UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2018/2019
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF BUSINES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BBIT 201: INTERNET APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING
FULL –TIME/ PART-TIME/ DISTANCE LEARNING
DATE: AUGUST 2019 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question One & ANY OTHER TWO questions.
QUESTION ONE (COMPULSORY 30 MARKS)
a) Differentiate between Web engineering and software engineering (6 Marks)
b) Describe the use the statement for..each loop in PHP ? (4 Marks)
c) Write is the correct syntax for creating a function that can be used to calculate the area of a
circle in PHP. (4Marks)
d) Describe the use of frames in web design (4Marks)
e) Describe the following HTML tags
(i) <frame> (2Marks)
(ii) <CITE> (2Marks)
(iii) <BLOCKQUOTE> (2Marks)
(iv) <CELLPADDING> (2Marks)
(v) <BR> (2Marks)
(vi) <STRIKE> (2Marks)
QUESTION TWO
a) Describe style rules as used in web development today (4Marks)
b) Describe the different ways of adding Styles to a html page (9Marks)
c) Describe ID and class as used in web development (4Marks)
d) Which is the correct place to insert a JavaScript statements in a HTML document
(3Marks)
QUESTION THREE
A training session is to be designed on how the company’s computers are linked together over the
internet. Your task is to produce self-explanatory notes for the trainees
Using examples produce a set of notes explaining each of the following computing terms:-
(i) Client (5Marks)
(ii) TCP/IP (5Marks)
(iii) Web Browser (5Marks)
(iv) Get/Post (5Marks)
QUESTION FOUR
Technology does not stand still and programmers have to continually update their skills
a) As a trainer explain the following terms. (5Marks)
(i) Tags
(ii) Head
(iii) Body
(iv) Titles
(v) Footers
b) Produce a basic set of HTML coding incorporating the terms in part a) (5Marks)
c) Briefly explain the contrasts between the coding used in HTML with the coding used in
lower level languages such as machine code. (5Marks)
d) Describe the characteristics of PHP-MySQL, that make it frequently used in
Creating web pages. (5Marks)
QUESTION FIVE
a). Describe the purpose of the following as used in forms (9Marks)
(i) Radio Buttons
(ii) Check Boxes
(iii) Drop Down Boxes
b) Discuss the use of DBMS to design websites today. (5Marks)
c) Explain how you get information from a form that is submitted using the “get” method?
(6 Marks)
