Exam Style Questions From 2006 Perfect Papers

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The Squash Coaching Club is a private club which employs several professional squash
coaches to travel to squash clubs in Central Scotland giving one-to-one lessons to promising
youngsters in the 10 to 17 age bracket.

Players up to the age of 14 receive a 1 hour lesson while those aged 15 to 17 receive a 2 hour
lesson. Each player has the same professional for each of their lessons. A player cannot have
more than one lesson in a week.

The Club holds its information on the lessons in its database. The data dictionary for four of
the entities is shown below.

Entity Attribute Description

Professiona Prof ID Unique professional identifier, required, text
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Name Professional’s name, required, text
Address Professional’s address, required, text
Tel No Professional’s telephone number, required, text
Player Player ID Unique player identifier, required, text
Name Player’s name, required, text
Address Player’s address, required, text
Tel No Player’s telephone number, required, text
Age Player’s age, required, number
Club Lookup from Club entity
Lesson Prof ID Lookup from Professional entity
Player ID Lookup from Player entity
Place Place of lesson, required, text
Date Date of lesson, required, date/time
Time Time of lesson, required, date/time
Duration Length of lesson, required, number
Club Name Unique club identifier, required, text
Address Club’s address, required, text
Tel No Club’s telephone number, required text
Secretary Name Name of club secretary, required, text

(a) State the relationships that exist between these entities. 3

(b) A number of reports are prepared by the Club each month. State the entities involved in
producing each of the following reports.

(i) The names of the players who have received a lesson from each professional. 3

(ii) The names of the club secretaries whose clubs have had players receiving lessons in 3
July.
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(c) Another of the reports the Club prepares at the end of each month shows the names of
each Professional in alphabetical order with their total time spent giving lessons during
the month.
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Describe the steps taken by the Club to produce this report.

(d) One of the professional coaches says that under the Freedom of Information Act
(Scotland) 2002 the Club must show him the data which it holds in its computer about
the salaries it pays its coaches.
Is he correct? Give a reason for your answer. 2
 Using Information
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Getfit Fitness Centres Ltd wish to construct a new Gymnasium and Fitness Centre. They have
earmarked three possible development locations and the table below gives some information
about each one. The construction period is the time taken from commencing building to
opening for business.

Location A Location B Location C

Population within 10 44000 60000 95000
miles
Distance from nearest 26 9 2
similar centre
Costs to buy land,
construct and complete 1.3 1.5 1.9
centre(£ millions)
Construction period 10 months 7 months 13 months

The company have a budget of £2 million to purchase the land, construct the building and
install the equipment. They also have an advertising budget of £30000 to be spent in the first 6
months after opening.

Once a final location was chosen, construction on the centre began. During the construction
phase, the company commissioned a Data Gathering Service to collect information on how
many people could be expected to become members of the Centre within the first 6 months of
opening. These figures are shown below, along with actual membership numbers once the
centre was finally opened.

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6

Amount spent on 12000 8000 4000 2000 2000 2000
advertising (£)
Expected no. of 550 450 300 150 100 50
new members
Actual no. of new 364 216 105 96 34 9
members
(a) The information in the tables can be used for decision-making and control.

(i) Give one example, from above, of information which would be used for decision 2
making. Justify your answer.

(ii) Give one example, from above, of information which would be used for control. Justify 2
your answer.

(b) A large amount of information was available to the company. This information can be
categorised as internal or external.

Give an example of each of these types of information. 2

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(c) (i) During the construction of the Centre, severe weather delayed the project by two weeks.
Explain how the company was able to complete the Centre on time by using its project 3
management software to control the project.

(ii) The project management software was also used to produce a weekly report on the
progress of the project. Part of the information given was in graphical form charting the
progress made on a weekly basis.
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What is the name given to these types of project management charts?