DBMS Interview Questions and Answers
Ques:- Which of the following is a procedural language?
A. Relational algebra
B. Query language
C. Tuple relational calculus
D. Domain relational calculus
Ques:- A database management system
A. Allows simultaneous access to multiple files
B. Can do more than a record management system
C. Is a collection of programs for managing data into a single file
D. Both a and b
Ques:- Which of the following types of tables constraints will prevent the entry of duplicate rows?
A. Primary keys
B. Foreign keys
C. Unique keys
D. Candidate keys
Recent Answer :
: A. Primary keys
Ques:- Which of the following is/are the primary features of a DBMS?
A. To provide an environment that is congenial to user
B. To store the information
C. To retrieve information
D. All of the above
Ques:- In a relational model, relations are termed as
A. Rows
B. Tables
C. Attributes
D. Tuples
Recent Answer :
: D. Tuples
Ques:- DBMS helps to achieve
A. Data independence
B. More redundancy
C. Centralised manner to control of data
D. Both a and c
Recent Answer :
: D. Both a and c
Ques:- The most popular commercial DBMS is
A. Oracle
B. MySQL
C. Microsoft Access
D. Microsoft SQL Server
Recent Answer :
: A. Oracle
Ques:- Which of the following is a set of one or more attributes taken collectively to uniquely identify a record?
A. Foreign key
B. Super key
C. Sub key
D. Candidate key
Recent Answer :
: B. Super key
Ques:- A _____ consists of a collection of interrelated data and a collection of programs to access that data.
A. DBA
B. DBMS
C. Schema
D. Database
Recent Answer :
: B. DBMS
Ques:- The ____ provides a set of operations that take one or more relations as input and return a relation as an output.
A. Relation flow
B. Scheme diagram
C. Relational algebra
D. Schematic representation
Recent Answer :
: C. Relational algebra
Ques:- The feature that database allows to access only certain records in database is
A. Tables
B. Reports
C. Forms
D. Query
Recent Answer :
: D. Query
Ques:- The most commonly used operation in relational algebra for projecting a set of tuple from a relation is
A. Union
B. Select
C. Projection
D. Join
Ques:- In E-R diagram, relationship is represented by
A. Diamond shaped
B. Dashed shaped
C. Ellipse shaped
D. Rectangle shaped
Recent Answer :
: A. Diamond shaped
Ques:- The _____ operation allows the combining of two relations by merging pairs of tubles, one from each relation, into a single tuple.
A. Intersection
B. Union
C. Join
D. Select
Recent Answer :
: C. Join
Ques:- A _____ is an abstract model that describes how the data are organised and represented.
A. Database
B. Schema
C. Instances
D. Data model
Ques:- _____ describe what is in database fields.
A. Field names
B. Field definitions
C. Field markers
D. Structures
Recent Answer :
: A. Field names
Ques:- In an E-R diagrams, ellipses represents
A. Attributes
B. Link between attributes and entity sets
C. Relation among entity set
D. Entity set
Recent Answer :
: A. Attributes
Ques:- A _____ is a property of the entire relation rather than of the individual tuples in which each tuple is unique.
A. Key
B. Rows
C. Attribute
D. Fields
Recent Answer :
: A. Key
Ques:- In a relational modes, a cardinality is termed as
A. Number of constraints
B. Number of tables
C. Number of attributes
D. Number of tubles
Recent Answer :
: D. Number of tuples
Ques:- Which of the following is not a type of database?
A. Relational
B. Hierarchical
C. Network
D. Transition
Recent Answer :
: D. Transition
Ques:- Which database handles full text data, image, audio and video?
A. Multimedia database
B. Video on demand database
C. Graphics database
D. Transaction database
Recent Answer :
: A. Multimedia database
Ques:- Which command creates and initializes one or more memory variables?
A. RELEASE
B. KEEP
C. STORE
D. UPDATE
Ques:- Report generators are used to
A. Store data input by a user
B. Retrieve information from files
Ques:- The logical data structure with a one-to-many relationship is a
A. Tree
B. Chain
C. Network
D. All of these
Recent Answer :
: A. Tree
Ques:- In a database, related fields are grouped to
A. File
B. Bank
C. Menu
D. Data record
Recent Answer :
: D. Data record
Ques:- The database environment has all the following components except
A. Database administrator
B. Database
C. Users
D. Separate files
Recent Answer :
: D. Separate files
Ques:- The distinguishable parts of a record are called
A. Fields
B. Files
C. Data
D. All of these
Recent Answer :
: A. Fields
Ques:- The command to convert a numeric number to characters is
A. STR ()
B. CHR ()
C. ASC ()
D. All of these
Ques:- Which normal form is considered adequate for normal relational database design?
A. 2 NF
B. 3 NF
C. 4 NF
D. 5 NF
Recent Answer :
: B. 3 NF
Ques:- One approach to standardizing storing of data is
A. CODASYL specifications
B. Structured programming
C. MIS
D. None of these
Recent Answer :
: A. CODASYL specifications
A. Relational algebra