College Level Skill Competition - Database Administration - 2015 E.

Sector: Economic Infrastructure Development

Sub Sector: ICT

Occupation: Database AdministrationLevel: III

Project Package for College Level Skill Competition

The assessment covers the following units of competence/s:

1. EIS DBA3 01 0811Gather Data to Identify Business Requirements
2. EIS DBA3 02 0811Identify Physical Database Requirements
3. EIS DBA3 03 0811Design a Database
4. EIS DBA3 04 0811Use Basic Structured Query Language
5. EIS DBA3 05 0811Design Program Logic
6. EIS DBA3 07 0811Complete Database Backup and Recovery
7. EIS DBA3 08 0811Create Technical Documentation
8. EIS DBA3 09 0811Model Data Objects

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General direction for the candidate

1. Before starting to work on the project please take at least 20 minutes

to read all content of the project so that you could have the detail
understanding of the project.
2. After reading the whole project for some minutes, make sure that you
have been given all the necessary tools, equipment and information,
you need to perform the project.
3. This Project contains four tasks and further each task is divided in to
sub activities. The combination of all the activities will form the total
percent of you result (100%).
4. For the purpose of your time management for each task maximum
time is suggested, there for manage your time accordingly.

Project Information

Given the necessary tools, equipment and information, the candidate is

expected to perform the following project.
The assessor should ask oral questions on which she/he is not satisfied by
the candidate’s performance.
Assessment Venue:Well Equipped Assessment Centre or real work place
Total time for all projects 4:30 Hrs

Project 1: Design, Create and Operate database

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Task 1: Design database

Total time for this task: 2:00 hours

Project Information: Identify business requirement and Design a
Database

In this project you are expected to identify business requirement of the

organization. Identify Entities, properties, relationship and design the
database using ER diagram.
Instruction: Under this project the candidate is expected to perform the
tasks based on the information provided in business rule.
The Addis Ababa University Main Library data base has been designed to
hold information about students who are borrowed different books. The
library database needs to store information which pertaining to its
students, its workers, the physical locations of its branches, and the
media stored in those locations. The library directorate of the university
decided to limit the media to store books and videos only.
Based on the requirement of university library; Books will be identified by
their ISBN, Title, price, and edition. Video will be identified by their ID,
Title and Uploaded date. Customers will be identified by their Customer
ID, First Name, Father’s Name, Address, Mobile, and Date of Birth (DOB)
when registering for a library membership. Author will be identified by
their Author id, author name, email and mobile. Each book borrowed to
several customers and has Issued Date, Returned Date and Quantity
(Qty). A customer can be borrowed two or more books at a time. Each
video can be watching by many customers of the university library and
also a customer can download several videos and has date, and size. An
Author can write two or more books and a book is written by a single
author

Instruction: Based on the above project information that are stated in

the library office of the University perform the following activities:
Activity 1: Normalize the tables to its suitable form

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Activity 2: Identify all Entities

Activity 3: Identify all Attributes
Activity 4: Identify data types, field size, primary keys and foreign
keys of each entity of the attributes
Activity 5: Draw ER Diagram on Visio or Edrawmax by using Crow’s
foot Model then save it by the name College_ERD.
Activity 6: Identify and Develop Database schema from the ERD you
designed in Activity 5

Task 2: Create and Operate Database

Total time for this task: 1:00 hour
Instructions: Based on the database schema you have created from the
Entity Relationship Diagram, Perform the following activities using MS SQL
server 2008 or Latest Version
Activity 1: Create database by the name AAU_Library
Activity 2: Create the appropriate tables
Activity 3: Assign appropriate data type for each field properties
Activity 4: Assign appropriate primary key and foreign key for the
tables
Activity 5: Create relationships between the among the tables
Activity 6: Insert five meaningful records for each table.

NB: consider the referential integrity of the relationship between the tables listed below
Table: AUTHOR
Table: BOOK
Table: CUSTOMER
Table: BOOK _BORROWED
Table: VIDEO
Table: Download_Video

Task 3: Perform Database Operations

Total time for this task: 1:00 hour

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Instruction: under this task you are expected to perform the following
activities based on the information provided
Activity 1: Display book which price is Between 500 and 1000
Activity 2: Display the name of Customer whose name contain Five
characters and Borrows English Book.
Activity 3: Update Book title to Medemer whose author is Abiy.
Activity 4: Using SQL statement, Take a backup of the database in any
disk.
Activity 5: Drop the created database AAU_Library
Activity 6: Restore the dropped database from backup

Task 4: Solve the following problem using flow charts

Total time for this task: 30 Minutes
Instruction: based on the given algorithm perform the flowchart of the
given problem
Activity 1: Write an algorithm and draw the flowchart for finding the
average of two numbers
Algorithm:

Observation Checklist

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Candidate’s Name:

Assessor’s Name:

Occupation Database Administration

Level III

Unit of Competency: EIS DBA3 01 0811EIS DBA3 02 0811EIS DBA3 03 0811EIS

DBA3 09 0811EIS DBA3 07 0811EIS DBA3 04 0811

Date of Assessment:

Time of Assessment:

Instructions for the Assessor

• Observe the candidate.

• Describe the assessment activity and the date on which it was undertaken
• Place a tick in the box to show that the candidate completed each aspect of the activity to
the standard expected in the enterprise.
• Complete the feedback sections of the form.
OBSERVATION

During the demonstration of skills, did the candidate: Weight Result

Project 1: Design, create and perform Database

Task 1: Design database

40%
Normalize the tables to its suitable form 5
Identify all Entities 5
Identify all Attributes 5
Identify data types, field size, primary keys and foreign keys of each entity
5
of the attributes
Draw ER Diagram on Visio or Edrawmax by using Crow’s foot Model then
10
save it by the name College_ERD.
Identify and Develop Database schema from the ERD you designed in
10
Activity 5
Task 2: Create and Operate database
20%
Create database by the name AAU_Library 2
Create the appropriate tables 5
Assign appropriate data type for each field properties 2
Assign appropriate primary key and foreign key for the tables 2
Create relationships between the among the tables 4

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Insert five meaningful records for each table. 5

Task 3: Perform Database Operations
35%
Display book which price is Between 500 and 1000 5
Display the name of Customer whose name contain Five characters and
10
Borrows English Book.
Update Book title to Medemer whose author is Abiy. 5
Using SQL statement, Take a backup of the database in any disk. 5
Drop the created database AAU_Library 5
Restore the dropped database from backup 5
Task 4: Solve the following problem using flow charts
5%
Write an algorithm and draw the flowchart for finding the average of two
numbers 5

Grand Total result 100%

Evaluators Signature
1.________________________ ___________________
2.________________________ ___________________
3.________________________ ___________________

Competitor (ID)_________________ Signature_____________________

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Acknowledgment

We (Ministry of Labor and Skill) wish to extend thanks and appreciation to the many
representatives of academe, experts and coordinators who donated their time and expertise
to the development of this Skill Competition Package in accordance with Ethiopian
Occupational Standard (EOS).
We would like also to express our appreciation to the higher officials who facilitate and
support the development of this Skill Competition Package possible.
This Skill Competition Package was developed on January 2023 at Adama, Ethiopia

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