Regis University Graduate Program
MSCD 600 Database Architecture
Week One Review Exam
Name: ________________________
1.
What does DBMS stand for?
a) Database Mode Standard
b) Database Management System
c) Data By Moving Systems
d) Database Multiple Standards
2.
Partitioned tables yield many benefits, including (choose 3):
a) Performance
b) Availability
c) Sustainability
d) Manageability
3.
Which of the following is NOT something a typical DMBS does:
a) Safely manage shared access to a single database
b) Control the version of the current operating system
c) Leverage computer resources wisely
d) Protects database information for recovery
4.
Relational databases store and present all information in:
a) Tables
b) Spreadsheets
c) Flat Files
d) Objects
5.
What does OLTP stand for?
a) Over Limit Transaction Processing
b) Online Transaction Preparation
c) Outer Level Transaction Performance
d) Online Transaction Processing
6.
Database applications with the following qualities could be considered high-end
systems (choose 3):
a. A database system that manages a very large database
b. A database system that provides access to many concurrent users
c. A database system that must guarantee constant availability
d. A database system that is shut down every night for a backup
7.
What is the name of the process architecture that Oracle provides to dramatically
reduce the overhead associated with maintaining many concurrent database
sessions?
a. Multifaceted Connector
b. Multiple User Server
c. Multithreaded Server
d. Managed User Interface
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8.
True or False - Replication is the copying and maintaining of database objects in
multiple databases of a distributed database system.
9.
What do you call a column within a table that can be used to uniquely identify a
row in a table?
a. A solitary key
b. A main key
c. A primary key
d. A fundamental key
10.
True or False – a foreign key is a column in one table that corresponds to a
primary key in the same table.
11.
A characteristic or quality of an entity is called what?
a. An attribute
b. A feature
c. A trait
d. None of the above
12.
One or more queries and/or modifications make up a:
a. Procedure
b. Operation
c. Function
d. Transaction
13.
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) has 3 component parts, which are (choose 3):
a. The Control Unit
b. The Arithmetic Logic Unit
c. The System Bus
d. The Registers
e. The Random Access Memory (RAM)
14.
True or False – Memory I/O is much slower that disk I/O.
15.
What are the functions of a file management system?
a. Creation and manipulation of files
b. Management of secondary storage devices
c. File security
d. File backup and recovery
e. All of the above
16.
What are the three types of inputs to a database management system (choose 3)?
a. Queries
b. Modifications to data
c. Schema modifications
d. Operating system modifications
e. Memory configurations
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17.
What is the Storage Manager responsible for?
18.
Explain the ACID Theory
19.
What is the SGA, and what components make up the SGA?
20.
List at least 3 new features to Oracle8, that were not in version 7:
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