QUESTION BANK

Unit I: Parallel Databases

Q.1: Describe different partitioning techniques with examples?

Q.2: Compare Different partitioning techniques with respect to Access to data?
Q.3: Explain Handling of skew for attribute value skew and partition skew?
Q.4: What is interquery Parallelism and intraquerry parallelism ?
Q.5: Describe Range Partition Sort and parallel external sort?
Q.6:Explain following with examples
1.Partitioned Join
2.Fragment and replicated join
3. Partitioned parallel hash join
Unit II: Distributed databases

Q.1: Explain the terms with examples

1. Data Replication
2. Data Fragmentation
3. Transparency
Q.2: Describe with diagram distributed transaction and system Failure modes?
Q.3: Explain 2PC and handling of Failures in 2PC?
Q.4: Explain different locking protocols?
Q.5: Explain Deadlock handling and false cycle in distributed databases?
Q.6: Explain distributed query processing?
Q.7: What is LDAP and how you will implement it?

Unit III: Database System architecture and XML

Q.1: Explain what do you mean by speedup and scale up? What are different
interconnection structures?
Q.2: Explain n-tier architecture?
Q.3: Explain structure of XML data and give example of DTD?
Q.4: What is XML schema?
Q.5: Explain with example
1. Xpath
2. Xquery
3. Xslt
Q.6: What is need of Web service?
Q.7: What is SOAP and explain its architecture?

Unit IV: OLAP and Data Warehousing

Q.1: What are different components of DSS and there use?

Q.2: Explain in detail what is mean by OLAP? Implementation of OLAP?
Q.3: What is data warehouse and different stages in it?
Q.4: Explain with example what are Star schema and snowflake schema?
Q.5: Explain with example
1.Extended Aggrigation
2. Ranking
3.Windowing

Unit V: Data Mining

Q.1: What is data mining? Its need?

Q.2: What are association rules?
Q.3: Explain implementation of apriori algorithm with example?
Q.4: What is clustering?
Q.5: Explain the k-means algorithm of clustering?
Q.6: What are decision trees?

Unit VI: Information retrieval

Q.1: What is the theory of information retrieval?
Q.2: Explain relevance and ranking using terms?
Q.3: What is synonyms, Homonyms and Ontologies?
Q.4: Describe web search engines?