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2. A car sales showroom keeps a database of its stock. The table below shows part of the
database.

Year of
Car stock code Colour Type of car Price Sold
manufacture
AC7E4 Blue Estate 1998 £4,000.00 Yes
AC7E5 Red Saloon 1997 £3,599.00 No
AC7E6 Blue Hatchback 1999 £6,000.00 Yes
AC7E7 Green Estate 2000 £8,000.00 No
AC7E8 Blue Saloon 2001 £9,500.00 Yes
AC7E9 Silver Hatchback 1996 £4,500.00 Yes
AE7E10 Grey Convertible 2004 £14,000.00 Yes

(a) How many fields are shown in the table?

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[1]

(b) How many records are shown in the table?

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(c) When the database was designed, each field was given a field type. Tick ( )
one box in each row to show the most suitable field type for each of the fields.

Field type chosen

Field name Boolean Alphanumeric Numeric

Price

Sold

Car stock code

Type of car

[4]

(d) Which field would be most suitable as a key field?

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[1]

(e) The data in the table could be sorted into ascending order of Year of
manufacture. What is the price of the car that would appear at the top of the
table?

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[1]

(f) The salesperson searches the data in the table for cars using this query:

Colour = Blue OR Type of car = Saloon

How many cars does he find?

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3. The following questions are about this database

Customer Customer Customer Magazine Title Subscription

ID Last Name First Name

2105A Parker Jayne Superheroes £89.90

2106A Driver Paul PC News £54.95

2107A Kumar James Hardware Focus £62.00

2108A Lloyd Bryan Strange Tales £102.50

2109A Jeffries John PC News £54.95

2110A Davies Gwynedd Hardware Focus £62.00

2111A Mitcherll Audrey The Alien £78.00

2112A Potter Henry Superheroes £89.90

2113A Bernstein Louis The Byte £110.00

2114A Malim Rashida Hardware Focus £62.00

(a) The Customer Last Name entry ‘Mitcherll’ should be ‘Mitchell’. This error should
be corrected by

A inserting a field

B deleting a record

C inserting a record

D amending a record
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(b) The search criterion to find all customers with a subscription to ‘Superheroes’ is

A Annual Subscription <£90.00

B Magazine Title ="Superheroes"

C Superheroes ="Magazine Title"

D Customer Last Name ="Parker, Potter"

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(c) The data type of the Customer ID field is

A text

B date

C number

D currency
[1]

(d) Henry Potter’s subscription for ‘Superheroes’ is

A £54.95

B £62.00

C £70.00

D £89.90
[1]

(e) To list the database so that the record for Potter comes first and the record for
Bernstein comes last, the user should sort

A descending on Customer First Name

B descending on Customer Last Name

C ascending on Customer First Name

D ascending on Customer Last Name

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4. The table shows part of a database of students in a school.

Student Number Last name First name Age Class

2107 Ali Shakir 13 9H

3014 Bailey Anne 14 10B

2116 Bailey Anne 14 10A

4365 James Norman 12 8F

3212 Jones Alan 13 9H

3291 Smith John 12 8B

3913 Webster James 13 9J

(a) Ring one heading that is left-justified in the table above.

[1]

(b) How many records are shown in the table above?

7 records
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[1]

(c) (i) State two types of data used in the table.

numeric
1 ................................................................
alphanumeric
2 ................................................................
[2]

(ii) Give one other type of data.

[1]
boolean

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(d) Give one reason why each student has a student number.

- The student number is a primary key

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and it is used to identify each [1]
student.
(e) Why would it be better for the school to use a date of birth column rather than the
age column?

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It is more accurate and the school is
not obliged each year to increase the [1]
age by one.

5. A company has a database of all its computer hardware. Give three ways this
database could be used.

Way 1 ......................................................................................................................

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Way 2 .......................................................................................................................

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Way 3 .......................................................................................................................

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7. Megan is creating a database about a netball team.

a) Give a suitable data type for each of the fields shown in the table.

Write your answers in the spaces in the table.

Two have been done for you.

Field Example data Data type

Player ID 2342 numeric

First name Megan alphanumeric

Date of birth 15/10/1992 date/time

Position played Goal defence alphanumeric
Telephone number 01223 24293 numeric
Available after school Yes Boolean
[4]

(b) (i) Which field would be most suitable as a key field?

- Player ID
...............................................................................................................
[1]

(ii) Why is this field suitable?

- It identifies the players (it is
impossible to find 2 players with the [1]
same Player ID)

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9. A school keeps a database of the names and addresses of its pupils. The table below
shows part of this database.

Forename Surname Contact Gender Address Date of Pupil ID Stay for

Telephone Birth Number School
Number Dinners

72a East Rd
Alice Begum F Cambridge 12-6-1992 50 Yes
CB7 OA1
16 North St Yes
Alastair Brown M Cambridge 13-8-1993 11
CB12 PO2
20 Upper Side St Yes
Stefan Bury M Cambridge 11-10-1992 22
CB9 AP3
22 Lower West St Yes
Anne-Marie Smith F Cambridge 16-5-1993 13
CB13 6AT
66 Southside No
Sian Williams F Cambridge 12-4-1991 4
CB4 7SD
101 Hull Rd Yes
Darren Martin M Cambridge 18-3-1991 161
CB1 2TY

(a) Give the most suitable field type for each of these fields:

Stay for School Dinners Boolean

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Pupil ID Number Numeric

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Address Alphanumeric
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Contact Telephone Number Numeric

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(d) Why is Pupil ID Number chosen for the key field in this database?

No two pupils can have the same Pupil ID

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number.(unique and identifiable) [1]

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10. Part of a database of customer details is shown below:

Ref Name Initials Store Internet

A435967 Smith S Birmingham Yes

A45577 Cushing B Middletown No

A122726 Amale B Birmingham Yes

B566777 Duran K Middletown Yes

C988992 White L Birmingham Yes

D455555 Rodriguez E Middletown Yes

F678111 Patel S Birmingham Yes

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(a) State which field would be used as a key field and state why.

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- Ref; it is unique field which
identifies each customer
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(b) State two useful pieces of information that can be obtained from the database by
Cambridge Retail and in each instance state why it could be useful to them.

One .................................................................................................................

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[2]

Two .................................................................................................................

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11. Jessica is married with two children. She works as a designer in a local engineering
company. She owns her own house. She pays for most of her shopping using a credit
card. She has a mortgage of £50,000. She is a member of Spanish Connection’s mail
order services and often orders clothes from them.

(a) Use the information about Jessica to list four facts about her that could be stored
in a computer database.

Fact One .........................................................................................................

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Fact Two .........................................................................................................

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Fact Three ......................................................................................................

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Fact Four ........................................................................................................

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[4]

(b) Explain the difference between data and information.

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[2]

12. The following questions are about this database.

Product Pack Product Category Supplier Contract Trade

Name Quantity ID Start Date Price

Chocolate Shell 60 WA01 Cones & Wafers Wardleys 12/04/93 £4.00

Chunky Choc 5 RO02 Desserts Roberto 30/09/99 £4.50

Chunky Choc 20 RO01 Desserts Roberto 30/09/99 £4.50

Duo Cones 100 WA02 Cones & Wafers Roberto 12/04/93 £9.62

Frosty 60 SH06 Children's Lines Shelley & Co 07/10/97 £7.00

Heavenly Choc 5 IC02 Ice Cream Cones Ices R Us 03/02/01 £8.39

Heavenly Plum 4 IC03 Ice Cream Cones Ices R Us 03/02/01 £8.39

Purple Pops 50 SH04 Children's Lines Shelley & Co 07/10/97 £8.00

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Vanilla Treat 4 RO03 Desserts Wardleys 30/09/99 £7.04

(a) To list the product details in A to Z order of supplier, showing the product name in
A to Z order for each supplier, the user should sort

A ascending on Supplier and then ascending on Product Name

B ascending on Product Name and then ascending on Product ID

C descending on Supplier and then descending on Product Name

D descending on Product Name and then descending on Supplier

[1]

(b) The number of characters that can be entered for a product name will be
restricted by

A font size

B field size

C row height

D text alignment
[1]

(c) The search criterion to list all products with a Trade Price of £5.00 or more is

A Trade Price <5.00

B Trade Price >5.00

C Trade Price <=5.00

D Trade Price >=5.00

[1]

(d) The only field suitable for selection as the primary key is

A Product Name

B Product ID

C Category

D Supplier
[1]

(e) The search criteria to find all products from the supplier Roberto except those in
the Cones & Wafers category are

A Supplier ="Roberto" AND Category <>"Cones & Wafers"

B Supplier ="Roberto" OR Category <>"Cones & Wafers"

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C Supplier ="Roberto" OR Category <"Cones & Wafers"

D Supplier ="Roberto" AND Category <>"Desserts"

[1]

(f) The fields required to create a query that will list the suppliers that have had
contracts for more than two years are

A Category and Supplier

B Supplier and Product ID

C Supplier and Contract Start Date

D Product Name and Contract Start Date

[1]

13. The following questions are about this database.

Cat No Author Title of publication Publisher Media Stock Price

19123H Chivers J R Fly Fishing Yellowstone Hardback 4 £29.99

32034T Arches M Living with Insecurity BBC Tape 3 £19.99

93885S Smith K Travels Around Europe Purdue Softback 8 £9.99

94446H Johnson S Selling Yellowstone Hardback 4 £29.99

37857S Carr M Humour in Teaching BBC Softback 5 £19.99

22868H Seigel H Travel in USA C4 Hardback 12 £29.00

34277T Taylor A TV Quiz C4 Tape 5 £6.99

23386S Gozales M Gardening for Beginners BBC Softback 4 £9.49

43397S Coleman C Behaviour Patterns Yellowstone Softback 3 £9.99

43398H Coleman C Behaviour Patterns Yellowstone Hardback 7 £30.00

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(a) To list the database in A-Z order of Publisher, showing the number of books in
Stock with the greatest number first, the user should

A sort descending on Publisher and sort ascending on Stock

B sort ascending on Publisher and search on Stock

C sort ascending on Publisher and sort descending on Stock

D sort descending on Publisher and search on Stock

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(b) To find publications costing £19.99 or less, the search criteria is

A Price <£19.99

B Price >£19.99

C Price <=£19.99

D Price >=£19.99
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(c) The Cat No of a softback book published by BBC where there are 5 in Stock is

A 23386S

B 34277T

C 32034T

D 37857S
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(d) To list the publications by the BBC and by C4 the search criteria is

A Publisher = “BBC” AND Publisher =“C4”

B Publisher = “BBC” NOT Publisher =“C4”

C Publisher = “BBC” OR Publisher =“C4”

D Publisher = “BBC” AND “C4”

[1]

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(e) Which field is most suitable as the primary key?

A Publisher

B Cat No

C Author

D Stock
[1]

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(f) The data type of the Cat No field should be set as

A text

B date

C currency

D number
[1]

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(g) The number of publications found by the search Price >= £17.50 and number in
Stock >= 6 is

A 1

B 2

C 3

D 6
[1]

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(h) To make sure that new records in the database have been entered correctly, the
user should

A proof-read

B use a spellchecker

C use a grammar checker

D make regular backups of the data

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14. Imran is a car dealer. He needs a database of the cars he has in stock so that he can
quickly find suitable cars for customers.

Describe what must be done to create this database.

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15. A new database is being designed for a company. Give three different things that
should be included in this design.

1 ...............................................................................................................................

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2 ...............................................................................................................................

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3 ...............................................................................................................................

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16. A car sales showroom keeps a database of its stock. The table below shows part of the
database.
Year of
Car stock code Colour Type of car Price Sold
manufacture
AC7E4 Blue Estate 1998 £4,000.00 Yes
AC7E5 Red Saloon 1997 £3,599.00 No
AC7E6 Blue Hatchback 1999 £6,000.00 Yes
AC7E7 Green Estate 2000 £8,000.00 No
AC7E8 Blue Saloon 2001 £9,500.00 Yes
AC7E9 Silver Hatchback 1996 £4,500.00 Yes
AE7E10 Grey Convertible 2004 £14,000.00 Yes

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(a) When the database was designed, each field was given a field type. Tick ( )
one box in each row to show the most suitable field type for each of the fields.

Field type chosen

Field name Boolean Alphanumeric Numeric

Price

Sold

Car stock code

Type of car

[4]

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(b) Which field would be most suitable as a key field?

.........................................................................................................................
[1]

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(c) The data in the table could be sorted into ascending order of Year of
manufacture. What is the price of the car that would appear at the top of the
table?

.........................................................................................................................
[1]

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(d) The salesperson searches the data in the table for cars using this query:

Colour = Blue OR Type of car = Saloon

How many cars does he find?

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[1]

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