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DBMS Q&A For IBPS SO - IT Officers Scale I by AffairsCloud PDF
DBMS Q&A For IBPS SO - IT Officers Scale I by AffairsCloud PDF
2. In a relational database, this is a data structure that organizes the information about a
single topic into rows and columns.
a. block
b. record
c. tuple
d. table
3. This is a family of relational database management system products from IBM that
serve a number of different operating system platforms.
a. Cognos
b. DB2
c. ADO
d. Universal Data Access
4. This is a central repository for all or significant parts of the data that an enterprise's
various business systems collect.
a. data warehouse
b. business information warehouse
c. knowledge warehouse
d. None
5. This is the job title of someone who directs or performs all activities related to
maintaining a successful database environment.
a. DBA
b. MOLAP
c. PHP
d. RFC
6. This is a common standard language used to update and get information from a
database.
a. VB
b. TMQL
c. PHP
d. SQL
7. This is a file format that contains the values in a table in which column values are
separated by a comma and each row starts a new line.
a. ASCII
b. CSV file
c. virtual organization
d. None
8. In a relational database, this is the data structure that holds a single piece of data,
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9. This is an organized selection of data from a database that allows you to look at it from
a particular perspective.
a. Venn diagram
b. Gantt chart
c. view
d. splay tree
10.This a program tool allows you to reorganize and summarize selected columns and
rows of data in a spreadsheet or database table to obtain a desired report.
a. pivot table
b. PERT chart
c. quad tree
d. ODBC
11.At this level of normalization, each column in a table that is not a determiner of the
contents of another column, must itself be a function of the other columns in the table.
a) 1NF
b) 2NF
c) 3NF
d) DKNF
12.This method of online analytical processing stores data in both a relational and a multi
dimensional database.
a) HOLAP
b) ROLAP
c) OLAP
d) DIMM
15.Which of the following tree structures is unique in that the tree organization varies
depending on which nodes are most frequently accessed?
a) B-tree
b) binary tree
c) quad tree
d) splay tree
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18.A Database Management System (DBMS) may be used by, or combined with, this type
of transaction manager.
a) DB2
b) CICS
c) Oracle
d) Cognos
19.Encapsulation, types, classes, inheritance, overriding combined with late binding, and
extensibility are all features of this type of database.
a) multidimensional database
b) relational database
c) object-oriented
d) open source
20.A programmer using this type of middleware might need the Interface Definition
Language (IDL).
a) RPC
b) ORB
c) MUD
d) EAI
22.This is a standard interactive and programming language for getting information from
and updating a database.
a. dynamic data exchange
b. Structured Query Language
c. ASCII
d. Erlang programming language
23.In creating a database, this is the process of organizing it into tables insuch a way that
the results of using the database are always unambiguous.
a. probability
b. normalization
c. data modeling
d. query by example
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26.This term, used to describe a database that occupies magnetic storage in the terabyte
range, describes a database that contains billions of table rows.
a. Very Large Database
b. holographic storage
c. Cold Fusion
d. giant
27.This is a collection of descriptions about data objects that is created for the benefit of
programmers and others who might need to refer to them.
a. data dictionary
b. stored procedure
c. Virtual File Allocation table
d. catalog
28.This term is used to describe the process of forecasting, or simply discovering patterns
in data that can lead to predictions about the future.
a. customer relationship management
b. PERT chart
c. data mining
d. enterprise risk management
30.Relational calculus is a
(A) Procedural language.
(B) Non- Procedural language.
(C) Data definition language.
(D) High level language
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34.For which two constraints are indexes created when the constraint is added?
(A) Primary key
(B) Unique
(C) Not null
(D) Both (A) & (B)
35.What type of failure occurs when Oracle fails due to an operating system or computer
hardware failure?
(A) Application failure
(B) Instance Failure
(C) Media Failure
(D) Rollback failure
37.Which password management feature ensures a user cannot reuse a password for a
specified time interval?
(A) Account Locking
(B) Password History
(C) Password Verification
(D) Password Expiration and Aging
39.What is the type of Oracle backup in which all uncommitted changes have been
removed from the Data files?
(A) Full backup
(B) Consistent backup
(C) Inconsistent backup
(D) Differential backup
40.Which are the physical structures that constitute the Oracle database?
(A)control file
(B) Data file
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46.The language which has recently become the de-facto standard for interfacing
application programs with relational database system is
(A) Oracle.
(B) SQL.
(C) DBase.
(D) None
(A) A criteria.
(B) A relation.
(C) A tuple.
(D) An attribute.
50.The method in which records are physically stored in a specified order according to a
key field in each record is
(A) Hash.
(B) Direct.
(C) Sequential.
(D) all of the above.
56.Relational Algebra is
A) Data Definition Language.
B) Meta Language
C) Procedural query Language
D) None of the above
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71.The language used in application programs to request data from the DBMS is referred
to as the
(A) DML
(B) DDL
(C) VDL
(D) SDL
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(D) Product
76.In a relation
(A) Ordering of rows is immaterial
(B) No two rows are identical
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these.
78.Which of the following operation is used if we are interested in only certain columns of
a table?
(A) PROJECTION
(B) SELECTION
(C) UNION
(D) JOIN
80.Which are the two ways in which entities can participate in a relationship?
(A) Passive and active
(B) Total and partial
(C) Simple and Complex
(D) All of the above
83.A file manipulation command that extracts some of the records from a file is called
(A) SELECT
(B) PROJECT
(C) JOIN
(D) PRODUCT
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89.The ______ operator is used to compare a value to a list of literals values that have
been specified.
(A) BETWEEN
(B) ANY
(C) IN
(D) ALL
90._____________ function divides one numeric expression by another and returns the
remainder.
(A) POWER
(B) MOD
(C) ROUND
(D) REMAINDER
92._________ is a virtual table that draws its data from the result of an SQL SELECT
statement.
(A) View
(B) Synonym
(C) Sequence
(D) Transaction
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98.Which of the operations constitute a basic set of operations for manipulating relational
data?
(A) Predicate calculus
(B) Relational calculus
(C) Relational algebra
(D) None of the above
Question No Answers
1 B
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2 D
3 B
4 A
5 A
6 D
7 B
8 B
9 C
10 A
11 B
12 A
13 C
14 D
15 D
16 A
17 A
18 B
19 C
20 B
21 A
22 B
23 B
24 B
25 B
26 A
27 A
28 C
29 A
30 B
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31 A
32 A
33 C
34 D
35 B
36 A
37 B
38 A
39 B
40 D
41 C
42 B
43 D
44 C
45 A
46 B
47 A
48 B
49 C
50 A
51 A
52 C
53 C
54 B
55 A
56 C
57 C
58 C
59 C
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60 D
61 D
62 A
63 D
64 A
65 C
66 C
67 A
68 B
69 D
70 A
71 A
72 C
73 C
74 A
75 A
76 C
77 D
78 A
79 B
80 B
81 D
82 D
83 A
84 B
85 A
86 A
87 D
88 D
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89 A
90 B
91 D
92 A
93 B
94 D
95 C
96 B
97 B
98 C
99 A
100 A
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