Bmit 426: Client-Server Multimedia Technology 2009/2010 Question Paper
Bmit 426: Client-Server Multimedia Technology 2009/2010
Course:Bachelor Of Business Management And Information Technology
Institution: Kabarak University question papers
Exam Year:2010
KABARAK UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2009/2010 ACADEMIC YEAR FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
& INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND BACHELOR OF
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
COURSE CODE: BMIT 426
COURSE TITLE: CLIENT-SERVER AND MULTIMEDIA
TECHNOLOGY
INSTRUCTIONS:
SECTION A : Answer Question 1 (COMPULSORY)
SECTION B: Answer any three questions.
SECTION A (COMPULSORY)
QUESTION 1 (40 marks)
a) List any four ways of connection to Internet Service Provider (2 Marks)
b) Explain any four services provided by Internet service (4 Marks)
c) Describe between symmetric and asymmetric connection (2 Marks)
d) Write an HTML code that is likely to display the following web page (8 Marks)
Areas of Specialization
These courses will be developed by specialists in these areas within and outside the
department.
a. Educational Technology
b. Business Education
c. Physical Education
d. Technology Education
e. Approval of the Department
First Year
1st Semester
Course
Code
Course Title Units REMARKS
ECT 901 Comparative Educational
Technology 3
All subjects
compulsory ECT 902 Research Proposal 6
ECT One course in Areas of
Specialization 3
e) Briefly explain the following:
i) Uniform Resource Locator
ii) Domain Name System
iii) Phishing
iv) Web crawler
v) Request for comments (RFC) (5 Marks)
f) Distinguish between proxy server and firewalls? (3 Marks)
g) Explain how the Common Language Runtime and the Microsoft Intermediate Language
differ from each other? (4 Marks)
h) Explain the difference between managed code and unmanaged code? (3 Marks)
i) Write short notes on the following multimedia hardware used to build multimedia
projects using the following headings with examples:
i. Memory and storage devices (3 Marks)
ii. Input devices (3 Marks)
iii. Output devices (3Marks)
SECTION B (40MARKS)
Answer any three questions.
QUESTION 2 (20marks)
a) Write HTML tags to:
i) Create hyper link to www.mywebpage.co.ke
ii) Create link to juma@msa.co.ke
iii) Display Image ‘flower.gif’
iv) To open file ‘mydocument.doc
v) Display text in blue with font face IMPACT and size 5 points (5 Marks)
b) Explain in detail how cookies are used in the client server model. (5 Marks)
c) Outline drawbacks of cookies . (5 Marks)
d) Discuss the power of sound between MIDI vs Digital Audio (5 Marks)
QUESTION 3 (20marks)
a) A company is selling two types of CDs, Audio and Video. An interested buyer has three
options, either to go for one dozen, two dozen or three dozen. Design a user interface that allows a
customer to select either audio or video CDs, the number of dozens he wants. Also the interface
should display the amount a customer should pay for the transaction. Provide the clear command
in case he makes mistakes he can simply clear the text boxes and do new entries. Finally when he
is done allow him to exit. (8Marks)
Note: Use Visual Basic as your source code.
Given that prices of the commodities are as follows:
One dozen of audio CDs =KShs 100
One dozen of video CDs= KShs 175
Two dozens of audio CDs= KShs 250
Three dozen of audio CDs= KShs 350
Two dozens of video CDs= KShs 500
Three dozens of video CDs= KShs 700
b) Discuss the difference between raster and vector image? (6Marks)
c) Explain any three digital and audio compression techniques used in multimedia? (6 Marks)
QUESTION 4 (20marks)
a) In computing the system software, hardware and information is always under threat
of either being altered, destroyed, accessed illegally and stolen. Describe any five
ways which you can use to enforce security against such intrusions? (5Marks)
b) Explain Internet code of conduct that should be observed by the users of Internet.
(4Marks)
c) Discuss the significance of text and sound in multimedia. (6Marks)
d) Describe how a search engine works. (5 Marks)
QUESTION 5 (20 marks)
a) Describe cryptography? (5Marks)
b) Explain the difference between Client-side code and Server-side code (6Marks)
c) Explain the areas of application of multimedia? (6Marks)
d) Briefly explain what is animation? (3Marks)
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