Question Bank

Unit-I
1. What is multimedia? Explain any two features of this technology which can be used
in business.
2. What is multimedia? Discuss its various elements.
3. Define the term “multimedia” in the context of computer system.
4. Describe in brief, what do you understand by “multimedia objects”.
5. Describe the stages of multimedia projects using some suitable example.
6. Describe, what do you understand by multimedia software’s presentation tools.
7. What do you understand by image capturing in context of multimedia applications?
8. Write in brief-
a) Memory and Storage Devices
b) Communication Devices
9. Describe the input and output devices used for preparing and distributing multimedia
projects.
10. What are the software tools required for creating and editing multimedia elements?
11. What are different types of Authoring tools? What features should be considered
while selecting authoring tools for multimedia presentation.
12. What do you understand by DDE and OLE?
13. Discuss the role of multimedia technology in the field of education and entertainment.
14. What do you understand by authoring tools? Explain in brief card, page and icon
based event driven tools.
15. Differentiate between synthesized and captured media. Describe in brief the concept
of virtual environment in multimedia.
16. Explain at least six features of an image.
17. Discuss the effect of memory capacity and the processor speed on multimedia
application development.
18. Explain the concept of convergence of computer, communications and entertainment
products.
19. What are the memory requirements of multimedia?
20. Explain the work of a page based authoring tool.
21. What do you understand by sound capturing? Explain with a suitable example.
22. Discuss the role of multimedia technology in the field of education and entertainment.
23. For a display system the display area is 12 × 10 inches and a resolution of 100 dpi and
a color depth of 16 bits. Calculate the following -
i) Size of Fran buffer
ii) Aspect ratio
24. Where we use Multimedia? What you need for a Multi media project?
25. What is the purpose of eyedropper tool in drawing/painting tools? Why auto trace tool is
used in drawing tools.
26. Name some painting software. List some features of 3-D modeling tools.
27. How sound editing tools are used?
28. What are image editing applications?
29. Write short notes on a. Monitors b. ISDN c. Projectors.
30. How memory and storage devices are used in Multimedia?
31. What is the role of input devices in multimedia? Explain five of them in brief.
32. What makes multimedia so important in modern world.
33. What are different hardware platform available for multimedia.
34. On what criteria you would emphasize while selecting a multimedia computer system.
35. What do you understand by video making?
36. What is the effect of sound, video and graphics on the viewer?
37. What are general guidelines tat are useful in designing interactive multimedia.
38. Explain, how the bandwidth affects the data transfer rate on the internet
39. What is Multimedia? What is its application area? Discuss the role of multimedia
technology in the field of education.
40. Name some of the recent software used in multimedia industry. What software
drivers are required for multimedia software?
41. How CD is different from DVD. Discuss about recent development in RAM
technology.
42. Explain the various types of disc drivers.
43. What is optical disk? How it is different from magnetic optical disc.
44. Differentiate between the STP and UTP cables with their advantages and
disadvantages.
45. What is the need of multimedia in real world, where it is utilized.
46. Describe various phases in multimedia application development.
47. Differentiate between the term multimedia system and application, with example.
48. Multimedia application development is a iterative process explain.
49. Explain the key properties of MM system?
50. Write short note on –
a) Multimedia communication devices
b) Multimedia presentation tools
c) Remote application sharing
Unit- II
1. Explain the digital signal processing of sound.
2. How can the one do the audio recording in Multimedia system? Explain some of the
audio file format.
3. What is MIDI? How is it different tan digital audio?
4. What are the major steps involved in capturing audio in windows environment.
5. How much space will a 1 minute speech take, if sampling rate 44 kHz and sample
size is 16 bits?
6. How is embedded an audio into an HTML file and java applet file.
7. Explain the various multimedia building blocks.
8. What are the various audio cards used in multimedia. Explain the steps involved in
audio digitization.
9. Differentiate between MIDI and digital audio. Give the formula to determine the size
(in bytes) of a digital recording from a monophonic recording.
10. What is the need of interface design in multimedia applications?
11. Discuss the use of text in multimedia. Explain the terms hypermedia and hypertext.
12. What is font? Explain the font designing and editing tools used in multimedia.
13. What do you understand by “Digital Audio”. How it is better than Analog Audio
System.
14. Explain the term “Sound MIDI” in reference to multimedia applications.
15. What do you understand by video capture? Explain wit some suitable example the
procedure of capturing video.
16. What makes multimedia so important in modern world.
17. What are the various hardware plat form available for multimedia.
18. On what criteria you would emphasize while selecting a multimedia computer
system.
19. What do you understand by video making?
20. What is the effect of sound video and graphics on the viewer?
21. What are the general guidelines that are useful in designing interactive multimedia?
22. Explain how the bandwidth affects the data transfer on the internet.
23. What is multimedia? What are its application areas? Discuss the role of multimedia
technology in the field of education.
24. Name some of the recent software used in multimedia industry. What software
drivers are required for multimedia software?
25. What do you understand by multimedia? What are the basic technologies used in
multimedia and what is its application.
26. How CD is different from DVD. Discuss about the recent development in RAM
technologies.
27. Explain the various types of disk drivers.
28. What is optical disk? How it is different from magnetic optical disk.
29. Differentiate the STP and UTP cables with their advantage and disadvantage.
30. What is the need of multimedia in real world, where it is utilized?
31. What do you understand by video conferences? How it is beneficial in in the business
work.
 32. Describe various phases in multimedia application development.
33. Difference between the term multimedia system and application, with example.
34. Multimedia application development is a iterative process. Explain.

Unit – III
1. Explain the steps of Shannon-Fano algorithm with suitable example.
2. A text message contain five distinct symbols and their frequencies in the text are
given below –
Symbol - A B C D E
Frequencies– 15 7 6 6 5

Construct the Huffman tree and generate the Huffman code for each symbol.
3. Write a note on Quick Time.
4. Describe Huffman coding in context with Data Compression.
5. What do you understand by Finite Context Modeling? Describe with some suitable example.
6. Outline the trade-offs between quality, bandwidth, delay and loss which are behind the choice
of inter- frame and intra- frame compression for typical schemes in use today.
7. Explain Arithmetic Coding and Decoding Algorithms. Show how the arithmetic codes are
generated for the string “HUFFMAN”.
8. What is Dictionary- based Compression. Show all the steps of LZW compression including
dictionary formation for text string “AB$ABA$ABAB$ABABC$AB”.
9. How can compression techniques are categorized. Discuss an example for each category.
10. What is the principle of arithmetic coding? Generate the tag interval for the alphabet –
A ═ (x1, x2, x3) with p(x1) ═ 0.7, p(x2) ═ 0.1, p(x3) ═ 0.2
11. Differentiate between dictionary based compression and sliding window compression.
12. Differentiate between the lossless and lossy compression technique.
13. Explain the lossless and lossy compression taking suitable examples. Compare them.
Lossless data compression makes some file longer. Do you agree? (Comment)
14. Write short notes on –
i) Finite context modeling
ii) Sliding Window Compression
35. Draw a comparative table to show relative advantages of LZ77, LZ78 and LZW
compression techniques
36. For the string “DADDIADDVKAADRIDDRADD” develop the Shannon Fano and
Huffman codes. Show the steps at the decoding of coded strings.
37. For the text string “DI$DI$D$DIDI$DIDIA$DIDI”, SHOW ALL TE STEPS OF
LZW compression including dictionary formation. List the sequence of output taken
in LZW compression.
38. What do you mean by dictionary based compression? Consider the text string
“WXS*WYGWYS*WYWWSC”. Compress it using LZ78 compression and decode
it.
39. Make a comparison between Huffman and Arithmetic coding. Code the string
“FRANCE” using the arithmetic coding for the following probability of symbols.
Symbol Frequency
Y 0.1
 E 0.2
R 0.1
G 0.1
N 0.1
M 0.1
A 0.1
R 0.1
C 0.1

Unit- IV
1. What is speech synthesis? How is it performed?
2. Explain the process of encoding the speech.
3. What are the steps involved in converting an analog audio into digital. What is the
role of Nyquist theorem?
4. How can we achieve image compression using GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)?
Explain.
5. Briefly explain why a bidirectional B-frame improves video compression rates. What
drawbacks are there with using B-frames?
6. Describe four basic types of data redundancy tat data compression algorithms can
apply to audio, image and video signals.
7. Briefly describe the QuickTime architecture and its components.
8. What are the essential requirements of speech compression Describe with some
suitable example.
9. What do you understand by silent compression? Explain with some suitable example.
10. Describe lossless compression of sound in context of multimedia application. Explain
with some suitable example.
11. What is speech synthesis? How is it performed?
12. Explain the process of encoding the speech.
13. Explain JPEG image compression standard.
14. What is Bitmap? How is it different from vector drawing?
Unit – V
1. What are the advantages of video compression?
2. Briefly describe the MHEG standards.
3. What are the main stages associated with the operation of MPEG. Give a brief
description of the role of each stage.
4. Write short notes on –
(i)Lossy Graphic Compression
(ii) Zig-Zag coding
(iii) Multimedia Broadcast Services.
5. Explain JPEG compression in brief.
6. Explain how video compression is achieved using MPEG.
7. What is open GL and where is it useful.
8. Explain different aspects of video signal representation.
9. Write notes on - (i) MHEG standards (ii) Resent developments in multimedia
10. Explain in brief multimedia database.
11. Discuss the trend in multimedia industry.
12. What is the role of multimedia monitor in image processing?
13. What is computer animation
14. Elucidate the various MPEG standards.
15. Explain different aspects of video signal representation. Explain the various layers of
video data stream of MPEG.
16. Write a short note on the following –
i) Video splitter
ii) OLE
iii) Multiple Display Monitor.
17. Explain te video compression wit suitable example.
18. Explain the various image compression standard.