MCQ – Database management system – Set I

1. SELECT FROM EMP for salary>10000 will do following

  • selects all columns from employee table which have salary>30000
  • selects and displays all columns from employee table which have salary>30000
  • Invalid syntax
  • None of the above

2. Entity Relationship Model is used for

  • describing the process flow of the system
  • designation database
  • describe the entities of the information system and their relations
  • all of above

3. Mark the property not contained in relational database

  • collection of tables
  • SQL of data retrieval and changes
  • data independence
  • connections to data through pointers

4. Mark the false statement about the primary key constraint of RDBMS

  • primary key may be foreign key in another table
  • primary key may contain missing values
  • primary key can contain atomic values
  • primary key has unique values

5. Which keyword is not used with the select command in SQL?

  • where
  • from
  • group by
  • create

6. Mark the property not applicable in RDBMS

  • No duplicate table name
  • No duplicate row
  • Row order is insignificant
  • values at the intersection or row and column are breakable

7. Which rule helps to maintain referential integrity in database?

  • foreign key values should always be matched by corresponding primary key values
  • null values should not be used in database
  • null value of one attribute is always equal to null value of other attributes
  • value of concatenated key must be unique

8. A key that is on the multiple side of ‘one-to-many’ relationship is known as

  • primary key
  • Foreign key
  • secondary key
  • none of the above

9. The ascending order of a data hierarchy is :

  • bit-byte-record-field-file-database.
  • byte-bit-field-record-file-database
  • bit-byte-field-record-file-database
  • bit-byte-field-record-file-database

10. which of the following hardware components is the most important to the operation of database management system?

  • high-resolution video display
  • printer
  • high-speed, large capacity disk
  • plotter

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