Student ID Last Name First Name Gender Attendance Punctuality

P1 Adams Megan F 100% 96%

P2 Ali Raza M 95% 98%

P3 Jones Timothy M 89% 93%

P4 Smith Winston M 98% 97%

P5 Williams Sally F 87% 100%

1. State which of the fields is the most likely to be the primary key and explain and your answer.

Student ID

2. At certain times during the year, a teacher run queries to find out if any students have low levels of attendance, punctuality or both. State the Student ID of all records the would fit the following criteria:

a. Attendance = 100

P1

b. Attendance <95 AND punctuality <95

P3

c. Attendance <95 OR punctuality <95

P3, P5

3. What criteria would be used to find all female students with 90% attendance

Gender, First Name, Last Name, Attendance

4. Explain what is meant by the term DBMS

A database management system (DBMS) is a collection of programs that enables you to store, modify, and extract information from a database. There are many different types of database management systems, ranging from small systems that run on personal computers to huge systems that run on mainframes.

5. Give an example of how each of the following might be used in a register system at a secondary school

a. Form

To input data about a student

b. Report

To display a certain kind of information about a student e.g. Age

c. Query

To display a certain kind of information about a student e.g. Age. But this is more user friendly