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On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, mc090405544 Muhammad Tufail <mc090405544@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
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Question No: 1    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 _______ records data by burning microscopic holes in the surface of
the disk with a
laser.
      ► Hard disk
      ► RAM
      ► Optical disk
      ► Floppy disk

Question No: 2    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 ______ is a control that presents a set of choices from which a user
can select one or more items; items can be text, graphics, or both.
      ► Text input
      ► Report
      ► Button
      ► List box

Question No: 3    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
_______is a control that enables users to select one option from an
associated list; users can also type an option.
      ► Combo box
      ► Button
      ► Text box
      ► Static area

Question No: 4    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 _______ is a control that users click to perform an action, set or
toggle a state, or set an option.
      ► Button
      ► Text box
      ► Input form
      ► Report

Question No: 5    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Which of the following is not true about input forms?
      ► Provide an easy, effective, efficient way to enter data into a table
      ► Especially useful when the person entering the data is not
familiar with the inner workings
      ► Provide different controls to add data into the tables
      ► One input forms can populate one table at a time

Question No: 6    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Browser based forms are developed in the following tools EXCEPT
      ► HTML
      ► Scripting language
      ► Front Page
      ► Web-based Forms

Question No: 7    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Which of the following are the general activities, which are performed
during the development of application programs?
      ► Data input programs
      ► Editing
      ► Display
      ► All of given

Question No: 8    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following should not be a property of a database transaction?
      ► Atomicity
      ► Isolation
      ► Durability
      ► Divergence

Question No: 9    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
The main memory of a computer system is also known as
      ► ROM
      ► RAM
      ► PROM
      ► Hard disk

Question No: 10    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 While recovering data, which of the following files does a recovery
manager examines at first?
      ► A system file
      ► Log file
      ► Data dictionary
      ► Metadata

Question No: 11    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following is the correct way of removing the Index
called branchNoIndex?
      ► DROP INDEX branchNoIndex;
      ► APPEND INDEX branchNoIndex;
      ► REMOVE INDEX branchNoIndex;
      ► DEL INDEX branchNoIndex;

Question No: 12    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
What is the alternate name of Data Dictionary?
      ► Index
      ► Metadata
      ► Data
      ► System Catalog

Question No: 13    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
The information regarding 'views' and 'Integrity constraints' are found in
      ► System Catalog
      ► Data Dictionary
      ► Indexes
      ► Both Data Dictionary and System Catalog

Question No: 14    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Identify the correct statement.
      ► Referential integrity constraints check whether the primary
key values are unique.
      ► Referential integrity constraints check whether an attribute
value lies in the given range.
      ► Referential integrity constraints are specified between
entities having recursive relationships.
      ► When Referential integrity rules are enforced, a tuple in one
relation that refers to another
relation must refer to an existing tuple.

Question No: 15    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Select the correct statement among the following on proper naming of
schema constructs:
      ► Entity type name applies to all the entities belonging to
that entity type and therefore a plural name is selected for entity
type.
      ► In the narrative description of the database requirements,
verbs tend to indicate the names of
relationship types.
      ► The nouns arising from a database requirement description can
be considered as names of attributes.
      ► Additional nouns which are appearing in the narrative
description of the database
requirements represent the weak entity type names.

Question No: 16    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Consider the following diagram depicting a kind of a relationship type
where X and Z are entities and Y is a relationship type:

Select the correct statement among the following on the above diagram.
      ► The relationship type Y is of cardinality ratio 1 : N.
      ► The diagram depicts existence dependencies.
      ► The participation of X in the Y relationship type is total.
      ► The participation of Z in the Y relationship type is partial.

Question No: 17    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Identify the correct statement about ANSI/SPARC architecture.
      ► The external level is not concerned with individual user perceptions
      ► The internal level, in a database system, will always be relational
      ► Any given database has exactly one conceptual schema and one
physical schema, but it may have several external schemas.
      ► A data definition language is used to define the internal schema.

Question No: 18    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Which of the following SQL commands deletes a record of an employee
with the employee_id 12345,  from a table named PERSON.
      ► DELETE FROM person
WHERE employee_id = 12345



      ► DELETE WHERE person
FROM employee_id = 12345



      ► DROP FROM person
WHERE employee_id = 12345



      ► DELETE WHERE person
WHERE employee_id = 12345




Question No: 19    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Which of the following is NOT a feature of a good interface?
      ► consistency
      ► process based
      ► data structure based
      ► user friendly

Question No: 20    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Identify the correct statement with respect to normalization.
      ► Normalization is a formal technique that can be used only at
the starting phase of the database design.
      ► Normalization can be used as a top-down standalone database
design technique.
      ► The process of normalization through decomposition must
achieve the lossless join
property at any cost whereas the dependency reservation property is sometimes
sacrificed.
      ► The process of normalization through decomposition must
achieve the dependency
reservation property at any cost whereas the lossless join property is sometimes
sacrificed.

Question No: 21    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following concept is applicable with respect to 2NF?
      ► Non-transitive dependency
      ► Full functional dependency
      ► Partial dependency
      ► Transitive dependency

Question No: 22    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Suppose there are 4 fields in a table named CUST (customer_id,
first_name, last_name, phone). Which of the following gives all the
information of the customers in the table whose last name is ALI?
      ► SELECT * FROM CUST WHERE last_name='ALI';
      ► SELECT * FROM CUST WHERE last_name=ALI;
      ► SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE name=ALI;
      ► SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE last_name=ALI;

Question No: 23    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following is INCORRECT about VIEWS?
      ► It is not possible to left out the data which is not required
for a specific view.
      ► A database view displays one or more database records on the same page.
      ► Views can be used as security mechanisms
      ► Views are generally used to focus the perception each user
has of the database.

Question No: 24    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Identify the advantage of DELETE command over TRUNCATE.
      ► Can be Rolled back.
      ► is DDL Command.
      ► cannot activate a trigger.
      ► faster and uses fewer system

Question No: 25    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Which of the following is true about TRUNCATE?
      ► Can be Rolled back.
      ► Activates Triggers.
      ► is DML Command.
      ► Resets identity of the table.

Question No: 26    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following statements is true about the views?
      ► view is always a complete set of all the tables in a database
      ► View can not be used for retrieving data
      ► The results of using a view are not permanently stored in the database.
      ► Rows can not be updated or deleted in the view

Question No: 27    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following statements are Data Definition Language command?
      ► INSERT
      ► UPDATE
      ► GRANT
      ► TRUNCATE

Question No: 28    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following statements are Data Manipulation Language command?
      ► INSERT
      ► GRANT
      ► TRUNCATE
      ► CREATE

Question No: 29    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
GRANT SELECT, UPDATE(Designation) ON Employee TO Amali,Hiruni WITH GRANT
OPTION;
What does this SQL statement do?
      ► Grant permission to Amali,only to retrieve data from Employee
table and grant permission to
Hiruni, only to update the designation from Employee table.
      ► Grant permission to Amali & Hiruni to retrieve data from
Employee table.
      ► Grant permission to Hiruni in order to grant, select and
update permission to Amali.
      ► Grant permission to Amali and Hiruni to update all data
except designation in Employee
table

Question No: 30    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
Making a change to the conceptual schema of a database but not
affecting the existing external schemas is an example of
      ► Physical data independence.
      ► Concurrency control.
      ► Logical data independence.
      ► Functional dependency

Question No: 31    ( Marks: 1 )
What is Ordering field?

Question No: 32    ( Marks: 1 )
 Which clause is used to sort the records in the result set?

Question No: 33    ( Marks: 2 )
What is the major benefit of HASH paritioning?

Question No: 34    ( Marks: 2 )
 How can we prevent deadlocks for concurrent Transactions?

Question No: 35    ( Marks: 3 )
 State the major disadvantage of creating and using index.

Question No: 36    ( Marks: 3 )
 Write any three factors which we consider while defining key in
designing an indexed sequential file?

Question No: 37    ( Marks: 3 )
How do you select all records from the table using SQL statements?
Write the syntax.

Question No: 38    ( Marks: 5 )
 How can a VIEW be used for security measures?

Question No: 39    ( Marks: 5 )
In which situtation do you prefer DELETE command to delete a table
instead of using DROP command?

Question No: 40    ( Marks: 10 )
 Write four advantages and four disadvantages of De-normalization.

Question No: 41    ( Marks: 10 )
Explain and differentiate the two types of application users:
•          Intermediate
•          Expert

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