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Q.1 In the relational modes, cardinality is termed as:
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(A) Number of tuples. (B) Number of attributes.
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Q.2 Relational calculus is a
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language commands as its name)
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(A) Selection operation. (B) Rename operation.
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(e.g., SELECT ENO AS EMPLOYEE_NO FROM EMP)
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(A) physical level. (B) logical level.
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Q.12 An entity set that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key is a
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(C) simple entity set. (D) primary entity set.
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(A) Graph.
(C) Links.
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(B) List.
(D) Tree.
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Q.14 In an E-R diagram attributes are represented by
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(A) rectangle. (B) square.
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Q.17 The language used in application programs to request data from the DBMS is referred
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to as the
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(C) VDL (D) SDL
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(A) is the entire database.
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Q.19 Related fields in a database are grouped to form a
Ans: B Related data fields in a database are grouped to form a data record.
Q.20 The database environment has all of the following components except:
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Q.21 The language which has recently become the defacto standard for interfacing application
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Q.22 The way a particular application views the data from the database that the application
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uses is a
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(C) schema. (D) sub schema.
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(A) rectangle. (B) ellipse.
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Q.25 The property / properties of a database is / are :
(C) Data stored in a database is independent of the application programs using it.
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(A) a criteria. (B) a relation.
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(B) is much more data independence than some other database models.
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Q.30 The method in which records are physically stored in a specified order according to a key
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(In hash method, a hash function is performed on the key value to determine the
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(C) the external view. (D) all of the above.
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(External schemas are called also called as subschemas)
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(C) groups. (D) columns.
(Count function counts all the not null values in the specific column. If we want to
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count only distinct values than the DISTINCT keyword is also to be used)
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(B) Data elements in the database can be modified by changing the data dictionary.
(C) The data dictionary contains the name and description of each data element.
(D) The data dictionary is a tool used exclusively by the database administrator.
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(B) support in the development of complex applications software.
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(D) all of the above.
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(A) producing detail, summary, or exception reports.
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Q.37 It is possible to define a schema completely using
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Q.40 The statement in SQL which allows to change the definition of a table is
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(A) Alter. (B) Update.
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Q.41 E-R model uses this symbol to represent weak entity set ?
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(B) Diamond
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Q.45 _______ produces the relation that has attributes of R1 and R2
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(C) Intersection D) Product
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Q.46 The file organization that provides very fast access to any arbitrary record of a file is
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(A) Ordered file (B) Unordered file
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Q.48 Which of the following are the properties of entities?
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Q.49 In a relation
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(C) a SQL query will not work if there are no indexes on the relations
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(B) Multiple users wish to access the data.
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Q.54 Which of the following operation is used if we are interested in only certain columns of a
table?
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(A) CHARACTER (B) NUMERIC
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(C) attribute. D) degree.
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Q.57 Which of the following operations need the participating relations to be union compatible?
(A) UNION
(C) DIFFERENCEqq
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(B) INTERSECTION
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Q.61 The users who use easy-to-use menu are called
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(C) Stand-alone users. (D) Casual end users.
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(A) External (B) Internal
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Q.64 The result of the UNION operation between R1 and R2 is a relation that includes
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(C) tuple. (D) domain.
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Q.67 Which of the operations constitute a basic set of operations for manipulating relational
data?
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(C) Relational algebra (D) None of the above
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(A) Child
(C) Dominant
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(B) Owner
(C) view
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Q.70 NULL is
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(A) The name of all fields in all files.
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(D) All of the above.
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Q.73 A file manipulation command that extracts some of the records from a file is called
(A) SELECT
(C) JOIN
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(B) PROJECT
(D) PRODUCT
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Q.74 The physical location of a record is determined by a mathematical formula that trAnsforms
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a file key into a record location is :
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Q.75 Using Relational Algebra the query that finds customers, who have a balance of over
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1000 is
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(A) Parent-Child relation ship between the tables that connect them.
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(B) Many to many relationship between the tables that connect them.
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(D) None of the above.
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(A) Ellipse (B) Dashed ellipse
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Q.79 An instance of relational schema R (A, B, C) has distinct values of A including NULL
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Q.80 Consider the join of a relation R with relation S. If R has m tuples and S has n tuples,
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(C) Combination of selection and Cartesian product
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(B) View is a virtual table.
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Q.83 A primary key if combined with a foreign key creates
(B) Many to many relationship between the tables that connect them.
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(C) Network model between the tables that connect them.
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(C) ALTER (D) DELETE
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Q.87 The ______ operator is used to compare a value to a list of literals values that have been
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(C) IN (D) ALL
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D) none of these
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Q.90 _____________ function divides one numeric expression by another and returns the
remainder.
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Q.91 A data manipulation command the combines the records from one or more tables is called
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(A) Ellipse (B) Dashed ellipse
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Q.93 _________ is a virtual table that draws its data from the result of an SQL
SELECT statement.
(C) Sequence
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(D) TrAnsactionion
Q.94 The method of access which uses key trAnsformation is known as
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