Advanced Database Systems - Mock Exam

1) List four significant differences between a file-processing system (FPS) and a DBMS
(1 mark)

2). List 5 responsibilities of a DBMS and explain the problems that would arise if it were not
discharged
(1 mark)

3) Generate Association Rules for the following data set, using the Apriori Algorithm. Minimum
support=50% & Minimum confidence =75%.

(1.5 marks)

4) Describe drill-down and roll-up pivoting in the context of Data Warehouses. Give examples.
(1 mark)

5) Explain what problems are caused by the design of the following table (1.5 marks)

6) Assume there is a Database, suitable for IHU, with 3 Schools, each offering 2, 7 and 10 Master
Programmes, having tables and related data for School, Programme, Course, Instructor, and Student.
a. Create a view for students who have completed enough ECTS (credits) to graduate.
b. Write a query for students on the ICT systems programme, whose grade on the Database course
is above the average overall grade for that programme.
c. Write a query for students in the School of Science and Technology, not taking any course taught
by Assistant Professor Tjortjis.
List any assumptions you made. (3 marks)

7) Using a simple definition of term frequency as the number of occurrences of the term in a
document, give the TF-IDF scores of each term in the following set of 2 documents.
a) “Although information retrieval has been considered as a separate field from data bases in the research
community, there are strong connections. Distributed information retrieval is growing in importance with
the explosion of documents on the world wide web and the resultant importance of web search
techniques”.
b) “The field of informat ion retrieval has developed in parallel with the field of databases. In the traditional
model used in the field of information retrieval, information is organized into documents, and it is
assumed that there is a large number of documents.
(1 mark)