Kerala University 2005 B.Com XI - ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING AND - Question Paper

FOURTH SEMESTER B.Com. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2005
(Vocational Course)

Paper XI - ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING AND
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - II

(Common for Actuarial Science Tax Procedure and Practice, Office Management and
Secretarial Practice)


Time : 2 Hours
Maximum : 50 Marks

part A
ans any 5 ques..

every ques. carries two marks.

1. What are the commands used for line formatting ?


2. Give the BASIC statements used to control the flow of a program's execution.

3. What is meant by user described function ?

4. What is the action of the `CALL' statement in BASIC ?

5. What is the function of the `ENVIRONMENT DIVISION' in COBOL ?

6. What are accomplished by DIMENSION statement in FORTRAN ?

7. What is meant by a ledger ?
(5 x two = 10 marks)

part B
ans any 4 ques..
every ques. carries five marks.

8. What is meant by, importing spreadsheet data? How it is done ?
9. Differentiate ranging from library functions and user described functions with examples.
10. Draw a flowchart for printing every 2-digit number N, its square N2 so on to appear on
various lines. provide improper headings to every column.
11. What is meant by outstanding statement ? How to prepare that ?
12. Write the syntax of the SORT and MERGE verbs in COBOL.
13. discuss the array definition in PASCAL. elaborate character arrays and pre-defined
arrays ?
(4 x five = 20 marks)



part C
ans any 2 ques..
every ques. carries 10 marks.


14. An office database with details such as name, section, address, code number, date of
birth, increment data, etc. is to be created. Using any database package create the
database and also provide routines for searching with various categories.
15. discuss the difference ranging from procedures and functions in PASCAL. Write examples
for both.
16. discuss the steps involved in preparing a Balance Sheet.
17. Expenditure data for five various regions are available. The details are the region,
manager, number of personal, expenditure head, expenduture codes and the total
expenditure, year, month, etc. Write a COBOL program to compare the performance of
different regions and also of every region for various months. presume suitable criteria
for comparison.
(2 x 10 = 20 marks)

Earning:   Approval pending.