Rajasthan Technical University Doctoral Admission Test (RTU DAT) - Syllabus for the Test of Database Management System

No. of Question: 50 (Objective Type)
Duration: 1 Hr. 30 Min
Maximum Marks: 50
Basic Concepts of Data and Database systems:

Data, Fields, Records, Files and Databases, Data modeling for a database, Abstraction and data integration, Three level architecture of a DBMS, Overview of relational, network, hierarchical data models.

Database Design:

Entity Relationship model, Extended Entity Relationship model. Relational Model & Relational Data Manipulations: Relation, Conversion of ER diagrams to relations, Integrity constraints, Relational algebra, Relational domain & tuple calculus.

Structured Query Language:

DDL, DML, DCL, Views, Embedded SQL, Indexes, Sequences, Synonyms, Data Dictionary.

Relational Database Design Concepts:

Functional dependencies, Determining keys, Normalization-1st, 2nd, 3rd, BCNF, 4th and 5th, Lossless join and dependency preserving decomposition.

Advanced Concepts:

Centralized and Distributed Databases, Security, Concurrency and Recovery. Introduction to Modern Database Systems: Object Oriented Databases, Deductive Database, Spatial Databases, Cloud Databases: SQL, NoSQL and Hybrid, Big Data Fundamentals.

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