Reliance Industries Limited, Jamnagar
Test Paper for Software Engineer
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1. List the major difference(s) between a DBMS and RDBMS
2. What is normalization ?
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3. What is the difference between passing parameters by “by reference” and “by
value”?
4. List the features of client-server architecture vis-à-vis 3-tier architecture
highlighting the difference.
5. What is the difference between “compiler” and “interpreter”?
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6. What is the full form of SDLC? Name each step of SDLC.
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7. List 5 elementary data types of any RDBMS and describe each of them in one
line. (e.g. int – for any integer)
8. Write the full form of DML & DDL with reference to any RDBMS and list the
difference between the two.
9. Write the full form of:
SQL
ORDBMS
MIS
IDE
CORBA
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10. Define the term “atomic transaction” with reference to any RDBMS
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