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Mrmt 625:Digital Records And Archives Preservation Question Paper

Mrmt 625:Digital Records And Archives Preservation

Course:Master Of Information Science

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY

END OF 2''ND ''TRIMESTER 2013 (EVENING) EXAMINATION
FACULTY : COMPUTING & INFORMATICS
DEPARTMENT : INFORMATION SCIENCE
UNIT CODE : MRMT 625
UNIT TITLE : DIGITAL RECORDS AND ARCHIVES

PRESERVATION
TIME : 3 HOURS

SECTION A: ''''''answer all the questions (40 Marks)

Question One

Describe FOUR digital records management software you would use to manage digital records.

(20 marks)

Compare and contrast open source software and proprietary software for digital records management

(20 marks)

SECTION B: ''''''answer three questions 60 marks

Question Two
Discuss the following digital records preservation strategies (20 marks)

Simulation
Migration
Backward compatibility
Eucapsulation
Bitstream preservation

Question Three
Describe how you would enforce security of digital records in a networked organization (20 Marks)

Question Four
Describe with justification the formats you would use in preserving the following records existing in digital form (20 Marks)

Scanned documents for short term presentation
Audio record
Born-digitals
Emails
Video files
Document for archival value

Question Five

Email management has become an important component of digital

records/archives preservation

Discuss factors you would consider in developing an email management policy

(10 Marks)

Describe how you would capture email records into a digital records management system

(10 Marks)

Mrmt 625:Digital Records And Archives Preservation Question Paper

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