In order to test your progress, you should be able to answer the following questions.
In a cursor FOR loop, cursor and loop handling is carried out implicitly.
_____ True
_____ False
In a cursor FOR loop, it is necessary to declare the rowtype for the cursor.
Is it necessary to open , fetch, and close a cursor in a cursor FOR loop?
_____ Yes
_____ No
The child loop in a nested cursor is passed through how many times for each cycle of the parent?
_____ Three
_____ One or more
_____ Two
_____ It depends on the individual code.
If the SELECT statement of the cursor makes use of a variable, when should the variable be declared?
_____ It is a bind variable and therefore does not need to be declared.
_____ In the declarative section.
_____ Before the cursor that is using it.
_____ It will be self-declared upon initialization.
Answers appear in Appendix A, Section 9.2 .