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MySQL Basics Practice Test: MySQL Database Maintenance, Backups and Replication
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Quiz questions on preventive MySQL Database maintenance principles, database backups, checking and repairing database tables, backups for data recovery and replication servers setting. Here are some ways to maintain a MySQL database: Backups: You can use MySQL Workbench to create a backup of your MySQL database.  Here's how: Connect to your MySQL database Click Server on the main toolbar Select Data Export Select the tables you want to back up Under Export Options, select where you want your dump saved Click Start Export Replication: MySQL replication uses a master-slave architecture... Show more
MySQL Basics Practice Test: MySQL Database Maintenance, Backups and Replication
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25 Questions

1. The metadata log is _______________
2. What is the return value from operations returning a row count?
3. The variable that returns code from operations that return true or false is _____________
4. What is the Perl DBI?
5. CHECK TABLE works with how many of the following?
MyISAM, ARCHIVE, CSV
6. In PHP, how is the first element accessed if $a represents an array with numeric indices?
7. To use ‘mysqldbcopy’ which privileges are required on the source server?
8. Under which option are index changes not flushed until tables close?
9. The statement that performs key distribution analysis and stores the distribution for the named tables is _____________
10. Which is the stored program associated with a schedule?
11. The MySQL server is poorly configurable.
12. Which of the following columns is not returned by ‘OPTIMIZE TABLE’?
13. PHP scripts are located in the web client document tree.
14. The ‘mysqlbackup’ command to perform a restore operation is _____________
15. The recovery of data changes made since a given point in time is called _____________
16. How is a delimited-text data file reloaded?
17. What is the hub of a MySQL installation?
18. Which program converts binary log files to statements in text form?
19. Which operator is used to access property of an object in PHP?
20. What is the variable that is a handle to a database object?
21. The program that performs logical backups is _____________
22. What is a synonym for CHARACTER SET?
23. What is the default size of ‘max_binlog_cache_size’ system variable?
24. Which statement on the master expires binary log files?
25. In ‘mysqldump’ which option is used to make all tables in the destination databases to use a different storage engine?