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This document is an examination paper for the BCA 2A4 course on Database Management Systems, consisting of two sections: Section A with ten short answer questions and Section B with five detailed questions. The exam covers various topics including DBMS concepts, database administration, SQL queries, and transaction management. Students are required to answer all questions within a time limit of three hours for a total of 70 marks.

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8DatabaseManagementSystemSeptemberOctober2021

This document is an examination paper for the BCA 2A4 course on Database Management Systems, consisting of two sections: Section A with ten short answer questions and Section B with five detailed questions. The exam covers various topics including DBMS concepts, database administration, SQL queries, and transaction management. Students are required to answer all questions within a time limit of three hours for a total of 70 marks.

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!l Semester B.C.A. eou*frution, Sept.l0c t, Z0Z1


(F+R) {CBCS} (2014-15 and Onwards}
COMPUTER SCIENCE
BCA 2A4 : Database Management Systern

Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 70

lnstructian : Answer all Sectians.

SECTION _ A
Answer any ten questions. Each question carries two marks. {10x2=20}
1. What is DBMS ?

2. write down any two responsibilities of database administrator.


3. Name any four types of attributes.

Define functional dependency.


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5. How are storage OevicJs'classified ?

6. What is group by clause ?,:Give example.

7. What is heap file ? How are pages organized in a heap file ?

8. Define primary key and foreign key.

9. List any two advantageb of PUSQL. I

10. Define t,+ro-phase locdirg.

11. Explain commit and Rollback commar';ds.

12. What is RAID ?

SECTION _ B
Answer any five questions. Each question carries ten marks. (5x10=50)
13. a) Explain the advantages of DBMS.
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b) Explain different people behind DBMS. 5
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14. a) Design an EFl-diagram for keeping track of information about company


database, with atleast four entities. 7
b) What is a relationship ? Give an example of one-to-one and many-to-many
relationships. 3
15. a) Explain the structure of Hard disk. 5

b) Discuss the concept of generalization and specialization. 5

16. a) Discuss how disk mirroring helps in improving reliability. 5


b) List the operations of retational algebra and the purpose of each. 5

17. a) Discuss the various types of join operations. 5


b) Explain briefly DDL statements with syntax and examples. 5

18. a) Define transaction. Explain different states of transaction with a neat state
transaction diagram. 5

b) Explain 2NF and 3NF with examples.


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19. a) Write an SQL Query for the following :
i) To create a table ofremployee database with minimum 5 fields..
ii) To insert firvo records in the employee table.
iii) To add new field to the employee table.
b) Explain ACID propeities of transaction. 4

20. a) What is a view in *L, and how is it defined ? Diseuss the problems that
may arise when one attempts to up,flate a view. 5
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b) What is two-phase Iocking protocol ? How does it guarantee serializability ? 5

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