Saturday, March 6, 2010

(VU-Study-Corner) Pleas select the correct options (data base managment system ) DBMS?


Select the activity that is most clearly part of the Database Administrator's responsibility.


Performance tuning


Data modification


Data deletion


Data entry



Which normalisation transformation corresponds to "Eliminating partial key dependencies"?


unnormalised to 1NF


1NF to 2NF


2NF to 3NF


3NF to BCNF


Locking was introduced into databases so that


Keys can be provided to maintain security


All simultaneous transactions are prevented


Passwords can be provided to maintain security


Consistency can be enforced

A back-up and recovery regime should protect an organisation against:


incorrect data


corrupt media


insecure data


SQL has ----------- types of commands


3


5


2


4


Transactions are often referred to in terms of ACID. Which one of the following is not part of the term ACID?


Atomic


Isolation


Durable


Complete

In ------- type of partitioning table is split on the basis of rows


Horizontal


Vertical


Parallel


None of the given


Which of the following is a good example of what is meant by?
"Serialisability"


All disk access happens one after another


The result of the transactions is the same as if the transactions went
one after another


The situation where the Lost Update problem exists


All transactions happen one after another


In two phase locking, when a transaction releases a lock, it may acquire additional lock.
􀂐 True
􀂐 False
The general purpose of data partitioning and placement is ------------------.
􀂐 Increasing workload
􀂐 Decreasing workload
􀂐 None of others
Transaction is executed as a whole or none. This property of transaction is called ----------------
-.
􀂐 Atomicity
􀂐 Durability
􀂐 Concurrency

RAID level 4 stripes data at byte level.
􀂐 True
􀂐 False

IN function helps reduce the need to use multiple AND conditions.
􀂐 True
􀂐 False

A relation that has no partial functional dependencies is in ___________ normal
form.
o 1NF
o 2NF
o 3NF
o none of above

User access to the database is supported by ______________schema.
o External schema
oo
Internal schema
Conceptual schema
o None of above



To keep duplicate values from being returned use the _________ keyword
o Distinct
o All
oo
None Of Above
Unique

De-normalization can increase the chance of errors and inconsistencies and can
force reprogramming if business rules change.
oo
False
True

A locking is a simple identifier that serves to identify each transaction.
o True
o False

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