Faculty of Science & Technology

Savitribai Phule Pune University,

Pune

Syllabus for
SY M. Sc. (Computer Applications)
(2023 Pattern)
(With effect from A. Y. 2024-25)

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 Preamble
The field of computing is rapidly expanding and changing, especially, since the last decade with continuous
emergence of new disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, data science, cyber security, Internet
of things, robotics and so on.

21st Century has witnessed rapid technological developments in every sector including the field of Computing.
Moreover, it has created new job roles and massive job opportunities for budding graduates.

Premium Institutes, public and private Universities, autonomous and affiliated colleges in India have always
played a crucial role in producing human resources with required skill sets by capturing and monitoring these
developments and offered various UG and PG programmes.

The Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune has made its significant contribution by offering degree programmes
as per the trends from time to time. In the year 1989, it started offering a degree programme Bachelor of
Computer Science (BCS), now called B. Sc. (Computer Science) and was its unique offering in the state of
Maharashtra. Later the University offered undergraduate and graduate programmes such as Master of
Computer Management (MCM), Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), Master of Computer Applications
(MCA), M. Sc (Computer Science), M. Sc. (Computer Applications) etc.

The Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune has taken a leading role in design and implementation of Programmes
as per the guidelines and recommendations of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The university decided to
offer UG and PG programmes with features recommended by NEP-2020 such as Multiple-entry/exit, inter and
multi-disciplinary education, focus on skilling, on-job training/field projects, research, incorporation of Indian
Knowledge System etc for the holistic development of students.
The university has adopted the guidelines provided by the state Sukanu Samittee and prepared the credit
structure for PG programmes vide its circular No. 122/23.

The Ad-hoc Board of Studies in Computer Applications has prepared a structure for M. Sc. (Computer
Applications) with following features

 The structure of the course is designed as per National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and is in line
with University circular 122/23.
 The total credits offered for the two years (level 6.0 and level 6.5) with four semesters are 88
with 22 credits assigned for each of the four semesters.
 The programme has Multiple Entry/exit feature.
 Various types of courses includes - Mandatory Courses (MC), Mandatory Elective (ME), Research
Methodology, On-job Training (OJT)/Field Project (FP) and Research Project (RP)

I am thankful to Hon. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. S W. Gosavi, Hon. Dean of FoS&T, Prof. Dr. M G Chaskar for their
guidance. I am thankful to all board members Prof. Dr. Rahul Patil, Prof. Dr. Razak Sayyad, Mr. Atul Kahate and
Mr. Milnd Tanksale for their valuable inputs as well as the teachers from affiliated colleges for their active
participation in preparing the draft syllabus.

Prof. Dr. S S Sane

Chairman,
Ad-hoc Board of Studies in Computer Applications
Faculty of Science and Technology, SPPU

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 M.Sc. (Computer Applications)
Objectives
The objective of the Program is to produce trained software professionals with hands-on experience
on state-of-the art technologies who will be able to handle challenges in IT industry. The objectives
of M.Sc. (Computer Applications) program are: -

• To produce knowledgeable and skilled human resources that is employable in IT and

ITES.
• To impart knowledge required for planning, designing and building Complex
Application SoftwareSystems as well as to provide support for automated systems or
applications.

M.Sc. (Computer Applications) Program is of Two Years duration with four semesters. It is a Full- Time
post graduate Degree Program. The program is based on credit system comprising of total 88 credit
points.
It is believed that the proposed syllabus as part of the credit-based system will bring a qualitative
change in the way M.Sc. (Computer Applications) is taught, which will offer a more enriched learning
experience. It aims to provide students with the knowledge and ability to develop creative solutions,
and better understand the effects of future developments of computer applications, systems and
technology on people and society. The students shall develop self and life-long learning skills.

Eligibility
(a) Bachelor Degree in Science/Technology/Engineering OR
(b) Bachelor of Computer Applications (B.C.A.) OR
(c) B.Sc.(Computer Science) OR
(d) Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.) OR
(e) B.Sc.(Information Technology) OR
(f) B.Sc.(Data Science) OR
(g) B.Sc.(Cyber and Digital Science) OR
(h) B.Sc. (Cyber Security) OR
(i) B.Sc. (Cloud Computing) OR
(j) Bachelor of Engineering(BE/B.Tech) in Computer Engg/Computer Science & Engg./
Computer Science and Design/ Information Technology/Electronics and
Telecommunication/AI and Data Science/AI and Machine Learning/ equivalent OR
(k) B. Voc. in Software Development/ Information Technology OR
(l) B.Sc. with Computer Science as Principal Subject OR
(m) General B.Sc. with Computer Science as one of the subject at TYBSc level Programme

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Programme Outcomes:

After successful completion of the Programme, the students shall be able to

PO 1: Demonstrate understanding of fundamental and advance concepts in emerging areas

PO 2: Design and develop innovative computer applications.

PO 3: Analyze existing research reported in the literature

PO 4: Propose alternate solutions by undertaking research work.

PO 5: Create efficient, reliable, readable and maintainable code.

PO 6: Demonstrate a deeper understanding of the chosen domain.

PO 7: Select appropriate method to solve the given problem

PO 8: Explain complex technical concepts clearly and effectively, both in written and oral forms.

PO 9: Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively with team members, understand different

perspectives, and contribute productively to become successful professional.

PO 10: Demonstrate ability to work with integrity and a sense of social responsibility.

PO 11: Demonstrate self and life-long learning skills

PO 12: Solve computational problems innovatively

PO 13: Apply knowledge gained and critical thinking to develop real-world applications.

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Sr. Description Page
No. Numbers
1. Structure of M. Sc. (Computer Applications) 6–7
2. Course Drafts for Courses at SEM III 9 – 24
3. Course Drafts for Courses at SEM IV 26 – 36

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 STRUCTURE FOR M. Sc. (Computer Applications) 2023 Pattern
AS PER NEP GUIDELINES

Abbreviations

TH: Theory PR: Practical

CE: Continuous Evaluation EE: End Semester Examination
CA: Computer Applications MC: Mandatory Core
ME: Mandatory Elective RM: Research Methodology
OJT/FP: On-job Training / Field Project RP: Research Project

SEMESTER I
Level Course Course Code Course Name Teaching Exam Scheme Credits
Type Scheme
TH PR CE EE Total TH PR Total
CA 501 MJ Database Systems and SQL 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
CA 502 MJ Python Programming and Data Structures 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
MC CA 503 MJ Operating Systems 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 504 MJP Lab course based on CA501 MJ & CA 503 -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
MJ
6.0 CA 505 MJP Lab course based on CA 502 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02

CA 510 MJ Java Programming 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02

CA 511 MJP Lab Course based on CA 510 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
ME OR
CA 512 MJ Cloud Computing 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 513 MJP Lab Course based on CA 512 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02

RM CA 541 RM Research Methodology 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04

Total 16 12 165 385 550 16 06 22

SEMESTER II
Level Course Course Code Course Name Teaching Exam Scheme Credits
Type Scheme
TH PR CE EE Total TH PR Total
MC CA 551 MJ Web Technologies 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
CA 552 MJ Introduction to Data Science 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
CA 553 MJ Computer Networks 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 554 MJP Lab course based on CA 551 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
CA 555 MJP Lab course based on CA 552 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
6.0
ME CA 560 MJ Advanced Java Programming 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 561 MJP Lab Course on based on CA 560 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
OR
CA 562 MJ C# .NET 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 563 MJP Lab Course based on based CA 562 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02

OJT/FP CA 581 Industry Internship/Field Project ^ -- -- 30 70 100 -- 04 04

OJT/FP
Total 12 12 165 385 550 12 10 22
^Institutes should follow the procedures/guidelines provided by the University/UGC/State Governments
from time-to-time for smooth conduction of Industry Internship/Field Projects

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 STRUCTURE FOR M. Sc. (Computer Applications) AS PER NEP
GUIDELINES

SEMESTER III

Level Course Course Code Course Name Teaching Exam Scheme Credits
Type Scheme
TH PR CE EE Total TH PR Total
MC CA 601 MJ Artificial Intelligence 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
CA 602 MJ Machine Learning 04 -- 30 70 100 04 -- 04
CA 603 MJ Software Engineering 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
6.5 CA 604 MJP Lab Course based on CA 601 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
CA 605 MJP Lab Course based on CA 602 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02

ME CA 610 MJ Mobile Application Development 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02

CA 611 MJP Lab Course based on CA 610 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02
OR
CA 612 MJ Software Testing 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 613 MJP Lab Course based on CA 612 MJ -- 04 15 35 50 -- 02 02

RP CA 631 RP Research work – I -- 08 30 70 100 -- 04 04

Total 12 20 165 385 550 12 10 22

PROPOSED STRUCTURE FOR M. Sc. (Computer Applications) AS PER

NEP GUIDELINES

SEMESTER IV

Level Course Course Code Course Name Teaching Exam Scheme Credits
Type Scheme
TH PR CE EE Total TH PR Total
MC CA 651 MJP Industrial Training # -- -- 100 200 300 -- 12 12

6.5 CA 660 MJ Management Information System * 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02

OR
ME CA 661 MJ Digital Marketing * 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
CA 662 MJ ERP * 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02
OR
CA 663 MJ Information Security * 02 -- 15 35 50 02 -- 02

RP CA 681 RP Research Work – II $ -- 12 50 100 150 -- 06 06

Total 04 12 180 370 550 04 18 22
#Institutes should follow the procedures/guidelines provided by the University/UGC/State Governments
from time-to-time for smooth conduction of Industrial Training
*These courses may be conducted by the respective colleges in online/offline/hybrid mode
$ Refer the details mentioned in the syllabus

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SEMESTER
III

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 601 MJ: Artificial Intelligence
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 4 Hrs./Week 04 Continuous Evaluation: 30 Marks
End-Semester : 70 Marks
Course Objectives:
● To learn various types of algorithms useful in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
● To convey the ideas in AI research related to emerging technology.
● To introduce ideas and techniques underlying the design of intelligent computer systems
Course Outcomes:
After successful completion of this course, learner will be able to:
● Apply the suitable algorithms to solve AI problems
● Identify and apply suitable Intelligent agents for various AI applications
● Build smart system using different informed search / uninformed search or heuristic
approaches
● Represent complex problems with expressive language of representation
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 12 Hrs
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence,
History of Artificial Intelligence, State of the Art, Intelligent Agents, Agents
and Environments, Good Behavior: Concept of Rationality, Nature of
Environments, Structure of Agents, Benefits and limitation of AI, Ethics in
AI, AI Components, AI Architectures
Unit II Searching 12 Hrs
Uninformed Search Algorithms/Blind Search Techniques - Breadth-first
Search, Depth-first Search
Informed (Heuristic) search Techniques: Generate-and-test, Simple Hill
Climbing, Best First Search, Constraint Satisfaction, Means End Analysis,
A* and AO*
Unit III Gaming 12 Hrs
Game Theory, Optimal Decisions in Games, Heuristic Alpha–Beta Tree
Search, Monte Carlo Tree Search, Stochastic Games, Partially Observable
Games, Limitations of Game Search Algorithms
Unit IV Knowledge Representation 12 Hrs
Definition of Knowledge, Types of knowledge (Procedural and Declarative
knowledge), Approaches to Knowledge Representation
Knowledge representation using Propositional and Predicate logic -
Conversion to clause form, Resolution in Propositional logic, Resolution in
Predicate logic
Unit V Reasoning 12 Hrs

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 Inference in First-Order Logic, Propositional vs. First-Order Inference,
Unification and First-Order Inference, Forward Chaining, Backward
Chaining, Resolution, Knowledge Representation, Ontological Engineering,
Categories and Objects, Events, Mental Objects and Modal Logic, Reasoning
Systems for Categories, Reasoning with Default Information
Reference Books:
1. Artificial Intelligence, Tata McGraw Hill, Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight
2. Computational Intelligence, Eberhart, Elsevier, ISBN 9788131217832
3. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Nilsson, Elsevier, ISBN 9788181471901
4. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert System, Dan Patterson, Prentice Hall of
India
Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1997
5. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Russel &Norvig, Pearson Education
6. Introduction to Machine Learning , Ethem Alpaydin, PHI
E-Resources:
 https://www.oracle.com/in/chatbots/what-is-a-chatbot/
 https://www.dataversity.net/case-study-predictive-analytics-and-data-science-keep-an-
eye-on-the-weather/
 https://www.senseforth.ai/conversational-ai-case-studies/SBI-Cards/

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 602 MJ: Machine Learning
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 4 Hrs./Week 04 Continuous Evaluation: 30 Marks
End-Semester : 70 Marks
Course Objectives:
 To understand the need for Machine learning
 To study and understand classification methods
 To understand the need for multi-class classifiers.
 To learn the working of clustering algorithms
 To learn fundamental neural network algorithms.
Course Outcomes:
 After successful completion of this course, learner will be able to:
 Identify the needs and challenges of machine learning for real time applications.
 Select and apply appropriately supervised machine learning algorithms for real time applications.
 Implement variants of multi-class classifier and measure its performance.
 Compare and contrast different clustering algorithms.
 Design a neural network for solving engineering problems.
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction To Machine Learning 12 Hrs
Introduction to Machine Learning, Comparison of Machine learning with
traditional programming, ML vs AI vs Data Science. Types of learning:
Supervised, Unsupervised, and semi-supervised, reinforcement learning
techniques, Models of Machine learning: Geometric model, Probabilistic Models,
Logical Models, Grouping and grading models, Parametric and non-parametric
models. Important Elements of Machine Learning- Data formats, Learnability,
Statistical learning approaches
Unit II Supervised Learning: Regression and Classification 12 Hrs
Linear regression, logistic regression, Evaluation Metrics: MAE, RMSE, R2
Classification: Naïve-based and Decision tree based classifier, K-nearest neighbor,
Support vector machine.
Unit III Supervised Learning: Ensembles and Multi-Class classification 12 Hrs
Ensemble Learning: Bagging, Boosting, Random Forest, Adaboost. Binary-vs-
Multiclass Classification, Variants of Multiclass Classification: One-vs-One and
One-vs-All Evaluation Metrics and Score: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, Fscore,
Cross-validation
Unit IV Unsupervised Learning 12 Hrs
K-Means, K-medoids, Hierarchical, and Density-based Clustering, Outlier analysis:
introduction of isolation factor, local outlier factor. Evaluation metrics and score:
elbow method, extrinsic and intrinsic methods
Unit V Artificial Neural Networks 12 Hrs

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 Artificial Neural Networks: Single Layer Neural Network, Multilayer Perceptron,
Back Propagation Learning, Functional Link Artificial Neural Network, and Radial
Basis Function Network, Activation functions, Introduction to Recurrent Neural
Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks
Reference Books:
1. Bishop, Christopher M., and Nasser M. Nasrabadi, “Pattern recognition and machine
learning”,Vol. 4. No. 4. New York: springer, 2006.
2. Ethem Alpaydin, “ Introduction to Machine Learning”, PHI 2nd Edition-2013
3. Shalev-Shwartz, Shai, and Shai Ben-David, “Understanding machine learning: From
theory to algorithms”, Cambridge university press, 2014.
4. Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pie, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”,
Elsevier Publishers Third Edition, ISBN: 9780123814791, 9780123814807
5. Goodfellow I.,Bengio Y. and Courville, “ A Deep Learning”, MIT Press, 2016
6. Charu Agarwal, “Neural Networks and deep learning”, A textbook
E-resources:
 Foundation of Machine Learning: https://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/mlbook/
 Dive into Deep Learning: http://d2l.ai/
 A brief introduction to machine learning for Engineers:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02840.pdf
 Introduction to Machine Learning : https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105152
 Introduction to Machine Learning (IIT Madras):
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc22_cs29/prevew
 Deep learning: https://nptel.ac

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 603 MJ: Software Engineering
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives:
• To learn and understand the principles of Software Engineering
• To be acquainted with methods of capturing, specifying, visualizing and analyzing
software requirements.
• To study agile software development methodology
Course Outcomes:
After successful completion of this course, learner will be able to:
• Compare and contrast various Software Engineering models
• Decide on appropriate process model for a developing a software project
• Classify software applications and Identify unique features of various domains
• Prepare System Requirement Specification (SRS) for the given problem
• Design and analyze Data Flow diagrams
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Software Engineering 06 Hrs
Definition of Software, Characteristics of Software, Software Application
Domains, Definition of Software Engineering, Need for software
Engineering, Mc Call’s Quality factors, The Software Process, Software
Engineering Practice
Unit II Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 06 Hrs
Introduction, Activities of SDLC, A Generic Process Model, Prescriptive
Process models: Waterfall Model, Incremental Model, Prototyping Model,
Spiral Model, 3.5 Concurrent Models, Types
Unit III Requirement Engineering 06 Hrs
Introduction, Requirement Engineering Tasks, Establishing Groundwork for
understanding of Software Requirement, Requirement Gathering, Feasibility
study, Fact Finding Techniques
Unit IV Analysis and Design Engineering 06 Hrs
Decision Tree and Decision Table, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), Data
Dictionary (DD), Elements of DD, Advantages of DD, Input and Output
Design, Pseudocode, Introduction to Object-oriented analysis and Design
Unit V Agile Development 06 Hrs
Agility, Agile Process, Principles, The Politics Of Agile Development,
Human Factors, Extreme Programming(XP), Adaptive Software
Development (ASD), Scrum, Dynamic System Development Model
(DSDM)
Reference Books:
1. Software Engineering : A Practitioner’s Approach- Roger S. Pressman, McGraw hill
International Editions 2010 (Seventh Edition)

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2. Fundamentals of Software Engineering- Rajib Mall, PHI Publication, Fourth Edition

E-Resources:
 Software Engineering and Quality Assurance – Mrs Anuradha A. Puntambekar
 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=r203sZeGhhcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Software+En
gineering+ebook&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9wJr-
l6LpAhU46nMBHeWQCQwQ6AEINDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
 Software Engineering – Bharat Bhushan Agarawal and Sumit Prakash Tayal
 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=CDWRq0B9e5kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Software+
Engineering+ebook&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9wJr-
l6LpAhU46nMBHeWQCQwQ6AEIVzAF#v=onepage&q&f=false
 Software Engineering – Jibitesh Mishtre and Ashok Mohanty
 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=YnGz2ghKF-
gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Software+Engineering+ebook&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi
9wJr-l6LpAhU46nMBHeWQCQwQ6AEIaTAH#v=onepage&q&f=false

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 604 MJP: Lab Course Based on CA 601 MJ
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 4 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To learn and apply various search strategies for AI
• To Formalize and implement constraints in search problems
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Apply informed search / uninformed search or heuristic approaches
• Apply basic principles of AI in solutions that require problem solving, inference, perception,
knowledge representation, and learning
• Design and develop an interactive AI application
Guidelines for Instructor's Manual
The instructor shall frame at least 14 assignments. Instructor’s manual consisting of University
syllabus, list of assignments, conduction & Assessment guidelines is to be developed.
Guidelines for Student Journal
The laboratory assignments are to be submitted by student in the form of journal. Journal consists
of Certificate, table of contents, and handwritten write-up for each assignment. Write-up shall
include Title, Problem Statement, software and Hardware requirements, Date of Completion.
Students shall submit softcopy of program codes with sample outputs of all performed
assignments. Lab in-charge shall maintain softcopy of program codes submitted by students. For
reference, one or two journals may be maintained with program prints.
Guidelines for Assessment
Continuous assessment of laboratory work is to be carried out based on overall performance of
students. For each lab assignment, the instructor shall assign grade/marks based on parameters
such as timely completion, understanding and neatness with appropriate weightage.
Suggested Laboratory Assignments
01 Implement depth first search algorithm
02 Implement Breadth first search algorithm
03 Use an undirected graph and develop a recursive algorithm for searching all the vertices of a graph
04 Implement A star Algorithm
05 Implement AO star Algorithm
06 Use Greedy Search algorithm to implement selection sort
07 Use Greedy Search algorithm to find single source shortest path
08 Use Greedy Search algorithm to obtain Minimum Spanning Tree
09 Develop an elementary Chabot for any suitable customer interaction application.
10 Develop an Expert system for a Hospital or any suitable application.

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 605 MJP: Lab Course Based on CA 602 MJ
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 4 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• Develop in depth understanding for implementation of the regression models.
• Learn supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
• Study Artificial Neural Networks
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Implement and evaluate linear regression and random forest regression models.
• Apply and evaluate classification and clustering techniques.
Guidelines for Instructor's Manual
The instructor shall frame at least 14 assignments. Instructor’s manual consisting of University
syllabus, list of assignments, conduction & Assessment guidelines is to be developed.
Guidelines for Student Journal
The laboratory assignments are to be submitted by student in the form of journal. Journal consists
of Certificate, table of contents, and handwritten write-up for each assignment. Write-up shall
include Title, Problem Statement, software and Hardware requirements, Date of Completion.
Students shall submit softcopy of program codes with sample outputs of all performed
assignments. Lab in-charge shall maintain softcopy of program codes submitted by students. For
reference, one or two journals may be maintained with program prints.
Guidelines for Assessment
Continuous assessment of laboratory work is to be carried out based on overall performance of
students. For each lab assignment, the instructor shall assign grade/marks based on parameters
such as timely completion, understanding and neatness with appropriate weightage.
Suggested Laboratory Assignments
Visit websites providing datasets for Machine learning from various domains such as Finance,
Healthcare, Science etc and download. For example download datasets named “Australian
Credits”, “BUPA”, “Ionosphere” etc. Study the datasets and prepare a descriptive table giving
name of the dataset, URL from where it was downloaded, type of dataset (Synthetic/Real-world),
No. of Attributes, no. of records, number of classes (if applicable) etc.
Download any open source software such as WEKA and install. Download in-built datasets and
include their description in the table mentioned above. Carry out following assignments
01 Using any open source software such as WEKA and its datasets, perform classification using
Naïve Bayes classifier, note accuracy
02 Using any open source software such as WEKA and its datasets, perform classification using
C4.5 – the decision tree classifier
03 Using any open source software such as WEKA and its datasets, perform classification using
Neural network classifier
04 Perform assignment 1 above using any available attribute selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 1 above
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05 Perform assignment 2 above using any available attribute selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 2 above
06 Perform assignment 3 above using any available attribute selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 3 above
07 Perform assignment 1 above using any available instant selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 1 above
08 Perform assignment 2 above using any available attribute selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 2 above
09 Perform assignment 3 above using any available attribute selection algorithm in WEKA and
note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignment 3 above
10 Perform assignment 2 above using both attribute and instance selection algorithm in
WEKA and note the accuracy and compare it with accuracy obtained in assignments 2, 5
and 8 above
11 Using any open source software such as WEKA and its datasets, perform clustering using
‘EM’ algorithm
12 Implement K-Means clustering/ hierarchical clustering on sales_data_sample.csv dataset.
Determine the number of clusters using the elbow method.

Dataset link : https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kyanyoga/sample-sales-data

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 610 MJ: Mobile Application Development
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To study the Android mobile application development platform
• To understand the essence of Android programming
• To learn Android mobile application development process
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Describe architecture, components and lifecycle development of Android application
development cycle
• Design simple Android applications
• Apply advanced Android features
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction 06 Hrs
Introduction to Android - Overview and evolution of Android , Features of
Android, Android architecture, Components of an Android Application,
Manifest file, Android Activity Service Lifecycle
Unit II User Interface 06 Hrs
Basic UI Designing (Form widgets, Text Fields, Layouts, [dip, dp, sip, sp]
versus px), Intent, All components (Button, Slider, Image view, Toast), Event
Handling, Adapters and Widgets, Menus
Unit III Threads and Notifications 06 Hrs
Threads running on UI thread (runOnUiThread), Worker thread, Handlers &
Runnable, Asyn Tasks, Broadcast Receivers, Services and notifications,
Toast and Alarms
Unit IV Advanced Android Programming 06 Hrs
Content Providers – SQLite Programming, JSON Parsing, Accessing Phone
Service (Call, SMS, MMS), Location based services

Unit V ReactJs 06 Hrs

React Introduction, Setup and Create Simple Hello World App,
Understanding React Foundation or Structure, React ES6, React JSX, React
Components, React Classes, React Props, React Events, React DevTools,
Reat Data Flow, React Conditionals, React Lists, React Forms, React Router,
React Hooks, Building a Simple To-Do List Application (Setup), Deploying
React
Reference Books:
1. Beginning Android Application Development, Wei-Meng Lee, Wiley
2. React Native in Action, nader dabit, Nickie Buckne, O’reilly Publications
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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 611 MJP: Lab Course Based on CA 610 MJ
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 4 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To study the Android mobile application development platform
• To understand the essence of Android programming
• To learn Android mobile application development process
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Design simple Android applications
• Apply advanced Android features
Guidelines for Instructor's Manual
The instructor shall frame at least 14 assignments. Instructor’s manual consisting of University
syllabus, list of assignments, conduction & Assessment guidelines is to be developed.
Guidelines for Student Journal
The laboratory assignments are to be submitted by student in the form of journal. Journal consists
of Certificate, table of contents, and handwritten write-up for each assignment. Write-up shall
include Title, Problem Statement, software and Hardware requirements, Date of Completion.
Students shall submit softcopy of program codes with sample outputs of all performed
assignments. Lab in-charge shall maintain softcopy of program codes submitted by students. For
reference, one or two journals may be maintained with program prints.
Guidelines for Assessment
Continuous assessment of laboratory work is to be carried out based on overall performance of
students. For each lab assignment, the instructor shall assign grade/marks based on parameters
such as timely completion, understanding and neatness with appropriate weightage.
Suggested Laboratory Assignments
01 Create an Application for registration of users with required fields. Provide Menu items to
add, delete and edit with adequate validations
02 Create sample application with login module. Verify Check username and password. On
successful login, pass username to next screen and if login fails, prompt the user
03 Create Tables Project (pno, p_name, ptype, duration) and Employee (id, e_name,
qualification, join-date), assume Project – employee has a many to many relationship. Using
database perform following operation. 1) Add new record into table. 2) Accept a project
name from user and display information of employees working on the project.
04 Create application to send and receive messages using SMS Manager.
05 Create application to send an email.
06 Create application with a login form. Validate the user and send an email.
07 Create application to search a specific location on Google Map
08 Create application to calculate distance between two locations on Google Map
09 Create application using JSON to provide Employee information
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10 Create an application to capture and send a sales order for a pharma sales agent. Application
should first sync using APIs - a) products with rates from server b) customers details. Login
should find sales person id based on mobile number and allow him to input a sales order with
multiple products. Order should be saved locally and updated on server if connection is
available (or sync later with server).
11 Create and Deploy Application covering assignments 1, 2 and 3 above using ReactJs

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 612 MJ: Software Testing
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To study fundamental concepts in software testing, including software testing
objectives, process, criteria, strategies, and methods
• To know various software testing issues and solutions in software unit test;
integration, regression, and system testing
• To learn how to plan and design test cases and data, conduct tests, manage defects, and
generate a test reports
Course Outcomes
• Distinguish between white box and black box testing
• Define Software testing life cycle
• Design test cases
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction 06 Hrs
Introduction, Basics of Software Testing, Testing Principles, Goals, Testing
Life Cycle, Phases of Testing, Defects, Defect Life Cycle, Defect Report,
Test Plan(IEEE format), verification and validation
Unit II White-box testing 06 Hrs
Introduction, Need of white box testing, Testing types, Test adequacy criteria,
static testing by humans, Structural testing - logic coverage criteria, Basis
path testing, Graph metrics, Loop Testing, Data flow testing, Mutation
Testing, Design of test cases. Testing of Object oriented systems, Challenges
in White box testing
Unit III Black-box Testing 06 Hrs
Introduction, Need of black box testing, Black box testing Concept,
Requirement Analysis, Test case design criteria, Testing Methods,
requirement based testing, Positive & negative testing, Boundary value
analysis, Equivalence Partitioning class, state based or graph based, cause
effect graph based, error guessing, documentation testing & domain testing,
design of test cases, Integration testing
Unit IV System and Acceptance testing 06 Hrs
System testing, Functional system testing, Non-functional system testing
Acceptance testing,
Performance testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, Internationalization
testing, Usability and Accessibility testing
Unit V Test Management, Automation, metrics and measurements 06 Hrs

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What is test Automation?, Design and Architecture for Automation, Selecting
testing tool
What are test metrics and measurements? Types of metrics
Reference Books:
1. Software testing Principle and Practices By Ramesh Desikan, Pearson Education, ISBN
81-7758-121-X 5.
2. Software Testing Principles and Tools By M.G. Limaye TMG Hill Publication, ISBN
13:978-0-07-013990-9 3.
3. Software Testing Principles and Practices By Naresh Chauhan, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-806184-6 4.
4. Software Testing Concepts and Tools By Nageshwar Rao , Dreamtech ,ISBN 81-7722-
712-2

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 613 MJP: Lab Course Based on CA 612 MJ
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 4 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To understand white box testing
• To know black box testing
• To be familiar with automation tool
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Perform white box testing activities
• Apply black box testing concepts
• Enlist features of a automation tool
Guidelines for Instructor's Manual
The instructor shall frame at least 14 assignments. Instructor’s manual consisting of University
syllabus, list of assignments, conduction & Assessment guidelines is to be developed.
Guidelines for Student Journal
The laboratory assignments are to be submitted by student in the form of journal. Journal consists
of Certificate, table of contents, and handwritten write-up for each assignment. Write-up shall
include Title, Problem Statement, software and Hardware requirements, Date of Completion.
Students shall submit softcopy of program codes with sample outputs of all performed
assignments. Lab in-charge shall maintain softcopy of program codes submitted by students. For
reference, one or two journals may be maintained with program prints.
Guidelines for Assessment
Continuous assessment of laboratory work is to be carried out based on overall performance of
students. For each lab assignment, the instructor shall assign grade/marks based on parameters
such as timely completion, understanding and neatness with appropriate weightage.
Suggested Laboratory Assignments
01 To study and identify defects in a given data entry form
02 To improve user experience for a given sign-in page
03 Compute Code Coverage (Statement, Path, Condition & Function coverage) for given code
04 Compute Cyclomatic complexity for a given flow graph
05 Prepare a requirement traceability matrix for a given system
06 Prepare test execution data for the system specified in assignment 5 above
07 Prepare a set of positive and negative test cases for a given system
08 From the given problem, construct a decision table
09 Identify equivalence classes for a given problem statement
10 Develop a use case scenario for the specified system
11 Download, install and use any open source testing tool

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER III
CA 631 RP: Research Work - I
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 8 Hrs./Week 04 Continuous Evaluation: 30 Marks
End-Semester : 70 Marks
Course Objectives
• To provide hands-on experience to research work

Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Apply research methodology to carry out research in a chosen problem domain
• Design and develop a novel methodology / framework etc
• Conduct experiments and analyze results
Guidelines for carrying out Research work
Each student shall carry out the research work during semester III under the guidance of the
appointed faculty Advisor/Mentor. Students shall work on a research problem and publish a paper
/ file a copyright / patent based on the work carried out. The student shall prepare and submit a
report based on the work carried out consisting of – Face Page, certificate, Acknowledgement,
Abstract, Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, Abbreviations, and separate Chapters
dealing with Introduction, Literature Review, Design details of Proposed System, Experimental
Results and analysis, and a chapter providing Conclusions and future scope. List of Publications,
Copyright/patent, references and appendix shall also be included in the report.
Guidelines for Assessment
The work carried out shall be evaluated on a continuous basis by the assigned faculty advisor /
mentor for 30 marks and panel of examiners appointed shall evaluate the work based on the report
for 70 marks.

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 651 MJ: Industrial Training
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 24 Hrs/Week 12 Continuous Evaluation: 100 Marks
End-Semester : 200 Marks
Course Objectives
• To provide opportunities for students to get professional experience
• To learn and understand real life/industrial situations
• To get familiar with various tools and technologies used in industries and their
applications.
• To nurture professional and societal ethics
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• To demonstrate professional competence
• To apply knowledge gained through training to complete academic activities in a
professional manner
• To choose appropriate technology and tools to solve given problem.
• To demonstrate abilities of a responsible professional and use ethical practices in day to
day life.
• To analyze various career opportunities and decide carrier goals
Guidelines for Industry Training
Industry training is an educational and career development opportunities, providing practical
experience in a field or discipline. It is far more important as the employers are looking for
employees who are properly skilled and having awareness about industry environment, practices
and culture. Industry training is structured and supervised training often focused around particular
tasks or projects with defined time scales.
Core objective is to expose students to the industry environment, which cannot be
simulated/experienced in the classroom and hence creating competent professionals in the industry.
Industry training is intended to provide students with an opportunity to apply conceptual
knowledge from academics to the realities of the field work/training.

Duration:
The student is expected to carry out online/offline industry training for minimum of 360 hrs during
the winter vacation of 4-6 weeks (with at least 30hrs/week) and during semester IV

Identifying place/work for Industrial training

Student may choose to undergo Industry training at Industry/Govt.

Organizations/NGO/MSME/Research Labs/Institutes. Students must get training proposals
sanctioned from college authority well in advance. Internship work identification process should
be initiated in the 3rd semester in coordination with training and placement cell/ industry institute
cell. This will help students to start their internship work on time. Also, it will allow students to
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Student can undergo training in the form of the following but not limited to:
• Industry / Government Organization
• Working for consultancy/ research project
• Contribution in Incubation/ Innovation/ Entrepreneurship Cell / startups cells of
institute
• In-house product development, intercollegiate, inter department research internship
under research group, micro/small/medium enterprises/online internship,
• Research internship under professors from reputed Institutes/Research organizations,
• NGOs
• Participate in open source development.

Diary/Workbook:
Students must maintain daily Diary/ Workbook. The main purpose of maintaining
diary/workbook is to cultivate the habit of documentation. The students should record in the daily
training diary the day-to-day account of the observations, impressions, information gathered and
suggestions given, if any.
Internship Diary/workbook and Internship Report should be submitted by the students along with
attendance record duly signed and stamped by the industry/organization where the training was
carried out

The student shall prepare and submit a report based on the work carried out consisting of –
• Title/Cover Page
• Training completion certificate
• Details of place of training- Company background-organization and
activities/Scope and object of the study / Supervisor details
• Index/Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Title/Problem statement/objectives
• Motivation/Scope and rationale of the work carried out
• Methodological details
• Results / Analysis /inferences and conclusion
• Suggestions / Recommendations for improvement to industry, if any
• Attendance Record
• Acknowledgement
• List of references (Library books, magazines and other sources)
Guidelines for Assessment
The work carried out shall be evaluated on a continuous basis by the assigned faculty advisor /
mentor for 100 marks and panel of examiners appointed shall evaluate the work based on the report
for 200 marks.

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 660 MJ: Management Information System
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
 To learn fundamentals of Information Systems.
 To know methodology and applications of MIS
 To understand how Information System supports in decision making and knowledge
management.
 To be familiar with various technologies of MIS
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
 Define need, objectives and architecture of MIS and its role in business planning
 Enlist activities for development of MIS
 Demonstrate understanding of DSS and Knowledge Management
 Describe applications and various technologies of MIS
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Information Systems 06 Hrs
Need and objectives of Information systems. Components and resources of
information systems, Types of information systems: Operations support
systems and Management support systems.
Management Information Systems (MIS): Definition, role and impact of
MIS, Functions of the managers: planning, organizing, staffing,
coordinating and directing, MIS as a support to the management
Management of Business: Concept of Corporate Planning, Essentiality of
strategic planning, development of business strategies, types of strategies,
MIS for strategic Business Planning
Unit II MIS Development and BPR 06 Hrs
Development of Long range plans of the MIS, Determining Information
Requirements, Development and implementation of MIS, Managing
Information Quality, MIS – Development process model
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) – Introduction, Business Process,
Process and Value Stream model of the organization, MIS and BPR
Unit III Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management 06 Hrs
Decision Support Systems (DSS): Concept and philosophy, Characteristics,
Components of DSS, tools, Using Decision Support systems: What-if,
sensitivity, Goal-seeking analysis and Optimization analysis, GDSS, DSS
application in E-enterprise
Knowledge Management systems, Knowledge-based expert system, MIS and

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Unit IV Applications of MIS 06 Hrs

Applications in Manufacturing Sector: HR Management, Marketing
Management, Finance Management, Materials Management and Marketing
Management
Applications in services: Banking, Insurance, Airline, Hotel, Hospital,
Education
Unit V Infotech Infrastructure 06 Hrs
Technology for MIS – Data, Transaction, Application and Information
processing. Database and client-server architecture, MIS and RDBMS
Data Warehouse (DW) – Data in DW, Architecture and design of DW,
Organization, Management implementation of DW, Business Intelligence,
DW and MIS
E-Business – Introduction, models, security issues, Electronic payment
systems, Web enabled Business Management, MIS in Web environment
Reference Books:
1. Jawadekar W., ''Management Information Systems", 6th Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing
2. KC Laudon, JP Loudon, “MIS Managing digital firm”, Person Education
3. O'Brien James , "Management Information Systems” , 7th Edition, Tata McGravv-Hill
4. Arpita Gopal, Chandrani Singh, “E-world Emerging trends in Information Technology”,
Excel Books

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 661 MJ: Digital Marketing
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
• To study the need of Digital marketing
• To understand the role of Social media in marketing
• To learn SEO and Digital Analytics
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Define the core concepts of digital marketing
• Describe the process of creating and running digital media based campaigns
• Identify and utilize various tools such as social media, SEO and analytics
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Digital Marketing (DM) 06 Hrs
Introduction, Traditional Vs DM, Internet Users, DM Landscape, DM
Strategy, DM Plan, Ethical and Legal framework of DM
Display Advertising: Introduction, concept, Digital Metrics, Types of Ads,
Display Plan, Targeting in DM , Geographic and Language Targeting, Ad
Server, Ad Exchange
Unit II Search Engine Advertising 06 Hrs
Why pay for Search Advertising?, Ad placement and Ad Ranks, creating
campaign, Google Ad account, Enhancing Campaign, Performance reports,
E-Commerce Vs Google Ads
Introduction to Mobile Marketing – Models, Toolkits and Features
Unit III Social Media Marketing 06 Hrs
Introduction, Listen, Goal Setting, Strategy, Implementation, Measurement,
Improvement, TikTok, Social Entertainment, Gamification
Facebook Marketing – Organic and Paid marketing, Insights, Facebook
stories, 3D Posts, Managers – Ad, Pixel, pages and Business
Linked-in Marketing – Strategy, Sales lead Generation and Analytics
Introduction to DM using Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest
Unit IV Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 06 Hrs
Concept, Phases, Website Audit, Optimization (On and Off page), the Google
Search Engine, SEO – UX and UI

Unit V Digital Analytics 06 Hrs

Data Collection, Key Metrics, Outcome and Experience Analysis, Creating
Executive dashboards, Affiliate Marketing, Introduction attribution models

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Video Analytics

Reference Books:
1. Digital Marketing, Seema Gupta, 2nd Edition, Mc-GrawHill
2. Digital Marketing, Vanadana Ahuja, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press
3. Digital Marketing for Dummies, Ryan Deiss, Russ Henneberry, Dummies
4. Traffic Secrets, Russell Brunson, Google Books

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 662 MJ: ERP
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
 To learn Basics of ERP, CRM and SCM
 To study ERP Selection process
 To understand various aspects of ERP Project Management
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
 Enumerate architecture, components and various modules of ERP
 Apply ERP vendor selection process
 Describe ERP Project management
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction 06 Hrs
Defining ERP, Functional Modules, Common Myths, Evolution of ERP,
characteristics of ERP, Process Integration with ERP, Benefits of ERP,
Technology behind ERP, Implementation costs, Justifying Investments
ERP Market and Vendors, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Cloud ERP
Extended ERP services – SCM, CRM, PLM, GIS
Related Technologies – Data Warehousing, Mining, OLAP, Business
Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA)
Unit II ERP Planning 06 Hrs
Planning for ERP – Understanding organizational requirements, Project
scope and broad implementation approach, determining resources, top
management and organizational commitment, matching business processes
with ERP, ERP Package evaluation and selection, creating Budget, ERP
deployment models, preparing organization for implementation
Unit III ERP Implementation 06 Hrs
Designs of ERP systems, Implementation approaches, Risks/failure factors,
Mitigating Implementation risks – Critical success factors, ERP
implementation life cycle, Data migration, organization of ERP
Implementation team, performance measurement, Management and
complexity of Large-scale ERP Projects, User Training, Evaluating ERP
projects, Case study of ERP implementation
Unit IV ERP: Going Live and Post Management 06 Hrs
Preparing to Go Live, strategies for migration to new ERP systems,
performance measurement surprises, Managing ERP after Go Live,
Maintenance of ERP system
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Unit V 06 Hrs
ERP and E-business – E-business supply chain integration, ERP/E-business
integration, Bringing ERP to the entire enterprise, Service-Oriented
Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Application Service
Provider model for ERP Implementation
Reference Books:
1. Enterprise Resource Planning, Ashim Raj Singla, Cengage Learning publishers
2. Enterprise Resource Planning, Alexis Leon, 3rd Ed, McGraw Hill education
3. ERP In Practice (ERP strategies for steering organizational competence and competitive
advantage), Jagan Nathan Vaman, McGraw Hill
4. ERP Systems for Manufacturing Supply Chains: Applications, Configuration, and
Performance, Odd Jøran Sagegg, Erlend Alfnes, CRC Press

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 663 MJ: Information Security
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Theory: 2 Hrs./Week 02 Continuous Evaluation: 15 Marks
End-Semester : 35 Marks
Course Objectives
● To understand the fundamental principles and concepts in Information Security
● To acquire the knowledge of cryptography
● To learn standard algorithms and protocols employed to provide confidentiality,
integrity and authenticity
● To acquire the knowledge of security protocol deployed in web security
● To study Information Security tools
Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
 Identify cyber security threats and apply formal procedures to defend the attacks
 Apply appropriate cryptographic techniques
 Analyze web security solutions
 Identify and Evaluate Information Security threats and vulnerabilities in Information
systems
 Demonstrate the use of standards and cyber laws to enhance Information Security
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Information Security 06 Hrs
Foundations of Security, Computer Security Concepts, The OSI Security
Architecture, Security attacks, Security services, Security mechanism, A
Model for Network Security
Introduction to Tools: Clam AV antivirus engine, Anti Phishing, Anti
Spyware
Unit II Cryptography 06 Hrs
Number theory: Prime number, Fermat and Euler theorems , Testing for
primality, Chinese reminder theorem, discrete logarithm, Public Key
Cryptography and RSA, Key Management, Diffie- Hellman key exchange,
El Gamal algorithm, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, introduction to crypt tool
Unit III Data Integrity Algorithms And Web Security 06 Hrs
Cryptographic Hash Functions: Applications of Cryptographic Hash
Functions, Two Simple Hash Functions, Requirements and Security, Hash
Functions Based on Cipher Block Chaining, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA),
SHA-3, MD4, MD5. Message Authentication Codes: Message
Authentication Requirements, Message Authentication Functions,
Requirements for Message Authentication Codes, Security of MACs.
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 standard, PKI X.509 Certificate.
Web Security issues, HTTPS, SSH, Email security: PGP, S/MIME, IP
Security : IPSec,
Introduction to Tools: Open SSL, Hash Calculator Tool : MD5, SHA1,
SHA256, SHA 512
Unit IV Network and System Security 06 Hrs
The OSI Security architecture, Access Control, Flooding attacks, DOS,
Distributed DOS attacks Intrusion detection, Host based and network based
Honeypot, Firewall and Intrusion prevention system, Need of firewall,
Firewall characteristics and access policy, Types of Firewall, DMZ
networks, Intrusion prevention system: Host based, Network based,
Hybrid. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Operating system Security, Application Security, Security maintenance,
Multilevel Security, Multilevel Security for role based access control,
Concepts of trusted system, Trusted computing.
Introduction to Tools: Wireshark, Windows Firewall, Snort, Linux iptables,
Linux SELinux
Unit V Cyber Security and Tools 06 Hrs
Introduction, Cybercrime and Information Security, Classification of
Cybercrimes, The legal perspectives-Indian perspective, Global perspective,
Categories of Cybercrime, Social Engineering, Cyber stalking, Proxy servers
and Anonymizers, Phishing, Password Cracking, Key-loggers and Spywares,
The Indian IT Act-Challenges, Amendments, Challenges to Indian Law and
Cybercrime Scenario in India, Indian IT Act.
Introduction to network security scanners: Nmap, Metasploit
Reference Books:
1. William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network Security Principals and Practice”,
Seventh edition, Pearson
2. William Stallings, Lawrie Brown, “Computer Security Principles and Practice”,
3rd_Edition, Pearson
3. Nina Godbole, Sumit Belapure, “Cyber Security”, Wiley
4. Atul Kahate, “Cryptography and Network Security”, 3e, McGraw Hill Education

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 SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY
SECOND YEAR M. Sc. (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS)
SEMESTER IV
CA 681 RP: Research Work - II
Teaching Scheme: Credits Examination Scheme:
Laboratory: 12 Hrs./Week 06 Continuous Evaluation: 50 Marks
End-Semester : 100 Marks
Course Objectives
• To get first-hand experience to apply research methodology

Course Outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• Apply research methodology to carry out research in a chosen problem domain
• Design and develop a novel methodology / framework etc
• Conduct experiments and analyze results
Guidelines for carry out Research Work
Each student shall carry out the research work during semester IV in an online/offline manner
while working on “CA 651 MJP - Industrial Training” in industry/organization/institute under the
guidance of the appointed faculty Advisor/Mentor by the respective Institute. Preferably this work
may be an extension of research work carried out by a student as a part of Research Work – I in
Semester III. Students shall work on a research problem and publish a paper / file a copyright /
patent based on the work carried out. The student shall prepare and submit a report based on the
work carried out consisting of – Face Page, certificate, Acknowledgement, Abstract, Table of
Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, Abbreviations, and separate Chapters dealing with
Introduction, Literature Review, Design details of Proposed System, Experimental Results and
analysis, and a chapter providing Conclusions and future scope. List of Publications,
Copyright/patent, references and appendix shall also be included in the report.
Guidelines for Assessment
The work carried out shall be evaluated on a continuous basis by the assigned faculty advisor /
mentor for 50 marks and panel of examiners appointed shall evaluate the work based on the report
for 100 marks.

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