Microsoft 70-461 Free Practice Questions

Q1. CORRECT TEXT 

You have a database named Sales that contains the tables as shown in the exhibit. (Click 

the Exhibit button.) 

You need to create a query that meets the following requirements: 

References columns by using one-part names only. 

Groups aggregates by SalesTerritorylD, and then by ProductlD. 

Orders the results in descending order by SalesTerritorylD and then by ProductlD. 

Part of the correct T-SQL statement has been provided in the answer area. Provide the complete code. 

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Q2. You are a database developer of a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. 

You are designing a table that will store Customer data from different sources. The table will include a column that contains the CustomerID from the source system and a column that contains the SourceID. 

A sample of this data is as shown in the following table. 

You need to ensure that the table has no duplicate CustomerID within a SourceID. You also need to ensure that the data in the table is in the order of SourceID and then CustomerID. 

Which Transact- SQL statement should you use? 

A. CREATE TABLE Customer 

(SourceID int NOT NULL IDENTITY, 

CustomerID int NOT NULL IDENTITY, 

CustomerName varchar(255) NOT NULL); 

B. CREATE TABLE Customer 

(SourceID int NOT NULL, 

CustomerID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, 

CustomerName varchar(255) NOT NULL); 

C. CREATE TABLE Customer 

(SourceID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, 

CustomerID int NOT NULL UNIQUE, 

CustomerName varchar(255) NOT NULL); 

D. CREATE TABLE Customer 

(SourceID int NOT NULL, 

CustomerID int NOT NULL, 

CustomerName varchar(255) NOT NULL, 

CONSTRAINT PK_Customer PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 

(SourceID, CustomerID)); 

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Q3. You develop a database application. You create four tables. Each table stores different categories of products. 

You create a Primary Key field on each table. 

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met: 

The fields must use the minimum amount of space. 

The fields must be an incrementing series of values. 

The values must be unique among the four tables. 

What should you do? 

A. Create a ROWVERSION column. 

B. Create a SEQUENCE object that uses the INTEGER data type. 

C. Use the INTEGER data type along with IDENTITY 

D. Use the UNIQUHDENTTFIER data type along with NEWSEQUENTIALID() 

E. Create a TIMESTAMP column. 

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Q4. DRAG DROP 

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. You use an OrderDetail table that has the following definition: 

You need to create a non-clustered index on the SalesOrderID column in the OrderDetail table to include only rows that contain a value in the SpecialOfferID column. Which four Transact-SQL statements should you use? 

(To answer, move the appropriate statements from the list of statements to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.) 

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Q5. A table named Profits stores the total profit made each year within a territory. The Profits table has columns named Territory, Year, and Profit. You need to create a report that displays the profits made by each territory for each year and its preceding year. Which Transact-SQL query should you use? 

A. SELECT Territory, Year, Profit, LAG(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Year ORDER BY Territory) AS NextProfit FROM Profits 

B. SELECT Territory, Year, Profit, LAG(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Territory ORDER BY Year) AS NextProfit FROM Profits 

C. SELECT Territory, Year, Profit, LEAD(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Territory ORDER BY Year) AS NextProfit FROM Profits 

D. SELECT Territory, Year, Profit, LEAD(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Year ORDER BY Territory) AS NextProfit FROM Profits 

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Q6. Your application contains a stored procedure for each country. Each stored procedure accepts an employee identification number through the @EmpID parameter. 

You plan to build a single process for each employee that will execute the stored procedure based on the country of residence. 

Which approach should you use? 

A. A recursive stored procedure 

B. Trigger 

C. An UPDATE statement that includes CASE 

D. Cursor 

E. The foreach SQLCLR statement 

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Q7. CORRECT TEXT 

You have a database that contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.) 

You need to create a query that calculates the total sales of each OrderId from the Sales.Details table. The solution must meet the following requirements: 

Use one-part names to reference columns. 

Sort the order of the results from OrderId. 

NOT depend on the default schema of a user. 

Use an alias of TotalSales for the calculated ExtendedAmount. 

Display only the OrderId column and the calculated TotalSales column. 

..... 

Which code segment should you use? 

To answer, type the correct code in the answer area. 

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Q8. You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to develop a database application. 

Your application sends data to an NVARCHAR(MAX) variable named @var. 

You need to write a Transact-SQL statement that will find out the success of a cast to a 

decimal (36,9). 

Which code segment should you use? 

A. BEGIN TRY SELECT convert(decimal(36,9), @var) AS Value, 'True' AS BadCast END TRY BEGIN CATCH SELECT convert(decimal(36,9), @var) AS Value, 'False' AS BadCast END CATCH 

B. TRY( SELECT convert(decimal(36,9), @var) SELECT 'True' AS BadCast ) CATCH( SELECT 'False' AS BadCast ) 

C. SELECT CASE WHEN convert(decimal(36,9), @var) IS NULL THEN 'True' ELSE 'False' END AS BadCast 

D. SELECT IIF(TRY_PARSE(@var AS decimal(36,9)) IS NULL, 'True', 'False') AS BadCast 

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Q9. You develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains a heap named OrdersHistoncal. 

You write the following Transact-SQL query: 

. INSERT INTO OrdersHistorical 

. SELECT * FROM CompletedOrders 

You need to optimize transaction logging and locking for the statement. Which table hint should you use? 

A. HOLDLOCK 

B. ROWLOCK 

C. XLOCK 

D. UPDLOCK 

E. TABLOCK 

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Q10. CORRECT TEXT 

You have a database named Sales that contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.) 

You have an application named Appl. You have a parameter named @Count that uses the 

int data type. App1 is configured to pass @Count to a stored procedure. 

You need to create a stored procedure named usp_Customers for App1 that returns only 

the number of rows specified by the @Count parameter. 

The solution must NOT use BEGIN and END statements. 

Part of the correct T-SQL statement has been provided in the answer area. Provide the 

complete code. 

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Q11. You develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains tables named Customers and Orders. The tables are related by a column named CustomerId. 

You need to create a query that meets the following requirements: 

. Returns the CustomerName for all customers and the OrderDate for any orders that they have placed. . Results must not include customers who have not placed any orders. 

Which Transact-SQL query should you use? 

A. SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate FROM Customers LEFT OUTER JOIN Orders ON Customers.CuscomerlD = Orders.CustomerId 

B. SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate FROM Customers RIGHT OUTER JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerId 

C. SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate FROM Customers CROSS JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerId = Orders.CustomerId 

D. SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate FROM Customers JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerId = Orders.CustomerId 

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Q12. Your database contains two tables named DomesticSalesOrders and InternationalSalesOrders. Both tables contain more than 100 million rows. Each table has a Primary Key column named SalesOrderId. The data in the two tables is distinct from one another. 

Business users want a report that includes aggregate information about the total number of global sales and total sales amounts. 

You need to ensure that your query executes in the minimum possible time. 

Which query should you use? 

A. SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM ( SELECT SalesOrderId, SalesAmount FROM DomesticSalesOrders UNION ALL SELECT SalesOrderId, SalesAmount FROM InternationalSalesOrders ) AS p 

B. SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM ( SELECT SalesOrderId, SalesAmount FROM DomesticSalesOrders UNION SELECT SalesOrderId, SalesAmount FROM InternationalSalesOrders ) AS p 

C. SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM DomesticSalesOrders UNION SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM InternationalSalesOrders 

D. SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM DomesticSalesOrders UNION ALL SELECT COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales, SUM(SalesAmount) AS TotalSalesAmount FROM InternationalSalesOrders 

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Q13. You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database to develop a shopping cart application. 

You need to rotate the unique values of the ProductName field of a table-valued expression into multiple columns in the output. 

Which Transact-SQL operator should you use? 

A. CROSS JOIN 

B. CROSS APPLY 

C. PIVOT 

D. UNPIVOT 

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Q14. CORRECT TEXT 

You need to create a query that calculates the total sales of each OrderlD from a table named Sales.Details. The table contains two columns named OrderlD and ExtendedAmount. 

The solution must meet the following requirements: 

Use one-part names to reference columns. 

Start the order of the results from OrderlD. 

NOT depend on the default schema of a user. 

Use an alias of TotalSales for the calculated ExtendedAmount. 

Display only the OrderlD column and the calculated TotalSales column. 

Provide the correct code in the answer area. 

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Q15. You use a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains two tables named SalesOrderHeader and SalesOrderDetail. The indexes on the tables are as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.) 

You write the following Transact-SQL query: 

You discover that the performance of the query is slow. Analysis of the query plan shows table scans where the estimated rows do not match the actual rows for SalesOrderHeader by using an unexpected index on SalesOrderDetail. 

You need to improve the performance of the query. 

What should you do? 

A. Use a FORCESCAN hint in the query. 

B. Add a clustered index on SalesOrderId in SalesOrderHeader. 

C. Use a FORCESEEK hint in the query. 

D. Update statistics on SalesOrderId on both tables. 

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Q16. You are developing a database that will contain price information. You need to store the prices that include a fixed precision and a scale of six digits. Which data type should you use? 

A. Float 

B. Money 

C. Smallmoney 

D. Numeric 

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Q17. CORRECT TEXT 

You have an XML schema collection named Sales.InvoiceSchema. 

You need to declare a variable of the XML type named invoice. The solution must ensure 

that the invoice is validated by using Sales.InvoiceSchema. 

Provide the correct code in the answer area. 

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