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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By : Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura
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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By: Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura

Overview of this book

IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Practice questions

Question 1: Which of the following is a best choice to load data in real-time with high concurrency?

  1. Load
  2. Import
  3. Ingest
  4. db2move

Question 2: Which of the following is TRUE in the case of the Ingest utility?

  1. Client-side utility
  2. It supports LOB and XML data types
  3. It doesn't support DML operations
  4. It allows only read-only workload during ingestion

Question 3: Which LOAD command modifier can be used when working with identity column data?

  1. IDENTITYRESET
  2. IDENTITYOVERRIDE
  3. IDENTITYSUPRESS
  4. IDENTITYRETAIN

Question 4: Which operation cannot be performed on a table that contains a primary key that is referenced by a foreign key in another table?

  1. IMPORT ... INSERT
  2. IMPORT ... REPLACE
  3. IMPORT ... INSERT_UPDATE
  4. IMPORT ... CREATE

Question 5: Which of the following illustrates the proper order in which to use the DB2 data management utilities?

  1. RUNSTATS, REORG table...