QA Chapter2 PDF
QA Chapter2 PDF
QA Chapter2 PDF
Multiple-Choice Questions:
1) Many airline reservation and telephone directory systems that support large number of
concurrent transactions with little delay are categorized as _______.
a) OLTP b) RTS c) AI d) OFTP
2) _______ stores information about schemes, constraints, design decisions, usage standards and
user information.
a) data bank b) repository c) depository d) tables
3) ______ is the ability to change the schema at one level of a database system without having to
change the schema at next higher level.
a) data exchange b) data dependence c) data independence d) data binding
4) ________ data independence changes the conceptual scheme without changing the external scheme.
a) physical b) internal c) low-level d) logical
6) To change the physical file structure the ________ scheme needs to be changed
a) conceptual b) physical c) logical d) low-level
7) _______ language is used to define both the internal and conceptual scheme when there is no
separation between these schemes.
a) VDL b) SDL c) DDL d) DML
9) _______ language is used to specify the user views and their mappings to conceptual schema.
a) VDL b) SDL c) DDL d) DML
10) _______ language is used to do insertion, deletion, retrieval, and modification of data.
a) VDL b) SDL c) DDL d) DML
11) A high-level DML used in stand-alone interactive manner is called _________ language.
a) query b) machine c) assembly d) natural
12) The description of schema constructs and constraints is called ______ data.
a) dynamic b) beta c) meta d) key
17) A standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) provides an interface called ______.
a) GUI b) CLI c) OOI d) API
TRUE or FALSE:
1. Powerbuilder is an example of application development environment. (T/F)
4. A query language specifies which data to retrieve rather than how to retrieve it. (T/F)
8. High-level DML can specify and retrieve many records in single DML statement. (T/F)
11. Only one database state can be constructed from a particular database schema. (T/F)
12. Schema diagram does not show the data types of each data item. (T/F)
4. DML Specifies conceptual and internal schema both or conceptual schema only 1
1. Relational data model Represents database as collection of tables 1
1. View level Describes the part of database for a particular user group 3
2. Conceptual level Describes the structure of whole database for community of users 2
3. Internal level Describes the part of database for a particular user group 1