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Bmit 426 2009/2010 Academic Year Question Paper
Bmit 426 2009/2010 Academic Year
Course:Bachelor Of Business Management And Information Technology
Institution: Kabarak University question papers
Exam Year:2010
COURSE CODE: BMIT 426
COURSE TITLE: CLIENT-SERVER AND MULTIMEDIA
TECHNOLOGY
STREAM: Y4S2
DAY: MONDAY
TIME: 9.00 – 12.00 P.M.
DATE: 02/08/2010
INSTRUCTIONS:
SECTION A : Answer Question 1 (COMPULSORY)
SECTION B: Answer any three questions.
SECTION A (COMPULSORY)
QUESTION 1 (40 marks)
a) With the help of examples explain the difference between wired connectivity and
wireless connectivity. (3 Marks)
b) Describe the history of Internet? (5marks)
c) Explain any six applications of multimedia. (3Marks)
d) Highlight any six drawing and painting software. (3 Marks)
e) Discuss the power of sound between MIDI vs Digital Audio. (4 Marks)
f) Distinguish between Moderated and Unmoderated list. (2 Marks)
In retail sales, management needs to know the average inventory figure and the
turnover of merchandise. Write a program in Visual Basic that allows the user to enter the beginning
inventory, the ending inventory, the cost of goods sold and also display average inventory and
turnover ratio. (8 Marks)
Form: Include labeled text boxes for the beginning inventory, the cost of goods sold.
Include the command buttons for Calculate, Clear, Print Form, and Exit.
The formulas for the calculations are:
Average inventory=(Beginning inventory + Ending inventory)
2
Turnover=Cost of goods sold/Average inventory
Average inventory
Note: The average inventory is expressed in dollars; the turnover is the number of times the inventory
turns over.
g) Explain the difference between managed code and unmanaged code? (3 Marks)
h) What are the communication devices which work in conjunction with multimedia? Explain
how the work. (3 Marks)
i) Write a note on networking macintosh and windows computers for multimedia.(3 Marks)
j) Briefly explain how Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) is used in multimedia. (3 Marks)
SECTION B (40MARKS)
Answer any three questions.
QUESTION 2 (20marks)
a) Briefly explain any four anonymous FTP files? (4Marks)
b) With the help of appropriate examples explain about the multimedia authoring software.
(4Marks)
c) Discuss two types of computer graphics? (5Marks)
d) Peer to peer networks may seem to be cheap in theory compared to server based networks but
can turn out to be expensive. Explain giving reasons. (3 Marks)
e) Outline drawbacks of cookies . (4 Marks)
QUESTION 3 (20marks)
a) Write an HTML code that can be used to display the following table? (6 Marks)
Hint: border width is 590, height=300, column1 occupies 20%, column2 50%, and
column3 30% respectively.
Banner 1
column 1 column 2 colunm 3
Banner 2
b) Explain any five features of Flash? (5Marks)
c) What is redundancy as used in digital video? (3Marks)
d) Explain any three digital and audio compression techniques used in multimedia?
(6 Marks)
QUESTION 4 (20marks)
a) Describe the following types of cryptography.
(i) Private cryptography (2Marks)
(ii) Public cryptograpy (2Marks)
b) Briefly explain how the ADO and ODBC components are used in connecting backend and
front-end applications. (3Marks)
c) Explain the difference between Client-side code and Server-side code (4Marks)
d) Using Visual Basic design a user interface which will enable one to login by giving
details like username and password. Write code which will support this interface when the
user login correctly or incorrectly. Guide your user on what to do when incorrect password or
username is entered. (5 Marks)
e) What are the Flash specific file formats? (4Marks)
QUESTION 5 (20marks)
a) How do you effect multiple effects in Flash? (5Marks)
b) Discuss any six principles of web design. (3Marks)
c) Write short note on the following concepts as used in multimedia:
I. Anti-aliasing (3Marks)
II. Morphing (3Marks)
III. Animation (3Marks)
d) Explain parameters considered when one is evaluating a compression system.(3Marks)
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