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SEM 1 MCA FALL 2013
MCA1010- FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER AND IT
1 Explain functional aspects of any five input and output units [5*1+5*1] 10
2 Write a note on: Robotics and Voice Recognition [5+5] 10
3 Explain SR and JK flip flop. [5+5] 10
4 Describe the three major steps in overclocking. How will you overclock Intel Processors? [3*2+4]
10
5 Define Read Only Memory and explain its three types [4+3*2] 10
6 Explain about software analysis and software design. [5+5] 10

MCA1020- PROGRAMMING IN C
1 Explain about any five commonly used input/output functions in C. [5*2] 10
2 What is the difference between function declaration and function definition? Write a recursive
function to find the factorial of a given positive integer. [5+5] 10
3 Explain the basics of Pointers. What are the Similarities between Pointers and one-dimensional
arrays? [5+5] 10
4 What is a structure? How does a structure differ from an array? How is a structure type pointer
variable declared? [2+4+4] 10
5 Explain about the linked list. Write a C program for creating and printing the elements of the linked
list. [5+5] 10
6 Write short note on command line arguments. Write a C program to illustrate the use of command
line arguments [5+5] 10

MCA1030- FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICS
1 Define Tautology and Contradiction. Draw the truth tables of Conjunction, disjunction and Biconditional statements.
[5+5] 10
2 If y = e^ax cos^3x sin^2x find dy/dx
[10] 10

3 Find the Taylors expansion of f(x) = Sin x at x = 0.
[10] 10
4 Show that the length of the curve y = log secx between the points x = 0 and x = π/3 is log (2+√3)
[10] 10
5 Find the nth derivative of
i) Cos mx
ii) Cos2x
[5+5] 10
6 Find the values for x, y, z that satisfy the matrix relationship [10] 10

MCA1040- SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
1 Explain about real time systems and distributed systems.
2 Differentiate between operational information and strategic information.
3 Write short note on Analysis and Design in software development life cycle.
4 Explain the concept of waterfall development methodology. Also discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this methodology.
5 Define conversions. Illustrate the various methods used for conversion
6 What is the role of project manager? List out the various tasks performed by the project manager.

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SEM 3 MCA FALL 2013
MCA3010- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING
1 Explain the process involved in accounting. What are the objectives of accounting?
10
2 Briefly explain the role of management accounting. Also describe the functions of management
accounting.
10

3 What is fund flow analysis? What are the objectives of analysing flow of fund?
10
4 What is cash flow statement and how is the cash flow statement subdivided?
10
5 What are the merits of budgets?
10
6 Describe the essential features of budgetary control.
10

MCA3020- ADVANCED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1 Explain any five distinctions between DBMS and RDBMS.
[5*2] 10
2 Differentiate entity integrity and referential integrity constraints.
[5+5] 10
3 Write short notes on:
a) Third normal form
b) Boyce-Codd normal form
[5+5] 10
4 What are the different lock modes used in the locking system? Explain
[2+2+2+2+ 2]
10
5 Explain the concept of serializability and Recoverability [5+5] 10
6 What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Data Distribution
[6*1+4*1] 10

MCA3030-LINUX OS
1 Draw the layers of Linux operating system and explain their functionality briefly.
[5] [5]
2 Discuss the purposes of following commands:
1) env
2) export
3) alias
4) unalias
5) history
[1+1+1+1+ 1]
[5]
3 List and discuss three Linux file permissions that can be granted based on matching the UIDs and
GIDs of the file and the users. Discuss about any two commands which are used to manage loadable
device driver modules.
[3+2] [5]
4 Write a short note on archive including the steps to extract files from an archive.
[5] [5]
5 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of vi editor. [5] [5]
6 List few responsibilities of window manager. Discuss about two most commonly used window
manager.

[2+3] [5]

MCA3040- TECHNICAL WRITING
1 What’s Audience Analysis? Explain its significance in Technical Communication
[5+5] [10]
2 Explain the role of a technical editor. Differentiate between Micro and Macro editing.
[5+5] [10]
3 Explain the various phases involved in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
[5*2] [10]

MCA3050- ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS
1 What is OSI? List the layers of OSI model. Explain [2+1+7*1] [10]
2 What are the different switching techniques? Explain [1+3*3] [10]
3 Explain any five differences between analog and digital network?
[5*2] [10]
4 Write short note on:
a) TCP
b) UDP
[5+5] [10]
5 What is symmetric key cryptography? Describe one symmetric key algorithm.
[3+7] [10]
6 What is packet filtering? What are the advantages of packet filtering?
[7+3] [10]

SEM 4 MCA FALL 2013
MCA4010- MICROPROSESSOR
1 Write a brief note on:
a) Machine level language
b) Assembly level language
[5*1+5*1] 10
2 Write any five comparisons of Intel and AMD processors [5*2] 10
3
Differentiate between Interpreter and compiler.
[5+5] 10
4 What is addressing mode? Explain the four major addressing modes in 8086.
[2+4*2] 10
5 What do you mean by Macro? Explain why it is required. [4+6] 10
6 What do you mean by an ‘Interrupt’? Why it is needed?
Explain the three major types of Interrupts.
[2+2+6] 10

MCA4020- PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
1 A box contains 20 fuses of which 5 are defective. If 2 fuses are chosen together at random, what is
the probability that both the fuses are defective?
10
2 A coin is tossed until ahead appears. What is the expectation of the number of tosses required?
10
3 Calculate simple and Weighted arithmetic mean price tonnes of coal purchase by an industry for
the half year.
Months Jan Feb. March April May June
Price 42.50 51 50 52 44.25 54
Purchases 25 30 40 50 10 45
10
4 If the probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from injection of a given serum is 0.001,
find the probability that out of 2000 individuals (a) exactly 3, (b) more than 2, individuals will suffer
from a bad reaction.
10
5 Construct Fisher’s Ideal Index number from the following data showing that it satisfies time
reversal and factor reversal tests.
10
Commodities 1999
Price Quantity
20000
Price Quantity
A 10 100 12 144
B 15 75 20 120
C 8 80 10 110
D 20 60 25 50
E 50 500 60 540
6 Explain about the sampling distributions of a static and its standard error.
10

MCA 4030 - PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
1 What is Java Development Kit (JDK)? Give list of all tools available for JDK with their description.
[4+6] 10
2 What Are Operators? Explain three kinds of Operators. [4+6] 10
3 What is an Exception? What are the common exceptions in JAVA?
Explain the keywords used for exception-handlings with the help of an example.
[2+3+5]
10
4 Explain any 10 Packages in Swing Libraries. 10 10
5
Explain the process of Servlet Life Cycle with diagram.
10 10
6 What is Java Data Base Connectivity (JDBC).Explain JDBC Application Architecture with diagram?
[3+7] 10

MCA4040- ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ALGORITHM
1 Explain time complexity and space complexity of an algorithm.
[5*1+5*1] 10
2 What do you mean by asymptotic notations? Explain three major asymptotic notations in detail.
[1+3*3] 10
3 Write short note on:
a) Selection sort algorithm
b) Bubble sort algorithm
[5+5] 10
4 Explain depth- first search and breadth- first search algorithms
[5+5] 10
5 Differentiate between bottom-up and Top-down heap construction.
[5+5] 10
6 Explain the two types of collision resolution in Hashing. [5+5] 10

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SEM 4 MCA(OLD) FALL 2013
MC0076- MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
1 Explain briefly about Organization and Management.
2 List and explain the functional information needs
3 What are the Information Management Requirements?
List the five types of systems that make up an organizational MIS.
Describe about Transaction Processing Systems.
5 What are the five strategies for competitive advantage? explain

6 Explain the ethical and social issues with E-Commerce. Describe about the risks of Internet to
Organizations.
MC0077- ADVANCED DATABASE SYSTEMS
a) First Normal Form
b) Second Normal Form
c) Third Normal Form
d) Boyce-Codd Normal Form
e) Fourth Normal Form
2 Discuss various Join Strategies for Parallel Processors including Parallel-Join and Pipelined Multiway Join
3 Explain the following concepts:
a) Entity Types
b) Relationship Types
c) Attribute Types
d) Domain Specification
e) Cardinality Specifications
4 Explain about Attribute-Based Image Retrieval and Text-Based Image Retrieval.
5 What are various Data Mining Techniques? Explain any five
6 What is the signification of Data Replication? When replication should be used?

MC0078- JAVA PROGRAMMING
1 List ten features of JAVA
2 Write short notes on packages and Interfaces in JAVA
3 What is the difference between errors and exceptions? What are the different types of Exception?
4 What are the differences between a process and a thread?
5 a) Write Java program to print the address of the study center.

b) Write a Java program to find the sum of 1+3+5+…. for 10 terms in the series.
6 Write a program to copy one file to another file?
MC0079- COMPUTER BASED OPTIMIZATION METHODS (STATISTICS/APPLIED OR)
1 Discuss the various application domains of Operations Research.
2 Explain Erlang family of distributions of service times.
3 Explain the algorithm for solving a linear programming problem by graphical method.
4 Explain the use of finite queuing tables.
5 Customers arrive at a small post office at the rate of 30 per hour. Service by the clerk on duty takes
an average of 1 minute per customer
a) Calculate the mean customer time.
(i) Spent waiting in line
(ii) Spent receiving or waiting for service.
b) Find the mean number of persons
(i) in line (ii) Receiving or waiting for service
6 Explain the terms
i) Saddle point
ii) Max-min and min-max principle

MC0080- ANALYSIS & DESIGN OF ALGORITHMS
a) Procedure
b) Recursion
2 Explain briefly stacks and queues.
3 Differentiate Breadth-First Search and Depth-first Search.
4 Explain the following algorithms
a) Prim’s Algorithm
b) Kruskal’s Algorithm

5 Explain Chomsky Classification for Grammar. What is Context Free Grammar?
6 Explain briefly about Decidable and Undecidable Problems

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SEM 5 MCA(NEW) FALL 2013
MCA5010-WEB TECHNOLOGY
1 What is web browser? List and explain the most common used web server
2 Define DHTML. Explain any four components of DHTML
3 What is event driven programming? Explain the three types of patterns in event-driven
programming.
4 List and explain XMLHttpRequest object properties
5 Explain three types of array supported by PHP with an appropriate example.
6 What is application object? Explain any three methods of application objects.

MCA5020-ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
1 Describe in detail about Spiral life cycle model and Water fall Model.
2 Explain two approaches which deal with components of software engineering.
a) Predictive approach
b) Adaptive approach

4 Explain briefly any five major flavors of agile development.
5 Define XP. Write a note on the four XP parameters that you need to analyze while using XP for
developing software.
6 Write a short note on refactoring and developing coding standards.

MCA5031-PRINCIPLES OF MULTIMEDIA
1 Define multimedia? Discuss any four properties of multimedia system
2 What is digital representation? Discuss the needs of digital representation
3 Explain the video compression standard H.263
4 Discuss the following
a. Adaptive predictive coding
b. Linear predictive coding
5 List and explain the multimedia application classes
6 What is multimedia object server? Explain any four types of multimedia object server.

MCA5043– Data Warehousing and Data Mining
1 What is OLTP? Compare OLTP and Data Warehouses.
2 What are the major components of DWH Architecture
3 What is OLAP? Explain.
4 What is Data mining? Explain.
5 What are the Objectives of using data mining in business?
6 What is Clustering? Explain in detail.
7 Define the following terminologies
(a) User
(b) page view
8 What are the Web content mining problems/challenges? Explain.

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SEM 5 MCA(OLD) FALL 2013
MC0081- .(DOT)NET TECHNOLOGIES
1 Explain the following terms in ASP.Net
a) View state
b) Control state
c) Hidden fields
d) Cookies
e) Query strings
2 Describe about web service clients and web service proxies.
a) IIS Request Processing Models
b) IIS services
4 Discuss the following:
a) Forms Authentication
b) Windows Authentication
5 Describe the steps involved in creating classes and objects with the help of a program in C#.
6 Design a simple Window based form application to perform basic arithmetic operations

MC0082- THEORY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
1 Explain Equivalence relation and growth functions with examples.
2 Describe direct and indirect proof techniques
3 Discuss about Walks and Paths in Trees
4 What is DFA? Discuss about Transition System.
a) Moore machine
b) Mealy machine
6 Define context-free grammar. What is an ambiguous grammar? Explain with an example.

MC0083-OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS & DESIGN USING UML
1 Give the two orthogonal views of the software. What are the advantages of object orientation?
2 What is Inheritance? Explain multiple Inheritance.
3 Give the criteria for building high quality software. Explain the use case driven approach to object
oriented systems development process.
4 Explain the Booch and Jacobson Methodologies.
5 Describe the scope of UML? What are the importances of UML process?
6 What are the different types of actions? Explain about Collaborations.

MC0084-SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT & QUALITY ASSURANCE
1 Differentiate between Hierarchical and Flat Organizational Structures.
2 Explain any ten project management activities?
3 Explain waterfall and spiral life cycle model.
4 Explain any five software cost estimation methods.
5 What is Six Sigma? Why is it required? Explain the steps for (IEEE) process improvement.

6 What is integration testing? Explain three approaches for integration testing. What is system
testing? Explain any three system testing.

MC0085- ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS (DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM)

1 Brief the following distributed computing system model
a. Minicomputer model
b. Workstation model
2 What is an RPC message? Explain the two types of messages involved in implementation of RPC
3 Define DSM. Discuss any four design and implementation issues of DSM.
4 Discuss any five features of good global scheduling algorithm
5 What is replication? Discuss the three replication approaches in DFS
6 List and explain the desirable features of good naming system

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SEM 6 MCA FALL 2013
MC0086- DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
1 Explain any two fields that use digital image processing.
[5+5] 10
2 Explain the properties and uses of electromagnetic spectrum.
[5+5] 10
3
Explain different Photographic process models.
[5+5] 10
4

Define and explain Dilation and Erosion concept.
[5+5] 10
5
Which are the two quantitative approaches used for the
evaluation of image features? Explain.
[5+5] 10
6
Explain about the Region Splitting and merging with example.
[5+5] 10
MC0087-INTERNETWORKING WITH TCP/IP
1 What is application layer? Discuss any four protocols with its role
that are used for exchange of information.
2+8 10
2 Brief the following
a. SLIP
b. PPP
5+5 10
3 What are congestion? .Mention two algorithms to overcome
congestion
2+4+4 10
4 What do you mean by “OPTION NEGOTIATION”? Explain with an
example
5+5 10
5 What is domain name resolution? Discuss the domain name
resolution process
3+7 10
6 Discuss the importance of SIP technology. List and brief any four
primary functions of session initiation protocol.
2+8 10
MC0088- DATA WAREHOUSING & DATA MINING
1 Differentiate between Data Mining and Data Warehousing
[5+5] 10
2 Explain briefly about Business Intelligence
10 10
3
Explain the concepts of Data Integration and Transformation
[5+5] 10
4 Differentiate between database management systems (DBMS)
and data mining.
[5+5] 10
5
Differentiate between K-means and Hierarchical clustering
[5+5] 10
6 Differentiate between Web content mining and Web usage
mining.
[5+5] 10

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SEM 1 MCA SUMMER 2013
MCA1010 –Fundamentals of Computer and IT
1) Explain the working of Bus connection.
2) Write a note on: Robotics and Voice Recognition
3) Describe the construction of CD-ROM.
4) Explain SR and JK flip flop.
5) Explain different stages in Software Testing.
6) What is OSI reference model? Briefly explain various network types.
MCA1020 –Programming in C
1) What are the commonly used input/output functions in C?
2) What is the difference between function declaration and function definition? Write a recursive
function to find sum of even numbers from 2 to 10.
3) How can you use pointers as function arguments? Illustrate it with an example.
4) What is a structure? How does a structure differ from an array? How is a structure type pointer
variable declared?
5) Explain about the linked list. Write a C program to implement a stack of characters using linked
list.
6) What is a command line argument and what is its use? Explain.

MCA1030 - Foundation of Mathematics
1. Define Tautology and Contradiction. Draw the truth tables of Conjunction, disjunction and Biconditional statements.
2. If y = eax cos3x sin2X find dy/dx
3. Find the Taylors expansion of f(x) = Sin x at x = 0.
4. Show that the length of the curve between the points x = 0 and x = π/3 is log(2+√3).
5. Find the values for x, y, z that satisfy the matrix relationship
3I2 X I = I 2 6 I + I 4
IY Z I

I -1 2Z I

X+2 I

I Y+Z

3 I

6. State and prove De Moivre’s Theorem

MCA1040 – System Analysis and Design
1) What do you mean by system’s state of equilibrium? Also illustrate the process of stabilising
system.
2) Explain the concept of Planning and Design in system development life cycle.
3) Explain the concept of waterfall development methodology. Also discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this methodology.
4) List the various normal forms. Explain second normal form and third normal form with examples.
5) Explain the concept of inheritance and polymorphism with example.
6) What is e-commerce? Discuss some applications of e-commerce.

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MC0071 – Software Engineering
Book ID: B0808
1. Explain Iterative Development Model in detail.
2. Describe the Object Interface Design.
3. Explain why it is important to describe software designs.
Book ID: B0809
4. Write an overview on the Rational Unified Process.
5. Describe the Capability Maturity Model.
6. Explain the round-trip problem solving approach.
MC0072 – Computer Graphics
1. Explain Bresenham’s Circle Drawing Algorithm.
2. Derive the matrix for inverse transformation.
3. Discuss the following Raster Graphic Algorithms:
a. Digital Differential Analyzer
b. Midpoint Line Drawing Algorithm
4. Explain the Polygon Seed Filling Algorithms:
a. Boundary Fill algorithm
b. Flood Fill algorithm
5. Describe the following Line Clipping Algorithms:
a. Sutherland and Cohen Subdivision Line Clipping Algorithm
b. Generalized Clipping with Cyrus-beck Algorithm
6. Discuss the Transformation from World Coordinate to Viewing Coordinates

MC0073 – System Programming

1. What is CISC & RISC? Explain their addressing modes.
2. Discuss the following:
a. Design Specification of Assembler
b. Design of Single Pass Assembler
a. Macro Parameters
b. Nested and Recursive Macro Calls and its expansion
a. Phases of Compilation
b. Java Compiler and Environment
5. Explain the following:
a. Basic Assembler Functions
b. Design of Multi-pass (two pass) Assemblers Implementation
a. YACC Compiler-Compiler
b. Interpreters
MC0074 –Statistical and Numerical methods using C++

1. An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. Find the chance that in the next six trials there
will be at least four successes.
2. Find E(x), E(X2) and s2 for the probability function P(x) defined by the following table. (k is
constant)
xi

1 2 3 ……………..N

P(xi) k 2k 3k …………… Nk
3. An insurance company has discovered that only about 0.1% of the population is involved in a
certain type of accident each year. If its 10000 policy holders were randomly selected from the
population, what is the probability that not more than 5 of its clients are involved in such an
accident next year?

4. By the method of least squares, fit a straight line for the following data:
x 1 2 345
y 14 13 9 5 2
Practical Questions
5. Write a c++ program to find the sum of 0.123 ´ 10^3 and 0.456 ´ 10^2 and write the result in three
significant digits.
6. Find the moment generating function of random variable which is uniformly distributed over (–a,
a). Evaluate E (X2n).
MC0075 – Computer Networks
Book ID: B0813
1. Discuss the following Switching Mechanisms:
a. Circuit switching
b. Message switching
c. Packet switching
2. Discuss the following IEEE standards
o Ethernets
o Fast Ethernet
o Gigabit Ethernet
o IEEE 802.3 frame format.
3. Describe the classification of computer networks based on:
o Transmission Technologies
o Scalability
o Geographical Distance covered
Book ID: B0814
4. Explain the different classes of IP addresses with suitable examples.
5. Discuss the following with respect to Internet Control Message Protocols:

a. Congested and Datagram Flow control
b. Route change requests from routers
c. Detecting circular or long routes
6. Discuss the architecture and applications of E-mail.

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MC0076 – Management and Information Systems
1. What do you understand by Information processes data?
2. How do you retrieve information from manual system?
3. What are the challenges of information management?
4. Explain the different components of MIS.
5. Explain various Organizational limits to Rational Decision Making.
6. Write a note on Ethical and Social issues with E-Commerce.

MC0077 – Advanced Database Systems
1. List and explain various Normal Forms. How BCNF differs from the Third Normal Form and 4th
Normal forms?
2. Describe the concepts of Structural Semantic Data Model(SSM).
3. Describe the following with respect to Object Oriented Databases:

a. Query Processing in Object-Oriented Database Systems
b. Query Processing Architecture
4. Describe the Differences between Distributed & Centralized Databases.
a. Query Optimization
b. Text Retrieval Using SQL3/Text Retrieval
6. Describe the following:
o Data Mining Functions
o Data Mining Techniques

MC0078 – Java Programming
Book ID: B0831
1. What are the difference between an interface and an abstract class?
2. Describe Exception Handling in JAVA
Book ID: B0832
3. Describe the following with respect to implementation of Sockets in Java:
a. Reading from and Writing to a Socket
b. Writing the Server Side of a Socket
4. Define RMI. Define the architecture of RMI invocation.
Practical Questions
5. a) Write Java program to print the address of the study center.
b) Write a Java program to find the sum of 1+3+5+…. for 10 terms in the series.
6. Write a program to copy one file to another file?

MC0079-Computer based Optimization Methods
1. Describe the structure of Mathematical Model in your own words.

2. Explain Erlang family of distributions of service times.
3. Explain the algorithm for solving a linear programming problem by graphical method.
4. Determine optimal solution to the problem given below. Obtain the initial solution by VAM. Write
down the differences between PERT and CPM.

Ware houses

Stores

Availability

I

II

III

IV

A

5

1

3

3

34

B

3

3

5

4

15

C

6

4

4

3

12

D

4

-1

4

2

19

21

25

17

17

80

Requirement

5. Explain the use of finite queuing tables.
6. Customers arrive at a small post office at the rate of 30 per hour. Service by the clerk on duty
takes an average of 1 minute per customer
a) Calculate the mean customer time.
(i) Spent waiting in line
(ii) Spent receiving or waiting for service.
b) Find the mean number of persons
(i) in line
(ii) Receiving or waiting for service.

MC0080 – Analysis and Design of Algorithms
o Well known Sorting Algorithms

o Divide and Conquer Techniques
2. Explain in your own words the different asymptotic functions and notations.
o Fibonacci Heaps
o Binomial Heaps
4. Discuss the process of flow of Strassen’s Algorithm and also its limitations.
5. How do you formulize a greedy technique? Discuss the different steps one by one?
6. Briefly explain the Prim’s algorithm.

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MC0081 – . (DOT) Net Technologies
1. Describe the following with respect to creating Web Forms in .Net environment:
a. Web Form Life Cycle
b. Creating a Web Form
Write programs with corresponding output screens to demonstrate the above concepts.
2. Describe the following with respect to State Management in ASP.Net:
a. Cookies in ASP.NET
b. Session State
c. Application State

3. Describe the following with respect to Web Services in .Net:
a. Writing and Testing a Web Service
b. Implementing a Web Service Client
4. Describe the following with respect to Web site deployment in ASP.Net:
a. Creating Application Pools (IIS 6.0)
b. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
Practical Questions
5. Write a program in C# language to perform the following operations:
a. Basic arithmetic operations
b. Finding greatest of n numbers
Write separate programs for each of the above points.
6. Describe the steps involved in creating classes and objects with the help of a program in C#.

MC0082 –Theory of Computer Science
1. Define the concept of equivalence relation. Give at least two examples of equivalence relation.
2. Prove by Mathematical Induction that 1^3+2^3+3^3+………+n^3 = *n^2(n+1)^2+/4
3. Prove that a graph G is connected if and only if it has a spanning tree.
4. Prove that a º b(modm) is an equivalence relation.
5. Explain the concept of a Transition graph.
6. Explain the steps of conversion of Mealy machine into Moore machine

MC0083 – Object Oriented Analysis & Design using UML
1. Explain the following Object Oriented Concepts with suitable examples for each:
a. Objects
b. Encapsulation and information hiding

c. Polymorphism
2. Explain the following Object Oriented Methodologies:
a. Rumbaugh et al.’s Object Modeling Technique
b. The Booch Methodology
3. Describe the following UML notations:
a. Diagram Elements (Graphs, Drawing paths …)
b. Model Management
c. General Extension Mechanisms
4. What are the various classes in class stereotypes of software development process? Explain in
detail.
5. Describe the goals and scope of UML with suitable examples.
6. What are the two ways of communicating with subsystem? Explain

MC0084 – Software Project Management & Quality Assurance
Book ID: B0958
1. What is project management? Explain various activities involved in project management.
2. Describe the following with respect to Estimation and Budgeting of Projects:
a. Software Cost Estimation and Methods
b. COCOMO model and its variations
3. What is project scheduling? Explain different techniques for project scheduling.
Book ID: B0959
4. Explain the Mathematics in software development? Explain its preliminaries also
5. What is debugging? Explain the basic steps in debugging?
6. What is a fish bone diagram? How is it helpful to the project management?

MC0085 – Advanced Operating Systems (Distributed Systems)

1. What is a message passing system? Discuss the desirable features of a message passing system.
2. Discuss the implementation of RPC Mechanism in detail.
3. Discuss the following with respect to Distributed Shared Memory:
a. Memory Coherence (Consistency) Models
b. Memory Consistency models
c. Implementing Sequential Consistency
d. Centralized – Server Algorithm
4. Explain the following with respect to Resource Management in Distributed Systems:
a. Task assignment Approach
b. Load – Balancing Approach
c. Load – Sharing Approach
5. Explain the following with respect to Distributed File Systems:
a. The Key Challenges of Distributed Systems
b. Client’s Perspective: File Services
c. File Access Semantics
d. Server’s Perspective Implementation
e. Stateful Versus Stateless Servers
6. Describe the Clock Synchronization Algorithms and Distributed Algorithms in the context of
Synchronization.

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