Target Exam

CUET

Subject

-- Accountancy Part A

Chapter

Database Management System for Accounting

Question:

DBMS stands for:

Options:

Drawing Board Management System

Dividend Based Marketing System

Data Base Management System

Data Base Marketing System

Correct Answer:

Data Base Management System

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 3- Data Base Management System.

DBMS stands for Data Base Management System.

Database Management System (DBMS) provides a variety of software tools for organising, processing and querying data in a flexible manner. MS-Access, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM-DB2 are examples of DBMS software. In DBMS, data is organised in tables (similar to a file). A table has a number of rows (or records) and columns (or fields or attributes). Each row contains a record of information, for example of an account head or a party or a transaction as per the need. The information in a row consists of a sequence of columns or attributes, such as transaction number, transaction date, etc, or it could be party’s name, party’s address, etc.