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Spring 2012

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BScIT) – Semester 5

BT0086 – Mobile Computing – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1181)

Assignment Set – 1 (60 Marks)

Answer all questions 10 x 6 = 60

1. Discuss Spectrum Management.

2. Explain FDMA and TDMA concepts.

3. Write a note on early radiotelephone systems.

4. Explain the three basic communication modes.

5. Explain the three components of a basic cellular system.

6. Discuss radio propagation in mobile environment.

7. Why do we need multiple access techniques?

8. Explain circuit switching and packet switching techniques.

9. What are the workgroups? Explain.

10. Explain different wireless protocol requirements.

Spring 2012


BT0086 – Mobile Computing – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1181)



1. What are the features of mobile and wireless devices?

2. What is the functionality of the WAE micro-browser environment?

3. What are the main elements of the WAE model? Explain.

4. What is the role of the repository in the WTA services?

5. What are the WLAN’s operating speeds?

6. What is the radio frequency (RF) band in which the LANs operate?

7. What are the fundamental components of a GSM network? Explain.

8. Give the classification of Logical channels.

9. Explain with block diagram the basic elements of the GSM transmission chain.

10. What is an ad hoc network? Explain.

Spring 2012


BT0087 – WML and WAP Programming - Theory – 2 Credits

(Book ID: B1182)



1. Mention the devices for which WAP is designed.

2. Why HTTP, TLS and transmission control protocol (TCP) are inefficient over mobile

networks?

3. What are the goals of WAP architecture?

4. What are the differences between HTML and WML?

5. Explain the use of type attribute.

Spring 2012


BT0087 – WML and WAP Programming - Theory – 2 Credits

(Book ID: B1182)



1. What are the problems in WML?

2. What are the features of WML script Language?

3. What is an operator? What are the operators supported by WML Script? Explain with

examples.

4. What are the Characteristics of the functions?

5. Which are the library functions that handle absolute URLs? Explain.

Spring 2012


BT0088 – Cryptography and Network Security – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1183)



1. Explain the need for network security.

2. What is security attack? Explain with examples.

3. What is the difference between substitution and transposition techniques?

4. Using Caesar Cipher encrypt the plaintext “Sikkim Manipal University” using key value

5.

5. Explain different characteristics that identify a good encryption technique.

6. Compare Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption Systems.

7. Give the Overview of DES Algorithm.

8. Explain RSA technique with an example.

9. Explain different approaches used in judging the quality of security.

10. What are the different ways in which an operating system can assist or offer

protection?

Spring 2012


BT0088 – Cryptography and Network Security – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1183)



1. What are Security Policies? Explain military security policy.

2. Explain Chinese wall Security Policy.

3. Write a short note on Impersonation.

4. Explain link and end-to-end encryption.

5. Explain in detail, the Security Association.

6. Describe the Authentication Header.

7. Explain in detail, the Secure Socket layer.

8. Mention different possible threats to E-mail.

9. What is Firewall? Explain.

10. What do you mean by Planning Security policies? Explain.

Spring 2012


BT8901 – Object Oriented Systems – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1185)



1. Give the two orthogonal views of the software.

2. Discuss the importance of object orientation during system development.

3. Distinguish between Object and Class with examples.

4. What do you mean by information hiding?

5. Give the criteria for building high quality software.

6. Explain the use case driven approach to object oriented systems development

process.

7. Explain Rumbaugh et al.’s Object Modeling Technique (OMT) in detail.

8. What do you mean by object oriented modeling?

9. Explain Class Diagram with examples along with various relationships existing

between classes.

10. Explain different kinds of Interaction Diagrams with examples.

Spring 2012


BT8901 – Object Oriented Systems – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1185)



1. What is Cost-Benefit Analysis? Explain with an example.

2. What do you mean by Risk Analysis?

3. Give a note on modern hierarchical team.

4. Explain Synchronize-and-Stabilize Team Organization with an example.

5. List the five core workflows of the Unified Process.

6. List the four phases of the Unified Process.

7. Give two factors for deciding how to allocate operations to classes.

8. How is responsibility-driven design used as a guide for deciding how to allocate

operations to classes?

9. Why does every interaction diagram need a written description.

10. How do we find actors? Explain.

Spring 2012


BT8902 – E-Commerce – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1186)



1. Explain the different activities carried out on E–Commerce, with appropriate examples.

2. Explain the core components of E–Commerce in detail with appropriate examples.

3. What are e–commerce activities?

4. Explain the different operation modes associated to e – commerce.

5. Give details on how the internet came into existence.

6. Explain the different types of physical networking.

7. What are the different types of ISP services available?

8. What are the seven layers of OSI model? Explain the functions in brief.

9. Define XML. Compare and contrast XML with HTML.

10. Explain the key elements of marketing.

Spring 2012


BT8902 – E-Commerce – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1186)



1. Explain the four areas of concern as far as internet security is concerned.

2. Explain Denial-of-Service Attacks.

3. What do you mean by Electronic funds transfer? What are the different requirements

for the same?

4. List out the benefits, which digital tokens offer to buyers and sellers.

5. Define CRM.

6. Explain the five interactive areas of CRM.

7. Define Supply chain management.

8. Define WAP.

9. What is knowledge management? Explain its goals.

10. Explain the meaning of eBay and the three processes associated with it.

Spring 2012


BT8903 – C# Programming – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1187)



1. What is .Net Framework?

2. Describe the usage of MSIL in running programs using C#..

3. Explain the three traits of Object Oriented Programming.

4. Explain the steps to execute a C# program using command line Compiler.

5. What are literals? Explain different types of literals supported by C#.

6. Explain boxing and unboxing with examples.

7. What is a mixed mode arithmetic expression? Explain with an example.

8. Explain different decision making statements used in C#.

9. What are arrays? Explain one dimensional array with relevant examples.

10. Explain different method parameters used in C# with examples.

Spring 2012


BT8903 – C# Programming – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1187)



1. What is enumeration? How is it useful in C# programming?

2. When do you prefer the use of structures over classes?

3. Explain the different member access modifiers used in C#

4. Describe different ways of providing values to instance variables of a class.

5. What is inheritance? How is it implemented in C#?

6. What are the two forms of inheritance? Give your own examples.

7. What is an exception? Give examples.

8. What are the major differences between a class and an interface?

9. Distinguish between Write and WriteLine methods.

10. Write a Windows application in C#, having two textbox controls and a button control,

validate that the textbox values are not blank. Clicking the button will interchange the

textbox values and the button disappears.

Spring 2012


BT9001 – Data Mining – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1188)



1. What is data mining? Write Data Mining applications.

2. What is OLAP? Write the benefits of OLAP.

3. Describe the key features of a Data Warehouse.

4. Explain Multidimensional Database Schemas.

5. What is Business Intelligence? Explain the components of BI architecture.

6. Differentiate between Data warehouse and Business Intelligence.

7. Describe Data Cleaning and its importance.

8. What is Data Mining? How does it work?

9. Describe dynamic itemset counting algorithm.

10. Explain the approaches for mining multilevel association rules.

Spring 2012


BT9001 – Data Mining – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1188)



1. What is Clustering? Explain K-means clustering method with an example.

2. Explain hierarchical clustering with an example.

3. Define the terms Classification and Prediction.

4. Explain the process of preparation of data for Classification and Prediction.

5. What are web log files? How are they useful for the web mining?

6. Describe agent based approach to web mining.

7. What kind of data a multimedia database can have?

8. Explain Data Mining business applications.

9. What is the need of data mining in security systems?

10. What is the need of data mining in health care industry?

Spring 2012


BT9002 – Grid Computing – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1189)



1. Define Grid computing.

2. What is the definition for Grid concept given by Plaszczak/Wellner?

3. What are the core functional computational requirements for grid applications?

4. What are the characteristics that users/applications in Grid Computing environments

must be able to perform?

5. List and explain the three main issues that characterize computational grids.

6. What are the components that are necessary to form a grid?

7. What are the areas that a Grid Computing infrastructure component must address in

many stages of the implementation?

8. What is grid problem? Briefly explain.

9. Explain the need for grid protocols.

10. What are the characteristics of Services?

Spring 2012


BT9002 – Grid Computing – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1189)



1. What is the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)?

2. What are the major goals of OGSA?

3. List and explain OGSA functionalities for use case NFC.

4. Describe briefly the Scenarios in NFC use case.

5. What is OGSI? Briefly explain.

6. Write a note on service data concept.

7. What are the most important OGSA basic services?

8. What are the security challenges in a Grid environment? Explain briefly.

9. What is Globus Toolkit?

10. List and explain briefly the major components of OGSI.NET.

Spring 2012


BT9003 – Data Storage Management – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1190)



1. Discuss the role played by different storage devices.

2. Write a short note on Access Time, Latency, Transfer Time, and Streaming Tape.

3. Discuss the practices and techniques to consider when developing a data protection

strategy.

4. Explain the effect of Lost Data on Business Operations.

5. Define Perimeter Distance and discuss different strategies for the same.

6. Explain different types of Attacks.

7. Define ILM. Discuss the differences between structured and unstructured information.

8. Explain network storage architectures.

9. Discuss the data structures used in a disk drive.

10. Explain different redundancy metrics.

Spring 2012


BT9003 – Data Storage Management – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1190)



1. Explain the two fundamental structural elements of a file system.

2. Explain the term files and directories.

3. Explain the goals of storage virtualization.

4. What is file metadata? Explain.

5. What are the responsibilities of Volume Management?

6. Discuss SCSI Protocol.

7. Explain the functioning of virtualization engine.

8. Explain with example the allocation of disk banks in a storage system.

9. Explain how in-band storage virtualization appliances are used to physically segregate

servers from the storage targets.

10. How the information is stored in Conventional file system? Explain.

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