INSTITUTE
OF
TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
CENTER,
RAK-
UAE
Department:
Management
Class:
BBA
&
BBM
Question
Bank
No:
01
Semester:
IV
Subject:
Intro.
to
Multimedia
and
Information
Technology
Subject
Code:
BBA402
Date
of
Question
Bank
given
to
Students:
06/03/2011
Module
1:
1. What
is
Multimedia?
Explain
and
illustrate
with
the
aid
of
Proper
Examples.
2. Write
the
short
notes
on
Convergence
of
computers,
communication
&
entertainment
products
with
respect
to
MM
applications.
3. What
is
sound?
Give
the
value
of
Threshold
of
hearing
&
threshold
of
pain.
4. What
are
the
uses
of
Audio
&
Video
computer
applications?
5. Sound
is
Logarithmic
Explain
with
a
curve.
6. What
is
masking
in
audio
and
what
is
its
effect?
7. Name
the
4
formats
of
audio
&
video
that
are
supported
in
Internet
widely.
8. What
is
the
difference
between
stereophonic
&
Monophonic
sound?
9. Write
short
notes
on
Time-
domain
sampled
representation
of
sound.
10. List
the
advantages
of
Audio
over
video.
11. Explain
the
Raster
Scanning
principle
used
in
TV.
12. What
is
Aspect
Ratio?
What
is
its
value
in
standard
TV
&
HDTV.
13. What
is
Sync
signal
used
in
TV
for?
14. What
is
Resolution?
Explain
vertical
&
horizontal
resolution.
15. What
is
Interlace
scanning?
What
is
its
advantage
over
ordinary
Scanning?
16. Write
Short
notes
on
sensors
in
TV
cameras.
17. Write
short
notes
on
color
Fundamentals
in
TV
(Additive
Mixing/Subtractive
Mixing,
saturation,
Hue,
Chrominance,
and
Luminance).
18. Explain
with
a
neat
sketch
the
working
of
Color
Video
Camera
working.
19. Write
short
notes
on
available
Video
formats
today.(PAL,
SECAM,
NTSC)
20. What
is
Composite
video
signal?
What
does
it
contain?
21. What
is
Compression?
What
is
its
use?
What
are
its
disadvantages?
22. Explain
different
Compression
techniques
in
brief.
23. What
is
Redundancy?
Explain
Temporal
&
spatial
Redundancy.
24. What
is
Synchronization
or
Orchestration
in
MM?
25. Explain
time
line
representation
with
an
Example(E.g.
Action
News)
26. What
are
the
different
Models
of
time?
27. What
is
TAC?
What
are
its
requirements?
28. Write
short
Notes
on
Temporal
Transformations.
29. Write
short
Notes
on
Support
for
System
Timing
Enforcement
Delivery.
30. Write
short
Notes
on
HDTV.
BIRLA
INSTITUTE
OF
TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
CENTER,
RAK-
UAE
Module
2:
Multimedia
Information
System
:
Operating
System
support
for
continuous
media
applications,
Middleware
System
Services
Architecture,
Multimedia
Devices,
Presentation
Services
and
the
User
interface,
Multimedia
File
Systems
and
Information
Models,
Multimedia
Presentation
and
Authoring.
1. What
is
Multimedia
Synchronization
&
Orchestration?
2. How
a
time
dependency
of
multimedia
is
characterized?
3. What
are
Time&
Multimedia
requirements?
4. How
a
time
relationship
can
be
described?
5. What
is
TAC?
What
are
the
different
TAC
operations?
6. What
are
incomplete
timing
specifications?
7. Write
short
notes
on
Temporal
Transformation?
8. Write
a
short
note
on
support
system
for
timing
enforcement
Delivery?
9. Explain
Time
line
with
an
example
of
action
news
time
line
representation?
10. Give
the
definitions
of
Time
Dependencies
in
a
tabular
column.
11. Discuss
limitations
in
workstation
Operating
Systems?
12. What
are
the
3
prime
categories
in
New
OS
support
for
continuous
Media
applications?
13. What
is
Micro
Kernel
architecture?
Explain
with
a
figure.
14. Explain
QOS
Based
Resource
Control?
15. What
are
the
attributes
in
Real
Time
IPC?
Explain?
16. Explain
typical
case
for
capturing
audio
using
Microphone
and
playing
back
on
system?
17. Draw
the
figure
of
a
Multimedia
System
services
Internal
Interface
and
explain
the
same.
18. What
is
Media
Stream
Protocol?
And
what
are
its
functions?
19. What
are
the
applications
of
Multimedia
in
Corporate
System?
20. What
are
Multimedia
Authoring
&
presentation?
What
are
the
tools
used
for
it?
21. What
is
Multimedia
Synchronization
&
Orchestration?
22. Explain
the
QOS
Architecture
in
detail.
23. Explain
how
the
distributed
multimedia
systems
supporting
continuous
media.
24. Explain
the
framework
for
multimedia
systems.
25. Write
about
multimedia
distribution
processing
model
in
distributed
multimedia
system
26. Explain
the
multiservice
network
model
in
multimedia
system.
27. What
is
multimedia
conferencing
model
in
distributed
multimedia
system.
28. Discuss
the
limitations
in
workstation
Operating
Systems?
29. Explain
the
basic
issues
for
supporting
distributed
continuous
media
applications
in
traditional
workstation
operating
systems.
30. Discuss
in
detail
about
the
deadline
and
recovery
management
as
issue
for
the
traditional
workstation
operating
systems
in
multimedia.
31. What
are
the
3
prime
categories
in
New
OS
support
for
continuous
Media
applications?
32. Explain
the
architectural
support
in
New
OS.
33. Discuss
in
detail
about
the
resource
management
support
for
new
OS
support
system.
34. How
programming
support
aspects
is
supporting
the
new
OS.
Explain
it.
35. What
is
Micro
Kernel
architecture?
Explain
with
a
figure.
36. Explain
QOS
Based
Resource
Control?
37. What
are
the
attributes
in
Real
Time
IPC?
Explain?
38. Explain
the
multimedia
system
services
functions.
39. What
is
SyncStream
Interface
in
middleware
architecture
of
MM.
40. Explain
virtual
resource
in
middleware
system
services.
41. Explain
typical
case
for
capturing
audio
using
Microphone
and
playing
back
on
system?
42. Draw
the
figure
of
a
Multimedia
System
services
Internal
Interface
and
explain
the
same.
43. What
is
Media
Stream
Protocol?
And
what
are
its
functions?
44. What
are
Multimedia
Authoring
&
presentation?
What
are
the
tools
used
for
it?
45. Write
about
the
hypermedia
document
models
in
information
model
system.
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OF
TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
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RAK-
UAE
46. Explain
the
user
interfaces
and
design
paradigms
in
multimedia
presentation.
47. Explain
the
use
of
the
multimedia
types
for
authoring
and
presentation
systems
provided
to
current
industries.
48. Write
about
the
multimedia
presentation
and
authoring
systems.
49. Explain
the
characteristics
encompasses
by
Multimedia
System
Services.
50. Write
the
goals
of
Multimedia
System
Services.
51. Explain in detail about MM Conferencing. 52. What is Knowledge based MM System? 53. Write short notes on MM Interchange. 54. What are the requirements for MM communications? 55. What are the technical issues to be classified in the design of MM interchange format? 56. What are the different industries where the benefits of MM Broad band communications can be employed? 57. What are the unique characteristics involved in health care? 58. What are the different requirements included by medical reporting process? 59. Discuss in brief: the architecture for N/W (network) based MM services. 60. What are the difference between middleware & mediaware? 61. What is interworking? 62. What are the different types of access services? 63. What are the different types of Networks? 64. Discuss in brief about BISDN protocol reference model. 65. What are main technical issues to be classified in the design of MM Interchange format? 66. What is computer based teleconferencing System? 67. What is Groupware? What are its main applications? 68. Discuss the following brief: a. Computer fusion approach to open shared/ Real time shared work space design b. Video based approaches 69. What is HDTV & ATV? Discuss in brief? 70. Design Resolution in Video? What is image? 71. What are different HDTV standards? 72. How is picture Quality superior in HDTV? 73. What are the different problems faced by MM System? 74. What are the different standardization issues of HDTV? 75. Discuss the anatomy of an intelligent MM system. 76. Discuss the design of CUBRICON system? 77. Discuss the scope of Todays MM systems. 78. What are the critical functions of CUBRICON system? 79. Discuss different knowledge bases of CUBRICON system 80. List commercial / Industrial / Scientific applications of HDTV.
Books
/Course
Materials
Referred:
1. Burford,
J.F.K.,
Multimedia
Systems
(Person
Education:
New
Delhi)
2. Dhan,
T.,
Multimedia:
Making
IT
Work
(TMH
:
New
Delhi)
3. Schuman.
J.,
Multimedia
and
Excel
(Thamson
:
New
Delhi).