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151.

Which of the following represents exactly two occurrence of digits?

A. dd
B. d{2}
C. [d][d]
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
152.

Which of the following is used to create a choice?

A. <xsd:multi>element
B. <xsd:choice>element
C. <xsd:select>element
D. <xsd:single>element
Answer» C. <xsd:select>element
153.

Which of the following is not a valid argument of the insert adjacent text() method?

A. Before Begin
B. After Begin
C. Before End
D. At End
Answer» E.
154.

What is the value of the ready state property of the  element when the script is completely loaded?

A. loaded
B. finished
C. done
D. complete
Answer» E.
155.

Code in XML is

A. Any part of the document whether it is elements, attribute or otherwise
B. Referred only to the attributes
C. Referred to top element in the document
D. None of these
Answer» B. Referred only to the attributes
156.

Which of the following declarations must every xml document that uses a DTD have?

A. A <!DTD> declaration
B. A <STANADALONE> declaration
C. A <DOCTYPE> declaration
D. A <! DOCTYPE> declaration
Answer» E.
157.

Which of the following HTML tags is used to refer to an external style sheet?

A. <link url = “stylesheet” type = “text/CSS”>
B. <style src = “mystyle.CSS”>
C. <link rel = “stylesheet” type = “text⁄CSS” href = “mystyle.CSS”>
D. <Style sheet>mystyle.CSS<⁄style sheet>
Answer» D. <Style sheet>mystyle.CSS<⁄style sheet>
158.

Which of the following is true regarding password field?

A. it is similar to text area except that text is shown as“ . ”(dot)
B. it is similar to text field except that text is shown as “.” (dot)
C. it is similar to hidden field except that text is shown as “.” (dot)
D. it is similar to selection list
Answer» C. it is similar to hidden field except that text is shown as “.” (dot)
159.

Which of the following refers to the root element of an XML document?

A. Document
B. document Element
C. Root
D. root Element
Answer» E.
160.

Which of the following recommended XML?

A. W3C
B. Microsoft
C. Sun
D. IEEE
Answer» B. Microsoft
161.

Which of the following objects is the root object in HTML DOM object hierarchy?

A. Document
B. navigator
C. body
D. window
Answer» E.
162.

Which of the following XML document are well formed?

A. <one><two><⁄two><⁄one>
B. <one><⁄once><two><⁄two>
C. <one><two><⁄once><⁄two>
D. <⁄one><⁄two><two><one>
Answer» B. <one><⁄once><two><⁄two>
163.

Which of the following would java script assign to an un initialized array element?

A.
B.
C. undefined
D. false
Answer» D. false
164.

Which of the following are not supported by X path?

A. Character values functions
B. Sequence manipulations functions
C. String values functions
D. Node manipulation functions
Answer» B. Sequence manipulations functions
165.

Which of the following is not a method of the window object?

A. Alert()
B. move()
C. confirm()
D. close()
Answer» C. confirm()
166.

Which of the following is not a property of the history object?

A. next
B. previous
C. up
D. current
Answer» D. current
167.

HTML can be displayed

A. By users
B. by computers
C. automatically
D. none of these
Answer» B. by computers
168.

Which of the following is used to create table caption?

A. <caption>
B. <title>
C. <table caption>
D. <table title>
Answer» B. <title>
169.

Which of the following events occurs when a form is submitted?

A. go
B. submitted
C. finished
D. submit
Answer» E.
170.

Which data method would you use to set a 4 – digit year?

A. setYear()
B. setFullYear()
C. fullYear()
D. set_full _year()
Answer» C. fullYear()
171.

Consider the following tables (relations).Primary keys in the tables are shown using underline. Now, consider the following query:SELECT S.Name, Sum (P.Marks)FROM Students S, Performance PWHERE S.Roll-No = P.Roll-NoGROUP BY S.NameThe number of rows returned by the above query is

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
Answer» D. 3
172.

Consider a relation book (title, price) which contains the titles and prices of different books. Assuming that no two books have the same price, what does the following SQL query list?

A. Titles of the six most expensive books.
B. Title of the sixth most expensive books.
C. Titles of the seven most expensive books.
D. Title of the seventh most expensive books.
Answer» D. Title of the seventh most expensive books.
173.

For the following sample database table staff. The SQL query:SELECT COUNT(Staff no) AS mycount, SUM(Salary) AS mysum FROM Staff WHERE Designation=’Manager’Returns the result

A. mycount=2, mysal=47000
B. mycount=2, mysal=98000
C. mycount=5, mysal=47000
D. mycount=5, mysal=98000
Answer» C. mycount=5, mysal=47000
174.

Match the following :Codes :      (a)   (b)  (c)  (d)

A. (iii)  (iv)  (ii)   (i)
B. (iv)  (iii)  (ii)   (i)
C. (ii)  (iii)  (iv)   (i)
D. (iii)  (iv)  (i)   (ii)
Answer» D. (iii)  (iv)  (i)   (ii)
175.

An entity has:(i) a set of properties(ii) a set of properties and values for all the properties(iii) a set of properties and the values for some set of properties may non-uniquely identify an entity(iv) a set of properties and the values for some set of properties may uniquely identify an entityWhich of the above are valid?

A. (i) only
B. (ii) only
C. (iii) only
D. (iv) only
Answer» E.
176.

The E-R model is expressed in terms of:(i) Entities(ii) The relationship among entities(iii) The attributes of the entities

A. (i) and (iii)
B. (i), (ii) and (iii)
C. (ii) and (iii)
D. None of the above
Answer» C. (ii) and (iii)
177.

An Entity - relationship diagram is a tool to represent:

A. Data model
B. Process model
C. Event model
D. Customer model
Answer» B. Process model
178.

(i) DML includes a query language based on both relation algebra and tuple calculus(ii) DML includes a query language based on tuple calculus(iii) DML includes a query language based on relational algebra(iv) DML includes a query language based on none of the relational algebra and tuple calculusWhich one is correct?

A. (i) only
B. (ii) only
C. (iii) only
D. (iv) only
Answer» B. (ii) only
179.

Which of the following is not a type of Database Management System?

A. Hierarchical
B. Network
C. Relational
D. Sequential
Answer» E.
180.

A schema describes:

A. data elements
B. records and files
C. record relationship
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
181.

Database systems that store each relation in a separate operating system file may use the operating system’s authorization scheme, instead of defining a special scheme themselves. In this case, which of the following is false?

A. The administrator enjoys more control on the grant option.
B. It is difficult to differentiate among the update, delete and insert authorizations.
C. Cannot store more than one relation in a file.
D. Operations on the database are speeded up as the authorization procedure is carried out at the operating system level.
Answer» B. It is difficult to differentiate among the update, delete and insert authorizations.
182.

Which of the following is the process by which a user’s access to physical data in the application is limited, based on his privileges?

A. Authorization
B. Authentication
C. Access Control
D. All of these
Answer» D. All of these
183.

Thoma’s-write rule is .................

A. Two phase locking protocol
B. Timestamp ordering protocol
C. One phase locking protocol
D. Sliding window protocol
Answer» C. One phase locking protocol
184.

The dependency preservation decomposition is a property to decompose database schema D, in which each functional dependency X->Y specified in F,

A. appeared directly in one of the relation schemas Ri in the decomposed D.
B. could be inferred from dependencies that appear in some Ri.
C. both a and b
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
185.

Specialization is …………… process.

A. top-down
B. bottom up
C. both a and b
D. none of these
Answer» B. bottom up
186.

Linear probing suffers from a problem known as

A. Secondary clustering
B. Primary clustering
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
Answer» C. Both a and b
187.

Consider the relation schema R = (A,B,C,D,E,F) on which the following functional dependencies hold:A → BB, C → DE → CD → AWhat are the candidate keys of R?

A. AE and BE
B. AE, BE and DE
C. AEF, BEF and BCF
D. AEF, BEF and DEF
Answer» E.
188.

The SQL expressionSelect distinct T, branch_name from branch T, branch S where T.assets>S.assets and S.branch_city=”Mumbai” finds the names of

A. All branches that have greater assets than some branch located in Mumbai
B. All branches that have greater assets than all branches in Mumbai
C. The branch that has greatest asset in Mumbai
D. Any branch that has greater assets than any branch in Mumbai
Answer» B. All branches that have greater assets than all branches in Mumbai
189.

Which of the following is true ?

A. A relation in 3NF is always in BCNF
B. A relation in BCNF is always in 3NF
C. BCNF and 3NF are totally different
D. A relation in BCNF is in 2NF but not in 3NF
Answer» C. BCNF and 3NF are totally different
190.

SQL command to delete a column from an existing table:

A. Alter table
B. Drop table
C. Delete table
D. Delete column
Answer» B. Drop table
191.

Which of the following statements is true, when structure of database file with 20 records is modified?

A. ? EOF ( ) Prints T
B. ? BOF ( ) Prints F
C. ? BOF ( ) Prints T
D. ? EOF ( ) Prints F
Answer» B. ? BOF ( ) Prints F
192.

With QBE, inserting records from one or more source tables into a single target table can be achieved by:

A. Append action query
B. Update action query
C. Insert action query
D. Make table action query
Answer» B. Update action query
193.

B+ tree are preferred to binary tree in Database because

A. Disk capacity are greater than memory capacities
B. Disk access is much slower than memory access
C. Disk data transfer rates are much less than memory data transfer rate
D. Disks are more reliable than memory
Answer» C. Disk data transfer rates are much less than memory data transfer rate
194.

Consider a hash table of size seven, with starting index zero, and a hash function (7x+3) mod 4. Assuming the hash table is initially empty, which of the following is the contents of the table when the sequence 1, 3, 8, 10 is inserted into the table using closed hashing? Here “__” denotes an empty location in the table.

A. 3, 10, 1, 8, __, __, __
B. 1, 3, 8, 10, __, __, __
C. 1, __, 3, __, 8, __, 10
D. 3, 10, __, __, 8, __, __
Answer» B. 1, 3, 8, 10, __, __, __
195.

In a relational schema, each tuple is divided in fields called:

A. Relations
B. Domains
C. Queries
D. All the above
Answer» C. Queries
196.

For a database relation R(a, b, c, d) where the domains of a, b, c and d include only atomic values, and only the following functional dependencies and those that can be inferred from them hold:a → cb → dThe relation is in ...............

A. First normal form but not in second normal form
B. Second normal form but not in third normal form
C. Third normal form
D. BCNF
Answer» B. Second normal form but not in third normal form
197.

Which of the following statement/s is/are true?(i) Facebook has the world’s largest Hadoop Cluster.(ii) Hadoop 2.0 allows live stream processing of Real time data.Choose the correct answer from the code given below:

A. (i) only
B. (ii) only
C. Both (i) and (ii)
D. Neither (i) nor (ii)
Answer» D. Neither (i) nor (ii)
198.

Consider a hash table of size m = 10000 and the hash function h(k) = ∟m(kA mod 1)'┘ for A = (√5–1)/2. The location to the key k = 123456 is

A. 46
B. 47
C. 41
D. 43
Answer» D. 43
199.

Generalization is ………… process.

A. top-down
B. bottom up
C. both a & b
D. None of these
Answer» C. both a & b
200.

The normalization of 1NF relations to 2NF involves:

A. Removal of partial dependencies
B. Removal of full dependencies
C. Removal of transitive dependencies
D. Removal of multi-valued dependencies
Answer» B. Removal of full dependencies