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Section 2 Quiz
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11. Which of the following are required when declaring a variable? (Choose two.)
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NOT NULL
CONSTANT
Data type (*)
Identifier name (*)

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12. Which of the following are examples of good programming practice? (Choose
three.) Mark for Review
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Document code with comments. (*)

Use table column names as the names of variables.
Indent code so that it can be read more easily. (*)
Develop naming conventions for identifiers and other objects. (*)
Use implicit data type conversions.

Correct

13. Which of the following will help to make code easier to read?
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Naming variables.
Using %Type.
Including comments in the code. (*)

Incorrect. Refer to Section 2 Lesson 7.

14. Which of the following are scalar data types? (Choose three.)
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Character (*)
 Table
Array
Boolean (*)
Date (*)

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15. A movie is an example of which category of data type?

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Composite
Reference
Scalar
LOB (*)

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Section 2 Quiz
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6. PL/SQL can implicitly convert a CHAR to a NUMBER, provided the CHAR contains a
numeric value, for example '123'. True or False? Mark for Review
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True (*)
False

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7. What is wrong with this assignment statement?

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myvar := 'To be or not to be';
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'That is the question';

"myvar" is not a valid name for a variable

Character literals should not be enclosed in quotes
Nothing is wrong, the statement is fine
An assignment statement must be a single line of code
An assignment statement must have a single semicolon at the end (*)

Correct

8. Which of the following are valid identifiers? (Choose two.)

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completion_%
v_code (*)
students_street_address (*)
#hours
Full Name

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9. Delimiters are _____ that have special meaning to the Oracle database.
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symbols (*)
identifiers
variables

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10. Is the following variable declaration correct or not?

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DECLARE (1) Points
name, dept VARCHAR2(14);

Correct.
Not correct. (*)

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Section 2 Quiz
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1. Which of the following declarations is invalid?

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v_count PLS_INTEGER:=0;
v_pages CONSTANT NUMBER; (*)
v_start_date DATE := sysdate+1;
college_name VARCHAR2(20):='Harvard';

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2. If you are using the %TYPE attribute, you can avoid hard coding the:
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Constraint
Data type (*)
Table name
Column name

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3. What will be displayed when the following code is executed?

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DECLARE (1) Points
varA NUMBER := 12;
BEGIN
DECLARE
varB NUMBER := 8;
BEGIN
varA := varA + varB;
END;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(varB);
END;

12
VarB
20
Nothing, the block will fail with an error (*)
8

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4. What will be displayed when the following code is executed?

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DECLARE (1) Points
x VARCHAR2(6) := 'Chang';
BEGIN
DECLARE
x VARCHAR2(12) := 'Susan';
BEGIN
x := x || x;
END;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(x);
END;

Chang (*)
SusanChang
The code will fail with an error
Susan
ChangChang

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5. Examine the following code:
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DECLARE (1) Points
x VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
x:= 5 + 4 * 5 ;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(x);
END;

What value of x will be displayed?

29
25 (*)
45
14

Correct