Data Base Management Systems (CBSE (UGC) NET)
Data Base Management System
Questions
Which of the following is an advantage of the hierarchical data model?
- Complication in implementation
- Structural reliance
- Database integrity
- Hardware expense
- None of these
Which of the following is utilised for running user interface?
- Data model
- Database client
- Database server
- Network data model
- Database
Which of the following is the most extensively accepted criterion for the classification of a database?
- Based on the number of users
- Based on the number of sites
- Based on cost
- Based on purpose
- Based on data model
Which of the following is/are capable of reading, but cannot perform updation of local data items?
- Local-read protocol
- Local transactions
- Global-read protocol
- Global transactions
- Primary-copy locking
Which of the following is used by data grids to offer better quality of service (QoS) to users and applications?
- Adaptive query processing in data grid
- Adaptive query processing in internet applications
- Adaptive query processing in web-based data integration
- Adaptive query processing in wide area database systems
- Detecting and correcting optimiser
Which of the following offers the information needed to handle organisations in an efficient and effective manner?
- DBA
- CODASYL
- IMS
- ODBMS
- ERP
Which of the following is/are used by the recovery process when the transaction operations do not update the physical database instantly?
- Write-ahead
- Redundant transaction logs
- Database buffer
- Deferred-write and deferred-update
- Write-through
Which of the following databases is prepared for assisting one client and offers him some quality of data proficiency?
- Personal database
- Two-tier client/server database
- Multi-tier client/server database
- Enterprise application
- Enterprise resource planning
Merging of the sorted runs is carried out over in one or more phases in which of the following?
- Sorting phase
- Linear search
- Merging phase
- Hash key
- None of these
Which of the following methodologies is used for optimising a group of SQL queries with the help of common sub-expressions to save cost and time?
- Greedy algorithm
- Mobile database system
- Query optimisation
- Multi-query optimisation
- Query tree
On the failing of the transaction, the system is required to return to the situation that it was in before the transaction was initiated. It is called as
- recovery schedule
- managing rollback using locking
- deadlock detection by timeout
- cascading rollback
- view serialisability
In which of the following approaches do the client processors of OODBMS have an interaction with a network file service for reading and writing database pages?
- Object server approach
- Page server approach
- File server approach
- Object clustering
- Heterogeneous operation
Which of the following means executing different independent queries simultaneously on separate CPUs?
- Degree of parallelism
- Intra-query parallelism
- I/O parallelism
- Inter-query parallelism
- None of these
In which of the following approaches is one operation's output streamed into the input of some other operator and these two operators can function simultaneously in a series?
- Pipelined parallelism
- Partitioned parallelism
- Shared memory multiprocessor
- Shared nothing multiprocessor
- Shared disk multiprocessor
Which of the following keeps data sorted and allows searches, sequential access, insertions and deletions in logarithmic time?
- B-tree index
- Concurrency control
- Database element
- Database recovery
- Scheduler