EXAMINATIONS

FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION
BCA (III-YEAR) (V-SEM)
Introduction to DBMS

Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 70

Note: 1-Attempt any Seven questions. Paper Code: 501
2-All questions carry equal marks.

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Q.1 (a) Name six major components of a Data Base Management System.
(b) Define the following concepts in context of DBMS,
(i) Inverted List
(ii) Foreign Key
(iii) Referential Integrity
(c) What does ISAM stand for? Briefly describe the advantages of ISAM
indexes/Indices.

Q.2 (a) Briefly describe the properties of a normalized relation.

(b) Write briefly about the advantages of Data distribution. Data Sharing
and Distributed Control.
(c) Name the fundamental ideas underlying Object Oriented Technology
(OOT)
(d) Briefly explain what do you understand by a Knowledge Base System.

Q.3 Explain briefly the levels of an architecture of a DBMS. Viz., Internal level.
Conceptual level and External level.

Q.4 (a) Draw diagrammatic representation of a university, which runs a number

of program say Pj.....Pm ; The program P; hasnj course Cjj of Pj for each I is
pursued by a set Sjj of students. The diagrammatic representation is to
reflect the hierarchical structure of the university system.
 (b) Given the relational schemes:

ENROLL (S#, C#, Section)

TEACH (Prof, C#, Section)
ADVISE (Prof, S#)
PRE_REQ (C#, Pre_C#)
GRADES (S#, C#, Grade, Year)
STUDENT (S#, Sname)

Where S#, C# represent respectively student number and course

number: Sname is student name. Prof is thesis advisor of S# in ADVISE,
Pre_C# is prerequisite course.

Express the following queries in relational algebra :

(i) List all student taking courses with Mr. Ram and Mr Abdul.
(ii) List all those professors who teach more than one section of the same
course.

(c) What are the essential components of a DBMS?

Q.5 (a) For the following record type, tell whether it is Third Normal From or
Not: EMPLOYEE (Employee- Code, Employee-name, department, salary,
project-no., Termination-date-of-project)
Where each project-no has unique Termination-Date-of-Project. Justify
your answer, if it is in third normal form. It is not in third normal form,
being it into third normal form through normalization.

(b) Consider the record-types given below:

SUPPLIER : S# SNAME SCITY TURNOVER

PARTS : P# WEIGHT COLOUR COST SELLING PRICE
SUPPLY PARTS : P# QUANTITY

Where S# and P# are keys respectively for SUPPLIER and PARTS.

Express the following in SQL

 (i) Get the part numbers weighting between 25 and 35
(ii) Get the supplier names (SJVAME) who are located in the city of
Hyderabad.
(iii) Get the names of suppliers who supply at least one part of red colour
(iv) Delete all the suppliers involving red colored parts.

Q.6 (a) Briefly discuss the alternative Object-Oriented Database strategies.

(b) Briefly explain, the main features of client/server computing.

Q.7 (a) Discuss main difference between Relational database Management

system and Object oriented database management system.
(b) Discuss the following with reference to distributed computing
environment

(i) Remote Procedure Call

(ii) Object Linking and Embedding.

Q.8 a) Explain the steps required for client server application development.
b) Explain briefly, with atleast one suitable example any one of the
following knowledge representation schemes.

(i) Semantic Nets

(ii) Frame Based
(iii) Logic