—— 29207206 easytvet.com DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS November 2018 Time: 3 hours THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY MODULE II DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Jhours INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES This paper consists of EIGHT questions. Answer any FIVE questions in the answer booklet provided ALL questions carry equal marks, Candidates should answer the questions in English. ‘This paper consists of S printed pages. ‘Candidates should cheek the question paper to ascertain that all the Pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing, 20/8 The Kenya National Examinations Council, ‘Turn overLo ib) icy id) af stay Ab) © @) (a) (a) A 29207206 November 2015 Outline four characteristics of a Database Management System. easy lye ag m Explain the Three-Schema Architecture of a Database Management System, (4marks) (i) Outline two threats to data stored ina Database Management System (2 marks) (i) Arnewly established manufacturing company intends te design a database from scratch. State four relational database languages they could use. (4 marks) With the aid of an appropriate symbol, explain cach of the following components of an Entity- Relationship Diagram (ERD): (i) (i) (iii) attribute, (6 marks) Outline three duties of a Database Administrator (G marks) Explain each of the following types of database architectures: () Client Server; (i) Distributed (4 marks) With the aid of examples in cach case, distinguish between Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML). (6 marks} During a database maintenance session, it was discovered that the Data dictionary had malfunctioned. (i) Explain two functions of this dictionary in a Database (4 marks) (ji) State three Components of this dictionary. (3 marks) uiline three properties of a relational table, (3 marks) A company intends ta integrate its Database Management System, Explain three structural components that may be considered. (6 marks) Differentiate between superkey and candidate key as used in Database management systems. (4 marks) (i) Deseribe the object oriented database model, (4 marks) (i) | AMICT Technician intends to perform database recovery procedures from the Enterprise's backup. State three types of backup that he may use in the recovery process. (3 marks) Define each of the following terms as used in the Entity-Relationship Modelling: {i) specialisation; Gi) aggregation. (4:marks) z(b) te) (d) x (a) ) () 2920/206 With the aid of an example in each case, distinguish between composite wet.com attributes. (A marks) Explain each of the following terms as used in relational databases (i) Cardinality ratio; (ii) Participation constraint. (Amarks) ‘The following narrative is a representation of information about banks, Use it to answer the questions that follow ‘There are multiple banks and each bank has many branches. Bach branch has Multiple customers, Customer has a name, address that consists of house number, area and city, and one or more phone numbers, Customers have various types of accounts. Some Customers also had taken different types of loans from these bank branches. Account has number, type and balance. One customer can have multiple accounts and Loans. @ Identify four Entities in the narrative. (2 marks) (Gi) Draw an Entity-Relationship Diagram to represent the information, (6 marks) Outline three characteristics of the First Normal Form (INF). (3 marks) Explain each of the following types of anomalies in Normalization: (Update; (ii) Deletion. (4 marks) Table 1 shows information contained in a database table. Use it to answer the questions that follow: roll_no | Name Subject [101 John OS, CN 103 Jeremy Java 102 Jacob CCH Table 1 Normalize the table up to the second normal form (2NF), (7 marks) 3 ‘Turn over November 2018easytvet.co m 2920/206 Nowember 2018 (2) (i) Peterdesigned a Database Management System using 2 relational Model. Quiline three challenges that he may have encountered during the design. (3 marks) (ii) State three database schemas he may have used. (G marks) 44 (@) Outline four trends in datnbase technology. (4 marks) (b) Explain the referential Integrity rule. {2 marks) () Peter has heen tasked to design a database by following the database design life cycle. (i) Explain the conceptual modelling stage of this life cycle. (2: marks) (ji) Outline four advantages of the model in (i) (4 marks) (4) Table 2 and table 3 shows fruits and snacks respectively available at different Kiosks, Use them to answer the questions that follow: FRUIT SNACK Frutcode [A [|B [C Snack code | B cp FOL 1 |2 2 SOL z 3 10 | Fox 4 (5 [6 | 02. 2 3 F03, 7 [se {9 803 6 7 {i Table 2 Table 3 ‘Compute @ Mac (FRUIT); (ii) oB-2 (SNACK): (ii) Natural join; (iv) Outer join, (8 marks) Oulline twa uses of database systems in hotel industry. (2 marks) Distinguish between weak and sirong entities. (4 marks) A database has been scheduled to run an automatic update on a daily basis. Explain three types of integrity constraints that must be checked during update ‘operation. (6 masks)