Data Base Management Systems (CBSE (UGC) NET)

Data Base Management System

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an advantage of the hierarchical data model?

  1. Complication in implementation
  2. Structural reliance
  3. Database integrity
  4. Hardware expense
  5. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is utilised for running user interface?

  1. Data model
  2. Database client
  3. Database server
  4. Network data model
  5. Database
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the most extensively accepted criterion for the classification of a database?

  1. Based on the number of users
  2. Based on the number of sites
  3. Based on cost
  4. Based on purpose
  5. Based on data model
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is/are capable of reading, but cannot perform updation of local data items?

  1. Local-read protocol
  2. Local transactions
  3. Global-read protocol
  4. Global transactions
  5. Primary-copy locking
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is used by data grids to offer better quality of service (QoS) to users and applications?

  1. Adaptive query processing in data grid
  2. Adaptive query processing in internet applications
  3. Adaptive query processing in web-based data integration
  4. Adaptive query processing in wide area database systems
  5. Detecting and correcting optimiser
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following offers the information needed to handle organisations in an efficient and effective manner?

  1. DBA
  2. CODASYL
  3. IMS
  4. ODBMS
  5. ERP
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is/are used by the recovery process when the transaction operations do not update the physical database instantly?

  1. Write-ahead
  2. Redundant transaction logs
  3. Database buffer
  4. Deferred-write and deferred-update
  5. Write-through
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following databases is prepared for assisting one client and offers him some quality of data proficiency?

  1. Personal database
  2. Two-tier client/server database
  3. Multi-tier client/server database
  4. Enterprise application
  5. Enterprise resource planning
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Merging of the sorted runs is carried out over in one or more phases in which of the following?

  1. Sorting phase
  2. Linear search
  3. Merging phase
  4. Hash key
  5. None of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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?

  1. Greedy algorithm
  2. Mobile database system
  3. Query optimisation
  4. Multi-query optimisation
  5. Query tree
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. recovery schedule
  2. managing rollback using locking
  3. deadlock detection by timeout
  4. cascading rollback
  5. view serialisability
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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?

  1. Object server approach
  2. Page server approach
  3. File server approach
  4. Object clustering
  5. Heterogeneous operation
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following means executing different independent queries simultaneously on separate CPUs?

  1. Degree of parallelism
  2. Intra-query parallelism
  3. I/O parallelism
  4. Inter-query parallelism
  5. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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?

  1. Pipelined parallelism
  2. Partitioned parallelism
  3. Shared memory multiprocessor
  4. Shared nothing multiprocessor
  5. Shared disk multiprocessor
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following keeps data sorted and allows searches, sequential access, insertions and deletions in logarithmic time?

  1. B-tree index
  2. Concurrency control
  3. Database element
  4. Database recovery
  5. Scheduler