Explore topic-wise MCQs in Translation and Regulation.

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1.

Who detects the failure of the system and restore the database to consistent state ?

A. Database Administrator
B. Application Programmer
C. Naive User
D. Storage Manager
Answer» E.
2.

Which phage always carries a small piece of E.coli genome?

A. Lambda
B. Mu
C. T4
D. T3
Answer» C. T4
3.

Which of the following are functions of Database Manager ?

1. Interacting with File Manager
2. Creating Queries to Access data
3. Security Enforcement
4. Database Definition and Schema Generation

A. 1 and 2
B. 3 and 1
C. 1, 2 and 3
D. All of these
Answer» D. All of these
4.

Transaction management ensures ____________ and __________ properties.

A. Atomicity and Intigrity
B. Atomicity and Durability
C. Atomicity and Abstraction
D. None of these
Answer» C. Atomicity and Abstraction
5.

___________ is an interface between low level database and application program.

A. Database Associator
B. Database Server
C. Database Manage
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
6.

A transaction may not always complete its execution successfully. Such a transaction is termed

A. Aborted
B. Terminated
C. Closed
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Terminated
7.

Consider money is transferred from (1)account-A to account-B and (2) account-B to account-A. Which of the following form a transaction?

A. Only 1
B. Only 2
C. Both 1 and 2 individually
D. Either 1 or 2
Answer» D. Either 1 or 2
8.

What are the Svedberg values for the subunits of the 70S ribosomes of E. colli?

A. 40S and 30S
B. 50S and 20S
C. 50S and 30S
D. 40S and 20S
Answer» D. 40S and 20S
9.

When transaction Ti requests a data item currently held by Tj , Ti is allowed to wait only if it has a timestamp smaller than that of Tj (that is, Ti is older than Tj ). Otherwise, Ti is rolled back (dies). This is

A. Wait-die
B. Wait-wound
C. Wound-wait
D. Wait
Answer» B. Wait-wound
10.

The deadlock state can be changed back to stable state by using _____________ statement.

A. Commit
B. Rollback
C. Savepoint
D. Deadlock
Answer» C. Savepoint
11.

What are the ways of dealing with deadlock ?

A. Deadlock prevention
B. Deadlock recovery
C. Deadlock detection
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
12.

A lock that allows concurrent transactions to access different rows of the same table is known as a

A. Field-level lock
B. Row-level lock
C. Table-level lock
D. Database-level lock
Answer» B. Row-level lock
13.

Database locking concept is used to solve the problem of

A. Lost Update
B. Uncommitted Dependency
C. Inconsistent Data
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
14.

Which of these is data type long literal?

A. 0x99fffL
B. ABCDEFG
C. 0x99fffa
D. 99671246
Answer» B. ABCDEFG
15.

A deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait-for graph contains a ___________.

A. Cycle
B. Direction
C. Bi-direction
D. D.
Answer» B. Direction
16.

Selecting the victim to be rollbacked to the previous state is determined by the minimum cost. The factors determining cost of rollback is

A. How long the transaction has computed, and how much longer the transaction will compute before it completes its designated task.
B. How many data items the transaction has used.
C. How many more data items the transaction needs for it to complete and how many transactions will be involved in the rollback.
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
17.

The deadlock in a set of transaction can be determined by

A. Read-only graph
B. Wait graph
C. Wait-for graph
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Wait graph
18.

When transaction Ti requests a data item currently held by Tj , Ti is allowed to wait only if it has a timestamp larger than that of Tj (that is, Ti is younger than Tj ). Otherwise, Tj is rolled back (Tj is wounded by Ti ). This is

A. Wait-die
B. Wait-wound
C. Wound-wait
D. Wait
Answer» D. Wait
19.

The execution sequences in concurrency control are termed as ________

A. Serials
B. Schedules
C. Organizations
D. Time tables
Answer» C. Organizations
20.

Which of the following is not a transaction state?

A. Active
B. Partially committed
C. Failed
D. Compensated
Answer» E.
21.

____ means that the data used during the execution of a transaction cannot be used by a second transaction until the first one is completed.

A. Consistency
B. Atomicity
C. Durability
D. Isolation
Answer» E.
22.

Transaction processing is associated with everything below except

A. Producing detail summary or exception reports
B. Recording a business activity
C. Confirming an action or triggering a response
D. Maintaining a data
Answer» D. Maintaining a data
23.

The Oracle RDBMS uses the ____ statement to declare a new transaction start and its properties.

A. BEGIN
B. SET TRANSACTION
C. BEGIN TRANSACTION
D. COMMIT
Answer» C. BEGIN TRANSACTION
24.

__________ states that only valid data will be written to the database.

A. Consistency
B. Atomicity
C. Durability
D. Isolation
Answer» B. Atomicity
25.

The database system must take special actions to ensure that transactions operate properly without interference from concurrently executing database statements. This property is referred to as

A. Atomicity
B. Durability
C. Durability
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» D. All of the mentioned
26.

The property of a transaction that persists all the crashes is

A. Atomicity
B. Durability
C. Isolation
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. Isolation
27.

Identify the characteristics of transactions

A. Atomicity
B. Durability
C. Isolation
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
28.

Which of the following has all-or-none property?

A. Atomicity
B. Durability
C. Isolation
D. Isolation
Answer» B. Durability
29.

A transaction is delimited by statements (or function calls) of the form __________

A. Begin transaction and end transaction
B. Start transaction and stop transaction
C. Get transaction and post transaction
D. Read transaction and write transaction
Answer» B. Start transaction and stop transaction
30.

State true or false: Information residing in the volatile storage does not usually survive system crashes

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
31.

Which of the following systems is responsible for ensuring isolation?

A. Recovery system
B. Atomic system
C. Concurrency control system
D. Compiler system
Answer» D. Compiler system
32.

Which of the following systems is responsible for ensuring durability?

A. Recovery system
B. Atomic system
C. Concurrency control system
D. Compiler system
Answer» B. Atomic system
33.

Which of the following is not a property of a transaction?

A. Atomicity
B. Simplicity
C. Isolation
D. Durability
Answer» C. Isolation
34.

Execution of translation in isolation preserves the _________ of a database

A. Atomicity
B. Consistency
C. Durability
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. Durability
35.

The all-or-none property is commonly referred to as _________

A. Isolation
B. Durability
C. Atomicity
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
36.

Which of the following is a property of transactions?

A. Atomicity
B. Durability
C. Isolation
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
37.

A transaction that has not been completed successfully is called as _______

A. Compensating transaction
B. Aborted transaction
C. Active transaction
D. Partially committed transaction
Answer» C. Active transaction
38.

_________ rollback requires the system to maintain additional information about the state of all the running transactions.

A. Total
B. Partial
C. Time
D. Commit
Answer» C. Time
39.

What is ACID properties of Transactions?

A. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Database
B. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
C. Atomicity, Consistency, Inconsistent, Durability
D. Automatically, Concurrency, Isolation, Durability
Answer» C. Atomicity, Consistency, Inconsistent, Durability
40.

With regards to transaction processing, any DBMS should be capable of:

A. Ensuring that transactions are free from interference from other users.
B. Parts of a transaction are not lost due to a failure.
C. Transactions do not make the database inconsistent.
D. All of the above.
Answer» E.
41.

The scheme that controls the interaction between executing transactions is called as _____

A. Concurrency control scheme
B. Multiprogramming scheme
C. Serialization scheme
D. Schedule scheme
Answer» B. Multiprogramming scheme
42.

A transaction completes its execution is said to be

A. Saved
B. Loaded
C. Rolled
D. Committed
Answer» E.
43.

A system is in a ______ state if there exists a set of transactions such that every transaction in the set is waiting for another transaction in the set.

A. Idle
B. Waiting
C. Deadlock
D. Ready
Answer» D. Ready
44.

Collections of operations that form a single logical unit of work are called __________

A. Views
B. Networks
C. Units
D. Transactions
Answer» E.
45.

The application of database management system in air flight seat booking in a way that one seat is accessed by only one clerk for customer reservation is classified as

A. online transaction processing
B. offline transaction processing
C. online logical representation
D. offline modeling representation
Answer» B. offline transaction processing
46.

In database management system, the executing process or executing program which considers the updating or reading of records stored in database is called

A. conceptualization
B. execution
C. implementation
D. transaction
Answer» E.