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Fundamental of Database systems (ITec2071) Sample exit exam questions

Part II: Read the following questions carefully and choose the correct answer from the
given alternatives.
1. Which one is not the limitation of traditional file based data management approach?
A. Redundancy of data
B. Data sharing among different applications
C. No control over the access and manipulation of the data
D. Separation or Isolation of Data
2. Which level of the ANSI-SPARC database Architecture describes the physical representation of
the database on the computer.
A. External level C. Conceptual level
B. Internal level D. All
3. The permitted values of each attribute of a relation are called the ________ of that attribute.
A. Set C. Domain
B. Relation D. Schema
4. Data model is used to describe:
A. The meaning of data
B. The rules that will be applied on data
C. Associations between data
D. All
5. Which language can a user use to request information from a database?
A. C++ C. Compiler
B. Relational D. Query(SQL)
6. In relational data model the database is modelled by ____________.
A. Objects C. Nodes or segments
B. The collection of tables D. All
7. Consider the following Relation example.
Student (StudentID, Student_name, Department, Gender, age)
In the above example which attributes can be the primary key for the given relation?
A. Department C. StudentID
B. Student_name D. All
8. Which one of the following is true about Entity Integrity?
A. In a base relation, no attribute of a primary key can be null.
B. Entity integrity is concerned with ensuring that each row of a table has a unique non null
value
C. In a base relation, the attribute of a primary key can be null
D. A and B
Fundamental of Database systems (ITec2071) Sample exit exam questions

9. Which one of the following is used to define the structure of the relation, deleting relations and
relating schemas?
A. Data Control Language C. Data Definition Language
B. Data Manipulation Language D. Data Query Language
10. Which one of the following is false about the property of Relation?
A. The relation has a name
B. Each entity is represented in one relation/table
C. Each cell of the relation can contain more than one single value
D. Each tuple in the relation is distinct, there are no duplicate tuples
11. During the mapping of Entity Relationship Diagram to Relational Tables for a relationship with
One-to-Many Cardinality
A. All the attributes are merged into a single table
B. Create a new table (which is the associative entity) and post primary key or candidate key
from each entity as attributes in the new table
C. Post the primary key or candidate key from the one side as a foreign key attribute to the
many side.
D. Post the primary key or candidate key from the many side as a foreign key attribute to the
one side
12. Any rule(restrictions) placed on the relations or data is called:
A. Attribute C. Relation
B. Constraint D. Database
13. Which statement is true about Proper Naming of Schema Constructs?
A. Use singular names for entity types
B. Use uppercase letters for entity type and relationship type names
C. Attribute names have their initial letter capitalized
D. All
14. Which of the following is true about normalizing database tables (data)?
A. It is used to obtain a database design that allows for consistent storage and efficient access
of data in a relational database
B. It is used to reduce the chances for anomalies to occur in a database.
C. It is the process of identifying the logical associations between data items and designing a
database that will represent such associations
D. All are true
15. Which one is incorrect about ‘B is functionally dependent on A’?
A. B determines A
B. B is a function of A
C. A functionally governs B
Fundamental of Database systems (ITec2071) Sample exit exam questions

D. The value of B must be unique for a given value of A


16. Which of the following symbols represent relationship sets in an ER diagram
A. Ovals C. Double circle
B. Circle D. None
17. The process of making a normalized schema unnormalized is called___________
A. Demoralization C. Renormalization
B. Normalization D. All
18. A table is in Second Normal form (2NF) if________________
A. There are no duplicated rows in the table
B. all non-key attributes are dependent on the entire primary key
C. There is no partial dependency
D. All
19. Which of the following symbols represent weak entity sets in an ER diagram?
A. Diamonds C. Rectangles
B. Lines D. Double rectangles
20. An entity can be characterized by
A. Constraint C. Parameter
B. Attribute D. Relation
21. If a demoralization situation exists, which of the following is true?
A. Duplicating foreign key attributes in 1:* relationships to reduce joins
B. Duplicating non-key attributes in 1:* relationships to reduce joins
C. Merging lookup tables with base relations
D. All
22. During total Participation_______________
A. All entities are not involved in the relationship.
B. Each entity is involved in the relationship
C. Some entities are involved in the relationship
D. None
23. What is the use of having primary key in the table
A. To remove the duplicate entry of data to table
B. To identify an object uniquely from table
C. To create references with other tables
D. All
24. Which statement is an example for many to many relationship type
A. One teacher can have multiple classes
B. One class may have multiple teachers
C. Many employees can work on multiple projects
Fundamental of Database systems (ITec2071) Sample exit exam questions

D. One department can have multiple students


25. Entity types that do not have key attributes (strong key) are called?
A. Weak entity types B. Strong entity type
B. Weak attribute types D. Strong attribute type
26. The database design that consists of multiple tables that are linked together through matching data
stored in each table is known as?
A. Hierarchical database C. Relational database
B. Network database D. Object oriented database
27. Which one is the process that involves dividing large tables into smaller that does not accept
redundant values and defining relationships between them?
A. Normalization C. Denormalization
B. Generalization D. Data structure
28. Among the following which activity helps you to determine the entities, attributes, and
relationship of data?
A. Database implementation C. Logical database modelling
B. Physical database modelling D. Conceptual database modeling
29. When the values in one or more attributes being used as a foreign key that must exist in another
set of one or more attributes in another table, you have created:
A. Domain integrity constraints
B. Entity integrity constraint
C. User defined integrity constraint
D. Referential integrity constraint
30. In database modeling, a set of objects with the same properties or characteristics is termed
as__________
A. Entity instance C. Entity type
B. Relationship type D. Relationship instance

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