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Higher National Diploma in Information Technology

First Year, First Semester Examination – 2017
HNDIT 1105- Database Management System / Introduction to Relational Database
Management System
Instructions: No. of questions :05
All Questions carry equal Marks No. of pages : 06
Answer any four Questions Time : Two hours

Q1)

I. Describe the Database Management System. (02 marks)

II. Give three disadvantages of file based processing. (03 marks)

III. Briefly explain role of the Database Administrators. (05 marks)

IV. Give five advantages of using DBMS. (05 marks)

V. The following two diagrams represent characteristics of DBMS approaches. Identify each
characteristics and briefly explain them. (10 marks)
a.
 b.

(Total 25 marks)

Q2)

I. Give two types of Database model. (02 marks)

II. Describe the following terms related to Three Schema Architecture. (03 marks)
a. Internal schema
b. Conceptual schema
c. External schema

III. Briefly explain the following concepts. (04 marks)

a. Logical Data Independence
b. Physical Data Independence

IV. Give two SQL commands for the following DBMS languages. (06 marks)
a. Data Definition Language
b. Data Manipulation Language
c. Data Control Language

V. The following tables explain the information about products. Identify the suitable data
types in MS Access. (10 marks)
Code Name Price Quantity Weight Brand Offers Expiredate Web Country
A B C D E F G H I J
P11 Cheese Rs.350.00 20 475.00 Kraft Yes 03/09/2019 www.kft.lk Australia
P23 Milk Rs.175.00 30 500.00 Anchor No 24/12/2018 www.anc.lk Sri lanka
P33 Biscuit Rs.50.00 15 120.00 Munchee Yes 20/05/2019 www.mn.lk Sri lanka
P41 Jam Rs.135.00 15 375.00 Kist No 11/04/2019 www.Kst.lk Sri lanka

(Total 25 marks)

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Q3)

I. Describe the following database concepts. (02 marks)

a. Domain of attribute
b. Candidate key

II. Consider the following table of Employees and give example for following attributes.
(04 marks)
EID Ename BirthDay Age Qualification
254562 RuwanDalpadadu 21/07/92 25 B.Sc
M.Sc
112345 WajiraSenanyake 13/04/90 27 B.com
456872 AthulaWeerasinghe 08/10/87 30 IBSL
AAT
23564 WasanaKumari 22/02/95 23 B.A

a. Key attribute
b. Composite attribute
c. Derived attribute
d. Multi valued attributes

III. Compare total participation and partial participation. (04 marks)

IV. Map the following ER diagram into relational model. (06 marks)

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 V. Draw the ER diagram for the following description. (09 marks)

There are many workers working under a project. Each worker is identified by name,
worker id and by address. The project may include several departments under which
many products are being produced. Several workers may belong to a single department
and may participate in many projects. Each department is been identified by name,
department id and by address. Similarly the projects have got its own project id and
name. The products too got their own name and product id.The project may include
several buy orders that may contain the product details and suppliers who deliver the buy
orders. The buy orders are specified by their order, order date and delivery date. Same
way, suppliers are specified by their name and supplier id.

(Total 25 marks)

Q4).

I. What is the purpose of foreign key constraint? (02 marks)

II. What is the difference between DROP and DELETE command? (03 marks)

III. Study the following relationship and structure of the tables.

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 a. Write SQL statement to create Products table. (04 marks)
b. Write SQL statement to create Orders table. (04 marks)
c. Write SQL statement to create Shipping table. (04 marks)
d. Insert the following information to Products table. (04 marks)
Pid Pname Price Pqty Pexpiredate
P1234 Fresh milk 230.50 12 24/03/2018
P2245 Canned Fish 330.00 15 08/06/2019

e. Update price of the canned Fish into 370.00 (02 marks)

f. Add a new column category (varchar (25) to the Products table. (02 marks)
(Total 25 marks)

Q5).

I. Briefly explain the following Database security terms. (02

marks)
a. Grant
b. Revoke
II. Consider the following tables Students and Courses. Write SQL statements to perform
the following.

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 a. Print all the student’s name and GPA. (03 marks)
b. Print name of student with SGPA>3.00. (03 marks)
c. Display Cno and number of students from each course. (03 marks)
d. Display all the information Sname, SGPA and Cname. (03 marks)
e. Sort the Student table with ascending order by SGPA. (03 marks)

III. Briefly explain the following terms. (04 marks)

a. 1NF
b. 2NF
IV. Convert the following table into 1NF and 2NF. (04 marks)
Student Age Subject
Adam 15 Biology,Maths
Alex 14 Maths
Stuart 17 Maths

(Total 25 marks)

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