MCQ Bank
If A→ B and CB → D, then AC → D. 1. The above rule follows _____________ inference rule.
- A) Additivity
- B) Pseudo transitivity
- C) Augmentation
- D) Decomposition
An attribute y may be functionally dependent on
(i) a composite attribute x,y
(ii) a single attribute x
(iii) no attribute
- A) i and ii
- B) i and iii
- C) iii
- D) ii and iii
A function that has no partial functional dependencies is in _______ .
- A) 1NF
- B) 3NF
- C) 2NF
- D) BCNF
If A→ BC then A → B and A→ C
The above rule follows _____________ inference rule.
- A) Additivity
- B) Projectivity
- C) Transitivity
- D) Augmentation
Creating the relationships between new tables and their predecessors through the use of foreign keys is general requirements of__________.
- A) First normal form
- B) Second normal form
- C) Third normal form
- D) Fourth normal form
The process of normalization
- A) is finding the key of a relation
- B) is manual and requires semantic information
- C) requires one to understand dependency between attributes
- D) is automatic using a computer program
Which of the following is used to keep the input values for a specific attribute in specific limits in comparison to any other attribute of the same or any other relation?
- A) Default Value
- B) Range Control
- C) Null Value Control
- D) Referential Integrity
While converting to 2NF all the columns are deleted from the original table except for the determinant which will serve as a ____________key.
- A) Primary key
- B) Foreign key
- C) Composite Key
- D) Super key
Functional dependencies under reflexivity inference rule are called __________ dependencies.
- A) Augmentation
- B) Projectivity
- C) Transitivity
- D) Trivial
The maximum PL/SQL size of data type “BLOB” in DBMS is _____________.
- A) 10 Gigabytes
- B) 8 Gigabytes
- C) 4 Gigabytes
- D) 12 Gigabytes
The following is an example of __________ inference rule.
If stId → prName and prName → credits then stId → credits
- A) Projectivity
- B) Transitivity
- C) Additive
- D) Augmentation
For third normal form we concentrate on relations with one _________key, and we eliminate transitive dependencies
- A) Candidate
- B) Composite
- C) Primary key
- D) Super key
____________are the structure defined for placing data in the attributes while designing physical design of database.
- A) Objects
- B) Variables
- C) Data types
- D) Attributes
A database state where deletion of the information about the student record deletes the course information as well is called _______________.
- A) Deletion anomaly
- B) Redundancy
- C) Updation anomaly
- D) Insertion anomaly
Given the following relation it is not 3 NF because
Student (roll no, name, course no, course max. marks, year of study,
address), where roll no is PK
- A) non-key attributes course no and course max. marks are functionally dependent
- B) it has more than 3 non-key attributes
- C) it is not in 2 NF
- D) it does not have composite key
The maximum PL/SQL size of data type “VARCHAR2” in DBMS is _____________ bytes.
- A) 52767
- B) 28767
- C) 42767
- D) 32767
Which of the following is an empty value but distinct from zero and spaces?
- A) Range Value
- B) Referential Integrity
- C) Null Value
- D) Default Value
In which normal form, we convert composite attributes into individual attributes?
- A) 2NF
- B) 1NF
- C) 3NF
- D) 4NF
The database design prevents some data from being stored due to _______.
- A) Deletion anomalies
- B) Redundancy
- C) Update anomalies
- D) Insertion anomalies
Data type “BLOB” in database management system stands for ________________.
- A) Bipolar large object
- B) Binary long objective
- C) Binary large objective
- D) Binary large Object