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JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2022/2023
‘YEAR 2 SEMESTER 1 EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MATHS AND
COMPUTER SCIENCE
ICS 2206: DATABASE SYSTEMS
DATE: DECEMBER 2022 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) __ Answer question ONE (Section A) and any other two questions in section B
2) All questions except question one carry equal marks
QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)
a) State and explain any two functions of Database Systems (4 marks)
b) Discuss any two information systems (4 marks)
©) Explain the following terms.
i) Distributed Transaction (3 marks)
ii) 1 Normal Form (3 marks)
4) As the Database Administrator of COPAS, you have been asked to create a database that would
store information of all the employees, the department were they work, their dependants for the
purpose of health insurance amongst other information. Give the SQL statements that you would
use to create the database and the three tables. Make sure to enforce the relevant constraints.
(10 marks)
©) Discus the following terms: (3 marks)
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ii) Entity relationship diagram 3 marks)
QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)
a) Write a sql statement that you would use to link two database system. (6 marks)
b) Discuss the concept of relational database systems. (4 marks)
c) What is a database management system and give two functions. (6 marks)
4) Explain the difference between primary key and foreign key. (4 marks)
QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)
a) Give the two parts of SQL and explain the functions of each component. (4 marks)
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©) State and explain any three Database Managément systems functions. (6 marks)
4) Give SQL statements that would create and starts up a database system. (4 marks)
QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)
) Anew employee has been hired by your company, by the name John Doe, date of birth 5/3/1972,
employee id number 2222, salary 200000.00 and assigned to Finance department. As the
database administrator of your company, you have updated the table with salary as 20,00 instead
of 200,000 write SQL statements that would update the table with the correct salary. (5 marks)
b) Discuss data redundancy in the database explaining how to overcome it. (5 marks)
©) State and explain the four acid properties of a transaction. (6 marks)
Give a SQL statement that creates a user account to be changed on first log in. (4 marks)
