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17. If a system has entered and undesirable state due to which it is unable to continue with normal execution, it is called as _________
Logical error
System error
System crash
None of the mentioned
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18. If there is a hardware malfunction or a bug in the database that causes the loss of content of volatile storage, it is called as ________
Logical error
System error
System crash
None of the mentioned
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19. The assumption that the hardware errors bring the system to a halt is called as ________
Halter assumption
Phantom assumption
Fail-stop assumption
Disk failure
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20. Which of the following is not a classification of storage
Volatile storage
Nonvolatile storage
Stable storage
None of the mentioned
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21. If a failure has occurred in the midst of a transfer, it is called as _________
Successful completion
Partial failure
Total failure
None of the mentioned
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22. The partitions of the database into fixed length storage units are called as __________
Blocks
Tuples
Relations
None of the mentioned
23. The blocks residing on the disk are referred to as ___________
Physical blocks
Buffer blocks
Disk blocks
Disk buffer
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24. The area of memory where blocks temporarily reside is called as ________
Block buffer
Disk buffer
Physical buffer
None of the mentioned
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25. The most widely used structure for recording database modification is called as _______
Log
List
Queue
Stack
26. An update log record describes a ________ database write
Single
Double
Triple
Quadruple
27. Which of the following fields does the update log record have?
Transaction identifier
Data-item identifier
Old value
All of the mentioned
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28. The unique identifier of the transaction that performed the write operation is called as _______
Transaction identifier
Data-item identifier
Old value
New value
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29. The value of the data item prior to the write is called as _________
Transaction identifier
Data-item identifier
Old value
New value
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30. If a transaction does not modify the database until it has committed it is said to use a _______ modification technique
Deferred
Immediate
More than one of the mentioned
None of the mentioned
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