Teaching and Learning Activity

Module: Systems Analysis and Design 3 (HSAD300-1)

Week number (Date): 9 (7 October 2021)
Unit covered: Unit 5

Instructions:
To enrich your learning experience at Boston even further, and to ensure that you are exposed to a
variety of resources in this module, announcements will be posted every week containing additional
materials or activities for you to work through. It is important to note that these activities are neither
compulsory nor weighted, but that it will be to your advantage to participate.

The purpose of the activities is to help you better understand the content of your weekly unit/s of study,
and it will assist in creating insight and deeper meaning.

Activity 7 is based on Unit 5 of the prescribed BCC Study Guide for this module.

The suggested solutions for this Activity will be posted end of day next Thursday.

As the Senior Systems Developer, you have been instructed to guide Junior Developers on best
practices of database design.

Answer the following questions:

1. A database administrator is in the process of converting complex object data structures into well-
structured relations. How can this be achieved?

2. A relation stud1 is defined with the following attributes:

stud1(studid, name, street, city, province, areacode)

For any area code, there is only one city and province. Also, for any given street and city, there is
one area code. In what normalization form is stud1?

3. Critically analyse higher normal forms and lower normal forms in database design. Why are higher
normal forms considered better?

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4. The database design phase focuses on building models of the intended system as well as to specify
in detail how the new system will operate and function. How would you describe a conceptual
design?

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