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Section 5 Quiz

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1.What is one of the advantages of using parameters with a cursor?

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You can declare the cursor FOR UPDATE.

You can use a single cursor to fetch a different set of rows each time the
cursor is opened. (*)

You do not need to DECLARE the cursor at all.

You can use a cursor FOR loop.

It will execute much faster than a cursor without parameters.

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2.Examine the following declaration of a cursor with a parameter. What should

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DECLARE
CURSOR emp_curs(-- Point A --) IS
SELECT * FROM employees
WHERE job_id = p_job_id;

p_job_id VARCHAR2 (*)

 ST_CLERK'

p_job_id VARCHAR2(25)

p_job_id

job_id VARCHAR2

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3.Which of the following is a good reason to declare and use multiple cursors in
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a single PL/SQL block?
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Multiple cursors use less memory than a single cursor.

Multiple cursors allow us to fetch rows from two or more related tables
without using a JOIN. (*)

Multiple cursors can be opened many times, while a single cursor can be
opened only once.

Multiple cursors are the only way to use cursors with parameters.

Multiple cursors improve performance. They are faster than using a single
cursor.

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4.Which of the following is NOT allowed when using multiple cursors with
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parameters?
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Declaring a cursor FOR UPDATE

None of these--they are all allowed. (*)

Using cursor FOR loops

 Declaring a cursor based on a join

OPENing more than one cursor at the same time

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5.Which of these constructs can be used to fetch multiple rows from a cursor's
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active set?
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A CASE statement

A basic loop which includes OPEN, FETCH, and CLOSE statements

A basic loop which includes FETCH and EXIT WHEN statements (*)

An IF .... ELSE statement

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6. There are 8 countries in REGION_ID 13 (Central America). What will happen

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DECLARE
CURSOR country_curs IS SELECT country_name FROM
wf_countries
WHERE region_id = 13;
 v_country_name wf_countries.country_name%TYPE;
BEGIN
OPEN country_curs;
WHILE country_curs%FOUND
LOOP
FETCH country_curs INTO v_country_name;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_country_name);
END LOOP;
CLOSE country_curs;
END;

The last seven rows will be fetched and displayed.

The block will execute, but no rows will be displayed. (*)

The block will fail because you can not use a WHILE loop with an explicit
cursor.

Eight rows will be fetched and displayed successfully.

None of the these.

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7. After a cursor has been closed, it can be opened again in the same PL/SQL
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block. True or False?
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TRUE (*)

FALSE

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8. Which statement correctly places the employee id and last name into the
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stated variables?
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DECLARE
CURSOR emp_cursor IS
 SELECT employee_id, last_name FROM employees
WHERE department_id = 30;
v_empno employees.employee_id%TYPE;
v_lname employees.last_name%TYPE;
BEGIN
OPEN emp_cursor;
-- Point A
...

FETCH emp_cursor.employee_id, emp_cursor.last_name INTO

v_empno, v_lname;

GET emp_cursor INTO v_empno, v_lname;

GET emp_cursor.employee_id, emp_cursor.last_name INTO v_empno,

v_lname;

FETCH emp_cursor INTO v_empno, v_lname; (*)

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9. Consider the following cursor:

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CURSOR c IS
SELECT e.last_name, e.salary, d.department_name
FROM employees e JOIN departments d
USING(department_id)
WHERE e.last_name='Smith'
FOR UPDATE;

When the cursor is opened and rows are fetched, what is locked?

The whole EMPLOYEES and DEPARTMENTS tables are locked.

Nothing is locked because the cursor was not declared with NOWAIT.

The whole EMPLOYEES table is locked.

Each 'Smith' row is locked and Smith's matching rows in DEPARTMENTS

are locked. No other rows are locked in either table. (*)
 In the EMPLOYEES table, only the 'Smith' rows are locked. Nothing in the
DEPARTMENTS table is locked.

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10.A cursor is declared as:

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CURSOR c IS SELECT * FROM departments FOR UPDATE;

After opening the cursor and fetching some rows, you want to delete
the most recently fetched row. Which of the following will do this
successfully?

DELETE FROM c WHERE CURRENT OF c;

DELETE FROM departments WHERE c%ROWCOUNT = 1;

None of these.

DELETE FROM c WHERE CURRENT OF departments;

DELETE FROM departments WHERE CURRENT OF c; (*)

Correct

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11.If the rows you attempt to reserve using FOR UPDATE have already been
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locked by another session and you use the NOWAIT option, what is the
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outcome?

The server will wait until the locks have been released by the other user.

An Oracle server error occurs. (*)

Your rows will override the other user's lock and your block will execute
successfully.

The block executes successfully with no errors.

Correct

12.Look at the following code:

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DECLARE
CURSOR emp_cursor IS SELECT * FROM employees;
BEGIN
FOR emp_record IN emp_cursor LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( --Point A -- );
END LOOP;
END;

To display the salary of an employee, what code should you write at

Point A?

employees.salary

emp_record.employees.salary

TO_CHAR(salary)

emp_cursor.salary

emp_record.salary (*)

Correct
13.A cursor FOR loop using a subquery can shorten code length when compared
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to an explicit cursor declaration. True or False?
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True (*)

False

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14.The following cursor has been declared:

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CURSOR emp_curs IS
SELECT first_name, last_name, job_id, salary
FROM employees;

Which of the following correctly declares a composite record with the

same structure as the cursor?

emp_rec emp_rec%ROWTYPE;

emp_rec emp_curs%TYPE;

emp_rec emp_curs%ROWTYPE; (*)

emp_rec cursor%ROWTYPE;

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15.Look at the following code:

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DECLARE
CURSOR emp_cursor IS
SELECT employee_id, last_name, salary FROM employees;
v_empcurs emp_cursor%ROWTYPE;

What is the data type of V_EMPCURS?

 Record (*)

Scalar

Cursor

Row

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Section 6 Quiz

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1.Which of the following will successfully create a record type containing two
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fields, and a record variable of that type?
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TYPE person_type IS RECORD

(l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec person_type;

(*)
TYPE person_type IS RECORD

(l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec TYPE person_type;
TYPE person_type IS (l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec person_type;
 TYPE person_type IS (l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec TYPE person_type;

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2.The following code declares a PL/SQL record with the same structure as a row
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of the departments table. True or False?
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DECLARE
v_dept_rec departments%ROWTYPE;
...

True (*)

False

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3.You can use %ROWTYPE with tables and views.

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True (*)

False

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4.Which of the following statements about user-defined PL/SQL records is NOT

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true?
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It can be a component of another PL/SQL record.

 It must contain one or more components, but all the components must
have scalar datatypes. (*)

It can be defined as NOT NULL.

It is not the same as a row in a database table.

It can be used as an OUT parameter in a package procedure.

Correct

5.Consider the following code:

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DECLARE
TYPE dept_info_type IS RECORD
(department_id departments.department_id%TYPE,
department_name departments.department_name%TYPE);
TYPE emp_dept_type IS RECORD
(first_name employees.first_name%TYPE,
last_name employees.last_name%TYPE),
dept_info dept_info_type);

v_emp_dept_rec emp_dept_type;

How many fields can be addressed in v_emp_dept_rec?

one

three

four (*)

two

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6. Which of the following successfully declares an INDEX BY table of records

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which could be used to store copies of complete rows from the departments
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table?

DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%TYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;

DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEXED BY NUMBER;

DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS INDEX BY TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;

DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;

(*)

Incorrect. Refer to Section 6 Lesson 2.

7. To declare an INDEX BY table, we must first declare a type and then declare a
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collection variable of that type. True or False?
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True (*)

False

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8. An INDEX BY TABLE primary key cannot be negative.
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True

False (*)

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9. Which of these PL/SQL data structures can NOT store a collection?

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A PL/SQL record (*)

An INDEX BY table of records

An INDEX BY table indexed by PLS_INTEGER

An INDEX BY table indexed by BINARY_INTEGER

Correct

10.Which of the following methods can be used to reference elements of an

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INDEX BY table? (Choose three.)
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COUNT (*)

FIRST (*)
 DROP

EXISTS (*)

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11.Which of these PL/SQL data structures could store a complete copy of the
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employees table, i.e., 20 complete table rows?
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An INDEX BY table of records (*)

An explicit cursor based on SELECT * FROM employees;

A record

An INDEX BY table

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12.In an INDEX BY table of records the record can be

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_______________________.
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Either one. (*)

 %ROWTYPE

a user-defined record

Incorrect. Refer to Section 6 Lesson 2.

13.An INDEX BY TABLE must have a primary key.

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True (*)

False

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14.Identify the valid collection types:

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INDEX BY TABLE OF RECORDS (*)

INDEX BY TABLE (*)

INDEX BY VIEW

INDEX BY TABLE OF ROWS

Correct
 15.An INDEX BY TABLE type can only have one data field.
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True (*)

False

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Test: Section 7 Quiz

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Section 7 Quiz

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1.Examine the following code. Why does this exception handler not follow good
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practice guidelines? (Choose two.)
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DECLARE
v_dept_name departments.department_name%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT department_name INTO v_dept_name FROM departments
WHERE department_id = 75;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('A select returned more than one
row');
END;

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department_id 75 does not exist in the departments table.

 The exception section should include a WHEN TOO_MANY_ROWS
exception handler. (*)

The exception handler should test for the named exception

NO_DATA_FOUND. (*)

The exception handler should COMMIT the transaction.

You should not use DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE in an exception handler.

Incorrect. Refer to Section 7 Lesson 1.

2.Which of the following are good practice guidelines for exception handling?
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Include a WHEN OTHERS handler as the first handler in the exception

section.

Test your code with different combinations of data to see what potential
errors can happen. (*)

Allow exceptions to propagate back to the calling environment.

Use an exception handler whenever there is any possibility of an error

occurring. (*)

Handle specific named exceptions where possible, instead of relying on

WHEN OTHERS. (*)

Incorrect. Refer to Section 7 Lesson 1.

3.The following EXCEPTION section is constructed correctly. True or False?

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EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND OR TOO_MANY_ROWS
THEN statement_1;
statement_2;
 WHEN OTHERS
THEN statement_3;
END;

TRUE (*)

FALSE

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4.While a PL/SQL block is executing, more than one exception can occur at the
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same time. True or False?
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TRUE

FALSE (*)

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5.Which of the following will successfully return a user-defined error message?

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RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20257,'Error raised'); (*)

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-29001,'Error Raised');

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR('Error Raised',-20257);

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR('Error Raised',-22001);

Correct
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6. The following line of code is correct. True or False?

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RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-21001,'My error message');
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True

False (*)

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7. Department-id 99 does not exist. What will be displayed when the following
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code is executed?
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DECLARE
v_deptname departments.department_name%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT department_name INTO v_deptname
FROM departments WHERE department_id = 99;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20201,'Department does not
exist');
END;

None of these.

ORA-01403: No Data Found

ORA-20201: Department does not exist (*)

 ORA-01403: No Data Found ORA-20201: Department does not exist

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8. What is a?
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An exception which is not raised automatically by the Oracle server, but

must be declared and raised explicitly by the PL/SQL programmer. (*)

An exception which has a predefined Oracle error number but no

predefined name.

An exception handler which the user (the programmer) includes in the

EXCEPTION section.

A predefined Oracle server exception such as NO_DATA_FOUND.

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9. Which of the following are examples of predefined Oracle Server errors?

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(Choose three.)
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OTHERS

NO_DATA_FOUND (*)

E_INSERT_EXCEP

ZERO_DIVIDE (*)

TOO_MANY_ROWS (*)
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10.Which kind of error can NOT be handled by PL/SQL?

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Predefined Oracle Server errors

Syntax errors (*)

Non-predefined Oracle Server errors

User-defined errors

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11.Examine the following code. At Line A, you want to raise an exception if the
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employee's manager_id is null. What kind of exception is this?
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DECLARE
v_mgr_id employees.manager_id%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT manager_id INTO v_mgr_id FROM employees
WHERE employee_id = 100;
IF v_mgr_id IS NULL THEN
-- Line A
END IF;
...
 A constraint violation

A predefined Oracle Server exception

A user-defined exception (*)

A NO_DATA_FOUND exception

A non-predefined Oracle server exception

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12.Examine the following code. What message or messages will be displayed

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when this code is executed?
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DECLARE
v_last_name employees.last_name%TYPE;
v_number NUMBER := 27;
BEGIN
v_number := v_number / 0;
SELECT last_name INTO v_last_name FROM employees
WHERE employee_id = 999;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('No rows were found');
WHEN ZERO_DIVIDE THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Attempt to divide by zero');
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('An error occurred');
END;

No message will be displayed

Attempt to divide by zero No rows were found

An error occurred

No rows were found

Attempt to divide by zero (*)

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13.Examine the following code fragment. At Line A, you want to raise an

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exception if the fetched salary value is greater than 30000. How can you do
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this?

DECLARE
v_salary employees.salary%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT salary INTO v_salary FROM employees
WHERE employee_id = 100;
IF v_salary > 30000 THEN
-- Line A
END IF;
...

Test for WHEN OTHERS in the exception section, because WHEN

OTHERS traps all exceptions.

Define an EXCEPTION variable and associate it with an Oracle Server

error number using PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT.

Use RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR to raise an exception explicitly. (*)

Test for WHEN VALUE_TOO_HIGH in the exception section.

Correct

14.Predefined Oracle Server exceptions such as NO_DATA_FOUND can be raised

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automatically in inner blocks and handled in outer blocks. True or False?
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True (*)

False

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 15.What will happen when the following code is executed?
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DECLARE
e_excep1 EXCEPTION;
e_excep2 EXCEPTION;
BEGIN
RAISE e_excep1;
EXCEPTION
WHEN e_excep1 THEN
BEGIN
RAISE e_excep2;
END;
END;

It will fail to compile because e_excep1 is out of scope in the subblock.

It will fail to compile because you cannot declare more than one
exception in the same block.

It will compile successfully and return an unhandled e_excep2 to the

calling environment. (*)

It will fail to compile because you cannot have a subblock inside an

exception section.

Correct

Test: Section 8 Quiz

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Section 8 Quiz

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1.Suppose you set up a parameter with an explicit IN mode. What is true about
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that parameter?
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 It cannot have a DEFAULT value.

It acts like a constant (its value cannot be changed inside the

subprogram). (*)

It must have a DEFAULT value.

It inherits its type from the matching OUT parameter.

It must be the same type as the matching OUT parameter.

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2.What are the three parameter modes for procedures?

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IN, OUT, IN OUT (*)

R(ead), W(rite), A(ppend)

CONSTANT, VARIABLE, DEFAULT

COPY, NOCOPY, REF

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3.Which kind of parameters cannot have a DEFAULT value?

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W(rite)

OUT (*)

IN
 CONSTANT

R(ead)

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4.What are the types of parameter modes?

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CONSTANT, VARIABLE, DEFAULT

IN, OUT, IN OUT (*)

LOCAL, GLOBAL, BOTH

CHARACTER, NUMBER, DATE, BOOLEAN

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5.The following procedure has been created:

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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE defproc
(A IN NUMBER := 50,
B IN NUMBER,
C IN NUMBER DEFAULT 40)
IS .....
Which one of the following will invoke the procedure correctly?

defproc(40, 70); (*)

defproc(10 => A, 25 => C);

defproc(30, 60 => C);

defproc(30 => A);

defproc;
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6. Which of the following best describes how an input parameter affects a

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procedure?
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It describes the order in which the procedure's statements should be

executed.

It allows complex calculations to be executed inside the procedure.

It describes which parts of the procedure's code are optional or

conditional.

It passes a value into the procedure when the procedure is invoked. (*)

It makes the procedure execute faster.

Correct

7. Which of the following statements about actual parameters is NOT true?

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An actual parameter can have a Boolean datatype.

 The datatypes of an actual parameter and its formal parameter must be
compatible.

An actual parameter is declared in the calling environment, not in the

called procedure.

An actual parameter must be the name of a variable. (*)

An actual parameter can have a TIMESTAMP datatype.

Correct

8. You want to create a procedure which accepts a single parameter. The

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parameter is a number with a maximum value of 9999.99. Which of the
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following is a valid declaration for this parameter?

(v_num NUMBER(4,2))

(v_num NUMBER) (*)

(v_num NUMBER(6,2))

(v_num)

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9. A procedure has been created as:

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CREATE PROCEDURE myproc
(p_left NUMBER, p_right NUMBER)
IS BEGIN ....

You want to call the procedure from an anonymous block. Which of

the following calls is valid?

myproc(v_left, 30);

All of the above (*)

 myproc(p_left, p_right);

myproc(v_left, v_right);

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10.What is the correct syntax to create procedure MYPROC that accepts two
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number parameters X and Y?
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CREATE PROCEDURE myproc (x NUMBER, y NUMBER) IS ... (*)

CREATE PROCEDURE (x NUMBER, y NUMBER) myproc IS ...

CREATE PROCEDURE IS myproc (x NUMBER, y NUMBER) …

CREATE PROCEDURE myproc IS (x NUMBER, y NUMBER) ...

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