Solved MCQ on Distributed Transaction Management set-1

1) If the transaction is rolled back, all the database changes made inside the transaction are ......

A. made permanent

B. made temporary

C. copied to the log

D. undone

2) Which of the following is not a property of transactions?

A. Atomicity

B. Concurrency

C. Isolation

D. Durability

3) A ......... ensures that transactions are performed as expected.

A. transaction processing monitor

B. transaction procedure monitor

C. isolation monitor

D. transaction log

4) A transaction that completes its execution successfully is said to be .......

A. committed

B. rolled back

C. partially committed

D. Aborted

5) ........ means that a transaction must execute exactly once completely or not at all.

A. durability

B. consistency

C. atomicity

D. isolation

6) Assume transaction A holds a shared lock R. If transaction B also requests for a shared lock on R.

A. It will result in a deadlock situation

B. It will immediately be rejected

C. It will immediately be granted

D. It will be granted as soon as it is released by A

7) ........... means that when it ends, a transaction must leave the database in a consistent state.

A. Data isolation

B. Data duration

C. Data consistency

D. Data non-reputability

8) The number of transactions executed in a given amount of time is called .........

A. utilization

B. execution rate

c. throughput

D. atomicity

9) Isolation means ......

A. transaction must not interfere with each other

B. transaction must interfere with each other

C. transaction must be in consistent state

D. transaction must be executed immediately

10) Which of the following ensures the atomicity of the transaction?

A. Transaction management component of DBMS

B. Application Programmer

C. Concurrency control component of DBMS

D. Recovery management component of DBMS

11) ........ means that a transaction must make its changes permanent to the database ends.

A. isolation

B. locking

C. durability

D. consistency

12) Throughput means

A. number of transactions that are committed in one hour

B. number of operations in a transaction

C. number of transaction that can be aborted in a given amount of time

D. number of transaction that can be executed in a given amount of time

13) ........ deals with individual transactions.

A. isolate transactions

B. transaction recovery

C. system recovery

D. media recovery

14) The part of a database management system which ensures that the data remains in a consistent state is

A. authorization and integrity manager

B. buffer manager

C. transaction manager

D. file manager

15) ......... protocol is used to perform multiple transactions that execute on different database.

A. commit

B. two phase lock

C. two phase commit

D. locking

16) A transaction can do read and write operation on a data item when it acquires ......

A. read mode

B. exclusive mode

C. shared mode

D. write mode

17) In .......... one transaction overwrites the changes of another transaction.

A. uncommitted read problem

B. lost update problem

C. update lost problem

D. dirty read problem

18) Isolation of the transactions is ensured by

A. Transaction management

B. Application programmer

C. Concurrency control

D. Recovery management

19) In dirty read problem .......

A. one transaction reads an uncommitted value of another transaction

B. one transaction reads the committed value for another transaction

C. one transaction reads another transaction

D. one transaction commits another transaction.

20) A transaction can do only read operation and not write operation on a data item when it acquires ....... lock.

A. read mode

B. exclusive mode

C. shared mode

D. write mode

Answers:

1) D. undone

2) B. Concurrency

3) A. transaction processing monitor

4) A. committed

5) C. atomicity

6) C. It will immediately be granted

7) C. Data consistency

8) c. throughput

9) A. transaction must not interfere with each other

10) A. Transaction management component of DBMS

11) C. durability

12) D. number of transaction that can be executed in a given amount of time

13) B. transaction recovery

14) C. transaction manager

15) C. two phase commit

16) B. exclusive mode

17) B. lost update problem

18) C. Concurrency control

19) A. one transaction reads an uncommitted value of another transaction

20) C. shared mode

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