What is the Grid?

What is the purpose of the Grid?

How does the Grid work?

Give one application on the Grid.

Grid - challenging technical requirements

Grid structure

What is the Virtual Organisation in terms of Grid concept?

Discuss the benefits of the Grid infrastructure and outline the application areas.

Discuss how a user submits a task to the Grid platform.

List the different types of resources available on the Grid platform.

Give two applications suitable for the Grid and explain briefly why.

Explain point operations and the process of applying point operations in image processing.

Give an example of applying a point operation on an image size 5 x 5. Your example should contain the input and output images as well as the point operation.

Discuss the characteristics and use of a “low pass filter” in image processing.

Discuss the characteristics and use of a “high pass filter” in image processing.

Draw a diagram to illustrate the simple stenographic system showing its basic components (1).

Steganography - definition

Draw a diagram to illustrate the simple stenographic system showing its basic components (2).

Difference between cryptography and steganography.

DBMS, OLAP, Data Mining

Compare and contrast the following Data Management processing techniques. Support your answer with suitable examples.
- OLTP (On-line Transaction Processing)
- OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing)

Compare and contrast the following Data Management processing techniques. Support your answer with suitable examples.
- OLTP (On-line Transaction Processing)
- OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing)
(Table)

Discuss the differences between ‘Data Warehouse’ and ‘Big Data’.

Big Data tools

Name the three attributes used in Big Data and briefly explain each of them.

What is meant by the term ‘Big Data Analytics’? Using a simple business scenario, give an example of a business problem that can be solved by it.

Purpose Data Mining (KDD)

Data warehouse attributes

Applications of AI

Expert system

AI methodologies

Compare and contrast neural network computing and conventional computing.

Choose one example of an application of an Expert system that support Rule-based methodology and discuss its benefits.

Types of expert systems

Explain why an Intelligent System can fail.

Basic functions of an Expert System

Expert systems - general methods of inferencing

Components of an expert systems

Explain the following term, giving example its importance in a computational environment:
Clusters

Explain the following term, giving example its importance in a computational environment:
Steganography

Explain the following term, giving example its importance in a computational environment:
NLP

Explain the following term, giving example its importance in a computational environment:
Data Cleaning

Explain the following term, giving example its importance in a computational environment:
OLAP

What is a Distributed System?

Examples of Distributed System.

Middleware

Clipping in Image processing

Supervised x Unsupervised
Neural Networks examples

Data Warehouse