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Paper: MS 111

Class : M.Sc-IT

Fundamentals of IT
RESPONSE SHEET NO.1 and 2

ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-2015

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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 8)

2.5 x 8 = 20 marks

1. Write short notes on the following input devices.

a. Punched Paper Tape

b. Punched Cards

c. Keyboard

2. Differentiate between random access and sequential access devices.

3. Write short notes on 4GL.
4. What is output device?
5. Differentiate between Bit and Byte.
6. Name the different Input devices.
7. Differentiate between Low level and high level languages.
8. What are the different components of an operating system
9. What is Ring topology?
10. What is Virus?
11.What is E-mail?
12.What is WWW?
13. What is multimedia?
14. What is web browser?
15. What is Network?
16. What is LAN?
Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

10 x 2 = 20 marks

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1. What is memory? Describe the different type of memories.

2. What are the different components of an operating system?
3. Discuss the various characteristics of computers.
4. Describe different generations of computer languages.
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Class : M.Sc.(IT) Part-I
ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-2015
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Paper: MS 111
Introduction to Information
Technology
RESPONSE SHEET NO.1 and 2
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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

1.
2.
3.
4.

2 x 105 = 20 marks

Explain the various generation of computers in detail.

What is an output device ? Explain the various types of output devices.
What do you mean by software ? Explain the various types of software.
What is Multimedia ? What are the various components of multimedia.

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1. What is the difference between RAM and ROM ?
2. What is cache memory ?

4 x 510 = 20 marks

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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

What
What
What
What
What
What

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difference between import and non-import privteis ?
difference between compiler and interpreter ?
wwww ?
Telnet ?
Time sharing OS ?
e-commerce ?

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Class : M.Sc. (IT) Part-I

Paper: MS 112
Computer Programming Using C

ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-2015

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Max. Marks : 40

Long Answer Type Questions

(Attempt any 2 from the following)

2 x 10 = 20 Marks

1. What are the basic data types available in C language ? What is the size of each
data type ?
2. What are the various conditional constructs available in C ? Explain with examples.

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3. What is the advantage of decomposing program into functions ?

4. How structures are declared and use ? Explain giving examples.
Short Answer Type Questions
5 x 4 = 20 Marks
(Attempt any 5 from the following)
1. What do you mean by type conversion ?
2. What are the basic input output functions available in C ?
3. What is the precedence of different arithmetic operators ?
4. What is the difference between for and while loop ?
5. What is the difference between break and continue ?
6. Define recursion.
7. What is Pointer ?
8. What is the difference between character array and character pointer ?

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PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA
STUDENT'S RESPONSE-SHEET

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Class : M.Sc.(IT) Part-I
ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-15
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Paper: MS 113
Computer Organization & Architecture
LESSON NO. : 11-17
RESPONSE SHEET NO.1 and 2
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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1 What is a K-map? Explain 2-variable K-map.
2 Draw and explain half adder circuit.

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4
5
6
7
8

What is Instruction cycle?

What is an Addressing mode? Explain register indirect mode.
Explain memory hierarchy
Differentiate between RISC and CISC.
Differentiate between micro-programmed and hardwired control.
What is Associative memory? Explain.

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

1
2
3
4

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2 x 10 = 20 marks

What is a Character Code? Explain BCD, EBCDIC, and ASCII character codes.
What is a Flip-flop? Explain D, RS and JK flip-flop in detail.
What is a micro-operation? Design a circuit to perform arithmetic micro-operations.
Explain different modes of data transfer between memory and I/O devices.

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Paper: MS 115

Class : M.Sc.(IT)Part-I

Operating Systems

ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-15

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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1

What is virtual machine?

4 x 5 = 20 marks

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What is the basic difference between a program and a process?

What are system calls? Name any two system calls of UNIX.

What factors should be kept in mind while designing and implementing an

operating system?

Explain the functions of I/O channels and control units.

Compare the performance of SCAN and C-SCAN disk scheduling algorithms.

List the characteristics of threads.

Describe the steps involved in operating system initialization.

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

2 x 10 = 20 marks

What is an operating system and what are its goals?

What are the different states a process can be in at a particular time? What
factors can lead to the transition of process states?

List and Explain the major activities of an operating system with respect to
memory

management,

secondary-storage

management

and

process

management.
4

With the help of a diagram explain the working of a resource manager.

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Class : M.Sc.(IT)-I
ACADEMIC SESSION : 2013-14
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Paper: MS 121
Object Oriented Programming Using
C++
RESPONSE SHEET NO.1 and 2
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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

4 x 5 = 20 marks

What is the difference between C & C++?

What is the need /use of function overloading
In C++ have a default constructor ?
Difference between a "assignment operator" and a "copy constructor"
What are the different types of Storage classes?
Explain "passing by value", "passing by pointer" and "passing by reference"
What is virtual class and friend class?
What is encapsulation?

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

2 x 10 = 20 marks
1 Difference between: - 1) Global variable and Local variable 2) Static variable and
Global variable ?
2 Define copy constructor? What is the use of copy constructor?
3 What is the difference between class and structure?
4 Why array index starts from 0[zero] only, explain?

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PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA
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Class : M.Sc.(IT) Part-I
ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-15

Paper: MS 122
Data & File Structures
RESPONSE SHEET NO. 1 and 2

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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

What is the need of writing efficient algorithms?

What is the difference between an array element and a variable?
Convert the following infix expressions to postfix
a
a+b*c+d
b
a*b+c*d
What do you mean by infix and postfix expressions?
What is the relationship between parent node and child nodes?
Define Binary Search Tree.
What is the difference between minheap and maxheap?
What are the various types of graphs?

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

1
2
3
4

4 x 5 = 20 marks

2 x 10 = 20 marks

Define data structures. What are the characteristics of data structures? What are the
operations performed on data structures?
What is a Stack? Explain the various operations that can be performed on Stack?
What is a queue? Explain the various operations that can be performed on Queue?
What is a linked list? What is the benefit of using a linked list? Explain the various
operations that can be performed on linked list?

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Paper: MS 123

Class : M.Sc.(IT)Part-I

Visual Basic

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ACADEMIC SESSION : 2014-2015

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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

4 x 5 = 20 marks
1 What do you mean by design time and run time? Illustrate your answer with the
help of example.
2 Name the types of Dialog boxes. Which is the one that is generally preferred?
3 What do you mean by Controls in VB? Name any 5 of them.
4

What do you mean by Class? What are the benefits of using Classes in application?

5
6
7
8
9

What do you mean by ActiveX Control?

What is Visual Data Manager?
What is a RecordSet Property?
What is SQL?
Explain the following methods:
MoveFirst
MoveLast
MoveNext
MovePrevious
Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)
1 Explain the various features of Visual Basic 6.0.
2 What are various steps for creating menus for programs?

2 x 10 = 20 marks

What do you mean by ADO? Explain various steps for creating ADO in VB
Application taking an example.

What do you mean by MDI Form? How MDI Forms are created? Explain the various
steps for developing an MDI Application.

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M.Sc.(IT) Part-I
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Paper: MS 124
RDBMS and Oracle
Lesson No. 14-27
RESPONSE SHEET NO. 1 and 2
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Short answer type Questions (Attempt any 4)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Define DBMS. What are its advantages over Traditional File System?
Who is DBA and what are his responsibilities?
Explain strong and weak entity sets.
Explain briefly network and hierarchical model
Explain select operation in relational algebra.
Explain multivalued dependency.
Explain Client/Server Architecture.
What are Database Triggers?

Long answer type Questions (Attempt any 2)

1
2
3
4

4 x 5 = 20 marks

2 x 10 = 20 marks

Explain 3-Schema architecture of DBMS. Also explain mapping between different

levels and data independence.
What is Functional Dependency? What is Normalization? Explain the first 3 normal
forms in detail.
What is Concurrency? Explain the different problems caused due to Concurrency.
Also explain the 2-phase locking.
What is PL/SQL? Explain the architecture of PL/SQL block. Write a procedure to
print 1st n numbers where n is entered by the user.

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