Exam Oriented Important Questions
Past Year Most Important Questions
1. Describe the meaning & content of Digital Signature. Who issues the digital
Signature?
2. The Cyber Appellate Tribunal enjoys the powers of a Civil
Court under C.P.C 1908, Comment.
3. What is encryption? Discuss the role of public key and
private key in safeguarding sensitive organizational data.
4. Explain the term “Computer Network” under Information
Technology Act 2000.
5. What is M-Commerce? What are the salient features?
Name two supporting technologies for M-Commerce.
6. What are “Cyber Offences” under Information Technology Act 2000?
7. Differentiate between “OCR”, “OMR” & “MICR”
8. Distinguish between Utility Software and Application Software?
9. Distinguish between Multi Programming & Multi Processing?
10. Distinguish between Batch Processing, Online Processing & Real Time Processing
11. Describe briefly Metadata?
12. Describe briefly salient features of Hierarchical Database Structure?
13. Differentiate between Database, Data warehouse and Data mart
14. What is Data-mining? State uses of Data-mining in business
15. State the difference between Data Definition Language & Data Manipulation
Language?
16. Distinguish between “Assembler”, “Compiler” & “Interpreter”?
17. What is Programming? Briefly mention the various steps involved in Programming
Process?
18. What is Algorithm? Explain the character sticks of Good Algorithm
19. What is Electronic Data Inter-change? Explain its benefits?
20. Explain the role and functions of supply chain management in business
operations?
21. Explain the difference between “Intranet”, “Extranet” & “Internet”.
22. Define the Internet Protocol? State the basic character sticks
23. Describe Bluetooth
24. What is Decision Support System?
25. State the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Expert System
26. What is ERP? State the major benefits & drawback of ERP.
27. What are the objectives of National Service Delivery Gateway?
28. What are the issues of E-Governance in India?
29. What is interactive service model of E-Governance?
30. Explain the difference between System Audit and System Evaluation?
31. List out the major areas and major elements of Information System Audit Process?
32. What is Test Pack? What are the uses of test pack in information system audit?
33. What is change management in software life cycle? List out the steps.
Some Important Terms worth Memorizing
1. Algorithm
2. Asymmetric Crypto System
3. ASCII
17. Malware
18. MICR
4. BIOS
19. Multiplexor
5. Browser (Web Browser)
20. Packet Switching
6. Client/Server
7. Cryptography
21. POP
8. Decrypt
22. Public Key
9. Digital Signature
23. SMTP
10. EFT
11. Ethernet
24. Spoofing
12. Firewall
25. Spyware
13. HTTP
26. System Development Life Cycle
14. HTML
15. IP Address
16. Magneto-Optical Drive
27. TCP/IP
28. Web Server/WWW