NOT NULL,
Std_Name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
Std_Age INT DEFAULT 0,
Std_Course VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL
);
Question No: 30 (Marks: 05)
Write the SQL Plus statements for following.
1. Recreating control files.
2. Viewing Alert Log using data dictionary
3. To trace files for your current session.
Answer
