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Total No. of Questions : 07

BCA (Sem.4)
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Subject Code : BC-402
Paper ID : [B0216]
Time : 3 Hrs.

Max. Marks : 60

INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES :
1. SECTION-A is COMPULSORY.
2. Attempt any FOUR questions from SECTION-B.
SECTION-A

(10 2 = 20 Marks)

1. (a) List various responsibilities of DBA.

(b) What is conceptual level of DBMS?
(c) What is meant by BCNF? Explain.
(d) What is join dependency? Illustrate with example.
(e) What is entity relationship model? List its features.
(I) What are various features of distributed database?
(g) State and explain 3 rd Normal Form.
(h) What is tuple and attribute?
(i) Explain how weak entity is different from strong entity?
(j) What are objectives of normalization?
SECTION-B

(4 10 = 40 Marks)

2. What is DB MS? What are its advantages and disadvantages?

Explain.
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3. What is data model? Compare and contrast various data models.

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4. What is relational calculus? Explain different types of relational calculus

with suitable examples.
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5. Write notes on the following :

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(a) Concurrency Control

(b) Data integrity
6. What is database recovery? Explain the mechanism of log based and
shadow paging database recovery techniques.
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7. Explain the following :
(a) Functional dependency
(b) SQL

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