50 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL

1.An entity that is related with itself is known as…….

(A) Binary relationship
(B) Recursive relationship
(C) Ternary relationship
(D) None of the above

Answer:(B)Recursive relationship

2.A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, relationships, semantics

and constraints is referred to as ……….
(A) Data Model
(B) E-R Model
(C) DBMS
(D) All of the abov

Answer: (A) Data Model

3.Dr.E.F. Codd represented ……. Rules that a database must obey if it has to
be considered truly relational.
(A) 10
(B) 15
(C) 14
(D) 12

Answer:(D) 12
4.In E-R Diagram, weak entity is represented by…….
(A) Rectangle
(B) Square
(C) Double Rectangle
(D) Circle

Answer:(C) Double Rectangle

5.……. is a bottom-up approach in which two lower level entities combine to

form a higher level entity.
(A) Aggregation
(B) Specialization
(C) Generalization
(D) None of the above

Answer:(C) Generalization

6.An entity set that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key,
is a ……
(A) Primary entity set
(B) Weak entity set
(C) Strong entity set
(D) None of the above

Answer:(B) Weak entity set

7.Which SQL command delete all the records and does not remove the
structure?
(A) Drop
(B) Insert
(C) Truncate
(D) None of the above

Answer:(C) Truncate

8.Which of the following is a Data Definition Language (DDL) command?

(A) Delete
(B) Insert
(C) Drop
(D) Merge

Answer:(C)Drop

9.In …….. database, data is organized in the form of trees with nodes.
(A) Hierarchical
(B) Relational
(C) Network
(D) None of the above

Answer:(A)Hierarchical

10.Which command is used to retrieve records from one or more table?

(A) Delete
(B) Insert
(C) Drop
(D) Select

Answer:(D) Select
11.Which of the following indicates the maximum number of entities that can
be involved in a relationship?

(A)Minimum cardinality

(B)Maximum cardinality

(C)ERD

(D)Greater Entity Count

Answer:(B)Maximum Cardinality

12.Which type of entity cannot exist in the database unless another type of
entity also exists in the database, but does not require that the identifier of
that other entity be included as part of its own identifier?

(A)Weak entity

(B) Strong entity

(C)ID-dependent entity

(D)ID-independent entity

Answer:(A)Weak entity

13. In a one-to-many relationship, the entity that is on the one side of the
relationship is called a(n) ________ entity.

(A)Parent

(B)Child

(C)Instance
(D)Subtype

Answer:(A)Parent

14.Which type of entity represents an actual occurrence of an associated

generalized entity?

(A)Supertype entity

(B) Subtype entity

(C)Archetype entity

(D)Instance entity

Answer:(D)Instance entity

15.Which of the following indicates the minimum number of entities that

must be involved in a relationship?

(A)Minimum cardinality

B)Maximum cardinalit

(C)ERD

(D)Greater Entity Count (GEC)

Answer: (A)Minimum cardinality

16. Which of the following refers to something that can be identified in the
users' work environment, something that the users want to track?

(A)Entity
(B)Attribute

(C)Identifier

(D)Relationship

Answer:(A)Entity

15. The followings are components odf database except?

(A)Reports

(B)Userdata

(C)Metadata

(D)Indexes

Answer: (A)Reports

16. Entities can be associated with one another in which of the following?

(A)Entity

(B)Attribute

(C)Identifier

(D)Relationship

Answer:(D)Relationship

17. In which of the following is a single-entity instance of one type related to

many entity instances of another type?
(A)One-to-One Relationship

(B)One-to-Many Relationship

(C)Many-to-Many Relationship

(D)Composite Relationship

Answer:(B) One to Many Realtionship

18. Which of the following refers to an entity in which the identifier of one
entity includes the identifier of another entity?

(A)Weak entity

(B)Strong entity

(C)ID-dependent entity

(D)ID-independent entity

Answer:(C)ID-dependent entity

19.Which type of entity is related to two or more associated entities that each
contain specialized attributes that apply to some but not all of the instances of
the entity?

A.Supertype Entity

B.Subtype Entity

C.Archetype Entity

D.Instance Entity
Answer:(A)Supertype Entity

20.A recursive relationship is a relationship between an entity and ________

(A)itself

(B)a subtype entity

(C)an archetype entity

(D)an instance entity

Answer:(A)itself

21. In an object-oriented model, one object can access data of another object
by passing:

(A)Instance variable

(B)Message

(C)Variable

(D)None of these

Answer:(B):Message

22. A view of database that appears to an application program is known as:

(A) Schema

(B)Subschema

(C)virtual table

(D)none of the above

Answer:(B)Subschema

23. An abstraction concept for building composite object from their

component object is called:

(A)Specialization

(B)Normalization

(C)Generalization

(D)Aggregation

Answer:(D)Aggregation

24. A set of objects that share a common structure and a common behavior is
called:

(A)Object

(B)Class

(C)Entity

(D)None of these

Answer:(B)Class

25. Every weak entity set can be converted into a strong entity set by:

(A)using generalization

(B)adding appropriate attributes

(C)using aggregation
(D)none of the above

Answer:(B)adding appropriate attributes

26. The number of entities to which another entity can be associated via a
relationship set is expressed as:

(A) Entity

(B)Cardinality

(C)Schema

(D)Attributes

Answer:(B) Cardinality

27. Relations produced from an E-R model will always be in:

(A) First normal form

(B)Second normal form

(C)Third normal form

(D)Fourth normal form

Answer:(C)Third normal form

28. In ER model the details of the entities are hidden from the user. This
process is called:

(A)Generalization

(B)Specialization
(C)Abstraction

(D)none of these above

Answer:(C)Abstraction

29. The file organization that provides very fast access to any arbitrary
record of a file is:

(A) Ordered file

(B)Unordered file

(C)Hashed file

(D)B-tree

Answer:(C)Hashed file

30. What is not true about a view?

(A) It is a definition of a restricted portion of

the database

(B) It is a security mechanism

(C) It is always updatable like any other table

(D) All are true

Answer:(C)It is always updatable like any other table

31. In a relational database a referential integrity constraint can be specified

with the help of
(A) primary key

(B) foreign key

(C) secondary key

(D) none of the above

Answer:(B)Foreign key

32. A super key is a set of one or more attributes that, taken collectively,
allow us

(A) to identify uniquely an entity in the entity

set

(B) to make the key most powerful for faster

retrieval

(C) to increase effectiveness of database access

(D) none of the above

Answer:(A) to identify uniquely an entity in the entity set

33. 4NF is designed to cope with:

(A) Transitive dependency

(B) Join dependency

(C) Multi valued dependency

(D) None of these

Answer:( C) Multi valued dependency

34. Every Boyee-Codd normal form is in

(A) First normal form

(B) Second normal form

(C) Third normal form

(D) All of the above

Answer:(D)All of the above

35. Which command is used to remove all rows from a table?

(A) Delete

(B) Remove

(C) Truncate

(D) Both [A] and [B]

Answer:(C)Truncate

36. Which of the following is an aggregate function in SQL?

(A) Union

(B) Like

(C) Group By

(D) Max
Answer:(D)Max

37. Which command is used to add a column to an existing table?

(A)Create

(B) Update

(C)Alter

(D)None of these

Answer:(C)Alter

38. A deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait for graph:

(A) has a cycle in it

(B) has a path from first node to last node

(C) is a tree

(D) none of the above

Answer:(A)has a cycle in it

39. Rollback of transactions is normally used to:

(A) recover from transaction failure

(B) update the transaction

(C) retrieve old records

(D) repeat a transaction

Answer:(A)recover from transaction failure

40. Prevention of access to the database by unauthorized users is referred to

as:

(A) Integrity

(B) Productivity

.(C) Security

(D) Reliability

Answer:(C)Security

41. An ________ is a set of entities of the same type that share the same
properties, or attributes .

(A) Entity set

(B) Attribute set

(C) Relation set

(D) Entity model

Answer:(A) Entity set

42. Entity is a

(A) Object of relation

(B) Present working model

(C) Thing in real world

(D) Model of relation

Answer:(C) Thing in real world

43. The descriptive property possessed by each entity set is _________ .

(A) Entity

(B) Attribute

(C) Relation

(D) Model

Answer:(B) Attribute

44. The function that an entity plays in a relationship is called that entity’s
_____________.

(A) Participation

(B) Position

(C) Role

(D) Instance

Answer:(C) Role

45. The attribute name could be structured as a attribute consisting of first

name, middle initial, and last name . This type of attribute is called

(A) Simple attribute

(B) Composite attribute

(C) Multivalued attribute

(D) Derived attribute

Answer:(B) Composite attribute

46. The attribute AGE is calculated from DATE_OF_BIRTH . The attribute

AGE is

(A) Single valued

(B) Multi valued

(C) Composite

(D) Derived

Answer:(D) Derived

47. Not applicable condition can be represented in relation entry as

(A) NA

(B) 0

(C) NULL

(D) Blank Space

Answer:(C) NULL

48. Which of the following can be a multivalued attribute ?

(A) Phone_number
(B) Name

(C) Date_of_birth

(D) All of the mentioned

Answer:(A) Phone_number

49. Which of the following is a single valued attribute

(A) Register_number

(B) Address

(C) SUBJECT_TAKEN

(D) Reference

Answer:(A) Register_number

50. In a relation between the entities the type and condition of the relation
should be specified . That is called as______attribute

(A) Desciptive

(B) Derived

(C) Recursive

(D) Relative

Answer:(A) Desciptive