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Database Management Systems

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Database Management Systems (DBMS) form the core framework for data storage, retrieval, and security in modern software applications. Concepts such as the E-R model, backup planning, SQL integration, and big data architecture are essential for computer knowledge sections. This hub offers a comprehensive set of practice questions to master DBMS fundamentals and advanced database operations.

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Database Management Systems Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Remote transaction

  2. Distributed query optimization

  3. Distributed database

  4. Either remote transaction or distributed database

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Distributed query optimisation reduces the amount of required data transfer, when compared to transferring all the table data to the local site for processing.

Multiple choice
  1. Forget phase

  2. Prepare phase

  3. Commit phase

  4. Either Forget phase or Commit phase

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In prepare phase, the system does not actually commit or roll back the transaction instead all nodes referenced in a distributed transaction is told to prepare to commit.

Multiple choice
  1. EMBL

  2. Index Medicus

  3. Embase

  4. PubMed

  5. GoPubMed

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE) is a biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug.

Multiple choice
  1. A repository of data.

  2. A data transaction technique.

  3. A data processor.

  4. A data updation location.

  5. A data dump yard.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A data mart is a repository of data gathered from operational data and other sources that are designed to serve a particular community of knowledge workers.