Soft Skill Development All Important Topics Covered

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Soft Skill Development's Question Papers!!!

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These are the questions compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of Soft-skill development. So first try to prepare these topics and then go for the whole book. :-)

NOTE: The number in bracket denotes the number of times the question has been asked in previous exams.

• 7 C’s of communication
• Assertiveness
• Grapevine communication
• Leadership
• Compare Oral and Written Communication
• Video conferencing
• Use of posters, signs and signals for Communication. (2)
• Email (2)
• Internet
• Tele conferencing (2)
• Voice system (2)
• Desk top publishing and Electronics Data Processing. (2)
• Testimonial and a Letter of Reference.
• Difference:-
• Verbal and Oral communication (2)
• Face to face and oral communication (2)
• Gestures and Facial expressions (2)
• Pause and Silence (2)
• Graph and Chart (2)
• How does context affect the meaning of the message? E.g.
• Any 3 psychological barriers to communication. How do they affect communication in a business context?
• Guidelines a candidate must keep in mind during a group discussion? (2)
• What kind of preparation will you need to do before appearing for an interview? (2)
• Time Management? Discuss its significance in a business set up? (2)
• What role does horizontal communication play in an organization? E.g.
• How can you make written communication effective? (2)
• Why it is important for a businessman to receive and give out information? (2) 
• Reprimand memo? How is it different from a proper memo?
• Report? Why is it essential to modern Business?
• Why is teamwork essential? Elements of it?
• Different styles of Resolving Conflicts?
• Emotional Intelligence? Importance of it in IT industry?
• Why is Leadership important in an Organization?
• Concept of vertically upward/downward communication with e.g.
• Importance of Listening? Guidelines to be a good listener?
• Email Etiquette 
• Importance of motivation in an organization.

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E-Business' Question Papers!!!

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These are the questions compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of E-Business. So first try to prepare these topics and then go for the whole book. :-)

NOTE: The number in bracket denotes the number of times the question has been asked in previous exams.

• E-business? E.g. E-business models. (3)
• E-commerce?
• Viruses
• Insurance coverage options
• E-business Value chains (3)
• Payment Gateways
• The RSA algorithm
• ISP
• Log file analysis
• Electronic Industrial Espionage
• Secure Socket Layer (2)
• Copyright and Trade Marks
• Benchmarking the Web site
• Data mining
• Banner ads and Opt-in email advertising
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Venture Capital Investors
• E-mail marketing
• Difference:
• Traditional and Electronic payment system
• E-business and E-commerce

• Importance of risk management and problems associated with it.
• E-advertising? Ways of E-business advertising? How to measure effectiveness of e-advertising?
• Contribution of search engine in E-business web-site designing.
• Elements of E-business plan? Various legal forms of the organization? (3)
• EDI? Need for EDI?
• Entrepreneurial process? Process diagram.
• Electronic Payment System? Various electronic payment methods? (2)
• Internet Security Holes? Security issues involved in E-business environment? How can cryptography and digital signature solve the issues? (2)
• Functionalities of Electronic checks?
• ERP and CRM systems?
• Computer ethics? Nature of Computer ethics? (2)
• Advantages and disadvantages associated with the log file analysis and page tagging.
• What is a Brand? How do you build a Brand?
• Cryptography? Symmetric and Asymmetric cryptosystems?
• Steps to create an E-business website?
• Testing? How do you test a Website? Load testing? Stress testing?

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Advanced Database Theory and Applications' Question Papers!!!

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These are the questions compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of Advanced Database Theory and Applications. So first try to prepare these topics and then go for the whole book. :-)

NOTE: The number in bracket denotes the number of times the question has been asked in previous exams.

• Collaborating Servers
• Bayesian Networks
• Phantom Deadlock
• Temporal Databases
• OQL
• Roll up
• Drill down
• Slicing and Dicing (3)
• RSA algorithm (2)
• Star schema and Snowflake schema. (2)
• OODBMS
• Clustering (3)
• Data granularity in data warehouse.
• ORDBMS
• Fragmentation
• Replication
• Concurrency
• Pipelining
• Security
• Different types of transparencies in DDBMS.
• OLAP implementation techniques.
• 3-phase commit protocol? Give e.g. how it is different from 2PC protocol.
• ETL process in Datawarehousing.  (4)
• Describe association, classification and regression rules. What is difference between support and confidence of a rule?
• New kinds of data types supported in object database systems? Give e.g. of each.
• Deadlock detection in distributed database. Explain various deadlock detection approaches. (2)
• Explain centralized, hierarchical and time out approaches.
• ORDBMS database design issues? (2)
• Differentiate between pipelined parallelism and data partitioned parallelism.
• Authorization graph? Explain SQL’s Grant and Revoke commands in terms of their effect on this graph. Discuss what happens when users pass on privileges that they receive from someone else.  (2)
• Differentiate:

Distributed Databases and Centralized Databases (2)

Semi Joins and Bloom Joins (5)

OLTP and OLAP (2)

Log based and Procedural based implementation of Capture. (2)

Atomic data types, structured data types and referenced data types. 

URLs and OIDs

2-Phase and 3-Phase commit

Synchronous and asynchronous replication (3)

RDBMS and ORDBMS

OLTP vs OLAD

Supervised and Unsupervised learning

OODBMS and ORDBMS

MOLAP vs ROLAP

Data Warehouse vs Operational database

• Describe an algorithm for finding frequent itemsets
• Metadata? E.g. (3)
• Collection hierarchies? How do they differ from Inheritance?  Do they simplify querying procedures? E.g.
• Parallel databases? (2)  Various architectures for parallel databases? Which is preferred and why? (3)
• Characteristics and architecture of search engines? (2)
• Concept of pointer sizzling? How does it optimize dereferencing? 
• Explain how security mechanisms like discretionary access control and mandatory access control provides security?
• Functional components of data warehouse project development.
• Major steps of algorithm to construct decision tree? Components of decision tree? (3)
• K-means clustering algorithm? (2)
• “OLAP is FASMI” comment.
• Success factors for data warehouse project.
• Multidimensional cubes? (2) 
• Query optimization in parallel database system.
• Explain any option available for the intergration of KM with data warehousing. (1)
• Bell-Lapedula model. (3)
• Data storing techniques in DDBMS.
• Recovery process in DDBMS? How different from recovery in centralized system? (2)
• Top down and bottom up approach in Data warehouse? Which is better?
• Explain why shared memory and shared disk approaches suffer from interference? Discuss speed up and scale up of shared nothing architecture.
• Use of sorting vs hashing for data partitioning? 
• Snowflake schema? (2) Is it better than Fact constellation schema? 
• 2-phase commit? (2) Diagram?  Drawbacks? How can they be removed?
• Association Rule mining? Application? E.g.
• Pros and cons of various techniques for implementing asynchronous replication.
• Distributed catalog management. (2)
• How do warehousing, OLAP and Mining complement each other?
• Polyinstantiation ? Multilevel table? Their relationship?
• Discuss how scanning, sorting and join operations can be parallelized using data partitioned technique?
• Explain relationship of data warehouse with ERP and CRM.
• Neural Networks
• Pointer Swizzling
• Method Caching

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Core and Advanced Java's Question Papers (Only Theory)!!!

Core Java:- 

These are ONLY the THEORY QUESTIONS compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of Core Java(as Advanced Java wasn't in previous syllabuses, we will have to prepare it ourselves). Many programs are also being asked to write, so prepare programs according to your capabilities. :-) 

NOTE: The number in bracket denotes the number of times the question has been asked in previous exams.

• Difference: 

Static (3), class and Local variables

C, C++ and Java

Statement and Prepared statement

Interfaces and Abstract classes

Application and Applet

Checked Exception and Unchecked Exception

Byte Stream and Character Stream?

InputStream and Reader classes

OutputStream and Writer classes

Java application and Applet (2)

AWT and Swing components (2)

• Explain: Class exception and Exception Hierarchy
• Explain: Resultset types and Resultset constant (2)
• 5 Layouts in Layout Manager for Java AWT. Show layouts displayed by each of them (3)
• JDK?  Use of JDK? Explain its various tools. Explain execution flow of Java program. (3)
• Applets? Different stages of an Applet Life Cycle? (4) How to pass parameters embedded in HTML with e.g?
• Byte streams and Unicode Character Stream
• Object Serialization and Deserialization (2)
• Data types in Java (2)
• JDBC drivers. (2)
• This and Super (4)
• Java and C++
• Abstract classes (2)
• Inner classes (3)
• Wrapper classes (4)
• Input output stream classes
• Boxing and Unboxing in Java
• Establishing database connectivity using Java
• Explain OOPS concepts used in Java (2)
• JVM
• Methods
• Bytecode
• Role of Classes, Interfaces  and Packages in Java (4)
• Concept and difference of Method overloading and constructor overloading? Program. (3)
• Use of synchronization in Java? E.g?
• Thread? Multithreading? Thread life cycle? WAP to e.g. (6)
• Thread group? Thread priority e.g. 
• Thread synchronization? Program.
• Describe Java program steps in order to get connectivity to database along with example.
• How Java achieves multiple inheritance? 
• Package? Create a package to hold two classes.
• Event Handling mechanism?
• Exception? Exception Handling in Java? Program to demonstrate arithmetic, numberformat and arrayindexout of bounds exception. 
• Exception handling program to demonstrate any 2 Java’s unchecked runtime exception subclasses.
• Explain steps to create your own exception with a suitable e.g. (2)
• What is Swing? Explain 5 swing components? Explain with program swing and also create GUI in the same. (2)
• Explain with program AWT and also create GUI in the same with any of its 5 controls.
• What is JDBC?Why is JDBC-ODBC bridge used for database connectivity? Explain classes and interfaces involved in it. (2)
• Explain different ways in which driver can be loaded in a JDBC application with e.g of each method.
• Access Specifier? Different types supported in Java.
• Java is Platform independent and Machine independent. Justify.  (1)
• Constructor? Parameterized constructor and Constructor Overloading.
• Event delegation model in Java. Program. 
• Dynamic method Dispatch. Program. 
• Explain 5 built-in packages of Java. Write steps to create a package.
• Write Applet program to handle mouse events. (3)
• Role of Driver Manager class with suitable java program. 
• Program to demonstrate use of final keyword.

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OOPS- C++' Question Papers (Only Theory)!!!

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These are the questions compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of C++. So first try to prepare these topics and then go for the whole book. :-)

• Features of OOPS.

• Exception handling in C++. Example.

• Friend Function? merits and demerits. 

• Difference between:-

1. Function Prototyping and Function overloading, 
2. Class and Object, 
3. Container class and Derived class, 
4. Associative and Sequence containers, 
5. union and structure, 
6. Actual parameter and formal parameter,
7. Call by value and call by reference, 
8. do-while loop and for-loop

• Dynamic Memory Allocation

• Polymorphism achieved at compile time and run time?

• Inheritance? Public, private and protected inheritance?

• Operator overloading?

• File handling mechanism of C++.

• Constructor? Defaulter constructor, parameterized constructor, constructor overloading with suitable example.

• Manipulators? Different manipulators with examples?

• Data types and control structures in C++

• Preprocessor directives? Difference between macros and functions?

• Pointer? how is pointer variable declares? 

• Storage classes? various storage classes?

• Differentiate between the following:- type casting, relational operators, binary file and test file, function pointers

• What is the difference between multiple and multilevel inheritance? What type of ambiguity occurs in multiple inheritance and how is it resolved?

• Use of template function? 

• Explain the concept of pass by reference and return by reference.

• When is a copy constructor invoked?

• What are "C"-type strings? How are they different from strings defined by standard C++ string class?

• Virtual function? How is a pure virtual function different from virtual function?

• How is operator overloading performed using:- member functions and friend functions

• Inline function? what is its use? In what situations inline functions are not recommended?

• Write Short Notes On:-

1.  Standard Template Library
2. Function Template
3. New and Delete operators
4. File Pointer
5. Inheritance
6. Static and Dynamic cases
7. Scope resolution operator
8. Void pointers
9. Command Line Arguments
10. Container classes in STL
11. Control structures in C++

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Software Engineering' Question Papers (Only Theory)!!!

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These are the questions compiled together from all the previous years' question papers of Software Engineering. So first try to prepare these topics and then go for the whole book. :-)

1. Define decomposition technique and explain why it is necessary in cost and effort estimation. Explain any two types of decomposition technique.
2. Define software design. Explain the features of good software design. 
3. Explain the relationship of cohesion and coupling with functional dependence. 
4. Define SRS. Explain features of good SRS. List the users of SRS and their purposes. Why SRS known as black box specification of a system?
5. Explain the role of software quality assurance group. Also explain formal technical reviews.
6. Software reliability. Explain different reliability metrics. Explain any one reliablity growth model. How do you measure it in terms of MTBF, MTTF, MTTR.
7. Define Structure Chart. Compare transform and transaction analysis.
8. Explain Cocomo model with reference of object points. Also explain how make/buy decision leads to cost effective software development.
9. Distinguish between- Blackbox testing and white box testing, ISO 9000 certification and SEI CMM model
10. Classify software risks. Explain how risk projection activity performs risk estimation.
11. Software maintenance?  Various categories of software maintenance. Which category consumes maximum efforts and why?
12. Define Metrics. Explain the relationships among measures, metrics and indicators. Compare size-oriented metric with function-oriented metric.
13. Define software configuration items. Explain how they are used in SCM process. 
14. Various stages of COCOMO II model. Explain categories of projects for which COCOMO II is applicable.
15. Various key process areas of CMM at various maturity level.
16. Discuss relationship between quality factor and quality criteria in Mc Call's software quality model.
17. Discuss any 2 white box testing techniques with suitable e.g. along with the control flow graphs. 
18. Enumerate Boehm's top ten software risks. What is meant by RMMM plan? Develop a RMMM plan for any IT risk and explain its contents. 
19. Explain the Putman resource allocation model. What are the limitations of the model?
20. Structured analysis? Briefly review the tools.
21. Purpose behind normalization? 
22. What considerations are involved in feasibility analysis? Which is most crucial? Why?
23. Fact finding techniques.
24. Requirements of good system analyst?
25. 6 Special system tests?
26. What categories of stakeholders should you include in fact finding?
27. Structured walkthrough? How they are carried out?
28. Components of CASE tools, indicating the function performed by each.
29. Deliverables? What is design book and what is its purpose?
30. What cost elements are considered in cost benefit analysis? What do you think is the most difficult to estimate? Why?
31. Agile Modeling? How is it related with Extreme Programming?
32. McCall's quality factors? FURPS quality factors?
33. Short Notes- 

• FAST
• System Testing
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Reverse Engineering
• RAD Model 
• SDLC
• HIPO Charts
• SEI capability Maturity Model(CMM)
• Activities of implementation.
• Waterfall model
• Spiral model
• Structure Chart
• Warnier Orr Diagram
• Data Dictionary
• Task Set Selector(TSS)

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