CONFIDENTIAL FP304 DATABASE SYSTEM Page 2 of 20 SECTION A OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS (50 marks) INSTRUCTION: This section consists of FORTY (40) objective questions. Answer ALL questions in the answer booklet. 1. “A software system that enable user to define, create and maintain the database”. This statement describes [CLO 1] A. Oracle 10g B. Microsoft Office Access 2007 C. Database Management System D. Data warehouse 2. The function of a database is to ____________. [CLO 1] A. collect and organize input data B. check all input data C. check all spelling D. output data 3. Choose the software that is commonly used in database. [CLO 1] A. Oracle B. SQL Access C. SQL desktop D. Linux 4. Internal Schema is one of the three-schema architecture. Which one is true about Internal Schema? [CLO 1] A. It hides the details of physical storage structures and concentrates on describing entities, data types, relationships, user operations, and constraints. B. Uses a physical data model and describes the complete details of data storage and access paths for the database.
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SECTION A
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS (50 marks)
INSTRUCTION:
This section consists of FORTY (40) objective questions. Answer ALL questions in the
answer booklet.
1. “A software system that enable user to define, create and maintain the database”.
This statement describes [CLO 1]
A. Oracle 10g
B. Microsoft Office Access 2007
C. Database Management System
D. Data warehouse
2. The function of a database is to ____________. [CLO 1]
A. collect and organize input data
B. check all input data
C. check all spelling
D. output data
3. Choose the software that is commonly used in database. [CLO 1]
A. Oracle
B. SQL Access
C. SQL desktop
D. Linux
4. Internal Schema is one of the three-schema architecture. Which one is true about
Internal Schema? [CLO 1]
A. It hides the details of physical storage structures and concentrates on
describing entities, data types, relationships, user operations, and constraints.
B. Uses a physical data model and describes the complete details of data storage
and access paths for the database.
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C. Implementation of data model
D. The part of the database that a particular user is interested in and hides the rest
of the database from user
5. A _____________ is the set of allowable values for one or more attributes.
[CLO 1]
A. Cardinality
B. Tuple
C. Degree
D. Domain
6. Within a table, the primary key must be unique so that it will identify each row. When
this is the case, the table is said to exhibit ________ integrity.
[CLO 1]
A. Referential
B. Entity
C. Enforced
D. Key
7. The data type of values that appear in each column is represented by
_________________ of possible values. [CLO 1]
A. Range
B. Product
C. Domain
D. Function
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8. Based on Figure 1, identify which one is the Candidate Key?
Figure 1 [CLO 1]
A. W
B. X
C. Y
D. Z
9. All companies operate four departments in their organization. This relationship
represents a _______________. [CLO 1]
A. one-to-one relationship.
B. one-to-many relationship.
C. many-to-one relationship.
D. many-to-many relationship.
10. __________________works on a single relation R and defines a relation that
constrains only those tuples (rows) of R that satisfy the specified condition
(predicate). [CLO 1]
A. Cartesian product
B. Difference
C. Selection
D. Intersection
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11. _________________ works on a single relation R and defines a relation that contains
a vertical subset of R, extracting the values of specified attributes and eliminating
duplicates. [CLO 1]
A. Projection
B. Cartesian Product
C. Difference
D. Intersection
12. The ______________set operator combines all tuples from two relations excluding
duplicates. [CLO 1]
A. Union
B. Intersect
C. Difference
D. Divide
13. The ___________ operator returns all tuples in one relation that are not found in other
relation. [CLO 1]
A. Intersect
B. Product
C. Select
D. Difference
14. What is meant by the term union compatibility? [CLO 1]
A. When two or more tables share the same number of columns
B. When two or more tables have the same degree
C. When two or more tables share the same domains
D. When two or more tables share the same number of columns and when they share
the same domain
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15. What is meant by the following relational algebra statement?
STUDENT x COURSE [CLO 1]
A. Compute the natural join between the STUDENT and COURSE relations.
B. Compute the left outer join between the STUDENT and COURSE relations.
C. Compute the Cross Product between the STUDENT and COURSE relations.
D. Compute the outer join between the STUDENT and COURSE relations.
Question 16,17 and 18 are based on Figure 2 :
Figure 2
16. A relational algebra operator applied to tables of EMPLOYEES and DEPARTMENT
produces the following result as in Table 1
Table 1
The operator is: [CLO 3]
A. An outer join operator
B. The project operator
C. The cross product operator
D. The natural join operator
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17. A relational algebra operator applied to tables of EMPLOYEES and DEPARTMENT
produces the following result as in Table 2
Table 2
The operator is: [CLO 3]
A. An outer join operator
B. The project operator
C. The cross product operator
D. The natural join operator
18. A relational algebra operator applied to tables of EMPLOYEES and DEPARTMENT
produces the following result as in Table 3
Table 3
The operator is: [CLO 3]
A. An outer join operator
B. The project operator
C. The cross product operator
D. The natural join operator
19. Which clause would you use in a SELECT statement to limit the display to those
employees whose salary is greater than 5000? [CLO 3]
A. WHERE SALARY > 5000
B. HAVING SALARY > 5000
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C. ORDER BY SALARY > 5000
D. GROUP BY SALARY > 5000
20.
You use this SQL statement to retrieve data from a table for ______________.
[CLO 1]
A. Viewing
B. Deleting
C. Inserting
D. Updating
21. Which are Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements?
i. SELECT
ii. ALTER
iii. DROP
iv. DELETE
[CLO 1]
A. i, iv
B. ii, iii
C. i, ii, iii
D. ii, iii, iv
22. What happens if the WHERE clause is omitted from a DELETE statement?
[CLO 1]
A. All records from the table are deleted
B. No record from the table will be deleted
C. First record of the table will be deleted
D. The statement will not be executed and will give a syntax error
SELECT *
FROM orders;
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23. You need to produce a report for mailing labels for all customers. The mailing label
must have only the customer name and address. The CUSTOMERS table has these
columns:
CUST_ID NUMBER(4) NOT NULL
CUST_NAME VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL
CUST_ADDRESS VARCHAR2(150)
CUST_PHONE VARCHAR2(20)
Which SELECT statement accomplishes this task? [CLO3]
A. SELECT *FROM CUSTOMERS;
B. SELECT CUST_NAME, CUST_ADDRESS, CUST_PHONE
FROM CUSTOMERS;
C. SELECT CUST_ID,CUST_NAME,CUST_ADDRESS, CUST_PHONE
FROM CUSTOMERS;
D. SELECT CUST_NAME, CUST_ADDRESS
FROM CUSTOMERS;
24. Which INSERT statement is correct to insert a new row into table of employees?
A. INSERT INTO employees (employee_id) VALUES (1000);
B. INSERT INTO employees VALUES (NULL, ‘John’,
‘Smith’);
C. INSERT INTO employees (first_name, last_name) VALUES
(‘John’, ‘Smith’);
D. INSERT INTO employees (first_name, last_name,
employee_id) VALUES (100, ‘John’, ‘Smith’);
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25. How to select all the records from a table named ‘Persons’ where the value of the
column “FirstName” starts with an “a” using SQL statement? [CLO 3]
A. SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE FirstName LIKE ‘%a’;
B. SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE FirstName= ‘a’;
C. SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE FirstName LIKE ‘a%’;
D. SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE FirstName LIKE ‘%a%’;
26. In UPDATE statement, choose the correct answer to update firstname = Mary to
firstname = Marry from a table named "staff". [CLO 3]
A. UPDATE RECORD staff SET FName = 'Marry' WHERE LName = 'Mary';
B. UPDATE staff SET FName = 'Marry' WHERE LName = 'Mary';
C. UPDATE staff SET INTO FName = 'Marry' WHERE LName = 'Mary';
D. UPDATE RECORD staff SET INTO FName = 'Marry' WHERE LName = 'Mary';
27. A goal of normalization is to minimize _____________. [CLO 1]
A. the number of relationships
B. the number of entities
C. the number of tables
D. data redundancy
28. A table that satisfies 2NF ___________________. [CLO 1]
A. always satisfies 1NF
B. may violate 1NF
C. always satisfies 3NF
D. always satisfies BCNF
29. On an entity-relationship diagram, a diamond represents a ___________.
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[CLO 1]
A. multivalued attribute
B. data flow
C. entity
D. relationship
30. A person, place, object, event, or concept in the user environment about which the
organization wishes to maintain data refers to a(n): ___________________ .
[CLO 1]
A. Cardinality
B. Attribute
C. Relationship
D. Entity
31. When applying the optional 1-M relationship rule for converting an ERD into a
relational table design, which of the following statements is true? [CLO1]
A. Each 1-M relationship with 0 for the minimum cardinality on the parent side
becomes a new table.
B. The primary key of the new table is the primary key of the entity type on the child
(many) side of the relationship.
C. The new table contains foreign keys for the primary keys of both entity types
participating in the relationship.
D. Both foreign keys in the new table do not permit null values.
32. What type of relationship is expressed with the phrase "Student takes Class"?
[CLO 1]
A. 1 : M
B. M : 1
C. 1 : 1
D. M : N
33. When applying the M-N relationship rule for converting an ERD into a relational
table design, which of the following statements is true?
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i. Each M-N relationship becomes a separate table
ii. The foreign keys must not allow null values.
iii. The primary key of the table is a combined key consisting of the
primary keys of the entity types participating in the M-N relationship.
iv. The primary key of the table is the primary key of the entity type
participating in the M-N relationship which has the most attributes.
[CLO 1]
A. i,ii
B. i,iii
C. i,ii,iii
D. ii,iii,iv
34. Based on Figure 3 the BOOKS and MEMBER entities are related to each other. The
relationship on the MEMBER side indicates that:
Figure 3
[CLO 1]
A. A BOOKS may be borrowed by one or more MEMBER.
B. A MEMBER may borrow one BOOKS.
C. A BOOKS may be borrowed by zero or one MEMBER only.
D. A MEMBER may borrow zero or more BOOKS.
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35. Choose the correct Entity Relationship Model diagram based on the situation given.
“Each INSTRUCTOR may teach one or more CLASS”
“Each CLASS is taught by one INSTRUCTOR”
[CLO 1]
A.
B.
C. .
D.
36. ______________ refers to the requirement that other operations cannot access data that has
been modified during a transaction that has not yet been completed.
[CLO 2]
A. Consistent
B. Isolated
C. Durable
D. Atomic
C INSTRUCTOR CLASS teach
1 1
((0, N) (1,1)
C INSTRUCTOR CLASS teach
(1,N) (1,1)
1 M
C INSTRUCTOR CLASS teach
(0,1) (1,1)
1 1
C INSTRUCTOR CLASS teach
(0,N) (1,1)
1 M
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37. _____________is the ability of the DBMS to recover the committed transaction updates
against any kind of system failure. [CLO 2]
A. Consistent
B. Isolated
C. Durable
D. Atomic
38. Deadlocks are possible only when one of the transactions wants to obtain a (n)
_________________ lock on a data item. [CLO 2]
A. Binary
B. Exclusive
C. Shared
D. Complete
39. Which of the following term below refers to the statement stated below?
[CLO 2]
A. Consistent
B. Durable
C. Atomic
D. Isolated
All of the tasks of a database transaction must be completed
If incomplete due to any possible reasons, the database transaction
must be aborted.
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40. If locking is not available and several users access a database concurrently, problems
may occur if their transactions use the same data at the same time. Concurrency
problems include
i. Lost or buried updates.
ii. Uncommitted dependency
iii. Inconsistent analysis
iv. Transaction Log
[CLO 2]
A. i
B. ii,iii
C. i,ii,iii
D. i,iii,iv
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SECTION B
STRUCTURED QUESTIONS (50 marks)
INSTRUCTION:
This section consists of TWO (2) structured questions. Answer ALL questions.
QUESTION 1
a) ANSI-SPARC Architecture, is an abstract design standard for a Database
Management System (DBMS), first proposed in 1975. Given ANSI-
SPARC architecture in Figure 1.1, explain each level.
Figure 1.1
[CLO 1]
(3 marks)
b) Database is a collection of persistent data that can be shared and
interrelated.
i. Explain TWO (2) properties of database.
ii. Explain TWO (2) features of Database Management System.
[CLO 1]
(4 marks)
[CLO 1]
(2 marks)
c) Illustrate THREE (3) most common relationships in E-R models.