- The subquery is never executed. Only the main query is executed.
- They are executed at the same time
- the main query
- the subquery
Q2. You need to export the entire database, including the database objects, in addition to the data. Which command-line tool do you use?
- mysqlexport
- mysqladmin
- mysqldump
- mysqld
Q3. You must ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data in your database. You assign some constraints to limit the type of data that can go into a table. What type of constraints are you assigning?
- row level
- database level
- column level
- function level
Q4. Which option of most MySQL command-line programs can be used to get a description of the program's different options?
- --options
- ?
- --help
- -h
Q5. MySQL uses environment variables in some of the programs and command-line operations. Which variable is used by the shell to find MySQL programs?
- DIR
- HOME
- PATH
- MYSQL_HOME
- [ ]
1 CREATE PROCEDURE P () AS
2 BEGIN
3 END;
- [x]
1 CREATE PROCEDURE P ()
2 BEGIN
3 END
- [ ]
1 CREATE PROCP
2 BEGIN
3 END;
- [ ]
1 CREATE PROC P AS O
2 BEGIN
3 END;
Q7. If you were building a table schema to store student grades as a letter (A, B, C, D, or F) which column type would be the best choice?
- ENUM
- OTEXT
- VARCHAR
- LONGTEXT
Q8. Management has requested that you build an employee database. You start with the employee table. What is the correct syntax?
- [ ]
1 CREATE TABLE employee (
2 employee ID char(10),
3 firstName varchar(50),
4 lastName varchar(50),
5 phone varchar(20),
6 address varchar(50),
7 PRIMARY KEY ON employeeID
8 );
- [ ]
1 CREATE TABLE employee (
2 employee ID char(10),
3 firstName varchar(50),
4 lastName varchar(50),
5 phone varchar(20),
6 address varchar(50),
7 PRIMARY KEY employeeID
8 );
- [ ]
1 CREATE TABLE IF EXISTS employee (
2 employee ID char(10),
3 firstName varchar(50),
4 lastName varchar(50),
5 phone varchar(20),
6 address varchar(50),
7 PRIMARY KEY (employeeID)
8 );
- [x]
1 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS employee (
2 employee ID char(10),
3 firstName varchar(50),
4 lastName varchar(50),
5 phone varchar(20),
6 address varchar(50),
7 PRIMARY KEY (employeeID)
8 );
Q9. You are working with the tables as shown in this diagram. You need to generate the list of customers who purchased certain car models. Which SQL clause do you use?
- LIKE
- IN
- BETWEEN
- HAVING
- USE db
- SELECT column FROM tbl
- SHOW COLUMNS FROM tbl
- SHOW TABLES
- system definition
- logical model
- physical model
- normalized database
NOT SURE THE QUESTION IS CORRECT. Logical, physical and normalized are all products of the designing phase in this order.
Q12. MySQL server can operate in different SQL modes, depending on the value of the sql_mode system variable. Which mode changes syntax and behavior to conform more closely to standard SQL?
- TRADITIONAL
- ANSI
- MSSQL
- STRICT
Q13. MySQL programs are a set of command-line utilities that are provided with typical MySQL distributions. MySQL is designed to be a database.
- database and programming
- user and administrator
- client and server
- syntax and objects
- INFO table;
- SHOW table;
- STRUCTURE table;
- DESCRIBE table;
Q15. MySQL uses security based on**_**for all connections, queries, and other operations that users can attempt to perform.
- administrator schema
- encrypted algorithms
- user settings
- access control lists reference
- UPDATE
- MODIFY
- CHANGE
- ALTER
- a SQL query using partitions
- a SQL query using IS NULL
- a SQL query using a regular expression
- a SQL query using LTRIM Or RTRIM
- line break
- colon
- semicolon
- period
- DELETE
- DELETE FROM
- REMOVE
- REMOVE FROM
- GROUP_BY
- WHERE
- LIMIT
- LIKE
SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeName LIKE 'a%'
- It records in the Employees table where the value in the EmployeeName column doesn't have an "a".
- It records in the Employees table where the value in the EmployeeName column starts with "a".
- It records in the Employees table where the value in the EmployeeName column has an "a".
- It records in the Employees table where the value in the EmployeeName column ends with "a".
- a SQL query
- a SQL statement
- a database
- a table
- SQL is a standard language for retrieving and manipulating data from structured databases. MySQL is a nonrelational database management system that is used to manage SQL databases.
- SQL is a standard language for retrieving and manipulating data from structured databases. MySQL is a relational database management system that is used to manage SQL databases.
- They are not different. MySQL and SQL refer to the same thing.
- My SQL is a language, and SQL is a software application.
- SELECT * FROM movies GROUP BY name
- SELECT * FROM movies ORDER BY name
- SELECT * FROM movies ORDER TABLE by name
- SELECT * FROM movies FILTER BY name
Q25. A trigger is a database object that is associated with a table, and that activates when a particular event occurs for the table. Which three events are these?
- INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
- CREATE, ALTER, DROP
- OPEN, FETCH, CLOSE
- DECLARE, SET, SELECT
Q26. You are working with very large tables in your database. Which SQL clause do you use to prevent exceedingly large query results?
- UNIQUE
- LIMIT
- DISTINCT
- CONSTRAINT
- 25
- 990
- 0
- 3306
- DISTINCT
- WHERE
- LIMIT
- AS
- They both refer to the same operation of deleting the table completely.
- They both refer to the same operation of clearing the table, but keeping its definition intact.
- TRUNCATE deletes table completely, removing its definition as well. DROP clears the table but does not delete the definition.
- DROP deletes table completely, removing its definition as well. TRUNCATE clears the table but does not delete the definition.
- SELECT all FROM inventory;
- FROM inventory SELECT all;
- FROM inventory SELECT *;
- SELECT * FROM inventory;
- set of triggers
- sequential id field
- minimum of three columns
- primary key
Q32. MySQL option files provide a way to specify commonly used options so that they need not be entered on the command line each time you run a program. What is another name for the option files?
- variable settings
- configuration files
- help files
- default settings
Q33. After installing MySQL, it may be necessary to initialize the __ which may be done automatically with some MySQL installation methods.
- storage engine
- user accounts
- grant tables
- data directory
Q34. You need to export the data in the customers table into a CSV file, with columns headers in the first row. Which clause do you add to your MySQL command?
- JOIN
- WITH HEADERS
- UNION
- WITH COLUMNS
Q35. One form of backup, replication, enables you to maintain identical data on multiple servers, as a ___ configuration.
- remote-local
- parent-child
- master-slave
- logical-physical
- the subquery must use an aggregate function.
- the subquery must refer to the same table as the main query.
- the subquery must return a single value.
- the subquery must return at least one value.
Q37. Each time MySQL is upgraded, it is best to execute mysql_upgrade, which looks for incompatibilities with the upgraded MySQL server. What does this command do, upon finding a table with a possible incompatibility?
- it performs a table check and, if problems are found, attempts a table repair.
- it stops and notifies the server administrator that the upgrade cannot complete until the incompatibility issue are resolved.
- it provides a full report of the table specifications and the incompatibilities to the server administrator.
- it performs a table check and, if problems are found, displays the information for the server administrator to take action.
- show grants (displays the privileges and roles that are assigned to a MySQL user account or role)
- show privileges (shows the list of system privileges that the MySQL server supports)
- show access
- show user permissions
- temporary
- system
- large
- new
Q40. later versions of mysql support the native json data type for storing json documents. What is a drawback of json columns?
- inefficient for storing json documents
- cannot be indexed directly
- documents cannot be validated when stored in json columns
- cannot be normalized
- carid is the primary key for purchases
- carid is the foreign key for cars.carid
- customerid is the foreign key for customers.id
- customerid is the primary key for purchases
- cat file|mysql
- load data infile (correct if the file is already on the server)
- load data local infile (also correct but only if the file is from the client)
- extended insert statement
Q43. See tables in the diagram. Make sure that any record added to the purchase table consists of a customerId, which exists in the customer table and a carId, which exists in the car table. You decide to use a trigger to do the validation. Which one?
- after insert
- if exists (invalid not a trigger; IF function + EXISTS clause)
- before insert
- cross join (valid for a check but not a trigger)
-
insert into cars (make, model, year) values ('Ford', 'Mustang', 2002) ('Mercedes', 'C', 2003)
-
insert into cars (make, model, year) values ('Ford', 'Mustang', 2002) values ('Mercedes', 'C', 2003)
-
insert into cars (make, model, year) extended ('Ford', 'Mustang', 2002), ('Mercedes', 'C', 2003)
-
insert into cars (make, model, year) values ('Ford', 'Mustang', 2002), ('Mercedes', 'C', 2003)
- create table
- clone table
- insert into
- show create table
- Run the server as normal user
- grant process or super privilege to other user
- run the server as the unix root user
- use the compressed protocol
Q47. You manage a database with a table "customers". You created a temporary table also called "customers" with which you are working for the duration of your session. You need to recreate the temporary table with different specs. Which command do you need to run first?
- create temporary table customers;
- drop temp table customers;
- drop table customers;
- drop temporary table customers;
Q48. you need to run a complex query with recursive subqueries but without creating a stored procedure or a function. Which command or clause do you use?
- collate
- union
- full join
- with
- merge
- updatable
- temptable
- undefined
- to display your version of MySQL
- to display operating system error codes
- to display default settings that are in error
- to display storage error codes
*note: perror prints a description for a system error code or for a storage engine (table handler) error code.
link
- SHOW table COLUMNS;
- SHOW COLUMNS FROM table; (*not on test but
DESCRIBE tablename
is a shortcut for this command) - LIST table COLUMNS;
- SELECT COLUMNS FROM table;
- SELECT * FROM DATABASE;
- SHOW TABLES;
- LIST TABLES;
- SELECT ALL TABLES;
- CHECK TABLE;
- CREATE TABLE;
- ANALYZE TABLE;
- OPTIMIZE TABLE;
- mysql.accounts;
- mysql.passwords;
- mysql.admin;
- mysql.user;
Q55. Management has requested that you build an employee database. You need to include each employee's current position and salary, as well as all prior positions and salaries with the company. You decide to use a one-to-many structure: an employee table with the main information such as name and address, and an employment table with position and salary history. You can use the employeeID field to connect them. What is employment.employeeID an example of?
- primary key;
- secondary key;
- foreign key;
- alternate key;
Q56. In recent versions of MySQL (8.0+), what's the correct syntax to declare a CTE (Common Table Expression)?
- WITH (SELECT id FROM users) as cte, SELECT ...
- WITH (SELECT id FROM users) as cte SELECT ...
- WITH cte as (SELECT id FROM users), SELECT ...
- WITH cte as (SELECT id FROM users) SELECT ...
- to reduce corruption in data
- to reduce storage space
- to make the system faster
- to prevent data anomalies
Q58. The code snippet below is used to read data from an XML file into a table. Which XML structure is not supported by the statement?
1 LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE 'cars.xml'
2 INTO TABLE cars
3 ROWS IDENTIFIED BY `<car>`;
- [ ]
<car>
<field name="make"> Lexus </field>
<field name="model"> IS300 </field>
<field name="make"> 2016 </field>
</car>
- [x]
<car name="make"> Dodge </car>
<car name="model"> Ram </car>
<car name="year"> 2000 </car>
- [ ]
<car make="Ford" model="Mustang" year="2002/>
- [ ]
<car year="2010>
<make>Mercedes</make> <model> C-Class</model>
</car>
Q59. You are loading data into a table. Which command can you use to make sure that all data is inserted and duplicated rows are discarded?
-
INSERT IGNORE
-
INSERT UNIQUE
-
INSERT INTO
-
INSERT DISTINCT
- It will stop and issue an error when it encounters a row that is referenced by a row in a child table.
- It always first drops, then re-creates a new table.
- It deletes rows one by one on tables with foreign key constraints.
- It does not invoke the
DELETE
triggers associated with the table.
Q61. You are working with the tables as shown in this diagram. You need to get the number of cars sold per the home state of each customer's residence. How can you accomplish this?
-
SELECT state, COUNT(*) FROM customers WHERE ID IN (SELECT customerID FROM purchases) GROUP BY state;
-
SELECT state, COUNT(*) FROM customers c LEFT JOIN purchases p ON c.ID = p.customerID GROUP BY state;
-
SELECT state, COUNT(*) FROM customers c, purchases p WHERE c.ID = p.customerID GROUP BY state;
-
SELECT state, COUNT(*) FROM customers GROUP BY state;
Q62. In data migration, there is often a need to delete duplicate rows as part of data cleanup. Which statement works best?
-
DELETE DUPS
-
DELETE DISTINCT
-
DELETE JOIN
-
DELETE WITH
-
DEFAULT
value -
RETURN
variable -
SQLEXCEPTION
routine -
NOT FOUND
handler
Q64. Which type of backup includes all the changes made to the data since the last full backup was performed?
- snapshot
- logical
- differential
- incremental
Q65. You need to restore a MySQL database from a backup file. Which command-line tool do you use for the actual data import, after re-creating the database?
- mysqld
- mysql
- mysqladmin
- mysqldump
Q66. You are importing data as JSON into a new table. You run CREATE TABLE json_data ( city JSON ); and insert rows into this table. What is the correct syntax to see the list of cities?
- SELECT city FROM json_data;
- SELECT city->>'$.name' city FROM json_data;
- SELECT city.name city FROM json_data;
- SELECT city->'$.name' city FROM json_data; <= this is valid too but the results will be enclosed with quotation marks
Q67. If you want to use MyISAM instead of InnoDB, which option do you need to specify in the CREATE TABLE statement?
- ENGINE
- PARTITION
- STORAGE
- TABLESPACE
Q68. You are working with the table in this diagram. You want to use full-text search to find the customers who live on a street or a drive. What is the command to do that?
Table name: customers
ID | lastname | firstname | phone | address | city | state | zip |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A001 | Smith | Bob | 212-555-1212 | 1001 1st Street | New York | NY | 10001 |
A002 | Chang | John | 213-555-5678 | 888 Rodeo Drive | Los Angeles | CA | 90210 |
A003 | Smith | Mary | 999-999-9999 | 123 Main Street | Anytown | VA | 12345 |
A004 | Johnson | Jack | 312-312-3120 | 1111 Chicago Avenue | Chicago | IL | 60606 |
A005 | Lopez | Linda | 737-777-3333 | 123 Main Street | Austin | TX | 73344 |
- [ ]
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE address MATCH 'Street' OR 'Drive';
- [ ]
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE MATCH(address) IN ('street, drive');
- [ ]
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE address MATCH 'Street' OR address MATCH 'Drive';
- [x]
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE MATCH(address) AGAINST ('street, drive');
- SHOW DATABASES;
- LIST ALL DATABASES;
- LIST DATABASES;
- SHOW DB;
- all tables, columns, data types, indexes and their relationships
- a list of entities, their relationship, and constraints
- all tables and their names, which are needed to implement the logical model
- [ X] a list of entities, their relationship, constraints, data types, and cardinalities
- INOUT
- IN
- OUT
- IN OUT
- The temporary table will be dropped when the database is restarted.
- Temporary tables can be shared among clients, which makes them more usable in group development environments.
- The temporary table will be dropped as soon as your session disconnects.
- Creating a temporary table does not require any special privileges.
- public construct User() {}
- public User() {}
- public instance User() {}
- public init User() {}
- 2
- 4
- 8
- [ X] 16
- DISPLAY TRIGGERS;
- SHOW TRIGGERS;
- SELECT ALL TRIGGERS;
- SELECT * FROM information_schema.triggers;
- TIMESTAMP values require more bytes for storage than DATETIME values.
- TIMESTAMP is stored without timezone, and DATETIME is stored in UTC values.
- TIMESTAMP and DATETIME are both stored without time zone.
- TIMESTAMP is stored in UTC values, and DATETIME is stored in without time zone.
- mysqladmind flush-threads
- mysqladmind flush-tables
- mysqladmind flush-privileges
- mysqladmind flush-all