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What do all database applications have?

Select one:
a. A front-end and a back-end.
b. An application port interface (API) and a data pipe (DP)
c. An error-correction system and a recovery system
d. High level end-to-end encryption
e. A data port and a telenovela feed

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What two main types of indices exist in databases?

Select one:
a. Multiple and singular indices
b. Internal and external indices
 c. Ordered and hash indices
d. Upper and lower indices
e. Encrypted and decrypted indices

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Logical, physical and view levels are elements of the model of…

Select one:
a. Entity Relationship (ER)
b. Data Abstraction
c. Domain Model Language (DML)
d. Domain Object Model (DOM)
e. Backup and Recovery

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What do you call a statement that the system executes automatically as a side effect of a
modification to the database.

Select one:
 a. A finger
b. A bump
c. A trigger
d. A snap
e. A wedge

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What does the Acronym SQL stand for?

Select one:
a. Select Query Logic
b. Structured Query Language
c. Similar Query Listing
d. Search Query Listing
e. Search Query Language

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In databases, what is a common name for a unit of storage that can store one or more records?

Select one:
a. A barrel
b. A cask
c. A bottle
d. A bucket
e. A flask

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What is a method of recovery from a deadlock?

Select one:
a. Dieting
b. Weightwatching
c. Detoxing
d. Starvation
e. Fasting

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What kind of cardinality does NOT exist in databases?

Select one:
a. one-to-one
b. one-to-many
c. some-to-some
d. many-to-one
e. many-to-many

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What statement do you need to type in SQL to take away access rights from a user?

Select one:
a. TAKE
b. KILL
c. REVOKE
d. LOSE
e. DENY

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Which of the following is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing
database management systems?

Select one:
a. CORBA
b. BINGO
c. JPLUS
d. ODBC
e. DB2

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What is the purpose of “degree-two consistency”?

Select one:
a. To avoid cascading aborts without necessarily ensuring serializability.
b. To avoid serializable aborts without necessarily ensuring a cascade.
c. To avoid aborting cascades without serializing ensurability.
d. To abort cascading avoidances without ensuring serializability.
e. To ensure cascading aborts without avoiding serializability
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In order to ensure efficient and secure data storage on magnetic disks, a variety of disk-
organization techniques exist. What is the collective name for them?

Select one:
a. Integrated drive electronics (IDE)
b. Redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID)
c. Small computer systems interconnect (SCSI)
d. AT attachment (ATA)
e. Magnetic Unit Detection (MUD)

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What do you call an index if the index record contains the search-key value and a pointer to the
first data record with that search-key value?

Select one:
a. A loose primary index
b. A dense primary index
c. A compact primary index
 d. A sparse primary index
e. A crowded primary index

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What is typically used as to manage concurrency control in databases?

Select one:
a. Control bits
b. Timestamps
c. Version numbers
d. Error correction algorithms
e. Training of database users

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What is a fundamental security objective for databases?

Select one:
a. Data cleansing
 b. Smooth flow of data
c. Data aesthetics
d. Access control
e. Data normalization

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When you wish to graphically express a database schema in an E-R diagram, which of the
followingrepresents entity sets?

Select one:
a. Rectangles
b. Ellipses
c. Diamonds
d. Lines
e. Dots

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What do you call it if you restore data from a backup?

Select one:
a. Recursion
b. Reincarnation
c. Recovery
d. Recourse
e. Restitution

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Which is NOT a join type?

Select one:
a. Upper join
b. Inner join
c. Left outer join
d. Right outer join
e. Full outer join

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In computing and/or databases, a bottleneck is a…

Select one:
a. place where the data stream gets more narrow.
b. place where the data stream goes faster.
c. thing that causes a traffic jam on the data highway.
d. component of a system that is responsible for limiting its performance.
e. component of a system that is not responsible for limiting its performance.

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What is NOT an example for physical storage media?

Select one:
a. Tape storage
b. Optical storage
c. Cache
d. Main Memory
e. Cloud

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One of the more common buffer replacement strategies is called LRU. What is its meaning?

Select one:

a. Lost, received, uncovered

b. Last record used

c. Latest relation uploaded

d. Least recently used

e. Long RAM usage

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What is the meaning of the NULL value in databases?

Select one:

a. Absence of information.

b. You cannot safely overwrite this value.

c. Everything you write in this data field will become NULL.

 d. No user can access this value.

e. Division by this value will result in catastrophic data loss.

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What is it called when you exchange a hard disk without turning the computer’s power off?

Select one:

a. Heat hopping

b. Running hot

c. Hot swapping

d. Warm switching

e. Fast tracking

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The round-robin strategy…

Select one:

a. … is known to be redundant, but there is no data operation without it.

b. … makes assumptions of efficiency of disks and writes comments in a log file.

c. … ensures an even distribution of tuples across disks.

d. … goes around the disk scanning for available space and earmarking it for the next write
transaction.

e. ... uses a spiraling search pattern to find and resolve data errors.

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SQL is a …

Select one:

a. Data Definition Language (DDL)

b. Database Control Language (DCL)

c. Database Command Interface (DCI)

d. Data Mining Programming Language (DMPL)

e. Data Retrieval Dialect (DRD)

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What operation is responsible for the retrieval of information from a database in a transaction
schedule?

Select one:

a. Get

b. Pull

c. See

d. Read

e. Retrieve

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Which of the following is NOT a property of transactions?

Select one:

a. Atomicity
 b. Consistency

c. Integrity

d. Isolation

e. Durability

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What two types of Data-Manipulation Languages (DML) do exist?

Select one:

a. Atomic and molecular DMLs

b. Big and little DMLs

c. General and specific DMLs

d. Ultraprocedural and infraprocedural DMLs

e. Procedural and declarative DMLs

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In database workflows, what kind of property can a deadline have?

Select one:

a. stringent

b. hard

c. opaque

d. solid

e. timed

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Which of the following are the main data types in mobile applications?

Select one:

a. Relational data, mobile data, meteological data

 b. Ubiquitous data, waypoints, numerical data

c. Temporal data, spatial data, mobile databases

d. Transactional data, phone numbers, backup/recovery data points

e. Fresh data, old data, mixed data.

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Which of the following is a requirement for databases when multimedia data are to be stored?

Select one:

a. The database must be wiped or have a clean install before using it for multimedia.

b. The database must support large objects.

c. The database must have a virus check for each write or read transaction.

d. The database must be kept in an encrypted data volume.

e. All of the above.

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How do you give a user access privileges in SQL?

Select one:

a. With the GIVE statement.

b. With the ACCESS statement.

c. With the AVAIL statement.

d. With the GRANT statement.

e. With the REVEAL statement.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that organizations should consider for backup
solutions?

Select one:

a. Reliability

b. Cost
 c. Capacity

d. Average usage rate

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What are the phases of a transaction?

Select one:

a. Control, check and read phase

b. Assert, commit and verify phase.

c. Put, get and execute phase.

d. Read, validation and write phase.

e. Leech, seed and share phase.

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Which of the following are partitioning techniques?

Select one:

a. Round-robin

b. Hash partitioning

c. Range partitioning

d. All of the above

e. None of the above