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IGNOU MCS-220 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Q1: (a) What is a Singleton Design Pattern? Explain a scenario where it is useful in a web application and provide a Java code example for its implementation.
(b) Differentiate between a Web Server and a Web Container. Explain the core components of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture with a suitable diagram.
Q2: (a) Explain the two primary mechanisms for servlet communication: RequestDispatcher and sendRedirect. Highlight the key differences between them with an example.
(b) What is Session Management in a web application? Briefly explain the different techniques used to manage sessions in Servlets.
Q3: (a) What are JSP Implicit Objects? Explain the purpose and use of the request, response, session, and out implicit objects with code snippets.
(b) Explain the function of the following JSP Action Tags with suitable code examples:
i. <jsp:include>
ii. <jsp:forward>
iii. <jsp:useBean>
Q4: What do you mean by Maven? Explain the structure and purpose of a pom.xml file. Also, describe the key phases of the default Maven build lifecycle.
Q5: Explain the concept of Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) in the Spring Framework. Provide a simple example demonstrating DI using annotations.
Q6: (a) Explain how to perform Update and Delete operations in a web application using Spring Boot and Hibernate. Provide relevant code snippets for the Repository and Service layers.
(b) Explain how form validation is handled in Spring MVC. Provide an example of a model class with validation annotations and the corresponding Controller method to process it.
Q7: Explain the request processing workflow in a Spring MVC application. Describe the roles of the DispatcherServlet, Controller, and ViewResolver with the help of a diagram.
Q8: (a) Describe the steps to configure Spring Security in a Spring Boot application using Java-based configuration. Show a basic security configuration class that secures all endpoints.
(b) Write a complete Servlet program that retrieves user data (e.g., name, email) from an HTML form and inserts it into a database table using JDBC.
Q9: Write short notes on the following:
(a) Hibernate ORM Framework
(b) JSP Directives (page, include, taglib)
(c) Spring Boot Actuator
IGNOU MCS-220 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Q1: (a) What is need of design pattern? Explain the use of Repository Design Pattern with the help of an example.
(b) What is the difference between JAR and WAR files? Describe the process of creation, deployment and extraction of WAR files.
Q2: (a) What is Servlet interface? Differentiate between GenericServlet and HTTPServlet?
(b) Briefly explain servlet life cycle. Also, explain the request and response in the context of HTTP?
Q3: (a) Explain the advantages of Java Server Pages over the servlet. Also, write a JSP program for Fibonacci Series.
(b) Explain the various components of JSP with suitable code.
Q4: What do you mean by JDBC? Explain how we retrieve data from database using suitable JSP program.
Q5: What are the Strut2 core components? Explain the working and flow of Struts 2 with the help of suitable diagram.
Q6: (a) Explain process of creating records using Spring Boot and Hibernate.
(b) Explain how testing of custom login form can be performed with the help of an example.
Q7: Explain how CRUD operations are mapped to SQL statements, with suitable example.
Q8: (a) Write the unit test case to execute it as a user with RequestPostProcessor for the URL pattern “/” which returns model attribute with key as “message” and value as “Hello World”.
(b) What is Role-based Login? Explain how user’s access can be restricted using Role-based Login.
Q9: Write short notes on the following:
(a) JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
(b) Spring Framework
(c) Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
