SIES COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE(AUTONOMOUS)

Sion (W), Mumbai-400 022.

TYBCOM -SEMESTER V
Assignment questions
Answer the following questions.
Unit 1: Data Communication, Networking and Internet.
1) What is Data Communication? Identify the five components of a data communication
system.
2) Describe the Star topology. State its advantages and disadvantages.
3) Define the term topology. Describe the Bus topology.
4) What is local area network (LAN)? What are the main features of a LAN?
5) Write short notes on:-
a) Coaxial Cable
b) Fiber Optic Cable
c) Twisted pair Cable

Unit 2: Database and MySQL

1) There exists a table BOOKS containing columns Accession number (ASNO, integer,
primary key), book name (BNAME character), author’s name (AUTHOR character) ,
publisher’s name (PUB, character), year of publishing ( YOPUB, date) and number of
pages (NUM, integer). There exists another table ISSUE containing columns Student
number (SNO integer), Accession number (ASNO integer) and date of issue (DTISSU
date).
Write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Display the book name, author name, student number and date of issue for the
books having more than 250 pages using both the tables.
ii) Display the book name, accession number, year of publishing and date of issue for
all the books using both the tables.
iii) Display book name, author name and number of pages from the table BOOKS for
those books where the number of pages is above the average number of pages.
iv) Display author name and number of pages in the descending order of number of
pages from the table BOOKS.
v) Display student number, Accession number and date of issue for student number
112 from the table ISSUE.
2) There exists a table TAX containing columns Permanent Account Number (PAN,
integer), name (NAME, Character), city (CITY, character), Taxable income (INC
decimal) and income tax (ITAX decimal).
Write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Display the city, maximum and minimum Taxable income grouped by city.
ii) Display the city, total of the income tax and total number of income taxpayers
grouped by city.
iii) Display all the rows where the income tax is below the maximum income tax.
iv) Display Permanent Account Number, income tax and 10% of income tax as
surcharge.
v) Display the rows from this table where the name does not contain ‘R’.

3) There exists a table DEPT containing columns employee number (ENO integer,
primary key), employee name (ENAME, character), salary ( SALARY ,
decimal(10,2)). There exists another table company containing the columns employee
number (ENO, integer), gender( GEN, character) and date of joining( DOJ, date) .
Write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Display employee number , name and gender using these tables.
ii) Display employee number, employee name and date of joining using both the
tables for those emloyees who earn salary more than Rs. 45000.
iii) Display employee number, employee name, gender and date of joining for those
employees who have joined after 10th April, 2010.
iv) Display employee number , name, date of joining and 20% of salary as bonus
using both the tables.
4) Write MySQL statement to create a table called CONSUMER having the columns
Consumer number (CNO integer, primary key), Consumer name (CNAME varchar of
width 30 , not null), cell number (CELLNO, varchar of width 12) , connection type(
TYPE, character with variable width 10 columns, with default entry ‘INDUSTRIAL’)
and units consumed (UNITS, integer).
Further write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Display electricity bill calculated as 10*UNITS plus 100.
ii) Display the consumer number, consumer name having type of connection as
‘INDUSTRIAL’.
 iii) Add a column fixed charges ( FIXCH decimal having 7 digits in total and two digits
after decimal point with default value as 100) after column UNITS.
iv) Set the value of fixed charges equal to 300 for the consumers having
‘INDUSTRIAL’ type connection.

5) There exists a table called ‘SALARY’ containing the columns employee number(ENO,
integer, primary key), employee name( ENAME characters), age (AGE, number) and
basic salary (BPAY, decimal).
Write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Display employee number , name , age and BONUS to be calculated as 20% of
the basic salary for those employees whose basic salary is less than the average
basic salary.
ii) Display employee number, age and ‘Allowance’ to be calculated as 15% of the
salary for those employees whose basic salary is higher than average basic
salary.
iii) Count the number of employees who earn more than the average salary.

6) Write MySQL query to create a table called ‘STUDENT’ containing columns to store
admission number (ADNO , positive integer, primary key, not null), name ( SNAME,
varchar of width 20), gender ( GENDER character of width 1), date of birth ( DOB date
), date of admission ( DOA date) , class admitted to (CLASS , varchar of width 10),
fees paid ( FEES , decimal with 5 integers and two decimals)
Also write MySQL queries for the following:
i) Add column of scholarship decimal(6,2) after FEES.
ii) Change name of the column ‘SNAME’ to ‘NAME’.
iii) Update the scholarship value to be 35% of the FEES if fees paid is more than
Rs 15000.
iv) Delete the gender column from table ‘STUDENT’.
MS-Excel Questions :
1)

Consider following changes in the

A B respective account heads
1 Budget 150000 I) Air fare becomes 30000, hotel booking
2 Expense Head Amount becomes 27000 and shopping changes to
3 Air Fare 25000 25000.
II) Local transport changes to 10000, tickets
4 Hotel Booking 30000
change to 2800 and food changes to
5 Food 15000
13000.
6 Local transport 8000
7 Tickets 3000
Provide step wise procedure to prepare a
8 Insurance 4500 scenario summary in MS-Excel showing
9 Shopping 20000 original budget and other two budgets as
10 Total =sum(B3:B9) budget one and budget two respectively.
11 Surplus = B2- 10

2) WRITE DOWN APPROPRIATE FUNCTIONS AND SYNTAX TO PERFORM

THE FOLLOWING TASKS in MS-Excel.
I) Find the day name for date of “15/04/1986”.
II) Find the average of all the numbers higher than 60 in cell C46 for the cell range
A35:C45
III) Find the average of all the numbers below 60 in cell C47 for the cell range
A35:C45
IV) Find the second smallest number in cell B16 from the cell range B1:B15.
V) To find number of days between date “30/09/2009” and “23/06/2019”.
VI) Count the number of empty cells in the cell range A35:C45 in cell C46.
VII) Count the number of filled cells in the cell range A35:C45 in cell C47.
VIII) Display four characters from the right side from the word “LIGHTHOUSE” in
cell B2.

3) Provide step wise procedure to perform the following tasks in MS-Excel using goal
seek.
If engineering education is going to cost Rs 1500000 in the year 2028 then calculate
the amount to be saved every month from January 2024 to achieve this goal by
December 2027 assuming no interest is earned on this amount.

4) If a company makes four food products biscuits, cookies, confectionary and chocolates
priced at Rs. 25 , Rs.60, Rs.2 and Rs. 5 respectively. The company requires turnover of
Rs 350000 to break even. Provide a stepwise procedure to be performed in MS-Excel
using SOLVER to find the number of units of each of these products to be sold to
achieve this target assuming there is no production constraint.
 5) The following data has been entered in a worksheet in MS-Excel.

Consider following table prepared in MS- Data from users containing names and their
Excel. incomes has been entered in columns E and
A B F respectively.
1 Income Tax Rate I) Using table given aside calculate
2 0-250000 0% payable tax for everyone in column
3 250000 – 500000 10 % G.
4 500000 – 1000000 20 %
5 1000000 – 2000000 25 %
6 2000000 – 2500000 30% II) If the income tax amount exceeds
Rs 100000 then calculate cess a rate
7 Above 2500000 35 %
of 5% in column H.
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6) The following data has been entered in a worksheet in MS-Excel.

A B C D E F G
1 Name Percentage Grade Percentage Grade
2 Adwait 36 39 F
3 Ashish 49 45 E
4 Kajal 83 50 D
5 Harshad 62 59 C
6 Sonali 63 64 B
7 Vaibahv 87 74 A
8 Shambahvi 44 90 O

 Write stepwise procedure to be performed in MS-Excel using VLOOKUP to display grades

in column C against each students by using table provided in columns E and F.
 Arrange the list of students according to the descending order of the grade.