UNIT-I

1. Define DBMS? List Database system Applications. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.8. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.8. 2. Explain Database Administrators responsibilities. [OR] Explain the main functions of Database Administrator? What are the five main functions of Database Administrator? Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 15 3. List four significant differences between a File processing system and a DBMS. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.14. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No.7 Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 3. 4. Explain the differences between Logical and Physical data independence. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.15. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.14.
5. Give short notes on Transaction Management. [OR] Explain the Transaction management in a database. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 16 6. Describe storage manager component of database system structure. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 17.

7. Explain levels of abstraction in DBMS? Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 5. 8. What is Data modeling and explain different types of data modeling in brief. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.30 9. Explain different languages that are supported to manage the data inDBMS. [OR} What are the types of languages a database system provides? Explain with examples . Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 11 10. Explain about Buffer Manager. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No.413 15. Explain about tertiary storage media in detail. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No.410 16. Discuss the Query Processor of Database system structure. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No.18 17. Why would choose a database system instead of simply storing data in operating system files ? When would it makes sense not to use a database system? Ans: Advantages of DBMS over file systems 18. What is logical data independence and why is it important? Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No.14

19. *Explain the different types of integrity constraints with suitable examples. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No.56 Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No.225

UNIT -II 1. Define Entity and Relationship. Describe various symbols used in E-R diagrams. Draw an E-R diagram for a university database. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.26 -44. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 57 2. Describe various types of Relationships with suitable examples. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.26 -44. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 49 - 57 3. Describe various types of attributes with suitable examples. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.26 -44. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 57 4.

What is a weak entity set? Differentiate between entity set and strong entity set. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.33-35. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 47-49 Refer database management systems by Ramez Elmasri Navathe Pg.Nos.64. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.109-112

5. Define Aggregation. What is the problem associated with aggregation? Discuss the remedies. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.37-38. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 54-55. Refer database management systems by Ramez Elmasri Navathe Pg.Nos.92 6. 7. 8.

What is a partial key? How is it represented in ER diagram? Give anexample. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No.35. What is descriptive attribute? Explain . Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.28. Discuss the usage of ISA feature in ER diagrams. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 50. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No:35 Write a detail note on participation constraint. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.32. Refer database management systems by Ramez Elmasri Navathe Pg.Nos.63.

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10. What is the class hierarchy? How is it represented in the ER diagram? Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.35.

11. Construct an ER diagram for a bank Database. Bank maintains data about customers, their loans, their deposits, lockers. Determine the entities and relationships. 12. What is composite attribute? How to model it in the ER diagram. Explain with an example. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 29 Refer database management systems by Ramez Elmasri Navathe Pg.Nos.56 Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.103 13. Explain the purpose of the ER diagrams and describe how the Entities, Attributes and relations are represented with an example an example. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.24. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.100 14. Design a university level database for maintaining the Student details of different colleges in the university. Only consider the personal details and the college and branch details of the student belong. Represent the same using an ER diagram. 15. Explain how ER diagrams are used in representing the database design. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.24. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.100 16. Design a database for maintaining the employee data where each employee is assigned with a project and working under a project manager. Represent the sane using an ER Diagram. 17. Explain additional features of ER Model that helps in Conceptual Design for Large enterprises. (or) Explain different constructs that adds expressiveness to the ER Model. (or) Explain the ER diagram components and notations with their extended features. Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.30. 18. Design a database for maintaining the Sales data of a Super Market where each customer purchase different products. Maintain the sales details, customer personal details such as income, age, sex and differentitems purchased etc., which enables to analyze the customers interest basing on income, age, sex. Represent the same using an ER Diagram. 19. Explain the several choices and issues involved in Conceptual design with ER Model. Refer database management systems by Ramez Elmasri Navathe Pg.Nos.67 Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.38 20. A company database needs to store information about employees (ssn,name, designation, salary, address, phone), departments(dno, dname,budget) and children of employees (name, age). Employee works in departments; each department is managed by an employee, a child must be identified uniquely by name when the parent (who is anemployee; assume that only one parent works for the company) is known, We are not interested in information about child once the parent leaves the organization. Draw an ER Diagram that captures this information. 21. What are the two types of constraints in E.R diagram? Explain. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 33. 22. What is the difference between a candidate key and a primary key for a given relation? What is a super key?

Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.57. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 35. Refer database system concepts by Peter Rob. Pg.No.155-59. 23. Explain the following i. Key constraints. (3m) Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.57. ii. Foreign key constraints. (2m) Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No.59 iii. General constraints. (3m) Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.No.61. 24. In logical database design, describe how an ER diagram translated into a relational database schema (collection of tables with associated constraints) Refer database management systems by Raghuramakrishnan Gehrke Pg.Nos.67. Refer database system concepts by Sudarshan , Korth. Pg.No. 62.