MODELPAPERI(2011)

DBMSI BCAII

Time:3hrs

MM:50

I)TheQuestionpapercontains20multiplechoicequestionswithfourchoicesand studentwillhavetopickthecorrectone(eachcarrying1mark). Dataredundancyis a) Sameinformationisgivenseveraltimes b)Mismatchingofdata c)Datainreducedform d)Datainexpandedform In which type of Data base management system, information is distributed at different sites a)OODBMS b)DDBMS c)RDBMS d)Noneoftheabove Q.3 Forclient/serversystemwhichofthefollowingsystemisfalse? a) Aclientisanyprocessthatrequestsspecificfromserver b)Aserverisprocessthatproviderequiredservicesforclients c)Bothclientsandserverscanresideinthesamecomputerorindifferentcomputers connectedbyanetwork d)Noneoftheabove Q.4 Whichofthefollowingwillnotcauseanytypeoftransactionfailure? a)Someintervalconditionsuchasbadinput b)Systemcrash c)Inconsistencyofdata d)Noneoftheabove Q.5 Allactionsofatransactionbeexecutedcompletelyorinthecaseofsomefailure,partial effectofatransactionbeundone.Thispropertyoftransactioniscalled: a)Durability b)Consistency c)Isolation d)Atomicity Q.6 Whichofthefollowingensuresthedatasecurity a)Dataencryption b)passwords d)Alloftheabove c)grantingprivileges Q.7 Securityviolationinclude: a) Unauthorizedreadingofdatab)Unauthorizedmodificationofdata c) unauthorizeddestruction d)Alloftheabove Q.8 A condition in which a value that appears in one relation for a given set of values also appearsinanothersetofattributesinanotherrelationiscalled a)Referentialintegrity b)databaseintegrity c)transactionalintegrity d)Relationalintegrity Q.9 Ifrecordofarelationaresortedbyafield(PrimaryKey)onwhich,wecanhavecreated anindex.Thetypeofindexinthiscasewillbe: a)Primaryindex b)secondaryindex d)alloftheabove c)clusteringindex Q.10Databasemodificationdoesnotinclude a)Selection b)Insertion d)Updation c)Deletion Q.11Modificationoperationisdoneafter Q.1 Q.2

 a)Delete b)Lookup c)Insert d)Noneoftheabove Q.12Whichofthefollowingisusedtoallowtheusertoseeonlyapartofdatabase? a)Views b)Triggers c)Reports d)files Q.13Ifholdsandholdsthenholdsaccordingto a)Reflexivityrule b)Augmentationrule d)Unionrule c)Transitivityrule Q.14 Tuningisdoneto: a)Improveperformance b)removebenchmarks c)both(a)and(b) d)Noneofabove Q.15Dataindistributeddatabasemaybestoredthrough: a)replication b)Fragmentation d)Noneoftheabove c)both(a)and(b) Q.16 Adatadictionaryisaspecialfilethatcontains a)namesofallfieldsinallfiles b)datatypesofallfieldsinallfiles d)alloftheabove c)widthofallfieldsinallfiles Q.17Centralizeddatabasesystemare a. Thosethatrunonasinglecomputer (b)Donotinteractwithothercomputers b. Bothaandb (d)Eitheranorb Q.18Thecollectionofinformationstoredinthedatabaseataparticularmovementiscalled (a)Instance (b)Schema (c)Data (d)DBMS Q.19The collection of conceptual tools for describing data ,data relationship data semantics andconsistencyconstraintsiscalled (a)Database (b)Metabase (c)Datamodel (d)Alloftheabove Q.20TheadvantageofDBMSovercentralizedDBMSis (a)Inconsistencyproblemissolved (b)Increasedreliability (c)Bothoftheabove (d)Noneoftheabove II)Attemptanythreequestions.Eachquestioncarries10marks. Q.1 WhatdoyoumeanbyAbstraction?DefinethedifferentfunctionsofDBA. Q.2 DescribetransactionmanagementwithexplanationofACIDrules. Q.3 WhatdoyoumeanbyNormalization?Define3NF,BCNF,4NF,5NF,6NF Q.4 WriteShortnoteson: (i) ClientserversystemofDBMS (iii)OODBMSandORDBMS (v)ODBMSandORDBMS (ii)CentralizedandDistributeddatabase (iv)PrimaryKeyandForeignKey

Q.5 Definetransactionmanagement.ExplainACIDrulesoftransaction Management. Q.6 Whatisencryption?DifferentiatebetweenDACandMAC.