

MCQOPTIONS
This section includes 46 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Translation and Regulation knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
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 ? |
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. | |