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A cloud infrastructure built for the military is an example of ____.

Select one:
a. Private cloud

b. Community cloud

c. Service cloud

d. Public cloud

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Which of the following is a reason why a DBMS's daily operations must be clearly documented?

Select one:
a. Documentation of the daily operations help a company set its long-term goals.
b. Documentation of the daily operations help pinpoint causes and solutions of database problems.
c. Documentation of the daily operations help free the DBA from many lower-level technology-oriented tasks.
d. Documentation of the daily operations help manage the manual data resources of a company.
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Which one of the following describes the general condition in which a company operates?

Select one:
a. Company situations

b. Company operations

c. Company structure

d. Company conditions

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Coordinating, monitoring, and allocating database administration resources is included in a DBA's _____ role.

Select one:
a. operative
b. arbitration
c. technical
d. managerial

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A decision support system _______.

Select one:
a. is based on the atomic transaction property
b. is an arrangement of computerized tools used to assist managerial decision making
c. does not provide ad hoc query
d. is a methodology designed to extract information from data
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Using _____, you can extract data from an XML document and convert it into a text file.

Select one:
a. DTD
b. XSLT
c. XML schema
d. XMLD

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To work with data, a DBMS must retrieve the data from _____ and place them in ____.

Select one:
a. permanent storage; RAM
b. RAM; data cache
c. temporary files; procedure cache
d. data files; procedure cache

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What is the last step in the exchange between a Web browser and a database?

Select one:
a. The middleware receives the query result and creates the HTML-formatted page.
b. The Web browser requests a page from a Web server.
c. The HTML output is displayed on the client computer’s Web browser
d. The Web-to-database middleware uses ODBC to connect to the database.
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A[n] _____ can use a shared connection to the database instead of creating a new one every time.

Select one:
a. web browser
b. HTTP GET request
c. DLL
d. API

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The _____ administrator is responsible for strategic planning.

Select one:
a. database
b. data
c. system
d. program

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The advantages of business intelligence include the following EXCEPT _____.

Select one:
a. common data repository
b. integrating architecture
c. processor independence
d. Improved organisational performance
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Which one of the following would NOT be considered among the four primary ways for evaluating DBMS products for data warehousing?

Select one:
a. Database schema supported by the DBMS

b. Database size requirements

c. Confidentiality of data extraction

d. End user analytical interface

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In the ODBC architecture, a[n] _____ is in charge of managing all database connections.

Select one:
a. ODBC driver
b. ODBC API
c. DLL
d. driver manager

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Which of the following is a client-side extension?

Select one:
a. SQL*Net
b. ODBC
c. ActiveX
d. TCP/IP
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One of the features of _____ is to provide security and authentication of users through user IDs and passwords.

Select one:
a. Programming interface

b. Web application server

c. Web server

d. Common gateway interface

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The three following questions are asked during which DBA’s technical role? Does the DBMS provide web front-end access? What application
development tools are available?, and which programming languages are supported?

Select one:
a. Testing and evaluating databases and applications.

b. Evaluating, selecting, and installing the DBMS and utilities.

c. Operating the DBMS utilities, and applications.

d. Designing and implementing databases and application.

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Read the following query and answer the question

SELECT P_CODE, P_PRICE

FROM    PRODUCT

WHERE  P_PRICE >= (SELECT AVG(P_PRICE) FROM PRODUCT);

Assuming there is no table statistic, which I/O operation is the query likely to consider using?

Select one:
a. Row ID Table Access

b. Unique Index access

c. Range Index scan

d. Full table scan

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Improved decision making is the main benefit of Business Intelligence (BI). Another benefit BI provides include

Select one:
a. Fast data access

b. Fast data processing

c. Improved communication

d. Improved organisation performance

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An inventory company makes a backup copy of their database on a weekly basis. The last backup was done on the 14th of August 2021. Then on the week of
the 16th August, they realised that some operations are missing since the last backup that took place on the 14th.  What would you recommend that the
company should do?

The company should perform:

Select one:
a. Full back of the database

b. Differential back of the database

c. Transactional log backup of the database

d. Incremental backup of the database

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_____ means that data used during the execution of a transaction cannot be used by a second transaction until the first one is completed.

Select one:
a. Isolation
b. Time stamping
c. Atomicity
d. Serializability

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When moving data from permanent storage to RAM, an I/O disk operation retrieves a[n]:

Select one:
a. entire physical disk block.
b. single attribute requested only.
c. single row containing the attribute requested.
d. entire table.
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Which of the following deals with ensuring that data is protected against unauthorized access, and if the data are accessed by an authorized
user, the data are used only for an authorized purpose.

Select one:
a. Confidentiality
b. Availability
c. Authentication
d. Integrity

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On the client side, the objective is to generate an SQL query that returns a correct answer in the least amount of time, using a minimum
amount of resources at the server end. The activities required to achieve this goal are commonly referred to as _____ tuning.

Select one:
a. DBMS performance
b. client SQL
c. database SQL
d. SQL performance

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The most time consuming of all the phases in query processing is___.

Select one:
a. Fetching
b. Parsing
c. None of the phases is the most time consuming
d. Execution
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In a star schema, attributes are often used to search, filter, or classify _____.

Select one:
a. facts
b. sales
c. tables
d. dimensions

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_____ component of star schema allows the data warehouse and online transaction processing (OLAP) systems to use a carefully defined path
that will govern how data are to be decomposed and aggregated for drill-down and roll-up operations.

Select one:
a. Attribute hierarchy

b. Dimension

c. Attribute

d. Fact

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Bitmap indexes tend to use less space than a _____ because they use bits instead of bytes to store their data.

Select one:
a. reverse index
b. hash index
c. sparse index
d. B-tree index
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As a Database Administrator (DBA) in your organization, one of your duties is to provide end-user support to your department. Which of the
following is not one of the support you should provide to your end-users.

Select one:
a. Resolving conflicts and problems
b. Ensuring quality and integrity of data and application
c. Ensuring database software selection
d. Finding solution to information needs

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One of the features of _____ is to provide database access with transactional management capabilities.

Select one:
a. Web application server

b. Common gateway interface

c. Web interface server

d. Programming interface

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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is considered important because.

Select one:
a. It assists with the exchange of structured documents

b. It offers a replacement for HTML

c. It is the rote element of Document Type Definition (DTD)

d. It enables ubiquitous access for configurable computer resource

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The selection of DBMS during database design takes please after ______ design.

Select one:
a. Logical stage

b. None of the stages

c. Physical stage

d. Conceptual stage

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You must use plug-ins and other client-side extensions to:

Select one:
a. create dynamic web search pages.
b. eliminate the need for running external programs for each client request.
c. improve processing capabilities of a browser.
d. create an open communication line between a server and its clients
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Use the scenario depicted in the figure and the SQL query that follows it to answer this question.

At  Location A:

SELECT            *

FROM         INVOICE

WHERE      INV_TOTAL > 1000;

What does this SQL sequence represents?

Select one:
a. Remote transaction

b. Remote request

c. Distributed request

d. Distributed transaction 
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Use the scenario depicted in the figure and the SQL query that follows it to answer this question.

At Location A:

SELECT            CUS_NUM, CUS_NAME, INV_TOTAL

FROM         CUSTOMER, INVOICE

WHERE      CUSTOMER.CUS_NUM = INVOICE.CUS_NUM;

What does this SQL sequence represents?

Select one:
a. Distributed request 

b. Distributed transaction 

c. Remote transaction 

d. Remote request

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_____ is a scripting language that allows web authors to design interactive sites.

Select one:
a. Java
b. Visual Basic
c. HTML
d. JavaScript
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System support plus backup and recovery are performed during _____ DBA’s technical role.

Select one:
a. Evaluation, selection, and installation of DBMS and related utilities

b. Testing and evaluation of databases and applications

c. Operation of DBMS, utilities, and applications

d. Design and evaluation of databases and applications

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_____ Code is embedded inside an HTML page and is activated by triggering events such as clicking on a link.

Select one:
a. VBScript
b. XML
c. Visual Basic
d. SQL

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A DDBMS is subject to which restriction?

Select one:
a. Multiple instances of the same database should be integrated over a network.
b. Rapid ad hoc data access is not possible.
c. Remote data access is provided on a read-only basis.
d. All database processing must be done at a single site.
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Which of the following database middleware provides end users support to access both relational and non-relational data?

Select one:
a. Atomicity Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
b. Object Linking and Embedding for Database (OLE-DB)
c. Data Access Objects (DAO)
d. Remote Data Objects (RDO)

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Peter Kruger is a manager of a small product distribution company in Port Elizabeth. As the business is fast growing, Peter sees the need to
manage the massive information pool to help guide the fast growth. Peter is familiar with spreadsheet software and he currently employs a
sales force of four people. Because of your knowledge and small experience in database, Peter approached you to develop a data warehouse
application prototype. This prototype will enable him to study sales figures by year, region, salesperson, and product.

The above scenario would allow you to create fact and dimension tables. Which attribute would enable referential integrity between fact
table and dimension tables?

Select one:
a. Primary keys

b. Superkeys

c. Candidate keys

d. Secondary keys

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Data stored in the company database must be protected from access by unauthorized users. Data measures include all of the following
EXCEPT.

Select one:
a. Physical security
b. Data encryption
c. Top down authentication
d. User authentication
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In sales company for example, if managers must analyse sales by region, they must be able to access data showing the sales by region, by
city within the region, by store within the city within the region, and so on.
From analyst’s point of view, this example depicts which one of the point that differentiate decision support data from operational data?

Select one:
a. Dimensionality

b.  Granularity

c. Optimisation

d. Time span

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_____ transparency allows data to be updated simultaneously at several network sites.

Select one:
a. Transaction
b. display it in a standard formatted way.
c. perform immediate data entry validation.
d. extract details, such as order data, from it.

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Business Intelligence (BI) provides an organisational framework for the following EXCEPT.

Select one:
a. Predicting future behaviour and outcomes with a high degree of accuracy.

b. Collecting and storing operational data.

c. Analysing massive amount of data to uncover hidden trends

d. Analysing decision support data to generate information.

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Use the scenario depicted in the figure and the SQL query that follows it to answer this question. 

At Location C:

SELECT         *

FROM       PRODUCT

WHERE    PROD_QOH < 10;

What does this SQL sequence represents?

 
 

Select one:
a. Distributed request

b. Distributed transaction

c. Remote transaction

d. Remote request

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_____ transparency is the highest level of transparency. The end user or programmer does not need to know that a database is partitioned.

Select one:
a. Local mapping
b. Location
c. Performance
d. Fragmentation
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Which of the following is a rule that applies to the two-phase locking protocol?

Select one:
a. No data is affected until the transaction is released
b. No data is affected until locks are released
c. Two transactions cannot have conflicting locks
d. No unlock operation can precede a lock operation in a different transaction

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Concurrency control with optimistic methods moves through which phases.

Select one:
a. Read, write, and shrinking
b. Read, validation, and growing
c. Read, write, and execute
d. Read, write, and validate

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Non-volatility ensures that data are _____.

Select one:
a. never deleted and new data are continually added
b. derived from the entire organisation
c. focused on current transaction
d. arranged and optimised to provide answers
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A database management system needs _____ to prepare the data for presentation to the end user or to an application program.

Select one:
a. security
b. formatting
c. I/O interface
d. concurrency control

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_____ is the central activity during the parsing phase in query processing.

Select one:
a. Query validation
b. Partitioning
c. Query optimization
d. Clustering

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____level locking yields the most flexible multi-user data access.  

Select one:
a. Table

b. Page

c. Field

d. Row
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When is the implicit beginning of a database transaction?

Select one:
a. When the database is started
b. When the first SQL statement is encountered
c. When the COMMIT command is issued
d. When a table is accessed for the first time

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Each time an end-user clicks a hyperlink, the browser generates a[n] _____ request that is sent to the designated web server using the TCP/IP
Internet protocol.

Select one:
a. XML
b. HTTP GET
c. API
d. HTML

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___ can be placed on any fields in the file that is unordered.

Select one:
a. The multi-level index
b. The secondary index
c. The candidate index
d. The primary index
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The _____ cache is used as a temporary storage area for ORDER BY or GROUP BY operations, as well as for index-creation functions.

Select one:
a. optimizer
b. SQL
c. data
d. sort

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Query optimization routines are more complicated in DDBMS because DDBMS must decide______.

Select one:
a. What and which fragment of the database to access

b. Whose and what fragment of the database to access

c. Where and what fragment of the database to access

d. Where and which fragment of the database to access

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Data visualization has its roots in the _____ sciences, which focus on how the human brain receives, interprets, organizes, and processes
information.

Select one:
a. health
b. developmental
c. cognitive
d. social
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Use the scenario depicted in the figure and the SQL query that follows it to answer this question.

At Location B:

SELECT            *

FROM         PRODUCT

WHERE      PROD_QOH < 10;

What does this SQL sequence represent?

Select one:
a. Distributed transaction 

b. Remote transaction 

c. Distributed request

d. Remote request

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From the performance point of view, _____ databases eliminate disk access bottlenecks.

Select one:
a. in-memory
b. index-organized
c. RAID
d. distributed
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A South African Story book publishing company publishes one local story for Four Cities namely: Cape Town (CT), Pretoria (PR),
Johannesburg (JO) and Polokwane (PO).  The company has approximately 110 000 CUSTOMER (subscribers) situated across the four cities.
Each Month an annual subscription INVOICE is printed and sent to all consumer whose subscription is due for renewal.  The INVOICE entity
contains a REGION attribute to indicate the Customer’s city.

CUSTOMER (CUS_NUM, CUS_NAME, CUS_ADDRESS, CUS_CITY, CUS_STATE, CUS_CODE,

CUS_SUBSDATE)
INVOICE (INV_NUM, INV_REGION, CUS_NUM, INV_DATE, INV_TOTAL)
The Company made decision to assign subscription management to the individual cities (city base subscription) with each city managing
their own subscription sites (customers and invoice data). Management at the company headquarter will have access to customer and
invoice data to enable them generate annual reports and issue ad hoc queries.
What type of fragmentation would be needed for each table in the scenario?

Select one:
a. The database must be horizontally partitioned

b. The database must be vertically partitioned

c. Some part of the database must be more vertically partitioned than horizontally

d. The database must be equally horizontally and vertically partition

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SELECT  P_CODE, P_DESCRIPT, P_PRICE, PRODUCT.V_CODE, V_STATE

FROM    PRODUCT P, VENDOR V

WHERE P.V_CODE = V.V_CODE
        AND              V_STATE = ‘NY’
        AND              V_AREACODE = ‘212’;
ORDER BY           P_PRICE;
Based on the above query, what indexes would you recommend?   

Select one:
a. . V_STATE and V_AREACODE

b. V_AREACODE and P_PRICE

c. V_STATE and P_PRODUCT

d. V_STATE and P_PRICE

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Which of the following is NOT among the desirable DDBMS transparency features?

Select one:
a. Failure transparency
b. Distributed transparency
c. Heterogeneity transparency
d. Homogeneity transparency

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A distributed ____ lets a single SQL statement reference data located at several different local or remote database processing site.

Select one:
a. Request
b. Process
c. Control
d. Transaction

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The main requirements for a decision support database are______.

a. Data extraction and loading

b. Database schema

c. Data manipulation and processing

d. Data storage improvement

Select one:
a. b, d

b. b, c

c. a, c

d. a, b
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During _____ data allocation, the database is divided into two or more disjointed parts (fragments) and stored at two or more sites.

Select one:
a. centralized
b. mixed
c. replicated
d. partitioned

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 _____ is a meta-language used to represent and manipulate data elements.

Select one:
a. XML

b. XHTML

c. XML Schemas

d. HTML

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The attribute hierarchy provides a top-down data organization that is used for two main purposes: _____ and drill-down/roll-up data analysis.

Select one:
a. de-normalization
b. aggregation
c. normalization
d. decomposition
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Which of the following would not be considered a trade-off involved in building highly distributed data environments?

Select one:
a. Partition

b. Confidentiality

c. Consistency

d. Availability

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_____ transparency allows a physically dispersed database to be managed as though it were centralized.

Select one:
a. Distribution
b. Performance
c. Transaction
d. Failure

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Conceptually, MDBMS end users visualize the stored data as a three-dimensional cube known as a _____.

Select one:
a. multi-cube
b. database cube
c. data cube
d. hyper cube
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Which of the followings are true regarding database design phase?

1. It does not constitute a sequential process

2.  It is an Iterative process

3. The process of database design is loosely related to the analysis and design of a larger system

4. The system analysts or programmers are in charge of designing the other system components

Select one:
a. 1, 2, 3 and 4

b. 2, 3 and 4
c. 1, 2 and 4
d. 2 and 4

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The process of identifying and documenting business rules is essential to database design because of the following reason among others.

Select one:
a. None of the options are correct
b. They help customers to create an accurate data model
c. They allow the users to develop appropriate relation participation rules and constraints
d. They allow the designer to understand business process

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The file organisation that stores records in a sequence based on the value of one or more fields often known as the primary key is
called_____.

Select one:
a. indexed file organisation
b. sequential file organisation
c. heap file organisation
d. hash file organisation
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Supposed you are given FIVE SQL statements to update the database of your company, upon the execution of the first THREE statements,
the computer system loses power due to load shedding in your area and there is no backup power supply to complete the transaction.
Assuming your company uses database management system (DBMS) to support transaction management, what function will the DBMS
perform in this regards?

Select one:
a. Roll back the database to previously consistent state.
b. None of the option is correct
c. Recover the database by saving the executed transactions to prevent database from moving into inconsistent state
d. Save the executed transactions and roll back to the previously consistent state

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The _______ processor is the software component found in each computer that requests data, receives, and processes the application's data
requests.

Select one:
a. Database
b. Transaction
c. Data
d. Network

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"A password must have a minimum of five characters" is an example of a _____.

Select one:
a. policy
b. rule
c. standard
d. procedure
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The DBMS ____ the SQL query and chooses the most efficient access or execution plan.

Select one:
a. Executes
b. Fetches
c. Processes
d. Parses

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The _____ isolation level ensures that queries return consistent results.

Select one:
a. repeatable read
b. read uncommitted
c. serializable
d. read committed

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As a DBA, all of the following EXCEPT one are the data dimension you would describe to top-level managers to obtain their support for
endorsing the data administration function.

Select one:
a. Explain important ways to address data impact of DBMS

b. Identify and define the need for and role of the DBMS

c. The impact of a DBMS introduction into an organization must be illustrated and explain

d. Emphasize the importance of data as a company asset

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In the optimistic approach, during the _____ phase, changes are permanently applied to the database.

Select one:
a. write
b. shared
c. validation
d. read

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In the optimistic approach, during the_____ phase, a transaction scans the database, executes the needed computations, and makes the
updates to a private copy of the database values.

Select one:
a. Read
b. shared
c. write
d. validation

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As a discipline, data visualization can be studied as _______ techniques used to explore and discover data insights by applying: _______,
________ and ________.

Select one:
a. spatial awareness, a group of visual communication, pattern recognition and aesthetics
b. of visual communication, pattern recognition, aesthetics and spatial awareness
c. a group of visual communication, pattern recognition, spatial awareness and aesthetics
d. of visual communication, pattern recognition, spatial awareness and aesthetics
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At which phase of query processing are data blocks retrieved from data files?

Select one:
a. In all the phases.
b. Execution
c. Fetching
d. Parsing

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In web-to-database middleware, ____ executes the query and passes the result back.

Select one:
a. Database server
b. TCP/IP Network
c. Web server
d. Web-to-database middleware

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Which of the following is NOT one of the issues that should be considered when resolving data requests in a distributed data environment?

Select one:
a. Data replication

b. Data distribution

c. Data fragmentation

d. Network and node availability

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The database physical design step that allows the designer to define tables, Indexes, and views’ physical organisation is _______.

Select one:
a. Define data storage organisation

b. Define integrity and security measures

c. Define performance measures

d. Define data model verification

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The objective of query optimization functions is to minimize the total costs associated with the execution of a database request. The costs
associated with a request are functions of the following EXCEPT?

Select one:
a. The access time (I/O) cost

b. Communication cost

c. CPU time cost  

d. End users access cost

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What important role can indexes play in database design?

Select one:
a. Improve data storage in the database system
b. Improving physical access to the database system
c. Improving the performance of the database system
d. Improving the backup process of the data in the database system
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Which of the following statement about index is NOT TRUE?

Select one:
a. Indexes are created for each single attribute used in a WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause.

b. Use indexes in small tables or tables with high sparsity

c. Declare indexes in join columns other than Primary Key/Foreign Key

d. Declare indexes in primary and foreign keys so the optimizer can use the indexes in join operations

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Managers are seldom interested in a specific sales invoice to customer X; rather, they tend to focus on sales generated during the last
month, the last year, or the last five years. This example would be used to depict which one of the following?

Select one:
a. Dimensionality

b. Optimisation

c. Time span

d. Granularity

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Which of the following is NOT a desired managerial skill you should have as Database Administrator (DBA).

Select one:
a. Communication skills
b. Analytical skills
c. Coordination skills
d. Operational skills
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Which of the following is NOT true regarding a scheduler?

Select one:
a. Facilitates atomicity on the concurrency transactions through locking and stamping
b. Establishes the order in which the operation within concurrent transactions are executed
c. It bases it actions on concurrency control algorithms
d. Is a DBMS’s component that is in charge of concurrency control resulting in concurrent execution of several transactions.

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The step in database conceptual design that allows the designer to define entities, attributes, domains and relationship is known as _______.

Select one:
a. Distributed database design

b. Entity relationship modelling and normalisation

c. Data model verification

d. Data analysis and requirements

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______ fragmentation allows you to break a single object into two or more segments or fragments.

Select one:
a. Mixed
b. Data
c. Vertical
d. Horizontal
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_____ are more detailed and specific than policies and describe the minimum requirements of a given DBA activity.

Select one:
a. Guidelines
b. Procedures
c. Documentations
d. Standards

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_____ activities cover all tasks directly related to the day-to-day operations of the DBMS and its applications.

Select one:
a. Security auditing and monitoring
b. Backup and recovery
c. System support
d. Performance monitoring and tuning

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Which of the following is the first step of query processing at the DBMS server end?

Select one:
a. Fetching
b. Delivering
c. Parsing
d. Executing
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Which tool determines the size of the table given various attributes including the average row size in bytes?

Select one:
a. CREATE_TABLE_ROLE
b. CREATE_TABLE_SIZE
c. CREATE_TABLE_INDEX
d. CREATE_TABLE_COST

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The _____ rule requires that all copies of data fragments be identical.

Select one:
a. horizontal fragmentation
b. shared fragment
c. mutual consistency
d. replication