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The document outlines the examination structure for the course CIT 304: Data Management at the National Open University of Nigeria. It includes various questions covering topics such as data organization, information management, data representation, and database concepts. Students are required to answer four questions, with the first question being compulsory.

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CIT304

The document outlines the examination structure for the course CIT 304: Data Management at the National Open University of Nigeria. It includes various questions covering topics such as data organization, information management, data representation, and database concepts. Students are required to answer four questions, with the first question being compulsory.

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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

PLOT 91, CADASTRAL ZONE, NNAMDI AZIKIWE EXPRESSWAY, JABI-ABUJA


FACULTY OF SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
2023_2 EXAMINATIONS 2023SEM2

COURSE CODE: CIT 304


COURSE TITLE: Data Management
CREDIT UNIT : 3
TIME ALLOWED: 2½ HOURS
INSTRUCTION: Answer Four Questions in All. Question 1 is compulsory
1.a) How does data differ from precepts? Support your answer with an example of each. [3
marks]
b) Using your knowledge of Data organization, explain data management. How does this
make data organization are aspect of management? [5 marks]
c) Diagrammatically explain the function of data management in an information system. [5
marks]
d) How do Spelling rules and Grammar rules affect a natural written language? [5 marks]
e) How are data represented in computer systems if not natural language symbols? [3
marks]
f) What ideas surround IRM as a profession? [4 marks]

2a) Discuss the methods with which knowledge can be used to interpret and evaluate new
information? [6 marks]
b) Data reaching computer systems can come in either of two formats. Discuss. [3 marks]
c) Give an outline of the methods by which Paper media can be damaged or destroyed [6
marks]

3a) Why is Information management only deemed effective when data management is
effective? [4 marks]
b) Define the verbs associated with the obtaining of data as input for data management
activities [4 marks]
c) One of the steps in a data lifecycle is “detailed study of the old system”. As a data
analyst, what aspects of the old system do you think should be studied? [7 marks]

4a) Using the office space you work in, describe how it is a subsystem in an organization [4
marks]
b) Discuss the difference between accuracy and reliability of data collection instruments [4
marks]
c) What procedures must be taken into account when building data from symbols?[3 marks]
d) How do computers represent images?[4 marks]

5. a) Find and explain other number systems that can be used by scientists. [4 marks]
b) Give brief explanations for the following database concepts. Forms, Views, Queries. [6
marks]
a) Humans must carefully consider five categories of knowledge before beginning any
activity. What do these courses entail? [5 marks]

6. a) Give the ASCII and Decimal equivalents of the following Binary numbers: 1000001;
1000010; 1000011; 1100001; 1100010; 1100011 [6 marks]
b.) Define the processes one would most likely go through during information retrieval
from a textbook. [3 marks]
c) What procedures are required for database data searches?[6 marks]

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