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DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions
DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions
DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions
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This book will help you pass IBM Exam C2090-615 and become an IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 10.5 for Linux, Unix and Windows). The questions and answers in the book offer you a significant advantage by helping you to gauge your readiness for the exam, to better understand the objectives being tested, and to get a broad exposure to the knowledge you'll be tested on.

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Release dateFeb 28, 2019
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DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions
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Robert Wingate

Robert Wingate is a computer services professional with over 30 years of IBM mainframe and distributed programming experience. He holds several IBM certifications, including IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 11 for z/OS, and IBM Certified Database Administrator for LUW. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.  

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    DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions - Robert Wingate

    Introduction

    Welcome

    Congratulations on your purchase of DB2 Exam C2090-615 Practice Questions.  This book is meant to help you pass IBM Exam C2090-615 and become an IBM Certified Database Associate for DB2 10.5 for Windows, Linux and UNIX.    The questions and answers in the book offer you a significant advantage by helping you to gauge your readiness for the exam, better understand the objectives being tested, and get a broad exposure to the knowledge you’ll be tested on.   

    How to Pass the IBM C2090-615 Exam

    While this book will be a great resource in helping you to pass the IBM C2090-615 exam, obviously you’ll need additional resources for an overall study strategy that will prepare you to demonstrate your knowledge of DB2 10.5 database fundamentals (and thereby to pass the certification exam).  After all, that is what the exam is intended to measure.  

    To maximize your chances of passing Exam C2090-615, I recommend that you acquire three things:

    1. Knowledge of DB2 10.5

    2. Experience with DB2 10.5

    3. Practice with answering DB2 10.5 exam questions

    Knowledge of DB2 10.5

    My personal experience with IBM exams is that they do not ask many tricky or convoluted sorts of questions.  But Exam C2090-615 will seriously test your knowledge of DB2 10.5.  Even if you have several years of experience with DB2, you may find yourself challenged by some of the topics.   

    I urge you to review all the exam objectives carefully, as you will be asked questions that test your knowledge on each objective.  Don't forget to give special attention to the new features of DB2 10.5 such as column-organized tables, BLU acceleration, analytic processing improvements and Oracle compatibility enhancements.

    What resources should you use to acquire knowledge about DB2?  The best FREE resource is the online Information Center provided by IBM.  Here is the link:

    http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.kc.doc/welcome.html

    I also recommend that you purchase a study guide.  Regardless of your experience level with DB2 10.5, the amount of detail in the IBM manuals can be overwhelming.  Most people will find a good study guide to be helpfully focused on exam objectives as opposed to every minute detail of DB2.  In my opinion, the best study guide for this exam is by Roger Sanders entitled DB2 10.5 Fundamentals for LUW: Certification Study Guide (Exam 615).   

    Experience with DB2 10.5

    Get a copy of DB2 10.5, install it and use it.  Think up a project – create a database, some tables, indexes, and views.  Add/change/delete data.  Create SQL to join tables, insert, update and delete.  Use the import/export/load utilities. The thing about actually doing things with DB2 is that you’ll tend to remember those things more than just reading about it.  Isn’t this true of most things?   

    So how do you go about obtaining DB2?  You can download a free copy of DB2 Express-C 10.5 from IBM.  It can’t get much cheaper than that.  At this writing you can obtain DB2 Express-C at this link:

    http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/db2expressc/

    Practice Exam Questions for DB2 10.5

    Well, you’ve got 186 practice exam questions in this book!  These will give you an idea of the kind of questions to expect on the exam.  Moreover, they should help you to gauge your readiness to take the exam.  If you score well on these exams, you will probably do well on the actual exam.   

    Knowledge, Experience, and Practice questions.  Is there a guarantee that you will pass if you do all three of the above?  Of course, nothing is guaranteed in life.  But if you put sufficient effort into a well-rounded study plan that includes all three of the above, I believe you have a very good chance of passing Exam C2090-615 on the first try.  

    How to Use This Book

    Use this book as a supplement to your DB2 10.5 study.  After you’ve studied the basics using the materials I recommended above, go ahead and take one of the practice exams.  If you do very well on it, go ahead to the next practice exam.  If you don’t score 80% or better on the first exam, then do some more in-depth study before you take the second.  Focus some attention on those areas where you did not do as well on the practice exams.  By the time you complete the third practice exam, you should be pretty well prepared to take the real exam.  

    It’s my sincere hope that this book will help you to pass IBM Exam C2090-615.  Good luck!

    Robert Wingate

    IBM Certified Application Developer – DB2 11 for z/OS

    IBM Certified Database Administrator

    Exam C2090-615 Objectives

    Section 1 - Planning (16%)

    1. Knowledge of DB2 products (DB2 for LUW Editions and DB2 for z/OS at a high level; when/why would you use each?)

    2. Knowledge of database workloads (OLTP vs. Data Warehouse; what is the appropriate product to use for each?)

    3. Knowledge of DB2 10.5 BLU Acceleration (i.e., the ability to configure a DB2 database for analytics, when BLU Acceleration should be used)

    4. Knowledge of Oracle Compatibility Features

    Section 2 - Security (18%)

    1. Knowledge of restricting data access (authorities and privileges vs. views vs. RCAC vs. LBAC at a high level; when is it appropriate to use each?)

    2. Knowledge of different authorities and privileges

    3. Given a DCL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (GRANT/REVOKE/CONNECT statements)

    4. Knowledge of Roles and Trusted Contexts

    Section 3 - Working with Databases and Database Objects (16%)

    1. Ability to create and connect to DB2 servers and databases

    2. Ability to identify DB2 objects

    3. Given a DDL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (ability to create objects)

    4. Knowledge of different types of tables available (Base vs. MDC vs. ITC vs. RCT vs. MQT vs. Partitioned vs. Temporal at a high level; when is it appropriate to use each type?)

    Section 4 - Working with DB2 Data Using SQL and Xquery (23%)

    1. Ability to use SQL to SELECT data from tables

    2. Ability to use SQL to UPDATE, DELETE, or INSERT data

    3. Knowledge of transaction management (COMMIT, ROLLBACK, AUTOCOMMIT and SAVEPOINTs)

    4. Ability to create and call an SQL supported procedure or a user defined function (understanding of passing parameters and obtaining results)

    5. Knowledge of SQL compatibility enhancements

    6. Given an XQuery statement, knowledge to identify results

    Section 5 - Working with DB2 Tables, Views, and Indexes (13%)

    1. Ability to demonstrate usage of DB2 data types (XML data types, Oracle compatibility data types)

    2. Knowledge to identify characteristics of a table, view or index

    3. Knowledge of temporary tables (how they are created and when they should be used)

    4. Knowledge of triggers (how they function; when they might be used)

    Section 6 - Data Concurrency (15%)

    1. Knowledge to identify factors that influence locking

    2. Ability to list objects on which locks can be obtained (LOCK TABLE statement)

    3. Knowledge to identify characteristics of DB2 locks (common locks shared across platforms)

    4. Given a situation, knowledge to identify the isolation levels that should be used (currently committed)

    Exam Questions without Answers

    Exam 1

    1. Which version of DB2 10.5 is a free entry level server provided for evaluation purposes?

    a) DB2 Workgroup Server Edition

    b) DB2 Express-C

    c) DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

    d) DB2 Express Server  Edition

    2. What types of access restriction does label-based access control allow for?

    a) Row-level restrictions.

    b) Column-level restrictions.

    c) Both row and column restrictions.

    d) Neither row nor column restrictions.

    3. Which of the following connection attributes can be used with wildcard values?

    a) APPLNAME

    b) CLIENT_USERID

    c) CLIENT_APPLNAME

    d) All of the above.

    4. An XML index can be created on what column types:

    a) VARCHAR and XML

    b) CLOB AND XML

    c) XML only

    d) Any of the above.

    5. Which XQuery expression returns true or false depending on whether at least one record satisfies the query?

    a) XMLQUERY()

    b) XMLEXISTS()

    c) XMLTABLE()

    d) None of the above.

    6. Which of the following is NOT an object upon which a lock might be directly or indirectly obtained?

    a) User data in target tables.

    b) User data in unrelated tables.

    c) DB2 internal objects.

    d) All of the above are

    subject to locking.

    7. Which of the following environments support column-organized tables?

    a) Databases in a DB2

    pureScale environment.

    b) Windows platforms running DB2

    Advanced Workgroup Server Edition.

    c) Partitioned databases.

    d) Tablespaces that are not

    enabled for reclaimable storage.

    8. Which ONE of the following privileges is NOT automatically granted to PUBLIC when a database is created?

    a) CREATETAB

    b) LOAD

    c) IMPLICIT_SCHEMA

    d) CONNECT

    9. Assume you want to track the status and customer id of DVD rentals. Review the following DDL:

    CREATE TABLE DVD (

    Id INT

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