Important Questions Of DBMS for Sem II BCA

Short Questions:
1. What is a DBMS?

2. What are the advantages of using a DBMS?

3. What are the components of a DBMS?

4. Define database.

5. What is data redundancy?

6. What is data inconsistency?

7. What is metadata?

8. What is a relational database?

9. What is a schema?

10. What is a subschema?

11. What are the different types of DBMS?

12. Explain the hierarchical model.

13. Explain the network model.

14. What is the relational model?

15. What is an object-oriented DBMS?

16. Compare hierarchical and relational models.

17. What is ER model?

18. What is the difference between logical and physical data models?

19. What are constraints in a DBMS?

21. What is an entity?

22. What is an attribute?

23. What is a relationship?

24. What is a primary key?

25. What is a foreign key?

26. What is a composite key?

27. What is a candidate key?

28. What is a super key?

29. What is a weak entity?

30. What is an ER diagram?

31. What is SQL?

32. What are the types of SQL commands?

33. What is a SELECT statement?

34. How do you use WHERE clause?

35. What is the use of GROUP BY?

36. What is the difference between WHERE and HAVING?

37. What are JOINs? Name types of joins.

38. What is a subquery?

39. What is a view in SQL?

40. Explain Instance in Relation.

41. What is normalization?

42. What are anomalies in DBMS?

43. What is 1NF?

44. What is 2NF?

45. What is 3NF?

46. What is BCNF?

47. What is the difference between 3NF and BCNF?

48. What is the difference between 2NF and 3NF?

49. Why is normalization important?

50. What is functional dependency?

51. What is a transaction?

52. What are ACID properties?

53. Explain atomicity.

54. Explain consistency.

55. Explain isolation.

56. Explain durability.

57. What is concurrency control?

58. What is a degree of Relation?

59. What is Relational Calculus?

60. What is indexing?

61. What is indexing?

62. What are the types of indexes?

63. Define a log and explain its role in database recovery.

64. Why is recovery necessary when multiple transaction execute concurrently?

65. What is the significance of transaction commit and abort during recovery?

66. What are the main threats to database security?

67. Explain the different types pf access control in DBMS.

68. How does the DBMS handle user privileges and permissions.

Long Questions:

1. Explain the key advantages of using a DBMS over a file system.

2. Describe the three levels of data abstraction in a DBMS.

3. Define and differentiate between data, information, and metadata.

4. What are the functions of a DBMS?

5. Describe the architecture of a DBMS.

6. Explain the relational model with an example.

7. Compare and contrast the hierarchical and network models.

8. Describe the entity-relationship model and its components.

9. What is the significance of keys in the relational model?

10. Explain the concept of referential integrity with an example.

11. What is a weak entity? How is it represented in an ER diagram?

12. Differentiate between total and partial participation.

13. What are generalization and specialization? Explain with examples.

14. Draw and explain a sample ER diagram for a college database.

15. Define relationship degree and give examples of unary, binary, and ternary
relationships.

16. Write SQL queries to demonstrate SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.

17. What are joins in SQL? Explain types of joins with examples.

18. Explain the difference between TRUNCATE,DROP and DELETE commands with
examples.

19. Write a SQL query using GROUP BY and HAVING clauses.

20. What is a view in SQL? How is it created and used?

21. Explain 1NF, 2NF, and 3NF with examples.

22. What is BCNF? How is it different from 3NF?

23. Define and explain functional dependency with examples.

24. Explain the ACID properties of a transaction with examples.

25. What are the disadvantages of file processing systems?

26. What are the three levels of data abstraction?

27. In a DBMS, what is the function of a database administrator (DBA)?

28. List the various types of attributes in ER Model? Explain in detail.

29. What are the Common SQL Functions Used for Data Aggregation?

30. What is meant by lossless-join decomposition?

31. What integrity rules are in the DBMS?

32. Explain primary index and clustering index with examples.

33. Write and explain any five relational algebra operations with suitable
examples.?

34. Describe the difference between WHERE and HAVING clause.

35. What are the different types of SQL Commands? Briefly explain all of the with
example.

36. List set operators and explain aa with examples.

37. List types of DBMS and explain in detail all types.

38. Explain in elaborated form the Tier architecture of DBMS.

39. What do you understand by the term “TRANSACTION” in a database?

40. Discuss the properties of the transactions.

41. Explain the states through which a transaction passes during execution.

42. Explain serializable scheduling.

43. What is a checkpoint in DBMS and why it is necessary?

44. What is a deadlock in DBMS and also explain the necessary conditions for
deadlock to occur.