UNIT 1

AD ORAL QUESTIONS

1. WHAT IS MEANT BY I/O PARALLELISM? 2. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT PARTITIONING TECHNIQUES? 3. WHAT IS HORIZONTAL PARTITIONING? 4.WHICH PARTITIONING TECHNIQUE RESULTS IN HIGHER THROUGHPUTWHILE MAINTAINING GOOD RESPONSE TIME ? 5. WHICH PARTITIONING TECHNIQUE IS SUITED FOR POINT QUERIES BUTNOT FOR RANGE QUERIES? 6.HOW PARALLEL SYSTEMS IMPROVE PROCESSING AND I/O SPEED ? 7.LIST THE NEED OF PARALLEL DATABASE. 8. DEFINE RANGE PARTITIONING AND HASH PARTITIONING? 9. WHEN DO WE USE FRAGMENT AND REPLICATE TECHNIQUE?

UNIT 2
Q1.WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM? Q2. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMAND DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM? 3. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM? 4. GIVE THE DIFFERENT SORTING APPROACHES OF DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE? 5. GIVE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DATA REPLICATION IN DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE? 6. WHAT IS FRAGMENTATION? 7. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN FUNCTION BETWEEN THE COORDINATOR AND ITS BACKUP? 8. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY QUERY PROCESSING ? 9. WHAT IS LDAP? 10.WHY LDAP IS CALLED LIGHT WEIGHT? 11. DIFFERENCE BET LDAP AND DATABASE? 12. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF COMMIT PROTOCOL?

UNIT 3
1. WHAT DO U MEAN BY CLIENT SERVER ARCHITECTURE ? 2. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLIENT SERVER ARCHITECTURES? 3. WHAT IS MAINFRAME ARCHITECTURE? 4. WHAT ARE BASIC COMPONENTS OF DATABASE SYSTEM ARCHITECHCTURE? WHAT IS 1-TIER ARCHITECHCTURE? 5. WHAT IS 2-TIER ARCHITECHCTURE? 6. WHAT IS THE WEB BASED SYSTEMS? 7. WHAT IS NEED OF WEB INTERFACE TO DATABASE? 8. WHICH ARE THE WEB FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS? 9. WHAT IS SERVLET? 10.WHAT IS WEB SERVER? 11.WHAT IS WEB APPLET? 12.WHAT IS XML? 13.WHAT IS STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE FOR XML CALLED? 14.WHAT IS XPATH ? 15.WHAT IS XSLT? 16.WHICH IS CURRENT APPROVED VERSION OF XML?

17.WHAT IS A REFERENCE?WHAT IS AN ENTITY REFERENCE?WHAT IS CHARACTER REFERENCE? 18.WHAT IS FLOWR EXPRESSION? 19.WHAT IS MATHML? 20.WHAT IS SOAP? 21.STATE ONE COMPETING MIDDLEWARE TECHNOLOGY WITH SOAP. 22.WHAT IS ACTIVE SERVER PAGES? 23.WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO RUN ASP? 24.WHAT ARE THE INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES? 25.WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HTML AND ASP?

UNIT 4
1. WHAT IS DIFF BETWEEN OLTP N OLAP? 2. WHAT IS ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING(OLAP)? 3. WHAT IS APPLICATION OF DATA WAREHOUSE? 4. GIVE TYPES OF OLAP SERVERS. 5. WHAT IS DATA MART? 6. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DATA WAREHOUSE AND DATA MARTS? 7. WHAT IS A DATA CUBE ?WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS OPERATIONS ON DATA CUBE? 8. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT DATA PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES ? 9. WHAT IS DATA INTEGRATION? 10.WHAT IS DIFFERENT STRATERGIES OF REDUCTION? 11.WHAT IS DATA CLEANING? 12.WHAT IS THE AIM BEHIND DATA TRANSFORMATION? 13.WHAT IS MEAN BY SMOOTHING? 14.HOW TO TRANSFORM DATA?

UNIT 5
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING? WHAT ARE THE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIERS? EXPLAIN K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM. WHAT IS A DISTANCE-BASED OUTLIER? WHAT ARE EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR MINING DISTANCE-BASED ALGORITHM? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT? EXPLAIN THE APRIORI ALGORITHM FOR FINDING FREQUENT ITEM SETS. WHY IS OUTLIER MINING IMPORTANT? EXPLAIN DEVIATION BASED OUTLIER DETECTION. WHAT ARE THE DATA MINING FUNCTIONALITIES?

UNIT 6
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. WHICH ARE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES OF DOCUMENT INDEXING ? COMPARE DATA RETRIEVAL AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ? WHAT IS WEB CRAWLER? HOW IS RELEVANCE RANKING CALCULATED USING TF? WHAT IS THE USE OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM? EXPLAIN SIMILLARITY BASED RETIREVAL SYSTEM. WHAT IS TF-IDF? (TERM FREQUENCY INVERSE DOCUMENTFREQUENCY ) WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY STOP WORDS?