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The document is an examination paper for the MCA (Revised) course, specifically for the subject Advanced Database Management Systems (MCS-043). It includes a variety of questions covering topics such as cursors, stored procedures, triggers, data mining, distributed databases, and query optimization. Students are required to answer one compulsory question and any three additional questions within a 3-hour time frame.

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MCS-043 (5)

The document is an examination paper for the MCA (Revised) course, specifically for the subject Advanced Database Management Systems (MCS-043). It includes a variety of questions covering topics such as cursors, stored procedures, triggers, data mining, distributed databases, and query optimization. Students are required to answer one compulsory question and any three additional questions within a 3-hour time frame.

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MCA (Revised)
Term-End Examination
0.261.26 June, 2018

MCS-043 : ADVANCED DATABASE MANAGEMENT


SYSTEMS
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Question number 1 is compulsory. Answer any


three questions from, the rest.

1. (a) - What are Cursors, Stored Procedures and


Triggers ? Explain each with the help of an
example code.
(b) Differentiate between Logical and Physical
Database design.
(c) What is a View ? Explain any two
strategies for implementing the Views.
(d) What is Hash join ? How is Hash join
between two relations computed ? Explain
the algorithm and cost calculation for
simple hash join. 6
(e) Differentiate between a database
management system and a data warehouse.
What is the need for a data warehouse ? 4

MCS-043 1 P.T.O.
(f) What is granularity of data ? How does
granularity of data items affect the
performance of concurrency control ? 5

(g) Differentiate between Centralized DBMS


and Distributed DBMS.

(h) What is Timestamp Ordering ? Explain


timestamp based protocol for serializable
schedule. 5

2. (a) What is Data Mining ? How does Data


Mining differ from OLTP ? Discuss
Classification as a technique for data
mining. 7

(b) What are Data Marts ? Briefly discuss the


significance of data marts.

(c) What is XML ? How does XML differ from


HTML ? What are the advantages of
XML ? Create an XML schema for a list of
students and their marks. 8

3. (a) Differentiate between Two-phase commit


protocol and Three-phase commit protocol
in distributed databases. "The three-phase
commit protocol increases the system's
availability and does not allow transactions
to remain blocked until a failure is
repaired." Justify the statement. 7

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(b) What are Seinantic Databases ? List the
features of semantic databases. Explain
the process of searching the knowledge in
semantic databases.
(c) What is a Data Dictionary ? List some ,
features of a data dictionary. What are the
various approaches to implement a
Distributed Database Catalogue ? 7

(a) What is Shadow Paging ? Illustrate with an


example. Give the advantages and
disadvantages of shadow paging. 5

(b) Define Multi-valued Dependency. What is


Trivial Multi-valued Dependency ? State
the fourth normal form.
(c) Explain any one clustering technique for
data mining. 5

(d) What is Query Optimization ? Briefly


discuss the techniques of Query
Optimization with suitable examples.

5. (a) Explain the following :


(i) Dynamic SQL
(ii) OLAP
(iii) Spatial Databases
(iv) Temporal Databases
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(b) What are Mobile Databases ? List the
characteristics and challenges of mobile
databases.

(c) Explain Join Dependency with the help of


an example. To which normal form does it
correspond ? "Functional Dependencies and
Multivalued Dependencies are special
types of Join Dependencies." Justify the
statement.

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