ORAL QUESTIONS 1. What is data abstraction? 2. What is 3level of data abstraction? 3.

Explain normalization, 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, Boyee codd NF, $NF. 4. What is object oriented databases? 5. What is ORDBMS? 6. Explain architecture of Oracle server. 7. What are ACID properties? 8. What is distributed database system? Explain with example. 9. What is homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed system? 10. What is distributed data storage? 11. What is a role of transaction manager in distributed system? 12. What is a role of transaction coordinator in distributed system? 13. What are system failure modes in distributed system? 14. Explain availability with respect to distributed system? 15. Consider a distributed system with 2 sites A and B. Can site A distinguish among the following: B goes down The link between A and B goes down B is extremely loaded.

16. Explain working of election algorithm. 17. What is directory system? 18. What is LDAP? 19. Explain LDIF format for LDAP. 20. How LDAP querying mechanism works in LDAP?

21. How LDAP works at client side? 22. What are LDAP backends? 23. What are LDAP objects? 24. What are LDAP attributes? 25. How access control mechanism works in LDAP? 26. Explain config file sections. 27. What are benefits of LDAP? 28. Explain architecture of parallel database and explain with example. 29. Explain speedup and scaleup with respect to parallel database. 30. Explain interquery and intraquery parallelism. 31. Describe the good way to parallelize The difference operation Count,avg Join

32. Explain skew handling with respect to Parallel database. 33. What is the need of data warehousing? 34. Explain OLAP and OLTP and the difference with them. 35. What is ROLAP, MOLAP and Hybrid OLAP? 36. What are different OLAP operations? 37. What are schemas for multidimensional databases? 38. What is decision support system? 39. What is data cube? 40. Explain architecture of data warehouse? 41. What is data mart?
42. What are different phases of data warehouse? Explain each.

43. What are the forms of data preprocessing?

44. What is the need of cleaning data? 45. What is materialized view? 46. What is data mining? Explain its architecture. 47. What is frequent pattern? 48. What is sequential pattern? 49. Explain support and confidence with respect to association rule mining. 50. What is association rule mining? 51. What are frequent item sets? 52. What are closed item sets? 53. Explain apriori algorithm. 54. What are classification and prediction? Difference between them. 55. Explain decision tree induction with algorithm. 56. What is Bayesian classification? 57. What is bayes theorem? 58. How to predict a class label using nave Bayesian classification. 59. What is cluster analysis?
60. Explain centroid based technique K-mean algorithm.

61. What is outlier analysis? 62. What is information retrieval system? 63. What is the difference between IR and database system? 64. What is text mining? 65. What is the need of relevance ranking? 66. What is functionality of web search engine? 67. Explain architecture of web search engine.

68. Explain pagerank algorithm. 69. How to evaluate ranked list? 70. What are the measures of text retrieval? 71. Explain web crawler. 72. What is indexing? Name the data structure used. 73. Explain inverted list for indexing. 74. What are directories? 75. Give examples of directories. 76. What is need of context based querying? 77. What is ontology? 78. What is synonym, homonym? 79. What is XML? 80. Name the XML parser and working of each in brief. 81. What is two, three, multi tier architecture? 82. Explain XML DTD. 83. Explain SOAP. 84. Explain ETL tool working.
85. Name ETL tool.

86. Compare different ETL tools available. 87. Explain the architecture of MYSQL, oracle, sqlserver.