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Exam Style Questions From 2006 Perfect Papers
Normalisation Marks
The Squash Coaching Club is a private club which employs several
professional squash
coaches to travel to squash clubs in Central Scotland giving
one-to-one lessons to promising
youngsters in the 10 to 17 age bracket.
Players up to the age of 14 receive a 1 hour lesson while those
aged 15 to 17 receive a 2 hour
lesson. Each player has the same professional for each of their
lessons. A player cannot have
more than one lesson in a week.
The Club holds its information on the lessons in its database.
The data dictionary for four of
the entities is shown below.
Entity Attribute Description
Professiona
l
Prof ID Unique professional identifier, required, text
Name Professionals name, required, text
Address Professionals address, required, textTel No
Professionals telephone number, required, text
Player Player ID Unique player identifier, required, text
Name Players name, required, text
Address Players address, required, text
Tel No Players telephone number, required, text
Age Players age, required, number
Club Lookup from Club entity
Lesson Prof ID Lookup from Professional entity
Player ID Lookup from Player entity
Place Place of lesson, required, textDate Date of lesson,
required, date/time
Time Time of lesson, required, date/time
Duration Length of lesson, required, number
Club Name Unique club identifier, required, text
Address Clubs address, required, text
Tel No Clubs telephone number, required text
Secretary Name Name of club secretary, required, text
(a) State the relationships that exist between these entities.
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(b) A number of reports are prepared by the Club each month.
State the entities involved inproducing each of the following
reports.
(i) The names of the players who have received a lesson from
each professional. 3
(ii) The names of the club secretaries whose clubs have had
players receiving lessons in
July.
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Marks(c) Another of the reports the Club prepares at the end of
each month shows the names of
each Professional in alphabetical order with their total time
spent giving lessons during
the month.
Describe the steps taken by the Club to produce this report.
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(d) One of the professional coaches says that under the Freedom
of Information Act(Scotland) 2002 the Club must show him the data
which it holds in its computer about
the salaries it pays its coaches.
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Using Information
MarksGetfit Fitness Centres Ltd wish to construct a new
Gymnasium and Fitness Centre. They have
earmarked three possible development locations and the table
below gives some information
about each one. The construction period is the time taken from
commencing building to
opening for business.
Location A Location B Location CPopulation within 10
miles
44000 60000 95000
Distance from nearest
similar centre
26 9 2
Costs to buy land,
construct and complete
centre( millions)
1.3 1.5 1.9
Construction period 10 months 7 months 13 months
The company have a budget of 2 million to purchase the land,
construct the building and
install the equipment. They also have an advertising budget of
30000 to be spent in the first 6
months after opening.
Once a final location was chosen, construction on the centre
began. During the construction
phase, the company commissioned a Data Gathering Service to
collect information on how
many people could be expected to become members of the Centre
within the first 6 months of
opening. These figures are shown below, along with actual
membership numbers once the
centre was finally opened.
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6
Amount spent on
advertising ()
12000 8000 4000 2000 2000 2000
Expected no. ofnew members 550 450 300 150 100 50
Actual no. of new
members
364 216 105 96 34 9
(a) The information in the tables can be used
fordecision-makingand control.
(i) Give one example, from above, of information which would be
used for decision
making. Justify your answer.
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(ii) Give one example, from above, of information which would be
used for control. Justify
your answer.
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(b) A large amount of information was available to the company.
This information can becategorised as internalorexternal.
Give an example of each of these types of information. 2
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(c) (i) During the construction of the Centre, severe weather
delayed the project by two weeks.Explain how the company was able
to complete the Centre on time by using itsprojectmanagement
software to control the project.
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(ii) Theproject management software was also used to produce a
weekly report on the
progress of the project. Part of the information given was in
graphical form charting theprogress made on a weekly basis.
What is the name given to these types of project management
charts?1
