1. What is SERIAL data type in MySQL?

2. What are HEAP tables in MySQL? How do you control the max size of a HEAP table?

3. Explain advantages of InnoDB over MyISAM?

4. Explain advantages of MyISAM over InnoDB?

5. Explain the difference between MyISAM Static and MyISAM Dynamic.

6. What happens when the column is set to AUTO INCREMENT and you reach the maximum
value for that table?

7. What are federated tables?

8. What are the 3 primary backup mechanisms available to the DBA? List down the
(logical) steps to perform each of them.

9. What are inner joins and outer joins? In a credit card company, let us say you
have 2 tables: one containing cardholders identity, their number, address, and
other personal info. A second table contains their account activity. How would you
go about retrieving a monthly statement from the given data (you may assume the
existence of certain fields that store info pertaining to the activities of the
user in the account activity table).

10. What is mirroring (in the context of disk I/O).

11. How would you setup master/slave & master/master replication?

12. How might you hack a MySQL server (given that you have gained shell access to
the host running the mysql server)?