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Important Questions for Interview - Database Management System

 

Database Management System is an important topic for aptitude as well as interview in the placement process. For CS/IT students, DBMS acts like a foundation and is used throughout the engineering career. Hence good DBMS knowledge plays an important role in getting placed in majority of the IT companies. Following is the list of important questions which must be done  before appearing for the interview process.

 

  1. What is Database Management System?
  2. List the different advantages of DBMS.
  3. What do you mean by abstraction and what are the different levels of abstraction?
  4. What do you mean by instance?
  5. What is a schema? List its types.
  6. What is data independence and its types?
  7. What are the different SQL languages and the commands associated with them?
  8. Explain the ER diagram. (Entity, Attributes, Relationships, Cardinality, Participation)
  9. Explain specialization, generalization and aggregation.
  10. Explain the different keys used in SQL.
  11. What is the difference between Char and Varchar?
  12. What are the various clauses in SQL?
  13. Explain the different types of joins.
  14. What is the difference between inner and outer join?
  15. Difference between delete, truncate and drop.
  16. Explain pattern matching. Which character is used for pattern matching?
  17. What is the use of ORDER BY keyword?
  18. What is the use of distinct keyword?
  19. Difference between “having” and “where” clause.
  20. Explain about grant and revoke.
  21. Difference between Union and Union all.
  22. What is view?
  23. What are the different integrity constraints?
  24. Explain triggers.
  25. What is stored procedures?
  26. What are cursors?
  27. What do you mean by implicit and explicit cursors? Also differentiate them.
  28. What is normalization of database? Explain its types.
  29. What do you mean by clustered and non-clustered index? Also differentiate them.
  30. How are sub queries executed?
  31. What do you mean by Object-Relational DBMS?
  32. What are the ACID properties?
  33. SQL query to find second/third highest/lowest value from database.
  34. Basic queries to insert/update/retrieve data.

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