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NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-II, Paper-XIII (Multimedia)                                                                                                                                                                                            Time: 3 hours                                                                        Full Marks: 80                               Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Define multimedia . Discuss all the hardware required for running multimedia software efficiently. 2. What are the components of multimedia. Explain each component in detail. 3. How multimedia plays an important role in business. Explain with an example. 4. What is hypertext? Discuss the application of hypertext in multimedia. 5. How planning of multimedia done? Also discuss the design and production of multimedia. Explain the need for development of multimedia applications. 6. Describe various elements of hypertext

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-II, Paper-IX ( Element of System Analysis and Design)                                                                       Time: 3 hours                                                                     Full Marks: 80                                        Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is System Development Life cycle? Explain with an example. 2. Draw a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) upto level-2 depicting various processes, data flow and data repertories for a "School Examination system". 3. Explain different Fact Finding Techniques with examples? Which types of fact finding technique would you use for collecting data about literacy rate in Bihar? 4. Differentiate between analysis and design phase of System Development Life Cycle. Discuss some design tools. 5. Why documentation important in system development? Discuss different types of documents and their utilities. 6. Wri

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-I, Paper-IV (PC Software Skills)                                                                           Time: 3 hours                                                                           Full Marks: 80                                          Answer any five questions. Answer all the questions. 1. Three married couples are to cross a river in a boat which can hold only two persons. One of the persons must row the boat. Each of the three husbands is a jealous man who will not allow his wife to be left in the company of other men, unless he is also present. Show how the jealous husbands and their wives can accomplish the trip by representing all the states on the left and the right banks of the river. 2. What is a Pivot table? What are the uses of Pivot tables? Discuss with the help of an example. 3. Explain the following terms:     (i) Auto-format     (ii) Autofill     (iii) WYSIWYG     (iv) Format Painter    

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-III, Paper-XV (Computer Networks)                                                                               Time: 3 hours                                                                              Full Marks: 80                                          Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is networking? Why it is important? Discuss different types of networking. 2. What are the devices used at network layer? Describe the functions and congestion control algorithms of network layer. 3. Discuss the topologies of network layer with diagram. Give examples for each topologies. 4. Explain the different types of transmission modes with examples. 5. What is multiplexing? Explain different types of multiplexing with examples of each type. 6. Differentiate between presentation layer and application layer. 7. Why security important in networking? Discuss various network securities. 8. Wha

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-III. Paper-XVII (Introduction To Software Engineering)                                                                            Time: 3 hours                                                                            Full Marks: 80                                           Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Define the term ' software engineering'. Explain all the phases of waterfall model briefly. 2. What is the need of testing? Explain benchmark testing in detail. What is Object Oriented Design?     Explain the advantages of using object oriented design. 3. Explain the role of a system Analyst in software development. Also, explain the key attribute of a system analyst. Define the term 'software quality'. Explain any two software quality attributes briefly. 4. What are CASE tools? Explain different categories of CASE tools. What is meant by Risk Management? Explain any two r

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION,BCA,2017, Part-III, Paper-XXII (Intranet Administration)                                                                              Time: 3 hours                                                                             Full Marks: 80                                            Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Define WAP (Wireless Application Protocol). Explain the layered architecture of WAP. 2. What is meant by Distributed Database? Explain its main features. What are the parameters for selecting a server computer(s) in a large scale organisation? 3. Write any five application of Groupware. What is SSL (secure socket layer)? How does it provide data security ? Explain with an example. 4. Explain the features and importance of window NT LAN Manager(NTLM). Differentiate between Private Key and Public key infrastructure. 5. Write the steps for creating a Domain in Window server. Discuss the features of In

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, BCA, 2017, Part-III, Paper-XXI (Introduction to Internet Programming )                                                                            Time: 3 hours                                                                            Full Marks: 80                                      Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is the relationship between Java and HTML? Why do we use interfaces in Java? Explain with example. 2. Comment on "Java is a robust programming languages"? What is the Java virtual machine? 3. Differentiate between:    (a) Thread and Process    (b) Window and Panel.    (c) This and Super    (d) Private and Protected 4. What is meant by serialization ? Also differentiate between Transient and Volatile keywords. 5. Write a Java program to display a button labeled "Nalanda Open University". 6. Why Java is called platform independent ? Is C++ also platform independen

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-III,Paper-XXI (Operating System)                                                                                2017                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                        Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is a Semaphore? Give solution to sleeping barber problem with the help of semaphore. 2. Draw the Gantt chart for the FCFS and SJF policy, considering any four set of process that arrive at time 0, with the length of CPU time given in milliseconds. Also calculate the average waiting and average turnaround time. (Assume four process with variable time period in milliseconds). 3. What is segmentation? Explain with an example. How segmentation different from paging. 4. Explain algorithm for deadlock prevention. give a suitable example to

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-III, Paper-XXIX (Application Development with .Net Framework)                                                                              2017                                                                     Time: 3 hours                                                                    Full Marks: 80                                             Answer any five questions. All questions carry marks. 1. What is Garbage collector? Discuss the various phases of garbage collection. 2. Explain .NET servers. Discuss the role performed by the .NET server. 3. Explain the process of working with form controls. What is exception handling? 4. Differentiate between private and shared assemblies. Explain the working of CLR. 5. What is namespace? Explain different types of namespaces. 6. Explain the ASP. NET folder structure? List the types of file extensions that are handled by ASP.NET. 7. Discuss the concept of JavaScript.

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-II , Paper-XIX (Object Oriented Technologies and Java Programming)                                                                                2017                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                        Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is multithreading? Explain how does it help java in its performance? Differentiate between throw and throws? 2. What is Inheritance? Explain different types of inheritance in Java. Briefly explain importance of super keyword in java? 3. What are shift operators? How many types of shift operators are available in Java? Write a Java program to explain the concept of shift operators. 4. Explain how exception handling is done in Java, with the help of an example. What is a package in Java? Explain how pac

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-II , Paper-XVII (Operating System concepts and Networking Management)                                                                                2017                                                                         Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                             Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is a computer network? Discuss its advantages and disadvantages in detail. 2. Differentiate between Multiprogramming and multithreading. Discuss layered architecture of windows 2000 operating system. 3. Discuss the important features of Linux operating system. Write a shell script in Linux to count the number of words in a given file. 4. Explain in detail two computer security mechanism. Explain the logical and physical structure of active directory with reference to windows 2000. 5. Discu

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I , Paper-VIII (new) (Data and File structures)                                                                                 2017                                                                         Time: 3 hours                                                                        Full Marks: 80                                           Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Discuss different types of asymptotic notation. What is the purpose of asymptotic notation? 2. What are linked lists? Discuss different types of linked lists with examples of each type. 3. What are priority queues? Explain priority queue implementation with an example. 4. What is queue? Write an algorithm to insert and delete a node in the queue. 5. What is a stack? Write a program in C to implement insertion and deletion from the stack. 6. Discuss different types of search methods with an example of each type.

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I , Paper-V (New) (Systems Analysis and Design)                                                                                 2017                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                        Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Draw a Data Flow Diagram(DFD) from context level till second level clearly showing various process, data flow and data repositories for a " Railway Reservation system". 2. Define 'Modularity' . Write any two goals of a good design. Also write at least four guidelines for achieving the goals mentioned. Define the term  'cohesion'. Explain any two types of cohesion. 3. Explain how both waterfall model and prototyping model can be accommodated in the spiral model. 4. Explain relational, hierarchical a

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I , Paper-XII (Object Oriented Analysis and Design)                                                                             2017                                                                      Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                        Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Draw a state diagram for the submission of an examination form. Following are some of the considerations:-     (i) All the assignments pertaining to the semester needs to be submitted on the due data.     (ii) Demand draft for all the courses to be approved need to be taken (@ Rs. 60/- per course).     (iii) Examination form need to be filled up.     (iv) It should be verified by the verifying officer.     (v) The attested form should be submitted to the Regional center concerned. 2. Draw a component diagram for an ATM. with

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I, Paper-IX (old) (Data Communication and Computer Networks)                                                                                2017                                                                        Full Marks: 80                                                                         Time: 3 hours                                         Answer any five questions . All questions carry equal marks. 1. Discuss all the layers of OSI model and their respective functionalities. 2. What is Transmission mode? Why it is used. Explain different types of Transmission mode with examples of each type. 3. Describe different type of topologies with diagram.  Give the advantages and disadvantages of each topology. 4. How data link layer different from transport. Discuss some protocols of transport layer. 5. What is routing? Describe all the routing algorithms and their advantages. 6. Describe different types of dev

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-II, Paper-XIII (Software Engineering)                                                                          2017                                                                   Time: 3 hours                                                                  Full marks: 80                                     Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Describe the COCOMO model in detail for software cost estimation. 2. Describe component Based software Engineering. What are the challenges for it? 3. With the help of a neat diagram, explain the spiral model to develop the software. 4. What are different types of control Flow Graph? Draw a control flow graph(CFG) for a simple C program with a looping-construct within it. 5. Discuss different types of Risks. Explain the "Risk Manager Tool" with the help of a neat diagram. 6. Describe various attributes of software quality . Why quality of

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-I , Paper-X(old) (Principles of Management and Information systems)                                                                              2017                                                                      Time: 3 hours                                                                      Full Marks: 80                                         Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Explain in detail TPS, MIS , DSS and EIS in an organization with example. 2. How OLAP is different from Data Mining? Can we use OLAP as a tool for strategic management . Comment. 3. What do you understand by the term TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP (TCO) of an information system? Evaluate the factors which affect ''TCO" of any information system implementation in an organization. 4. What is Business Intelligence(B.I)? Identify two B.I. tools from open source category and two from proprietary category, br

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-I, Paper-VII (old) (Design and Analysis of Algorithm)                                                                                 2017                                                                          Time: 3 hours                                                                         Full Marks: 80                                         Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is an algorithm ? Explain the characteristics of an algorithm. Give an algorithm to find the factorial of a number. 2. Write a recursive procedure for the following:-     (a) To print the sum of first 10 natural numbers.     (b) To print the sum of first 10 factorial numbers. 3. Compare and contrast different sorting algorithms with their complexities. 4. Write short notes on the following:-     (a) Regular expression     (b) Context free grammar 5. What is Push down Automata? How is it different from

NALANDA OPEN  UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-I, Paper-VII (New) (Object Oriented Analysis and Design)                                                                                 2017                                                                          Time: 3 hours                                                                         Full marks: 80                                            Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Discuss the object oriented system Development life in detail. 2.  With appropriate examples and diagrams for each, explain the following Modelling techniques.      (i) Object Modelling      (ii) Dynamic Modelling 3. Explain the UML diagram classification with an examples. Discuss rational unified process. 4. What is package diagram? Discuss the utility of package diagram with an example. 5. Draw a DFD for the student admission/ registration process for a new programme at NOU. Assumptions can be made w

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-I, Paper-VI (old) (C and Assembly language Programming)                                                                                2017                                                                          Time: 3 hours                                                                          Full Marks: 80                                          Answer any five questions. All Questions carry equal marks. 1. Write a program to count number of vowels, consonants and spaces in a given string. 2. Write a program in C language which reverses a three digit number and displays it. 3. Write a program in C language which prints the multiplication table of the given number n. 4. Write a program in C language to find the factorial of number given by user. 5. Write a program in 8086 assembly language calculate the average of three given numbers stored in memory.

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I, Paper-VI (New) (Operating System concepts and Networking Management)                                                                                2017                                                                       Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full marks: 80                                           Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What are the functionalities of Graphical User Interface? Write a note on Batch Processing. 2. What is a Distributed Operating System? Explain in Detail. 3. Describe the different types of Networks. What are the different types of Modems? What is Optical fiber? List the Advantages of Optical fiber. 4. Write the advantages and disadvantages of Infrared Transmission . With reference to ISO-OSI Reference model, explain the different types of Connecting devices in detail. 5. Explain about the TCP/IP R

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2017, MCA, Part-I, Paper-IV (Systems Analysis and Design)                                                                                2017                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                           Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Draw a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) and Develop SRS for Railway Reservation system. 2. Define a system? Explain the components and characteristics of a system. 3. Explain various criteria and specification to be considered while designing forms and Reports. Give an example of a structure chart and explain it. 4. Discuss data dictionary? Mention the uses of data dictionary by a system analyst. 5. What is feasibility study? Describe different types of feasibility study required for developing a system. 6.  List any five fact findi

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, MCA, 2017, Part-I, Paper-I  (Problem Solving and Programming)                                                                               2017                                                                        Full Marks: 80                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                       Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Describe the all the steps in writing the program. Design an algorithm and draw a corresponding flowchart and write a C program to print even numbers up to 10. 2. How an algorithm analyzed? what are asymptotic notation? Explain giving examples. 3. What are the building blocks for simple programs? Explain some programming tools. 4. What is structured programming? Explain the benefits of structured programming. 5. Describe different types of operators in C with examples. 6. Write a program to illustrate initialization of two

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2016, M.C.A, Part-III, Paper-XXIV, (Advanced Internet Technologies)                                                                                2016                                                                         Time: 3 hours                                                                       Full marks: 80                                            Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. How do we call the servlets with parameters in URL? If your parameter and value are "name=Amit", write the code fragments to perform some action for names other than Amit. 2. Discuss the different categories of session beans. What are the advantages of XML over HTML? Why is SGML not used only the web? 3. Explain the different development goals of XML document. what is a message-driven bean? Why are the  transactional attributes of these beans important during deployment? 4. Explain the advantages of using

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2016, M.C.A , Part-III, Paper-XXII (Advanced Database Management Systems)                                                                                 2016                                                                          Time: 3 hours                                                                         Full marks: 80                                           Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. How do UML diagrams help in designing the database? Discuss with the help of an example. How does data granularity affect the performance of concurrency control? Do you think that data granularity and database security are interrelated ? Justify your answer. 2. Consider the following situation:-     "A company has two employee named "A" and "B". The company has two projects P1 and P2.             Project P1 uses languages C and C++ , whereas project P2 uses languages C and JAVA. Employ

NALANDA OPEN UNIVERSITY QUESTION, 2012, M.C.A, Part-III, Paper-XXV, (Computer Graphics and Multimedia)                                                                               2012                                                                       Full Marks: 80                                                                        Time: 3 hours                                          Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. How do we simulate deceleration in animation scenes? Why the animation seems to be decelerating if the spacing between frames keeps on decreasing? Graphically discuss the mathematical function used to produce deceleration in any animation? 2. Compare and contrast the following:-     (i) Cyrus Beck and Cohen sutherland line clipping algorithms.     (ii) Random and Raster Scan display devices.     3. With the help of Suitable diagram  and related tables describe how frame buffer can be used to control the color and inten