Oracle Transaction Control Statements: Beginner-Level Quiz

Oracle Transaction Control Statements Quiz

Welcome to the "Transaction Control Statements" quiz! This quiz is designed to assess your understanding of essential concepts related to managing transactions in Oracle Database. You’ll explore key statements such as COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and SAVEPOINT, and learn how they help maintain data integrity and control changes. Whether you're preparing for an interview or looking to solidify your knowledge, this quiz will challenge your grasp of transaction management. Let’s get started!

1 / 20

If we are inserting / updating / deleting data to/from a table then we are performing a transaction on a table. True or False?

True

False

2 / 20

When a program is abnormally terminated, the equivalent of a ______ command occurs.

COMMIT

ROLLBACK

EXIT

QUIT

3 / 20

According to the ANSI SQL standard, when does a transaction begin?

When the first SQL statement is encountered

With the BEGIN TRANSACTION command

With use of the START command

With the BEGIN command

4 / 20

The rule of transaction tells that either all the statements in the transaction should be executed (all are committed) successfully or none of those statements to be executed (i.e. all are canceled or rollbacked). Is this statement true?

Yes

I have no idea

Probably

5 / 20

A(n) ______ lock exists when concurrent transactions are granted Read access on the basis of a common lock.

Field-level

Binary

Exclusive

Shared

6 / 20

If a transaction is not explicitly committed or rolled back, the changes are saved automatically by Oracle. True or False?

True

False

7 / 20

All lock information is managed by a ______, which is responsible for assigning and policing the locks used by the transactions.

DBMS

Locking agent

Scheduler

Lock manager

8 / 20

Which of the following statements is not correct;

COMMIT indicates that the transaction was completed successfully and all the DML performed since the start of the transaction are committed to the database as well as frees the resources held by the transaction.

SET TRANSACTION indicates that the transaction is started and is optional.

TRIGGER is used for dividing or breaking a transaction into multiple units so that the user has a chance of rolling back a transaction up to a point or location.

ROLLBACK will roll back the data to its previous state.

9 / 20

Which statement allows you to create a marker to which you can later roll back?

COMMIT

ROLLBACK

SAVEPOINT

BEGIN

10 / 20

A ______ database state is one in which all data integrity constraints are satisfied.

Secure

Fixed

Consistent

Complete

11 / 20

In a ______ lock, the DBMS will lock an entire disk page.

Table-level

Database-level

Row-level

Page-level

12 / 20

Once we execute the commit statement, we cannot revert back the changes. True or False?

True

False

13 / 20

______ means that the data used during the execution of a transaction cannot be used by a second transaction until the first one is completed.

Isolation

Atomicity

Consistency

Durability

14 / 20

What is the default behavior of Oracle in the absence of a COMMIT or ROLLBACK?

Changes are automatically rolled back

Changes are automatically saved

An error is raised

Changes remain in a pending state

15 / 20

The ______ lock allows concurrent transactions to access the same row as long as they require the use of different fields within that row.

Page-level

Table-level

Field-level

Row-level

16 / 20

The three basic techniques to control deadlocks are: deadlock ______, deadlock detection, and deadlock avoidance.

Commits

Prevention

Rollback

Prohibition

17 / 20

A transaction in Oracle ensures that either all of the command succeeds or none of the commands succeeds. True or False?

True

False

18 / 20

The process of trimming sets of inter-related Operations into a single unit and executing those operations by applying the do everything or do-nothing principle is called transaction management in Oracle. True or False?

True

False

19 / 20

Although the ______ locking approach improves the availability of data, its management requires high overhead.

Table-level

Row-level

Database-level

Page-level

20 / 20

The ______ statement is used to end a successful transaction.

DONE

COMMIT

END

QUIT

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Oracle transaction control statements focus on managing database transactions to ensure data integrity and consistency.

Key commands to be explored include COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and SAVEPOINT, which allow users to save, undo, or manage changes within a transaction.

This quiz is designed to test your understanding of effectively controlling data modifications in Oracle databases.

Best of luck!