DB2 Associate Mock Test

Time Duration: 1 Hr. 30 Min. Passing Percentage: 60

1. Which allows to access other DB2 servers, but cannot accept requests from other remote clients?

A) DB2 Personal Edition

B) DB2 Workgroup Server Edition

C) DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

D) DB2 Data Warehouse Edition

2. Which is the lowest cost DB2 product that can be legally installed on an HP-UX server?

A) DB2 Express-C

B) DB2 Express

C) DB2 Personal Edition

D) DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

3. Which is used to create and debug user-defined functions?

A) SQL Assist

B) Control Center

C) Command Editor

D) Developer Workbench

4. Which tool used to automate table reorganization operations?

A) Control Center

B) Command Center

C) Command Line Processor

D) Task Center

5. Major difference between relational data and XML data?

A) Relational data is self-describing; XML data is not

B) Relational data has inherent ordering; XML data does not

C) Relational data must be tabular; XML data does not have to be tabular
 D) Relational data is comprised of entities; XML data is comprised of numbers, characters, and
dates

6. In client-server environment, which two can be used to verify passwords?

A) System Catalog

B) User ID/password file

C) Client Operating System

D) Communications layer

E) Application Server

7. Which two authorities allow a user to create a new database?

A) SYSADMN

B) SYSCTRL

C) SYSMAINT

D) DBADM

E) CREATEDB

8. Which will allow user USER1 to change the comment associated with a table named TABLE1?

A) GRANT UPDATE ON TABLE table1 TO user1

B) GRANT CONTROL ON TABLE table1 TO user1

C) GRANT ALTER ON TABLE table1 TO user1

D) GRANT REFERENCES ON TABLE table1 TO user1

9. Which two database objects may the SELECT privilege be controlled?

A) Sequence

B) Nickname

C) Schema

D) View

E) Index
10. Which two privileges is required in order to use a package?

A) BINDADD

B) BIND

C) CONNECT

D) EXECUTE

E) USE

11. Which of the following is not true about DB2 Instances:

A) It has a stand-alone DB2 environment.
B) Only one instance can exist using the same DB2 executable files.
C) Each instance has its own configuration file.
D) d. There could be multiple instances per data server.

12. Which of the following is not correct for Workgroup servers

A) Limited to 16GB memory
B) Available for Linux, Unix, Windows, zLinux
C) Limited to 16 processing cores or 4 sockets
D) Designed for larger workloads than DB2 Express

13. Which of the following commands below to drop(if it already exists) sample database
A) db2 drop sample
B) db2 drop db
C) drop db sample
D) db2 drop db sample

14. ...is an ordered set of pointers inside a base table.

A) index
B) trigger
C) sequence
D) view

15. In the following statement db2_node indicates..

catalog tcpip node db2_node remote mysystem server db2tcp42
A) Host name
B) Ip address
C) Alias name
D) service name

16. Which of following best describe the below statement:

create database TESTDB2 ON c:
A) database is created on drive C:
B) automatic storage is enabled
C) storage path is c:
D) None of the above

17. If table TABLE1 contains 250 rows, which of the following statement will only return
the first 25 of the rows?
A) SELECT * FROM table1 MAXROWS 25
B) SELECT * FROM table1 RETURN FIRST 25 ROWS
 C) SELECT * FROM table1 WHILE ROW < 25
D) SELECT * FROM table1 FETCH FIRST 25 ROWS ONLY

18. Given the following table:

USERS
--------------------------
ID INTEGER NOT NULL
NAME CHAR(20) NOT NULL
PASSWORD VARCHAR(30)
Which INSERT statement is not correct?

A) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, 'ABC', 'xyz')

B) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, 'ABC', NULL )
C) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, '', 'xyz')
D) INSERT INTO USERS VALUES ( 13, NULL, 'xyz')

19. Which of the following statements can be used to increase the marks of all
students in science subject by 10%:
A)UPDATE student WHERE subject = ‘science’ SET marks = marks * 1.1
B)UPDATE student SET marks = (marks * 1.1)
C)UPDATE student SET marks = marks * 1.1 WHERE subject = ‘science’
D)UPDATE marks = marks * 1.1 ON TABLE student WHERE subject = ‘science'

20. Which of the following is not true for Views:

A)provide a logical ordering of the rows of a table
B)can be used to enforce the uniqueness of records stored in a table.
C)provide a fast, efficient method for locating specific rows of data in very large tables.
D) can force a table to not use clustering storage

21. Consider table:

EMPNO FNAME LNAME TITLE SALARY

151 ABC XYZ MGR 100000
123 ABC1 XYZ1 ENTRY 35000
166 ABC2 XYZ2 SENIOR 75000
190 ABC3 XYZ3 MGR 120000
202 ABC4 XYZ4 ENTRY 45000
If following query will be executed on above table the result:

SELECT MAX(SALARY) as MAX_SALARY, TITLE

FROM EMPLOYEE
GROUP BY TITLE
A)
SALARY TITLE
MGR 100000
ENTRY 35000
SENIOR 75000
MGR 120000
ENTRY 45000

B)
MAX_SALARY TITLE
12000 MGR
45000 ENTRY
75000 SENIOR

C)

SALARY TITLE
12000 MGR
45000 ENTRY
75000 SENIOR

D) none of the above

22. Consider Table1 has no rows initially and that the auto commit feature is disabled. After
execution of the following statements:
INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (1, ‘ABC’)
INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (2, ‘DEF’)
INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (3, ‘DEF’)
COMMIT
ROLLBACK
INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (4, ‘GHI’)
COMMIT
INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (5, ‘DEF’)
ROLLBACK
COMMIT
How many rows will be inserted in TB1?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 4
D) 3
23. Given the following queries:

SELECT c1 FROM tab1;

SELECT c1 FROM tab2;
Which set operators can be used to produce a result data set that contains only records that are not found in the
result data set produced by each query after duplicate rows have been eliminated?

A) UNION

B) INTERSECT

C) EXCEPT
 D) MERGE

24. Which is a valid wildcard character in a LIKE clause of a SELECT statement?

A) %

B) *

C) ?

D) \

25. Which two statements are true about the HAVING clause?

A) The HAVING clause is used in place of the WHERE clause.

B) The HAVING clause uses the same syntax as the WHERE clause.

C) The HAVING clause can only be used with the GROUP BY clause.

D) The HAVING clause accepts wildcards.

26. The following SQL statement:

DELETE FROM tab1 WHERE CURRENT OF csr1 WITH RR
Is used to perform which type of delete operation?

A) Positioned

B) Searched

C) Embedded

D) Dynamic

27. Given the following table definition:

SALES
---------------------------------------------
INVOICE_NO CHAR(20) NOT NULL
SALES_DATE DATE
SALES_PERSON CHAR(20)
REGION CHAR(20)
SALES INTEGER
If the following SELECT statement is executed, which describes the order of the rows in the result data set
produced?
SELECT * FROM sales
A) The rows are sorted by INVOICE_NO in ascending order.
 B) The rows are sorted by INVOICE_NO in descending order.

C) The rows are ordered based on when they were inserted into the table.

D) The rows are not sorted in any particular order.

28. Which DB2 data types does NOT have a fixed length?

A) INT

B) CHAR

C) XML

D) DOUBLE

E)

29. Given the requirements to store employee names, employee numbers, and when employees were hired,
which built-in data types CANNOT be used to store the day an employee was hired?

A) Character Large Object

B) Time

C) Varying-Length Character String

D) Timestamp

E)

30. Which two are optional and do not have to be specified when creating a table?

A) Table name

B) Column name

C) Default constraint

D) Column data type

E) NOT NULL constraint

31. Which CANNOT be used to restrict specific values from being inserted into a column in a particular table?

A) Index

B) Check constraint

C) Referential constraint

D) Default constraint

32. Given the statement:

CREATE TABLE tablea (col1 INTEGER NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT const1 CHECK (col1 in (100, 200, 300))
Which can be inserted into TABLEA?
 A) 0

B) NULL

C) 100

D) '100'

33. Which causes a lock that is being held by an application using the Cursor Stability isolation level to be
released?

A) The cursor is moved to another row

B) The row the cursor is on is deleted by the application

C) The row the cursor is on is deleted by another application

D) The row the cursor is on needs to be updated by another application

34. A table contains a list of all seats available at a football stadium. A seat consists of a section number, a seat
number, and whether or not the seat has been assigned. A ticket agent working at the box office generates a list
of all unassigned seats. When the agent refreshes the list, it should only change if another agent assigns one or
more unassigned seats. Which is the best isolation level to use for this application?

A) Repeatable Read

B) Read Stability

C) Cursor Stability

D) Uncommitted Read

35. Which of the following is TRUE about CASCADE delete rule:

A) Enforces the presence of a parent row for every child after all the referential constraints
are applied.
B) Implies that deleting a row in parent table automatically deletes any related rows in
dependent table.
C) Ensures that deletion of a row in parent table sets values of foreign key in any
dependent row to null (if nullable).
D) Prevents any row in parent table from being deleted if any dependent rows are found.

36. Query: SELECT * FROM TABLE T1 INNER JOIN T2 ON T1.ID = T2.ID is equivalent to :

A) SELECT * FROM TABLE T1,TABLE T2 WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID

B) SELECT * FROM TABLE T1 Left outer join TABLE T2 WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID
C) SELECT * FROM TABLE T1 full join TABLE T2 WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID
D) SELECT * FROM TABLE T2 Right outer join TABLE T1 WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID

37. which of the following isnot TRUE for Repeatable Read

A) Highest level of isolation
 B) Locks the entire table or view being scanned for a query
C) Provides minimum concurrency
D) none of the above

38. Default isolation for DB2 9.5

A) Repeatable read
B) Read stability
C) Cursor stability
D) Currently Committed

39. Which one of the following is true for Granting SYSADM authority to the group 'grp':
A) UPDATE DB CFG USING SYS_GROUP GROUP1
B) UPDATE DBM CFG USING SYSADM_GROUP GROUP1
C) UPDATE DBM USING SYSADM_GROUP GROUP1
D) UPDATE DBM CFG USING SYSADM GROUP1

40. Which of the following false for Online Backup

A) Allows other applications or processes to access the database
B) Available to users during backup
C) Can backup to disk, tape, TSM and other storage vendors
D) Does not allow other applications or processes to access the database

41. Which package privilege is required to rebind, drop or execute a package

A) CONTROL
B) BIND
C) EXECUTE
D) USAGE

42. On which of the following operations Trigger cannot be used .

A) Update
B) Insert
C) Drop
D) Delete
E)

43. Which of the following is not true for well-formed XML document:
A) Each element begins with a start tag and ends with an end tag.
B) An element can contain other elements, attributes, or text nodes.
C) Attribute values must be enclosed in double quotes. Text nodes, on the other hand,
should not.
D) It can have one or more root element.

44. Which of the following is NOT a valid method of authentication that can be used by DB2 9?
A. SERVER
B. SERVER_ENCRYPT
C. CLIENT
D. DCS
45. Which are NOT stored in the system catalog tables?

A) SQL statements used to create views

B) SQL statements used to create triggers

 C) SQL statements used to create constraints

D) Table names

1.A

2.D

3.D

4.D

5.C

6.C and E

7.A and B

8.C

9.B and D

10.C and D

11. b

12. b

13. d

14. a

15. c

16. a

17. d

18. d

19. c

20. d

21. b

22. c

23. c

24. A

25. B and C

26. A

27. D
28. C

29. B

30. C and E

31. D

32. C

33. A

34. C

35. b

36. a

37. d

38. c

39. b

40. d

41. a

42. c

43. d

44. d

45. A