Question 1
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Cursors are created using the DECLARE statement.
Question 2
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What are the common threats to database security?
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Disgruntled employees
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Natural disasters
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Technical failures
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Poor physical security
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b, c, and d
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All of the above
Question 3
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Which law regulates the privacy and security of healthcare data?
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HIPPA
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FERPA
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GLB
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Patriot Act
Question 4
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Which law regulates privacy and security of student data?
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HIPPA
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FERPA
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GLB
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Patriot Act
Question 5
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The following method actually creates a new table when you insert data into a table.
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INSERT INTO
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SELECT INTO
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UPDATE
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None of the above
Question 6
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Which one of the following changes the structure of the database?
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UPDATE
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ALTER
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CHANGE
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RENAME
Question 7
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Unlike stored procedures, triggers are executed only when a user or application attempts to modify data.
Question 8
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Which one is the most common type of trigger?
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AFTER
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INSTEAD OF
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CLR
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BEFORE
Question 9
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What do triggers enforce?
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Data integrity
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Referential integrity
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Business Rules
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All of the above
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a and b only
Question 10
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Which one of the following is not generally classified as "restricted data" in public organizations?
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Aggregate crime incidence data
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Social Security numbers
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Identifiable human subject research data
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Credit card data
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None of the above as all are examples of restricted data
Question 11
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An organization should avoid disclosing an incidence of public data breach.
Question 12
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Which one of the following is NOT related to protecting data centers physically?
Question 13
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A special local network configuration designed to improve security by segregating computers on each side of a firewall is called _________.
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Firewall perimeter
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IDS
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DMZ
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Extranet
Question 14
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Which law is related to protecting credit card data?
Question 15
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Which transaction property ensures that the schedule for the concurrent execution of several transactions should yield consistent results?
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Atomicity
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Consistency
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Isolation
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Durability
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Serializability
Question 16
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Which one is a special DBMS table that contains a description of all the database transactions by the DBMS?
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tempdb
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master
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scheduler
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transaction log
Question 17
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If concurrency control is not maintained, which one of the following problems is least likely to occur?
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Lost updates
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Uncommitted date
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Inconsistent retrievals
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Database login issues
Question 18
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Which lock granularity is meant for a disk block of fixed size?
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Table-Level
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Database-Level
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Page-Level
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Field-Level
Question 19
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Which lock granularity is less likely to negatively affect concurrency of the database?
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Database-Level
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Table-Level
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Field-Level
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Page-Level
Question 20
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Which one of the following is NOT true about data lakes?
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They are meant for primarily unstructured data.
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They require schema on write.
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They need distributed file system.
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None of the above
Question 21
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Which one of the following is true about data warehouses?
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They require schema on write.
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They require schema on read.
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They are schema-less.
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They are key-value pairs.
Question 22
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Which one of the following statements is NOT true about data warehouses (DWs)?
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They are historical repository of data.
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They use normalization to reduce data duplication.
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Batch updates are common with DWs.
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They use the multi-dimensional cubes to store data.
Question 23
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The smallest detail in a warehouse is known as:
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dimension
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fact
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grain
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key-value pair
Question 24
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A historical data repository for marketing data:
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data warehouse
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data lake
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data mart
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metadata
Question 25
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Which one of the following is focused on consistent data definitions across an organization?
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Master data
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Metedata
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Grain
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Fact
Question 26
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The change of customer address is an example of the following type dimension in a DW.
Question 27
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The fact table maintains one-to-many relations with all the dimension tables in:
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snowflake schema
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star schema
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galaxy schema
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star cluster schema
Question 28
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Which module in the SQL Server is used for creating OLAP cubes?
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SQL Server MDM
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SQL Server Analysis Services
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SQL Server Integration Services
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SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS)
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SQL Server Reporting Services
Question 29
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Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?
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If you are encrypting lots of data, you should encrypt the data using a symmetric key, and encrypt the symmetric key with an asymmetric key.
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If you are encrypting lots of data, you should encrypt the data using an asymmetric key, and encrypt the asymmetric key with a symmetric key.
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If you are encrypting lots of data, you should encrypt the data using a symmetric key, and encrypt the symmetric key with a symmetric key.
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If you are encrypting lots of data, you should encrypt the data using an asymmetric key, and encrypt the asymmetric key with an asymmetric key.
Question 30
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Only full backups are available for the master database.
Question 31
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According to the rules of precedence, which of the following computations should be completed first?
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performing additions and subtractions
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performing multiplications and divisions
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performing operations within parentheses
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performing power operations
Question 32
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Which one of the following is NOT true about indexes?
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Too many indexes can result in a slow database response.
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When a table is updated, the indexes will need to be updated.
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Indexes make the retrieval of data faster and efficient in most cases.
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Indexes reside in the same file that has the associated table.
Question 33
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The top node of the B-tree index is called:
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Leaf node
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Root node
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Index node
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Intermediate node
Question 34
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Clustered indexes are NOT a good choice for the following attributes.
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Attributes that are unique or contain many distinct values.
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Attributes that need to be accessed sequentially.
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Attributes that undergo frequent changes.
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Attributes that are frequently used to sort the data retrieved from a table.
Question 35
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How many non-clustered indexes per table are allowed in SQL Server?