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Question Bank Unit 1 - Introduction To Database Management Systems and ER Model

This document outlines the key topics and concepts to be covered in an introduction to database management systems and the entity-relationship (ER) model. It includes defining DBMS and explaining its advantages over file systems, explaining levels of abstraction in database systems, drawing an ER diagram for a college system, translating an ER diagram to relational tables, and explaining core ER modeling concepts like entities, attributes, keys, relationships, and cardinalities. The goals are to introduce the fundamental characteristics and components of database systems using the ER model as the conceptual modeling approach.

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Question Bank Unit 1 - Introduction To Database Management Systems and ER Model

This document outlines the key topics and concepts to be covered in an introduction to database management systems and the entity-relationship (ER) model. It includes defining DBMS and explaining its advantages over file systems, explaining levels of abstraction in database systems, drawing an ER diagram for a college system, translating an ER diagram to relational tables, and explaining core ER modeling concepts like entities, attributes, keys, relationships, and cardinalities. The goals are to introduce the fundamental characteristics and components of database systems using the ER model as the conceptual modeling approach.

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Unit 1

Introduction to Database Management Systems and ER Model


1. List and explain the Characteristics of databases.
2. Translate the following Entity-Relationship diagram to Relational Tables.

3. For the database system to be usable, it must retrieve data efficiently. The
need of efficiency has led designers to use complex data structures to
represent data in the database. Developers hide this complexity from the
database system users through several levels of abstraction. Explain those
levels of abstraction in detail.
4.Draw the overall Database System Structure. Explain Storage manager,
transaction manager and query processor in detail.
5.Draw the ER Diagram for College ERP System.
6.Define DBMS. Explain advantages of DBMS over file system.
7.Explain in details levels of abstraction.
8.Define the terms:
i) Database Schema
ii) Instance
iii) Strong and Weak Entity
iv) Key Attribute, Composite Attribute, Multivalued Attribute, Derived
Attribute
v) Primary, secondary, foreign, super, candidate keys
vi) Role
vii) Aggregation
viii) Generalization
ix) Specialization
9.Explain in details Data Independence.
10.List different data models. Explain each of them.
11.Explain mapping cardinalities.
12.How to Reduce ER diagram to Table
13. Define DBMS. Explain the advantages of DBMS over file systems.
14. Translate the following Entity-Relationship diagram to Relational Tables.

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