UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2018/2019
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BIT4303 ADVANCED WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
FULL TIME/PART TIME/DISTANCE LEARNING
DATE: DECEMBER, 2018 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question One & ANY OTHER TWO questions.
QUESTION ONE
a) Describe the two main types of scripts that are employed during web design and explain the
tools used in each case [6 Marks]
b) i) Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem. Explain this statement [5Marks]
ii) Describe the three methods of adding style rules to HTML using examples to illustrate
[9 Marks]
(c) Explain the function of the following servers [10 Marks]
(i) File server
(ii) Printer server
(iii) Proxy server
(iv) Application server
QUESTION TWO
a) Create a program using php program that allows the user to enter numbers between 0 and 10, if
the number entered is less than zero an error message is displayed alerting the user that the number
is too low, if the number entered is above 10 the message says that the number is too high and if
the user enters other character other than a number the the message says the value is not a number.
[20 Marks]
QUESTION THREE
a) b) Describe the characteristics of PHP-MySQL Apache, combination that make it popular for
creating web pages today (6Marks)
b) Compare and contrast between the coding used in HTML with the coding used in lower level
languages such as machine code (8 Marks)
c) Describe the following java script commands. (6 marks)
i) onBlur –
ii) document.WriteIn –
ii) onSubmit –
QUESTION FOUR
a) State the function of ACTION and METHOD attributes of the <Form> tag and show how
they are used in a code
(20 Marks)
QUESTION FIVE
a) Describe how PHP scripts are enclosed in a html document. 3 Marks
b) Describe the function used to obtain the ASCII value of a character in PHP?
4 Marks
c) Describe the two methods GET and POST as used in PHP 6 Marks
Describe the PHP function that returns a text in title case from a variable 4 Marks
d) Describe the php function used to return the number of characters in a string variable
3 Marks
