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    This document is an exam for a Relational Database Management Systems course. It contains two sections. Section A contains 15 short answer questions covering topics like centralized vs decentralized design, data abstraction, transaction scheduling, distributed database management system advantages and disadvantages, data replication, and database administration. Section B contains 9 longer answer questions asking students to describe database lifecycles, compare database design phases, discuss prototyping, concurrency control, database transparency, client-server architecture, transaction processing monitors, data warehousing architecture, decision support systems, online analytical processing, and data mining. The exam tests students' understanding of fundamental database concepts.

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    This document is an exam for a Relational Database Management Systems course. It contains two sections. Section A contains 15 short answer questions covering topics like centralized vs decentralized design, data abstraction, transaction scheduling, distributed database management system advantages and disadvantages, data replication, and database administration. Section B contains 9 longer answer questions asking students to describe database lifecycles, compare database design phases, discuss prototyping, concurrency control, database transparency, client-server architecture, transaction processing monitors, data warehousing architecture, decision support systems, online analytical processing, and data mining. The exam tests students' understanding of fundamental database concepts.

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    This document is an exam for a Relational Database Management Systems course. It contains two sections. Section A contains 15 short answer questions covering topics like centralized vs decentralized design, data abstraction, transaction scheduling, distributed database management system advantages and disadvantages, data replication, and database administration. Section B contains 9 longer answer questions asking students to describe database lifecycles, compare database design phases, discuss prototyping, concurrency control, database transparency, client-server architecture, transaction processing monitors, data warehousing architecture, decision support systems, online analytical processing, and data mining. The exam tests students' understanding of fundamental database concepts.

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    This document is an exam for a Relational Database Management Systems course. It contains two sections. Section A contains 15 short answer questions covering topics like centralized vs decentralized design, data abstraction, transaction scheduling, distributed database management system advantages and disadvantages, data replication, and database administration. Section B contains 9 longer answer questions asking students to describe database lifecycles, compare database design phases, discuss prototyping, concurrency control, database transparency, client-server architecture, transaction processing monitors, data warehousing architecture, decision support systems, online analytical processing, and data mining. The exam tests students' understanding of fundamental database concepts.

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    Roll No. ......................

    Total No. of Questions : 13] [Total No. of Pages : 02

    J-3178[S-1034] [2037]
    MCA (Semester - 4th)
    Relational Database Management System - II (MCA - 401)
    Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 75
    Instruction to Candidates:
    1) Section - A is compulsory.
    2) Attempt any Nine questions from Section - B.

    Section - A

    Q1) (15 x 2 = 30)


    a) Differentiate centralized and decentralized design.
    b) What is data abstraction?
    c) What are the differences between serial and non serial schedules?
    d) What are the advantages and disadvantages of DDBMS?
    e) What layers of transparency should be provided with a DDBMS?
    f) What is data replication?
    g) What is local mapping transparency?
    h) Describe two phase locking protocol.
    i) What is load balancing?
    j) What are the disadvantages of file server architecture?
    k) Discuss main tasks associated with the administration and management
    of a data warehouse.
    l) What is warehouse manager?
    m) Describe Codd’s rules for OLAP tools.
    n) What is predictive modeling?
    o) Define primary key and super key.

    P.T.O.
    Section - B (9 x 5 = 45)
    Q2) Describe main purposes and activities associated with each stage of database
    application lifecycle.

    Q3) Compare and contrast the three phases of database design.

    Q4) Describe the main advantages of using prototyping approach when


    building database application.

    Q5) What is timestamp? How timestamp do based protocols for concurrency


    control differ from locking?

    Q6) Explain the types of transparencies in a DDBMS.

    Q7) Explain single site processing, single site data.

    Q8) What is meant by term client server architecture and what are the advantages
    of this approach?

    Q9) What is TP monitor? What advantages does TP monitor bring to an OLTP


    environment?

    Q10) Give diagrammatic representation of architecture and components of data


    warehouse.

    Q11) Explain in detail decision support system.

    Q12) Discuss what online analytical processing is and how it differs from data
    warehousing.

    Q13) Explain data mining in detail.

    !!!!!

    J-3178[S-1034] -2-

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