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Read the following case study:

The PC Inc. Shop has been in operation for just six months
and looks set to be a successful business. PC Inc. is a retail
outlet which offers computer equipment at very competitive
prices. The shop is sited in a locality which ensures
consistently high sales.
Products can be described in terms of processor speed,
memory capacity, size of hard disk, price, speed of CD drive,
screen size and colour, each product is also given a product
number.
Products fall into three categories: Personal Computer, Laptop
and Printer and are given a category number, not all
categories are used.
Since the shop is small it is staffed by five sales staff and
has a manger, who is also a staff member, who supervises the
other staff. Staff member First and Surname are to be
recorded and each staff member is given a unique staff
number.
Customers purchase the products, to be a customer there
needs to be at least one sale for the customer. A staff
member, any staff member helps customers with sales, but
some staff members may never make a sale to a customer,
the date of the sale and the quantity bought are to be
recorded. The customer surname and contact number are to
be recorded and each customer is given a unique customer
number. Not all products are for sale, some of these are built
for company use.
Draw a fully attributed ERD for the case study including all
relationships and cardinalities. Note: Entities, Foreign keys,
Primary keys and other attributes groups in an entity are
mark each, Relationships 1 mark and Cardinalities 1 mark
each
correct
cardinality
on
a
correct
relationship.
(27)
1.2. For the case study in question 3.1 (PC Inc.) Which type of
Information System is this?
(1)
1.3. From the case study in Question 3.1 (PC Inc) who are the
users for the system and what are they concerned with for
a system?
(4)

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