Explore topic-wise MCQs in Engineering.

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501.

Synchronization for pull replication is less disruptive and occurs only when needed by each site, not when a central master site thinks it is best to update.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
502.

Most plug-ins download slowly because they are rather large files.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
503.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the chief standards body for HTTP and HTML.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
504.

XML is a rapidly developing scripting language that may, in conjunction with XHTML, replace HTML.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
505.

XSL is a language used to develop style sheets from XML documents.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
506.

SQL Server automatically creates an index on all primary and foreign keys.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
507.

An SQL Server reserved word must be placed in brackets. If the word is not in brackets, SQL Server will try to interpret it as the name of one of its special words.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
508.

With SQL Server, parameters and variables in T-SQL start with the "%" sign.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
509.

Nonclustered indexes are faster than clustered indexes for retrieval.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
510.

SOAP uses HTTP as its only transport mechanism.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
511.

There is only one way to create and modify tables in SQL Server. Write SQL code using either the CREATE or ALTER statements.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
512.

The DTD defines the structure of XML documents.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
513.

If a document does not conform to the DTD, it is a bad XML document.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
514.

The relational database model was created by E.F. Codd.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
515.

XSLT processors are context-oriented; each statement is evaluated in the context of the match that has been made.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
516.

Web page display is the most important application of XML.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
517.

A database is called "self-describing" because it contains a description of itself.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
518.

A OLE DB rowset is an abstraction of a relation, which in turn is an abstraction of a recordset.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
519.

ODBC identifies two types of drivers: single tier and multiple-tier.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
520.

A data source is an ODBC data structure that identifies a database and the DBMS that processes it.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
521.

Users of OLE DB functionality are referred to as data providers.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
522.

Better security occurs if Windows-only authentication is selected.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
523.

SQL Server AFTER Triggers may be assigned views.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
524.

'dbo' stands for database object.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
525.

An OLE DB interface is specified by a set of objects and the properties and methods that they expose.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
526.

With SQL Server optimistic locking, an update lock is placed on the row when the row is read.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
527.

By default, SQL Server will create one data file and one log file for each newly created database.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
528.

A OLE DB collection is an object that contains a group of other objects.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
529.

OLE DB has two types of data providers: tabular data providers and service providers.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
530.

The driver manager processes ODBC requests and submits specific SQL statements to a given type of data source.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
531.

The process of defining a system data source name involves specifying the type of driver and the identity of the database to be processed.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
532.

ADO overlies the more complex OLE DB model, and can be called for scripting languages but not programming languages.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
533.

A user data source is one that can be shared among database users.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
534.

ODBC provides an interface by which Web server programs can access and process relational data sources in a DBMS-independent manner.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
535.

The ADO connection object is created after the ADO errors object is created.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
536.

A differential backup makes a copy of the entire database.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
537.

SQL Server supports three recovery modes: simple, full and Bulk.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
538.

With SQL Server pessimistic locking, no lock is obtained until the user updates the data.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
539.

SQL Server supports INSTEAD OF, AFTER and BEFORE triggers.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
540.

SQL Server supports two kinds of indexes: clustered and nonclustered.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
541.

SQL Server supports a language called Transact-SQL (also called T-SQL).

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
542.

The .NET languages are the most popular languages for writing stored procedures in SQL Server 2000.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
543.

ODBC is a foundation of data access in the specifically Microsoft world.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
544.

An abstraction is a generalization of something.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
545.

The semijoin approach saves network traffic.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
546.

In a semijoin, only the joining attribute is sent from one site to another, and then only the required rows are returned.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
547.

An OLE DB rowset is equivalent to a cursor.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
548.

A file data source is one that is local to a single computer.

A. True
B. False
Answer» C.
549.

The cost to perform a snapshot refresh may depend on whether the snapshot is simple or complex.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
550.

The purpose of timestamping is to avoid the use of locks.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False