JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
R18 B.Tech II Year II Semester Examinations, November/December - 2020
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(Common to CSE, IT)
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Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 75
Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B.
Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A. Part B consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question carries 10 marks.
PART - A (25 Marks)
-  Answer all questions - Define Data, Database and DBMS. (2M)
- What are the advantages of using DBMS? (3M)
- What is a candidate key? Explain. (2M)
- Describe the purpose of foreign key. (3M)
- What is normalization? (2M)
- Explain about 1NF. (3M)
- What is transaction? (2M)
- Explain the ACID properties of transactions. (3M)
- What is serializability? (2M)
- List different lock modes. (3M)
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PART - B (50 Marks)
(Answer all five units, choosing one question from each unit)
UNIT - I
-  Explain the structure of DBMS with neat diagram. (10M) OR Explain different types of data models with examples. (10M) 
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UNIT - II
-  Explain about different types of constraints in SQL with examples. (10M) OR Consider the following relations: Sailors (sid: integer, sname: string, rating: real, age: integer) Boats (bid: integer, bname: string, color: string) --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- Reserves (sid: integer, bid: integer, day: date) Write the following queries in SQL: - Find the names of sailors who have reserved boat 103. (3M)
- Find the sids of sailors who have reserved a red boat. (3M)
- Find the names of sailors who have reserved at least one boat. (4M)
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UNIT - III
-  What is functional dependency? Explain different types of functional dependencies with examples. (10M) OR Consider the relation R = {A, B, C, D, E, H} and the set of functional dependencies: A ? B --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- AC ? D E ? C AD ? E H ? AG i. Is ADH a superkey? (5M) --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- ii. Is EH a superkey? (5M) 
UNIT - IV
-  Explain different types of concurrency control techniques. (10M) OR Explain the concept of deadlock. How is it detected and resolved? (10M) --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- 
UNIT - V
-  Discuss different types of failures. Explain different recovery techniques. (10M) OR Explain the concept of deferred database modification. Explain the deferred database modification recovery algorithm. (10M) 
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