SQL Study Guide 9 & 10

1. Which of the following should be used as a view name? vw_customer 2. A ____________ establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, processes, and practices usually in a formal, written manner. Standard 3. Which of the following would be a recommended name for the column described as Last Name? LastName 4. Which of the following is NOT a recommendation to keep your production data to keep its integrity? Allowing only production database administrators and developers to
access the production database.

5. Which of the following is NOT a recommended name of a trigger? OrderPlaced 6. What technology is used for high availability that is based on the normal log file backup and restores procedures that exists with SQL server? Log shipping 7. Which is the most common level of RAID used in SQL Server database servers?
RAID 5

8. Which technology is known as stripping with parity? RAID 5 9. Which edition of SQL Server 2005 do you need to support clusters? Standard and
Enterprise Edition

10. How many servers do you need for high protection mode for disk mirroring? Two 11. Which of the following should be used as a user-defined function? ufn_customer 12. You have a view called Customer. What is the problem? The view should begin with
vw

13. What guideline should you use for naming stored procedures? Use names that are
descriptive and use the usp_ prefix.

14. Which of the following is an advantage of disk mirroring over clustering? Disk
mirroring allows for a quick failover.

15. What is the minimum number of servers you need to make three mirrored servers with high availability mode? Seven 16. Which of the following is NOT a cluster enhancement to SQL Server 2008?
Uptime monitor

17. Which of the following RAID is not fault tolerant? Stripping 18. What is the disadvantage of using a failover cluster? It takes a short amount of time
to failover to the other node when a failure occurs.

19. Which of the following would be a recommended name for constraints that check valid birthdates? CK_BirthdayCheck 20. Which of the following is NOT an example of PascalCase? customerAddress 21. When you choose names for database objects, what guidelines should you use?
Names should be both accurate and descriptive

22. How many servers do you need for high availability mode for disk mirroring?
Three

23. Which role is not a role used in Log Shipping? Witness server 24. You decide to use the following names. Which one of those names should not be used? secondaryAddress 25. Which server provides automatic failover when using database mirroring? Witness
server

26. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a stored procedure to indirectly access a database? It is easier to modify the application that uses the stored
procedure than to modify the queries

27. Which of the following is NOT an enhancement to SQL Server 2008 for disk mirroring? Write-Ahead during Undo 28. What do you call a participating computer that is part of a failover cluster? A node 29. What reduces the time and associated costs when developers start using a new database and simplifies the task of managing a larger number of databases?
Defining a naming convention

30. Which of the following requires special hardware to implement? Clustering

31. What is the disadvantage of using log shipping between servers? It does not allow for automatic failover 32. Which of the following is NOT an example of camelCase? NameCase

33. Which mode offers the best performance for disk mirroring? High performance
mode

34. What should you use instead of spaces? _

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