Question $1(15$ Marks$)$

Scenario:

You are the lead Business Analyst at TechInnovateZA, a technology innovation company based in South Africa. The

company has been awarded a project to develop an integrated online platform to streamline the university admission

process across the nation. The platform aims to improve the overall user experience for students, academic staff, and

administrative personnel.

Your task includes creating a comprehensive database design to store information related to students, courses, universities,

and admissions, as well as designing user interfaces that cater to various user needs.

$1\mathrm{.}1$ Demonstrate the importance of normalization in database design for the TechInnovateZA project. $(5$ marks$)$

$1\mathrm{.}2$ Show how you would implement the first three forms of normalization to manage data involving

students, courses, universities, and admissions.

$(5$ marks$)$

$1\mathrm{.}3$ Demonstrate how you would implement a user$-$centric design approach in the development of the

online platform's interface to ensure it meets the needs of students, academic staff, and administrative

personnel.