SBI Specialist Officer Questions with answer

Here I am adding previous SBI SO question paper with solution. I have doubts about few questions and I marked those with red color. If you know the right answer please comment the right answer in the comment box.  Best wishes!!

1. In SQL, which of the following is not a data Manipulation Language Commands?
   1. Delete
   2. Select
   3. Update
   4. Create
   5. None of the above
2. The value for an attribute or a column are drawn from a set of values known as -
   1. Tuples
   2. Attributes
   3. Domain
   4. Column
   5. None of these
3. Entities having primary key are called
   1. Primary Key
   2. Strong entities
   3. Weak entities
   4. Primary Key
   5. None Of these
4. Which of the following is not a type of SQL statement?
   1. Data Manipulation Language (DML)
   2. Data Definition Language (DDL)
   3. Data Control Language (DCL)
   4. Data Communication Language (DCL)
   5. None of these
5. Which of the following is not included in DML (Data Manipulation Language)
   1. INSERT
   2. UPDATE
   3. DELETE
   4. CREATE - Create is a DDL Statement
   5. None of these
6. TRUNCATE statement in SQL is a -
   1. DML statement
   2. DDL statement
   3. DCL statement
   4. DSL statement
   5. None of these
7. To discard all pending data changes
   1. COMMIT
   2. ROLLBACK
   3. SAVEPOINT
   4. LOCK
   5. None of these
8. Which of the following term is related to the stack?
   1. TOP
   2. PUSH
   3. POP
   4. Rear
   5. A, B and C.
9. In Queues, the end from where items inserted is called
   1. Rear
   2. Front
   3. Top
   4. Base
   5. None of these
10. Which protocol is used for browsing website:
    1. TCP
    2. FITFP
    3. FTP
    4. TFTP
    5. None of these
11. Which of the following is a browser?
    1. Netscape Navigator
    2. Mosaic
    3. Mozilla Firefox
    4. Google chrome
    5. All of these
12. Black Box Testing sometime called -
    1. Data flow testing
    2. Loop testing
    3. Behavioral testing
    4. Graph based testing
    5. None of these
13. The Objective of testing is
    1. Debugging
    2. To uncover errors
    3. To gain modularity
    4. To analyze system
    5. None of these
14. Choose the right sequence of SDLC (Software development life cycle) steps
    1. Design, Requirement Analysis, Coding, Testing
    2. Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
    3. Requirement Analysis, Design, Testing, Coding
    4. Requirement Analysis, Coding, Design, Testing
    5. None of these
15. The drawback of the binary tree sort are remedied by the
    1. Linear Sort
    2. Quick Sort
    3. Heap Sort
    4. Insertion Sort
    5. All of these
16. Round robin scheduling is essentially the preemptive version of
    1. FIFO
    2. Shortest job first
    3. Shortest remaining
    4. Longest time first
    5. None of these
17. ____ is the situation in which a process is waiting on another process, which is also waiting on another process which is waiting on the first process. None of the processes involved in this circular wait are making progress.
    1. Deadlock
    2. Starvation
    3. Dormant
    4. All of these
    5. None of these
18. Assembly language is a _____
    1. Low Level Language
    2. Middle Level Language
    3. High level Language
    4. User Language
    5. None of these
19. Which of the following is a type of translator?
    1. Assembler
    2. Compiler
    3. Interpreter
    4. All of the Above
    5. None of these
20. Multiprogramming systems ___
    1. Are easier to develop than single programming
    2. Execute each job faster
    3. Execute more jobs in the same time
    4. Are used only on large main frame computers
    5. None of these
21. The mechanism by which the data and functions are bound together with an
    1. Inheritance
    2. Encapsulation
    3. Abstraction
    4. Polymorphism
    5. None of these
22. The OSI model consists of ___layers.
    1. Nine
    2. Eight
    3. Seven
    4. Five
    5. Eleven
23. Decryption & Encryption of data are the responsibility of the ___ layer.
    1. Physical
    2. Data link
    3. Presentation
    4. Session
    5. Application
24. LANs can be connected by devices called ____ which operate in the data link layer?
    1. Hub
    2. Bridges
    3. HDLC
    4. Tunnel
    5. None of these
25. In a ____ topology, if there are n devices in a network, each device has n-1 ports for cable.
    1. Mesh
    2. Star
    3. Bus
    4. Ring
    5. None of these

26. OLAP applications are widely used by ____ and it uses ____ Schema.
    1. RDBMS , Bus
    2. Operating System ,Star
    3. Java , Bus
    4. Data mining Techniques; Star or multidimensional
    5. None of these
27. Arrange the following in increasing order of their size.

1. Database<File<Record<Field<Byte<Bit
2. Bit<Byte<Field<Record<File<Database
3. Bit>Byte>Record>Field>File>Database
4. Bit>Byte>File>Record>Field>Database

28. JVM is a virtual machine that can execute ___

1. C language
2. .net programming
3. RDBMS
4. C++ Language
5. Java byte Code

29. ODBC is based on ___.

1. Structured Query Language.
2. C language
3. C++ language
4. .net
5. None of these

30. Which of the following is not an advantage of the data-base approach?

1. Increased security
2. Elimination data redundancy
3. Ability to associate related data ‘
4. Programming/data independence
5. All of the above

Elimination of data redundancy is an application of DBMS. 
(The given question is not clear, I think the question should have been ' which of the following is an advantage of the database approach')

31. In relational database row and column is called as ____and ____respectively.

1. Tuple; Attribute
2. Attribute; Tuple
3. Tupple;Domain
4. Attribute; Domain
5. None of these

32. To delete a particular column in a relation the command used is:

1. DELETE
2. UPDATE
3. DROP
4. ALTER
5. None of these

33. A primary key if combined with a foreign key creates

1. Parent-Child relationship between the tables that connect them.
2. Many to many relationship between the tables that connect them.
3. Network model between the tables that connect them.
4. All of the above
5. None of the above

34. Which of the following is record based logical model?

1. Network Model
2. Object oriented model
3. E-R Model
4. All of these
5. None of these

(Click here to know more about record based logical models)

35. The full form of DDL is

1. Dynamic Data Language
2. Detailed Data Language
3. Data Definition Language
4. Data Derivation Language
5. All of these

36. Which of the following virus overtake computer system when it boots and destroy in-formation?

1. Trojan
2. System infectors
3. Boot infectors
4. Stealth virus
5. None of these

Boot infectors spread during the boot up of computer. The virus target the critical section of the hard disk or floppy disk and obtain the complete control.  File infector viruses infect on the files of the computer. They spread when the user run the infected file. The virus make copy of itself and spread. Multipartite virus take either approach to spread. 

37. The relational model includes two general integrity rules. Integrity rule 1 is concerned with ____ and integrity rule 2 is concerned with ____

1. Primary Key, Foreign key
2. Primary Key, composite key
3. Unique key, Foreign key
4. Composite Key, Foreign key
5. None of these

38. ____ is person who has the central control over both data and application programs.

1. System engineer
2. Database administrator
3. Database manager
4. Technical analyst
5. None of these

39. An attribute of a relation that references the primary key of another relation is known as the ____

1. Foreign Key
2. Unique Key
3. Parent key
4. Child key
5. Index key

40. An entity set that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key is a

1. strong entity set
2. weak entity set
3. simple entity set
4. primary entity set.
5. None of these

41. The JDBC-ODBC bridge is

1. Three tiered
2. Multithread
3. Best for any platform
4. All of these
5. None of these

42. In a relational database, this is a data structure that organizes the information about a single topic into row and columns.

1. Block
2. Record
3. Tuple
4. Table
5. None of these

43. Which statements about the Java language are true?

1. Java supports both procedural and object-oriented programming
2. Java is only a procedural language.
3. Java is only an Object-Oriented.
4. Java is related to
5. None of the above.

44. Stack is also called ____

1. First In First Out (FIFO)
2. Last In First Out (LIFO)
3. First In Last Out (FILO)
4. First Come First Served (FCFS)
5. None of the above

45. The index created by primary key column is called _____

1. Unique Index
2. Composite Index
3. Single Index
4. Primary index
5. None of these

46. In SQL ,which command(s) is(are) used to remove rows from a table.

1. Delete
2. Remove
3. Truncate
4. Both (1) and (3)
5. None of the above

(Remember TRUNCATE is a DDL. Most people confuse it with DML)

47. In SQL, the CREATE TABLE is used

1. To create a table, defining its columns, integrity constraints, and storage allocation
2. To add a column/integrity constraint to a table.
3. To redefine a column
4. To change a table’s storage characteristics
5. All of the above

48. What is the abbreviation is used for a software package that permits the user to create , retrieve and maintain records in a database?

1. DASD
2. CRMD
3. DBMS
4. All of these
5. None of the above

49. Choose the right sequence of virus stages -

1. Triggering, Damage ,Dormancy, propagation
2. Damage, Triggering ,Dormancy, propagation
3. Damage, Triggering, propagation ,Dormancy
4. Triggering, Damage, propagation, Dormancy
5. Dormancy, Propagation,. Triggering, Damage

50. In SQL, which command is used to add new rows to a table?

1. Alter Table
2. Add row
3. Insert
4. Append
5. None of the Above

Friends thanks for your comments and help. Please comment if you have any kind of doubts relating to these questions. Thanks

Courtesy:

 krishna mohan mahat0

 Nasina Vijay