Important questions for DBMS Short Questions: 1. Define DBMS. (2) Define its requirements.

2. List the functions of a file manager. 3. Give example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL.(4) in long also 4. What do you mean by Data Independence? 5. Difference between DROP and DELETE.(2) 6. What is NULL value? 7. What are prime and non-prime attributes? 8. What is multivalue dependency?(3) 9. What is DDL? 10.Define Weak Entity Set and Strong Entity Set. (2) 11. What is transitive functional dependency? 12. What is normalization? 13. What are the functions of file manager? 14. Differences between composite key and primary key. 15. What is total participation?(2) 16. Define Database instance and Database Schema.(2) 17. How redundancy can be reduced? 18. Define trivial and non-trivial dependency.(3) 19. State the difference between DML and DCL. 20. What are the contents of data dictionary? 21. What is Domain Integrity? 22. What is query processor?(2) 23. What is physical data modeling? 24. What is logical data independence and physical data independence? Write its diff(3) 25. What is BCNF?->(3) In long also How does it differ from 3NF? Provide appropriate example.(2) 26. What is difference between super key and candidate key? 27. What are Object-based logical models? Describe any one. 28. What is data abstraction? Mention its level. 29. What is usage of foreign key? Explain with example. 30. What is difference between IN and = operator. 31. What is data manager? List responsibilities of database manager.(2) 32. What are disadvantage of normalization? In which condition you need to denormalize the database? 33. State difference between column level and row level constraints. 34. List out rules derived from Armstrongs axioms. 35. Differentiate between partial and primary key. 36. What is referential integrity? How can you achieve it? 37. What is cascade update and cascade delete? 38. How to set relationship between tables in access? Or explain foreign key.

Long Questions: 1. Define Multivalued Dependency. What problem it creates? Explain with
example. What methods are applied to overcome it?(2)

2. Explain the structure of DBMS.(3) 3. Explain FPS. Discuss the disadvantages of FPS.(2) 4. Define normalization? Explain process of Normalization. With an 5.
example, try to normalize up to 3rd Normal form.(6) Explain various kinds of Keys. Explain with example(3)

6. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of DBMS.-->(2) 7. Explain in detail how data are abstracted in DBMS OR Data Abstraction.(3) 8. What is data dictionary? How the data dictionary is maintained? Discuss integrity related issues pertaining to data dictionary.(2) 9. Describe the concept of Generalization, Specialization and Aggregation.(7) 10. Explain Relational data model and Object oriented data model->(2) difference between them. 11. Write a note on Loss-less join decomposition.(2) 12. Difference between DBMS and FPS. 13.Explain various types of database users.(2) 14.Discuss concept of decomposition. Explain characteristics of decomposition. (2) 15.Explain various kinds of integrity constraints.(2) 16. Explain data consistency. 17. Define relationship. Explain types of relationship with example. 18. Explain entity set and types of attributes in detail.(2) 19. Explain the components of DBMS. 20. Write a note on anomalies in database during insertion, deletion and updating. 21. What is sub-query? Explain the execution of sub-query. Also explain IN operator. 22. What is DBA? Explain the responsibilities of DBA. 23. What is purpose of mapping cardinality? Explain it with example.

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