BIT202 Database Management System

Database Management System TU Board 2079 question paper

12 questionsSit this paper (timed)

Tribhuvan University

Bachelor of Information Technology

Semester 3 · TU Board 2079

Course Title: Database Management System (BIT202)

Full Marks: 60Pass Marks: 24Time: 3 hours

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group A

Attempt any Two questions.(2 × 10 = 20)

  1. 1.

    What is Transaction? Draw a Transaction state diagram and discuss the typical state that a transaction goes through during execution.

    10
  2. 2.

    What is a functional dependency? What are the four informal measures of quality for relational schema design? Explain.

    10
  3. 3.

    Explain the various Symbols used in E-R Model?

    10

Group B

Attempt any Eight questions(8 × 5 = 40)

  1. 4.

    What is NoSQL? Explain the NOSQL characteristics related to data models and query languages.

    5
  2. 5.

    What is the system log used for? What are the typical kinds of entries in a system log?

    5
  3. 6.

    What is normalization? Explain 2NF with example.

    5
  4. 7.

    What is meant by the concurrent execution of database transactions in a multiuser system? Discuss why concurrency control is needed, and give informal examples.

    5
  5. 8.

    Retrieve the Employee Name, Department Number and Department Name of "John Smith" using Relational Algebra. The relations are given below. a.EMPLOYEE ( Ssn, Fname, Lname, Bdate, Address, Sex, Salary, SuperSSN, Dno) b. PROJECT ( Pnumber, Pname, Plocation, Dnum ) c.WORKS ON ( Essn, Pno, Hours ) d. DEPARTMENT (Dname, Dnumber, Mgr_ssn, Mgr Start date)

    5
  6. 9.

    Discuss the different types of failures. What is meant by catastrophic failure?

    5
  7. 10.

    What is Relational Data model? How Relation is different than Flat file?

    5
  8. 11.

    What is Database? Explain the characteristics of Database Approach.

    5
  9. 12.

    What are the three layers of the Three-Schema Architecture? Explain.

    5

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