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Department: Management Class: BBA & BBM Question Bank No: 01 Semester: IV Subject: Intro. to Multimedia and Information Technology Subject Code: BBA402 Date of Question Bank given to Students: 06/03/2011 Module 1: 1. What is Multimedia? Explain and illustrate with the aid of Proper Examples. 2. Write the short notes on Convergence of computers, communication & entertainment products with respect to MM applications. 3. What is sound? Give the value of Threshold of hearing & threshold of pain. 4. What are the uses of Audio & Video computer applications? 5. Sound is Logarithmic Explain with a curve. 6. What is masking in audio and what is its effect? 7. Name the 4 formats of audio & video that are supported in Internet widely. 8. What is the difference between stereophonic & Monophonic sound? 9. Write short notes on Time- domain sampled representation of sound. 10. List the advantages of Audio over video. 11. Explain the Raster Scanning principle used in TV. 12. What is Aspect Ratio? What is its value in standard TV & HDTV. 13. What is Sync signal used in TV for? 14. What is Resolution? Explain vertical & horizontal resolution. 15. What is Interlace scanning? What is its advantage over ordinary Scanning? 16. Write Short notes on sensors in TV cameras. 17. Write short notes on color Fundamentals in TV (Additive Mixing/Subtractive Mixing, saturation, Hue, Chrominance, and Luminance). 18. Explain with a neat sketch the working of Color Video Camera working. 19. Write short notes on available Video formats today.(PAL, SECAM, NTSC) 20. What is Composite video signal? What does it contain? 21. What is Compression? What is its use? What are its disadvantages? 22. Explain different Compression techniques in brief. 23. What is Redundancy? Explain Temporal & spatial Redundancy. 24. What is Synchronization or Orchestration in MM? 25. Explain time line representation with an Example(E.g. Action News) 26. What are the different Models of time? 27. What is TAC? What are its requirements? 28. Write short Notes on Temporal Transformations. 29. Write short Notes on Support for System Timing Enforcement Delivery. 30. Write short Notes on HDTV.

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Module 2: Multimedia Information System : Operating System support for continuous media applications, Middleware System Services Architecture, Multimedia Devices, Presentation Services and the User interface, Multimedia File Systems and Information Models, Multimedia Presentation and Authoring. 1. What is Multimedia Synchronization & Orchestration? 2. How a time dependency of multimedia is characterized? 3. What are Time& Multimedia requirements? 4. How a time relationship can be described? 5. What is TAC? What are the different TAC operations? 6. What are incomplete timing specifications? 7. Write short notes on Temporal Transformation? 8. Write a short note on support system for timing enforcement Delivery? 9. Explain Time line with an example of action news time line representation? 10. Give the definitions of Time Dependencies in a tabular column. 11. Discuss limitations in workstation Operating Systems? 12. What are the 3 prime categories in New OS support for continuous Media applications? 13. What is Micro Kernel architecture? Explain with a figure. 14. Explain QOS Based Resource Control? 15. What are the attributes in Real Time IPC? Explain? 16. Explain typical case for capturing audio using Microphone and playing back on system? 17. Draw the figure of a Multimedia System services Internal Interface and explain the same. 18. What is Media Stream Protocol? And what are its functions? 19. What are the applications of Multimedia in Corporate System? 20. What are Multimedia Authoring & presentation? What are the tools used for it? 21. What is Multimedia Synchronization & Orchestration? 22. Explain the QOS Architecture in detail. 23. Explain how the distributed multimedia systems supporting continuous media. 24. Explain the framework for multimedia systems. 25. Write about multimedia distribution processing model in distributed multimedia system 26. Explain the multiservice network model in multimedia system. 27. What is multimedia conferencing model in distributed multimedia system. 28. Discuss the limitations in workstation Operating Systems? 29. Explain the basic issues for supporting distributed continuous media applications in traditional workstation operating systems. 30. Discuss in detail about the deadline and recovery management as issue for the traditional workstation operating systems in multimedia. 31. What are the 3 prime categories in New OS support for continuous Media applications? 32. Explain the architectural support in New OS. 33. Discuss in detail about the resource management support for new OS support system. 34. How programming support aspects is supporting the new OS. Explain it. 35. What is Micro Kernel architecture? Explain with a figure. 36. Explain QOS Based Resource Control? 37. What are the attributes in Real Time IPC? Explain? 38. Explain the multimedia system services functions. 39. What is SyncStream Interface in middleware architecture of MM. 40. Explain virtual resource in middleware system services. 41. Explain typical case for capturing audio using Microphone and playing back on system? 42. Draw the figure of a Multimedia System services Internal Interface and explain the same. 43. What is Media Stream Protocol? And what are its functions? 44. What are Multimedia Authoring & presentation? What are the tools used for it? 45. Write about the hypermedia document models in information model system.

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46. Explain the user interfaces and design paradigms in multimedia presentation. 47. Explain the use of the multimedia types for authoring and presentation systems provided to current industries. 48. Write about the multimedia presentation and authoring systems. 49. Explain the characteristics encompasses by Multimedia System Services. 50. Write the goals of Multimedia System Services. 51. Explain in detail about MM Conferencing. 52. What is Knowledge based MM System? 53. Write short notes on MM Interchange. 54. What are the requirements for MM communications? 55. What are the technical issues to be classified in the design of MM interchange format? 56. What are the different industries where the benefits of MM Broad band communications can be employed? 57. What are the unique characteristics involved in health care? 58. What are the different requirements included by medical reporting process? 59. Discuss in brief: the architecture for N/W (network) based MM services. 60. What are the difference between middleware & mediaware? 61. What is interworking? 62. What are the different types of access services? 63. What are the different types of Networks? 64. Discuss in brief about BISDN protocol reference model. 65. What are main technical issues to be classified in the design of MM Interchange format? 66. What is computer based teleconferencing System? 67. What is Groupware? What are its main applications? 68. Discuss the following brief: a. Computer fusion approach to open shared/ Real time shared work space design b. Video based approaches 69. What is HDTV & ATV? Discuss in brief? 70. Design Resolution in Video? What is image? 71. What are different HDTV standards? 72. How is picture Quality superior in HDTV? 73. What are the different problems faced by MM System? 74. What are the different standardization issues of HDTV? 75. Discuss the anatomy of an intelligent MM system. 76. Discuss the design of CUBRICON system? 77. Discuss the scope of Todays MM systems. 78. What are the critical functions of CUBRICON system? 79. Discuss different knowledge bases of CUBRICON system 80. List commercial / Industrial / Scientific applications of HDTV. Books /Course Materials Referred: 1. Burford, J.F.K., Multimedia Systems (Person Education: New Delhi) 2. Dhan, T., Multimedia: Making IT Work (TMH : New Delhi) 3. Schuman. J., Multimedia and Excel (Thamson : New Delhi).