Name of the Institute : Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology & Management
Degree : BCA
Department : Computer Applications
Subject Code/Name : (BCA-302) Database Management System -II
Year : 2nd
Semester : 3rd
Document Type : Question Bank
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BBDNITM Database Management Question Bank
Unit – 1
1) What is database Management System? Discuss in detail the advantages and disadvantages of using a database system?
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2) Discuss the main characteristics of Database approach and how it is differs from traditional file system?
3) What is data Abstraction? Why Abstraction is needed?
4) What are Instances and Schemas? Define different type of Schema?
5) How many type of Database User’s? Explain each?
6) What is Data Model? Define the different type of Data models?
7) What do you mean by Database Independence?
8) Explain the distinction among the term Primary key, Candidate key and Super key?
9) Compare and Contrast the following :—-
i) Data and Information
ii) Primary key and foreign key]
iii) Physical and Logical data independence
10) What are the five main functions of Database Administrator?
11) What is Data Model? Define the different type of Data models?
12) Explain the Relational model proposed by B.C.codd, list the rules of Codd’s for a relational database?
13) Define the Network Model? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Network Model?
14) What are the concepts of Object oriented model? Explain each?
15) Write short notes of the following :—-
i) Integrity constraints
ii) Database Administrator
iii) Data dictionary
iv) Metadata
v) Instance and Schema
vi) Data abstraction
vii) Relational Model
Unit – 2
1) What is Object Oriented model? What are the main features Object Oriented Database Model?
2) Explain E-R model and also defines terms Entities and Attributes?
3) Discuss Different type of user- friendly interfaces and the type of user who use each?
4) How many types of Database languages? Explain DDL and DML?
5) Explain the procedural and non procedural languages?
6) Who is DBA? What are the responsibilities of DBA?
7) What are entity and attributes? How many type of attributes use in Relational model?
8) What do you mean by mapping cardinalities? Explain each?
9) Explain the rules which are given by ‘Codd ’ ?
10) What are keys? How many type of keys used in Database? Explain each?
11) Describe the architecture of DBMS?
12) What do you mean by multivalued attributes?
13) What are tuples and Domain in relational model?
14) What is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS?
15) What are the advantages of Object Oriented Data Model?
Unit – 3
1) What do you mean by Functional dependency? Describe the use of Functional dependency in normalization of database?
2) What is Normalization? Describe the purpose of normalizing data?
3) How many types of Functional dependencies? Explain each with an example?
4) Describe the different Normal forms of database ?Explain the steps to normalize database up to BCNF ?
5) What is Decomposition? What is the purpose of Decomposition in database?
6) What is lossless join Decomposition? Explain with an Example?
7) Suppose that we decompose the schema R=(A,B,C,D.E)in to(A,B,C)and (A,D,E)
Show that this decomposition is a Lossless-Join decomposition if the following set of Functional dependencies holds— F={ A->BC, CD->E,B->D,E->A)
8) Consider the schema R=(V,W,X,Y,Z) and suppose the following Functionaldependencies holds— F=(Z->V, W->Y,XY->Z,V->WX)
State whether the following decomposition of schema R is Lossless-Join Decomposition?
9) Write short notes on the following—
i) Functional Dependency
ii) Decomposition
iii) Lossless-Join decomposition
iv) 3NF
v) 4NF
vi) BCNF
10) Consider a table and normalize that up to BCNF?
11) What is Multivalued functional Dependency? Explain with an example?
12) write the rules which are used in Functional dependency?
13) Let a relation R=(A,B,C,G,H,I) and set of Functional dependencies are
F=(A->B, A->C, CG->H, CG->I, B->H) holds.
Show that the following dependencies hold—
(i) A->H
(ii) CG->HI
(iii) AG->I
14) What are the Integrity Constraints? Explain each?
15) Write short notes of the following—
i) Referential integrity
ii) Entity Integrity
Unit – 4
1) What is Object Oriented model? what are the main features Object oriented Database model?
2) What are the advantages of Object Oriented Database System? How it is advantageous over RDBMS?
3) What is Knowledge-Based System? with the help of example explain that how it is different from a conventional database?
4) What is Client-Server model? Explain two tier and three tier structure of Client-Server model?
5) What are the main features of Client -Server model? Write the use of Client-Server model.
6) What is Client-server computing? Discuss the components of client-server model?
7) What is the need of distributed database? Discuss the structure of Distributed database management system?
8) What is Distributed database management system? what are the advantages of distributed System?
9) Explain Distributed Data Storage.
10) What is fragmentation? What is horizontal fragmentation and vertical fragmentation? Explain each with an example?
11) What is a homogeneous distributed database and heterogeneous distributed database?
12) What is data transparency? What are the various forms of data transparency?
13) Write short notes of the following—-
i) Fragmentation
ii) Replication
iii) Transparency
iv) Inheritance
v) Global and Local queries
14) What are the advantages and disadvantages of distributed system over centralized system?
15) What is the system structure of Distributed Database Management system? Explain the role of transaction manager and Transaction coordinator?
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