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Assignment

Outcome:

1. Apply the essential concepts of relational databases, demonstrate best practice in the development of an appropriate and effective database system and discuss the big data concepts.

2. Select and apply appropriate techniques involved in database administration.

3. Critically evaluate security issues relating to database management systems and propose appropriate strategies to address security problems.

Part A

Scenario:

Gulf Institute of Advanced Technology (GIAT) conducts courses to award vocational and certifications programs in various specializations. Management decided to proceed with automation of all the process. It has many departments and each department can offer different programs. Each department is chaired by a Director. Further, each department is identified with a unique ID, department name, and employee_ID of the person who is heading the department. Within a department there are different programs, each Programme is managed by a Programme Manager (PM), who in turn reports to the Director.

Each department offers a bunch of courses spread across different programs which necessitates the need of interaction between the PMs and Director during allotment of modules to training staff. A course to be offered can have multiple sessions and each module is identified by a unique course code, course name and number of credit hours. Each teaching faculty is allocated with a teaching load of minimum of 18 credits.

Propose a conceptual model after an in-depth research on GIAT operations and processes. In order to come up with an appropriate design/solution, you must study the requirements, issues and best practices in this problem context. You can make relevant assumptions required to formulate business rules, security, administration and modelling.

Task 1:

Submit a work proposal for this assignment

• Understanding of deliverables - a detailed description of deliverables.

• General overview of the given tasks - (Part A and Part-B) - initial understanding of solution to all tasks with timeline to complete them and identification of literature resources. (For more clarity, please refer to criteria of evaluating the work proposal given on the last page of this assignment).

Task 2:

Design an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) to model the above scenario. Identify the different entities and attributes of each entity. Suggest and justify the choice of relationship and cardinality of the relationship. State the assumptions (if any) made by you to develop the ERD based on your research. Provide detailed analysis and justification for the selection of entities and attributes based on your research.

Task 3:
Derive a set of relational tables from the ER diagram (Task 2), using appropriate choices for the table attributes. List the integrity rules and business rules, which you would recommend to ensure the quality of data. Indicate all necessary key constraints. Critically analyze the constraints and business rules based on your study of the institute.

Task 4:

As a database administrator evaluate different Database Management system Software for the above scenario. You are required to prepare a technical and financial feasibility report. You are required to critically analyse each aspects and suggest the best suitable database management system software for the above scenario with appropriate justifications.

Task 5: As a database administrator identification of specific roles for users, authentication policy, storage management and database recovery are critical. The efficiency and complexity of database administration depends on the identified strategy and tools. Propose and critically review user management, backup/recovery strategy, storage management/techniques formulated for the system discussed in Task 1-3.

Task 6: Prepare a report comprising an executive summary including self-reflections on the industry guest speaker talk.

Part B

Write a research article in IEEE Format on "best practice in the development of an appropriate and effective database system". The research article can be approximately 2500 words.

Present the research article using a poster presentation covering the following aspects of research:

• Problem specification, importance of research and research questions
• Theoretical framework
• Rigor of literature review
• Methods or empirical analysis techniques;
• Key findings and conclusions;

As a Post Graduate student, you are required to spend time in research and study. Apply the research skills (such as ability to formulate research questions; technical and analytical skills to solve those questions, ability to communicate results) to prepare your article. It is expected that a Post Graduate student demonstrates the research abilities to expand his/her knowledge on latest database technology. Importantly, to achieve the above goal, you are expected to learn with much greater independence and need to do a significant background reading on the chosen topic.

Guidelines

Follow the guidelines mentioned below for your assignment.

i. Students are expected to do a critical analysis of the tasks and present their analysis by drawing on relevant theoretical concepts. Marks will be awarded based on the ability of students to undertake the task in a logical manner by drawing on appropriate concepts and theoretical frameworks/literatures.
ii. Report should have a Title Page. Title Page should contain the following information.
a. Assignment Name
b. Student name
c. Student ID
iii. It should have Table of Contents.
iv. Use page numbers.
v. Assignment should be typed in your own words using Times New Roman font.
vi. Use Diagrams to explain in detail.
vii. Use suitable notations in your diagrams.
viii. Use appropriate SQL syntax wherever applicable.
ix. Copy paste from the Internet is strictly not acceptable.
x. References should be included in the last page and literature under pinning is needed at the point of explaining the concept.