DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR

EXTERNAL EXAMS
UNIT – 1
1. Explain the relational database architecture.
2. State and explain various features of E-R Models.
3. Write about aggregation specialization and generalization.
4. What is an active database?
5. Explain the three levels of abstraction.
6. What is null attribute? With suitable diagram explain weak and strong entity set.

UNIT - 2
1. Explain Tuple relational calculus (TRC).
2. Discuss about domain relational calculus ( DRC) .
3. Explain integrity constraints over relations. ( All keys )

UNIT - 3
1. What is meant by functional dependencies? Differentiate between FD and MVD *Discuss
about second normal form.
2. What is normal form ? Explain fourth normal form and BCNF. ( go through all normal forms
you will definitely get 1 question on normal form)
3. What is meant by nested queries?
4. Describe about joins ( outer join inner join right join left join self join ).
5. Discuss about DDL and DML commands
6. Write brief notes on altering tables and views. ( what is a view).
7. What is the usage of ‘group by’ and ‘having’ clauses in SQL?
8. Write about SOME IN EXIST NOT EXIST ALL union intersect except operators in SQL

UNIT - 4
1. What is meant by concurrency control?
2. Discuss about failure with loss of nonvolatile storage.
3. What is meant by remote backup system?
4. **What is transaction? What are ACID properties of transaction.
5. **What is ARIES? What are steps in crash recovery in ARIES.
6. Explain time stamp based concurrency control protocol.
7. **Explain check point log based recovery scheme for recovering database
8. What is serializability? Convert a non serial schedule to serial schedule.

UNIT – 5
1. Compare linear hashing and extendable hashing*****
2. What is meant by buffer management?
3. What are the indexed data structures? Explain any one of them.
4. Discuss about primary index* secondary index and cluster index.
5. Difference between B+ trees and ISAM.**
6. Insertion and deletion of operations in B+ trees and ISAM**