DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Question Bank:
UNIT 1
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Define Database?
What is a DBMS?
What is the need for database systems?
Define tupule?
What are the responsibilities of DBA?
Define schema?
Define entity and give example?
What is meant by foreign key?
What are the difference between unique key and Primary
Key?
Define meta data?
What are the disadvantages of database systems?
What is meant by weak entities? Give example
What is domain relational calculus?
Define Query Language?
Define Data model?
What are the 3 levels of data abstraction?
What are the advantages of relational model?
Define relation and relationship set?
Define attribute. List its types?
What is meant by entity set?
What are the different types of data models?
What is the difference between candidate key and super key?
What is meant by relational model?
What are the components of storage manager?
What is the difference between composite and simple
attributes?
Compare database systems and file systems.
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Give the distinction between primary key, candidate key and
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What is derived attribute? Give an example?
What is the difference between Weak and strong entity set?
What is the difference between a procedural and nonprocedural languages?
UNIT 2
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What are the disadvantages of DBMS compare to file processing
systems? Explain in detail?
Draw a system architecture of DBMS. Explain each component
in detail.
Explain various types of data models in detail.
Compare network and hierarchical model. Explain with example?
What is meant by E-R model? Explain with e.g.
What are the various types of attributes? Explain each with
example?
Write detail notes on relational algebra.
Explain domain and tuple relational calculus in detail.
What is the need of relational model? Explain with example?
List the different types of database users with their roles.
What is the role of DBA in the DBMS?
UNIT 3
1. What is data ?
2. Describe database ?
3. What is database management system ?
4. What is RDBMS ?
5. Write full form of SQL ?
6. Describe Relational model ?
7. Write three views of three level architecture ?
8. Explain Data models ?
9. SQL is the combination of _ and _ .
10. Define data dictionary ?
11. Define the following terms:
DDL & DML ?
12. Define schema ?
13. Define schema instance ?
14. What are the basi units of ER diagrams ?
15. Describe primary key ?
16. Describe foreign key ?
17. Describe candidate key ?
18. Explain data integrity ?
19. Briefly describe entity integrity ?
20. Briefly describe referential integrity ?
21. Define week entities ?
22. Define relational database ?
23. What is specialization ?
24. What do you mean by identifier ?
25. Define relational schema ?
26. What do you mean by unary relation ?
27. What are the function of selection and projection operation ?
28. What is data abstraction ?
29. Briefly describe the concept of metadata ?
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What do you mean by cardinality ?
Define the following terms :
a. tuple
b. Domain
Define the following terms :
a. Field
b. Record
What do you mean by information ?
What is data redundancy ?
Describe DCL ?
Describe DDL ?
Describe DML ?
Various operations use in relational algebra.
Various operations use in relational calculas.
What are the various features of join operations ?
What are various data types use in SQL ?
Is SQL non procedural language ?
Why tuples are used in relational model ?
What is the other two name of attribute ?
What is the function of update and delete command ?
What do you mean by composite key ?
What do you mean by dependent and independent entities ?
What is an entity set ?
Describe regular entities ?
What do you mean by Hierarchical model ?
What do you mean by key ?
Write types of keys ?
What do you mean by integrity constraints ?
What do you mean by procedural DML ?
What is query processing ?
What is the function of parser in query processing ?
What is file organisation ?
What are direct files ?
What do you mean by hashing ?
What do you men by transaction processing ?
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What do you mean by B-tree ?
Briefly describe file processing ?
Briefly describe Data base processing ?
Name all the models available for database system ?
Write down the two difference between DBMS & RDBMS ?
What is Normalization ?
What do you mean by data dictionary ?
Write down the four components of DBMS ?
Write down the four components of DBMS environment ?
Write down the full forms of CASE tools ?
What is DOMAIN ?
What is domain value ?
Write different types of constraints ?
What is the difference between numeric and float data type in SQL
What is Query optimization ?
What are the two function of DB manager ?
Different types of users .
Where we store data structure in DBMS ?
Where we have to change in data when changes occur in data ?
Briefly describe client server model ?
What do you mean by null constraints ?
What is metadata ?
What are the basic units of E-R diagrams ?
What do you mean by attribute ?
What do you mean by SQL ?
Describe distributed DBMS ?
Briefly describe application programmers ?
What do you mean by comparison operator ?
Different types of select query ?
Two comparison b/w Network and relational model ?
How does a view differ from a table ?
Describe object oriented approach ?
Why drop query is used ?
Full form of BCNF ?
95. What is the difference b/w 3NF and BCNF ?
96. What is meant functional dependency ?
97. What is the need of normalization ?
98. What do you mean by mapping operation ?
99. What is the difference b/w procedural and non procedural query
languages ?
100. What do you mean by degree of relationship set ?
UNIT 4
Q1. What do you mean by cardinality? What are different kinds of
cardinalities ?
Q2. Define DDL
(b) DML
Q3. What is a primary key ?
Q4. What are various Data types in SQL ?
Q5. What is relation ? Define the relational data model.
Q6. What do you mean by SQL ?What are the characteristics of SQL ?
Q7. What is the role of Database Administrator ?
Q8. What do you mean by Database and Database Management System ?
Q9. What are problems with traditional file processing system ?
Q10. What do you mean by Data processing ?
Q11. What is meant by an entity, attributes, entity set and relationship ?
Q12. How is E-R data model useful ?
Q13. Define an attribute. What is a key attribute ?
Q14. Define subtype and supertype entities ?
Q15. Give example of following relationships :
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Many-to-One
One-to-One
(iii) One-to-Many
(iv) Many-to-Many
Q16. Define foreign key ? How does it play a role in the join operation ?
Q17. What do you mean by Mapping Operation ?
Q18. What do you mean by redundancy ?How this can be avoided ?
Q19. What do you mean by Normalisation ? Why this is useful ?
Q20. What is the difference between Procedural DML and NonProcedural DML ?
Q21. What do you mean by instance & schema ? Explain the difference
between these.
Q22. What are the various components of a database system ?
Q23. What is the role of three levels of Data Abstraction ?
Q24. How is a many-to-many relationship mapped onto a table ?
Q25. What do you mean by a key ? Explain the difference between
primary key and
Candidate key.
Q26. What is the difference between the strong entity set and weak entity
set ?
Q27. Give SQL statement which creates a STUDENT table consisting of
following fields.
Name
Class
Marks
Rank
CHAR(40)
CHAR(6)
NUMBER(4)
CHAR(8)
Q28. What is a relation ? What is the difference between a table and an
attribute.
Q29. If R1 is a relation with 5 rows and R2 is a relation with 3 rows, how
many rows will the Cartesian product of R1 and R2 have ?
Q30. Which subdivision of SQL is used to put values in tables and which
one to create tables ?
Q31. Why Data Control Language (DCL) is used ? Explain.
Q32. Explain the type of relationship the following have :
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Student and ID card
Customer and Bank
Student and Roll No
Customer and Car
Q33. Differentiate between SQL commands DROP TABLE and DROP
VIEW.
Q34. Is Data Dictionary an essential part of DBMS. Why ?
Q35. What is meant by the term Query Processing ? What are the various
steps involved in this process ?
Q36. What is the difference between WHERE and Having Clause ?
Q37. What is file organization ? Explain Sequential-files and direct-Files
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Q38. Differentiate between First Normal form and Second Normal form.
Q39. What is a multivalued dependency ? What kind of constraint does it
specify ?
Q40. Discuss the various type of join operations ? Why are these join
required.
Q41. List the operations of relational algebra and purpose of each.
Q42. What is the difference between tuple relational calculus and domain
relational calculus?
Q43. SQL is called as non-procedural language. Explain ?
Q44. What you mean by attribute ? Explain various type of attributes.
Q45. Define the following terms :
(a) Tuple
(c) Relation
(e) Regular entities
(b) Domain
(d) Entity
Q46. What is the difference between select and project operation ? Give
example.
Q47. Explain the concept of metadata.
Q48. What is the need for Normalisation ? Define Third Normal form.
Q49. Explain the term Distributed DBMS and Client-Server DBMS.
Q50. What do you mean by Hashing ?
Q51. What is integrity ?
UNIT 5
1) What is ER Diagram? What are the symbols used is it?Explain with
an example.
2) What is the need of the normalization? Explain the first three steps
involed in the normalization.
3) List out all the Codd’s rules.
4) What do u mean by the database abstraction?how many types are
there?
5) Difference between file oriented approach and database
management.
6) Difference between Database systems and Knowledge base systems.
7) Explain the client server architechure in detail.
8) What is the architecture of the database.Explain with diagram.
9) What is DBA,wht are DBA’s functions?
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Draw the ER diagram for the banking system.
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What is query processing .explain the various steps involved
in it.
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What is database management system, what are its
characteristics? What is the need of database management .
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What is structured query language? How the DDL and DML
are different?explain.
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What is the file system.Explain the sequential files and direct
files.
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What are the drawbacks of the file systems.Explain in detail.
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What is the data reduncdancy?how to remove the data
redundancy?explain any
UNIT 6
Q1. What are various components of Database System ? Explain in
detail.
Q2. What do you mean by data models ? Explain network, hierarchical
and relational model in detail.
Q3. Explain various levels of Data abstraction in database system ?
Q4. What do you mean by database ? What is the purpose of a database
system ? Explain.
Q5. What do you mean by DBMS ? Explain its functioning.
Q6. Explain architecture of DBMS and its advantages ? state two main
disadvantages of DBMS ?
Q7. What is DBA ? What are major responsibilities of DBA and database
designers ?
Q8. What are problems with traditional file processing system ? How
they are removed in database system ? Explain
Q9. What do you mean by Entity-Relationship Diagram ? Explain
Q10.Explain the various terms of an E-R model and how are they
represented in an E-R model ?
Q11.What is meant by term relationship between entities ? Explain the
different types of relationships that can exist with examples ?
Q12.Explain the concept of dependent entities ? give example.
Q13.What do you mean by mapping cardinalities ? Explain various type
of cardinalities.
Q14.What is difference between total and partial participation ? Explain.
Q15.What is the difference b/w single and multivalued attributes ?
Explain.
Q16.Explain the concept of participation constraints ?
Q17.Discuss the various update operation on relation and types of
integrity constraints that must be checked for each update operation ?
Q18.Discuss the various types of join operations ? Why are these join
required ?
Q19.What do tyou mean by normalization ? Explain.
Q20.What do you mean by BCNF ? Why it is used and how it differ from
3 NF ?
Q21.Describe the three-level architecture of DBMS ? Also explain its
importance in a database environment.
Q21. Discuss concept of database language and interfaces.
Q22. Give the various advantages and disadvantages of the network
model.how it differ from relational model ?
Q23. What is relationship ? What are various types of relationship ?
Explain with example.
Q24. Explain the Codd’s Rule in detail.
Q25. What do you mean by RDBMS ? What are its characteristics ?
Q26. Explain Entity integrity and Referential integrity in detail.
Q27. What is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS ? Which of
them is more suitable?
Q28. What is relational algebra ? Discuss the various operations of
relational algebra.
Q29. Describe the different types of relational calculus in detail.
Q30.What dis relational calculus ? Differentiate relational algebra and
relational calculus.
Q31. What do you mean by Null values? Explain with suitable examples.
Q32. Why normalization needed ? What are its disadvantages ?
Q33..Discuss the various normal form in normalization with suitable
examples.
Q34. Define term anomalies.Explain BCNF in detail.
Q35. Why is concurrency control needed? Explain lost update,
Inconsistent retrievals and uncommitted dependency anomalies.
Q36. What is a deadlock ? How can a deadlock occur ? explain.
Q37. Briefly explain one deadlock prevention algorithm.
Q38. What if time stamping is used ? Explain briefly
Q39. What is two-phase locking and how does it guarantee serializability
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Q40. Discuss the concurrency control mechanism in detail using suitable
example.
Q41. Differentiate between Two phase locking and Rigorous two-phase
locking.
Q42. How can deadlocks be avoided when using 2PL?
Q43. How Share and exclusive locks differ ?Explain.
Q44. How precedence graph can be used to detect deadlock ?
Q45. What is a system log ? What is the purpose of the system log in
system recovery ?
Q46. What do you understand by distributed databases? Give the various
advantages and disadvantages of distributed database management
system.
Q47. Explain the architecture of Client-Server databases in detail.
Q48. What are the main differences between a parallel and a distributed
system ? Explain.
Q49.Discuss the concept of Query Processing .What is a parser ? Why it
is used ?
Q50.What is Query optimization ?What are different techniques used in
it.
DBMS QUESTION BANK
1. Write the difference between Database systems Vs File system
2. Explain View of Data.
3. Define the following terms
(a). Instances (b) schemas (c) logical schema (d) physical
schema
4. Explain Briefly about Data Models
(a) E-R model (b) Relational Model (c) Object-Oriented
Model
5. Explain Database languages
(a) DDL (b) DML (c) Database access from Application
programs
6. Explain Database Users and Administrators
7. Explain Transaction Management.
8. Briefly explain Database system Structure
9. Explain Entity sets and Relationship Sets.
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Explain Attributes and its types with examples.
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Explain Constraints and its types with examples.
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Explain Mapping Cardinalities with example.
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Define keys and its types with examples.
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Explain Overall logical structure of E-R Diagram.
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Explain Symbols used in the E-R notation.
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Define UML and symbols used in UML notations.
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Explain Relational Algebra and explain all its Fundamental
operations with examples.
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Explain Composition Operations in Relational Algebra.
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Explain Formal Definition of the Relational Algebra.
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Explain Views with examples.
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Explain Tuple Relational Calculus with all operations. Explain
Difference between Tuple Relational Calculus with Relational
Algebra.
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Explain Domain Relational Calculus with example. And state
the difference between this and Tuple relational calculus.
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What is Join and its types with example queries.
What is embedded-sql with example.
Explain Assertion with examples.
Explain Cursor and its types with examples.
Explain Security and its Violations with examples.
Explain Authorization with examples.
Define 3NF with examples.
Define Domain constraints ?
Explain Referential Integrity constraints with example ?
Is Database Modification Violates Referential integrity ?
Define Assertions with example ?
Explain Triggers with examples ?
Explain Triggers in SQL ? and its types with examples. ?
Explain when not to use Triggers ?
Explain Security Violations with examples.
Explain Authorization ?
Explain Granting of Privileges ?
Define Audit trail with example ?
Explain Authorization in SQL ?
Explain First Normal Form with example ? (*)
Explain Functional dependency and full-functional
dependency ? (*)
Explain Decomposition and its properties ? (*)
Explain Boyce-codd normal form with example ? (*)
Explain Third normal form with example ? (*)
Explain Fourth normal form with example ? (*)
State the difference between Boyce-codd normal form and
third normal form ?
Explain Extraneous attributes ?
Explain referential integrity, DB modification with on delete
cascade and on update
Explain Triggers and its types with examples.
Explain Authorization in SQL with examples.
Explain Functional dependency and Trivial functional
dependency with examples.
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Explain Fourth normal forms with examples.
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Explain Closure of Set of Functional dependency and Closure
of Attribute sets
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Explain Canonical cover and Extraneous Attributes with
examples.
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Explain BCNF with examples and also state the difference
between this from 3NF.