Occupational Code: ICT DBA

Ministry of Education
Sector: Information Communication Technology
Sub-Sector: Information Technology
Occupation: Database Administration L_III

Candidate’s Package
The assessment covers the following units of competence:
1. Gather Data to Identify Business Requirements
2. Identify Physical Database Requirements
3. Design a Database
4. Use Basic Structured Query Language
5. Design Program Logic
6. Test Physical Database Implementation
7. Complete Database Backup and Recovery
8. Create Technical Documentation
9. Model Data Objects
10. Monitor Implementation of Work plan/Activities
11. Apply Quality Control
12. Lead Small Teams
13. Lead Workplace Communication
14. Improve Business Practice
15. Maintain Quality System and Continuous Improvement Processes (Kaizen)

Candidate’s Package for Database Administration L_3_V1 (Qualification. Based)

Occupational Code: ICT DBA

Candidate’s instructions and worksheets

 Instructions to Candidate
 Methods of Assessment

1 Observation /Demonstration
2 Knowledge assessment ( Oral interview/written)

Candidate name
Registration number
Name of assessment center
Name of training provider

Type of Assessment applied:

Qualification – based X

Competency based

Candidate’s Package for Database Administration L_3_V1 (Qualification. Based)

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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE

Occupation: Database Administration L_3

1. For Qualification-based assessment, you are to perform all the projects in this package
together with the written tests.
2. For competence-based assessment, you are required to perform the specific project/s
where the competencies to be certified are included.
3. Read the Project package/s and Written test (if applicable) properly.
4. All your questions and clarifications should be addressed to the assessor only.
5. Complete the task/project described in the project package.
6. You are given fifteen (15) minutes reading time for each project and the number of
hours allocated for each project is indicated in the Project Information Sheet.
7. After you finish this assessment, you are required to submit all the project packages
and written tests questions provided to you.
8. You are allowed to use your tools/ instruments with the permission of the Assessor, and
this must be presented to the assessor before start of the test.
9. After you finish the assessment, you are required to sign the Competency Assessment
Results Summary, and return to the stock room all the tools and materials borrowed.
10. You are also required to clean up your work station after completion of your work.
Project Information
Given the necessary tools, equipment and information, you are expected to perform the following two
projects.
The assessor should ask oral questions on which s/he is not satisfied by your performance
Assessment Venue:Well Equipped Assessment Centre or real work place

Total time for all projects: 6:45 Hours

Project 1: Design Entity Relationship Diagram of simple Database

Time allotted for the project: - 1:30hrs
Competences Covered:
1. Gather Data to Identify Business Requirements
2. Identify Physical Database Requirements
3. Design a Database
4. Design Program Logic

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5. Test Physical Database Implementation

6. Create Technical Documentation
7. Model Data Objects
Instruction:- Under this project you are expected to perform the following two tasks based
On the information provided.

Task1: Design the simple ERD for XYZ Enterprise Database:

Time allotted: 60 minutes
 Requirements for the Enterprise Database:
 The Enterprise is organized into Departments. Each department has a unique name, and
a unique number. A department may have several locations.

 Each department controls a number of Projects.

 Each project has a unique Name, a unique Number and DeptName.

 The database also stores each Employee’s ID, Name, Salary, Gender, BirthDate and
DeptName. Each employee works for one department but may work on several projects,
and each project can have many employees.

Instruction: - Under this task you are expected to perform the following activities based
On the information provided

 Install Microsoft Office Visio 2003/7 software

 Design the ERD for XYZ Enterprise Database based on the above given requirement on
Microsoft Office Visio 2003/7 software.

Task2: Design flowchart:

Time allotted: 30 minutes

The following pseudo code describes an algorithm which will accept a number from the keyboard and
calculate the sum of N numbers between 1 and N.
Start
Sum = 0;
Count = 1;
Display “Input value for N” ;
Accept the value for N ;
While (Count<=N)
Sum = Sum + Count ;
Count = Count +1 ;
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Display “ The sum is “ sum ;

End ;

Instruction: - Under this task you are expected to perform the following activities based

On the information provided

 Design the corresponding flowchart for this pseudo code.

Project 2: Install of DBMS (SQL Server 2008) software

Time allotted for the project: - 4:45hrs

Competences Covered:
1. Use Basic Structured Query Language
2. Complete Database Backup and Recovery

Instruction:- Under this project you are expected to perform the following three tasks based
On the information provided.
Task 1: Install SQL Server 2008 software:

Time allotted: 45 minutes

Instruction: - Under this task you are expected to perform the following activities based
On the information provided-While installing SQL server 2008,
 Configure with mixed mode (SQL server authentication and Windows authentication).
 Install all features of the SQL server

Task 2: Designing a simple Database for ABC College.

Time allowed: 1:30 Hours

Suppose you are a database administrator in ABC College and assigned to create a database that
manages the students, courses and students’ grade report information.
Instruction: - Under this task you are expected to perform the following activities based
On the information provided

Candidate’s Package for Database Administration L_3_V1 (Qualification. Based)

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A) Create a database named ABC_COLLEGE onSQL server 2008.

Under ABC_COLLEGE database, create the tables by using the following given information.
Table 1: STUDENT
Field Name Type Size Default constraint
value
StudID varchar 10 --- Primary key
Name char 30 --- Not Null
Sex char 6 Female Male or Female
BirthDate datetime --- --- Not Null
Section char 6 --- ----
DeptName char 40 --- Not Null

Table 2: COURSE
Field Nme Type Size constraint
Course_Cod varchar 8 Primary key
e
Course_Title char 40 Not Null
Credit int ----

Table 3: GRADE_REPORT
Field Name Type Size constraint
SID varchar 10 Primary key, foreign key
C_Code varchar 8 Primary key, foreign key
Grade char --- A, B, C, D, F

Relationships between the three tables:

STUDENT COURSE
StudID Name Sex BirthDate Section DeptName Course_code Title Credit

Relationship (M:1)
Relationship (1:M)

GRADE_REPORT
SID C_code Grade

B) Add a new column named “EmailAddress” as type char with size 25 to STUDENT table

C) Insert the sample records in to the tables as shown:

STUDENT
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StudID Name Sex BirthDat Sectio DeptName EmailAddress

e n
R101 Kiros Male 20/02/80 Room1 Computer kiros@gmail.com
Science
R102 Mulu Female 12/06/78 Room1 Computer Alemu@yahoo.com
Science
R103 Getache Male 17/01/70 Room2 Electrical GechB@yahoo.com
w
R104 Melkamu Male 10/09/73 Room1 Computer Melkamu@gmail.com
Science
R105 Seble Female 19/01/82 Room2 Electrical Seble_Gash@gmail.co
m

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 COURSE
Course_ Course_ Credit
Code Title
ICT001 Calculus 80
ICT002 Software 140
Elec003 Electrical 200

GRADE_REPORT
SID C_Code Grade
R101 ICT001 B
R101 ICT002 C
R102 ICT001 A
R103 Elec003 C
R104 ICT001 B
R104 ICT002 A
R105 Elec003 B

Task 3: Develop queries:

Time allowed: 2:30 Hours

Instruction: - Under this task you are expected to perform the following activities based on
the information provided

 Develop SQL query that retrieve the names of all students who score grade “B”
and save it by the name ResultB in D: drive.
 Develop SQL query that retrieve StudID and Name of all female students who
taken the course title “software” and save it by the name soft in Desktop.
 Write SQL statement that retrieve all students who score grade ‘A’ in Computer
Science Department and Sort them descending by their DeptName and
Ascending by their Name, and then save it by the name ordered in D: drive
 Write SQL statement that create a backup for ABC_COLLEGE database and
save the back up with the backup name AbcBack in local disk ( D: ).
 Develop SQL statement that changes the Section into “Room4” of all students
who score grade ‘A’ or ‘B’ for the course title “software”
 Assume that ABC_COLLEGE databae was dropped accidentally.Write SQL
query that Recover dropped database from the backup.
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Materials and supplies (Consumable) for project 1 & 2
No Items Qty Unit Specification
1 MS-SQL server 2008 1 No
2 MS-Office Visio 2003/7 1 No
3 Paper 6 sheet A4

Tools and equipment

No Items Qty Unit Specification

1 Computer 1 Pcs Standard Pc
2 Printer 1 pcs Standard printer
3

Candidate’s package for Database Administration L_III_V1 (Qual. Based)