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(Semester -6th )Finance

Dear students, Please attempt all the questions and submit it to the D.E.office on. 04/09/16

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Taxation & Tax Planning

Coverage: All Blocks

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Note: Attempt all the questions

Q.1 Income of a previous year is chargeable to tax in the immediately following assessment

year. Is there any exception to this rule ? Discuss

Q.2 " The incidence of income tax depends upon the residential status of an assessee".

Discuss fully.

Q.3 Discuss in brief the following :

a. Income deemed to be received in India

b. Income deemed to accrue or arise in India

c. Control and management of a business.

Q.4 Can there be different connotations for the expression " salary " for different purposes ?

Discuss.

Q.5 Explain clearly the term " annual value " under section 23(1) of the act. Give examples.

Q.6 What do you mean by the term " depreciation " as used in the Income Tax Act ?

Discuss the different types of depreciation allowance admissible under the act .

Q.7 Write notes on " Capital assets" and " transfer ". Discuss the exemptions provided

by section 54 and 54 F.

Q.8 What is agricultural Income and how is it treated for income tax purposes ? Explain.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Financial Institution & Market


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1. Define financial system and discuss the important functions performed by it. 2. Explain the various objectives of monetary policy of RBI. 3. “SEBI has played a strong role for the improvement of the secondary market in India”.

Comment. 4. What is the difference between secured and unsecured loans? How is the concept of

security used in bank leading in India? 5. What are the special measures introduced by government and RBI to revive and

strengthen co-operative bank in India? 6. Discuss the various provident fund schemes in India and how all these schemes work? 7. What is the essence of General Insurance? How the GIC and its subsiders do insurance

business in India? 8. What are the major advantages of investment through mutual funds? 9. What do you understand by IRDA, explain its statutory functions? 10. Write short notes on :A). ICICI B). IDBI C). EXIM Bank

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Management Control System


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Q 1

(a) Define and Explain Management Control System (MCS). Discuss the Nature and Scope of MCS in terms of components of Management and explain that how it helps in achievement of the objectives of organisation?

(b) What are the characteristics of a good control system? Explain the components of MCS in terms of hierarchy of control, organisation structure and division of responsibilities. What is the role of feedback, MIS and Corporate Culture in binding the various components of MCS?

(c) Draw a comparison between Strategic Planning and Management Control and also between Management Control and Task Control.

Q 2

(a) Define Strategy. Explain how Strategy helps in achieving the mission of an organisation.

(b) List out the various attributes of an MCS.

(c) Explain the following terms - Interactive Control - Corporate Strategy - SWOT analysis. How it helps in formulation of Strategy. - Core Competencies - BCG Model for achieving Business Unit Goals - 5 force Model to improve competitive edge of an organisation.

Q 3

(a) What is Goal Congruence and explain how it helps in achievement of the organizational objectives? Illustrate the formal and Informal factors of control which affect the behaviour of an employee.

(b) Explain the concepts behind at least six modern techniques used by Management to influence the behaviour of the employees for Goal Congruence.( Hint- any 6 out of ERP, TQM, TKM, JIT, Benchmarking, SQC, BPR, Value added analysis/ Value chain).

Q 4

(a) Differentiate between Rewards and Compensation. What are the components of a compensation plan? Work out a compensation plan for a CEO of the company at a cost to the company of Rs 20 lac per annum.

(b) Discuss the merits and demerits of short term and long term incentive plans. What are the considerations behind designing incentive plans for a CEO, a Business Unit Head and general employees?

(c) Write short notes on- - ESOP - Phantom Shares

- Various Profit sharing plans used by management as incentives the employees - Some research findings regarding rewards and compensation plans - Theory X and Theory Y.

Q 5

(a) How responsibility centres are an integral part of Management Control Structure? Explain in terms of need for delegation and performance evaluation. What are the various ways by which a large multi product, multinational would create responsibility centres?

(b) Explain various types of responsibility centres and how they are normally placed in the hierarchy of the organisation for the purpose of control? What are the criteria for evaluating the performance of each type of responsibility centre?

(c) Write short notes on- - ROI - RI - EVA.

Q 6

(a) Why organisations need transfer pricing? Explain various factors affecting the transfer pricing policies in an organisation. What are the different methods adopted by organisations for determining transfer prices?

(b) Prepare a matrix showing relative advantages and shortcomings of various methods used by organisations for transfer pricing.

Q 7

(a) Define Budget. What are the main considerations behind preparation of budget in an organisation? What are the various classifications of budgets in an organisation?

(b) Write short notes on following ( any 7)- - Activity Based Budgeting - Zero Based Budgeting - Corporate Long Range Planning - Budgeting under Uncertainty - Cash Budget, and methods of preparing cash budgets - Flexible and Fixed Budgeting - Budgetary Control System and Performance Reporting - Capital Budgeting and Controls - Various Functional Budgets and their inter relationship

(c) What are the various behavioural aspects involved in budgeting. Please explain how performance improvement can be affected by dealing with the behavioural aspects.

Q 8

(a) What are the various financial and non financial measures of performance in an organisation? Explain and illustrate each of them. (b) What is a Balance Score Card and explain that how it helps in overcoming the short comings of a single variable? (c) Explain the concept of Market Value Added in detail.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Management of Financial Services


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1. Define financial services also its scenario in Indi. What is the difficulties of financial services?

2. What do you mean by investment banking define in brief? Also describe the difference between investment banking and merchant banking?

3. What do you mean by Mutual Fund in India also describe classification of Mutual fund in brief?

4. What do you mean by leasing and describe advantages of leasing? 5. What do you mean by factoring, describe the type of factoring? 6. What is the venture capital guidelines describe in brief? 7. What is the venture capital institutions in India describe in brief? 8. What is the advantages of securitization also describe its economic benefits in brief? 9. What is a credit card, define its specimen in brief? 10. What is the rating methodology and its symbols define in brief?

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(Semester -6th )Marketing


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : International Marketing


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1.Define international marketing ,its evolution. Explain in brief the EPRG concept.

2. Explain in detail about world trade organization.

3. Explain at length the documents required in International Trade Export Documentation, Procedures and Institutional support for export promotion in India

4.Explain Product Elimination, Adoption and Diffusion of New Products, International Branding Strategies

5.Write in short

a) push strategy

b) GSTP

c) bill of lading

d) CTD/MTD

e ) Consul

f) GSP

g) Brownfield investment

h) Greenfield operations

6. detail about INCOTERMS for sea and inland waterways & for any mode or modes of transportation

7. what are the types of risks in international markets, explain in detail.

8. explain the decision making model for selecting international market entry modes.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Mgmt.of Marketing Comml&Adver.


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1) What is media planning? How does a firm go about developing is media plan ? also briefly discuss various media challenges confronting an advertiser.

2) Choose three or four campaigns for lifestyle products such as perfumes or designer clothes.

3) Choose any one global company and discuss its public relation strategy .also discuss public relation as an

emerging tool in in the promotional mix.

4) Discuss the evolution of advertising business and the changes in recent times. Also describe the various kinds of advertising agencies.

5) Describe the legal and ethical issues in advertising.

6) Define strategy and its role and relevance in advertising. Also discuss elements of a marketing plan?

7) What is the marketing communication? What are communication tools other than advertising gaining ground in recent years?

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Market Research


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Q1 What role does marketing research play in reducing marketing risk? What factors must be taken into account while weighing the decision to undertake marketing research.

Q2 (a) What is the relationship among exploratory, descriptive and experimental research. (b) What is the major purpose for which descriptive research is conducted?

Q3. A well-known media is considering launching a business weekly aimed at management students and young executive’s .What kind of primary and secondary data would need in order to determine its market potential? Describe the merit and demerit of primary and secondary data.

Q4. Discuss the different aspects of classification of data. What are the likely problems encountered in the classification and how they can be handled?

Q5 Describe some marketing research problems that you feel may be amenable to conjoint analysis and explain how you would else conjoint analysis in these situation.

Q6 An airlines marketing manager wants to segment his customer. How can cluster analysis be assessed for this purpose?

Q7 Discuss with the help of examples the area where multi dimensional scaling can be applied for marketing.

Q8. Suggest your own methods for over-coming the resistance to using marketing research if you are employed as marketing head of a large manufacturing organization.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Retail marketing


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1. Explain the term retailing with reference to organised retail business. Differentiate between organised and unorganised retailing business.

2. What are the forms of retail formats and would you classify them? Describe the characteristics of a

departmental store and compare it with discount store.

3. Explain consumer buying process in retail. Mention the factors affecting retail sourcing decisions in detail.

4. Illustrate the following

a. Retail Strategy b. Theories of retail change

5. Explain in detail concept, factors, types and strategies of retail pricing. 6. Demonstrate the importance of store location for a retailer and outline the process for choosing a store

location.

7. Explain the concept and importance of store layout with reference to merchandise to be sold.

8. Describe the concept of sales promotion. Also develop retail advertising plan. How AIDA theory can be used in retailers promotion.

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(Semester -6th )HR


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Compensation &Reward management


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Q1. What are the management responsibilities regarding the compensation management program?

Q2. What are the public policy considerations in wage policies? State the practical difficulties, if any translating the lofty ideals into actions?

Q3. What is the role played by the International labour Organization on :-

1. Wage fixing machinery 2. Fixation of wages 3. Equal pay for equal work

Q4. Discuss the wages provisions of minimum wages act 1948.

Q5. Discuss whether and why Collective bargaining is superior to other methods of wage determination?

Q6. Write short notes on:-

a) Job evaluation b) Fringe benefits c) Pay service

Q7. Explain the concept of tax planning?

Q8. Describe future trends in compensation management?

Q9. Explain what is performance- linked reward system?

Q9. How stock options are currently treated for tax purpose &how should be treated?

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(Semester -6th )HR


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : IR& Labour Laws


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Q1. a) Explain the importance of Social Justice in relation to industrial jurisprudence.

b) Briefly discuss the various principles of Industrial Jurisprudence.

Q2. Define Factory. Explain the provisions regarding health, Safety and welfare of workers as per Factories Act 1948.

Q3. Define the term industry as per Industrial Dispute Act 1947.What is object of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Q4. Define the procedure of fixation and revision of minimum wages as per the minimum wages act.

Q5. Explain the provision for set-on and set –off in the Payment of Bonus Act. Why has such a provision been made in the Act.

Q6.What is meant by “wages” under the payment of Wages Act? Enlist any five authorized deductions as per the act.

Q7. What is gratuity? Explain the method of calculation of gratuity.

Q8. Discuss in detail various benefits which are available to the insured workers and members of the families under the ESI Act, 1948.

Q9.Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the machinery provided for the settlement of disputes under Industrial dispute Act,1947,in the present changing industrial scenario.

Q9.Write short notes on

1. The Equal RemunerationAct, 1976. 2. Trade Union Act, 1926. 3. Maternity benefit Act, 1961. 4. Layoff’s Retrenchment

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(Semester -6th )HR

Dear students, Please attempt all the questions and submit it to the D.E.office on.04/09/16

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Union Management & Relations


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Q1. What do you mean by trade union? Explain various functions of trade unions in INDIA?

Q2. What is grievance? Write down the procedure of punishment?

Q3. How a trade union is registered? Define various functions of registration.

Q4. Write short note on:-

a) Trade union.

b) ILO.

c) Standing order.

Q5. What do you mean by domestic enquiry? Explain the procedure of Domestic enquiry?

Q6. What are the provisions laid down under the trade union act, 1926? Explain at least 6 amendments happened under the Trade union (amendments) act, 2001?

Q7. Define collective bargaining and explain its main feature?

Q8.Define standing order? Explain industrial matter mentions in schedule-1?

Q9. Differentiate:-

a) AITUC & BMS.

b) Strike & Lockout.

c) Washing letter & appointment letters.

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(Semester -6th )HR


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Managing Change in Organisation


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Q1. Explain the factors which triggers for change?

Q2. Describe how organizational culture change can take place. Illustrate from an organization where culture change has taken place.

Q3. Explain the strategies which could be used other than mergers & acquisitions?

Q4. Discuss the steps involved in bringing about turn around management?

Q5. Describe the Weis- board’s box model and its advantages in diagnosis?

Q6. What are interventions and what are the reasons for interventions to be used in organization?

Q7. Explain the key roles in organizational change?

Q8 Why do individuals & organizations resist?

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(Semester -6th )Production


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Project management


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Q. 1 A. How Project Management is different from Operations Management? Explain with suitable example. B. Explain ‘Project Life Cycle’ with an appropriate example. Q. 2 Describe the care the planners must take in using SWOT analysis for making strategic decisions. Q. 3 Why is a project feasibility study undertaken? Discuss any approach used in conducting a project

feasibility study with suitable example. What is the purpose behind studying ‘critical success factors’ in a project feasibility report?

Q. 4 Define ‘Opportunity’. What is the ‘economic dependence’ of opportunities? Describe various forms of

economic dependence and their relevance to efficient investment analysis? Q. 5 A. What is ‘risk’? Explain the association between the chances of risk and the cost of managing risk over

the stages of project life cycle. B. Explain the framework of project risk management at the execution stage in detail. Q. 6 What is ‘sensitivity analysis? What are the ways in which the sensitivity analysis for project can be

carried out? What purpose does it serve on corporate investment decisions, and how? Q. 7 The utility data for a network are given below –

Activity : 0-1 1-2 1-3 2-4 2-5 3-4 3-6 4-7 5-7 6-7 Duration : 2 8 10 6 3 3 7 5 2 8

a. Draw the Network. b. Find the various critical path and project completion time.

Q. 8 The economic life model, particularly one which addresses the issue of willingness to buy old asset, has

its own set of assumptions. What are these assumptions? Are they practically relevant? How can these assumptions be relaxed for making the model more realistic?

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Adv.Operations Mgmt.


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Q.1 What is production and operation management? Discuss the emerging role of the production and operations manager in India.

Q.2 Discuss the various factors involved in the location of a plant, with an emphasis on a cement plant.

Q.3 Explain with examples, the reasons for layout revision. Which are essentially significant factors in determining the type of layout?

Q.4 Find the total cost of layout by using following information:

Load Flow

U V W X U - 5 15 25 V 25 - 5 35 W 35 25 - 45 X 45 15 25 -

Distance Matrix

U V W X U - 10 30 20 V 10 - 40 30 W 30 40 - 40 X 20 30 40 -

Cost Matrix

U V W X U - 1 2 2 V 2 - 3 3 W 1 1 - 2 X 3 1 3 -

Q.5 What are the objectives of MRP? Explain how each of these objective is achieved?

Q 6 Explain the importance of sequencing problem. What are the various methods of solving sequencing problems? Briefly explain them.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Management of R&D & Innovation


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Q1) What is difference between an architectural innovation and a disruptive technological change?

Q2) Explain the term monopoly and recardian rents? Give suitable example?

Q3) Can a innovation be radical in organization sense and yet be incremental in the economics sense? How about Vice Versa? Give some examples?

Q4) Given the definition of managerial dominant logic, do you think that there may exist organizational and industry logic? What is the relationship between the three?

Q5) Apart from an S- Curve how else would you predict the demise of an existing technology?

Q6) Why it is so difficult to maintain the profit flow from an existing product while rushing in a radical innovation ? what is your solution to this problem?

Q7) What are the roles of structure, System, People and environment (S3PE) in the implementation of a strategy ? Must there be an S3PE fit ?

Q8) Can there be another Wal-mart in retail ?

Q9) In combining run, block and team up strategies, what are the drivers, to the extent to which each of them can be emphasized ?

Q10) Write Short Note on-

A. Siblings S-curve B. Bargaining power of buyers C. Co-opetitors D. Initial Public offerings E. VIDE analysis

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Service Maintenance Mgmt.


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1. (a) Define maintenance. Discuss the responsibilities of the maintenance department in a well established organization. (b) What different strategies/systems are used in maintenance of a plant? Explain concepts in brief.

2. What are the characteristics/elements of a planned preventive maintenance programme? How can the

effectiveness of preventive maintenance help the maintenance department?

3. Maintenance evaluation is very essential to sharpen the maintenance function, explain? Describe the benefit, which can be derived from maintenance evaluation.

4. (a) How can the maintenance function be planned for effective working of the maintenance department?

(b) How does the maintenance scheduling help the maintenance department? Explain in brief.

5. (a) How does motivation affect the performance of individuals in an organization? Explain. (b) Explain the role of computers in discharging maintenance function in today’s industrial environment.

6. (a) Briefly describe the concept of reliability? Discuss how the reliability of the system/equipment can be

improved?

(b) Discuss the need and importance of maintainability.

7. (a) What do you understand by life cycle costing of equipment? Explain the factors which play an important role in the preparation of maintenance budget. (b) Describe the important factors, which should be kept in mind while selecting the

equipment for particular environment.

8. Write short notes (any four) (a) Condition monitoring. (b) Total Productive maintenance.

(c) Effectiveness of maintenance organization in today’s industrial growth environment. (d) Terrotechnology. (e) Energy conservation measures in maintenance. (f) Tribology.

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(Semester -6th )System


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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : System Analysis & Design.


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Q.1 Explain in detail the role of System analysts and the role of the rest of the stockholders. Q.2 What are the three business goal-oriented perspective or views of an information System that system owners and system users tend to focus on? What are the three technological perspectives that system designers and builders tend to focus on? Explain in detail.. Q.3 What is Process Management and Project Management. Explain its necessity in detail

Q.4 What is System Analysis? Explain different System analysis approaches in detail..

Q.5 What are fact finding techniques Explain, also explain different issues involved in feasibility study.

Q.6 What is Data Modeling? Explain system concepts for Data Modeling.

Q.7 Write short notes with all specification

(1) UML diagrams

(2) Construct Process Models.

Q.8 Explain conventional files versus database design in detail.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Software Engg.


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Q.1 What is software engineering (Evolution) Explain in brief various development models in S/E.

Q.2 Explain desirable characteristics and component of software requirement specification in

detail.

Q.3 What are the different architectural styles for the component and connector structure of a

System in detail

Q.4 What is the role of effort estimation in a project and why is it important to do this estimation early? Q.5 Write short Note on (1) Risk management

(2) Coupling and Cohesion

Q.6 What is testing in Software Engineering? Explain different types of Testing in detail.

Q.7 Write short on Documenting Architecture design.

Q.8 Explain Function oriented design and object oriented design in detail.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : A.I.& Knowledge Mgt.


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1. What is knowledge representation? Explain Semantic Networks and Frames.

2. What is an Expert System? What are its advantages and limitations? Briefly discuss the

architecture of an Expert System.

3. Discuss the following search techniques: 1. Depth First Search 2. Breadth First Search 3. Alpha-beta cutoffs

4. What is Knowledge Capturing? Explain Knowledge management capturing techniques.

How it is implemented? Explain with suitable examples. 5. Answer the following:

Distinguish between Data, Information & Knowledge What are the Key Challenges of Knowledge Management? State and Explain different types of Knowledge

6. Machines can be made intelligent artificially but ultimately persons make the machines. So Who is more intelligent - the artificial machine or the person? Discuss.

7. Write Short Notes:

5 P’s of Strategic Knowledge Management Knowledge & Common Sense

8. Answer the following:

What is the difference between Conventional Versus KMSLC? Explain any model of Knowledge Creation & Transformation.

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Course Code: MS---

Course Title : Advance Internet TECHNOLOGIES


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1 What is a servlet? What are the advantages of Servlet over CGI? 2 What is difference between GenericServlet and HttpServlet? What are the phases of servlet life cycle?

3 What are available drivers in JDBC? Explain their advantages and disadvantages? What are the types of statements in JDBC?

4 What are the advantages of JSP over Servlet? What is the life-cycle of JSP?

5 What are implicit objects in JSP?

6 What is JavaBeans? Why are component architectures useful?

7 What is a stateful session bean?

8 What is XML?

9 What is the difference between XML and HTML?

10 What is DTD?

11 What are differences between DTDs and Schema?

12 What is an authentication plugin?

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