The DBMS - Answers

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Database Management System
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1. What does DBMS stand for? _______________________________
2. What is the main purpose of advantage of using a DBMS?
It manages access to the hard disk drive
It provides function calls to the system software
It separates the data from the software application

It prevents the user updating the database

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3. A social networking site will be using a DBMS as part of its application.

Complete the below diagram with
ith the labels given underneath.
Web application for
public to see profiles
DBMS

Database

Admin application to ban users

Database

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DBMS

Admin application to ban users

4. Match the words on the left to their meanings on the right.

Backup

The way to retrieve data from the database

Recovery

Adding/deleting users and permissions

User management

Keep data in case of system failure

Query language

The structure of the data in the database

Data definition

Restore data after system failure

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5. Complete the following text using the words underneath.

A programmer will type simple instructions called ___queries___
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in order
to ___retrieve data___ from the DBMS. An alternative method of getting
information out of the database is to use ______reports______. A DBMS
can also be used to ___monitor
monitor performance___
performance
such as how long a
query takes to run.
queries
retrieve data
monitor performance
p
reports

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6. Match each of the DBMS operations on the left to what they do on the
right.
Create

Edit an existing record and save

Update

Make a new record

Delete

Remove a record

6. Terry is a bank employee and gets a call from a customer to increase

their overdraft limit from 1000 to 1200. He looks at the current
customer details which indicate it is okay to approve. Now another bank
employee, Damian, without realising that Terry is accessing the database,
lowers the credit rating of the customer and reduces the overdraft limit
to 900. Terry now approves the increase of the limit to 1200. This
should not have been approved.
a) What is it called when two users are working on one item of data?
da
Concurrency / concurrent
_______________________
b) What will the DBMS do to the data item to prevent the above
locking
situation happening? _______________________
7. A social network tries to delete a profile without first deleting them as
friends of other users. This will cause a problem when their friends
profiles try to look them up. What DBMS feature prevents this?
Enforce referential integrity
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