BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

(BCA)

BCA/ASSIGN/SEMESTER-I

ASSIGNMENTS
Year, 2010

(1st SEMESTER)

CS-610 CS-611

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
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Course Assignment No. Last Date of Submission Page No.

Code

CS-610 BCA(1)-610/Assignment/2010 3
30th April, 2010
(For January Session)

30th October, 2010

(For July Session)

CS-611 BCA (1)-611/Assignment/2010 5

30th April, 2010
(For January Session)

30th October, 2010

(For July Session)

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Course Code : CS-610
Course Title : Foundation Course in English for Computing
Assignment Number : BCA (1)-610/Assignment/2010
Maximum Marks : 25
Last date of submission : 30th April, 2010 (For January Session)
30th October, 2010 (For July Session)

There are four questions in this assignment. Answer all questions.

Q1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

The world’s history of industry-led growth has not been a very presentable one. In its approach to
development, India has taken the cue from Europe and the United States, which in their years of rapid growth
did little to control massive environmental abuse. The persistent London smog during the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, for instance, was a direct consequence of rampant coal-burning in the city. In the United
States as well, manufacturing-led pollution severely degraded its rivers and land in the 1960s and 1970s. The
consequence of such growth in the history of the developed world is that pollution during industrialization is
taken for granted.

Every major city in India now fails emission standards. ‘These laws,’ the environmentalist Sharad Lele tells
me, ‘are already far more relaxed than global WHO requirements. The fallout of lax standards and minimal
enforcement is obvious for us urban residences. I came over to meet you on my bike, and driving just a few
kilometers in the city makes me feel like I have a smoker’s lungs.’

People arguing in favour of the development-before-environment approach hold up the environment Kuznet’s
curve as the Holy Grail. This theory has a neat logic that has made it instantly appealing ― it suggests that
there is a bell-shaped, ‘inverted U’ trend in the relationship between a society’s economic growth and
environmental degradation. In the early stages of growth, environmental loses go up, but as citizens gets
richer, people can afford to deal with the problems that have built up. Shorter version: nature can be trussed up
and ignored until growth is attended to. ‘The idea here’, Anantha tells me, ‘is that if we have to tackle climate
change, we are better off rich than poor.’

The curve has had a ‘happily ever after’ appeal for developing countries, but its logic is both dangerous and
incomplete. It does not, for instance, take into account the advantages the Western world had in being able to
export industrial pollution elsewhere by shifting their dirtiest industries abroad, first through colonization and
later through globalization. In comparison, developing economies today have no untouched lands to exploit
― if trees have to be felled and rivers polluted, it will have to be done in the home country. We have no other
place to run to.

i) What consequences did rapid industrialization have on London and parts of

United States of America? (1 Mark)
ii) Pick out the sentence which reveals the negative impact of industrialization on the
urban population. (1 Mark)
iii) What do you understand by Kuznet’s curve? Write in your own words. (2 Marks)
iv Why is its logic “both dangerous and incomplete”? (1 Mark)

Q2 Frame appropriate questions that lead to each of the answers given below: (5 Marks)

………………………………………...............? That’s right, glad to meet you.

ii) ……………………………………? Yes, thanks, I had a very good journey.
iii) ………………………………………..? I’d like to see Mr. Shanker, if he is in the office.
iv) ………………………………………..? On my last visit I spoke to Ms. Poonam Saxena.
v) …………………………………………? It was Mr. Aiyar who recommended this restaurant
to me.

Q3 Carefully read the following passage, which contains about 400 words. Then, using your own words as far as
possible, write a summary of it in not more than 120 words. Finally, supply a title for your summary.
(5 Marks)

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 The manager must depend, to a greater or lesser extent, on one or more of the staff to take supervisory roles,
and oversee the day-to-day working of the section. Clearly, there must be as good a relationship as possible
between the manager and supervisor and, while this can be an excellent opportunity to create and maintain
effective communication, there are sometimes problems.

The supervisor is sometimes known as an assistant manager, or under-manager, and has an area of
responsibility which in many ways parallels that of the manager. Like the manager he/she is often under
pressure from above and from below, and has to keep contact with other supervisors, perhaps in other
departments, and thus has a ‘sideways’ pressure also.

More than anything else, the supervisor has to have such information as will enable him to carry out the duties
effectively. He needs to feel that he is in the manager’s confidence, and that he/she has been given all the
relevant information, together with an opportunity to discuss aspects of the work with the manager. There are
managers who fail to recognize fully the importance of information sharing, or who do not always take the
trouble to explain fully what is required of the supervisor.

In addition to the delegation of duties, the manager has the problem of having to assess just how much of the
information he possesses should be passed on to the supervisor. Some managers, alas, try to bolster up their
own position by a secrecy which they suppose add to their status. Others rely on a telephone conversation, or
at best a memo, which they naively believe will be fully understood.

It is not always easy for the manger to decide what information is essential to the supervisor; on the whole it
may be better to give too much information than too little, but the manager also has to ensure that what is
passed on is understood.

Somehow or other, the manager must try to find an opportunity to discuss with the supervisor(s) just what is
required for a particular day or week. Some organizations have set up a daily or weekly ‘briefing session’,
during which not only can up-to-the-minute information as it affects the supervisor be given, but the
supervisor has the opportunity to question or comment, so that the manager has a better idea of the difficulties
which any individual may feel or anticipate.

Q4 Write a composition in about 300 words on one of the topics given below: (10 Marks)

i Changing role of communication in the 21st century.

ii Although we communicate more, we are moving away from each other.
iii The increasing role of technology in our day-to-day lives.
iv Contribution of each individual in saving our planet.

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 Course Title : Fundamentals and PC Software
Assignment Number : BCA (1)-611Assignment/2010
Maximum Marks : 25
Last Date of submission : 30th April, 2010 (For January Session)
30th October, 2010 (For July Session)

There are five questions in this assignment. Answer all the questions. You may use
illustrations and diagrams to enhance explanations.

Question1. Explain classification of computers. Also suggest a suitable operating system (s) for the following
activities:
• Network Computing
• Multimedia Applications
• Database Management System

Identify the requirements on operating system for the above situations. Give reasons in support of your selection.

(5 Marks)

Question 2. Explain the differences between followings:

i. Primary Memory and Secondary Memory
ii. Bus topology and Star topology
iii. Application software and System software
(3 Marks)

Question 3 (a). What is IP address? Explain how you will get IP address of a computer system.
(2 Marks)

Question (b) What is computer virus? Explain how you can protect your machine from computer viruses. (3 Marks)

Question 4. Explain how you will handle following problems

(i) You have to recover a deleted file.
(ii) You have to remove a software from your system.
(iii) You need to change the video mode video mode of your monitor.
(iv) You need to share a newly created folder with other users.
(v) You have set a Printer as default printer. (5 Marks)

Question 5(a) Explain how table is created in MS-Word. (2 Marks)

(b)What is mail-merge feature of MS-Word? Explain advantages of mail-merge.

(5 Marks)