Test: Section 6 Quiz

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Section 6 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
1.Which of the following statements about user-defined PL/SQL records is NOT true?
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It is not the same as a row in a database table.

It must contain one or more components, but all the components must have scalar
datatypes. (*)
It can be used as an OUT parameter in a package procedure.

It can be a component of another PL/SQL record.

It can be defined as NOT NULL.

Correct

2.You can store a whole record in a single variable using %ROWTYPE or by creating your
own record structure as a type and then declaring a variable of that type. Mark for Review
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True (*)

False

Correct

3.The following code declares a PL/SQL record with the same structure as a row of the
departments table. True or False? Mark for Review
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DECLARE
v_dept_rec departments%ROWTYPE;
...
True (*)

False

Correct

4.Which of the following will successfully create a record type containing two fields, and a
record variable of that type? Mark for Review
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TYPE person_type IS RECORD
(l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec person_type;

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TYPE person_type IS (l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec person_type;
TYPE person_type IS (l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
 person_rec TYPE person_type;
TYPE person_type IS RECORD

(l_name VARCHAR2(20),
gender CHAR(1));
person_rec TYPE person_type;
Correct

5.You can use %ROWTYPE with tables and views.

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True (*)

False

Correct

Section 6 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
6. Which of these PL/SQL data structures could store a complete copy of the employees
table, i.e., 20 complete table rows? Mark for Review
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An explicit cursor based on SELECT * FROM employees;

An INDEX BY table of records (*)

A record

An INDEX BY table

Correct

7. Which of the following methods can be used to reference elements of an INDEX BY

table? (Choose three.) Mark for Review
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(Choose all correct answers)
COUNT (*)

DROP

EXISTS (*)

FIRST (*)

PREVIOUS

Correct

8. In an INDEX BY table of records the record can be _______________________.

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a user-defined record

%ROWTYPE (*)

Either one.

Incorrect. Refer to Section 6 Lesson 2.

 9. To declare an INDEX BY table, we must first declare a type and then declare a collection
variable of that type. True or False? Mark for Review
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True (*)

False

Correct

10.An INDEX BY TABLE type can only have one data field.
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True (*)

False

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Section 6 Quiz
(Answer all questions in this section)
11.What is the largest number of elements (i.e., records) that an INDEX BY table of records
can contain? Mark for Review
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None of these.

Many millions of records because a BINARY_INTEGER or PLS_INTEGER can have a

very large value (*)
100

4096

32767

Correct

12.Which of the following successfully declares an INDEX BY table of records which could
be used to store copies of complete rows from the departments table? Mark for Review
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DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEXED BY NUMBER;
DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%TYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS INDEX BY TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
DECLARE
TYPE t_depttab IS TABLE OF departments%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;

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Correct

13.An INDEX BY TABLE primary key cannot be negative.

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 True

False (*)

Correct

14.Identify the valid collection types:

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INDEX BY TABLE OF RECORDS (*)

INDEX BY TABLE OF ROWS

INDEX BY TABLE (*)

INDEX BY VIEW

Correct

15.Which of these PL/SQL data structures can NOT store a collection?

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An INDEX BY table indexed by BINARY_INTEGER

An INDEX BY table of records

An INDEX BY table indexed by PLS_INTEGER

A PL/SQL record (*)

Correct