Data And Database Administration MCQs with Explanations
Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on Data And Database Administration with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.
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A traditional data administrator performs which of the following roles?
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If both data and database administration exist in an organization, the database administrator is responsible for which of the following?
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Which of the following is part of an administrative policy to secure a database?
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Backward recovery is which of the following?
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The transaction log includes which of the following?
Question 7 of 30
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Which of the following could cause data to be unavailable?
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A shared lock allows which of the following types of transactions to occur?
Question 9 of 30
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Locking may cause which of the following problems?
Question 10 of 30
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Performance analysis and tuning is which of the following?
Question 11 of 30
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Which of the following is the preferred way to recover a database after a transaction in progress terminates abnormally?
Question 12 of 30
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Which of the following is true concerning open-source DBMS?
Question 13 of 30
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Concurrency control is important for which of the following reasons?
Question 14 of 30
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Which of the following is the preferred way to recover a database after a system failure?
Question 15 of 30
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A data warehouse administrator is concerned with which of the following?
Question 16 of 30
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To build a data warehouse and develop business intelligence applications, it is important that an organization build and maintain a comprehensive repository.
Question 17 of 30
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Failure to control confidentiality may lead to loss of competitiveness.
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Authorization tables contain highly sensitive data and should be protected by stringent security rules.
Question 19 of 30
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A transaction log shows before and after images of records that have been modified by transactions.
Question 20 of 30
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The greatest threat to business security is often internal rather than external.
Question 21 of 30
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Information repositories are replacing data dictionaries in many organizations.
Question 22 of 30
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Mirrored databases are almost always provided in high-availability systems.
Question 23 of 30
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Databases are not the property of a single function or individual within the organization.
Question 24 of 30
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Queries that do full table scans should be avoided.
Question 25 of 30
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The restore/rerun technique involves reprocessing the day's transactions up to the point of failure.
Question 26 of 30
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Backward recovery is used to reverse the changes made by transactions that have aborted, or terminated abnormally.
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A disaster recovery plan does not need to include the shipment of database backups to other sites.
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With concurrent processing involving updates, a database with concurrency control will be compromised due to interference between users.
Question 29 of 30
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Data modeling and database design are key responsibilities of data and data base administration.
Question 30 of 30
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Incorrect data is easy to detect.
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