ARAB UNITY SCHOOL

DUBAI,UAE. ‫مدرسة الوحدة العربية‬

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Revision Worksheet_Year 11_ICT

1. Paul owns a shop. He has employed Jean, a systems analyst, to write software for a
newdatabase system to store data about the CDs he sells. Jean wrote down three of
thequestions that customers might ask which Paul might need to find the answers to
quickly:

Have you got the CD recorded by the artist ‘Bett Lyryx’ in 2008?

How much does the CD called ‘Let It Be’ cost?

How many tracks are on the CD?

(a) Complete the data dictionary table below giving the field names which would be used
in the database and identify the data types needed to answer these questions.

2. Computers are used in libraries to keep records of books and borrowers.

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(a) Individual records in the data files need to be retrieved quickly.Write down the name of
the most suitable storage medium for this purpose.
……………………………………………….

(b) The records in the book file are to be sorted in descending order of ISBN. What will be the
title of the book in the first record in the database after it has been sorted? ……………….

(c) Give the name of a field that contains a Boolean data type. ………………………………..

(d) Identity the data type of the borrower phone number field. ………………………………..

(e) Why would the borrower number in the borrower’s database be used as a key
field?.............................................

(f) Write down the author of the book that Giovanni Benitez has borrowed…………………

(g) The final digit in the ISBN is used for validation purposes.

(h) Write down the name of this digit. ………………………………………………………