Ministry Of Education

Occupation: ICT DBA L_IV

Candidate’s Package
Candidate’s name
Registration no
Name of assessment center
Name of training provider
Project information
Given the necessary equipment, tools, materials, supplies and information the candidate is expected to perform the
following three projects.
Assessment: well equipment computer lab
Total time : 4:00 hours
Project 1: Data conversion and normalization
Time allowed (1:45)
The main tasks of the project:
 Create table in Microsoft excel and save it
 Import the table into Microsoft access database
 Normalize the table
 Create a relationship
Competencies covered
ICT DBA4 01 0811 plan and organize work
ICT DBA4 02 0811 contribute to the development of strategy
ICT DBA4 03 0811 assist with policy development
ICT DBA4 04 0811 monitor and support data conversion
ICT DBA4 07 0811 determine suitability of database functionality and scalability
ICT DBA4 10 0811 identify and resolve database performance problems
Suppose you are a database administrator in ABCtrade’s company and assigned to create a database that manages
students and course information.
1. Create the following customer and order information on Microsoft excel by using table as it is indicated below
and save it by the name ABCtrader’s_DB
Order order
Company First name Last name Job title id date Status
company A hana berhe owner 000  4/25/2006  New
company B anteneh getachew owner 001  4/25/2006  New
company C alebachew tomas representative 002  6/23/2006  Closed
company D legese alebachew manager  003  6/5/2006   Closed
company E abebe amare owner  004  6/5/2006   Closed
company F petros mokonen manager  005  6/5/2006   Closed
company G ahmed werku owner  006  6/8/2006   Closed
company H samuel andargea representative  007  6/5/2006
purchasing
company I firew peter manager  008  6/7/2006   Closed
 2. Import the above table which is created in Excel to a Microsoft access database and save it as ABCtrader’s_DB2

3. Normalize the imported table ABCtrader’s_BD2 in its appropriate normal form and save the derived tables by
any name you like.

4. Create a relationship for the normalized tables and save it by the name ABCtrader’s _DBrelationship.

Project 2: Generating a report from a database.

Time allotted (1:15hr)
The main tasks of the project:
 Open Microsoft query analyzer
 Write SQL statement, run and save it
Competencies covered
ICT DBA4 05 0811 apply object oriented programming language skills
ICT DBA4 06 0811 use advanced structured query language
ICT DBA4 05 0811 Perform Database System Test
Note that: you should use the diagrams in enterprise manager of SQL server to view a diagram of the pubs
database, to see what the relationship are between the tables used in the queries below, so that you know what
fields to join on.
1. Open the pubs database in enterprise manager
2. Open the query analyzer, and ensure that it is open in the pubs database
3. Run queries to find out the following information
Task1 suppose you are a database administrator of the pub company. The company needs the list of titles
showing the publisher and author (or authors) for each title. Write SQL statement that generates the list having
the fieldstitles_id, title, author_id, author_fname, author_lname, from the pub database. Execute and save the
query by the name Auth_title
Task 2: suppose you are a database administrator of the pubcompany. Write a SQL statement using the pub
database that add the publisher table to the Auth_title query . execute and save the query by the name
pub_Auth_title
Task 3: the list of Stores with their Discounts is demanded by the customers of the Pubcompany. Write SQL
statement that generates this list of stores that also shows any discounts each store has. If store does not have a
discount, the store should still appear in the list (tables to use are stores and discounts). Execute and save the
query by the name Store_dsnt.
Task 4: using aggregate functions and Group By, Write a SQL statement to
Task 4.1 Get a list of all the different types there are for Titless
Task 4.2 find out how many book Titles there are for each type (hint use count)