1 The value of the data item prior to the write is called as _________

a. Transaction identifier
b. Data-item identifier
c. Old value
d. New value

3 What is the full form of DBMS?

a) Data of Binary Management System
b) Database Management System
c) Database Management Service
d) Data Backup Management System

4 What is a database?
a) Organized collection of information that cannot be accessed, updated, and managed
b) Collection of data or information without organizing
c) Organized collection of data or information that can be accessed, updated, and managed
d) Organized collection of data that cannot be updated

5 Which of the following command is correct to delete the values in the relation teaches?
a) Delete from teaches;
b) Delete from teaches where Id =’Null’;
c) Remove table teaches;
d) Drop table teaches;

6 What is the function of the following command?

Delete from r where P;
a) Clears entries from relation
b) Deletes relation
c) Deletes particular tuple from relation
d) All of the mentioned
7 Which of the following key is required in to handle the data when the encryption is applied to the data so
that the unauthorized user cannot access the data?
a) Primary key
b) Authorized key
c) Encryption key
d) Decryption key
8 Which of the following establishes a top-to-bottom relationship among the items?
a) Relational schema
b) Network schema
c) Hierarchical schema
d) All of the mentioned
9 Consider money is transferred from (1) account-A to account-B and (2) account-B to account-A. Which
of the following form a transaction?
a) Only 1
b) Only 2
c) Both 1 and 2 individually
d) Either 1 or 2
10 How can we insert data into a table?
a) insert into ();
b) create data values ();
c) enter ();
d) insert into values ();
11 Collections of operations that form a single logical unit of work are called __________
a) Views
b) Networks
c) Units
d) Transactions
12 In mathematical term Table is referred as
a. Relation
b. Attribute
c. Tuple
d. Domain
13 In mathematical term Row is referred as
a. Relation
b. Attribute
c. Tuple
d. Domain
14 Foreign key is the one in which the ________ of one relation is referenced in another relation.
a. Foreign key
b. Primary key
c. References
d. Check constraint
15 Which one of the following uniquely identifies the elements in the relation?
a. Secondary Key
b. Primary key
c. Composite key
d. Foreign key
16 Which one of the following attribute can be taken as a primary key ?
a. Name
b. Street
c. Id
d. Department
17 Which one of the following cannot be taken as a primary key ?
a. Id
b. Register number
c. Dept_id
d. Street
18 What are composite attributes?
a) They are those attributes which cannot be further divided into other attributes
b) They are those attributes which can further be divided into other attributes
c) They are those attributes which are essentially the primary keys of the relation
d) None of the mentioned
19 What is TRUE about the First Normal Form (1NF)?
a) If a relation contains an atomic value, it will be 1NF.
b) A table attribute cannot contain more than one value, according to this rule.
c) A single-valued attribute can only be stored in it.
d) All of the above
20 What is a deadlock?
a)A condition where each process is blocked and waiting for others to release resources
b)Condition where each process is terminated and started again
c)Condition where each process is ready to be executed one by one
d)Condition where each process is blocked except the child process

21 Which of the following establishes a top-to-bottom relationship among the items?

a) Relational schema
b) Network schema
c) Hierarchical schema
d) All of the mentioned
22 Consider money is transferred from (1) account-A to account-B and (2) account-B to account-A. Which
of the following form a transaction?
a) Only 1
b) Only 2
c) Both 1 and 2 individually
d) Either 1 or 2
23 Which one of the following uniquely identifies the elements in the relation?
a) Secondary Key
b) Primary key
c) Composite key
d) Foreign key
24 Which of the following is an example of Person, Parts, chair, table, teacher?
a)an entity
b)attributes
c)class
d) none of these
25 Which of the following description can be represented for 2NF?
a) No functional dependencies (FDs) exist.
b) No multivalued dependencies (MVDs) exist.
c) No partial FDs exist.
d) No partial MVDs exist.
26 What are composite attributes?
a) They are those attributes which cannot be further divided into other attributes
b) They are those attributes which can further be divided into other attributes
c) They are those attributes which are essentially the primary keys of the relation
d) None of the mentioned
27 A system is in a ______ state if there exists a set of transactions such that every transaction in the set is
waiting for another transaction in the set.
A. Idle
B. Waiting
C. Deadlock
D. Ready
28 When an activity for building a relational database is divided into steps A through C below, which of the
following is an appropriate order of the steps?
A Identifying the data items to be used in the business operation
 B Creating tables
C Inserting records
a) A → B → C b) A → C → B
c) B → A → C d) B → C → A
29 There are “Sales”, “Customer” and “Product” tables in a relational database. Among lists A through C,
which of the following contains all and only the lists that can be created from the data in these tables?
Here, a solid underlined part represents a primary key, and a dotted underlined part represents a foreign
key.

A The list of customers who bought more than a certain amount of money during a certain period in the
past.
B The list of products that were out of stock in the previous month.
C The ranking list for sales amount by product in the previous month.
a) A, B b) A, B, C c) A, C d) B, C

30 Which of the following is an appropriate description about association of records for a relational
database?
a) Records in multiple tables are associated at the same row position relative to the first row in each of
the tables.
b) Records in multiple tables are associated through the values of corresponding fields.
c) Records are associated with one another by a pointer that represents the parentage.
d) Records are associated with one another by a hash function.

31 In DBMS, which of the following is a function for maintaining consistency of data by preventing the
occurrence of conflicts due to simultaneous access to the data ?
a) Normalization b) Deadlock c) Exclusive control d) Restore

32 Out of the processes performed in a database management system, which system searches and updates
data in the database according to the request from the client that is connected online to the server.
a) Workflow system
b) Online transaction processing system
c) Client/Server system
d) Online system
33 When designing a database, which of the following is used for the purpose of organizing and
representing the relation of data?
a) E-R diagram b) Arrow diagram
c) Gantt chart d) Flowchart
34 Which of the following is a reason to model data?
a)Understand each user’s perspective of data
b)Understand the data itself irrespective of the physical representation
c)Understand the use of data across application areas
d)All of the above
35 What is a database?
a) Organized collection of information that cannot be accessed, updated, and managed
b) Collection of data or information without organizing
c) Organized collection of data or information that can be accessed, updated, and managed
d) Organized collection of data that cannot be updated
36 Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning foreign keys in a relational database?
a) A property held by the foreign key is called a unique constraint.
b) Duplicate values cannot be set in the fields that are set as foreign keys.
c) Multiple foreign keys can be defined in a single table.
d) Multiple fields cannot be collectively set as a single foreign key