1. Which of the following options is TRUE about applications developed with Embedded SQL?

A. Application code is embedded inside the DB2 database.

B. Application needs to be precompiled.

C. Application can be directly compiled by the programming language compiler.

D. Application code can be compiled by DB2 compiler.

2) The link between a column or set of columns in one table that refers to the set of column in another table is?
A. Pointer

B. Cursor

C. Primary key

D. Foreign key

3) Given the following table:

 USERS
--------------------------
ID           INTEGER NOT NULL
NAME         CHAR(20) NOT NULL
PASSWORD     VARCHAR(30)
 
Which INSERT statement is NOT correct?
A. INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 23, 'Jim', 'password')

B. INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 23, 'Jim', NULL )

C. INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 23, '', 'password')

D. INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 23, NULL, 'password')

4) Which of the following is the best implementation for a User Defined Function that emphasizes on database
operations, considering that performance is critical to the application?
A. Java external function

B. SQL PL function 

C. Composed function

D. C built-in function

 5) Which of the following is NOT a valid approach for storing XML documents?

A. Shredding XML documents into tables in a RDBMS

B. Storing XML documents in CLOB columns

C. Inserting XML documents in an integer column

D. Using an external XML-only database

6) The four basic SQL statements of the Data Manipulation Language are:

A. SELECT, INSERT, ALTER, DROP

B. CREATE, INSERT, ALTER, DROP

C. UPDATE, DROP, INSERT, REMOVE

D. INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT

7) Which of the following is NOT true about Database Management Systems?

A. Relational Database Management Systems use Structured Query Language to interact with
databases.
B. Database Management Systems act as an interface used to communicate with databases. 

C. Applications can choose to bypass the Database Management System when accessing databases for
performance reasons.
D. DB2 is a Database Management System.

8) A database can be used to do which of the following?

A. Create a repository of data.

B. Provide an organized mechanism for manipulating data.

C. Provide support for data processing.

D. All of the above.

9) The type of data structure that is used in a relational model is?

A. Table

B. Tree

C. Node

D. None of the above

10) Which privilege is required to invoke a user-defined function?

A. REFERENCES
B. EXECUTE

C. CALL

D. USAGE

11) Considering you have a server with 4 processor cores and 8GB of memory, which of the following is the
lowest cost DB2 edition that can be used to take advantage of all server's resources?
A. DB2 Enterprise Edition

B. DB2 Workgroup Edition

C. DB2 Express Edition

D. DB2 Express-C Edition

12) User X needs access to server A and B, while user Y needs access to server B, C and D, how many DB2
server licenses by PVU do they need in total assuming all users can be using all machines they have access to at
the same time?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

13) Which is a true statement about Namespaces?

A. Namespaces are the same as a root node within an XML document. 

B. Namespaces are types of nodes within XML documents.

C. Namespaces help to distinguish between same element names in different domains.

D. Namespaces help to uniquely identify XML elements by associating them to an URL, which is a valid
web page.

14) Which of the following statements is true about constraints?

A. A constraint can be added to an existing table using the ALTER TABLE statement.

B. Two or more same values can be assigned to the column when there is a unique constraint.

C. The NOT NULL constraint can be used to ensure that a particular column in a table is never
assigned a zero value
D. The predefined value assigned by a default constraint can not be overwritten.
15) One transaction is trying to acquire a lock to modify a row in table A. Consider the database lock timeout
(locktimeout) parameter is set to 20 and that DB2 checks for deadlocks every 60 seconds. What will happen to
the transaction after 20 seconds waiting?
A. DB2 will randomly select one application and rollback its current transaction to try to free up the lock
being held.
B. The application will rollback and the application will receive an error.

C. The application will commit but the operation waiting for the lock is not completed.

D. The application will commit because after 20 seconds are passed the transaction acquires the lock by
force.

16) Which of the following is FALSE about DB2 Instances?

A. It has a stand-alone DB2 environment.

B. Only one instance can exist using the same DB2 executable files.

C. Each instance has its own configuration file. 

D. There could be multiple instances per data server.

17) Consider the following scenario. You are currently connected to a database called MYDB as the user
MYUSER. When creating a table within this database, you use the command:
 
CREATE TABLE MYTABLE (DEPT CHAR(3) NOT NULL)
 
Under which schema is the table MYTABLE created?

A. MYDB

B. MYUSER

C. DB2INST1

D. You get an error because your command is ambiguous, as the table schema is not specified.

18) Consider the following. As the user MYUSER, you issue the following command:
 
        CREATE ALIAS A1 for T1
 
What will be the result of the command?

A. The alias DEFAULT.A1 is created for DEFAULT.T1.

B. The alias MYUSER.A1 is created for MYUSER.T1.

C. The alias ALIAS.A1 is created for ALIAS.T1.

D. You get an error because your command is ambiguous, as the schema is not specified.

19) What is SAX?

A. A parsing mechanism, which uses stream events to process XML nodes.

B. A parsing mechanism, which uses a binary tree-based algorithm to process XML nodes.

C. A parsing mechanism, which uses a character-based algorithm to process XML nodes.

D. A parsing mechanism, which uses the PHP SAX interface to process XML nodes.

20) Which of the following statements is TRUE about transactions?

A. Operations inside a transaction are executed in parallel.

B. Several COMMIT statements can be executed inside the same transaction.

C. Transactions guarantee atomicity of a group of operations.

D. A COMMIT can be executed right after a ROLLBACK statement in order to revert the effects of the
ROLLBACK. 

21) In relational terminology, an attribute is?

A. A record

B. An entity

C. A field

D. A table

22) Assuming that you are currently connected to TESTDB, which of the following will allow the view of the
database manager settings with details?

A. db2 get dbmcfg with details

B. db2 get dbmcfg show detail

C. db2 get dbcfg with details

D. db2 get dbcfg show detail 

23) Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding Buffer Pools on DB2?

A. Smaller buffer pool works better for a small, sequentially accessed table space.

B. Larger buffer pool works better for a table space for an OLTP application.
C. A database can have more than one Buffer Pool.

D. A table space can have only one Buffer Pool associated to it.

24) Which of the following is NOT displayed by DB2 Access Plan?

A. Properties for operators

B. Indexes or columns

C. Global information

D. Authorization type

25) Which of the following is the correct syntax for using the XMLTRANSFORM SQL/XML function?

A. UPDATE XSLTRANSFORM (XMLDOC USING XSLT) FROM XMLDATA, XMLTRANS  

WHERE ID = 1 and XSLID = 2 ;
B. SELECT FROM XSLTRANSFORM (XMLDOC USING XSLT) FROM XMLDATA, XMLTRANS  
WHERE ID = 1 and XSLID = 2 ;
C. SELECT INTO XSLTRANSFORM (XMLDOC USING XSLT) FROM XMLDATA, XMLTRANS  
WHERE ID = 1 and XSLID = 2 ;
D. SELECT XSLTRANSFORM (XMLDOC USING XSLT) FROM XMLDATA, XMLTRANS  
WHERE ID = 1 and XSLID = 2 ;

26) Which of the following isolation levels lets you see data that has been updated by other applications before
it is committed?

A. Cursor stability

B. Read stability

C. Repeatable read

D. Uncommitted read

27) Which of the following statements can be used to increase in 10% the salary of all employess in department
D1:

A. UPDATE employees WHERE dept = 'D1' SET salary = salary * 1.1

B. UPDATE employees SET salary = (salary * 1.1)

C. UPDATE employees SET salary = salary * 1.1 WHERE dept = 'D1'

D. UPDATE salary = salary * 1.1 ON TABLE employees WHERE dept = 'D1'

28) Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Licensing by PVU is available on DB2 Express-C edition.

B. DB2 Express-C includes support to Table Partitioning.

C. DB2 Express can only be licensed by Authorized User.

D. The Storage Optimization feature for DB2 Enterprise edition includes Row, Index, Temporary
Table and XML Compression.

29) What is the lowest privilege/authority required to execute the following SQL statement?
 
CREATE VIEW view1 AS SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE AGE > 18
A. REFERENCES privilege on table1

B. SELECT privilege on table1

C. DBADM authority

D. SYSADM authority

30) Consider a table TAB1 having the following values:

        TAB1
-----------------
COL1         COL2
----         ----
A            10
B            20
C            30
A            10
D            40
C            20
 Consider the result of a given query:
COL1
----
A
B
C
D
Which of the following statements would produce the given query result:
A. SELECT COL1 FROM TAB1 ORDER BY COL1 FETCH FIRST 4 ROWS ONLY

B. SELECT COL1 FROM TAB1 FETCH FIRST 4 ROWS ONLY

C. SELECT DISTINCT COL1 FROM TAB1

D. SELECT UNIQUE COL1 FROM TAB1

31. In client-server environment, which two can be used to verify passwords?

A) System Catalog
B) User ID/password file
C) Client Operating System
D) Communications layer
 E) Application Server

32. Which two authorities allow a user to create a new database?

A) SYSADMN
B) SYSCTRL
C) SYSMAINT
D) DBADM
E) CREATEDB

33. Which will allow user USER1 to change the comment associated with a table named TABLE1?
A) GRANT UPDATE ON TABLE table1 TO user1
B) GRANT CONTROL ON TABLE table1 TO user1
C) GRANT ALTER ON TABLE table1 TO user1
D) GRANT REFERENCES ON TABLE table1 TO user1

34. Which two database objects may the SELECT privilege be controlled?
A) Sequence
B) Nickname
C) Schema
D) View
E) Index

35. Which two privileges is required in order to use a package?

A) BINDADD
B) BIND
C) CONNECT
D) EXECUTE
E) USE
36. Which of the following is not true about DB2 Instances:
A) It has a stand-alone DB2 environment.
B) Only one instance can exist using the same DB2 executable files.
C) Each instance has its own configuration file.
D) There could be multiple instances per data server.

37. Which of the following is not correct for Workgroup servers

A) Limited to 16GB memory
B) Available for Linux, Unix, Windows, zLinux
C) Limited to 16 processing cores or 4 sockets
D) Designed for larger workloads than DB2 Express

38. Which of the following commands below to drop(if it already exists) sample database
A) db2 drop sample
B) db2 drop db
C) drop db sample
D) db2 drop db sample

39. ...is an ordered set of pointers inside a base table.

A) index
B) trigger
C) sequence
D) view

40. In the following statement db2_node indicates..

catalog tcpip node db2_node remote mysystem server db2tcp42
A) Host name
B) Ip address
C) Alias name
D) service name

41. Which of following best describe the below statement:

create database TESTDB2 ON c:
A) database is created on drive C:
B) automatic storage is enabled
C) storage path is c:
D) None of the above

42. If table TABLE1 contains 250 rows, which of the following statement will only return
the first 25 of the rows?
A) SELECT * FROM table1 MAXROWS 25
B) SELECT * FROM table1 RETURN FIRST 25 ROWS
C) SELECT * FROM table1 WHILE ROW < 25
D) SELECT * FROM table1 FETCH FIRST 25 ROWS ONLY

43. Given the following table:

USERS
--------------------------
ID INTEGER NOT NULL
NAME CHAR(20) NOT NULL
PASSWORD VARCHAR(30)
Which INSERT statement is not correct?

A) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, 'ABC', 'xyz')

B) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, 'ABC', NULL )
C) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, '', 'xyz')
D) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, NULL, 'xyz')

44. Which of the following statements can be used to increase the marks of all
students in science subject by 10%:
A) UPDATE student WHERE subject = ‘science’ SET marks = marks * 1.1
B) UPDATE student SET marks = (marks * 1.1)
C) UPDATE student SET marks = marks * 1.1 WHERE subject = ‘science’
D) UPDATE marks = marks * 1.1 ON TABLE student WHERE subject = ‘science'

45. Which of the following is not true for Views:

A) provide a logical ordering of the rows of a table
B) can be used to enforce the uniqueness of records stored in a table.
C) provide a fast, efficient method for locating specific rows of data in very large tables.
D) can force a table to not use clustering storage
1) Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A. The ALTER sequence privilege allows a user to perform administrative tasks like restarting the
sequence, changing the increment value for the sequence, and add or change the comment associated
with the sequence. 
B. When the GRANT statement is executed with the WITH GRANT OPTION clause specified, the
user/group receiving privileges is given the ability to grant the CONTROL privilege to others.
C. The USAGE privilege is the sequence privilege that allows a user to use the PREVIOUS VALUE and
NEXT VALUE expressions that are associated with the sequence.
D. The ALTER privilege for tables allows a user to modify the structure of a table.

2) Given the following tables with the given data:

 
     STUDENT
------------------
name         id
-----        -----
Jim           1
Sarah         2
Frank         3
 
    PROFESSOR
------------------
name         course
-----        -----
Jenny        PHY_102
Mark         MAT_202
Angie        DB_101
Jenny        CSI_201

  ENROLL
------------------
student_id   course_id
------       -----
2            PHY_102
2            DB_101
3            PHY_102
1            CSI_201
3            MAT_202
 
After executing the query:
 
SELECT P.name, COUNT AS COUNT FROM STUDENT LEFT JOIN ENROLL
        ON id=student_id, PROFESSOR AS P
        GROUP BY P.name
 
What would the result be?
A. NAME             COUNT
---------------- --------
Angie            1
Jenny            3
Mark             1
B. NAME             COUNT
---------------- --------
Angie            6
Jenny            12
Mark             6
C. NAME             COUNT
---------------- --------
Angie            1
Jenny            2
Mark             1
D. NAME             COUNT
---------------- --------
Angie            3
Jenny            6
Mark             3

3) Which of the following statements is correct?

A. All JOIN operators can be expressed as a combination of SELECT statements and cartesian products

B. The cartesian product of 2 sets will never have duplicate rows

C. INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN of 2 tables will always be different

D. Adding GROUP BY to a SELECT statement will always return less rows than the same SELECT
statement without the GROUP BY clause.

4) Which of the following is true about Dynamic SQL?

A. It is precompiled and binded in dynamic databases.
B. The structured of an SQL statement must be completely specified at precompile time.

C. It is compiled and executed by an application at run-time. 

D. Dynamic SQL does not exist.

5) Consider TB1 has no rows initially and that the auto commit feature is disabled. After execution of the
following statements, how many rows will be inserted in TB1?
 
INSERT INTO TB1 VALUES (1, 'ABC')
INSERT INTO TB1 VALUES (2, 'DEF')
COMMIT
INSERT INTO TB1 VALUES (3, 'GHI')
ROLLBACK
COMMIT
A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3 

6) Consider the following IMPORT statement:

 IMPORT FROM /data/dept.del of DEL
XML FROM /data/xmlfiles
INSERT INTO dept
 
The table dept contains three columns: CID (INTEGER), NAME(VARCHAR(10)), INFO(XML). Which of the
following /data/dept.del import files will be accepted by DB2?

A. 1000, "John Smith", <XDS FIL=C1.xml/>

1001,"Jane Doe", <XDS FIL=C2.xml/>
1002, "Mary David", <XDS FIL=C3.xml/>
B. 1000, "John Smithson", "<XDS FIL='C1.xml' />"
1001,"Jane Doe", "<XDS FIL='C2.xml' />"
1002, "Mary David", "<XDS FIL='C3.xml' />"
C. 1000, "John Smith", "<XDS= 'C1.xml' />"
1001,"Jane Doe", "<XDS= 'C2.xml' />"
1002, "Mary David", "<XDS= 'C3.xml' />"
D. 1000, "John Smith", "<XDS FIL='C1.xml' />"
1001,"Jane Doe", "<XDS FIL='C2.xml' />"
1002, "Mary David", "<XDS FIL='C3.xml' />"

7) If table TABLE1 contains 50 rows, which of the following statement will only return the first five of the
rows?
A. SELECT * FROM table1 MAXROWS 5

B. SELECT * FROM table1 RETURN FIRST 5 ROWS

C. SELECT * FROM table1 WHILE ROW < 5

D. SELECT * FROM table1 FETCH FIRST 5 ROWS ONLY

8) If the current session has an isolation level of CS, which of the following will change the isolation level to
UR for the current statement?

A. SELECT * FROM sample ISOLATION UR

B. SELECT * FROM sample UR

C. SELECT * FROM sample USE UR

D. SELECT * FROM sample WITH UR

 9) Which of the following commands can be used to undo operations executed inside a unit of work?
A. COMMIT

B. ROLLBACK

C. RETURN

D. UNDO TRANSACTION

10) Consider the following statement. "Indexes can be created on computed columns." Is this statement:
A. True.

B. False.

C. True, but only when the column data is produced by a sequence.

D. False, but only when the column data is produced by a sequence.

11) Which of the following statements CANNOT be issued against indexes?

A. CREATE

B. ALTER

C. DROP

D. All of the above can be issued against indexes.

12) Which of the following is NOT a valid DB2 Table Space ?

A. User Table Spaces

B. System Temporary Table Spaces

C. Metadata Table Spaces

D. User Temporary Table Spaces

13) The Data Manipulation Language is used to:

A. select, insert, update, or delete database records

B. create, modify, or drop database objects

C. provide data object access control

D. all of the above

14) The SELECT privilege is NOT available for which of the following database objects?
A. Sequence 

B. Nickname

C. View

D. Table

15) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the case when a client using the
SERVER_ENCRYPT authentication type connects to a server using the SERVER authentication type?
A. Data will be passed to the server encrypted.

B. Data will be passed to the server unencrypted.

C. Server will be unable to process the encrypted data and an error will occur.

D. None of the above is true.

16) In the following situation:

 
Suday: full backup
Monday: delta incremental
Tuesday: incremental
Wednesday: delta incremental 
Thursday: system crashed
 
Which of the following options contains the correct restore order so that the database can be restored to the last
stable moment before the crash?
A. Restore the incremental backup from Tuesday and the incremental backup from Wednesday, then roll
forward the database using the transaction log files.
B. Restore only the delta incremental backup from Wednesday.

C. Restore the full backup from Sunday, the incremental cumulative backup from Tuesday, the
incremental delta from Wednesday, then roll forward the database using the transaction log files.
D. Restore the full backup from Sunday, the delta incremental from Wednesday, then roll forward the
transaction log files.
17) Which of the following is true about the table below?
 
CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (
ID    INTEGER NOT NULL,
NAME        VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
EXTENSION   INTEGER NOT NULL,
MANAGER     VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL
 
PRIMARY KEY         (ID));
 
TERMINATE;
 
ID       NAME             EXTENSION    MANAGER
1        John S           53412        Y
2        Susan P          54123        N
3        Jennifer L       51234        N
A. ID is a value found in the EMPLOYEE table

B. ID, 1, 2, 3 makes up a row in the EMPLOYEE table

C. The MANAGER domain consists only of the value Y

D. NAME, John S, Susan P, Jennifer L makes up a column in the EMPLOYEE table

18) Consider a Stored Procedure with the following definition:

 
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE proc1 (IN p2 VARCHAR(20))
BEGIN
…
END
@
 
Using DB2 CLP, which of the following commands would successfully execute procedure PROC1?
A. CALL proc1(DEFAULT)

B. CALL proc1(?)

C. CALL proc1(NULL)

D. None of the above

19) Which of the following packages have the smallest footprint but is still suitable for executing JDBC
applications?
A. IBM Data Server Client

B. IBM Data Server Runtime Client

C. IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ

D. IBM Data Server Driver Package

20) Which of the following is NOT a definition of a relation?
A. A relation may be thought of as a set of columns.

B. Each row represents a fact that corresponds to a real-world entity or relationship

C. Each row has a value of an item or set of items that uniquely identifies that row in the table

D. Each column typically is called by its column name or column header or attribute name

21) Which of the following information is NOT part of the backup file name?
A. Database alias

B. Timestamp of the backup

C. Instance name

D. Backup type

22) Which of the following commands produces a backup image from a database?
A. START BACKUP DATABASE SAMPLE USING D:\bkp

B. BACKUP DATABASE SAMPLE TARGET= D:\bkp

C. BACKUP DATABASE SAMPLE TO D:\bkp

D. START BACKUP DATABASE SAMPLE TO D:\bkp

23) Which of the following is NOT true about data?

A. Data is useful and has meaning associated to it.

B. Data can be quantitative or qualitative.

C. Data describes a variable or set of variables.

D. Essentially data can be thought of as the result of observations based on things like measurements
and statistics.

24) Which of the following is NOT a valid authentication type that can be used by DB2?
A. CLIENT

B. CLIENT_ENCRYPT

C. SERVER

D. SERVER_ENCRYPT
25) Given the options below, which of the following statements can alter a table?
A. ALTER

B. CHANGE

C. UPDATE

D. Once a table is defined and created it cannot be altered.

26) Which one of the following is a valid XPATH expression to retrieve an attribute value within an XML
document?
A. /customerinfo/name/cid

B. /customerinfo/name/text(@cid)

C. /customerinfo/name/data(@cid)

D. /customerinfo/name/"cid"

27) Which of the following languages can NOT be used to create a UDF in DB2 9.7?
A. Perl

B. SQL PL

C. Java

D. C#

28) A foreign key must?

A. Be defined in all tables in the database

B. Match the field value of a primary key in a related table or be NULL.

C. Be unique

D. Be numeric

29) Which of the following statements is incorrect?

A. A user can define multiple indexes for a single table in DB2.

B. An index for a table is used to improve SQL query performance.

C. An index can be defined on a view.

D. None of the above.

30) Which of the following is FALSE about DSAC?

A. Database must be added to the connection list before it can be monitored.

B. Dashboard tab displays performance metrics and their values.

C. Alert List tab shows warnings associated for each database.

D. Healthy Summary tab summarizes the status of the last operation to run in the database.

41. Which is not the isolation in db2?

A) repeateable read
B) uncommited read
C) currently commited
D) all are isolation levels

42. Which isolation is default in DB2 9.7 version?

A) cursor stability
B) read stability
C) currently commited
D) none of these

43. How to off currently committed isolation level?

A) update command options using cur_commit off
B) update command options using currently commit of
C) update db cfg using cur_commit disabled
D) we can not make if of because it is default.

44. By default authentication for DB2 server is on?

A) server
B) client
C) kerboros
D) server_encrypt

45. A user wants to create objects within a schema which of the following privileges permits to perform the
same?
A. CONTROL
B. ALTER
C. REFERENCES
 CREATEIN

46. Which of the following types of backup are allowed if circular logging is used,:
A. Online full backup
B. Offline full backup
C. Online incremental backup
D. Offline incremental backup

47. If you need to execute SQL statements against a DB2 database from the command line Which of the
following
tools would you use ?
A. DB2 Task Center
B. DB2 Command Line Processor
C. DB2 Journal
D. DB2 Control Center

48. Regarding Buffer Pools which of the following statements is FALSE?

A. Buffer Pools work as a temporary memory of databases.
B. Committed data is stored in Buffer Pools..
 C. A database can only have one Buffer Pool.
D.Buffer pools lies inside a table space.

49. About Relational Databases and the Relational Data Model which of the following is true?
A. A table does not allow to store data.
B. A tuple is the smallest unit of data.
C. A column is the equivalent to a row.
D.A domain is the set of some possible values for a specific field

50. Which of the following commands will terminate your connection assuming that you are currently
connected
to a DB2 database,?
A. db2 connect reset
B. db2 connect upset
C. db2 connect kill
D.db2 connect end