Question Bank DBMS

1) What are the Pros and Cons of DBMS with respect to

conventional file system?
2) Design a generalization - specification hierarchy for a
MOTOR-VEHICAL
sales
company.
A
company
sales
motorcycle, cars, vans, buses. Justify your placements
of attributes at each level.
3) Construct an E-R diagram for a Hospital with a set of
patients & a set of Medical Doctors. Associate with
each patient a log of various tests and examinations
conducted.
4) Give differences between following
a. Physical & Logical independence
b. Schema & Subschema
c. Operational data & Transient data
d. Relation & Relation schema
e. Pipelining & Materialization
5) Explain extended relational Algebra operations in
brief.
6) What are the fundamental & supporting sets of
relational algebra? Explain in detail.
7) It is possible in general to have two primary indices
on a same relation for different search keys? Explains
your answer.
8) What are the factors effects the physical organization
of data?
9) Explain indexes with their all types?
10) Define 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, 4NF, BCNF & state why 4NF is more
desirable than BCNF?
11) Define functional dependency and discuss about various
inference axioms for functional dependency.
12) Why are certain functional dependencies called, trivial
functional dependencies?
13) Explain different types of constraints, and write a
query to implement foreign key constraints on table
14) Discuss the test for conflict serializeablity & Explain
lock based protocol.
15) Explain Timestamp based protocol.
16) What are the variations of the two-phase locking
protocol? Why it strict or rigorous two-phase locking
often preferred?

17) What benefits & disadvantages do have two-phase locking

protocol provides?
18) Draw the Life cycle diagram & explain its main
concepts.
19) List the ACID properties of transaction, and explain
then in brief.
20) Explain recovery process along with different phases of
recovery phases.
21) Under what condition it is less expensive to avoid
deadlock than to allow deadlock to occur and then
detect them?
22) Describe the system architecture of DBMS with different
levels of abstraction.
23) Why buffers are used in data transfer from secondary
storage devices? Explain the function of buffer
management in DBMS.
24) What agrregation feature is missing from the EER model?
How can the EER model be further enhanced to support
it?
25) How does the B-Tree differ from B+ Trees? Why B+ Trees
are usually prefers as an access structure to a data
file?
26) How can hashing can be used to construct an index? What
is the different between Logical index and Physical
index?
27) Discuss the resons for converting SQL queries into
relational algebra queries before optimization is done?
28) What is a query execution plan? What do you mean by
cost-based-query optimization?
29) What is meant by semantic query optimization? How does
it differ from other query optimization techniques?
30) Explain N-Tier architecture? & Write down their
applications.
31) Discuss the different types of failures, & discuss the
different measure of transaction equivalent.
32) Draw the state diagram & discuss the states that a
transaction goes through during execution.