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This set of DataBase Management System (DBMS) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Database Management System Set 30

Q1 | What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?
Q2 | The magnetic storage chip used to provide non-volatile direct access storage of data and that have no moving parts are known as
Q3 | The ALU of a computer normally contains a number of high speed storage element called
Q4 | A dump of the database contents is also referred to as an                            dump.
Q5 |                  dump, writes out SQL DDL statements and SQL insert statements to a file, which can then be reexecuted to re- create the database.
Q6 |                    dump schemes have been developed that allow transactions to be active while the dump is in progress.
Q7 | ARIES uses a                        to identify log records, and stores it in database pages.
Q8 | ARIES supports                        operations, which are physical in that the affected page is physically identified, but can be logical within the page.
Q9 |                              is used to minimize unnecessary redos during recovery.
Q10 |                      scheme that records only information about dirty pages and associated information and does not even require of writing dirty pages to disk.
Q11 | Whenever an update operation occurs on a page, the operation stores the LSN of its log record in the                field of the page.
Q12 | The                                      contains a list of pages that have been updated in the database buffer.
Q13 |                        determines which transactions to undo, which pages were dirty at the time of the crash, and the LSN from which the redo pass should start.
Q14 |                      starts from a position determined during analysis, and performs a redo, repeating history, to bring the database to a state it was in before the crash.
Q15 |                              rolls back all transactions that were incomplete at the time of crash.
Q16 | Which lock should be obtained to prevent a concurrent transaction from executing a conflicting read, insert or delete operation on the same key value.
Q17 | Once the lower-level lock is released, the operation cannot be undone by using the old values of updated data items, and must instead be undone by executing a compensating operation; such an operation is called
Q18 | Which of the following is used for undo operations alone?
Q19 | Redo operations are performed exclusively using
Q20 | An operation is said to be                      if executing it several times in a row gives the same result as executing it once.
Q21 | Immediate database modification technique uses
Q22 | Shadow paging has
Q23 | For correct behaviour during recovery, undo and redo operation must be
Q24 | If                        are not obtained in undo operation it will cause problem in undo- phase.
Q25 | The remote backup site is sometimes also called the