IMCA (IV Semester) Examinations Feb 09 IMCA43 RDBMS

Time 3 Hours PART-A Compulsory I. Answer All Questions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. II 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. III 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. III What is a Database? Define Data Redundancy? Define DDL? What is Entity and Attribute? Define Projection? What is a Distributed Database? What is DBMS? What is a Deadlock? Answer the following questions 2X6=12 1X8=8 Max Marks: 100

Write any 3 drawbacks of using File system to store data? What are the three views of Data? Describe Subschema and Conceptual Schema? What is DML? What are the types of DML? Explain Multimedia Data? What is the Query Processor? PART-B Answer any FIVE questions 8X5=40 Define Distributed Databases? Write the characteristics of Distributed Databases? What are the characteristics of Client/Server applications? Explain First, Second and Third Normal forms? What is data Fragmentation? Describe the types of Fragmentation. How to resolve a Deadlock? What is a Key? Why Keys are important? Explain types of Keys. Explain BCNF and 3rd Normal forms. Explain Two-Pass Algorithms Based on Hashing. PART-C Answer any FOUR questions 10X4=40

1. What is Data model? Explain Data models with an example each. 2. What is an Entity Relationship Model? Explain the elements of E/R model. 3. Explain Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Databases. 4. Explain the set Operations on Relations. 5. Describe Storage, Buffer Management and Transaction Processing. 6. Explain the three level architecture of DBMS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------