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CBCS) for M.Sc Scheme of teaching and examination under semester pattern Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for M.Sc. Information Technology Semester I for M.Sc. Information Technology Code Teaching Examination Scheme scheme (Hours / Week) Max. Marks Minimum Passing Marks Theory / Practical Theory Th Pract Total Credits in hrs. Duration External Marks Internal Ass Marks Total Th Pract Core 1 Paper 1 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Computer Architecture and Organization Core 2 Paper 2 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Internet Computing With ASP.NET Core 3 Paper 3 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Distributed Operating System Core 4 Paper 4 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Advanced DBMS and Administration Pract. Practical 1 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 1 & based on theory ** 2 paper-1 and 2 Pract. Practical 2 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 3 & based on theory ** 4 paper-3 and 4 Seminar 1 Seminar 1 2 - 2 1 25 25 10 TOTAL 18 16 34 25 520 105 625 170 80 1 Semester II for M.Sc. Information Technology Code Teaching Examination Scheme scheme (Hours / Week) Max. Marks Minimum Passing Marks Theory / Practical Theory Th Pract Total Credits in hrs. Duration External Marks Internal Ass Marks Total Th Pract Core 5 Paper 5 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Windows Programming using VC++ Core 6 Paper 6 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Theory of Computation and Compiler Construction Core 7 Paper 7 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Network Programming Core 8 Paper 8 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Open source Web Programming using PHP Pract. Practical 3 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 5 & based on theory ** 6 paper-5 and 6 Pract. Practical 4 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 7 & based on theory ** 8 paper-7 and 8 Seminar 2 Seminar 2 2 - 2 1 25 25 10 TOTAL 18 16 34 25 520 105 625 170 80 2 Semester III for M.Sc. Information Technology Code Teaching Examination Scheme scheme (Hours / Week) Max. Marks Minimum Passing Marks Theory / Practical Theory Th Pract Total Credits in hrs. Duration External Marks Internal Ass Marks Total Th Pract Core 9 Paper 9 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Data Communication and Networks Core 10 Paper 10 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Software Engineering Core Paper 11 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Elective 1 CE1-1 Soft Computing CE1-2 Distributed Databases CE1-3 Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML CE1-4 CORBA CE1-5 Digital & Cyber Forensics Foundation Paper 12 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Course 1 FC1-1 Operating System Concepts FC1-2 Principles of Management FC1- 3 Managerial Economics FC1-4 Retail & Services Marketing FC1-5 Financial Services Management FC1-6 E-Business Pract. Practical 5 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 9 & based on theory ** paper-9 and 10 3 10 Pract. Practical 6 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core based on paper ** Elective 1 11 Seminar 3 Seminar 3 2 - 2 1 25 25 10 TOTAL 18 16 34 25 520 105 625 170 80 Semester IV for M.Sc. Information Technology Code Teaching Examination Scheme scheme (Hours / Week) Max. Marks Minimum Passing Marks Theory / Practical Theory Th Pract Total Credits in hrs. Duration External Marks Internal Ass Marks Total Th Pract Core 11 Paper 13 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Data Warehousing And Data Mining Core 12 Paper 14 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Artificial Intelligence & Expert System Core Paper 15 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Elective 2 CE2-1 Design and Analysis of Algorithm CE2-2 Cloud Computing CE2-3 Mobile Computing CE2-4 Enterprise Computing CE2-5 Mobile & Cyber Forensics Foundation Paper 16 4 - 4 4 3 80 20 100 40 Course 2 FC2-1 Advances in Information Technology FC2-2 Enterprise Resource Planning FC2-3 Supply Chain 4 Management FC2-4 Total Quality Management FC2-5 Banking Operations And Services FC2-6 Information Security And Cyber Law Pract. Practical 7 - 8 8 4 3-8* 100 - 100 40 Core 11, based on theory ** 12 & paper-13,14,15. Elective 2 Project Project 8 8 4 100 - 100 40 ** Seminar 4 Seminar 4 2 - 2 1 25 25 10 TOTAL 18 16 34 25 520 105 625 170 80 Note: Th = Theory; Pr = Practical/lab, * = If required, for two days. ** = The Practical and Project shall be evaluated by both External and Internal Examiner in the respective Department / Center / Affiliated College as per guidelines appended with this direction. 5 M.Sc. (Information Technology) Semester I Paper 1 : Computer Architecture and Organization Hours/Week : 4 Credits : 4 Unit-1 : Principle of computer design : Software, hardware interaction, layers in computer architecture, central processing and machine language instruction, addressing modes, instruction types, instruction set selection, instruction and execution cycle. Unit-2 : Control Unit : Data path and control path design, microprogramming v/s hardwired control, pipelining in CPU design, RISC v/s CISC, superscalar processors. Unit-3 : Memory subsystem : Storage technologies, memory array organization, memory hierarchy, interleaving , cache memory and virtual memory including architectural aids to implement these. Unit-4 : Input/ Output Processing : Bus Interface, Data transfer techniques, I/O interrupts and channels,. Performance evaluation : SPECmarks , Transaction Processing Benchmarks. Books : 1. Computer Architecture and Organization by Tenenbaum 2. Computer Architecture and Organization by J. P. Hayes. 3. Parallel Processing by Hwang 6 Paper 2 : Internet Computing with ASP.NET Hours/Week : 4 Credits : 4 Unit-1 : HTML Basics: Introduction to Internet, Applications, Web designing, web browser, web pages, home page, web site, web servers, www. Concepts of hypertext, hypermedia, versions of HTML, elements of HTML, syntax, sections of HTML, building & executing html documents, Various tags of HTML: Headings & Title, Text-level elements, Changing Colors font, size using FONT> Tag, Text alignment & paragraph Creating links with <A Href> tag, Inserting image using <IMG> tag, Creating Table with <TABLE> tag, rowspan, colspan attributes. <FRAMESET> & <FRAME> tag, <FORM> tag, creating text boxes, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, hidden control, password, lists & dropdown list, textarea. Submitting a form, get & post method. ASP & HTML forms. Working with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): Unit-2 : ASP.NET Controls: Overview of dynamic web page, introduction & features of ASP.NET, understanding ASP.NET controls, applications, web servers, installation of IIS. Web fors, web form controls, server controls, client controls, adding controls to web form, buttons, text box, labels, checkbox, radio buttons, list box. Adding controls a runtime, Running a web application, creating a multiform web project, Form validation: client side and server side validation, Validation controls: required field comparison range, Calendar control, Ad rotator control, Internet Explorer control. Unit-3 : ADO.NET: Overview of ADO.NET, from ADO to ADO.NET, ADO.NET architecture, Accessing data using data adapters and datasets, using command and data reader, binding data to data bind controls, displaying data in data grid. XML in .NET: XML basics, attributes, fundamentals of XML classes: Document, text writer, text reader, XML validations, XML in ADO.NET, Data document Unit-4 : Web Services: Introduction, State management, view state, session state, application state, service description language, building & consuming a web service. Web application development, Caching, Threading concepts, Creating threads in .NET, Managing threads, Thread Synchronization, features of .NET, role based security & code access security, permissions Books : 1. The Completer Reference ASP.NET – Mathew Macdonald (TMH) 2. Professional ASP.NET – Wrox publication 3. Learn HTML in a weekend – Steven E. Callihan (TMH) Reference Books: 1. VB.NET Programming Black Book – Steven Holzner (Dreamtech pub.) 2. Introduction to .NET framework – Wrox publication. 3. ASP.NET Unleashed - bpb publication. 4. Using HTML – Lee Anne Philips (PHI) 7 Paper 3 : Distributed Operating System Hours/Week : 4 Credits : 4 Unit-1 : Fundamentals Introduction to Distributed Computing System, Distributed Computing system model, Advantages of Distributed computing System, Introduction to Distributed Operating System, Introduction to Distributed Computing Environment Unit-2 : Message Passing Introduction, Characteristics of Good message passing system, Issues in IPC by message passing Synchronization, Buffering, Multidatagram messages, Encoding and Decoding of message data, process addressing, Failure handling, Group Communication. Unit-3 : Remote Process Calls (RPC) Introduction, RPC Model, Implementing RPC Mechanism, Stub generation, RPC messages, Types of RPC’s Marshaling arguments and results, Server Management, Call semantics, Communication Protocols for RPC’s Client-Server Binding, Exception handling Security. Unit-4 : Distributed Shared Memory (DSM), Introduction Resource and Process Management, Characteristics of good global Scheduling algorithm, Various approaches for resource management, Process migration, Threads, Clock synchronization, Event ordering, Mutual Exclusion, Deadlock, Election algorithm. Books: 1. Distributed Operating system, Sinha, PHI Publication. 8 Paper 4 : Advanced DBMS and Administration Hours/Week : 4 Credits : 4 Unit-1 : Relational Database design: Functional dependencies, and Normalization Normal forms based on primary keys (1 NF, 2 NF, 3 NF, BCNF, 4 NF, 5 NF) Loss less joins and dependency preserving decomposition Query Processing: Query Processing Stages, Query Interpretation, Equivalence of Expressions, Query Resource Utilization, Query Execution Statistics, Query Execution Plan, Estimation of Query Processing Cost, Table Scan, Sample Index Access, Fill Factor, Multiple Index Access, Methods for Joining Tables (Nested Loop, Merge Join, Hybrid Join, Multiple Join) Structure of a Query Optimizer Unit-2 : Transaction Processing & Concurrency Control: Concept and definition of transaction, ACID properties, serializibility, Prioritization, states of transaction, Types of failure, desirable properties of transaction schedules and recoverability, serial usability of schedules, levels of transaction consistency, deadlocks, long duration transactions, transaction performance, transaction processing as implemented in contemporary database, management system.
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