A major public university graduates approximately 10,000 students per year, and its development office has decided to build a Web-based system that solicits and tracks donations from the university's large alumni body. Ultimately, the development officers hope to use the information in the system to better understand the alumni giving patterns so that they can improve giving rates. Required:
a. What kind of system is this?
b. What different kinds of data will this system use?
c. On the basis of your answers, what kind of data storage format(s) do you recommend for this system?

a) database system

b) Transaction and Alumni data

c) Database format ( table )

Explanation:

a) The kind of system that is described in this question is a database system because a web based system that is enabled for tracking should have saved the details of the members included in the system hence it has to be databased system

b) The different kinds of data that the system will use includes: Transaction data and Alumni data.

c) The kind of data format that would be recommended for this system is

The Database format, because of certain optimizations already inbuilt in a database system such as tables

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