CSC 110 Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam will consist of three phases as described below:
In this phase you will take a fifteen-question exam. I will select the questions at random from the first exam you took earlier in the course. Your best approach to studying for this phase is to study that exam. It’s posted on the syllabus website.
In phase 2 you will design a Microsoft Access database. I’m concerned mostly with your demonstrated understanding of relational database terminology, not necessarily in a complete application. At minimum you will create any required tables, their fields, and relationships. You must be able to explain the purposes of Primary Keys and Foreign
Keys and how they are applied to create table relationships in a relational database. The following scenario is a typical example of what will be on the test:
Task: You are a small business owner who needs to track customer data. Design a database with two tables: Customers and Purchases.
Give the Customer table the following fields of the corresponding type:
Customers
ID
Field Name
First_Name
Autonumber
Text
Type Description
Primary Key (PK)
Customer’s first name
Middle_Name
Last_Name
Date_Added
Address_1
Text
Text
Date
Text
Customer’s middle name
Customer’s last name
Date added to the database
Street Address
City
State
Text
Text
City
State
Zip Text
Create a second table named Purchases with the following fields and types:
Purchases
ID
Field Name
FK_CustomerID Number
Type
Autonumber
Description
Primary Key (PK)
Item Purchased Text
FK to Customers.ID. This is a look-up column.
Item purchased

Date Purchased Date Date item purchased
When you’ve finished creating the tables go to the Relationships window, select the relationship that exists between the Customers and Purchases tables, and check Enforce
Referential Integrity, Cascade Delete, and Cascade Update.
Next, create a query that shows you a list of customers and the items they purchased including the date they purchased the items.
Demonstrate to me that you have created the database, the tables, the relationship between the tables, and the query.
Once you’ve created your database, populate it with test data and test the query.
In this phase you will use Microsoft Word to create a mail merge document that uses the data contained in the database query to generate customer form letters.
Task: Create a mail merge document to each customer. Use the query you created in the previous phase to provide the data fields. Add an address block and salutation line.
Add the text of the letter. (Let your imagination help you here.) When you’ve finished, run the mail merge and show me the results.