1-1.

A Database Management database

System (DBMS) is D. All of the above
A. Collection of interrelated data
B. Collection of programs to access 1-7. Which of the following is not
data an Schema?
C. Collection of data describing one A. Database Schema
particular enterprise B. Physical Schema
D. All of the above C. Critical Schema
D. Logical Schema
1-2. Which of the following is not
a level of data abstraction? 1-8. Which of the following is
A. Physical Level Database Language?
B. Critical Level A. Data Definition Language
C. Logical Level B. Data Manipulation Language
D. View Level C. Query Language
D. All of the above
1-3. Disadvantages
of File systems to store data is: 1-9. Which of the following in not
A. Data redundancy and inconsistency a function of DBA?
B. Difficulty in accessing data A. Network Maintenance
C. Data isolation B. Routine Maintenance
D. All of the above C. Schema Definition
D. Authorization for data access
1-4. In an Entity-
Relationship Diagram Rectangles 1-10. Which of the following is a
represents Data Model?
A. Entity sets A. Entity-Relationship model
B. Attributes B. Relational data model
C. Database C. Object-Based data model
D. Tables D. All of the above

1-5. Which of the following is not 1D/2B/3D/4A/5B/6D/7

a Storage Manager Component? C / 8 D / 9 A / 10 D
A. Transaction Manager
B. Logical Manager
C. Buffer Manager
D. File Manager

1-6. Data Manipulation Language

enables users to
A. Retrieval of information stored in
database
B. Insertion of new information into
the database
C. Deletion of information from the
2-1. Which of the following 2-7. Minimal Superkeys are called
represents a relationship among a A. Schema keys
set of values. B. Candidate keys
A. A Row C. Domain keys
B. A Table D. Attribute keys
C. A Field
D. A Column 2-8. Which of the following is not
Modification of the Database
2-2. Column header is refer as A. Deletion
A. Table B. Insertion
B. Relation C. Sorting
C. Attributes D. Updating
D. Domain
2-9. Which of the following is
2-3. A Relation is a Relation-algebra Operation
A. Subset of a Cartesian product of a A. Select
list of attributes B. Union
B. Subset of a Cartesian product of a C. Rename
list of domains D. All of the above
C. Subset of a Cartesian product of a
list of tuple 2-10. Which of the following in not
D. Subset of a Cartesian product of a Outer join?
list of relations A. Left outer join
B. Right outer join
2-4. In mathematical term Table is C. Full outer join
referred as D. All of the above
A. Relation
B. Attribute 1A/2C/3B/4A/5C/6
C. Tuple A / 7 B / 8 C / 9 D / 10 D
D. Domain

2-5. In mathematical term Row is

referred as
A. Relation
B. Attribute
C. Tuple
D. Domain

2-6. _______ allow us to identify

uniquely a tuple in the relation.
A. Superkey
B. Domain
C. Attribute
D. Schema
3-1. Who proposed the relational 3-7. Which of the following is not
model? binary operation?
A. Bill Gates A. Union
B. E.F. Codd B. Project
C. Herman Hollerith C. Set Difference
D. Charles Babbage D. Cartesian Product

3-2. Set of premitted values of 3-8. Which of the following is

each attribute is called correct regarding Aggregate
A. Domain functions?
B. Tuple A. it takes a list of values and return a
C. Relation single values as result
D. Schema B. it takes a list of values and return a
list of values as result
3-3. Which of the following in true C. it takes a single value and returns a
regarding Null Value? list of values as result
A. Null = 0 D. it takes a single value and returns a
B. Null < 0 C. Null > 0 single value as result
D. Null <> 0
3-9. The Primary key must be
3-4. Logical design of database is A. Non Null
called B. Unique
A. Database Instance C. Option A or B
B. Database Snapshot D. Option A and B
C. Database Schema
D. All of the above 3-10. A command to remove a
relation from an SQL database
3-5. Snapshot of the dta in the A. Delete table <table name>
database at a given instant of B. Drop table <table name>
time is called C. Erase table <table name>
A. Database Schema D. Alter table <table name>
B. Database Instance
C. Database Snapshot 1B/2A/3D/4C/5B/6D/7
D. All of the above B / 8 A / 9 D / 10 B
3-6. Which of the following is not
Unary operation?
A. Select
B. Project
C. Rename
D. Union

4-1. which of the following is not
an Aggregate function?
A. Min
B. Max
C. Select
D. Avg
4-2. The attribute that can be
divided into other attributes is
called
A. Simple Attribute
B. Composite Attribute
C. Multi-valued Attribute
D. Derived Attribute
4-3. In an Entity-
Relationship Diagram Ellipses
represents
A. Attributes
B. Weak entity set
C. Relationship sets
D. Multi-valued attributes
4-4. In an Entity-
Relationship Diagram Diamonds
represents
A. Attributes
B. Multi-valued attributes
C. Weak entity set
D. Relationship sets
4-5. What is ACID properties of
Transactions?
A. Atomicity, Consistency,
Isolation, Database
B. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation,
Durability
C. Atomicity, Consistency,
Inconsistent, Durability
D. Automatically, Concurrency,
Isolation, Durability
4-6. If every non-key attribute is
functionally dependent on the
primary key, the relation will be
in
A. First Normal Form
B. Second Normal Form
C. Third Normal Form
D. Fourth Formal Form
4-7. Database locking concept is
used to solve the problem of
A. Lost Update
B. Uncommitted Dependency
C. Inconsistent Data
D. All of the above
4-8. UML is stands for
A. Universal Modeling Language
B. Unified Modeling Language
C. United Modeling Language
D. Uni Modeling Language
4-9. Data Manipulation Language
(DML) is not to
A. Create information table in
the Database
B. Insertion of new information into
the Database
C. Deletion of information in
the Database
D. Modification of information in
the Database
4-10. Which of the following in
true regarding Referential
Integrity?
A. Every primary-key value must
match a primary-key value in an
associated table
B. Every primary-key value must
match a foreign-key value in an
associated table
C. Every foreign-key value must match
a primary-key value in an associated
table
D. Every foreign-key value must match a. Create Table
a foreign-key value in an associated b. Alter Table
table c. Drop Table
d. None of these
1C/2B/3A/4D/5B/6
C / 7 D / 8 B / 9 A / 10 C 5-6. In precedence of set
operators the expression is
evaluated from:
a. Left to Left
b. Left to Right
c. Right to Right
d. Right to Left

5-1. Which of the following option

is use to retrieval of data? 5-7. In DBMS FD stands for
a. Stack a. Facilitate data
b. Data Structure b. Functional data
c. Linked list c. Facilitate dependency
d. Query d. Functional dependency

5-2. ODBC stands for ______ 5-8. How many types of keys in
a. Offline database connection Database Design?
b. Oriented database connection a. Candidate key
c. Open database connection b. Primary key
d. None of above c. Foreign key
d. All of these
5-3. Which algebra is widely used
in DBMS? 5-9. Which of the following is
a. Relational algebra based on Multi Valued
b. Arithmetic algebra Dependency?
c. Both a. First
d. None b. Second
c. Third
5-4. Which of the following is an d. Fourth
unary operation?
a. Selection operation 5-10. Which of the following is the
b. Generalized selection structure of the Database?
c. Primitive operation a. Table
d. Projection operation b. Schema
c. Relation
5-5. Which SQL Query is use to d. None of these
remove a table and all its data
from the database?

Answers
1d/2c/3a/4b/5c/6
b / 7 d / 8 d / 9 d / 10 b
C. Logical View
D. Data View
6-5. ______________ is a classical
approach to database design?
A. Left Right approach
B. Right Left approach
C. Top Down approach
D. Bottom Up approach

6-6. _____________ refers to the

correctness and completeness of
the data in a database?
A. Data security
B. Data integrity
6-1. The minimal set of super key C. Data constraint
is called D. Data independence
A. Primary key
B. Secondary key
C. Candidate key 6-7. A table that displays data
D. Foreign key redundancies yields ____________
anomalies
6-2. A relation that has no partial
A. Insertion
dependencies is in which normal
B. Deletion
form
C. Update
A. First
D. All of the above
B. Second
C. Third 6-8. A lock that allows concurrent
D. BCNF transactions to access different
rows of the same table is known
6-3. A functional dependency
as a
between two or more non-key
A. Field-level lock
attributes is called
B. Row-level lock
A. Transitive dependency
C. Table-level lock
B. Partial transitive dependency
D. Database-level lock
C. Functional dependency
D. Partial functional dependency 6-9. A type of query that is placed
within a WHERE or HAVING clause
6-4. A logical description of some
of another query is called
portion of database that is
A. Super query
required by a user to perform task
B. Sub query
is called as
C. Master query
A. System View
D. Multi-query
B. User View
6-10. A transaction completes its
execution is said to be
A. Saved
B. Loaded
C. Rolled
D. Committed
Answers
1C/2B/3A/4B/5C/6 C. Attribute domain
B / 7 D / 8 A / 9 B / 10 D
7-1. An attribute that is not part
of any candidate key is known as
B. sub-prime attribute
A. non-prime attribute
D. sub-candidate key
C. non-candidate key
7-2. Which of the follow is not the
degree of relationship?
A. Single
B. Binary
C. Ternary
D. n-ary
7-3. The degree of the
relationship is
A. number of Tables in a relationship
B. number of entities in a relationship
C. number of Row & Columns in a
relationship
D. number of participating entities in a
relationship
7-4. How many rules in CODDS
RULES of Relational Model
of database systems?
A. 11
B. 12
C. 13
D. 14
7-5. Every attribute has some
predefined value scope that is
called
A. Tuple
B. Tables
D. Relation schema
7-6. An attribute of a table cannot
hold multiple values is the
property of
A. First normal form (1NF)
B. Second normal form (2NF)
C. Third normal form (3NF)
D. Fourth normal form (4NF)
7-7. A key that consists of more
than one attribute to uniquely
identify rows in a table is called
A. Composite key
B. Candidate key
C. Primary key
D. Foreign key
7-8. In hierarchical model, data is
organized into
A. logical structure
B. physical structure
C. tree like structure
D. none of them
7-9. The key selected from the
sets of candidate keys
by database designer is called
A. Primary key
B. Secondary Key
C. Foreign key
D. Super key

7-10. In an Entity- Answers

Relationship diagram Double
Rectangles represents 1B/2A/3D/4B/5C/6
A. Relationship Set A / 7 A / 8 C / 9 A / 10 B
B. Weak Entity Sets
C. Derived Attributes
D. Multi-valued Attributes