OLLSCOIL NA hÉIREANN, CORCAIGH
THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
COLAISTE NA hOLLSCOILE, CORCAIGH
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK
2015/16
Semester 2 — Summer Examinations 2016
CS3051 Digital Content Management
Dr Helen Purchase
Professor Cormac Sreenan
Mr Adrian P. O'Riordan
Answer all three questions
Total Marks 80
1.5 Hours
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Question 1. (Question is worth 30 marks; each part below is worth 3 marks)
a) List three types of Web applications with an example of each where Content Management Systems
(CMS) are commonly used, e.g. Social Media and Facebook.
b) Give three typical features of a CMS.
c) How can a CMS be architected in terms of layers?
d) List three technical and three non-technical issues that should be considering when choosing or
purchasing a CMS.
e) What is a digital asset management system?
f)
What role does the inverted index play in search?
g) Explain the differences between media downloading and streaming.
h) Give two benefits of peer-to-peer file sharing over standard client-server implementations.
i)
What is a HTTP session? What problem does session management solve?
j)
List three considerations that could influence the choice of backend storage in a CMS.
Question 2. (25 marks in total)
a) Illustrate with a diagram how PHP Web applications operate in a client-server environment,
illustrating the role played by HTML, HTTP, the PHP engine and backend databases.
[6 marks]
b) Show with simple examples how a PHP script can be embedded in HTML and how PHP can
generate HTML.
[4 marks]
c) PHP is cross-platform, open, Web-enabled, well documented and loosely typed. Explain that
statement.
[5 marks]
d) Write a PHP script that represents the following information as an array (hard-code the
information) and displays the information in tabular form as a HTML table. In addition, write a
function to count and print a count of potential sonnets (all poems with 14 lines for the purposes of
this exercise).
[10 marks]
Poem
Number of Lines
The Road Not Taken
20
No Second Troy
12
Sonnet 116
14
Acquainted With The Night
14
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Question 3. (25 marks in total)
a) What is the function of a Web form? Give two examples where Web forms are used. What are the
security risks?
[5 marks]
b) Briefly explain the operation of the PHP superglobal $_GET.
[2 marks]
c) Below is an incomplete HTML form. Fill in the missing parts (marked i to v) assuming HTTP
POST is used and including a reset button.
[5 marks]
<h1>Registration</h1>
<form method=
i
action="respond.php">
<label>What is your name?</label>
<input type="text"
ii
size= "25"><br>
<label>Enter a password:</label>
<input
iii
name="password" required><br>
<input type="submit" value="Register">
<
<
iv
v
>
>
d) Write a PHP script that uses the $_POST superglobal to respond to the form in part c) with a
personalized greeting and checks that a password has been given. (There is no requirement for any
further validation).
[5 marks]
e) What are Web cookies? Outline briefly how they work.
f)
[4 marks]
What are the two main types of peer-to-peer networks? List two security issues that affect peer-topeer applications.
[4 marks]
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