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Sit 210 Question Paper

Sit 210

Course:Bachelor Of Science In Information And Technology

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
SIT 210:
MULTIMEDIA

DATE: Friday, 23rd July, 2010

TIME: 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Question ONE is Compulsory and contains 30 marks.
Answer any other TWO questions from question 2, 3, 4 and 5

QUESTION ONE – (30 MARKS)
1.
What is multimedia?

(2 marks)

2.
Differentiate between system domain and application domain
(4 marks)

3.
Differentiate between hypertext and hypermedia

(2 marks)

4.
What are the components of multimedia

(4 marks)

5.
What are the four major Multimedia System Characteristics?
(4 marks)

6.
What is digitization? Give the processes involved in digitization (5 marks)

7.
What is multimedia authoring? Discuss multimedia authoring tools (5 marks)
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8.
What is compression? Differentiate between lossy and lossless compression

(5 marks)
QUESTION TWO – (20 MARKS)
1.
Explain any four Multimedia software tools

(4 marks)
2.
What is RAID? Discuss the RAID levels.

(16 marks)
QUESTION THREE – (20 MARKS)
1.
Discuss the types of audio in multimedia application

(5 marks)
2.
Explain any four common audio file formats

(6 marks)
3.
Discuss what MIDI is

(4 marks)
4.
List and briefly explain the components of MIDI?

(5 marks)
QUESTION FOUR – (20 MARKS)
5.
Differentiate between MPEG and JPEG

(4 marks)
6.
What are the goals of MPEG-7

(4 marks)
7.
Discuss the MPEG-7 Description Schemes for Content Management

(5 marks)
8.
Discuss the MPEG 4 Structured Audio

(7 marks)
QUESTION FIVE – (20 MARKS)
1.
Discuss the data file formats in multimedia

(6 marks)
2.
Explain any three types of multimedia presentation

(2 marks)
3.
Explain the terms World Wide Web and MHEG

(4 marks)
4.
Discuss the Digital Video disk (DVD) giving its features, advantages and
disadvantages.

(8 marks)

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