Scenario:

Part A

The FlexForce Solutions: Pioneering Flexible Staffing Solutions

The FlexForce Solutions (FFS) is an agency that places temporary workers in companies.
It has emerged as a dynamic agency catering to the evolving needs of the modern
workforce and the fluctuating demands of various industries. With a keen understanding
of the value of flexibility in today's economy, FFS specializes in placing temporary
workers in companies across diverse sectors. FFS keeps a file of candidates who are
willing to work and a list of companies that request temporaries.
FFS maintains a specific job history for any candidate who has worked before. Each time
a candidate works, an additional job history record is created for the candidate.
Qualification is required for all candidates. Each candidate needs to have earned at least
one qualification. Different candidates can have earned the same qualification. FFS
offers courses to help candidates to improve their qualifications. Each course develops
one specific qualification; however, TE does not offer a course for every qualification.
Some qualifications are developed through multiple courses.
Courses that cover basic topics do not require any prerequisite qualifications. Courses
that cover advanced topics will require specific qualification as prerequisites. A course
can require several prerequisites. A qualification can be a prerequisite for more than one
course. Courses are taught during training sessions. A training session is the presentation
of a single course. Over time, FFS will offer many training sessions for each course;
however, new courses may not have any training sessions scheduled right away.
Candidates can pay a fee to attend a training session. A training session can
accommodate several candidates, although new training sessions will not have any
candidates registered at first.
A request for a temporary employee by a company is referred to as an opening. FFS keeps a
folder called Openings to record all openings. Each opening in the folder records the name of
the company that requested a temporary employee, the required qualifications, the starting
date, an anticipated ending date, and hourly pay. Each opening requires only one specific or
main qualification. An opening can be filled by many candidates, and a candidate can fill
many openings. Each opening is assigned an opening number.
Jobs are assigned to candidates who match the required qualification. FFS keeps a folder
called Placement Record to record all placements.
FFS uses special codes to describe a candidate’s qualifications for an opening. The list of
codes is shown below:
Table 1. Job Codes and Descriptions for FlexForce Solutions Candidates.
Code Description
SEC-45 Secretarial work; candidate must type at
least 45 words per minute
SEC-60 Secretarial work; candidate must type at
least 60 words per minute
CLERK General clerking work
PRG-VB Programmer, Visual Basic
PRG-C++ Programmer, C++
DBA-ORA Database Administrator, Oracle
DBA-DB2 Database Administrator, IBM DB2
DBA-SQLSERV Database Administrator, MS SQL Server
SYS-1 Systems Analyst, level 1
SYS-2 Systems Analyst, level 2
NW-NOV Network Administrator, Novell experience

WD-CF Web Developer, ColdFusion

Requirements:
FFS wants to keep track of available resource and service they can offer for management
and marketing purpose. You are asked to help the TC management team to develop an
RDBMS. In the design phase (i.e., your Assignment 1), your task is to design an ERD
for this enterprise. Specifically, you are required to:

a) Identify all business rules from the TE business operation described above.
b) Identify all necessary entities and relationships between them and List.
c) Draw an ERD in Microsoft Visio based on 1&2 (above) using Crow’s Foot
notation. Your ERD must: show the connectivity and dependency for each
relationship, resolve all M: N relationships (if any), and show the attributes and
keys that adequately describe entities and their relationships.
d) Justify if your design conforms to the Integrity Rules.