Semester: August 2021 - November 2021

Examination: ESE Examination

Programme code:04
Class:SY Semester:III (SVU 2020)
Programme: BTech Information Technology.
Name of the Constituent College: Name of the department/Section/Center:
K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering IT
Course Code:116U04C303 Name of the Course: Database Management Systems
Duration : 1 Hour 45 Minutes (15
Maximum Marks : 50
minutes extra for uploading )
Instructions:
1)Draw neat diagrams 2) Assume suitable data if necessary

Question Max Marks

No.
Q1 (A) MCQ 10
1 What is the main limitation of Hierarchical Databases?
a) Limited capacity (unable to hold much data)
b) Limited flexibility in accessing data
c) Overhead associated with maintaining indexes
d) The performance of the database is poor

2 The person who authorizes all the new users, modifies the database and
takes grants privilege is
a) Super user
b) Administrator
c) Operator of operating system
d) All of the mentioned

3 Triggers ________ enabled or disabled

a) Can be
b) Cannot be
c) Ought to be
d) Always

4 Which of the following is used to provide privilege to only a particular

attribute?
a) Grant select on employee to Amit
b) Grant update(budget) on department to Raj
c) Grant update(budget,salary,Rate) on department to Raj
d) Grant delete to Amit

5 When transaction Ti requests a data item currently held by Tj, Ti is allowed

to wait only if it has a timestamp larger than that of Tj (that is, Ti is younger
than Tj ). Otherwise, Tj is rolled back (Tj is wounded by Ti). This is
a) Wait-die
b) Wait-wound
c) Wound-wait
d) Wait
 6 Which of the following makes the transaction permanent in the database?
a) View
b) Commit
c) Rollback
d) Flashback

7 Ensuring isolation property is the responsibility of the

a) Recovery-management component of the DBMS
b) Concurrency-control component of the DBMS
c) Transaction-management component of the DBMS
d) Buffer management component in DBMS

8 Using which language can user request information from a database?

a) Query
b) Relational
c) Structural
d) Compiler

9 Which one of the following is a set of one or more attributes taken

collectively to uniquely identify a record?
a) Candidate key
b) Sub key
c) Super key
d) Foreign key

10 In ordered indices the file containing the records is sequentially ordered, a

___________ is an index whose search key also defines the sequential order
of the file.
a) Clustered index
b) Structured index
c) Unstructured index
d) Nonclustered index

Q1 (B) 10
Attempt any FIVE questions out of the following (any 5 out of 7)
1. What are ordered indices?
2. What is need for normalization?
3. List any 5 functions of DBA.
4. What is physical and logical data independence?
5. List the advantages of DBMS.
6. Explain Cartesian product on tables.
7. What do you mean by privileges?

Q. 2 Draw EER diagram for following problem definition. 10

Consider a CONFERENCE_REVIEW database in which researchers submit
Their research papers for consideration. Reviews by reviewers are recorded
for use in the paper selection process. The database system caters primarily
to reviewers who record answers to evaluation questions for each paper they
 review and make recommendations regarding whether to accept or reject the
paper. The data requirements are summarized as follows:
■ Authors of papers are uniquely identified by e-mail id. First and last
Names are also recorded.
■ Each paper is assigned a unique identifier by the system and is described
by a title, abstract, and the name of the electronic file containing the
paper
■ A paper may have multiple authors, but one of the authors is designated
as the contact author.
■ Reviewers of papers are uniquely identified by e-mail address. Each
reviewer’s first name, last name, phone number, affiliation, and topics of
interest are also recorded.
■ Each paper is assigned between two and four reviewers. A reviewer rates
each paper assigned to him or her on a scale of 1 to 10 in four categories:
technical merit, readability, originality, and relevance to the conference.
Finally, each reviewer provides an overall recommendation regarding
each paper.
■ Each review contains two types of written comments: one to be seen by
the review committee only and the other as feedback to the author(s).
Design an Entity-Relationship diagram for the CONFERENCE_REVIEW
database.

Q. 3 Attempt Any Two from following. 10

1. Explain 1NF and 2 NF with example
2. Explain steps of Query Processing
3. Explain concept of Hashing in DBMS
4. Explain database triggers with ECA model and any one example.

Q. 4 Explain the Timestamp ordering protocol in detail. 10

OR

Explain the concept of recoverability with recoverable and cascadless

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