Database Management System Questions and Answers Part-5

1. The language which has recently become the defacto standard for interfacing application programs with relational database system is
a) Oracle
b) SQL
c) DBase
d) 4GL

Answer: b

2. The way a particular application views the data from the database that the application uses is a
a) module
b) relational model
c) schema
d) sub schema

Answer: d

3. In an E-R diagram an entity set is represent by a
a) rectangle
b) ellipse
c) diamond box
d) circle

Answer: a

4. A report generator is used to
a) update files
b) print files on paper
c) data entry
d) delete files

Answer: b

5. The property / properties of a database is / are :
a) It is an integrated collection of logically related records
b) It consolidates separate files into a common pool of data records
c) Data stored in a database is independent of the application programs using it
d) All of the above

Answer: d

6. The DBMS language component which can be embedded in a program is
a) The data definition language (DDL)
b) The data manipulation language (DML)
c) The database administrator (DBA)
d) A query language

Answer: b

7. A relational database developer refers to a record as
a) a criteria
b) a relation
c) a tuple
d) an attribute

Answer: c

8. The relational model feature is that there
a) is no need for primary key data
b) is much more data independence than some other database models
c) are explicit relationships among records
d) are tables with many dimensions

Answer: b

9. Conceptual design
a) is a documentation technique
b) needs data volume and processing frequencies to determine the size of the database
c) involves modelling independent of the DBMS
d) is designing the relational model

Answer: c

10. The method in which records are physically stored in a specified order according to a key field in each record is
a) hash
b) direct
c) sequential
d) all of the above

Answer: a