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TOPICS IN MIS SPRING 2007 BU4045

Hanlu Xu

exam questions

1)C and C++ have features and characteristics of high-level language, but cannot manage low-level features.

2)Color does not play a role in a college webpage, it is better to be simple with no color.

3)7 C’s is an important way to critic a tutorial website.

4)Consistency refers to that everything is in order and has a common structure

5)The first three C's are listed in order from most important to least important as content, correctness, currency

6)Geocities.com provides a free hosting and domain name with a unlimited space to upload.

7)color="#FF0000" represents the black color

8)All the C++ program begins and ends with <HTML> and </html>

9)A C++ loop, such as the while, for, or do...while, makes it possible that a task can be performed over and over as many times as is needed.

10)Color Safe colors are html colors that are divided by 33

QUIZ UNDER REVISION

Name- Hanlu Xu

Dr. Ebrahimi

QUIZ 1

Topics in MIS BU 4045 Spring 2007

Please delete the wrong answer from each question. When you are finished, paste the entire quiz into a word document and email it to ebrahimidr@gmail.com. Be sure and put your name at the top of the quiz. Paste your quiz into your WCM exam as well.

1.   F Concise is one of the 7 C's in evaluating a web page for the project A and B.

2.   x T Computing an equation is faster than searching for example computing Sin of 45 degree.

3.    T Index is the default name of your homepage but it is better to have home.htm as well.

4.    T There is no website that contains no errors.

5.    F All Colleges and Universities should use Google as their search engine.

6.    F Html, a, li, table, form, input, textarea, img, select, are 10 commandments of HTML.

7.    T In JavaScript, the keyword var is used to declare variables and is same as Pascal language.

8.    F Linux is less secure than Windows and therefore there are more viruses for Linux

9.    T In JavaScript, to check if two objects are equivalent you use = = .

10.  x T End of file is a good concept when we know the size of the data file.

11.   x T A compiler translate a high level program into a lower language like Perl.

12.    F Completeness is one of the 7 C's that insures the correctness of the web page.

13.    F GUI stands for Graphical User Interpreter

14.    F Search engine should contain an input type of text and password.

15.    F In HTML color safe colors are divisible by 24 such as 33ff9933.

16.    T To view the code of a website you would go to View tab and select Source with left mouse.

17.    F A Loop is a repetitive part of a program and the main keyword is "if " and "else"?

18.    T In C++, does = = stand for equality and comparison not assignment?

19.    T Counter to find the size of data we must use a loop control variable such as a counter.

20.    F People are frustrated by the internet and buying less product online.

21.    F The Internet is not very useful tool for web search and place you right there as what you want.

22.   x T Understanding of entire HTML is very important for any business manager.

23.   x F To advertise your business you can get free geocities account but you must have a gmail account.

24.   x F In order to get batter website you need to spend good amount of money.

25.    F Learning programming online is easier than face to face since it is convenient and you don't need a lab

26.    F In your Front page you can preview the page but you can’t view the HTML code.

27.    F Study of Top college web sites is known as project B.

28.    F The 7c's "customization & community" do not apply to the client ?

29.    F The 7cs are listed in order from most important to least important.

30.    F It is not important for managers to know about search engine.

31.    F We can use the 7 c's to analyze a c++ tutorial web site and this is known as project C.

32.    F Students usually don't have difficulties learning object oriented programming in compare procedural programming.

33.    F In the 7 c's completeness means there is enough volume to the site.

34.    F A good web site should have currency meaning should be up to the price.

35.    T The 7 c's are content, correctness, currency, completeness, compelling, consistency, customization and community.

36.    F Every web page starts with </html>

37.    T for one of our projects we need to choose a college and the college has to be in the top ten e.g. Princeton.

38.    F C and C++ have features and characteristics of high-level language, but cannot manage low-level features.

39.    F Color does not play a role in a college webpage, it is better to be simple and easy with no color.

40.    T 7 C’s is an important way to critic a C++ tutorial website in project B.

41.    T Consistency refers to that everything is in order and has a common structure

42.    T The first three C's are listed in order from most important to least important as content, correctness, currency

43.    F Geocities.com provides a free hosting and domain name with a unlimited space to upload and transfer time.

44.    F color="#FF0000" represents the black color (e.g. RGB).

45.    x T All the C++ program begins and ends with <HTML> and </html>

46.    T A C++ loop, such as the while, for, or do...while, makes it possible that a task can be performed over and over as many times as is needed.

47.    F Color Safe colors are html colors that are divided by 66

48.    F The seven Q's are the criteria we use for analyzing websites.

49.    T Color-safe colors are used in a website to make sure that the colors on our sites are the same on all PC's

50.   x T Computing data is faster than searching for data already compiled.

51.    F Managers do not need to have knowledge of programming.

52.    F <input type = "button"> will produce a text input box on your web page with a password.

53.   x T The <html> tag must be anchored href = by </html>

54.   x F When designing a page by FrontPage, a lot of unnecessary HTML code will be added.

55.    F In software a buffer is used to send and receive emails.

56.    x T cout stands for console out and is used in Java language.

57.    F Google is a great search engine that should be used on academic web sites.

58.    x T WCM stands for Word Class Management.

59. F The project for the topics in MIS is to build a e-commerce web page for a Business such as a tutoring system.

60. T Many managers do not test their web page for errors such as testing the search interface for correctness

61. x F Most e-commerce businesses have a simple web page and don’t incorporate intelligence in their system.

62. F It is not a duty of a IT manager to understand as how information systems are designed and implemented.

63. T The advantage of CGI over JavaScript, that a CGI can manipulate files and databases while JavaScript can not handle files.

64. T Understanding of HTML is an important factor in design and maintaining a business webpage.

65. F JavaScript provides not many functions that a business web designer can benefit, from it. Therefore they must start from scratch using JavaScript.

66. F For a business, it is better to use a free domain, web hosting and work slowly and surely than spend good money on a powerful web hosting and web page design.

67. F JavaScript uses DIM to declare variables and VBScript uses VAR.

68. T You can place your business on top of the search engine by letting other businesses to link to your page.

69. F Color does not play a role in a business page, it is better to be simple with no color.

70. x T Geocities.com provides a free hosting and domain name with a short redirection.

71. x F AEAEAE represents a silver color.

72. F It is a good practice and faster to enter a social security number for username login

73. x T A manager after the design of the web business must decide as which platform (APACHE or IIS ) wants to reside the page.

74. F A UNIX system is better for a business because it is free and no need for a licensing.

75. F A Window system is better because it is more secure than Unix.

76. F With the double click on a web page one can view the source code of a web page.

77. x T Use of multimedia in a webpage is preferred over the speed of a web page access.

78. F Users care about the accuracy of the content of a business page and don’t care if a webpage is friendly, overwhelmed or easy to browse.

79. F C++ is a slower programming language in compare to VB and Java.

80. F HTML stands for Hyper-Link Makeup Language and it consists of several tags that are used to format a web page.

81. T <A HREF=”#list”> will refer to a name for a match in the same webpage.

82. T An html file can be saved as with extension html, htm or txt.

83. F In HTML color code #FFFFF, each FF represents red, green and black respectively.

84. T BGCOLOR will set the color of text font and BGSOUND add sound to your page.

85. T Four important components of a search program are: request, loop, response and declaration of variables.

86. F Usually a program is larger in size than a data file.

87 F FrontPage will generate HTML code but the code will not work in web host such as Yahoo.

88. T A web browser will detect an error If you don’t end a tag such as <HTML> with /.

89. T Input type can have text, checkbox, radio button, password, submit and reset.

90. T JavaScript, JAVA, C++ and VBscript can be embedded in HTML code.

91. T"main" in c++ mean the main function of the program like main street.

92. T Every search engine have a interface so that user select or type the request.

93. T Every search engine has to display a message such as "not found" or "not matched"

94. F FrontPage is a program to build a website and to host the page.

95. T The questions from quiz are from Journal. textbook and general knowledge.

96. T Before C++ there was a language called B and BCL.

97. T The key combination ALT and "Print Screen" will copy a snapshots of the screen.

98. x T All C++ program begins and ends with { and end with //

99. T All the search programs have to contain a decision statement such as if.

100. T Dr Ebrahimi has his own programming language known as VPCL (Visual Plan Construct language).

Questions for midterm:

Q1. In one paragraph or maximum one page explain crucial problem that you have found in class project (any of the 2 chosen Long Island colleges information system according 7X2'Cs in any 7 layers.)(20 pts)

In my class project I did some analysis about NYIT website. Throughout the research there are some crucial problems.

First of all, a crucial problem happens to the search engine. Click its search button in the home page, type “NYIT” in the search box; it turns out “your search for nyit did not match any document”. As an education institution, no any document related to its own name, it is dubious that the school is able to perform well in academic.

Secondly, find out the NYIT magazine in column Alumni, click current issue bookmark, a magazine cover which published in Nov 3^rd, 2006, is displayed in the front. It violates currency out of the 7C’s, up to date is critical for an academic journal.

Also, in appearance layer, NYIT website didn’t do well. The whole page only takes center part and leaves a huge space in the screen. Because of this, all the contents shrink and the words given in sites are too small to read. It gives readers a unpleasant feeling, especially for those who visit the website for the first time, say the freshmen.

Q2. Pick search program from the text book.(20 pts)

(a) Run it as it is (input/output)

#include<fstream.h>

#include<string.h>

Main(){

Char searchname[15], name[15], telephone[14];

Cout<<”enter the search name:”;

Cin>>searchname;

Ifstream fin(“data.in”);

While(fin>>name>>telephone){

If(strcmp(searchname,name)== 0){

Cout<<telephone<<endl;

Return 0;

} //end of if

} // end of loop

Cout<<”name not found”<<endl;

Return 0;

} // end of main

Input file data.in:

Adam (516)111-1111

Sarah (718)222-2222

Abraham (212)333-3333

John (914)444-4444

Mary (203)555-5555

Output of the telephone search program

Enter the search name: Mary

Result is (203)555-5555

(b) Change it to relate to your project or class search engine (it should be in C++.)

Use copy and paste your program with input/output in a word document.

Q3. In one paragraph or maximum one page explain crucial problem that you have found in project (the top colleges and tutorial system information system according 7X2'Cs in any 7 layers.)(20 pts)

In my top college project, I made some analysis in Yale University.

1. First of all, we can easily find that many of Yale’s web pages, including its home page, contains no copyright claim, as well there is no upgrading date and other statements about the website maintaining work. It is not completed in content and context.

2. Even though most pages have been updated to 2007, there are still some pages lacking of currency. For example, when open the link below, the last updated was on May17, 2005.

URL: https://secure.its.yale.edu/cas/servlet/login
Certifying Authority: Philip E. Long, Chief Information Officer, Yale University
Last Updated: May 17, 2005

3. Completeness and coverage. It is really hard to find a broken link in Yale’s web pages, however, the link below: http://ysnlibrary.blogspot.com/2007/03/ysn-library-march-12-march-23.html,

Several classes’ links listed in the library schedule, but none of the links works, instead, they result in “error” after clicking into.

4. An additional problem of Yale’s website is about its search engine, when we go to Yale Alumni Magazine, its sole search engine is Google Search, as the top university in the world, Yale should has its own search engine, which designed, used, ranged in, tested, and totally managed by the school itself, rather than depends on an other public search engine.

Q4. Identification layer: 7 W's in your project

Identification (Who is who)

Remember 7 W's:

Who, What, When, Where, Why, Which, and last one is wow. (It's "how" backward)

Who- A sort of history, mission, vision, expectations, values and goals of the company.

I will identify the 7W’s in NYIT website.

Who: for example, when questioned that who teach NYIT classes, the site tells us: our classes are taught by full- and part-time faculty members who combine academic accomplishment with up-to-date, “real-world” knowledge.

What: For example, what is NYIT’s mission? The answer is: to provide career-focused education, to offer access to opportunity, to enhance learning through technology and to encourage applications-oriented research.

When: New York Institute of Technology was founded in 1955 with a mission

Where: NYIT has three campuses in the New York metropolitan area. Two are on Long Island, a suburban region east of New York City. The Dorothy and Alexander Schure Old Westbury campus is nestled among several former estates in the historic Gold Coast region of Nassau County’s north shore. The Central Islip campus is located on Suffolk County’s south shore, just minutes from several Atlantic Ocean beaches. The third NYIT campus is located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just a few blocks from Lincoln Center and Central Park.

Why: for example, the website lists “Why does NYIT have three campuses?” It gives the answer as following: The New York area offers a wealth of opportunity for educational development and personal growth. NYIT is unique in that we take full advantage of the particular amenities of the different urban and suburban settings of the region by offering students the option of taking classes on all three campuses. For example, you may choose to schedule a few classes each week at the Manhattan campus so you can spend time exploring New York City’s cultural and business centers. If you prefer a quiet, natural setting, the Old Westbury campus is enveloped in acres of trees, plants and unspoiled natural beauty. The Central Islip campus encourages socialization, with facilities including a bowling alley, indoor swimming pool, full-court gymnasium, fitness room and 400-seat auditorium. All three campuses provide libraries, student computer labs, dining facilities and extracurricular activities.

How: there are many “how”, for instant, when asked that how do I apply NYIT? It explains that students can apply online or to request a standard application and catalog.

Q5. Identify 10 commands in the HTML layer of your project

The ten commands are: html, a, img, table, form, input, select, li, textarea, mailto

In my NYIT project, I analyzed it according to the 10 commands:

Html is the beginning of the program, any page is started with<html> and ends with </html>

Table refers to the contents arranged in the form of a table. In the library page, the table is programmed as:

img is the pictures showed in the web page <img src="homeimages/vote.gif" alt="NYIT Library wants to know what NYIT's favorite social network is." width="150" height="100" hspace="20" border="0">

input is the command of what you should iuput into the box, for example, when using search engine.

Select(<SELECT><OPTION>) and li means list(<LI>)

Form is the way to get information from users, <form action="https://apply.nyit.edu/apply/secure/adm_personalize.asp" method="post" id="form1" name="form1">

Q6 Identify seven components of VBScript or JavaScript in your project.

Seven component of VBscript or JavaScript:- if, loop, array, function, event, declaration, and object.

Loop is a process of going over and over is known as repetition.

If: The expression if compares two values using the comparison operators as below:

Equality ==, less than <, greater than>, not equal !=, less than or equal <=, greater than or equal >=