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  1. Resource locking is a process to prevent multiple applications from obtaining copies of the same record when the record is about to be changed.

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  3. The overall responsibility of the DBA is to facilitate the development and use of the database.

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  5. The size of the lock is referred to as the lock granularity.

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     True

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     False

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  7. A durable transaction is one in which all committed changes are permanent.

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     True

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     False

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  9. An ACID transaction is one that is atomic, consistent isolated, and durable.

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     True

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     False

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  11. When one transaction reads a changed record that has not been committed to the database a filthy read occurs.

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     True

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     False

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  13. The size of a lock is referred to as lock sizing.

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     False

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  15. When two transactions are being processed against the database at the same time they are termed concurrent transactions.

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     True

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     False

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  17. Locks placed by the DBMS are explicit locks.

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     True

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     False

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  19. In optimistic locking, the assumption is made that conflict will occur.

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     True

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     False

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