Master in Sciences of Information

Technology (M Sc IT)
Semester 1

ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET
Assignments for subjects MSIT 101, MSIT 102, MSIT 103,
MSIT 104, MSIT105
(for Session August 2016)

Directorate of Distance Education

IKG- Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar
Dear Student

The assignment is the important component of our evaluation system and your internal
assessment will be based on the assignments. The objective of such assignments is to enable
you to comprehend the subject knowledge. The assignments are purposely designed on the
lines of examination pattern so as to prepare you for the final examinations. In the entire
semester, you will have to attempt TWO assignments. Assignment 1 will cover the topics
from Unit 1 and Unit 2. Assignment 2 will cover topics from Unit 3 and Unit 4. All
assignments are tutor marked assignments and carry 50 marks each. In internal assessment
assignment 1 and assignment 2 shall carry the weightage of 20 marks each respectively.

As the assignment is integral part of your internal assessment, it is compulsory to attempt the
assignment. Therefore, plan well for the attempt of your assignments. Before attempting the
assignment, please read IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS and all questions carefully and
then arrange your answers in a rational sequence.

Dear student, please note following points regarding attempt of assignments:

 Assignments should be submitted in your own handwriting.

 Use A4 size plain papers for assignments.
 Carefully follow the instructions and ensure that you have attempted all questions.
 Answers should be correct and neatly written.
 Submit assignment of each subject in a separate file.
 Each assignment should consist of a title page containing the details of the student and
subject (Template of title page is attached as ANNEXURE. Take print out of that
annexure on A4 size page and fill it in your handwriting for each subject.)

Instructions for students regarding Submission of Assignments:

 Before submitting the assignment, please retain one copy of your assignment with you
and take receipt of the assignment from your study centre.
 Please tag a self addressed A4 size envelope with assignments of all subjects
separately.
Work Hard and Perform Well!
 ASSIGNMENT- 1

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

MSIT-101

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. What we mean by track pad?
b. Differentiate between application and system software.
c. Compare and contrast various types of memories with reference to cost.
d. List various components of telecommunication system.
e. List various advantages of database approach to data management over traditional file
system of data management.
f. Define entity relationship model and why we use it.
g. Differentiate between information and knowledge.
h. What we mean by open information system?
i. What is the role of information system in any organization?
j. List various types of information systems.

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. Explain in detail latest printers available in market and also the companies that offer
printers.

3. Explain in detail the concept of data/ information extraction .

4. Explain various concepts and components of database approach of data management.

 ASSIGNMENT- 1

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN C++

MSIT-102

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. Define Inheritance and how it helps achieve the objective of reusability.
b. Differentiate between open and close modules.
c. Differentiate between structure and union data types.
d. Give an example of enumerated data type or ENUM data type.
e. What we mean by function overloading?
f. Write various rules that should be followed while naming an identifier.
g. What is the outcome of applying relational operator?
h. Give an example of automatic type conversion.
i. What is the main difference between while and do-while loop structures?
j. What is the role of continue statement in C++?

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. WAP to create following paradigm (if user inputs 3)

*
* * *
* * * * *

3. WAP to do matrix multiplication with the help of pointer.

4. WAP to reverse the element s of an array using functions.

 ASSIGNMENT- 1

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

MSIT-103

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. What is a Control Unit? What are two different Control unit design techniques?
b. What is an Instruction Format?
c. What is the function of Memory Data Register?
d. Differentiate between Direct and Indirect Addressing mode?
e. Give examples of Instructions included in Register Direct Addressing Mode and Memory
Direct Addressing Mode (Absolute Addressing).
f. Write down the instructions that load D register by the contents of memory location
3500 H. Then move the contents to register C.
g. What is the significance of ‘XCHG’ and ‘SPHL’ instructions?
h. What are the functions of accumulator?
i. List the interrupts of 8085.
j. Define Asmmyteric Network?

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. How 8085 microprocessor executes a program?

3. Construct an 8-input Omega network using 2 x 2 switch modules in multiple stages. Show
the routing of the message from input 010 to output.

4. Explain the role of stacks in programming. What are Push and Pop operations? What is
their significance?
 ASSIGNMENT- 1

Operating Systems

MSIT-104

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. Define process?
b. Explain the concept of PCB and how many PCB's are there in the system at one time?
c. What is the difference between shortest-job first and shortest remaining time first
scheduling algorithms?
d. What we mean kernel of operating system?
e. What is an interrupt and how many types of interrupts are there?
f. Define critical section?
g. Explain the four necessary conditions for a deadlock to occur.
h. What is the difference between single absolute and single relocatable partition?
i. What is the difference between internal and external fragmentation?
j. Define various partition selection algorithms in case of multiple variable partitions scheme?

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. Consider the following

process arrrival time burst time
p1 3 6
p2 1 10
p3 2 8
p4 0 5

Create gantt chart for first come first serve, shortest remaining time first and round robin (3)
scheduling algorithms.

3. What we mean RAG? How can we detect if there exists a deadlock using RAG and how
can we avoid deadlock using RAG?

4. Explain the Concept of paging and segmentation in detail.

 ASSIGNMENT- 1

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

MSIT-105

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. Describe briefly the meaning of formal communication?
b. Mention any two advantages of non-verbal communication.
c. Differentiate between internal and external communication.
d. List various psychological barriers to communication.
e. Discuss briefly the roles of sender and receiver in the communication process.
f. Is a myth or a reality that messages sent and messages received are identical?
g. Write short notes the following:
(a) Video- Conferencing (b) Considerateness as an essential of effective
communication
h. Differentiate between Skimming and Reading. Also list the different types or reading?
i. Discuss briefly the elements of business letter?
j. Distinguish between an appreciation letter and acknowledgement letter.

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. (a) Assuming yourself to be the Controller, Software Operations, prepare an appreciation

letter for Mr. Amit Bhatia who has been working in your company as a Software
Engineer. Mr. Amit has made a valuable contribution in completion of a prestigious
software project with your company. Coin all the necessary details.

(b)The non- verbal communication of the speaker is as important as the verbal

communication. Explain.

3. Discuss the role of communication in a progressive society.

4. Make the précis of the following passage and give it a suitable title:
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its introduction into education would
remove the conventionality, artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were
characteristic; of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match for both
of them, and has almost managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.

The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about
the actual universe in which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of
scientific discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively
by studying scientific method. A certain limited success has been reached in the first of these
aims, but practically none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the community
who have been through a secondary or public school education may be expected to know
something about the lementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they
probably know hardly more than any bright boy can pick up from an interest in wireless or
scientific hobbies out of school hours.

As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably

a farce. Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the requirements of the examination
system, it is necessary that the pupils not only do not learn scientific method but learn
precisely the reverse, that is, to believe exactly what they are told and to
reproduce it when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or
not. The way in which educated people respond to such quackeries as spiritualism or
astrology, not to say more dangerous ones such as racial theories or currency myths, shows
that fifty years of education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has
produced no visible effect whatever. The only way of learning the method of science is the
long and bitter way of personal experience, and, until the educational or social systems are
altered to make this possible, the best we can expect is the production of a
minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques of science and a still
smaller minority who are able to use and develop them.
 ASSIGNMENT- 2

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

MSIT-101

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

a. What is DSS?

b. Define content management system.

c. List various formatting that we can apply in Word.

d. What is a slide show?

e. What we mean by access control?

f. What is an E-Mail.

g. What we mean by security?

h. Differentiate between MIS and DSS.

i. List various office automation softwares available.

j. What is the importance of MIS?

SECTION: B

Q2. Define knowledge management system. Give the nature and scope of business
intelligence.

Q3. Explain various characteristics of spreadsheet office automation tool.

Q4. Define MIS. Explain Business Process Re-engineering in detail.

 ASSIGNMENT- 2

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN C++

MSIT-102

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

1.

A. Define Inheritance as a feature of Object Oriented Paradigm.

B. What are address and reference operators in C++.

C. Define Pointers.

D. How the variable is dereferenced using pointers.

E. What are files in C++.

F. Differentiate between early and late binding.

G. What is polymorphism?

H. What are virtual and pure virtual functions?

I. How files are opened and closed in C++.

J. What do you mean by Dangling or wild pointer.

SECTION: B

Q1. Describe various types of inheritance in C++ using individual programs of each.

Q2. A) Write a program to show overloading of functions.

B) Write a program to overload ++ operator in C++.

Q3. Write a program using file handling to copy the contents of one file to another.
 ASSIGNMENT- 2

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

MSIT-103

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

a. What is cache coherence?

b. What are the different levels of cache?

c. What is segmented page mapping?

d. Define multiport memory.

e. What are various characteristics of multiprocessors?

f. Define a register.

g. What are machine control instructions used in 8085?

h. What is virtual memory?

i. Describe interprocessor communication.

j. Explain any two program control instructions used in 8085.

SECTION: B

Q2. Explain the three cache mappings in detail.

Q3. Describe various interconnection structures with neat diagram.

Q4. Elaborate about various addressing modes used in 8085 with examples.
 ASSIGNMENT- 2

Operating Systems

MSIT-104

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

QUES 1.
a. Define demand paging.
b. What do you mean by the term page locking.
c. Define file system management.
d. Write down the types of file system objects .
e. Expalin file system architecture.
f. Differentaite between access methods and access control.
g. What do you mean by the term direct memory access.
h. Explain text based display.
i. Differentiate between buffering and caching.
j. Define hard disk scheduling.

SECTION: B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

QUES 2.Explain virtual memory in detail. Also write down the page replacement algorithms.
QUES 3. Explain system management giving directories and its names in detail.
QUES 4. Explain in detail the concept of hardware I/O organization.
 ASSIGNMENT- 2

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

MSIT-105

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. SECTION-A All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

2. SECTION-B All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

SECTION: A

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 2 marks.

1.
a. Distinguish between Resume and CV.
b. What is a downward memo?
c. List 4 advantages of E-mails.
d. Name various types of reports.
e. Explain briefly the meaning of dissertation.
f. Difference between reference and bibliography.
g. What is the difference between an oral presentation and a speech?
h. Discuss the role of body language in presentation.
i. Define a mock interview.
j. List some of the commonly used evaluation parameters for GD.

SECTION-B

All questions are compulsory and each question carries 10 marks.

2. In recent months, your company staff has not been punctual in reporting for work. Your
General Manager has taken note of this worrying trend. In the capacity of HR executive,
write a memo to your company staff ensuring that your message is clear, concise, courteous
and complete. Include in your memo:

a. The importance of being punctual.

b. A table or graph explaining the trend of latecomers.
c. Some recommendations on how they can be punctual

3. What are the various strategies to make a presentation more effective? Support your
answer with appropriate illustrations.
4. Draft an application along with a resume in response to the following advertisement
in ‘The Times of India’ dated March 20, 2015.
Applications are invited for the post of a Computer Engineer. Should be well qualified
for the post, with fluency in English and Hindi. Candidate with experience in the line
would be preferred. Apply within 15 days to the General Manager, HCL
Technologies, Gurgaon.
 ANNEXURE

Title Page of Assignment

1 Name of the Student

2 Registration Number

3 Assignment Number (1/2)

4 Subject Name

5 Subject Code

6 Date of Submission

Signature of Student

Signature of Coordinator

FOR OFFICE USE

Total Marks obtained: _____________

Evaluated by:____________________

(Signature of evaluator)