1. Which of the following is the default trigger that is created using the CREATE
TRIGGER command?
Correct : B. Statement level Trigger
2. Which of the following command is used to delete a trigger?
Correct : C. DROP TRIGGER
3. What is the name of a trigger that initiates another trigger?
Correct : C. Cascading Trigger
4. Which of the following specifies a boolean expression that must be true for the trigger
to fire?
Correct : C. Trigger Restriction
5. Which of the following trigger will be executed before modifying each row affected by
the triggering statement?
Correct : C. Before Row Trigger
6. Which of the following is not true in case of triggers?
Correct : A. Triggers accept parameters.
7. A database is divided into logical storage units called as
Correct : C. Tablespaces
8. A file used to govern the initialization of the instance is known as
Correct : B. Parameter file
9. SGA stands for
Correct : C. System Global Area
10. Under which two circumstances do you design database triggers? (Choose two)
Correct : C. To guarantee that when a specific operation is performed, related actions are perform
11. This statement fails when executed: CREATE OR REPLACE TRI GGER CALC_TEAM_AVG AFTER I NSERT ON PLAYER BEGIN INSERT INTO PLAYER_BATSTAT ( PLAYER_I D, SEASON_YEAR, AT_BATS, HI TS) VALUES ( : NEW. I D, 1 997, 0, 0) ; END; To which type must you convert the trigger to correct the error?
Correct : A. Row
12. The OLD and NEW qualifiers can be used in which type of trigger?
Correct : A. Row level DML trigger
13. Trigger are not supported in
Correct : C. Views
14. The CREATE TRIGGER statement is used to create the trigger. THE _____ clause specifies the table name on which the trigger is to be attached. The ______ specifies that this is an AFTERINSERT trigger.
Correct : B. On, for insert
15. What are the after triggers ?
Correct : B. These triggers run after an insert, update or delete on a table
16. The variables in the triggers are declared using
Correct : B. @
17. Which of the following is NOT an Oracle-supported trigger?
Correct : B. DURING
18. Which of the following is true concerning triggers?
Correct : C. They have an event, condition, and action.
19. Which prefixes are available to Oracle triggers?
Correct : C. Both :new and : old
20. Which type of entity represents a logical generalization whose actual occurrence is
represented by a second, associated entity?
Correct : C. Archetype entity
21. Which of the following is the preferred way to recover a database after a transaction
in progress terminates abnormally?
Correct : A. Rollback
22. Concurrency control is important for which of the following reasons?
Correct : A. To ensure data integrity when updates occur to the database in a multiuser environment
23. The transaction log includes which of the following?
Correct : D. The essential data of the record
24. Which of the following is not true of SQL views?
Correct : A. Oracle views cannot use the ORDER BY clause in view definitions.
25. What is the type of Oracle backup in which all uncommitted changes have been removed
from the datafiles?
Correct : B. Consistent backup
26. Which of the following is true concerning a procedure?
Correct : C. They include procedural and SQL statements.
27. A CASE SQL statement is which of the following?
Correct : A. A way to establish an IF-THEN-ELSE in SQL.
28. Which of the following statements is true concerning routines and triggers?
Correct : A. Both consist of procedural code.
29. How many bytes does each character in the UTF8 encoding take up?
Correct : D. All mentioned above
30. PL/SQL has two types of subprograms, procedures and functions. Which
subprogram isused to compute a value?
Correct : B. Function
31. Which datatype is not allowed in the definition of PL/SQL record?
Correct : A. A Collection
32. In the SQL Cursor, which attribute is TRUE when a cursor has some remaining rows to fetch, and FALSE when a cursor has no rows left to fetch?
Correct : B. %FOUND
33. For which Exception, if a SELECT statement attempts to retrieve data based on its conditions, this exception is raised when no rows satisfy the SELECT criteria?
Correct : D. DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX
34. In the PL/SQL block below, how many rows will be inserted in the messages table?
DECLARE v_start_salesNUMBER := 2; v_end_sales NUMBER := 100; BEGIN FOR i IN v_start_sales..v_end_sales LOOP INSERT INTO messages(msgid) VALUES v_start_sales; END LOOP; END;
Correct : B. 99
35. Which collection types is also known as index-by tables, lets you look up elements
Using arbitrary numbers and strings for subscript values?
Correct : A. Associative arrays
36. Assigning a value to a collection element can cause exceptions, such as
Correct : D. All mentioned above
37. Which is a procedural extension of Oracle- SQL that offers language constructs similar tothose in imperative programming languages?
Correct : C. PL/SQL
38. Which of the following retains duplicate rows in the result of a query or in an
Aggregate expression?
Correct : A. ALL
39. Which of the following is an aggregate function in SQL?
Correct : D. Max
40. Which command is used to add a column to an existing table?
Correct : C. Alter
41. A deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait for graph:
Correct : A. has a cycle in it
42. Rollback of transactions is normally used to:
Correct : A. recover from transaction failure
43. The DBMS language component which can be embedded in a program is
Correct : B. The data manipulation language (DML).
44. The statement in SQL which allows to change the definition of a table is
Correct : A. Alter.
45. A DBMS query language is designed to
Correct : D. all of the above.
46. Which of the following is correct
Correct : D. None of these
47. Which of the following is a valid SQL type?
Correct : D. All of the above
48. Which of the following is a legal expression in SQL?
Correct : B. SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE;
49. If every non-key attribute is functionally dependent on the primary key, then the
relation will be in:
Correct : C. Third normal form
50. Given the functional dependencies X →W; X→Y; Y→Z and Z→PQ Which of the following doesn’t hold well?
Correct : B. W→Z
51. Relations produced from an E-R model will always be in
Correct : C. Third normal form
52. Third normal form is inadequate in situation where the relation
Correct : A. Has multiple candidate keys
53. If a relation scheme is in BCNF, then it is also in
Correct : C. Third normal form
54. A primary key when combined with a foreign key create
Correct : A. Parent child relationship between the tables that connect them.
55. The set of permitted value for each attribute is called its
Correct : C. Domain
56. The airline reservation system, the enables are date, flight number, place of departure, destination, type of plane & seats available. The primary key is
Correct : C. Flight number+ date
57. A functional dependency of the form X→Y is trivial if
Correct : A. YC= X
58. The concept of locking can be used to solve the problem of
Correct : A. Lost update
59. Assume transaction A holds a shared lock R. If transaction B also requests for a shared
lock on R.
Correct : B. It will immediately be granted.
60. A schedule S of n transactions is serializable if it is equivalent to some
Correct : A. Serial schedule of the same n transactions.
61. In two-phase locking protocol.
Correct : B. All locking operations precede the first unlock operation.
62. Transaction timestamp is:
Correct : C. Unique identifier assigned to each transaction.
63. The granularity of a database item can be chosen to be
Correct : D. All of the above.
64. If the complete execution of the transaction(s) takes the database from one consistent
state to the other then that property of transaction is called:
Correct : C. Consistency preservation
65. Which of the following is not the state that the transaction undergoes?
Correct : D. Non active
66. Timestamp can be generated by:
Correct : D. Both (a) and (b)
67. Which of the following is the formal process for deciding which attributes should be
grouped together in a relation?
Correct : A. Normalization
68. Who developed normalization process?
Correct : B. E.F. Codd
69. Who developed the BCNF?
Correct : D. Boyce and Codd
70. What is the expansion of BCNF?
Correct : B. Boyce-Codd Normal Form
71. Which of the following is the result of a transitive dependency?
Correct : D. All of the above
72. Which of the following is true?
Correct : D. All of the above
73. How many inference rules are there for functional dependencies?
Correct : C. 6
74. Which property ensures that each functional dependency is represented in some individual relations resulting after decomposition?
Correct : A. Dependency preservation property
75. Every relation in BCNF is also in
Correct : A. 3NF
76. A table that contains one or more repeating groups is in which normal form?
Correct : D. Unnormalized Form
77. A relation is said to be in 3 NF if
(i) it is in 2 NF (ii) non-key attributes are independent of one another (iii) key attribute is not dependent on part of a composite key (iv) has no multi-valued dependency
Correct : C. i and ii
78. Given the following relation it is not 3 NF because Student (roll no, name, course no, course max. marks, year of study, address)
Correct : C. non-key attributes course no and course max. marks are functionally dependent
79. Given the following relation Student (roll no, name, course no, course max. marks, year of study, address)
The corresponding 3 NF relations are
Correct : B. student ( roll no, name, year of study, address) student (roll no, course no) course (course no, course max. marks)
80. BoyeCodd Normal Form (BCNF) is needed when
Correct : C. there are two or more possible composite overlapping keys and one attributeof a composite key is dependent on an attribute of another composite key
81. A relation is said to be in BCNF when
Correct : D. it has no overlapping composite keys which have related attributes
82. A 3 NF relation is converted to BCNF by
Correct : C. dependent attributes of overlapping composite keys are put in a separateRelation
83. BCNF is needed because
Correct : D. when there is dependent attributes in two possible composite keys one of the attributes is unnecessarily duplicated in the tuples
84. Given the relation Supplier(s_id, p_order, s_name, qty) Given that there is a unique s_name for each s_id and that s_id, p_order is a composite key, find the correct statement among the following: i. this relation is a BCNF ii. this is 3 NF relation iii. this is a 2 NF relation iv. this is a 1 NF relation
Correct : D. i and iii
85. A relation project guidance Project Guidance(professor, project, student no. st-name, dept) A professor can give many projects to many students A project will have many students A project may be guided by many professors The 4 NF relation corresponding to this are
Correct : B. by splitting into relations which do not have more than one independent multi valued dependency
87. Using the SQL GROUP BY phrase with a SELECT statement can help detect which of
the following problems?
Correct : B. The inconsistent values problem
88. What SQL command will allow you to change the table STUDENT to add the constraint named GradeCheck that states that the values of the Grade column must be greater than 0?
Correct : C. ALTER TABLE STUDENT ADD CONSTRAINT GradeCheck CHECK (Grade > 0);
89. The NOT EXISTS keyword will be true if:
Correct : B. all rows in the subquery fail the condition.
90. Changing cardinalities in a database is:
Correct : A. a common database design task.
91. Which one of the following sorts rows in SQL?
Correct : C. ORDER BY
92. The SQL keyword(s) ________ is used with wildcards.
Correct : A. LIKE only
93. If a relationship has a cascade updates constraint, then if ________ in the parent table is changed, then the same change will automatically be made to any corresponding foreign key value.
Correct : A. the primary key
94. For every relationship, how many possible types of actions are there when enforcing
minimum cardinalities?
Correct : D. Six
95. In creating a procedure, you may get a message if you have compile errors. Which of the following is true?
Correct : C. To see the errors, enter SHOW ERRORS in SQL*Plus.
96. Which of the following is not true about indexes?
Correct : D. Indexes are created with the ALTER TABLE command.
97. In ……….. normal forms, any multivalued attributes have been removed.
Correct : A. First
98. A (n) …………….. is an attribute in a relation that serves as a primary key of
another relation in the same.
Correct : C. Identifier key
99. In the process of decomposition is called as
Correct : A. Normalization
100. A relation Schema R is in ……….. if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional
constant thatfor every FD X->A. X must be a candidate key.