SQL MCQ

Employee Table

ID First Name Last Name Salary

1 Walter White 50000

2 Jane Smith 60000

3 Alice Johnson 55000

4 Bob Brown 52000

John manages an employee database in MySQL, and he's trying to perform various CRUD operations
on his "employees" table.

1.John wants to add a new employee, Sarah Davis, to his database with a salary of $58,000. Which
SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: INSERT INTO employees (first_name, last_name, salary) SET ('Sarah', 'Davis',
58000); B. John should run: INSERT INTO employees (id, first_name, last_name, salary) VALUES
(NULL, 'Sarah', 'Davis', 58000);
C. John should run: INSERT INTO employees (first_name, last_name, salary) VALUES ('Sarah', 'Davis',
58000); D. John should run: UPDATE employees SET first_name = 'Sarah', last_name = 'Davis', salary =
58000;

2.John wants to see a list of employees with a salary greater than $55,000. What SQL statement

should he use? Options:

A. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees HAVING salary > 55000;
B. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE salary > 55000;
C. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE salary < 55000;
D. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees HAVING salary < 55000;

3.John needs to increase Alice Johnson's salary to $58,000. What is the correct SQL statement for

this update? Options:

A. John should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 58000 WHERE id = 4;

B. John should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 58000 WHERE last_name = 'Johnson'; C. John
should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 58000 WHERE id = 3;
 D. John should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 58000 WHERE first_name = 'Alice';

4.John wants to remove an employee with ID 2 from the "employees" table. What SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: DELETE FROM employees WHERE id = 2;

B. John should run: REMOVE FROM employees WHERE id = 2;
C. John should run: DELETE employees WHERE id = 2;
D. John should run: DROP FROM employees WHERE id = 2;

5.John needs to retrieve the count of all employees in the "employees" table. What SQL statement should he
use?

Options:

A. John should run: COUNT(*) FROM employees;

B. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees COUNT;
C. John should run: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employees;
D. John should run: SELECT COUNT FROM employees;

6.John wants to see a list of employees' first names and last names, sorted in ascending order by their last
names. What SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employees ORDER BY first_name ASC; B.
John should run: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employees ORDER BY last_name ASC; C.
John should run: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employees ORDER BY last_name DESC; D.
John should run: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM employees SORT BY last_name ASC;

7.John wants to change the first name of the employee with ID 4 from "Bob" to "Robert." Which SQL statement
should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: ALTER employees UPDATE first_name = 'Robert' WHERE id = 4;

B. John should run: UPDATE employees SET first_name = 'Robert' WHERE id = 4;
C. John should run: MODIFY employees SET first_name = 'Robert' WHERE id = 4;
D. John should run: CHANGE employees SET first_name = 'Robert' WHERE id = 4;

8.John needs to retrieve all employees with a last name containing the letter "a." What SQL statement should he
use?

Options:

A. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE last_name = 'a';

B. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE last_name LIKE '%a%';
C. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE last_name CONTAINS 'a';
D. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE last_name LIKE 'a';

9.John wants to add a new column named "department" to the "employees" table. Which SQL statement should
he use?

Options:

A. John should run: ALTER TABLE employees ADD COLUMN department VARCHAR(50);
B. John should run: UPDATE employees SET department = 'HR';
C. John should run: ADD COLUMN department TO employees;
D. John should run: ALTER employees ADD department COLUMN VARCHAR(50);

10.John needs to retrieve the average salary of all employees. What SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: SELECT AVG(salary) FROM employees;

B. John should run: SELECT SUM(salary) FROM employees;
C. John should run: SELECT AVG(employee_salary) FROM employees;
D. John should run: SELECT AVERAGE(salary) FROM employees;

11.John wants to sort the employees by salary in descending order. What SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees SORT BY salary DESC;

B. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY salary ASC;
C. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees SORT BY salary ASC;
D. John should run: SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY salary DESC;

12.John wants to delete all employees with a salary less than $52,000. Which SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: DELETE FROM employees WHERE salary < 52000;
B. John should run: REMOVE employees WHERE salary < 52000;
C. John should run: DELETE * FROM employees WHERE salary < 52000;
D. John should run: DELETE employees WHERE salary < 52000;

13.John wants to add a unique constraint to the "id" column in the "employees" table. What SQL statement
should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: ALTER TABLE employees ADD CONSTRAINT UNIQUE (id);
B. John should run: ALTER TABLE employees ADD UNIQUE KEY (id);
C. John should run: ALTER TABLE employees ADD UNIQUE (id);
D. John should run: ADD CONSTRAINT UNIQUE TO employees (id);

14.John wants to retrieve the highest salary among the employees. What SQL statement should he use?

Options:

A. John should run: SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees;

B. John should run: SELECT HIGHEST(salary) FROM employees;
C. John should run: SELECT MAXIMUM(salary) FROM employees;
D. John should run: SELECT TOP(salary) FROM employees;

15.John wants to update the salary of all employees with the last name "Smith" to $65,000. What is the correct
SQL statement for this update?

Options:

A. John should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 65000 WHERE last_name = 'Smith'; B.
John should run: UPDATE employees SET salary = 65000 WHERE first_name = 'Smith'; C.
John should run: ALTER employees UPDATE salary = 65000 WHERE last_name = 'Smith'; D.
John should run: MODIFY employees SET salary = 65000 WHERE last_name = 'Smith';