(DMSIT 01)

ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.

M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper I BASICS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1. What is information technology? Explain in detail how information technology is involved
in business.
2. What is an operating system? Explain the basic functions of an operating system.
3. Describe the components of a telecommunication system.
4. Describe the similarities and differences between data mining and text mining.
5. Identify and briefly explain the management challenges caused by the internet.

(DMSIT 01)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper I BASICS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1. Differentiate among data, information and knowledge.
2. Describe how information resources are managed.
3. Write about major hardware components of a computer system.
4. What are the responsibilities of database administrator?
5. Differentiate between wired and wireless network.
6. Differentiate between internet and extranet.
7. Write short notes on uniform resource locator.
8. Write short notes on internet protocol suite.
9. What is flash memory?
10. What is CD-ROM?
11. Define decision support system.
12. What is data dictionary?
13. What is MODEM?

(DMSIT 02)
ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper II COMPUTER NETWORKS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1. Explain various layers of Internet Model.
2. What is Topology? Explain different types of topologies.
3. (a) Explain about circuit switching.
(b) What is an IP Address? Explain classful addressing.
4. Discuss about the connection oriented and connectionless communication.
5. What is Routing? Explain different types of routing.

(DMSIT 02)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper II COMPUTER NETWORKS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1. Write a short notes on symmetric key cryptography.
2. What is a data communication? Explain its components.
3. Write a short notes on WANs.
4. Write about different multiple access protocols.
5. Write a short notes on internet.
6. Write about the packet switching.
7. Write a short notes on open loop congestion control.
8. Write about the AES algorithm.
9. What is a Network?
10. What is Ethernet?
11. Define Broadcasting.
12. What is a packet?
13. What is crytography?

(DMSIT 03)
ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper III COMPUTER ORGANISATION
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

Explain about the generations of computers.

2.

What is a bus? Explain about Multiple bus hierarchies.

3.

Explain about the physical characteristics of magnetic disk.

4.

Briefly explain the following representations

5.

(a)

Two's complement

(b)

Sign magnitude

What is a Register? Explain about register organisation with a neat label diagram.

(DMSIT 03)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper III COMPUTER ORGANISATION
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What are the four main components of any general purpose computer

2.

Write a short notes on fetch and execute instruction.

3.

Define the terms track, cylinder, sector.

4.

What is the different between CAV and CLV?

5.

Write a short notes on optical memory.

6.

What are the four essential elements of a number in a floating point notation.

7.

Write a short notes on pipelining.

8.

What is an interrupt cycle.

9.

What is a processor?

10.

What is a volatile and non volatile memory?

11.

What is RAID?

12.

Define Acess time, transfertime.

13.

What is a substrate?

(DMSIT 04)
ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper IV DATA STRUCTURES WITH C
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

Explain about different looping statements available in C.

2.

Explain the following:

(a)

Circular linked lists

(b)

Sparse matrix.

3.

What is towers of Hanoi problem? Write its recursive.

4.

Define binary tree. Explain the binary tree traversals and find the tree traversals of the
corresponding binary tree of the expression ( A + B * C ) (( D * E + F ) / G ) .

5.

Write quick sort algorithm. use the algorithm to sort the elements 22, 99, 77, 11, 55, 33,
66, 44, 88.

(DMSIT 04)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper IV DATA STRUCTURES WITH C
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What is stack? Write an algorithm for its operations.

2.

Describe various parameter passing techniques in C with an example.

3.

Explain the binary search algorithm with an example.

4.

Explain the difference between queues and double ended queues.

5.

Construct the max heap tree of the values

22, 99, 77, 11, 55, 33, 66, 44, 88.

6.

With a C program to print the BFS traversal of a graph using queue.

7.

Explain merge sort algorithm with an example.

8.

Discuss about the AVL rotations.

9.

What is abstract data type?

10.

What is priority queue?

11.

Define binary search tree.

12.

What are different hashing functions.

13.

Define adjacency matrix of a graph.

(DMSIT 05)
ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper V OPERATING SYSTEMS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What are the components of OS and its services? Explain in detail.

2.

What is ISO protocol? Explain.

3.

What is operating system? Explain different types of operating system.

4.

Explain in detail file structure architecture.

5.

What is critical section problem? Explain it with an example.

(DMSIT 05)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper V OPERATING SYSTEMS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What is scheduling criteria?

2.

Explain free space management in detail.

3.

Compare and contrast segmentation and paging.

4.

What is multi programming and multi processing? Differentiate.

5.

Explain I/O structure.

6.

Explain virtual memory concept.

7.

Explain device controller.

8.

Explain blocking concept.

9.

What is OS?

10.

What is protocol?

11.

What is catch memory?

12.

What are standard I/O devices?

13.

Define DNS.

(DMSIT 06)
ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper VI DBMS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What is hashed file organisation? Write the remainder algorithm for hashing. Illustrate
the construction and working of hashed file organisation with an example.

2.

What is entity-relationship diagram? Construct an E-R diagram for university database.

3.

What is normalization? Explain different normal forms with suitable examples.

4.

Explain different commands under PC-FOCUS data manipulation with an example.

5.

What do you mean by encryption of data? Explain tree based encryption technique with
an example.

(DMSIT 06)
ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY 2013.
M.Sc., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE EXAMINATION
Information Technology
Paper VI DBMS
Maximum : 25 MARKS
Answer ALL questions.
1.

What are the components of database management system? Explain them in detail.

2.

Define association between files. Write about different types of associations.

3.

What is B-tree? Write an algorithm to construct a B-tree.

4.

Discuss the guidelines for mapping a conceptual data model into a relational data model.

5.

List different DL/I commands of IMS. Explain them in brief.

6.

What are two location methods used in IDMS? Explain them with examples.

7.

Explain about different special rational operators.

8.

Discuss the importance of database recovery.

9.

Give a schematic view of business system.

10.

Define metadata.

11.

What is LAM?

12.

What are different relational database languages?

13.

What is deadlock?