B.Sc.

(IT) Semester VI
Compilation of the Reports of various Meetings held in
different colleges for considering the scope and
limitations of the Sem VI Syllabus

Here are the brief reports of the various meetings conducted in different
colleges for the B.Sc.(IT) Semester VI examination and the following have
been forwarded to the University of Mumbai for kind consideration.

At the end, the suggested distribution of marks to be followed during the

conduct of Sem VI University exam has also been provided. Please make a
careful note of it.

Please follow the ethics of our group and do not provide the soft copy of
these reports to students although you may well communicate the
decisions taken in the meetings to them.
 Paper 1 : C# (CSharp)
1. The prescribed book will be followed as a main book. (i.e Programming in C# by
E Balagurusamy)
2. The topic given in any other book and not available in the prescribed one should
be avoided in the Examination Question Paper.
3. Programs should be related to the topics available in Balagurusamy’s Book.
4. Programming exercise given in the book (at the end of each chapter) can be
followed as a sample program list.
5. The entire syllabus is divided into three parts and marks are assigned to each part
rather than to each chapter.
6. For section wise marks distribution refer below.

Sr. No. Topic Marks

1 Introducing C#
2 Understanding .Net: The C# Environment
3 Overview of C#
4 Literals, Variables and Data Types 20%
5 Operators and Expression
6 Decision Making and Branching
7 Decision Making and Looping
8 Methods in C#
9 Handling Arrays
10 Manipulating Strings
30%
11 Structures and Enumerations
17 Managing Console I/O Operations
18 Managing Errors and Exceptions
12 Classes and Objects
13 Inheritance and Polymorphism
14 Interfaces: Multiple Inheritance 30%
15 Operator Overloading
16 Delegates and Events
Total 80% Marks

P.T.O.

7. The paper pattern will be as follows:

• First Question will carry 20 Marks covering the whole portion and will be
compulsory.
• Paper should have the weightage of 60% for Theory and 40% for
Practical.
• There could be 7 to 8 other questions carrying 16 Marks each, and choice
should be there.
• Internal choices could be provided.
• Paper should be based on the above marks distribution.
 Paper II : Internet Technologies

1) For the Protocols, since the scope and limitations were not clear according to
the RFCs mentioned, in the syllabus, it was decided to follow the book
TCP/IP Protocol Suite by Behrouz Foruzan Chapters 7, 8, 12 and 13 only for
the entire section on protocols.

Problems could be asked related with IP header datagrams only given on page
nos. 128, 202 and 203.

For the benefit of the teaching faculty, the solutions of problems

for chapters 7, 8, 12 and 13 have been posted in the Files Section of
the muit Yahoo group. Please do not distribute these solutions
directly to the students as a request made by the Tata Mcgraw Hill
Representative.

2) Scope and limitations for Network Programming would be as under

Differences between TCP and UDP sockets.

For JAVA based Socket programming all classes along with constructs and
methods incorporated therein as covered in 4th semester (when JAVA was
compulsory) along with JAVA I/O must be known to student.

Additional classes to be covered in this semester are

INET address, Datagram Packet, Datagram Socket, Server and Server Socket.

Multithread constructs should not be asked.

3) As regards with Programming with RMI and Socket 7 is concerned, the

following programs are to be implemented using RMI or Socket 7.
(a) Time Server
(b) Echo Server
(c) Chat Window
(d) Program to find largest value in a block of data.
(e) Program for reversing a string
(f) Program for finding length of a string
(g) Program for reversing two strings
(h) Program for finding factorial of a number.
(i) Program for changing the case of letters in a given string.

4) It was decided that Object Serialisation – Marshalling and Unmarshalling

needs to be covered although not specifically mentioned in the syllabus.
Reference Sun Java Tutorial.
 5) Security Manager in RMI programs has to be omitted as beyond the scope of
syllabus. Genesis of RMI (steps in installation) could be asked. FOR RMI
refer the website mentioned in the syllabus.

6) For CORBA architecture, refer the book Instant CORBA in 14 days by

Techmedia Publications for complete scope.

7) For Wireless LANS, refer the website

Keskus.hut.fi/opetus/s38118/s00/tyot/25/ as mentioned in the syllabus. Scope
limited to details as mentioned in the syllabus.

Regarding question paper pattern it was decided that

In question no. 1 which is compulsory (20 marks) the break up should be

1.a) Protocols - 5 marks
b) Socket 7 / RMI Program – 10 marks
c) Wireless Lans - 5 marks

In the remaining questions i.e. from 2 to 7 there should be two questions that should
contain programs worth 10 marks each.
In any one question, a program of RMI worth 10 marks should be asked.
In another question, a program on Socket 7 programming worth 10 marks should be
asked.

The weightage for the four major topics mentioned in the syllabus could be considered as
under :
1. Basic Network Protocols : 40%
2. Socket Programming : 10%
3. Remote Method Invocation and Introduction to Corba : 40%
4. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) : 10%
 Paper III : CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

MARKS DISTRIBUTION: (For Unit Names, refer syllabus)

UNIT 1 - 15 MARKS
UNIT 2 - 05 MARKS
UNIT 3 - 20 MARKS
UNIT 4 - 20 MARKS
UNIT 5 - 10 MARKS
UNIT 6 - 20 MARKS
UNIT 7 - 10 MARKS

BOOKS TO REFER:

1 UNIT - SPEED OF LIGHT

2 UNIT - CRM BY CRISTON
3 UNIT - CRM HAND BOOK BY JILDYCHT &
SPEED OF LIGHT
4 UNIT - SPEED OF LIGHT
5 UNIT - SPEED OF LIGHT
6 UNIT - SPEED OF LIGHT
7 UNIT - SPEED OF LIGHT

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN:

1. MAXIMUM MARKS: 8 MARKS

2. MINIMUM MARKS: 4 MARKS

3. TOTAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS - 8 QUESTIONS

4. 1st QUESTION WILL BE COMPULSORY FOR 20 MARKS

5. FROM THE REMAINING 7 QUESTIONS OF 16 MARKS ANY 5 QUESTIONS CAN BE

SELECTED

6. QUESTION PAPER WILL CONTAIN ONE CASE STUDY QUESTION FOR 8 MARKS.
 Paper IV (Elective) : Project Management

1) The reference books as specified in the syllabi will be followed except the book
project management by M. Pete Spinner.

2) Question pattern was discussed. There will be a 20 mark compulsory question on case
study. The case study will deal with the important points of project management.

3) Other than the compulsory question, there will be six questions out of which students
will attempt any 4. each question for 20 marks. The question will have only 2 divisions
of a & b of 10 marks each.

4) The syllabi depth was discussed in each topic. There are some notes of IGNOU for
some topic like the feasibility study.

5) The weight-age of marks was also discussed upon.

There are totally 10 topics in which topic 1&2 for 20

3 for 10
4 for 10
5 for 10
6 for 20

7& 8 for 10
9 & 10 for 20
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100
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 Paper IV (Elective) : Total Supply Chain Management
The reference books which will be followed are

1) Logistics and SCM by Martin Cristopher

2) Materials management an integrated approach by P. Gopalakrishnan &
sundaresan.M ( PHI )
3) Production ( Operations ) management by L.C JHAMB ( EPH ( Everest
Publishing House ))
4) Supply chain management by David J. Bloomberg & Stephen Lemag & Joe.B.
hanna

Which to refer for what topic? Might be the question.

The answer to above question is as follows.
There are totally 8 topics.
Each topic has 4 or 5 lines in it.

Topic 1
---------
introduction (self explanatory )

topic 2
--------
lines 1 – 4  chapter 2 & 3 from book no 2
lines 5 & 6  there are no good books available. So scrapping it from syllabi.

Topic 3
---------

till the word EOQ in line no 4, the book to be referred is chapter 2, 9, 16 from book 4
the derivative models of EOQ is cancelled
use of computers is referred from chapter 34 from book 2

topic 4
--------
Logistics & competitive strategy from book no 1 chapter 1
System view of logistics till the word transportation, part III full from book 4
Inventory order processing ware housing, materials handling from book 4

Topic 5
---------
Distribution & n/w design from chapter 5 from book 4
Channels of distribution from page 69 – 77 from book 4
Plant and warehouse location from chap 2 from book 3
Topic 6
---------
topic 6 full from chapter 7 & 8 from book 4

topic 7
--------
total distribution cost is chapter 3 from book 1

topic 8
--------
full topic referred from page no 199 to 201 from book no 1

In short the chapters to be referred from books are as follows

Book 1 chapter 1 & 3 and pages 199 – 201

Book 2 chapters 2, 3, 34, 35
Book 3 chapter 2 and pages 51 – 84
Book 4  part III full, chapter 2, 5, 7, 8 ,9, 16 and pages 69 – 72

The weightage allocated is as follows…

Topic 1  5
2  8
3  20
4  20
5  15
6  20
7  8
8  4

total  100
 Paper IV (Elective) : Strategic IT Management
The syllabus for the subject is not covered in any of the seven references mentioned in
the syllabus. However almost entire syllabus is covered in another good book Strategic
Management : Concepts and Cases by Thompson. from Tata Mcgraw Hill. It was
decided that the scope and limitations fall within the following chapters of the book and
hence it should be adopted as a single book for covering the curriculum.

Chapters 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 13.

Since Case studies in the subject are very large and hence cannot be asked in the theory
paper. However a case study for 25 marks should be covered as a part of internal
assessment for which books mentioned in the syllabus could be refered.

The format of the question paper would be as follows :

Q.1. is compulsory and should cover the entire syllabus.

Attempt any four questions from Q.2. to Q.7.
Each question carries 20 marks.
There would be minimum 2 and maximum 4 subquestions asked in each question.

Paper IV (Elective) : IT Laws and Patents

Details will be provided shortly.
 SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS FOR
CONDUCT OF PRACTICAL EXAMINATION
As Per the following Marks Distribution mentioned in the syllabus copy, University is
considering Project Report and Viva Voce of the Report as TWO Separate
Heads of Passing. Hence the Internal and External Examiner as well as student
should make a careful note of this.

Item Marks How to conduct Exam

Project report 100 Assessed jointly by internal
and External examiner.
Viva Voce of the report 100 Assessed jointly by internal
and External examiner.

For the Project Report assessment, suggested marks distribution scheme is

A) Documentation and Content Presentation : 50 marks

B) Analysis :
Problem Definition, Solutions Provided, Charts, Diagrams : 50 marks
Planning and Methodology, etc.

Total 100 marks

For Viva Voce of the Project, the 100 marks distribution could be considered as per the
following four heads.

A) Presentation Skills : 25 marks

B) Viva – voce : 25 marks
C) Project Quality / User Presentation / Innovative Technologies : 25 marks
D) Working and Functionality Testing : 25 marks

Total 100 marks

NOTE :

1. Both the Project Report assessment and Viva Voce of the Project is to be
accessed jointly by both the Internal Examiner (appointed by the University) and
the External Examiner.
2. No candidate would be allowed to appear for the Project Examination without
duly certified Project Report (his or her own copy).
3. Each student would be accessed for a maximum duration of around 30 mins,
during which for around 15 minutes or so, he is expected to give a demonstration
of the working project. The later 15 minutes would be devoted to assessment of
report and viva-voce.