M.C.A-M.C.A PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(Alagappa University - Directorate of Distance Education-2011)

DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.C.A. (N-S) DEGREE EXAMINATION,

DECEMBER 2011.

PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(2003 onwards)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer any FIVE questions. (5 × 20 = 100)

All questions carry equal marks.

1. (a) What is information? What are its Pre-requisites explain briefly. (5)

(b) What is technology? Write a brief note on the areas where technology is being used. (15)

2. (a) Discuss briefly about the basic features of Interface. (10)

(b) Write a brief note on groupware. (10)

3. (a) Explain the structure of C program. (5)

(b) Write a detailed note on operators. (15)

4(a) Distinguish between structure and union with examples. (10)

(b) Write a C program to perform matrix multiplication using pointers. (10)

5. Describe the following:

(a) HTML and Active X (10)

(b) Information super highway. (10)

6.(a) Write a C program to calculate the factorial of a given ‘N’ number using For... loop. (10)

(b) Explain briefly about passing values to a function. (10)

7.(a) Write a C program using pointers, which accepts two strings, compare them and displays which is bigger. (10)

(b) Write short notes on:

(i) Internet (5)

(ii) Internet web browsers. (5)

8. (a) Discuss the important features of XML. (10)

(b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of object oriented programming? Explain briefly. (10)

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