Unit 04 - L4_Database Design & Development - March 30, 2025 - Farhan Mikrani - Assignment Nepal

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
NEPAL

FACULTY OF COMPUTING

UNIT TITLE	Unit 4: Database Design & Development
UNIT CODE	A/618/7400	LEVEL	4 (Core)
STUDENT NAME		CREDIT VALUE	15
ASSESSMENT TITLE	Hotel Room Reservation System	WORD COUNT
ASSESSOR	Farhan Mikrani	I.V.
ASSIGNMENT ISSUE DATE	March 30, 2025	ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION DATE	June 04, 2025
ORIGINAL SUBMISSION		ASSIGNMENT NO.	1/1

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO BE ASSESSED IN THIS ASSIGNMENT
(Identify all criteria to be assessed in this assignment)

Assignment Criteria	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5
Achieved
	Merit Criteria						Distinction Criteria
Assignment Criteria	M1	M2	M3	M3	M4	M5	D1	D2	D3
Achieved

Important:

Read the plagiarism notice and requirements at Page 6
Word-limit- 8000 words (excludes cover page, table of content, figures, graphs, reference list, appendix and logbook)
Accepted Sources: Research Papers (Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Thesis), Text Books, Governmental Data, Websites (only a registered organization, an educational institution, government agency)
Information taken from unreliable sources will not be accepted
Must follow Harvard Reference Style
Assignment must be submitted through the Plagiarism Detection Tool

Assignment submission format

Each student has to submit their assignment as guided in the assignment brief. The students are guided on what sort of information is to produce to meet the criteria targeted. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs, and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system.

Learning outcomes covered

LO1 Use an appropriate design tool to design a relational database system for a substantial problem
LO2 Develop a fully-functional relational database system, based on an existing system design
LO3 Test the system against user and system requirements
LO4 Produce technical and user documentation.

Scenario

The “Hidden Paradise Hotel” is a new upcoming boutique hotel, located in a scenic location near Kathmandu. The management of the hotel has decided to implement a robust, secure hotel reservation system to use at the front desk.

Whenever a new guest arrives at the hotel, the front desk staff look into the system for availability and reserve rooms for the guests as per their request. All the information of the guest (including name, contact number, duration of stay etc) is entered during check in. One guest may book more than one room, but a room can be booked under only one person’s name.

The guest may request for additional services during their stay, including extra beds, food, airport pick up, sightseeing services etc. The total amount payable has to be calculated at the time of check out.

The manager would require regular reports- weekly and monthly regarding occupancy and sales. Further he should be able to add/ edit rooms in the system.

Your task is to conduct a thorough software investigation and prepare a DBMS for the system.

ASSIGNMENT TASKS

Task

Activity 1: Designing the Database as per the scenario

Before you start the development process, you need to prepare a proposal document to be submitted to your manager. The document should contain:

1. The design of the relational database system using appropriate design tools and techniques. It should contain at least four interrelated tables.

2. Clear statements of user and system requirements.

You would prefer to produce a more detailed document, so you will produce a comprehensive design for a fully functional system which will include interface and output designs, data validations and cover data normalization.

Your manager would like a separate report on your assessment of the effectiveness of the design in relation to user and system requirements.

Activity 2: Development and testing of the database system

Create and fully implement the database system showing evidence of user interface, output and data validations and querying across multiple tables using a query language. The system must also be fully secure and maintainable.

Include code snippets and screenshots of the system functionalities as evidence wherever required.

For a higher grade:

You would want to include more than just the basics so you will implement a fully functional database system which will include system security and database maintenance features.

Further provide a detailed assessment of whether meaningful data has been extracted through the use of query tools to produce appropriate management information. and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the database solution in relation to user and system requirements, and suggest improvements.

Further,

Develop and action a test plan with effective tests that includes effective data, and extreme and erroneous data in order to build an accurate picture of the viability of the database

Tests must assess the breadth and usability of the programme as well as the requirements in the brief

Tests must include meaningful data and elements that would demonstrate a successful implementation

Further Produce a written report:

To assess the effectiveness of testing, including an explanation of the choice of the test data used. and evaluate the effectiveness of the database against user requirements and suggest improvements.

5) Produce a series of user videos and a detailed technical and user documentation:

Technical: showing the backend of the system and its associated setup, including data flow diagrams and flowcharts, describing how the system works
User: showcasing the system from a user perspective.

For a higher grade, You would want to provide some graphical representations for ease of reference in the technical guide, so you need to produce technical and user documentation for a fully functional system, including diagrams showing movement of data through the system, and flowcharts describing how the system works.

Lastly, Evaluate the effectiveness of the database solution in relation to user and system requirements, and suggest improvements.

LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Pass	Merit	Distinction
LO1 Use an appropriate design tool to design a relational database system for a substantial problem		LO1 D1 Evaluate the effectiveness of the design in relation to user and system requirements.
P1 Design a relational database system using appropriate design tools and techniques, containing at least four interrelated tables, with clear statements of user and system requirements.	M1 Produce a comprehensive design for a fully-functional system, which includes interface and output designs, data validations and data normalisation
LO2 Develop a fully-functional relational database system, based on an existing system design		LO2 & LO3 D2 Evaluate the effectiveness of the database solution in relation to user and system requirements and suggest improvements.
P2 Develop the database system with evidence of user interface, output and data validations, and querying across multiple tables. P3 Implement a query language into the relational database system.	M2 Implement a fully functional database system, which includes system security and database maintenance. M3 Assess whether meaningful data has been extracted through the use of query tools to produce appropriate management information.
LO3 Test the system against user and system requirements
P4 Test the system against user and system requirements.	M4 Assess the effectiveness of the testing, including an explanation of the choice of test data used.
LO4 Produce technical and user documentation		LO4 D3 Evaluate the database in terms of improvements needed to ensure the continued effectiveness of the system
P5 Produce technical and user documentation.	M5 Produce technical and user documentation for a fully-functional system, including data flow diagrams and flowcharts, describing how the system works.

Plagiarism Notice

You are reminded that there exists Academic Misconduct Policy and Regulation concerning Cheating and Plagiarism.

Extracts from the Policy:

Section 3.4.1: Allowing others to do assignments / Copying others assignment is an offence

Section 3.4.2: Plagiarism, using the views, opinion or insights / paraphrasing of another person’s original phraseology without acknowledgement

Requirements

It should be the student’s own work – Plagiarism is unacceptable.
Clarity of expression and structure are important features.
Your work should be submitted as a well presented, word-processed document with headers and footers, and headings and subheadings.
You are expected to undertake research on this subject using books from the Library, and resources available on the Internet.
Any sources of information should be listed as references at the end of your document and these sources should be referenced within the text of your document using Harvard Referencing style
Your report should be illustrated with screen-prints, images, tables, charts and/or graphics.
All assignments must be typed in Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 spacing.
The center policy is that you must submit your work within due date to achieve “Merit” and “Distinction”. Late submission automatically eliminates your chance of achieving “Merit and Distinction”. Also, 80% attendance is required to validate this assignment.