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Storage, Indexing and Transactions - Databases - Computer Science & Information Technology Previous Year Questions

Practice Storage, Indexing and Transactions - Databases - Computer Science & Information Technology previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

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Storage, Indexing and Transactions question pattern

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

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Medium 33 70.2%
Easy 12 25.5%
Hard 2 4.3%

Question type distribution

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MCQ 35 74.5%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 7 14.9%
MSQ 5 10.6%

Subject weightage

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Computer Science & Information Technology
47 Qs

Most asked topics

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Databases
47 Qs

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Storage, Indexing and Transactions
47 Qs

Paper coverage

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Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) 2026
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2025 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2025 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2024 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2024 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2023 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2022 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2021 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2021 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2020 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2019 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2017 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2015 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 3]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 3]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 4]
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2011
1 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2010
3 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2009
2 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2008
3 Qs
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2007
2 Qs

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Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) 20262026
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Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2025 [Session 1]2025
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Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2025 [Session 2]2025
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Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2024 [Session 1]2024
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2024
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2024 [Session 2]2024
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Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2023 [Session 2]2023
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2023
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2022 [Session 2]2022
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2022
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2021 [Session 1]2021
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2021
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2021 [Session 2]2021
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2021
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2020 [Session 2]2020
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2020
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2019 [Session 2]2019
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2019
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2017 [Session 2]2017
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2017
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 1]2016
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2016
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 2]2016
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2016
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2015 [Session 2]2015
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2015
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 1]2014
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2014
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 2]2014
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2014
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 3]2014
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2014
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 1]2013
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2013
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 2]2013
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2013
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 3]2013
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2013
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 4]2013
1 questions in this view
2013
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 20112011
1 questions in this view
2011
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 20102010
3 questions in this view
2010
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 20092009
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2009
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 20082008
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2008
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 20072007
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2007

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2007 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2007
The order of a leaf node in a B+-tree is the maximum number of (value, data record pointer) pairs it can hold. Given that the block size is 1K bytes, data record pointer is 7 bytes long, the value field is 9 bytes long and a block pointer is 6 bytes long, what is the order of the leaf node?
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2007 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2007
Consider the following schedules involving two transactions. Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
S1: r1(X); r1(Y); r2(X); r2(Y); w2(Y); w1(X)
S2: r1(X); r2(X); r2(Y); w2(Y); r1(Y); w1(X)
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2008 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2008

A clustering index is defined on the fields which are of type

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2008 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2008
A B-tree of order 4 is built from scratch by 10 successive insertions. What is the maximum number of node splitting operations that may take place?
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2008 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2008
Consider a file of 16384 records. Each record is 32 bytes long and its key field is of size 6 bytes. The file is ordered on a non-key field, and the file organization is unspanned. The file is stored in a file system with block size 1024 bytes, and the size of a block pointer is 10 bytes. If the secondary index is built on the key field of the file, and a multi-level index scheme is used to store the secondary index, the number of first-level and second-level blocks in the multi-level index are respectively
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2009 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2009
Consider two transactions T1 and T2, and four schedules S1, S2, S3, S4 of T1 and T2 as given below :
T1 : R1[x] W1[x] W1[y]
T2 : R2[x] R2[y] W2[y]
S1 : R1[x] R2[x] R2[y] W1[x] W1[y] W2[y]
S2 : R1[x] R2[x] R2[y] W1[x] W2[y] W1[y]
S3 : R1[x] W1[x] R2[x] W1[y] R2[y] W2[y]
S4 : R2[x] R2[y] R1[x] W1[x] W1[y] W2[y]
Which of the above schedules are conflict-serializable ?
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2009 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2009
The following key values are inserted into a B+ -tree in which order of the internal nodes is 3, and that of the leaf nodes is 2, in the sequence given below. The order of internal nodes is the maximum number of tree pointers in each node, and the order of leaf nodes is the maximum number of data items that can be stored in it. The B+ -tree is initially empty.
10, 3, 6, 8, 4, 2, 1
The maximum number of times leaf nodes would get split up as a result of these insertions is
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2010 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2010
Consider a B+-tree in which the maximum number of keys in a node is 5. What is the minimum number of keys in any non-root node?
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2010 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2010
Which of the following concurrency control protocols ensure both conflict serializability and freedom from deadlock?
I. 2-phase locking
II. Time-stamp ordering
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2010 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2010
Consider the following schedule for transactions T1, T2 and T3:
T1T2T3
Read(X)
Read(Y)
Read(Y)
Write(Y)
Write(X)
Write(X)
Read(X)
Write(X)

Which one of the schedules below is the correct serialization of the above?
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2013 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2013 [Session 1]

An index is clustered, if

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2014 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 1]
Consider the following four schedules due to three transactions (indicated by the subscript) using read and write on a data item x, denoted by \(r(x)\) and \(w(x)\) respectively. Which one of them is conflict serializable?
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2014 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 2]
Consider the following schedule S of transactions T1, T2, T3, T4:
T1T2T3T4
Reads(X)Writes(X)
Commit
Writes(X)
Commit
Writes(Y)
Reads(Z)
Commit
Reads(X)
Reads(Y)
Commit

Which one of the following statements is CORRECT?

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2014 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 2]
Consider a join (relation algebra) between relations r (R) and s (S) using the nested loop method. There are 3 buffers each of size equal to disk block size, out of which one buffer is reserved for intermediate results. Assuming size(r(R)) < size(s(S)), the join will have fewer number of disk block accesses if
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2014 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2014 [Session 3]
Consider the transactions T1, T2, and T3 and the schedules S1 and S2 given below.

T1: r1(X); r1(Z); w1(X); w1(Z)
T2: r2(Y); r2(Z); w2(Z)
T3: r3(Y); r3(X); w3(Y)

S1: r1(X); r3(Y); r3(X); r2(Y); r2(Z); w3(Y); w2(Z); r1(Z); w1(X); w1(Z)
S2: r1(X); r3(Y); r2(Y); r3(X); r1(Z); r2(Z); w3(Y); w1(X); w2(Z); w1(Z)

Which one of the following statements about the schedules is TRUE?
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2015 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2015 [Session 2]
Consider a simple checkpointing protocol and the following set of operations in the log.
(start, T4); (write, T4, y, 2, 3); (start, T1); (commit, T4); (write, T1, z, 5, 7);
(checkpoint);
(start, T2); (write, T2, x, 1, 9); (commit, T2); (start, T3); (write, T3, z, 7, 2);
If a crash happens now and the system tries to recover using both undo and redo operations, what are the contents of the undo list and the redo list?
(A) Undo: T3, T1; Redo: T2
(B) Undo: T3, T1; Redo: T2, T4
(C) Undo: none; Redo: T2, T4, T3, T1
(D) Undo: T3, T1, T4; Redo: T2
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2016 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 1]
Consider the following two phase locking protocol. Suppose a transaction T accesses (for read or write operations), a certain set of objects {O1,...,Ok}. This is done in the following manner:

Step 1. T acquires exclusive locks to O1,...,Ok in increasing order of their addresses.
Step 2. The required operations are performed.
Step 3. All locks are released.

This protocol will
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2016 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2016 [Session 2]
Consider the following two phase locking protocol. Suppose a transaction \( T \) accesses (for read or write operations), a certain set of objects \( \{O_1,\ldots,O_k\} \). This is done in the following manner:

Step 1. \( T \) acquires exclusive locks to \( O_1, \ldots, O_k \) in increasing order of their addresses.
Step 2. The required operations are performed.
Step 3. All locks are released.

This protocol will
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2017 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2017 [Session 2]
Two transactions \(T_1\) and \(T_2\) are given as

\(T_1: r_1(X)w_1(X)r_1(Y)w_1(Y)\)
\(T_2: r_2(Y)w_2(Y)r_2(Z)w_2(Z)\)

where \(r_i(V)\) denotes a read operation by transaction \(T_i\) on a variable \(V\) and \(w_i(V)\) denotes a write operation by transaction \(T_i\) on a variable \(V\). The total number of conflict serializable schedules that can be formed by \(T_1\) and \(T_2\) is __________.
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2017 · Computer Science & Information Technology · Databases · Storage, Indexing and Transactions
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS) 2017 [Session 2]
In a B+ tree, if the search-key value is 8 bytes long, the block size is 512 bytes and the block pointer size is 2 bytes, then the maximum order of the B+ tree is __________.
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