DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Multiple Choice Questions/ Answer.
1. The clause ALTER TABLE in SQL can be used to
(a) Add an attribute (b) delete an attribute
(c)alter the default values of an attribute (d)all of the above
Ans- d
2. Which of the following is not an example of DBMS?
(a) MySQL (b) Microsoft Access c) IBM DB2 (d) Google
Ans- d
3. Which of the following is a function of the DBMS?
a) Storing data (b) Providing multi-users access control
c) Data Integrity (d) All of the above
Ans- d
4. Which one of the following attribute can be taken as a primary key?
(a) Name (b) Street (c) Id (d) Department
Ans- c
5. In Relational Model, the number of attributes in table is termed as
(a) Cardinality (b) Degree (c) Domain (d) None of these
Ans-b
6. Which of the following is a component of the DBMS?
(a) Data (b) Data Languages (c) Data Manager (d) All of the above
Ans- d
7. Count function in SQL returns the number of
(a) Values (b) columns (c) groups (d) rows
Ans- d
8. Which of the following are components of the DBMS?
(a) Data (b) Data language (c) data manager (d) All of these
Ans - d
9. Identify the operator that performs pattern searching in MYSQL.
(a) EXISTS (b) BETWEEN (c) LIKE (d) SEARCH
Ans - c
[Link] of a table is four and degree is three. If two columns and four
rows are added to a table what will be the new degree and cardinality of
the given table.
(a) 5, 8 (b)3,4 (c) 8,5 (d) 4,3
Ans- a
[Link] command is used to see the structure of a table?
(a) LIKE (b) Show (c) Describe (d) Modify
Ans- c
12._____________ command is used to delete the structure of the table
(a) Drop table (b) Modify Database (c) Delete Table (d) Alter Table
Ans- a
[Link] statement is used to delete an existing row from the table?
(a) DELETE (b) WHERE (c) MODIFY (d) None of the mentioned
Ans-a
14._______________ command is used to eliminate duplicate values of an
attribute in the select query
(a) Update (b) Unique (c) Distinct (d) No Duplicate
Ans- c
[Link] clause ALTER TABLE in SQL can be used to
(a) Add an attribute (b) delete an attribute
(c) Alter the default values of an attribute (d) all of the above
[Link] one of the following attribute can be taken as a primary key?
(a) Name (b) Street (c) Id (d) Department
Ans-c
[Link] are the different types of DBMS users_______.
(a) End users (b) database administrator
(c) Application programmers (d) All of the above
Ans- d
[Link] operator tests column for absence of data
(a) Not (b) exists (c) is null (d) none of the above
Ans- c
[Link] command used to delete a particular column in a relation is ______
(a) UPDATE TABLE (b) TRUNCATE COLUMN
(c) ALTER, DROP (d) DELETE COLUMN
Ans-c
20.A huge collection of the information or data accumulated from several
different sources is known as ________:
(a) Data management (b) Data mining
(c)Data warehouse (d) both b and c
Ans-c
[Link] of a relation are known as the _______.
(a) Degree (b) Tuples (c) Domain (d) Relation
Ans- b
[Link] of the following command is a type of Data Definition language
command?
(a) Create (b) Update (c) Delete (d) Merge
Ans- a
[Link] one of the following commands is used to modify a column inside a
table?
(a) Drop (b) Update (c) Alter (d) Set
Ans- c
[Link] of the following is a comparison operator in SQL?
(a) Double equal sign ( == ) (b) LIKE
(c) BETWEEN (d) Single equal sign ( = )
Ans-a
25. Which of the following is not a function of the database?
(a) Managing stored data (b) Manipulating data
(c) Security for stored data (d) Analyzing code
Ans-d
