On-Line Examination

By
xxxxxxx
Under the Guidance of
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Submitted to the School of Computer and Information Sciences in partial
fulfillment of the requirements
For the degree of

Bachelor
Of
Computer Applications

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Maidan Garhi
New Delhi-110068.

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Title of the Project

On-Line Examination
System

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Serial Topic Page
1 Title of the project 2
2 Introduction 7-8
3 Objective 9
4 Purpose, Scope and Applicability 10-11
5 Survey of technologies 12-14
6 Front End User 15
7 Back End User 16
8 Software and Hardware Requirements 17-18
9 Feasibility 19-22
10 Requirements Specification 23-25
11 Planning and Scheduling 26-27
12 E R Diagram 30
13 Analysis 31-34
14 Modules and their Description 35-38
15 Data Structures 39-42
16 Table Description 43-45
17 Data Integrity Design 46-47
18 Process Logic 48-51
19 Security Mechanism 52-53
17 Future Scope and further Enhancement 54
18 Bibliography 55

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Introduction :

On Line Examination itself represent the examination through the internet. This

project will help the university/ Institution to evaluate the question have multiple option

with one correct answer. This project contains two types of question viz. subjective and

objective. Students have to write the descriptive answer for the subjective question will be

randomly generated. It would be evaluated automatically i.e. by the system.

This project helps the management to conducting online examination and save

recourse. The university/Institution can conduct the online examination and announce the

status or result in a few data. The examination department is responsible for the marinating

of question paper and it would be completely secure.

This is the era of computer and we are adopting fast mechanism to solve any

problem. On line examination is also a way to give result as soon as we submit our paper.

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INTRODUCTION

Background:-
As the name of the project “On-Line Examination” suggests, the system/application

has to manage the examination for various department of an academy. So to keep the

information correct and fast, it will manage the status/information of that examination of

that examination so one can get the details of exam as per their program.

Earlier it was a very time consuming and tedious process where both students as

well as university used to perform all tasks manually be it Student Registration, Sqtting

Question Papers, Setting Schedules to finally declaring the result. It was cumbersome since

these details were now generated, managed and kept in computers.It was still not that much

simpler Later the process became a lot easier when computer system were introduced and

all for students because they were stll expected to come in person to register, appear for

exam at exam center and for all those formalities.

Now we are expected to develop an web application which converts all of these

tasks atomized as well as web enabled. There are applications already working in this area

like MCSE, CCNA which conducts their examination online.

We, as a 6th sem. student of BCA are making this project by taking help from

theses already working and tested applications as well as making our own set of

improvements.

This application is coded in .Net. This Software project is very much helpful to

students, Examination department and Exam controller. It stores the information about

Students, Exams, Report, Results, Student’s details and Fee Status etc. As we know that

this software project is coded in .Net programming language, it is user friendly. That means

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this software is easy to operate. Even a person having less knowledge of computer can

easily operate is, he will be guided throughout by the software to operate it. This Software

is a best effort of changing in paper work to electronic work. This application is divided

into many module, and each module is related to different part of code. This integration

makes the project very user friendly. Another advantage of this software is the database

that is designed very strongly, the current and previous information is stored in this

database and maintain the database very easily.

University used to keep all the details in files manually.

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Objectives

The objective of the project “On Line Examination” is to make evaluation and

conduction of examination massive but simple, cost effective and faster. They are as

follows :

 To provide an interface through which student can appear for examination online

for objective as well as subjective type questions.

 To provide registration for students done by themselves.

 To not provide facility of copy and paste while attempting the Subjective questions

on the web page.

 When the student starts the exam the timer will start automatically and show the

student how much time is left.

 The questions will be display randomly from question bank.

 Objective answers will be checked automatically by the system from the database

 For subjective answer manually checking by exam department will take place.

 To provided user name and password facility and credentials should be checked

properly at the time of login for student, expert, controller and Exam Dept Admin.

 To provide an interface from where controller will create new Expert and Admin

for Exam Dept.

 The authority to modify the criteria is provided to the controller of examination.

 To facilitate Experts to send a collection of questions in Question Bank.

 The Exam Dept will manage the question bank sent by experts.

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  To facilitate Exam Dept Admin to make schedule and declare Result.

Purpose, Scope and Applicability:-

Purpose:-

Through this package we provide a fully customized web application. This system

is an automated system so that the functional working of it is effective and time saving. In

this modern era time is the most precious thing, so in context of time the new system will

be effective to do a group of task in easy and secure manner.

To appear for an exam in manual system in an university is very time consuming process.

Now the purpose of this system is to overcome the shortfall faced in the previous systems

already working in the area.

The website will have to be secure, and properly working on WAN. It should be

speedy with good interface. The university may conduct examination in various countries

and in different languages. It should support multiple platforms at least those used by

people commonly.

Scope:-

Methodology of the system is clear that result in the complete and proper working

of the system from the requirements achieved. it contains the working model for the

development of system. A sequential step of model is followed to develop the system so

that it will maintain various software engineering features/parameters.

No need to take leave, visit a different town, city or even states in some cases.

People can appear right from their laptop or home desktop.

Assumptions:

To develop this application, we’ve taken into account some assumptions. They are:

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 1. University will provide each student a unique student Id during enrollment time.

The purpose of this is so that no one can register on behalf of any other student. and

only the student himself/herself can register for the examination using this id.

2. Student login name will be generated automatically by concatenating student first

Name and Enrollment No.

Like : Shwati has student id  13P

So, Swati student login here will be  Swati_P13

3. Expert login name will be generate same as student login name but with small

change.

like : Expert Login = (Expert First name +Course Name)

The courses will be fed by hard-coding.

Limitation:-

1. In the case of any type of problem in student verification no functionality is

defined in the system to correct it or inter-communication among users are also not

available.

2. The Fees is taken manually as there is not any module for online payment.

3. The Total marks is get by the student only after some time of exam, because in case

of subjective paper, the exam dept will evaluate the answer and declare the result.

Student can see his result on internet through his LoginId and PWD only after that.

A detail section for limitation is devoted at the end of documentation.

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SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES

To develop this package different types of tools and database are used which are as

follows:

1. ASP.NET 2005

2. Framwork 2.0

3. Microsoft-sql server 2007

4. Microsoft word processor

1. ASP.NET 2005:

ASP.NET 2005 is a Microsoft technology for building the web based application

and services. A ASP.NET application consists of forms ,controls,classes and procedures.

Forms are windows upon which you build your user interface are the building

blocks of the user interface. Controls also called activeX conrols, are interface tools , such

as labels ,textbox and command buttons, that you use to display information to the user,

gather information from the user, and respond to user actions. Classes are templates from

which you can create your own objects at run time.

Procedures are small routines you write that are callable from anywhere in your

application. These routines will perform a function for you that you write once but can call

many times.

An application is made up of forms, modules and classes. A form is made up of

properties, events and controls. Controls are also made up of properties and events

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 Some Features Of ASP.NET

 Language interoperability : a one language code is to interact with other language.

 EDP(Event driven programming language): it is a Event Driven Programming

language(i.e. we write code on its event and drive the program).

 Rapid Application Development(RAID).

 Allows the creation of COM components such as activeX controls.

 Includes good debugging facilities.

2. Framwork 2.0

Dot net framework is a platform that is provided by Microsoft technology in which we can

develop web based application, window based application and console base application

with C#(c sharp),VB and J#(J sharp) and other 22 Language.

3. Microsoft-SQL Server 2007

Microsoft SQL Server fulfills these responsibilities :

 Reduction and redundancy :

Centralized control of the DBA avoids the unnecessary duplication of data and

effectively Reduces the total amount of data storage required. It also eliminates the

extra processing and of the inconsistencies e.g. Same format of grade card for all

student.

 Sharing data :

Any number of application program of user’s can share the same database .

For example we can access the list of study centers.

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 Data integrity :

Data integrity means that the data contains in the database both accurate and

consistent.

 Data security :

In this facility the confidential data must not be accessed by unauthorized person.

 Rapidly Accessing Data :

SQL Server provides rapid access to data by utilizing indexes and storing frequently

accessed data in memory.

 SQL Server Enterprise Manager :

The Enterprise Manager is the central console from which most SQL Server

database-management tasks can be coordinated. SQL Enterprise Manager provides a

single interface from which all servers in a company can be managed.

4. SQL Server Enterprise Manager :

The Enterprise Manager is the central console from which most SQL Server

database-management tasks can be coordinated. SQL Enterprise Manager provides a

single interface from which all servers in a company can be managed.

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Front End User
The .Net Initiative

Microsoft has introduced the .NET initiative with the intension of bridging the gap in

interoperability between application. It aims at integrating various programming.

The .NET initiative offers a complete suite for developing and

deploying applications. This suits consists of .NET services, and the .NET framework.

 .Net Products :- Microsoft has already introduced Visual Studio .Net, which

 Is tool for developing .Net applications by using programming languages such as

Visual Basic, C# and Visual C++. To ensure interaction between different

applications, all .Net products use Extensible Markup Language (XML) for

describing and exchanging data between application.

 .Net Services :- .Net delivers software as web services. Therefore, User can

subscribe to a web service and use it as long as they need it, regardless of the

hardware and software platform. Microsoft is coming up with its own set of web

services, known as my services. These services are based on the Microsoft Passport

Authentication service, in addition to the web services provided easily with the .Net

environment.

 The .Net Framework :- it is the foundation on which us design, develop and

deploy application. Its consistent and simplified programming model makes easier

to built applications.

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Back End User

This is the part of well known software package called as the Microsoft Office. It is

designed to built the various database, and to perform other data work. SQL provides

an extremely powerful, easy to use database that will serve our needs when you

required the power of fully relational database. SQL is also helpful create a variety of

database as well as how to enter, edit and final data in existing database.

SQL :

SQL server 2007 utilities, such as backup and restore, run much faster and have less

effect on server operations. SQL Server 7.0 also includes a variety of new features

designed to support the underlying database architecture and to provide more flexible

system management. SQL Server also include a number of new features designed to

reduce database backup and recovery times. A different backup captures only those

data pages that have changed after the last database backup. Many times differential

backup can eliminates much of the time the server spends rolling transaction forward.

With SQL Server 7.0 a portion of the database can be restored or rolled forward to

minimize recovery time in the event of media failure. Restoring a backup is easy

because the restore process automatically creates the database and all the necessary

files. SQL server 7.0 supports backup to same tape media with other backup, such as

those written by the Microsoft Windows NT backup program.

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Hardware & Software requirement specification

Software Requirements

For development, software’s used are:

Operating System : Windows-XP Professional

Version 2002, service pack-2,

Microsoft IIS 5.0/6.0

Platform : .Net

Technology : Asp.net

Language : C#(C sharp)

Backend : SQL server 2007

Editor : Microsoft word processor 2000

For Development : visual studio .Net setup tools

For Design : HTML, Visual studio designer

For deployment, software’s used are :

Operating system : Windows-xp professional

Version 2002, service pack-2

Framework : .Net 2005

IIS : Configured

Backend : sql server 2000

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 Hardware Requirements

 For Development, Hardware’s used are:

1. Pentium IV(dual core processor operating at 3.6 GHz)

2. 40GB hard disk

3. 1GB RAM

 For Deployment, Hardware’s used are :

Minimum

1. Pentium III or better processor

2. 10 GB hard disk

3. 256MB RAM

4. 10-100 MBPS of Network card

Recommended

1. Pentium IV

2. 20GB hard disk

3. 1GB RAM

4. 100-512 MBPS of network card

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Feasibility Study

Introduction:

The feasibility study of any system is mainly intended to

study and analyze the proposed system and to decide whether the system under

consideration will be viable or not after implementation. That is it determines the usability

of the project after deployment. To come to result a set of query is answered keeping the

efficiency of the software and its impact on the domain for which it was developed. It main

emphasis is on the following three questions elucidated below as:

What are the user’s requirements and how does a candidate system meet them?

What resources are available for the proposed systems? Is it worth solving the problem?

What is the likely impact of the proposed system on the organization? I.e. how does the

proposed system fit with in the organization?

Thus since the feasibility study may lead to commitment of

large resources, it becomes necessary that it should be conducted competently and no

fundamental errors of judgment are made. Different types of feasibility study and the way

we performed on our project “On Line Examination” .

Technical Feasibility:

In technical feasibility, we study all technical issues

regarding the proposed system. It is mainly concerned with the specifications of the

equipments and the software, which successfully satisfies the end-user’s requirement. The

technical needs of the system may vary accordingly but include:

 The feasibility to produce outputs in a given time.

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  Response time under certain conditions.

 Ability to process a certain volume of the transaction at a particular speed.

 Facility to communicate data.

Under this analysis process questions like (i) does the

compatible platform exist within our domain or can we procure it? (ii) Does the proposed

equipment have the technical capacity to hold the data required using the new system?.

Both at the development site and at server where we will be hiring the space for the

website, and also the database would it be possible to upgrade the system after it is

developed and implemented, if necessary? And would the recommended technology

guarantee the reliability, accuracy and data security? This analysis process requires more

emphasis on system configuration given more importance rather than the actual hardware

specifications.

. The configuration of the existing systems is:

 Processor : Pentium III, 500 MHz (or above)

 Memory : 128 MB (or above)

 Secondary storage : 20 GB (or above)

For Software there are following alternatives:

Operating System :Window 98,2000,XP,NT

Development tools :ASP.Net ,C# ,HTML,DHTML

Database :Microsoft SQL server 7.0

Documentation tool: MS-Word

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Economical Feasibility:-

Meaning : re there sufficient benefits in creating the system to make the acceptable? Or are

the costs of not creating the system so great that it is advisable to undertaken the project.

This will include three major costs as described below :

 Cost of Hardware and Software

 Cost of Software to be acquired to build and run the product is a one time cost.

 Buying a back and database is the major part of hardware and Software cost.

Comparison between the oracle database high cost and better features with the SQL

server low cost and better support for the same vendor operating system make this

decision need oriented.

Benefits in reduced cost, error and saving will be made by reduction of present system

expenses, time saving and increased accuracy.

Cost Avoidance :

Future cost reduction in form of reduction in the number of administrative staff needed and

manual records maintains in organization.

Rise in cost will be avoided.

Operational Feasibility :

Meaning : The system will be used if it is developed well then be resistance from users that

undermine the possible application benefits.

Clients Supports :

Client and user support for present system is there, as the current procedure used takes

more time and effort than proposed system.

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No major training and new skills are required as it is based on DBMS model.

It will help in the time saving and fast processing and dispersal of user request and

application.

New product will provide all the benefits of present system with better performance such

as improved information, better management and collection of the reports.

User Support :

User involvement in the building of present system is sought to keep in mind the user

specific requirement and needs.

User will have control over own information. Important information such as Test result can

be generated at the click of a button.

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REQUIREMENTS AND ANALYSIS

Problem Definition

The problem here is to develop a web application which completely automize the

examination process for an university.

To perform this the complete problem has been divided into five sub-problems so that they

can be solved easily and after that can be integrated to make it an integrated working

application.

On-Line Examination

Login Student Exam Controller Exam Dept Expert

Module Module Module Module Module

 Online Registration / Enrollment of Student

 Online Login

 Online Schedule

 Online Manage the question bank

 Online Examination

 Online Result declaration

 Online display randomly question.

 The questions will be display randomly from question bank.

At the Login module user name and password facility and credentials should be checked

properly at the time of login for student, expert, controller and Exam Dept Admin.

In the schedule Module send the exam schedule to the student.

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In question bank module for the examination could be changed dynamically.

Automatic checking of objective answers and manual checking of descriptive answers

should be facilitated, if any.

In the Objective answers module will be checked automatically by the system from the

database and the subjective answer manually checking by exam department will take place.

In the exam module When the student starts the exam the timer will start automatically

and show the student how much time is left.

At result module display the result of each student and send by the exam. Dept.

Requirement Specification

On the basis of system study performed in an organization about all the functions that

deals with Online examination following requirements are specified.

Functional Requirements :

The Functional Requirements of the project are as follows:

 To provide the functionality to students to appear for the exam online.

 To provide login interface through which only authorized user can pass by.

 The timer facility should be provide once the student appears in the Exam.

 The web application provide question to the student randomly.

 The system should support WAN so that exam can given from anywhere.

 This system should handle multiple exam at the same time.

 To functionally enable Exam Controller to define criteria and create Admin and

Experts.

 To functionally enable Exam Dept Admin to manage Question Bank

 To functionally enable Exam Dept Admin to declare schedule and Results.

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  To functionally enable Expert to send set of Questions.

Non-Functional Requirements

The Non-Functional Requirements of the project are as follows:

 The system should be reliable and robust.

 The system should be User friendly.

 The system should be completely Consistent and Secure.

Interface requirements

 Interface should be easy to follow,

 Interface shouldn’t have very much graphics,

 Interface shouldn’t have hidden buttons, and

 Interface should produce relevant error message.

In a complete way, we’re expected to build a web based application which

accommodates all functionality of an organization that deal with online

examination.

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Planning and Scheduling

Gantt chart :

Gantt chart are a project control technique that can be used for several purpose including

scheduling and planning. Gantt chart is also known bar chart with each box representing an

activity.

Week Week Week Week Week Week Week

Week 2
TASKS 1 3 4 5 6 7 8

Requirements Gathering

SRS Creation

Low Level Design

High Level Design

(Interface, Data Design)

Procedural Design

Coding

Testing(Module and
Integrated)
Implementation

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 Pert chart :

Pert stands for program evolution and review technique. A pert chart is a network of boxes

and arrows. The boxes in the pert chart can be decorated with starting and ending dates for

activities.

Days 1-6 Requirem Days 6-9 Days 9-12

SRS Low Level
ents Creation Design
Gathering

Days 12-16

High Level Design

(Interface, Data
design)

Days 16-23

Procedural
Design

Days 23-48

Codi
ng
Coding

Implementatio Testing (Module and

n Integrated)
Days 48-54
Days 54-56

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Preliminary Product Description

The system will facilitate online examination and documentation of results. The system can

conduct various examinations for various subjects. All one needs to do is change the

database accordingly.

project deals with registration or enrollment of students, submission of registration forms

and issuing unique id and password to enrolled students

This application has Login module we need the user name and password facility and

credentials should be checked properly at the time of login for student, expert, controller

and Exam Dept Admin.

The application has schedule Module send the exam schedule to the student.

The application has question bank module for the examination could be changed

dynamically.

The application will facilitate Objective answers module will be checked automatically

by the system from the database and the subjective answer manually checking by exam

department will take place.

This application has exam module When the student starts the exam the timer will start

automatically and show the student how much time is left.

This application has result module display the result of each student and send by the exam.

Dept.

Evaluation and printing of students result will be supported

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Like any other software application project we need to use good software development practices

when faced with working on a web application. Otherwise, the project would not remain in control

and we would face problems with timeliness, budgets and quality

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 Entity Relationship diagram for On Line Examination

Program
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SubQAttempted
Result ObjQAttempted
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 DFD(DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS)

Student Info. Student Info.

Student Schedule,Exam,Result… OLExDB
Schedule,Exam,Result…
.
Schedule,Result, Status
ExamDeptAdmin Online
Request for Config Detail
Examination
Expert Question Set Web.Config
Configuration Detail
Admin,Expert,Criteria 0
Controller Detail

0-LEVEL DFD

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 Login Deatil
Controller Login Login Detail
Web.Config

Exam Admin Detail

Exam Admin Detail

ExamDe
Manage pt
Admin Exam Admin Detail
Criteria Detail Expert Detail Admin

Expert Detail

Manage Expert
Expert Expert Detail

Criteria Detail

Criteria
Criteria Detail Criteria
Manage

1-LEVEL DFD(FOR Controller)

UserName, Pwd
Expert Login UserName and Pwd Expert

Question With Ans ObjQBank

Send
Question Question With Ans SubQBank

1-LEVEL DFD(For “Expert” Module)

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 ExamDeptA
Exam Dept Admin dmin
UserName and Pwd

UserName and Pwd

Student
Info. Access in
Provide schedule to
student for exam. Schedule Stored in
Schedule
Provide Schedule
ObjQBank
Login Manage the question Manage
Question SubQBank

Bank
Checks the subjective question
SubQAttempted
Check Subj – Check Subjective Question
ective Attempted by Student
Question

Declare Result Stored in Result

Result

1-LEVEL DFD(For “Exam Dept Admin” Module)

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 Data Stored In
Sends the Student Info.
Registrati Student
Student on
Checks UserName and Pwd
Enters UserName and Pwd
SubQBank
Sends the Student Info.
Login
ObjQBank
Data Access in
Sends the Student Info.
Data Access in SubQAttempted

Examinatio
View Data Stored In ObjQAttempt
n
Process ed
Schedul Data Stored In
e

Data Access in Sends the Result.

Schedule Result
Show
Result Data Access in

1-LEVEL DFD(For “Student” Module)

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Modules and their Description

Basic Modules:

In Our Project with the help of ‘Divide and Conquer theory’ we can divide overall program

in Five Modules

These five modules are:

 Login Module

 Student Module

 Exam. Controller Module

 Exam Dept Module

 Expert Module

Login Module :

This is the first module in this project a anyone who want to enter into this

project/application . he/she must have pass through this module, in other word we can say

that this is authentication module because the user authentication with his/her. To provided

user name and password facility and credentials should be checked properly at the time of

login for student, expert, controller and Exam Dept Admin.

Student Login Form :

This is the form in this project a student who want to enter into this project

application. he/she must have pass through this module, in other word we can say that this

is authentication module because the user authentication with his/her.

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Registration :

In this module student can get his/her whole information like his name, address fees

detail, program and courses. the user can select only one course

at the time. Our student table will register the student. University will provide each

student a unique student Id during enrollment time. The purpose of this is so that no one

can register on behalf of any other student. and only the student himself/herself can register

for the examination using this id as password. Students only submit his/her documents and

fees after the registration.

View Schedule :

In this schedule form student get his/her schedule according to his registration. The

schedule is managed by the exam dept.

Exam process

When the student starts the exam the timer will start automatically and show the

student how much time is left.

Show Result :

In the result form will manage the result(Subjective and Objective questions) and

Status of the student. This table contains the student id from which we will help us in

generating the result.

ExamController Module :

The controller has authority to modify the criteria is provided to the controller of

examination and provide an interface from where controller will create new Expert and

Admin for Exam Dept.

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Manage Admin :

In this module the controller will Create, Delete and Edit admin for the exam dept with all

of there details.

A Login name and password has been provided through which the admin can later login to

perform all of there tasks.

Manage Expert

In this module the controller will Create, Delete and Edit experts for they can later send

question sets for objective as well as subjective questions which will be asked to solve to

students under exam process.

Sane as Manage Admin module, A Login name and password has been provided here too

through which the expert can later login to send questions.

Exam Dept Module :

In the exam dept will manage the question bank sent by experts. and make schedule and

declare Result.

ManageSchForStu

In this form the exam dept. managed the schedule and sends to the student with their exam

dates.

For this first he see all the details of registered students and allot them date accordingly.

ManageQusBank :

his form manage the subjective and objective question in the question bank sent by the

expert module. The Manage Question Bank managed the question will be display

randomly from question bank.

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CheckSubQus :

This module checks the subjective question attempted by the student during the exam.

subjective answer manually checking by exam department will take place

Declare result :

in this form the exam dept. manage the result and sends to the student when they

complete their exam.

Expert Module :

In the expert module the Experts to send a collection of questions(objective and

subjective) in Question Bank

Subjective Question :

SubQus table will contain Subjective question and it’s right answer. To not provide facility

of copy and paste while attempting the Subjective questions on the web page.Here the

iSubQusId is the primary key.

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Data Structures

Table Name : Course

Column Name Data Type Length

Couid PK Int 4

Coucode char 10
Couname Char 50
Isemester Char 10
Iproid Int 4

Table Name : Objqattempted

Column Name Data Type Length

iObjQAid PK Int 4

iStuId Int 4
iObjQusId Int 4
ChAns Char 10

Table Name : ExamDept

Column Name Data Type Length

ExamDeptId PK Int 4

Vloginname Varchar 40
Vpassword Varchar 40

Table Name : Expert

Column Name Data Type Length

iExId PK Int 4

Cfname Char 20
Clname Char 20
Course Char 20

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Vloginname Varchar 40

Vpassword Varchar 40

Table Name : ObjQus

Column Name Data Type Length

iObjqusId PK Int 4

iExId Int 4
tObjQus Text 16
coptionA Char 10
coptionB Char 10

CoptionC Char 10

CoptionD Char 10

cAns Char 10

bStatus Bit 1

Table Name : Program

Column Name Data Type Length

iProgId PK Int 4

cProgname Char 10
Cduration Char 10
iFess Int 4

Table Name : Result

Column Name Data Type Length

iresultId PK Int 4

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iStuId Int 4
imarkofSub Int 4
imarkofObj Int 4
Chstatus Char 10

Table Name : Criteria

Column Name Data Type Length

Icriteriaid PK Int 4

Vcriterianame Varchar 50
Tcriteriatext Text 4

Table Name : Student

Column Name Data Type Length

iStuId PK Int 4

CEno char 10
CFname Char 10
cLastname Char 10
cProgram Char 10

cCourse Char 10

iStudyCenCode Int 4

vLoginname Varchar 40

vPassword Varchar 40

Table Name : SubQus

Column Name Data Type Length

isubQusId PK Int 4

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tQus Text 16
tAns Text 16
iMaxMarks Int 4

bStatus Bit 1

Table Description

Student :

Our student table will register the student. University will provide each student a unique

student Id during enrollment time. The purpose of this is so that no one can register on

behalf of any other student. and only the student himself/herself can register for the

examination using this id and password. Students only submit his/her documents and fees

after the registration. In this student table store his/her whole information like his name,

address fees detail, program and courses. the user can select only one course at the time.

Subjective Question :

SubQus table will contain Subjective question and it’s right answer. Here the iSubQusId is

the primary key.

Objective Question :

ObjQus table will contain objective question and four options and right answer. Here the

question id is the primary key.

Result :

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 result table will contain the result(Subjective and Objective questions) and Status of the

student. This table contains the student id from which we will help us in generating the

result.

Schedule :

Exam Dept managed the schedule and it to student while successfully resgistraion.This

module contains information about their exam with their date.

ExamDept :

Our ExamDept table will register the institute or university Examination department

administrator. This Manage Admin form can access only the controller. the controller has

also controllerId and Password & controller name.. Examdept table will maintain the id

and password of Examdept admin. controller will make admin for different center. The

Exam Dept will manage the question bank sent by experts and evaluated the answer.

Expert :

Our Expert table will register the institute or university Expert administrator. This Manage

Expert form can access only the controller. This module contain the information about

expert like his name & expert in which course.

Subjective Question Attempted :

In this SubQAttempted table will have iSubQAId , iStuId, iSubQusId, And tAns. iStuId

will be the foreign key for the table Student.

Objective Question Attempted :

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ObjQAttempted table will have iObjQAId, iStuId, iObjQusId, And cAns. iStuId will be the

foreign key for the table Student.

Course :

In the course table contains the information about the iCouId,cCouName, iSemester and

the iProId. Here the iCouId is the primary key.

Program :

This program table contains the information about the like course iProgId, cProgName,

and the iFessof the program. Here the iProgId is the primary key.

Normalization:

Our Database “OnLEDB” is normalized up to 3 NF.

From starting our Database has been designed while strictly keeping in mind the concept of

Normalization and their positive effect on the complete output product, so we have kept the

tables normalized from the scratch. It means our tables are completely normalized with no

unwanted redundancy. And so we need not to normalize it further.

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 Data Integrity Design

Student

Primary key – iStuId

Alternate key – cENo, cFName, cLName, cProgram, iStudyCenCode, vLoginName,

vPasswd

Foreign key –iCouId (for Student table)

Course

Primary key – iCouId

Alternate key – CouCode, CouName, iSemester

Foreign key –iCouId(for Course table)

ExamDept

Primary key – iUserId

Alternate key – vLoginName, vPasswde

Expert

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Primary key – iExId

Alternate key – cFName, cLname, cCourse, vLoginName, vPasswd

ObjQAttempted

Primary key – iObjQAId

Alternate key – cAns

Foreign key –iObjQusId (for ObjQAttempted table)

ObjQus

Primary key – iObjQusId

Alternate key – tObjQus, cOptionA, cOptionB, cOptionC, cOptionD, cAns, CStatus

Foreign key –iExpertId (for Expert table)

Program

Primary key – iProgId

Alternate key – cProgName, cDuration, iFess

Result

Primary key – iResultId

Alternate key – iMarkOfSub, iMarkOfObj, bStatus

Foreign key– iStuId(for result table )

Schedule

Primary key – iSchId

Alternate key – dtSDate

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Foreign key– iStuId(for Schedule table)

SubQAttempted

Primary key – iSubQAId

Alternate key –tAns

SubQus

Primary key – iSubQusId

Foreign key –iSubQusId(for SubQAttempted table)

Alternate key – tQus,tAns, iMaxMarks, cStatus

Foreign key –iExpertId(for SubQus table)

Process Logic

Login :

User name

Password Main form

Login

Type

If valid

Exam Dept :-

ExamDept
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Security is an important issue for modern IT system. System administrator and

security administrator are responsible for safeguard’s organization data and computing

infrastructure.

Password Encryption: Whatever security measures taken, in any case if anyone with

destructive or malicious mind gets access to the database he can temper the critical data. To

restrict it we’ve used encrypting algorithm facilitated to us by Microsoft ASP.Net .

Two algorithms’ are there

 SHA1- It takes the password and encrypt it in a string of 40 characters

 MD5- It takes the password and encrypt it in a string of 32characters

The beauty of these Algos are that whatever be the length of password the length of

converted string remains same.

However a question arise here that if this thing is that good then why didn’t we used it for

storing each and every data????

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The answer lies in the fact that not all data are needed to be encrypted as long as we keep

the critical data(like password encrypted and safe). It will only increase the load on server

and network with no additional advantage. So we’ve not used this encryption Algo on all

data blindly.

We have implemented different approach related to security issue for our project

“Online Examination” :

Authorization:

Super Admin has authorized to give permission to admin for the registration of the

students.

Authentication:

Only registered students can appear for the examination. Every registered student

has different and unique UserId.

Information Integrity:

Only Super admin has right in the modification of the information. There is no

possibility by the end user or unauthorized user of hacking the information.

Detection:

Super Admin will have a bank up of the project. Also there is a complex and

alphanumeric password for admin and student. Super admin itself has a complex and

alphanumeric password. There is a option for changing the password by all the admin and

itself after every month.

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Future Scope of the Project

The development of this project surely prompts many new areas of investigation.

This project has wide scope to implement it in any University/Institution having multiple

paper there. This project covers all functionalities related to On-Line Examination Hall

Hence it can be implemented any-where else after minute organization level customization

Moreover some parts of the project have remained uncompleted due to some

reasons. First of all limitations of our project, which has been discussed in previous topic

make place for future enhancements. Though that was not the part of objective of our

project but it would have great to implement that provided we’d enough time.

Some of them are all those which are enumerated in the limitation section like:

 Online Payment

 A module from where entities can communicate

 And a faster process for subjective paper evaluation

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Bibliography

 “ASP.NET Black Book”

 ”A Programmer’s Guide to ADO.NET in C#” by Mahesh Chand.

 ”Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0 Step by Step” by George shepherd.

 Microsoft SQL Server 2000-Rebecca Riordan,Andrew J Brust.

 www.microsoft.com (Official Site of Microsoft)

 www.asp.net

 Software Engineering, A Practitioner’s Approach – Roger S. Pressman

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