Module Code & Module Title

CC4057NT Introduction to Information System

Assessment Weightage & Type

30% Individual Coursework

Year and Semester

2019-20 Autumn

Student Name: Prajwol Shakya

College ID:NP05CP4A190111
Assignment Due Date: Week 2, Friday
14 nov-2019
Assignment Submission Date: Week 4, Friday
22 nov-2019
I confirm that I understand my coursework needs to be submitted online via Google Classroom under the
relevant module page before the deadline in order for my assignment to be accepted and marked. I am
fully aware that late submissions will be treated as non-submission and a marks of zero will be awarded.
Contents
Q.1. What is an Information System? Write down your understandings. Give suitable examples where
required .................................................................................................................................................. 1
1.1. Introduction to Information System .................................................................. 1
1.2. Areas of Information System ..................................................................................................... 1
Q.2. What are databases? What is the role of database in an organization? Write down your
understandings with suitable examples where required. ....................................................................... 2
2.1. Introduction to Database .................................................................................... 2
Q.3. Select an organization of your choice and design a database for it. Explain your database design: 3
a. What is the database about?................................................................................. 3
b. What each entity (table) represents? ................................................................... 3
c. What each attribute (column) represents? What kind of data do they store? ............................... 3
Q.4. Write a personal reflection (max.800 words) of the learning process up to the moment. You may
wish to summarize your thoughts on the following points: .................................................................... 8
Figure 1: Types of Information Systems .......................................................................... 1
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Figure 10: Entity-relationship Diagram. ........................................................................... 7
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Q.1. What is an Information System? Write down your

understandings. Give suitable examples where required.

1.1. Introduction to Information System

Information System are those systems which are designed to store,
collect, process and provide information, knowledge and digital products. In other
words, Information Systems can be defined as the study of the hardware and software
networks which are used by the people and other organizations in order to make
different financial transactions and research on it and retrieve data and information for
the better prestige of an organization. Information System helps in decision making
process and increasing good coordination between two different organizations.
Information System includes hardware and software, system users and data itself.
These five components sum up and perform input, output, process, feedback and
control. Hardware consists of input/output device, processor, operating system and
media devices. Software consists of program and procedures. Database consists of
data organized in required structure. Network consists of hubs, communication, media
and network device. System user consists device operators, network administrators and
system specialist. (Bourgeois, 2014)
hardware
technology users

INFORMATION network
data SYSTEM

information
communication
software

Figure 1: Types of Information Systems

1.2. Areas of Information System

Information system is begin used by large organization to run electronic
markets. Information system are used by the international co-operation for processing

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financial amount, managing their own human resources, and searching their potential
customer with online promotion .Information system is being very much popular day by
day due to it’s online marketing .nowadays we can see that large online companies are
built entirely around information system .for example amazon which is a large and
expand online market or we can say sopping mall which also provide cloud computing
services “Alibaba” which succeed for holding a world record by selling goods worth
$38.4 billion in a single day in November 11 and this day is regarded as the China
biggest shopping day. “Google”, a search engine company which derives most of its
revenue from keyword by advertising on Internet searches. Also, governments are
helping us to provide services with low cost to the citizens through Information System.
(Zwass, 2016)

Some of the famous games like pubg, mobile legends, etc are all accessed with
Information Systems. Internet plays vital role for conducting every online transaction
with the help of Information system.

Q.2. What are databases? What is the role of database in an

organization? Write down your understandings with suitable
examples where required.
2.1. Introduction to Database
Databases can be defined as the classification of data which are
organized in a proper way so that it can easily be retrieved, managed and updated.
Simply we can say database as a storage system for data. A database can be easily
added or dropped when necessary. Databases are collection of tables where rows and
columns are managed in a proper manner so that it can be easier to get the exact
information of the organizations in a very short period. For example: Keeping records of
all the students by a teacher and all the records of the teachers and staffs in a register.
Here, register is a database. Also we have another example: keeping the records of the
patients and their health issues in hospital file. In This case, hospital file is a database
where information about patients are stored. Some examples of database systems that
makes record managing easier are MySQL, SQL server, Microsoft access, etc. (Rouse,
2019)

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2.2. Role of Database in an organization

Different types of data are created by different people in an organization for

different reasons. Databases are used by a small organizations too. Small organizations
can use a database in different ways. A database helps us to manage information about
the customers and clients. Database helps us to get information about the products and
its supplier. We can also know about the sales date, amount of the goods and many
other financial information. Good database system in an organization brings rapid
progress in an organization. Databases helps us to keep the organization’s data
security by providing access to the only person who have only the correct password.
Database manages the data in such a proper and efficient way that it allows the users
to perform other task at the same time easily. A database management system helps in
reducing the data redundancy. Database system helps us to backup and recover the
information of the organization. Database helps in overcoming the duplicate data.
Database helps in determining the quality of information quickly, accurately and relevant
so that the information presented is always updated. Database helps in determining the
better strategy for the advancement of an organization in future. A good database helps
in monitoring the progress of the operation well so that whenever the problem is
created, they can take quick and appropriate steps. (Supardi, 2010)

Q.3. Select an organization of your choice and design a database for

it. Explain your database design:
a. What is the database about?
b. What each entity (table) represents?
c. What each attribute (column) represents? What kind of data do they store?
d. Which attributes (columns) are the primary keys and what are the reasons for selecting
them?
e. Which attributes (columns) are the foreign keys and how do they form the
relationships between tables?
f. Draw an entity-relationship diagram (ERD) for the database you have designed in
question 3.

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Answer a. The database I am going to describe is about the electronic business where
entities like customers, products, staffs and deliveries are created. I have created this
database in xampp software. By creating this database I can easily retrieve the detailed
information of the customers. For creating a database first I have used this code:

mysql -u root -h localhost

Figure 2:

After accessing the database, I have checked whether the database iam going to create
already exists or not:

Figure 3:

After this I created my database named “myelectronics”

Figure 4:

Then the database named “myelectronics” was created:

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Figure 5:

Here we can see that “myelectronics” has been created.

After that I used myelectronics so that I can create entities under that database.

After that I created entity(table) named customers containing the attributes customerID,
Name, Contactno, Address and Email where varchar(255) is used in each attribute.

Figure 6:

This entity stores the information of a customer. Every customer have their own unique
customerID so that customerID is a primary key. There is no foreign key in this entity
therefore this entity is called parent table.

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Figure 7:

This entity stores the information of the products. Here productID is uniquely
representing the other attributes therefore productID is primary key. Here customerID is
a foreign key because it is relating the two tables (customers and products). There is
the presence of both primary and foreign key in this entity. Therefore, this entity is called
child table.

Figure 8:

This entity stores the information of the staffs. Here, staffID is uniquely representing the
other attributes so staffID is the primary key. Here productID is the foreign key because
it is representing two tables (products and staffs). This entity is also child table because
of presence of both primary and foreign key.

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Figure 9:

This entity stores the information about deliveries. Here deliverID is uniquely
representing the other attributes so it is primary key. Here staffID is foreign key because
it is relating the two tables (staffs and deliveries). This entity is also a child table.

Answer f:

Figure 10: Entity-relationship Diagram.

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Q.4. Write a personal reflection (max.800 words) of the learning

process up to the moment. You may wish to summarize your
thoughts on the following points:
• Your preparation for the subject before you started the module.
• Your expectations from the module when you started it.
• Looking back, were you able to meet those expectations.
• How are you coping with the requirements, are you managing it.
• What are your current difficulties; if any, what do you think you
need to do to get the most out of this module

Answer: After the completion of my +2, I decided to join Itahari International College
(IIC). After vacations I joined IIC. Then I took the early bird classes from where I learned
lots of information about networking and security. There were presentation classes too. I
learned ideas about presentation skills. After the completion of the early bird classes,
my first semester started. Before starting the semester classes I was expecting lots of
things and some of them got able to meet my expectations. I thought there would be
more than 5 to 6 subjects in the first semester. I also didn’t know about the subjects. I
started to research on the IT subjects.

After the semester started, I knew that there were only 3 subjects in the first semester.
When I started the module, I didn’t find so much difficulties in understanding the
module. I thought it would be easier for me to understand the module. First week
passed and I didn’t find any difficulties in the modules. But as the time passed, I started
to feel difficulties in the workshop classes. I couldn’t understand the classes as before. I
found more difficulties in programming classes. I couldn’t continue the flow of
understanding as before. I thought my expectations was all correct but it wasn’t as I
thought. I couldn’t meet those expectations that I expected. My friends were also facing
the same problem. But I didn’t loose my hope. I tried my best to catch up the module.

As week 2 passed, I started to read the particular module books from the library. I
started to revise the previous week slides so that I can cope with my problems.

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Whenever I have free times I used to go to library and study books and also started to
research about the module. I started to research though online. I started taking help
from my friends too. I slowly started to cope up with my difficulties. I go through the
slides of google classroom and research on the topics. I also got help from my seniors.
They helped me during my coursework. And now I am not feeling so much difficult in my
module. Respective module teachers also helped me a lot.

Now I am not having any difficulties in my module. My friends, respective module

teachers helped me a lot. I also got helped from the internet and library books.

Works Cited
Bourgeois, D. B. (2014). https://bus206.pressbooks.com/chapter/chapter-1/. Retrieved
from https://bus206.pressbooks.com/chapter/chapter-1/
Rouse, M. (2019, 07 28). https://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/database.
Retrieved from https://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/database
Supardi, F. D. (2010, 11 10). https://blog.ub.ac.id/supardipunya/2010/11/the-
importance-of-database-for-an-organization/. Retrieved from
https://blog.ub.ac.id/supardipunya/2010/11/the-importance-of-database-for-an-
organization/
Zwass, V. (2016, 02 10). https://www.britannica.com/topic/information-system.
Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/information-system

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