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				This section includes 49 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Structured Query Language (SQL) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. | In which directory are the DBI scripts located? | 
| A. | cgi-inc | 
| B. | cgi-bin | 
| C. | cgi-usr | 
| D. | cgi-perl | 
| Answer» C. cgi-usr | |
| 2. | Which is the log in which data changes received from a replication master server are written? | 
| A. | error log | 
| B. | general query log | 
| C. | binary log | 
| D. | relay log | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. | Multiple MySQL servers can be easily run on the same machine. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 4. | The program that performs logical backups is _____________ | 
| A. | mysqlimport | 
| B. | mysqldump | 
| C. | myslqpit | 
| D. | mysqllogic | 
| Answer» C. myslqpit | |
| 5. | In ‘mysqldump’ which option is used to make all tables in the destination databases to use a different storage engine? | 
| A. | –next-storage-engine | 
| B. | –new-storage-engine | 
| C. | –clear-storage-engine | 
| D. | –get-storage-engine | 
| Answer» C. –clear-storage-engine | |
| 6. | PHP scripts are located in the web client document tree. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 7. | In which context is the privilege ‘CREATE TABLESPACE’ applied? | 
| A. | Server administration | 
| B. | Tables | 
| C. | Stored routines | 
| D. | Views | 
| Answer» B. Tables | |
| 8. | Which program copies the databases from one server to another? | 
| A. | mysqldbcopy | 
| B. | mysqlcopydb | 
| C. | mysqlflushdb | 
| D. | mysqldbflush | 
| Answer» B. mysqlcopydb | |
| 9. | REPAIR TABLE works with how many of the following? | 
| A. | 0 | 
| B. | 1 | 
| C. | 2 | 
| D. | 3 | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. | To use ‘mysqldbcopy’ which privileges are required on the source server? | 
| A. | CREATE | 
| B. | INSERT | 
| C. | UPDATE | 
| D. | SELECT | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. | What are PHP variables preceded by? | 
| A. | _ | 
| B. | @ | 
| C. | $ | 
| D. | & | 
| Answer» D. & | |
| 12. | In PHP, how is the first element accessed if $a represents an array with numeric indices? | 
| A. | $a[1] | 
| B. | $a[0] | 
| C. | $a.1 | 
| D. | $a.0 | 
| Answer» C. $a.1 | |
| 13. | How is the output from PHP generated? | 
| A. | statically generated | 
| B. | dynamically generated | 
| C. | not generated | 
| D. | no output | 
| Answer» C. not generated | |
| 14. | CHECK TABLE works with how many of the following? | 
| A. | 0 | 
| B. | 1 | 
| C. | 2 | 
| D. | 3 | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. | The place where the server stores its databases and status files are called the data directory. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 16. | The MySQL server is poorly configurable. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 17. | The higher priority is ______________ | 
| A. | writes | 
| B. | reads | 
| C. | same priority | 
| D. | machine dependent | 
| Answer» B. reads | |
| 18. | Which data type is best suited to store currency values? | 
| A. | INT | 
| B. | FLOAT | 
| C. | DOUBLE | 
| D. | DECIMAL | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. | Which option is used in ‘mysqldump’ to make all tables in the destination databases to use a different storage engine? | 
| A. | –next-storage-engine | 
| B. | –new-storage-engine | 
| C. | –clear-storage-engine | 
| D. | –get-storage-engine | 
| Answer» C. –clear-storage-engine | |
| 20. | What is the default size of ‘max_binlog_cache_size’ system variable? | 
| A. | 1 GB | 
| B. | 2 GB | 
| C. | 4 GB | 
| D. | 8 GB | 
| Answer» D. 8 GB | |
| 21. | The metadata log is _______________ | 
| A. | error log | 
| B. | ddl log | 
| C. | binary log | 
| D. | relay log | 
| Answer» C. binary log | |
| 22. | How many of these can replace ‘level’ in ‘–myisam-recover = level’? | 
| A. | 0 | 
| B. | 1 | 
| C. | 2 | 
| D. | 3 | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. | The place where the server stores its databases and status files are the database directory. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 24. | Which operator is used to access property of an object in PHP? | 
| A. | . | 
| B. | * | 
| C. | -> | 
| D. | @ | 
| Answer» D. @ | |
| 25. | Arrays can have associative indices in PHP. | 
| A. | True | 
| B. | False | 
| C. | May be True or False | 
| D. | Can't say | 
| Answer» B. False | |
| 26. | Which function returns reference to array of row values? | 
| A. | fetchrow_array() | 
| B. | fetchrow_arrayref() | 
| C. | fetch() | 
| D. | fetchrow_hashref() | 
| Answer» C. fetch() | |
| 27. | Which program converts binary log files to statements in text form? | 
| A. | mysqldump | 
| B. | mysqllog | 
| C. | mysqlbin | 
| D. | mysqlbinlog | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. | The ‘mysqlbackup’ command to perform a restore operation is _____________ | 
| A. | copy-back-and-apply-log | 
| B. | apply-log-and-copy-back | 
| C. | copy-log-and-apply-back | 
| D. | apply-back-and-copy-log | 
| Answer» B. apply-log-and-copy-back | |
| 29. | What is the default path to Perl in Unix? | 
| A. | /usr/bin/perl | 
| B. | /usr/bin | 
| C. | /usr/perl | 
| D. | /usr/perl/bin | 
| Answer» B. /usr/bin | |
| 30. | Which is the stored program associated with a schedule? | 
| A. | Trigger | 
| B. | Event | 
| C. | Stored function | 
| D. | Stored procedure | 
| Answer» C. Stored function | |
| 31. | The function ‘fetchrow_hashref()’ returns reference to hash of row values keyed by ______________ | 
| A. | row name | 
| B. | column name | 
| C. | table name | 
| D. | database name | 
| Answer» C. table name | |
| 32. | Which function returns reference to hash of row values? | 
| A. | fetchrow_array() | 
| B. | fetchrow_arrayref() | 
| C. | fetch() | 
| D. | fetchrow_hashref() | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. | How many of the following languages can interface to bind to the C API of MySQL? | 
| A. | 0 | 
| B. | 1 | 
| C. | 2 | 
| D. | 3 | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. | What is the Perl DBI? | 
| A. | database inheritance | 
| B. | database integrity | 
| C. | database interface | 
| D. | database isolation | 
| Answer» D. database isolation | |
| 35. | For which table does ‘REPAIR TABLE’ not work? | 
| A. | MyISAM | 
| B. | ARCHIVE | 
| C. | CSV | 
| D. | InnoDB | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. | To perform consistency checks on a MyISAM table the statement is _____________ | 
| A. | CHECK TABLE | 
| B. | REPAIR TABLE | 
| C. | ANALYZE TABLE | 
| D. | OPTIMIZE TABLE | 
| Answer» B. REPAIR TABLE | |
| 37. | The line which is written at the top of the script to write a Perl script using CGI.pm is ______________ | 
| A. | use this CGI | 
| B. | put CGI | 
| C. | use CGI | 
| D. | include CGI | 
| Answer» D. include CGI | |
| 38. | Which of the following columns is not returned by ‘OPTIMIZE TABLE’? | 
| A. | Table | 
| B. | Op | 
| C. | Msg_type | 
| D. | Msg_txt | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. | The column not returned by ‘OPTIMIZE TABLE’ is _____________ | 
| A. | Table | 
| B. | Msg_txt | 
| C. | Op | 
| D. | Msg_type | 
| Answer» C. Op | |
| 40. | The statement that performs key distribution analysis and stores the distribution for the named tables is _____________ | 
| A. | CHECK TABLE | 
| B. | ANALYZE TABLE | 
| C. | CHECKSUM TABLE | 
| D. | OPTIMIZE TABLE | 
| Answer» C. CHECKSUM TABLE | |
| 41. | WHAT_TYPES_OF_DATABASE_MAINTENANCE_SHOULD_BE_EXECUTED_??$ | 
| A. | Update SQL Server’s usage | 
| B. | Validate the database objects and system catalogs are free of corruption | 
| C. | Determine the fragmentation for tables and indexes | 
| D. | All of the mentioned | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. | Create_a_Database_Maintenance_Plan_that_creates_a__________backup_within_SQL_Server.$ | 
| A. | Partial | 
| B. | Snapshot | 
| C. | Full | 
| D. | None of the mentioned | 
| Answer» D. None of the mentioned | |
| 43. | Purpose of DBCC DBREINDEX command is to ? | 
| A. | Rebuilds one or more indexes for a table in the specified database | 
| B. | Rebuilds only one index for a table in the specified database | 
| C. | Displays fragmentation information for the data and indexes of the specified table | 
| D. | All of the mentioned | 
| Answer» B. Rebuilds only one index for a table in the specified database | |
| 44. | ______________ runs UPDATE STATISTICS against all user-defined tables in the current database. | 
| A. | sp_updatestats | 
| B. | DBCC CHECKDB | 
| C. | DBCC CATALOG | 
| D. | DBCC INDEXDEFRAG | 
| Answer» B. DBCC CHECKDB | |
| 45. | Which of the following command defragments clustered and secondary indexes of the specified table ? | 
| A. | DBCC SHOWCONTIG | 
| B. | DBCC CHECKDB | 
| C. | DBCC CATALOG | 
| D. | DBCC INDEXDEFRAG | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. | Which of the following is used to Validate the database objects ? | 
| A. | DBCC SHOWCONTIG | 
| B. | DBCC CHECKDB | 
| C. | DBCC CATALOG | 
| D. | None of the mentioned | 
| Answer» C. DBCC CATALOG | |
| 47. | Which of the following is used to determine the fragmentation for tables and indexes ? | 
| A. | DBCC SHOWCONTIG | 
| B. | DBCC CHECKDB | 
| C. | DBCC CHECKCATALOG | 
| D. | None of the mentioned | 
| Answer» B. DBCC CHECKDB | |
| 48. | Point out the correct statement related to database maintenance : | 
| A. | Performing SQL Server Maintenance with Maintenance Window | 
| B. | Performing SQL Server Maintenance with No Maintenance Window | 
| C. | Performing SQL Server Maintenance with Scrip Maintenance Window | 
| D. | None of the mentioned | 
| Answer» C. Performing SQL Server Maintenance with Scrip Maintenance Window | |
| 49. | The SQL Server Maintenance Solution comprises scripts for running __________ maintenance on all editions of Microsoft SQL Server. | 
| A. | backups | 
| B. | integrity checks | 
| C. | index | 
| D. | all of the mentioned | 
| Answer» E. | |