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Question: 1
You are using Database Query Log (DBQL). Logging can be invoked on _____. (Choose three.)
A. all users
B. a list of users
C. a list of account strings
D. a list of database objects
Answer: A, B, C
Question: 2
How are inherited privileges applied by the database administrator?
A. by using GIVE to change user hierarchy
B. by automatically applying inherited privileges
C. by granting inherited privileges directly to the user
D. by granting privileges with the ALL option to a user
Answer: D
Question: 3
What is a benefit of assigning account strings at the profile level?
A. enables you to change all or part of the designation just once for many users
B. enables you to grant privileges to a group of users based on their account
string
C. enables you to save space by reducing the number of rows inserted into
DBC.AMPUsage
D. enables you to save space by reducing the number of rows inserted into
DBC.AccessRights
Answer: A
Question: 4
Which three utilities are limited by the MaxLoadTasks parameter in the DBSControl utility?
(Choose three.)
A. BTEQ
B. TPump
C. FastLoad
D. MultiLoad
E. FastExport
Answer: C, D, E
Question: 5
What does the CPU Eff % column measure in the ResNode macro?
A. efficiency of each CPU in each node
B. percentage of CPUs working efficiently in all nodes
C. how well the CPUs work in parallel across all nodes
D. percentage of CPUs working in parallel across all nodes
Answer: C

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Question: 6
When troubleshooting bottlenecks, which two utilizations should you examine
first? (Choose two.)
A. disk utilization
B. CPU utilization
C. BYNET utilization
D. channel utilization
E. memory utilization
Answer: A, B
Question: 7
Two thousand users have just been added to the Teradata database and are experiencing
connection problems. What could you add to resolve the problem?
A. PEs
B. AMPs
C. vdisks
D. I/O service processors
Answer: A
Question: 8
Which ResUsage table should you look at to determine node memory usage?
A. ResUsageSldv
B. ResUsageSvpr
C. ResUsageScpu
D. ResUsageSpma
Answer: D
Question: 9
Which ResUsage table provides information on node utilization?
A. ResUsageSctl
B. ResUsageSvpr
C. ResUsageScpu
D. ResUsageSpma
Answer: D
Question: 10
Which three do you use to change collection and logging rates for ResUsage in
Teradata? (Choose three.)
A. xctl
B. gdb
C. xdbw
D. ferret
E. Teradata Manager
Answer: A, C, E

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Question: 11
Which view can be used to determine I/O and CPU usage at the user level?
A. ResNode
B. AMPUsage
C. ResIOView
D. ResCPUUsageByAMPView
Answer: B
Question: 12
Which two can be determined with AMPUsage data? (Choose two.)
A. user activity
B. user privileges
C. session priority
D. database owners
Answer: A, C
Question: 13
You have User A running a complex join with $L priority in the DEFAULT partition. The database
administrator uses Teradata Manager to change the priority of the user's query to $R. Which two
effects does this change have on the jobs currently running on a busy system? (Choose two).
A. The other users' jobs are not affected.
B. User A's job will experience performance degradation.
C. User A's job will experience a performance improvement.
D. The other users' jobs experience performance degradation.
E. The other users' jobs experience a performance improvement.
Answer: C, D
Question: 14
You are working in the Default resource partition. Which Performance Group should be used
sparingly due to the negative performance that can be introduced into your system?
A. $M
B. $L
C. $R
D. $H
Answer: C
Question: 15
Users are complaining about poor system response time. You have identified a query that is
consuming a large amount of CPU. You run an EXPLAIN on this query. Which two steps in the
EXPLAIN could identify the source of contention? (Choose two),
A. a Merge Join of two large tables
B. a (1=1) product join of two large tables
C. duplication of a small table across all AMPs
D. a Merge Join of a small table to a large table
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Answer: B, E
Question: 16
Which facility automatically manages system workflow by preventing queries from entering the
system that violate predefined rules?
A. TDQM
B. ResUsage
C. DBSControl
D. Priority Scheduler
Answer: A
Question: 17
What are two scheduling policies within Priority Scheduler? (Choose two.)
A. low
B. rush
C. relative
D. absolute
Answer: C, D
Question: 18
Weights and scheduling policies within Priority Scheduler control the allocation of which two
resources? (Choose two.)
A. I/O
B. CPU
C. sessions
D. perm space
E. spool space
Answer: A, B
Question: 19
An allocation group has a scheduling policy of ABS and a group weight of 40%. A user belonging
to this group logs onto an idle system. What happens?
A. The user's session will have access to its owner's partition weight %.
B. The user's session will have access to no more than 40% of the system.
C. The user's session will have access to no more than 60% of the system.
D. The user's session will have access to more than 40% of the system if
resources are available.
E. The user's session will have access to more than 60% of the system if
resources are available.
Answer: B
Question: 20
A user belonging to an allocation group with an IMD policy and a weight of 40% logs onto an idle
system. What happens?
A. The user's session will have access to its owner's partition weight %.
B. The user's session will have access to 40% of all system resources.
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C. The user's session will have access to all available system resources.
D. The user's session will have access to 40% of available system resources.
E. The user's session will have access to 60% of available system resources.
Answer: C
Question: 21
You have an active session with a query in progress with data already cached. What happens
when you disable logging to the Database Query Log (DBQL)? (Choose two.)
A. Collected rows are deleted from disk.
B. Cache is not immediately flushed.
C. Collected rows are committed immediately.
D. Subsequent queries during that session are not logged.
Answer: C, D
Question: 22
Which three activities are supported by Teradata Dynamic Query Manager
(TDQM)? (Choose three.)
A. limiting types of joins
B. delaying query processing
C. controlling access to host groups
D. controlling access to database objects
E. limiting the number of reserved AMP Worker Tasks
Answer: A, B, D
Question: 23
Which type of Teradata Dynamic Query Manager (TDQM) rule is "Only 12 sessions can be
logged on for a userid"?
A. workload
B. query access
C. object access
D. query resource
Answer: A
Question: 24
Which two features are supported by the Teradata Warehouse Builder Load Operator? (Choose
two.)
A. error limits
B. create table
C. referential integrity
D. checkpoint restartable
E. secondary index on target table
Answer: A, D
Question: 25
Which two Teradata features are supported by both FastLoad and the Teradata Warehouse
Builder Load Operator? (Choose two.)
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A. referential integrity
B. secondary indexes
C. multi-value compression
D. partitioned primary indexes
Answer: C, D
Question: 26
In which phase of MultiLoad are sessions acquired?
A. logon
B. acquisition
C. application
D. preliminary
Answer: D
Question: 27
Which two statements about MultiLoad are true? (Choose two.)
A. It requires empty tables.
B. It is checkpoint restartable.
C. It allows multiple concurrent loads to the same table.
D. It is limited by the MaxLoadTasks parameter of DBSControl.
Answer: B, D
Question: 28
Which Teradata Warehouse Builder consumer operator uses multiple sessions to perform DML
transactions in near real-time mode against Teradata tables?
A. Load
B. Update
C. Stream
D. DataConnector
Answer: C
Question: 29
Which three parameters can be set in TPump? (Choose three.)
A. PACK
B. REPEAT
C. ROBUST
D. SERIALIZE
Answer: A, C, D
Question: 30
Which three are required for FastExport? (Choose three.)
A. NOTIFY
B. SELECT
C. OUTMOD
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D. LOGTABLE
E. END EXPORT
Answer: B, D, E
Question: 31
Which three functions are supported by the Teradata Warehouse Builder
operator? (Choose three.)

DataConnector

A. reading external data files

B. preprocessing input data files
C. writing data to external data files
D. reading unspecified number of data files
Answer: A, C, D
Question: 32
Which function is provided by the Teradata Warehouse Builder ODBC operator?
A. writes data to an ODBC provider
B. reads data from an ODBC provider
C. transforms data from an ODBC provider
D. preprocesses data from an ODBC provider
Answer: B
Question: 33
What are three features of the Teradata Warehouse Builder? (Choose three.)
A. scalable
B. end to end parallelism
C. runs in interactive mode
D. single scripting language
E. Transient Journal compliant
Answer: A, B, D
Question: 34
User A creates Database X. Which three rights are automatically granted to User A on Database
X? (Choose three.)
A. CREATE USER
B. CREATE TABLE
C. CREATE INDEX
D. CREATE DATABASE
E. CREATE REFERENCES
Answer: A, B, D
Question: 35
User A creates User B. Which three rights are automatically granted to User B on User B?
(Choose three.)
A. DUMP
B. RESTORE
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C. CREATE TABLE
D. CREATE DATABASE
E. WITH GRANT OPTION
Answer: A, B, C
Question: 36
Which two statements are true about ownership privileges? (Choose two.)
A. They must be explicitly granted.
B. They cannot be explicitly revoked.
C. They cannot be taken away unless ownership is transferred.
D. They can be explicitly revoked by the Database Administrator.
Answer: B, C
Question: 37
What are two effective ways of limiting the growth of the AccessRights table?
(Choose two.)
A. assign users to one or more roles
B. grant all privileges at the database level
C. grant all necessary privileges to each user on individual database objects
D. ensure that all users belong to a profile and inherit the profile's access rights
Answer: A, B
Question: 38
What are three ways to reduce the number of rows that are inserted into the DBC.AccessRights
table? (Choose three.)
A. assign users to a role
B. assign users to a profile
C. grant privileges at the user level
D. grant privileges at the database level
Answer: A,C, D
Question: 39
Which clause in a CREATE VIEW statement restricts the columns in a table that can be viewed
by users?
A. USING
B. WHERE
C. SELECT
D. WITH CHECK OPTION
Answer: C
Question: 40
Which two clauses in a CREATE VIEW statement restrict the rows in a table that can be updated
by users? (Choose two.)
A. USING
B. WHERE
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C. SELECT
D. WITH CHECK OPTION
Answer: B, D
Question: 41
Which clause in a CREATE VIEW statement restricts the rows in a table that can be inserted by
users?
A. USING
B. WHERE
C. SELECT
D. WITH CHECK OPTION
Answer: D
Question: 42
Which is updated when you change password features such as expiration, reuse, minimum and
maximum length?
A. DBC.Users
B. DBC.LogOnOff
C. DBC.LogonRules
D. DBC.SysSecDefaults
Answer: D
Question: 43
Which system view is used to monitor failed logon attempts?
A. DBC.AccLog
B. DBC.LogOnOff
C. DBC.LogOnInfo
D. DBC.SessionInfo
Answer: B
Question: 44
What is affected by the GIVE statement?
A. owned databases and space
B. space and explicit access rights
C. owned databases and passwords
D. passwords and explicit access rights
E. owned databases and explicit access rights
Answer: A
Question: 45
What is the maximum number of levels a role can be nested?
A. one
B. two
C. There is no limit on the number of nested levels.
D. The limit is determined by the default system setting.
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Answer: A
Question: 46
A DROP USER command is issued on a user who is assigned to a role. From which two system
tables are rows deleted? (Choose two.)
A. DBC.AMPUsage
B. DBC.RoleGrants
C. DBC.SessionInfo
D. DBC.AccessRights
Answer: B, D
Question: 47
Which system view provides information on the amount of permanent disk space currently in use
at the table level?
A. DBC.Tables
B. DBC.SysInfo
C. DBC.TableSize
D. DBC.DiskSpace
Answer: C
Question: 48
At which two levels can permanent space limits be assigned? (Choose two.)
A. user
B. table
C. system
D. database
Answer: A, D
Question: 49
The database administrator created User A and assigned that user 90 MB of spool. A month
later, the database administrator creates Profile B with 50 MB of spool. User A is then assigned to
Profile B Which system view would you use to determine how much spool User A now has
access to?
A. DBC.Users
B. DBC.ProfileInfo
C. DBC.SessionInfo
D. DBC.Accountinfo
Answer: B
Question: 50
What three statements are true about roles? (Choose three.)
A. Changes are effective immediately.
B. Changes are not effective until the next logon.
C. They are viewed as a pseudo-user with privileges on objects.
D. Roles help reduce the number of rows in the DBC.AccessRights table.
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E. They are a set of common user parameters applied to a group of users.

Answer: A, C, D
Question: 51
Which statement removes the profile Acct_User from UserA?
A. DROP USER UserA;
B. MODIFY USER UserA AS PROFILE=NULL;
C. REMOVE USER UserA FROM PROFILE Acct_User;
D. MODIFY PROFILE Acct_User AS ACCOUNT=NULL;
Answer: B
Question: 52
What default value is assigned as the user's default database if no value is specified in the user's
profile parameter or the CREATE USER statement?
A. a NULL value
B. database DBC
C. the user's username
D. the default database of the user's parent
Answer: C
Question: 53
What happens when a host group's session limit is exceeded and another user tries to log on?
A. The user's connection is refused and the user receives an error message.
B. The user's connection is refused and the user does not receive an error
message.
C. The user receives an error message and is logged on to the next host group.
D. The user does not receive an error message and is logged on to the next host
group.
Answer: A
Question: 54
What are two benefits of session pools? (Choose two.)
A. Logon times are typically 2-3 seconds faster.
B. The number of sessions a user can log on is controlled.
C. They allow better tracking of when applications log on and log off.
D. If all sessions are active, the next pool is used regardless of the logon string.
Answer: A, B
Question: 55
Which statement is true about the TDP command SET MAXSESS?
A. The number of sessions is constrained for the TDP.
B. A change to MAXSESS only takes effect at TDP startup.
C. The allowable values must equal a multiple of the PE session limit.
D. It changes the maximum number of sessions supported by the Teradata
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Answer: A
Question: 56
What enables logons to the RDBMS via the gateway?
A. RUN GTW
B. ENABLE GTW
C. ENABLE LOGONS
D. START SESSIONS
Answer: C
Question: 57
When is Fallback data unavailable?
A. when there are two AMPs down in clique two
B. when there are two AMPs down in cluster three
C. when there is a drive down in AMP one and a drive down in AMP two
D. when there is an AMP down in clique one and an AMP down in clique two
E. when there is an AMP down in cluster one and an AMP down in cluster two
Answer: B
Question: 58
Which two statements about Permanent Journals are true? (Choose two.)
A. Permanent Journals must be Fallback.
B. Permanent Journals replace Fallback protection.
C. Multiple data tables can share one Permanent Journal.
D. Multiple Permanent Journals can be used by one data table.
E. Data tables in one database can use Permanent Journals in other databases.
Answer: C, E
Question: 59
Which three types of protection are provided by Permanent Journals? (Choose three.)
A. Fallback protection for journaleds non-Fallback tables
B. protection against incorrect operation of a batch process
C. protection against the loss of changes made after a data table is archived
D. protection from loss of data caused by failure of a secondary storage device
Answer: B, C, D
Question: 60
What happens if a database containing a Permanent Journal runs out of space?
A. The DBS restarts.
B. All table updates that write to that Permanent Journal abort.
C. All non-used Permanent Journals in that database are dropped.
D. All table updates that write to that Permanent Journal are written to the
Fallback Permanent Journal.
Answer: B
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Question: 61
Where are the Fallback rows for AMP 0 stored?
A. on all other AMPs in the system
B. on PEs in the same clique as AMP 0
C. on PEs in the same cluster as AMP 0
D. on other AMPs in the same clique as AMP 0
E. on other AMPs in the same cluster as AMP 0
Answer: E
Question: 62
How does RAID 1 protect data?
A. with pairs of drives containing mirrored data
B. with pairs of AMPs containing mirrored data
C. It uses parity to reconstruct the data on a failed drive.
D. It uses parity to reconstruct the data on a failed AMP.
Answer: A
Question: 63
In the ARCHIVE and RESTORE commands, what does the phrase EXCLUDE <dbname1> TO
<dbname2> specify?
A. a sequential group of database IDs
B. database descendants through ownership
C. a range of alphabetically sorted databases
D. location of databases/users within the hierarchy
Answer: C
Question: 64
Which three occur when the EMPLOYEE ALL clause in the Archive utility is used?
(Choose three.)
A. All tables in database EMPLOYEE are archived.
B. Database EMPLOYEE and all its descendants are archived.
C. All databases with the root name EMPLOYEE are archived.
D. All tables, views, and macros in database EMPLOYEE are archived.
E. Only database EMPLOYEE and its immediate descendants are archived.
Answer: A, B, D
Question: 65
What is archived when the ALL option is specified in the ARC utility?
(Choose three.)
A. all tables, view, macros, and stored procedures in the specified database
B. all column and index information in the specified database and its parent
C. all column and index information in the specified database and its
descendants
D. all tables, views, macros, and stored procedures in the specified database's
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E. all tables, views, macros, and stored procedures in the specified database's
descendants
Answer: A, C, E
Question: 66
Which type of archive allows you to archive secondary indexes?
A. index archive
B. all-AMP archive
C. single-AMP archive
D. single cluster archive
Answer: B
Question: 67
When can you restore database DBC to a Teradata system?
A. following a system initialization
B. following a system reconfiguration
C. following a standard data table archive
D. following the creation of new database objects
Answer: A
Question: 68
The ROLLBACK and ROLLFORWARD statements are used with which type of archived table?
A. dictionary tables
B. index subtables
C. Transient Journal tables
D. Permanent Journal tables
Answer: D
Question: 69
What is the effect of setting the FreeSpacePercent parameter of the DBSControl utility to 15%?
A. Each user is limited to 15% of memory for their active work space.
B. Cylinders are loaded to 85% of their capacity during load operations.
C. Spool files are not created when there is less than 15% free space on an
AMP.
D. Table blocks are written with 15% of the space left in the block for more rows
to be inserted.
Answer: B
Question: 70
Which DBSControl parameter controls the maximum size of a datablock in a
table?
A. DBSize
B. MaxDBSize
C. PermDBSize
D. PermDBAllocUnit
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Answer: C
Question: 71
The DBSControl parameter PPICacheThrP affects which type of database objects?
A. cached tables
B. partitioned tables
C. temporary tables
D. partitioned databases
E. global temporary tables
Answer: B
Question: 72
When will the Reconfiguration utility abort?
A. when the database restarts
B. when the Database Window shuts down
C. when the hash maps are incorrectly calculated
D. when the system does not have sufficient storage capacity
Answer: D
Question: 73
Which two tasks should be performed before a Reconfig? (Choose two.)
A. verify data integrity
B. delete unneeded data
C. drop secondary indexes
D. reassign spool to Reconfig
Answer: A, B
Question: 74
Which two activities should be performed after a Reconfig? (Choose two)
A. reload data
B. initialize tables
C. verify data integrity
D. test existing applications
Answer: C, D
Question: 75
Which two utilities should you run to verify data integrity? (Choose two.)
A. Defrag
B. Packdisk
C. Scandisk
D. Checktable
E. DBSControl
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Question: 76
The Performance Monitor allows an authorized user to _____. (Choose three.)
A. set ResUsage rates
B. abort user sessions
C. identify a blocked user
D. purge ResUsage tables
E. reset peak utilization values
Answer: A, B, C
Question: 77
Which three functions can be performed using the Teradata Administrator tool?
(Choose three.)
A. clone users
B. abort a user session
C. grant MONITOR privileges to a user
D. copy DDL from one system to another
E. copy table data from one system to another
Answer: A, C, D
Question: 78
Which three activities can you control using Teradata Manager profiles? (Choose three.)
A. the ability to change a profile
B. the number of concurrent users
C. the start time for auto-start applications
D. the Data Dictionary tables available to the user
E. the functions available through drop-down menus
Answer: A, C, E
Question: 79
The Profile subsystem in Teradata Manager allows you to _____. (Choose three.)
A. program automatic application starts
B. store information about registered users
C. identify users with similar characteristics
D. tailor the Teradata Manager drop-down menus
E. establish a connection to a Teradata Database
Answer: A, D, E
Question: 80
Which three user privileges must you have to use all the functions of the Performance Monitor?
(Choose three.)
A. setresrate
B. selsession
C. monsession
D. abortsession
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Answer: A, C, D
Question: 81
What are two benefits of Teradata Manager? (Choose two.)
A. It provides session-level resource usage data.
B. It provides data as detailed as ResUsage data.
C. It acquires data in near real-time with less overhead.
D. It accumulates large amounts of data over a long period.
Answer: A, C
Question: 82
You are analyzing application performance using the Access Log. Which two can you capture?
(Choose two.)
A. disk I/O
B. CPU time
C. start time
D. SQL function
E. embedded views
Answer: C, D
Question: 83
Which locking information can the Recovery Manager utility display?
A. HUT locks
B. locks blocking other sessions
C. tables locked by in-flight transactions
D. locks currently held by online transaction recovery
Answer: D
Question: 84
Which utility can be used to display HUT locks?
A. lokdisp
B. showlocks
C. RCVManager
D. Locking Logger
E. Performance Monitor
Answer: B
Question: 85
Which two tools can be used to identify an inappropriate job mix? (Choose two.)
A. filer
B. ferret
C. DBSControl
D. Locking Logger
E. Performance Monitor
Answer: D, E
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Question: 86
What is input to the Teradata Visual Explain utility?
A. Visual Explain Table (VET)
B. Query Capture Table (QCT)
C. Visual Explain Database (VED)
D. Query Capture Database (QCD)
Answer: D
Question: 87
A Partitioned Primary Index (PPI) table has a NUPI. How can the number of hash collisions be
determined?
A. with the SQL HASHAMP function
B. with the SQL HASHCOL function
C. with the SQL HASHROW function
D. with the SQL HASHBUCKET function
Answer: C
Question: 88
Which two activities can the Teradata Statistics Wizard perform? (Choose two.)
A. recommend secondary indexes
B. execute statistics collection recommendations
C. display current versus captured statistics information
D. reproduce Optimizer related issues in a test environment
E. recommend recollection of statistics based on table skew
Answer: B, E

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