SECTION 1 LESSON 1: Introduction to the Oracle Academy

Objectives
Give examples of jobs, salaries, and opportunities that are possible by
participating in the Academy
Explain how your participation in the Academy can help you take
advantage of these opportunities
Try It / Solve It
1. This activity aims to develop your skills for locating, evaluating, and
interpreting IT career information. Use Internet resources provided by your
teacher to identify a specific job that interests you in the IT career field. Then,
answer the following:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.

What are the typical tasks involved in this job?

What kind of social, problem-solving or technical skills are required?
What are the physical demands of the job?
What kind of training/education is required for the job?
Where are current job openings?
How many different kinds of businesses use these job skills?
What is the salary range?
What other entry-level jobs are within this career field?

2. Describe how taking one of the Academy courses and earning a certification
exam could help prepare you for a job in that career field.

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Section 1 Lesson 2: Data vs. Information

Objectives
Distinguish between data and information, and provide examples of each
Describe and give an example of how data becomes information
Vocabulary
Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below.
A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of
search and retrieval.
Raw material, from which you can draw conclusions
Knowledge, intelligence, a particular piece of data with
a special meaning or function
Try It / Solve It
1. List specific data that the school collects about each student. What information could
be gathered using all the student data?
2. Review an online database such as:
http://www.archives.gov
http://www.ellisislandimmigrants.org
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
http://nationalarchives.nic.in/
a. Write examples of data and information related to the site you choose.
b. State why you believe data collections of this type could be important.

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3. Choose a website that displays data that might be stored in a database; find 10 data
items on the site and list 5 pieces of information that could be gleaned from the
data.

4. Give examples of how data becomes information for these two industries:
film/movie

hospital/healthcare

5. Using this Lunch Room Data Report, answer the questions that follow.
Date
12/02/2003
12/03/2003
12/04/2003
12/05/2003
12/06/2003

Student
Sales
497
440
447
442
330

Faculty/Staff
Sales
23
19
30
27
12

Hamburger/Taco
Bar
335
285
301
325
229

Pizza Bar
122
126
126
107
83

Soup/Salad
Bar
63
48
50
37
30

a. What does this report mean?

b. What data was collected?
c. What information does this table provide from the data collected?
d. How do you think this information is used by those reading the report?
e. Generate at least two conclusions based on the data provided.
f. Generate at least two questions that you would ask about the data provided.

Section 1 Lesson 3: History of the Database

Objectives
Describe the evolution of the database and give an example of its role in the
business world
Name important historical contributions in database development and design
List and explain the three steps in the database development process
Vocabulary
Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below.
A relational database chart that is used to map the
information from the entity relationship diagram
The unique identifier for each row of data
Links data in one table to the data in a second table by
referring to the PK column in the second table
Indicates if a column must contain a value
Indicates if the value in the column is unique within the table
Refers to the format and definition of the data in each
column
Try It / Solve It
1. Complete the diagram by listing the important events in the evolution of the database.
Draw a line from each event to the era in which it falls.

2. True or False: The Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) was an important historical
contribution in database development and design

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3. Name two important historical contributions in database development and design.

4. If Building the database is the third major task in the database development process,
then what are the first two major tasks?
5. (Optional) List at least three timeline events in the evolution of the database.
6. (Optional) To most of us, the Internet has become an essential element in the way we
communicate, the way we do business, and the way we learn. Surprisingly, few people
really know the names of the people and the events that have contributed to its
phenomenal growth.
In this activity, you and your classmates will construct a wall mural timeline of the
major historical events in Internet history. Using Internet resources, your group will be
assigned one topic from the research list below. Your group's task is to gather
information to add to the classroom timeline:
Find at least four events that illustrate your topic. Each event must have a person,
place, and/or thing associated with it. Add your group's information to the timeline.
Research List:
Historical thinkers: people without whose inventions computers and
communication as we know it today could not be possible
Enablers: universities, government agencies, and businesses that contributed to
the idea of the Internet and birth of the Internet
Communicators: people who developed computer languages, computer
networks, and the technology for one computer to communicate with another
Innovators: people and businesses that enabled the average person to be able
to use a computer and communicate on the Internet
Movers and shakers: people and companies that transformed the Internet into a
virtual mall of information and services

Section 1 Lesson 4: Major Transformations in Computing

Objectives
List the major transformations in computing that have occurred since the
1970s
Define and give examples of these terms: hardware, operating system,
software
Identify examples of e-businesses that use database software and explain
how it is essential to their success
Explain the overall mission of the Oracle Corporation
Vocabulary
Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below.
The basic framework or features of a system
A global effort to develop an environment in which
individual users can access computers, databases, and
experimental facilities simply and transparently, without
having to consider where those facilities are located
The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that
control the functioning of the hardware and direct its
operation.
A computer and the associated physical equipment
directly involved in the performance of data-processing
or communications functions.
Software designed to control the hardware of a specific
data-processing system in order to allow users and
application programs to make use of it.
A software program which carries out specific tasks on
behalf of other computer users
A workstation or desktop computer including a screen,
keyboard, and mouse; communicates directly with the
user
A more powerful computer which accepts work
requests from clients, does the work, and sends results
back to the client

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Try It / Solve It
1. Provide a definition and an example of each of these:
a. Hardware
b. Operating system
c. Software
2. How has the major transformation of cell phones impacted day-to-day
activities of a service repair company what can the service repair person do
today that they could not do before this transformation?
3. List three e-businesses that use database software and describe how the
database software is being used.
4. Write down the steps of a simple credit-card transaction. How many places
does the information go, and what happens if the transaction is not complete
at any one of the steps? What role does a database play in this process?

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