Question 1 List and explain various Normal Forms. How BCNF differs from the Third Normal Form and 4th Normal forms?

Question 2 Describe the concepts of Structural Semantic Data Model(SSM)

Question 3 Describe the following with respect to Object Oriented Databases

• Query Processing in Object-Oriented Database Systems
• Query Processing Architecture

Question 4 Describe the Differences between Distributed & Centralized Databases

Question 5 Explain the following

• Query Optimization
• Text Retrieval Using SQL3/Text Retrieval

Question 6 Describe the following

• Data Mining Functions
• Data Mining Techniques